The Dale Jr. Download - Someone Wouldn’t Stop Honking at Amy… Then This Happened

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

This week on Bless Your ‘Hardt, Dale Jr. and Amy are recording from the beach as they catch up on everything happening lately. Amy shares a story about confronting a driver who wouldn’t stop honking while she was trying to load the kids into the car, while Dale Jr. breaks down one of his biggest highway frustrations and why simple road courtesy seems to be disappearing. They also dive into whether expired food is actually still safe to eat, recap Isla’s first ride in a race car following Shane van Gisbergen’s Sonoma win, laugh over a wasp that somehow survived underwater, and share their plans for the Fourth of July. Plus, in this Ask Amy episode, they answer listener questions about Summer House, their Sonoma trip, favorite potato chips, pocket Jesuses, and more. Let us know in the comments: Would you eat unopened chips after the expiration date? And who’s right when it comes to merging onto the highway? Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The following is a production of Dirtymoe Media. Oh, yeah, this is the way it's going to be, girl. We're going to hang out. Open a bunch of jars. You've got big strong hands. Are you suffering from Highcraft? I'm working. Working that mouth.

Hey, guys, Dale and I are in the beach this week for another episode of Bless Your Heart. We're hanging out in the bar this morning. We have lots of fun things to talk about. Let's get started. Yeah, it's going to be a fun show coming remotely, not in the Dirty Mo Media Studio. Travis is. Hello, Travis. How we doing?

Yeah, doing pretty good. We got our High Rock drink of the day. Yes. We kind of, it's just the drink of the summer. We've got Sodachi lime and High Rock, and I've filled a little cranberry wine. So, cheers to everybody. If you haven't already, go to High Rockvodka.com. check out the store locator you can find high rock near you you also must remember to be 21

years or over please drink responsibly i don't like these remote shows because morgan's not here to make me i know we don't have our bartender with us yeah this is a bummer right over our shoulder we got our brand new red bull refrigerator and it's full of red bull the sudachi is that hey say su dodachi sudachi lime is um right now it's my favorite i like the red too obviously uh the original red bull but um pretty goes really, really well with, with high rock vodka. I've been doing the Red Bull vodka thing for 30 years, it feels like. Wow, 30 years. Well, ageing yourself, bro.

He is old. He is old. Yeah. We're excited about this weekend, big weekend for the United States, 250 years, July 4th. July 4th every year is fun. We celebrate it pretty hard. Yeah, it's one of my favorite holidays. It's Amy's, yeah, Amy loves it.

Unfortunately, this year, the fourth is falling in the weekend, and it does that for like the next couple of years. Yeah, last year we missed you too. So I'm off to the racetrack. But here in South Carolina, there's all kinds of cool, fun stuff to do around this weekend. A lot of outsiders travel in to the beaches and so forth, so it gets real busy and fun. Yeah, energy is high. Energy is real high. A lot of people everywhere you go.

I really love it. Every porch has flags and bunting on it. There's just everybody's yard is decorated. Everybody's wearing red, white, and blue. Yep. We've got a big, gigantic flag that Amy put up. We'll shoot you a shot of that, Travis. Yeah, I found an old, it says 1776 on it.

It's an old, it's not a real flag. It's just, you know, something. It has a real flag. What's a fake flag? Everything's real to Dale. Take this thing out, Travis. I sent it to you. The, yeah, Amy kind of decorates the house

as does everybody else around the neighborhood. It's the only holiday where I can pull out all the decorations and really get overboard with it where he doesn't lose his mind. Like it didn't matter how many red, white, and blue flags I pull out, you know, as opposed to Christmas decorations. He's like, okay, that's enough.

But with the Americana garb, I get to, like, go as deep dive as I want. Yeah. I don't know why, but it's like no matter how much red, white, and blue things that she puts out during the 4th of July, all of it fits neatly in one box when it's over with. The Christmas stuff takes up half of a garage. Yeah, that's true.

This falls up. Yeah, all the Christmas stuff is fluffy. Fluffy and brittle and delicate and careful. You know, it's just like, I'll let you put stuff away. You get it back out of the next year. It's a little banged up. Kind of like when, you know, an aging body. Yeah.

Yeah. Can we relate to that? Every time I wake up these days, my back hurt. So I kind of feel like them in the same. Yeah, we haven't been to our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our house in a while, at least I haven't, and we did a ton of chores yesterday, washing golf carts, and just cleaning up and getting things kind of ready to go. Well, the golf carts were more destroyed with the beach dirt and everything because of the

roadwork that's going on. They're doing some work on the highway. So they're so close. They're almost done with it. They're paving next week, which is, you know. But I can attest the aches and pains. Yeah. Definitely.

I climbed in bed and like, I don't know, I'm at that age where... You're already sore for you go to sleep. I'm at the age where when you're, when you do a lot in the day and you sit down for five minutes, you get, you start trying to get back up and you're locked up, you know, you're kind of like, everything hurts. You're like, this is kind of what you're supposed to feel like in the morning. Does Dale have the old man grunts when he gets up out of the chair? Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think that it's a, it's a, you know, it's a guy thing. Like, you get to a certain age where even though it doesn't hurt to get up, you still grunt. Or it's not that complicated and you grunt. He was grunting carrying things around yesterday. I'm like, I carried that all the way up the stairs and I didn't have to grunt. I had to carry that.

Just letting you know that he's getting the job done. I think he does it for flare. Ila was like, hey, mom, you're strong. Yeah, she was trying to help me. She's like, this one feels really heavy. I like, I got this, Ila. But, you know, now my back is tight and sore today. So I'm right there with you, Ralph.

