The Dale Jr. Download - The Comment Amy Made That Got the Internet Talking…

Episode Date: February 19, 2026

Dale’s dipping his toe into the world of sports trading cards… and Amy’s already bracing for a full-blown obsession. The Drink of the Week doesn’t win Dale over (unless it’s extra dirty), and a new slang term making the rounds in their friend group sparks some unexpected self-reflection, and maybe calls a few people out.They also address the 2027 Daytona 500 rumors and recap their Disney Cruise, complete with a Haunted Mansion bar and a Medusa moment that got a little too real, and a few teenage decisions involving skipped school and questionable judgment that absolutely would not hold up today.In #AskAmy, they debate the ideal number of nights in Key West, the go-to hangover breakfast, pets their kids will never be allowed to have, and take a trip down memory lane to Dale’s MTV Cribs house. And for more content, check out our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@BlessYourHardtReal fans wear Dirty Mo. Hit the link and join the crew.👇https://shop.dirtymomedia.com/ Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media. Oh, yeah, this is the way it's going to be, girl. 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.

Welcome, everybody, to another episode of Bless Your Heart. My husband, Dale Jr. and I are in the Dirty Moe Media Studios. Your husband. You never call me your husband. I know. It feels weird to say it out loud. I like it. it.

My husband. I feel like as a southern moment too. You don't never say it in my presence. You have to say husband. Like it's not just my husband. You don't never say my husband. I don't. Why would I?

Well, you know, to introduce yourself. I mean, I'm not generally introducing you to anybody. This is my wife, Amy. Yeah, because you're Dale and I don't have to introduce you to anybody. Does that make sense? Yeah. So this is my husband, Dale Jr. Everybody, welcome.

Dale Jr. She wants me to be treated. I'm going to be treated. I just, I look at you like a normal person. but you're not. So like there's that. Okay. That's why I don't have to introduce you as my husband outside of this scenario.

But anyway, we're going to have a good show. Let's get started. Let's do it. We have, has it been two weeks? Yeah. Yeah. Man, it don't feel like it. So just to say a couple quick things.

Everybody's been asking me about these hats. I got on. I got these jerky boys. I had these made. I had the patch made. Sent all the hats, sent the patch to a friend. He does the hats. He irons it on.

But in the junior motorsports gift shop, we are selling jerky boys hats. Anybody wants one because everybody loves jerky boys jerky. Best in the world. If you don't, they'll get out of here. It's the best in the world. And I was in the gift shop. Yeah.

Right? I was in the gift shop to get this to show y'all today. And he started shopping for himself. I saw this shirt. Now, I saw some of these with the big seven years. 89 80 Monte Carlo on it and I'm like that is the coolest so I got one I've seen him a bunch at the at the at the at the racetrack let me get this out of way but uh what the heck this is how life looks now it's out of the frame it gets a real clear example of how you act now it's out of the frame and nobody knows it's just kick it so um what are we drinking today Ralph well we're not ready to talk about the drink oh what are you drinking we're going to have a little conversation first Travis damn it Help! You're on an island with this one.

Travis. I feel like I'm on an island in general today. Hey, Travis, talk. Travis says something. Yes, Dale. There it is. Look at that shirt. What is that shirt, Travis?

Kyle Ripkin. The one in on like Cal Ripkin. All right. So it's like the baseball card. It's super cool, very vintage. And... Baseball cards are like a thing again, aren't they? Dude.

I was just going to tell you. Oh, sorry. So I have a first. friend, Landon Huffman, races in the cars tour. And he's gotten into the cards over the last year. Cole, Swindale, Luke Combs. All these dudes are diving into these cards. And I'm thinking, what's going on?

So, baseball cards, racing, all types, right, have made a big resurgence since the pandemic or since the 2020. For whatever reason, they've made this sort of big comeback. And all of the current stuff. So what I've learned is I talked to a couple people that are in that business. And what I've learned is like all of my junk wax from the 90s, all the stuff that I have from way back hasn't really risen in value, hasn't had this big research.