But I wanted to talk about the road construction because the last week, I was here. I came down with the girls a couple weekends ago. I think over Father's Day weekend you were in San Diego. They're putting in a bunch of drainage. They're putting in drainage pipes so they've had the road torn up for a while. When it rains here, there's flooding all in the road. Yeah, drain, drain, yeah. Your thumbs up thing. I didn't know what it was happening. I'm glad they're doing it. You're flailing. I was, I was confused on what the thumbs up was about to. I was like, what did you do? I thought y'all had like a secret thing happening and I was lost. I was not what Amy's about to say, but I'm just saying I'm happy they're doing it. I am happy.

don't have to do with my hand. I'm happy they're doing it too. It just takes a long, it takes a long time and the timing of it isn't that great because it's Fourth of July and it's going to be busy and the road still turned up. But more than that, the weekend we were here, so I've talked about before that you can't pull into the driveway. So all the parking in front of the house is all we have and it's public parking right there. So like the blocks are kind of funny around here. Some roads have parking and some don't. So I was just having to bank on getting a spot in front of the house or schlepping the kids down the street or finding a spot somewhere, which is fine except that it's, you know, it's a lot more stress with little kids doing that

shit. Can I say if you, if you're in one of the public spots and you move to do anything, somebody is ready to take it? It's like somebody came out of the woods just waiting for you to pull out. The public spots are hard. It won't last 10 seconds. It's hard. And we're right here next to the beach inlet too.

So, you know, there's a lot of people wanting to park here just for that reason. So since we can't use our own driveway because the road. roads torn out and they won't let us. It's literally like a foot drop off down into the belly of the road so we couldn't get in and out there. It's impossible. She had to use some of the public parking. I did. So that's fine. It's right in front of the house. But if you pull out and go eat or anything like that, it's going to be a challenge to get it back. So I bought myself some cones. I ordered cones off of Amazon like a total Karen and was coning off in front of the house, willing to get a ticket because I'm sure that's not allowed, right? Like you're not supposed to

put cones out in the public parking. And it worked pretty seamlessly, to be honest. I've had cones for me. I had cones for my girlfriend. So it conned off honestly. I'll cross the whole front. And it worked really well. Except the last time we were pulling out to go to dinner,

Lisa's on the other side of the car, trying to get the kids in the car seats. And I have pulled out a little bit so that she could put the cones back out, right? So I'm not actually in the spot anymore. I'm kind of hanging off in the road. But the barricades are in the road too. So I'm not really, really messing up traffic. And anyway, so there's a guy coming through the stop sign and he can't see that leases on the other side of the car.

He just sees that the suburban's kind of pulled out in the road. And he decides to start honking at me, that horn thing, you know, that we talked about how rude that is, just honking for no reason. Yeah. And we're at the beach people. We're not going anywhere fast. So he honks. And instead of doing anything out the window to let him know we're like, hang on, we're coming out. I just get out of the car and I walk straight up to his window.

I walked straight up to his window. I hadn't heard this story. No, I haven't told Dale about it. I wasn't mad, but I was at the point of the day where we're putting the kids in the car for dinner. It's hot. There's four children trying to get in a car seats. It's been a long day. I'm stressed out.

I'm in that weird fuzzy space between I'm having a good time and anything could set me off. So I just get out of the car and I walk straight up to his window. And I just stand there until he rolls his window down. He's in there with his wife. and he's like, I was like, listen, we have little kids who are trying to get into the car. We're going to take a minute. Okay? You can see that I can't get into my driveway.

This is my house. You're going to need to just chill out. And he goes, you scared the shit out of me. I was like, you probably shouldn't be honking then. Like, what are you doing? And so I got, he rolls his window back up and I get back in my car and I take my ever-loving time getting out of there. Because he was waiting to park in that spot anyway.

I'm like, fuck off, man. Now take me in my cones. Like, the whole thing was- Don't mess with Amy. I know. Well, I had had enough. Yeah. End of the show. Man, none of our topics are going to top that. I used the horn when I was in San Diego, but normally I have my IKEA. And my horn when I use my Kia, it's like, it's more like a honk at anyone if you're in a Kia, by the way.

It's like, my horn's like, excuse me. But the Tahoe that I was driving out in San Diego was a rental and I hit that. And that thing was like, move motherfucker. That one was loud. And I just, because it was supposed to be a gentle, but it was not a gentle horn. They didn't even have it in it to be gentle. I felt bad. I did the. Sorry. I have a truck that has a train horn in the bed of it. It's obnoxious. And it is freaking 100 decibels. And when you lay on that thing, you have to prime it.

There's an air pump underneath the hood. So you flip on a switch to prime the pump and get the compressed air in the tank. Why would you put something like that on your truck? To be the biggest ass you can be. And that's what your goal was? I mean, if somebody deserves it, they're going to get it. Well, that took the harm. Yeah, I've never heard you, I've never heard it.

You've had the truck at the house to show I love the truck because it's huge, just like a big monster truck. And she used to watch Blaze and she looks just like Blaze. The Monster Trub. The Monster Trout. So she's not, at that point, she was the same height as the tire. Yeah. It's awesome.

It's huge. Speaking of things that do, speaking of things that people do that drive you crazy on the highway, have a bit of confession to make. I don't know if Amy even realizes this was happening. And this is probably highly illegal. And we may get shut down just because we're, we're, we're, to be clear.

Wait a second. What happened, man? Well, I mean, so this drives me crazy. This happens quite often, honestly. And it drives me crazy. And so you're, you're coming down and on ramp to blend onto the, interstate. The interstate is two lanes. It don't matter how many lanes, but minimum two lanes. You look in the driver's side mirror to see what kind of traffic's coming from behind on the

interstate is you're going to blend on to the right-hand lane. There's a guy driving up. You know, probably, he's probably about 10 car links back. He's not beside you, but he's, he's, He's a little faster than you, and he sees you coming down the own ramp, and he knows that you're going to want to next blend onto the highway. That's like your next fucking move. Your only move. Yeah. He has nobody around him, nobody in the left lane, and he chooses to stay in the right lane.

And you either got to gun it to get in front of him or slow down and let him go by, when he could just easily blend over into the left lane to allow you to have the right. there's an ass I was we were getting on the interstate just as we were coming down here yeah and there's this fuck guy just tootling along in his car and I'm coming down the ramp and I'm like bye buddy you know that's you were me man and I just said f*** and I just started blending on into the fucking highway did you push him over he was behind me stills but he had to slow down and he honks and I'm like let's go come on I'm just so I can't say that when you're not having manners on the road. It's easy.

I've never had road rage. I've never done anything on the highway that, except for that one time that charger cut us off. And I had gunned, Amy had to stop me. But I, I've never done anything on the highway. Like, you know. I don't see you flip your lid in general like that. Well, I mean, there are laws against using your vehicle

in certain ways on the road. You get yourself some big trouble there. But that shit pissed me off. And I'm, and I'm, I wouldn't like, I wasn't coming over into the side of his car. He was still behind me by like a half of car length. We were clear to come over into the lane, but it was going to be tight. And I'm like, I'm fucking coming over at a and he's.

He slows down. He honks his horn. And I'm like, man, I'd love to, I'd love to just talk to this person. Like, dude, why not? Just get over. You see what's going on here. You know what I need. And you've got plenty here, plenty of f***.

Yeah. Let's work together here. I feel like that's kind of like the honking at someone when they're just trying to get in their fucking car. Like, everybody needs to just be courteous. I'm the first person to let somebody over. When I can tell, you know, they're in the right lane and we're running up on, they're running up on 18 wheeler. And they're going to have there. I'm like, here, come on.

Get in front of me. Come on over into the left lane. I ain't going to hold, you know, I'm not, I'm not going to make you go to the back of the line. And I'm the first person. I'm courteous and shit. And I'm courteous of shit. I could do a. class. I could have all of these asses that don't come, don't let somebody, somebody have the

right away or whatever. I can have all these ass in a classroom and teach them road etiquette. Can you teach them if you're in the left lane, you got to go at minimum the speed limit? Yeah. Because my God, on 77, every idiot is on the left lane. I agree. So it's similar in South Carolina. There's two lanes on the highway. You've been down here a few times, Travis. You know, like once you get down into South Carolina, it's just two lanes. Well, there's plenty of trucks and cargo and different trailers and things coming through here right now. A lot of construction happening. The way that people drive here has always driven me nuts.

Like you're in the left lane, you're going to speed limit. Everybody's got a good pace. But there's always that one guy that comes up on the right side. And instead of slowing down because he got too close to the truck, he just weaves right in the middle. So now we're all bunched up and everybody's going to freaking run into each other. And it's like you're interworming down the dang highway. and nobody's really going any faster. You know what I mean?

I hate that. Yeah. I think Dale and I have conversations about it every time we get in the car to come down here. I'm like, here we go. I bet now, to be fair to us, I bet everybody driving down the interstate's b-shap about somebody around them. You know what I mean? Nine times out of ten, if you're driving 15 minutes down 77, you're going to be b-hut about something somebody's doing, right? That's because nobody uses their brain anymore.

Everyone's just like in a hurry or trying to cause problems. We're not that bad. But to me, the people that are in la-la land and they're doing like, yeah, they're 55. Like, let's focus here.

People put the phone down. Yeah. One thing in a time. Drive. So Amy saw the clip from Tuesday show. Yeah, I did. I saw the clip from Tuesday show about you and the cards and your father's day gift.

Yeah. And I have a question. Yeah. We're in the. the Sonoma house in the kitchen. You have slithered away from the family again to start messing with your cards. I'm in the middle of the room with all of y'all. Well, the rest of us were outside.

Yeah. You were in the kitchen messing with your cards. And I said, oh, you still haven't opened all of those. I thought you opened the whole pack. And I knew he had gone to a card shop. I already knew he went. Yeah. So there was really no reason to fib.

But it sounds like he straight lied to my face about having bought an extra set. Like, I know I teed him up for the live because I said you haven't finished opening all of those yet because it was the same box. Maybe he forgot which ones were from which his memory labs. Coincidentally, like she bought me, she bought me a badass box. It was a tops chrome platinum. It's an awesome, awesome set. He had already bought himself some too. I had inadvertently, coincidentally bought this exact same box as well as some other.

cards when I was in San Diego. Yeah. And so I was, I'd open up everything except for her box and the identical box that I had. And so I laid in, I laid in the bed one night and opened up one box. It might have been hers, might have been mine. And she was with, she was in the bed with me. She's like, she thought, you know, I guess she assumes I'm opening up her box, but I'm just opening the cards and looking at it.

Well, I assumed that because I didn't know you had bought yourself the same thing. Yeah. And he didn't, he didn't say that. He was excited and shocked that I got him baseball cards to begin with. And then that must have just... And then I'm in the kitchen opening up the same cards. And she goes, hmm. You're still opening those, huh?

I'm like, well, kind of, yeah. Yes, I am. You big fat liar. Amy, I'm impressed that you even got him cards because that's like, I mean, we know how addicted it is and you kind of just... I'm an enabler, Travis, haven't you figured that out yet? That's the lead. He doesn't change because I enable it.

That's an amazing gift by you. And that just shows truly the person. you are that yes I'm thoughtful that you're willing to go that far he's like you are so thoughtful he wants to make pickle spears he had pickle spears he had pickles on his trip so he wants to have some of those butcher's pickles that we have so I get all the ingredients for that and he asked me yesterday he's like did you get this stuff for the pickles I was like of course I did he's like you're the best like I know this is what being thoughtful looks like you know she's got this built in

a gene of thoughtfulness. Not everybody has it. No, not everyone has. You're looking at one of them. He told me that yesterday. He's like, gosh, you're so thoughtful. I was like, I know, it feels good to be thoughtful. It feels really good.

I thought I was thoughtful until I met Amy. You did? You really thought you were thoughtful? I thought I was average. And then I met Amy. I'm like, holy shit. She's like, to the, you're like, full thoughtful. I'm like half thoughtful.

It just depends on what it is. but gifting is definitely not where he thrives. Where do I thrive? Do I thrive at all? I'm an honest question. If it has something to do with boys and racing or whatever, like you are, so if someone's child wants to get into a cart or race car somehow, you will figure that out.

You are thoughtful. You've got all the things aligned. Coincidentally. I know who to do. Blake Cook's going to race his son at Millbridge for the first time. next Wednesday? And a car that I own the engine

and Carson Quaple owns the cart. He's like, he's got his line of people. He knows exactly who to contact and he lines it up and he can make it happen in seconds. And Blake didn't ask him to do that. So that was very thoughtful. He absolutely can do it. But when he looks at me and he's like, yeah.

I know, but I don't know who to call to set up. You know, I don't know. I can call and set up a massage. No, I want. But I mean, I don't, what's the equivalent of calling? Like I call a buddy and go, hey, man, I need a motor for this cart. What's the equivalent to that for you?

For like, what would I be doing? Listen, after 18 years together, I feel like we should just have to, it shouldn't be that hard. Hey, I need a motor for Amy. I need a new engine for Amy. Okay. I can do it. Hey, this is Jerome and Tiffany Davis.

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Listen, I got a preface before you start rolling into the story. we are good parents. We love our children. We are really good parents. They're super sweet. This is going to sound like the worst shit ever. And they challenge us and so sometimes we challenge them back. It's for growth.

Always for growth. If you had been sitting there watching this happen, you would think that we were the biggest parents. Don't say that. I'm just saying it. She said yes. Listen, we're at dinner. The first night we get here, we're at the pub.

as we always do. And Nicole doesn't like spreads. We've talked about this. She want to ketchup mustard, syrup, none of that. And so she's ordered a piece of grilled chicken, plain, and she has got chips. The kid won't eat anything with flavor on it. Regular normal potato chips.

And so I've challenged her with maybe trying some mustard just in case. That's the wrong thing to start with. We tried ketchup already, and she gagged. But she just put her finger in it, and she tried it, and she gagged. She won't do nothing. No, she won't do any of it. It's the consistency. It's pasty.

So, well, she just gets really mental. She gets in her head about it because she'll eat chocolate serve. Like, it's not totally the consistency. I think it's just the flavor and then, like, her siking herself out. So I put some mustard on a potato chip and I'm like, how about you try this? I'll give you $20. And she was like, nah, I don't need $20. How about a squishy?

Because I have a box full of squishies for bribery, obviously. at the house here and she goes, yep, I'll do it for a squishy, but I'm just going to put my finger in it. I was like, no, no, no, no, you have to eat this whole thing. And she's like sniffing it. So I give her the chip and it's got some mustard on it. And she wants to like stick her finger in it and just try it that way. I'm like, no, no, no, no, you have to eat the whole chip. So she gets it really close and she's sniffing on it.

And she's like trying to talk herself into it. And finally Dale's like, you have to just do it. Go for it. And so she sticks the whole chip in her mouth with the mustard on it. And she starts to gag, but she's chewing it up. Like, she's really going to be able to swallow it. and then all of a sudden she starts barfing all over the table. Dude.

I would too. That's, I'm on Nicole's side with this one. Oh, I am too now. Like, well, I won't do it again,

but honestly, she said yes. Like, she knew what she would sign herself up for. Think about how like super simple and innocent this is. Like, it's a little bit of mustard on a chip. It's the size of my pinky finger now.

It's not like a gob. Nobody's going to eat this and just blow chunks all over the table. That's not what. what's usually going to happen, right? So I'm thinking, man, this is a kind of shit I do. Like, I'm always trying to bribe them to do stuff. I want them to do try Buffalo sauce, whatever. And I'm like, dang, this is, Amy's trying to bribe them.

That's not her style. I want to challenge her to try new things. But also, I was a little bored. I felt like it was a good idea at the moment. Yeah. So she puts in her mouth and immediately starts like gagging, gagging, gagging over and eventually just throws up. It wasn't loud, like to the point where I'm looking at Dale laughing.

and he goes, and like points at her, and I look over and it's happening, and so I just grab a bunch of napkins and, like. We felt, I felt terrible for her. I didn't. She's fine. I know. She's my little, she's a little critter.

She's fine. But, but I could not even look around the room. No. I was so terrified of what other group sitting there in the pub was, mortified like looking at us going what are y'all doing to this kid they didn't know that we asked her to try mustard we didn't ask her to eat some mustard it's not the same thing it's like food you know it's not an oyster either it's like not something weird that like most people don't like it's freaking but why didn't you start with like barbecue sauce do barbecue sauce with the chicken do

something like mustard and a chip hey she won't do barbecue either listen next time we'll try barbecue see how that place but that was a little more like mustard and the chip is awful Oh, I dip my chips in mustard. I'm a mustard chick. I love it. I like mustard with my mustard. So there's a big debate in our house around expiration dates on foods. Dale seems to think as soon as the expiration date hits, it has to be thrown out.

Oh, no. It has to be. Even if it's a thing that has not been opened. Not true. That's exactly how you've always been. I remember having that pantry cleaned out and you throwing things out, even if it was like ketchup that hadn't been opened. Yeah. So if it's two months, three months, four months, more, like, if it's a couple of weeks and not opened, it's fine. See, I have a different opinion than you thought.

Two weeks. Yeah, it depends on what it is. If it's unopened, yeah, I mean, you know, like steak, chicken meats, things like that, out. When it crosses that date, it's done to me. Yes, 100%. It's out. So. But if it's something.

something that's, you know, in the pantry. A dry good. Right. And it's a couple weeks or so, unopened, still fine. But if it's a couple weeks and it's open, then it's definitely not something I want to eat. I'm not even going to mess with it. I'm not, I mean, it's got a date on there for a reason. Yeah, the date is on there so that they have a marker of which their quality is, as benchmarks.

Like, you can still eat it. that's not going to hurt you. Like, if you can open a bag of chips that are a year old and just check it out and see if they're worth the ship. What does the word expire mean? I mean, is it like, no, but that's more like for like legally so that like they can't be sued and like. Yeah. They have to have a good for liability. Yuck, for the most part, especially if it's something completely dry.

Right. I don't, I don't, I don't adhere to that. I mean, I'll take an ad bill too if it's expired. Oh, now, I'll do some meds. It's just going to be a little weaker. No, medicine's what I wouldn't do because it won't, it can lose like its effectiveness. Yeah, that's okay. If it's less effective,

I still want some of its effectiveness. That's how I feel about the chips. You threw all my snacks away. We have a snack tour here in the bar. Damn, you told me to. I've told you the dates and you said, yeah, throw that out, throw that out. Because he starts arguing with me and I'm like,

you know what, it's not even worth to throw it out. I'll get some new snackies. Start arguing. Yes, you did. You're like, but it says April, that's April. No. It's going to be fine. It's a bag of chips.

The only thing I told you to throw away immediately was open stuff. Yeah. Which is obvious. It's sale. Yeah. So I have a question for it. Okay. Yeah.

I have a question for you then. So I drank like the lactate milk and it was the expiration date was like June 18th and I did like I just open it smell test and then it smelled fine. So I. So the lactose free stuff lasts longer than they. Is that the end of the story? No. He's like, but like I. So it's like 10 days after it's expiration date.

Is that too much for you? Did it hurt your belly? up. No, it's fine. That's the measure for all things that. If you didn't make you bar, you're fine. Did you have diarrhea? No, I did not.

Did you get any kind of stomach pains and then do a lot of farting? Did you break down a rash? No rashes. Should be good then. Yeah, I think milk is scary too. Your body was probably like, what the hell ass-ass?

But you didn't know. You didn't know that. What? Okay. You put it down in there and your body's like, Jesus, this guy's an animal. This guy's a freaking idiot. No, I would say in milk is something you have to be a little more careful with, but the lactose-free stuff does last way longer.

Yeah. That's what I thought. So I was like, I do the smell test. They're like the cheese. Sometimes I'll just like look and like, I don't see any mold and it's still good. Yeah. And then you just cut the moldy part off and go for it. We have.

No. That's when you got to pitch it, Amy. You can't just cut the mold off. Yeah, you can. We, we have snacks up here in this box. right we only come up here every couple of months and when we have guests up here you don't want them opening up a bag of chips and them being stale and them having to go who what the hell they don't keep fresh around here you know and so you know if it's like if there's chips in there that are

six months old four months old they got to go I didn't grow up like that risk we ate it anyway I get it if I'm going to eat it but that's like Community food. It's not going to hurt someone's belly. It's just because of the... Not hurting the belly. It's a snail. No, he's got a point.

If the chip loses its crispiness and people bite into it and that's going to ruin the... I know, no, no. It's not... Somebody's impression of us and what we're providing them is going to go down. We're going to get a four-star rating instead of a five-star rating. Here's what I challenge you to do, Ralph. I would challenge you to open one and just try it first. I haven't...

I would guarantee you that it would still be crunchy. It's its job to be crunchy. It doesn't get squishy unless you open it. Not squishy stale. Same thing. Like it doesn't do that unless you expose it to the air. I have had, I'm 51. I've had experiences.

I mean, I've experienced this stuff. I have been eating old food for a long time too, and I've never had one that was like stale. I got a standard, I guess. Wait, hold on, I got a question.

Whoa. What? I mean, I'm eating, I mean, in terms of staleness, you're just boogey, you're bougie.

I'm bougie. You're redneck boozy man. I guess so. So, Dale, you're throwing away chips that the bag hasn't even been opened yet. Yes, Travis, yes, yes.

From April. Like snack size bags of chips or crackers or something. Those are, those can last years. I don't see. Are you, I thought you're talking about like an open bag, you seal, like, no. You think chips can last years? Yes, sir, Bob.

In a sealed bag. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. It's full of preservatives. I mean, that's true, but it doesn't mean it's going to not be stale. Yeah, it does, actually.

So, all right, we had chips in there from. February, January, we had chips in there from December 2025. You're eating those? Yeah, I'm going to try it before I throw it away. You're eating them? Yeah. Travis? Yes.

From what year, from what month? Travis. They could be from 2025 if they're a bag of ruffles potato chips and open, open those puppies up and going, yes. All right. They're going down. Y'all are in the minority. Let's get a poll. No, it's two against one.

There's two here. You're the minority. I believe we need to put this out of the public, see what. I feel like you need to stop throwing away good food, Ralph. Yeah. That this is... The public house is like... Pubble ice is a no-go.

So yesterday, I was in the swimming pool with Aila, and I saw something that I can't explain. Well, I guess I can explain it, but I saw something that I didn't believe was possible. So there was... We have some wasp that fly around. Yeah. There's lots of was to do.

And every time you come down here, there's a new wasp nest to find and hunt down and take care of. And so we're in the pool and there's a wasp that's kind of flying around in the yard a little bit. And he comes up to the coping of the pool and stuff every now and then. And we had this fishing net. The net is like six by six inches. It's a kid's toy. It's a kid's toy.

And it has a rod handle that's probably, let's say, a foot and a half long. It's like for catching butterflies or something. And it's bright orange. And so I catch this wasp with this net and now have the wasp in the net and I put it in the water way low, like a foot and a half deep into the water. I'm holding the wasp the handle of this thing. It's a foot and a half long in the net and the wasp is in it all underwater by about a foot and a half. Isla's got on her little goggles. and I'm like swim

look underwater and see if that wasp is still in that net I just wanted her to see the wasp and she's like that I'd called it and she's like yep the wasp is in there and she goes down again she goes dad she comes up she goes dad dad he's out he's coming out he's walking up the handle and I'm like what how

he's like underwater and I let go of it and the handle the net it floats It bought, no, the net sunk and the handle bobbed in the water. Just the very end of the handle sticking out of the water by about two inches. That wasp crawled all the way up the handle out of the water onto the tip, stood there for a second, and then flew away.

What the hell? Yeah. That's an evil bug. He was underwater for 20 seconds, more. That's a tough wasp. He walked that handle like it wasn't sh- I'm glad to let go. He has stuck my ass.

Underwater, no less. That would have been... I was saved your life. I can't believe that they can swim like that. I didn't either. Or even just march underwater. Yeah. They can't.

This one just must have... I just Googled like they would normally drown. Right. I would assume the same. Yeah, assume when their wings get wet too, they can't fly. I'm gonna hold him underwater and drown this thing. And because Alice's like, you know, we can't keep... There's a bee flying around.

She's like, we can't kill the bee. bees. They got to pollinate. Yeah, she's like, they have a job. They have a job. They're good. We need to keep the bees. But that wasp screwed up. Wast ain't got no job. We can kill it. I'm like, all right. So I'm drowning him. Damn, his ass was going to walk out of there. Sting me on the way out. Yeah. How about that shit? Dude, I let go of it. And I mean, it was like three, four seconds later. He'd come crawling up there a damn pole right out of the water. I was like, what the hell? Yeah, that would blow in my mind, too, if I saw that.

And then I was been trying to tell Amy for the last 12 hours. And I'm like, don't Tell her, no tell her, don't tell her. But I was like, I got a tailor. I want to tell her. Why not tell her? Oh, man. The Arrasp, they'll, like, bury in the grass too, right there next to the pool. So they come out of nowhere.

Well, now we know we literally have to have a flyswater sitting around. The net's not good enough. You need to get one of those, like, the ones that look like little rackets that have, like, you press it and electrocute some. Oh. Do we not have one of those? That sounds fun. I mean, it probably wouldn't last down here in these elements. Oh.

So I need to... Nothing lasts down here in the elements. I need... This is what I like to do. So when I'm... I usually like to do everything on my own or I've gotten better at doing everything on my own. But sometimes I just get to my wits in

and I reach out to the internet. I need a retractable extension cord that will handle the elements. So I've put... We're on a beach. I've got in the garage. It's not out in the rain. It's downstairs covered.

But it's... It's a breathable garage. There's wind blowing through there. It's slatted. And this, I've had to put two retractable extension cords in this garage because they keep failing. And I don't know why. I mean, I know the elements down here are and the sand, the salt water,

the beach of shit, everything. But I don't know why these retractable extension cords keep failing. because we have, I mounted two fans up in the ceiling of the garage. They're your standard, grilled, big, you know, 16-inch, 18-inch fan, pull string, crank, you know, two or three speeds. Them damn things have been hung in this garage for... Since you bought the house. Four or five years. And run like a champ.

They'll sit down here, not turned on for months. that's the worst thing for anything down here is for it to sit turned off. If it's working, it's actually kind of better off for everything down here. I've had to put two water pumps in our ice machine maker outside because the pump magnetic pump keeps failing it because of the elements out here, it just f***ed up over time. But them fans have never, they keep working and working and working and I can't, I don't know what the hell is about the extension cord, but I need a retractable one. Not no, just regular extension cord. Hell, I can go buy one of them anywhere. I need a good retractable that you pull out and you let it go and it winds itself back up.

It's for the golf carts, which is why he wants it to go away. So it's not laying through the garage. Yeah, you don't want it out there. No. I mean, I'm using a regular cord. That's fine. I want the retractable one to work, but I can't find one to last. So shoot me a suggestion out there.

Somebody send him help. There's got to be one. The internet's got everything. That's what this is good for. So if you like stuff, you talk about it, the internet tells you about it and says this is the good stuff of that stuff. Oh my gosh.

That's the best thing about the internet. That's the best thing about podcasting. He's really just using you, listeners. No, it's, if you talk about things, good or things you like, things you don't like, things you're struggling with, whether, whatever it is, whether it's material items,

whether it's emotional, stress, work, whatever. Internet's like therapy. now you gotta weed through a lot of you gotta weed through a ton of and if you ask for a good retractable drop cord you gotta wait through the but you'll find a good one you'll have one within a week

I guarantee it I see it and your phone's probably listening it's gonna start feeding you I was just gonna say at this point it's just gonna pop right into your feed you don't even need to worry about it just open up your phone

and just say retractable cord yeah I'm surprised he hadn't found I found one just doing that anyway. I think it'll be okay. Today is the day that I finally come public with my issues in retractable cords. So this is the first time people are hearing about it. Give it a little time. Okay, guys, we're back with another session of Ask Amy.

What do you have for us this week, Travis? So first question people will know is, what do you think about Amanda not returning to Summer House? I think, hey, wait. Wait, what? News to me. What's going on? Newsflash, Amanda's not returning to the summer house.

I wasn't sure who wouldn't come. I figured there'll be a few people, one or two, that wouldn't be on it, but so it's Amanda. Amanda is the one that's getting... Well, West is also not coming back. Well, of course. Okay, so Amanda and West are out. Amanda has officially proclaimed that she is also not coming back. I feel like we could have saw that coming.

I think now she's got the In the City show and I'm not shocked. But I'm kind of surprised that she's on TV anymore right now at all, unless this whole thing, as we started from the very beginning, the whole thing might just be a ruse. And they were getting divorced anyway. And like this whole thing is, what a hell of a thing to put yourself through. But maybe it's all just for show.

I don't know. I don't think that this is like a fake thing, though. It's hard. It's hard to understand. If it was fake, it's very developed. It's gone too far for fake. It's gone too far for fake. Okay.

Hey, somewhat related. Craig Conover is at the race this weekend, Charlotte. Or Chicago. Yeah, I'm like, what, not Charlotte? Chicago, he's Grand Marshal or something. Oh. Yeah, he texts me. He's like, you're going to be in Chicago for the race?

Let me see. We are big Southern Charm fans, obviously. We've talked about Southern Charm quite a bit, but they're all very nice people. I should have mentioned it. He's on Southern Charm. Yes. He is invited to the Chicago. race this weekend honorary starter.

Oh. Wonder what the Chicago tie is. I don't know. I was surprised to hear that as well. Yeah. That's cool. Speaking of races, Amy,

we saw Ila finally get in the car. What was it like for you? What was your thoughts? Yeah, so I have, she is always a little scared. And so I will put her in situations

where I'm like, she's going to be challenged and she's either going to go with it or she's going to lock up because she locked up the first time she got, you know, put in that position and get in the car. And so I told her going up to the race, leading up to it and during the day of the race, that if they won, that it was her turn to get in the car. And she seemed excited about it. Her dad had talked to her about it.

She was all about it. And then we get in the moment and everyone's staring at her and it's time and she has to make a choice very quickly. And she walks over to the car with Dale and then she turns around and she comes right back to me. She's like, I can't do it, Mom, and I want to do it. She was worried about it being too hot in the car. She was worried about everything. And then Nicole's like, well, I want to go. So she like screams, throws her hands in the air and runs over to Daddy.

And then Ila's decide she wants to change your mind and she's going to go back. So I'm like, Coley, come over here with me. And so Coley cries. And I'm holding a Nicole. She's crying against my leg. And then Ila finally gets in the car. And she pretends the whole time that she's not having a good time. But she was smirking and loved every second of it.

But she's not going to admit that. that. She's talked about it since. So I know that she enjoyed it, but she's definitely not like the natural daredevil that Nicole is. And Nicole was crushed. She's like, dang it. She said no. She changed her mind. Like it was a whole thing. I thought we were going to have like two kids crying at the race car. And then SVGs like, what the what the hell's going on here? It was definitely like more time spent trying to get that to happen than we should have been doing right there at that moment. But I think she liked it. I love how Nicole's like, please don't do it. I want this.

Like she's now like fully bought in. Yeah, she loves it. She was banking on Ireland, like chickening out. Yeah, I'm kind of, I'm interested to see, um,

where this goes with Coley because I don't, I don't think would have any interest whatsoever in, um, genuinely like trying to, trying to drive something or getting in kind of a cart of any kind. But we have carts and there's, we have little tracks and, I can get Coley on a little slow cart and have her.

That's what all the kids did. I mean, I could tell you two dozen children of crew chief drivers, mechanics that all got their kids on tiny little carts and by themselves, just let them run around this little track for hours on end. They just come out to the house. They would come out to our house and we just tell them, come on Sunday, Saturday, whenever y'all wanted to come. And they'd just be down there by themselves with their dad, just run and laugh.

It's over and over and over and over. They get off, take a little break. And Isla's done that. She's done that on her little cart, but it's not like something that drives her. It's like something she'll play with, but it's not something she's passionate about. Yeah.

So, yeah, we'll see. Coley seems like she's pretending or she's serious. I can't tell, but she says she wants to learn more about it. Yeah. Are we still in the kind of phase? Yeah, we're still in the kind of phase. Everything's in the kind of phase. Except for mustard, she definitely doesn't like that.

Well, listen, Collie. I'm with you on mustard. So stay strong on that one. It's awful. We heard Dale talk about the Sonoma trip out on the download. Amy, what was like kind of your highlight or what do you like best about going out there? I always love going out to Sonoma because, of course, I like the wine country because of the wine, but the weather is just so nice. It's beautiful. The sun is out. It's like there's no clouds in the sky. And it's a little chilly in the morning. Super hot in the afternoon. So like you get to just experience just really different. But the girls had a blast. We stayed at the Stanley Ranch this year. It was our first time. And they have a chicken coop.

And I think that was their favorite thing of the whole trip was just getting to go inside this coop and feed the chickens. So we did that a couple of times. And they could pick them up. And so Nicole and I both chase the chickens down. You know, everything has a swimming pool. Everything has all the things. But the chicken coop was special.

And so they love that. I love the racetrack, too. It's one of my favorite ones. I like that it's a road course. And it's not like a flat basic road course. It's more dynamic. So it's fun to watch. Have any of the Jesus has made its way to Solvents Islands yet?

Probably. Yeah. I've got some in my bag. I haven't put them anywhere yet. I'm surprised he hasn't. He should have a couple in his pocket at all times. So we get those Jesuses at Sweetgrass. They keep them on the countertop right next to the checkout.

So like we do have several of those at home. Like every little backpack has one in its pocket. And so you're already aware of this before. Oh, yeah. The pocket Jesus, yeah. But I didn't know that Dale would be so excited about it. We need little tiny Dale juniors or even your dad. You stick up the little number three.

That would be so fun. I got a text from a coworker at Junior Motorsports and he goes, I just saw the social clip. That makes sense while I have a Jesus in my office right now. He's like, I don't know where Jesus popped out. I wish we wouldn't have cut the social clip, though, so that people. around the office would have been wondering what's going on. Yeah, where it came from. So Mike has three in his office.

I don't know if he's found him yet. He's on vacation, so he won't even know about him until he gets back, probably. Understood. You got to hide him in places that'll surprise you, like, I don't know, in a drawer, in a seat and a cup holder. We put one in one in the bathrooms. There's one in Travis's space right now? There's one in the room Travis is in right now. Can we see it?

Should he be able to see it? Look over by the door. And then the glass wall. Oh, yeah, he's over in the corner. Listen, it's just a little blessing for you. I put one in the bathroom and the men's bathroom at Dirty Move. Awesome. Just, you know, bless the bathroom.

Did you order a box as well? I did not order a box. Because we've got a lot. So Stephen ordered some and then I ordered some sitting next to him. But Stephen thought he was ordering them to give to me. so he comes into the Dirty Mo Media Studio, here's your box of Jesus. I said, that's your box.

I've got my own box. And he goes, he was, the look on his face when he was like, when he realized that he was the owner of a box of miniature Jesus, he was like, okay, now what am I going to do with all these same things? You know, he's like, this is more a challenge. Dude, and I said, just get rid of them, like, put them everywhere. He comes back like 20 minutes later. He's like, all right, they're everywhere.

I'm like, the whole box. really? I'm looking at my box going, this is going to take a while, right? Yeah. Like you can't take them not to, you can't just put them all in one office. You got to take them with you places.

I don't want to think about this longer than I have to. I'm just going to get rid of them. Yeah. That's funny. You could have just sold them in the shop downstairs. Get a little Jesus on your Jesus and jerky. Yeah. Jesus and jerky. You buy a bag of jerky.

You get a Jesus. There you go. Next question. Speaking of potato chips, what's your go-to potato chip? Potato chip or cheese? A chip. Oh, man. Lay salt and vinegar.

It can give me a chip. Hands down, lay salt and vinegar. I like salt and vinegar really good. I also really like the chili cheese fritos. Fritos have always been on the top for me. Those are my favorite as a kid. There's another salt and vinegar that's really good, too. And I can't remember the name, golly.

I can't remember the brand name. But it's... The ones in the can? Huh? No, no, no, no. It's in a bag. They're like kettle chips. They're super tart.

Yeah, I remember where I bought those. Oh, the name is... They're more of a specialty. The name feels like a very old vintage brand. I can't remember the damn name, but they're freaking good. Salt and vinegar to me is just such a cool combo flavor for a chip. Even for like almonds and stuff, salt vinegar or almonds. I love the jalapeno kettle chips.

Yeah. I can't get down with jalapeno flavored things. I like jalapinos. Yeah, I'm with you. It doesn't have the same vibe. No. That's something. It's always kind of been strange to me.

I do like jalapeno than my wine, though. it's like a trend that I do actually like you slice up jalapinos and stick it in your Savignon Blanc or your rosé and over time it gets more spicy but it's good I don't think I've ever thought of that fresh ones last question

fourth of July is this weekend when is the cutoff for you to for people to stop doing like fireworks and it's being like annoying Monday so don't so traditionally fireworks the more you know the the local public

set up or your buddies down the street to do it every year. It usually happens in the evening, right? Yeah. Sometime, you know, I think once it's, once you've kind of started that like official firework display that's going to happen that you're going to do in the evening or that's happening at the town square or whatever, after that's done and it's beyond midnight. Like I think it's, we moved on to the next day. Like it's over.

Yeah. the fifth. Yeah, I'm with you. I feel like... If you're still shooting fireworks off at 2 o'clock in the morning, three o'clock in the morning on the fifth, you're doing it wrong. Or even like the next day in the afternoon. So like, yeah, July the 4th is the day. And then I like fireworks. And I don't care about the noise. But I feel like...

Fireworks on the first, second, third, leading up, good. Yeah, afterwards. It's like... A couple little experimental fireworks. It's like Christmas music after the new year. Like, if you... That's right. You know what I mean?

Yeah. So you cut off the fireworks at the... End of the fourth. I thought I was going to be stingy. I was going to give people, I'm going to give people July 5th. Because especially since it's a Sunday, if you want to set off fireworks. Is that only because it's a Sunday this year? Yeah, I'll give you the 5th.

I thought that was going to be stingy. Okay, since the 5th on a Sunday, you might have a little tolerance there. But I think, honest, man, I just feel like it's like Amy said. It's like, we got this radio that plays in the garage. And it plays on this radio station that plays once it's Christmas time, right around Thanksgiving, they play Christmas music all the way, I think they play it all the way to Christmas day. And right after Christmas, it changes back to regular programming. It would be freaking weird to walk in there on the 26th, 7th, or 8th, and their Christmas music still playing.

Yeah. Because emotionally, we have moved on. Yeah, we are spent. Check, we're done, we made it to the finish line. That's kind of the same thing with the fourth. It was awesome. The buildup is so big, too, around here. That's probably another reason I feel that way. Like the fifth, and you to be a reset days. Sunday is a reset for hangover day. Normal summer stuff happening. All right, no fun for Amy and Dale. No fun. No, we had fun yesterday, buddy. We had fun on the fourth. We had fun on the fourth, all day on the third. We had fun on the third, the second. We're having fun today.

Speaking of... The fifth is recover, sleep, get your ass ready for Monday. Speaking of fun, and I forgot about this is not an asking me question, but we forgot about this topic. What the hell's going on with the corn salad? Yeah, so we went to our favorite restaurant here last night and they didn't have the corn salad again because they sold too many batches of it. Yes, the day before. It's so popular. And I think it marinate. It's not something they just freshly make. I was told it would be back today. Yes, we asked. We wanted to make sure that we could get some. So she said that they just had to get it together and it has to sit. I was wondering if it was there a corn shortage or what? Yeah. I text Travis immediately and he gets on

Google and he's like there is absolutely no shortage of corn in the United States, period, ever, period. Yeah, chat did not like me asking about it. Yeah, he was offended that you appalled even that you asked such a question. Where's all the corn? Well, I hope, Dale, because you haven't had any yet, right? And like Amy was able to get some a couple weeks ago, but you aren't. So soon enough. Yeah. Okay. He hasn't. To answer your question, no, he is deprived of the corn. It's all right. Amy decided to brag about it to us. I did. I sent a photo and everything. I feel like it was a small victory. Like they had it in stock. yeah I'm out in San Diego trying to enjoy my drink and then Amy just rubs in that she gets the corn salad yeah little food porn food corn porn thing y'all know don't remember setting me up for that no I knew I was a plan we had a plan all along kind of like summer house sometimes I feel like you're gonna wrap this all into one big bow you y'all plot against me since I'm the only chick we no we don't plot against you at all well you all are aware of stuff that I obviously am not because

A, y'all are boys, and then y'all are probably on social media reading things. I don't, like, TikToks and stuff like that. They're going to meet? I don't have TikTok. No, but you're all over X and all those Reddit. Like. I'm, I'm, man. Yeah.

Zero plotting against you, Amy. I'm lame. I stick to the gram. Speaking of Chicago, I got word that it will likely be a sellout this weekend. Oh. And I also got word that they are looking to go back, even though the Chicago Street course has been teased as a return. Really?

I didn't think they could do both, but it sounds like both is actually on the table. I think it's going to be a fantastic race and a badass racetrack and a lot of fun. So yeah, I was hoping it would be extremely popular, so it would stick around. So it looks like I was kind of thinking, you know, they're putting so much into it to get us back.

Like financially it's got to be costly just to get the track back in order. So it's good to hear that there is a plan to continue. Was it in bad shape? Well, I mean, just been sitting idle for about four or five years. So if a track doesn't have a race, a sanction race coming, they just let it chill. Like they're not. Yeah, I mean, just needs a new fresh coat of paint, make sure all the plumbing works, wiring and electrical. Not the actual physical track itself.

No. It's everything else around it. I mean, the physical track itself probably needed. a little bit of, you know, weed killer and stuff like that. Weak killer. Oh my gosh, really? Probably. I mean, it grows up through the cracks.

I don't know. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, if you leave it sitting, it's going to look like our, you know, like your driveway would. Right, but it's not like a retired track for life. Like somebody's surely pulling the weeds, no? Oh, I don't know. I don't know.

Wasn't like that. But you're the expert. Yeah, well, Wilkesboro was dead. DED. Well, it ain't no more. It's a lie. DED? Yeah.

Dead. Will Spirrull's back, baby. Finally, all the way, all the way back. Like, the All-Saw race was cool, but the points race is officially, we are all the way back. Yeah. Good job.

I'm pumped. I get to broadcast this race. I know. What a full circle thing for you. Yeah. Right? Yeah. The universe.

All right. Well, I think that's a good place to stop. All right. Thank you guys for all of your questions. Thank you for listening. Hopefully you had a good time. And we will see. see you next week.

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