It's not any of the older stuff. It's all the new stuff. Junk wax? Is that the company? There's a period where they were printing so many cards. The stuff was worthless. Uh-huh. Like 90s, upper deck and late 80s.

tops and stuff like that. They were just making so many cards that now they're not worth anything. Too saturated. Yeah, you can buy unopened boxes of 87 tops all the time for like 11 bucks. And so, I mean, there's just not no value there. So all the stuff from the 40s, 50s and 60s, some of the 70s is valuable. Then the junk wax period began where they were over overproducing stuff. And then now that's made a big comeback in the card companies have gotten smarter about limiting

the release, how much they're producing. Yeah. And there's a lot of autographed cards these days. So they weren't selling autographed cards in packs years ago, right? They didn't think to do that. Now there's autograph. You can pull a card and opening packs is like this new, you know, rush, adrenaline rush now. And there's the card companies have made an effort to almost help you determine that you're going to get some value out of a pack.

So there's different, the packs are sold now with almost some hope that you're going to pull a quality card. And so that's really incentivized collectors to do it, to get involved now because they feel like there's a better chance of them not getting a bunch of junk and no names. Does that make you want to buy more packs? Because it would make me like buy less, I guess. If I got satisfied, I would stop. Not satisfied. So it makes people going, it makes people get the boxes and go out. after the cards and go after opening packs, they sit around together with friends and open packs.

And they're like, oh, look, I got one. You know, so. He's right. He's right. That's right. Yeah, like Butterbean and Cole Swindale were somewhere the other day they sent me a picture and they're together opening packs and trying to pull, and they pulled some pretty cool cards.

And so it got me thinking, man, like, dang. You know, I. Got you thinking, dang. Yeah. Got me thinking, dang. I'm thinking that I want to, it made me curious. I started looking up some cards that I would love to have. Do you know what you have and don't have?

I do. Like, where is your card collection? I got them out. I've had them in a safe and I got them out. Okay. And I was looking through them the other day. And, you know, some of my cards have not gone up in value. You can literally buy apps on your phone to take and scan the card.

And it'll be like, Yeah, that's a good card. And so I don't have a lot of great stuff. I have some parts that are decent. But what I'm thinking I would love to do is to buy some vintage cards that are autographed by my favorite players. We were right around the Super Bowl, John Riggins running back for Washington and was selling his Super Bowl used, game used jersey. Really?

Yep, from 1983 or 82 when they beat the Miami Dolphins for the Super Bowl. He was selling the jersey. And it was assumed it would go for around $200,000 and it sold for $500,000. $500,000? Holy smokes. I mean, it's a very iconic, especially if you're a Washington. I was just going to ask you if you were going to consider buying it. But now I understand.

The commanders now, they were the redskins. And there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of emotion around how what this team's been through over the last several years and there's still a ton of hardcore fans from that era and he was incredible and um he had there he has this really signature play in that game so i mean it's just having that jersey is the is a holy grail for washington fans plus it's an incredible piece and history NFL that person also has riggins super bowl ring oh really so he's a mega fan riggins has gotten to the point in his life he's like you know what i'm just selling this yeah it's the owner of the you know the selling sunset show yeah the

Oppenheimer guy, he's the one that bought it. Oh, wow. Interesting. I didn't know that. So, anyways, that got me thinking, you know what? I do want to own some cards. And I need to make like this sort of, it's very short list. Yeah.

Of like six to 12 players where I would love to have their autographed rookie card. And I think it starts with like John Riggins, Art Munk. Daryl Green, these are players. Football. Football. Yeah. And that would be the lit, I mean, my, my like, getting. back into collecting would be basically this little short run of trying to get these 12 cards or so,

you know, a dozen cards or whatever. And then I'd be like, okay. I don't know. I don't believe that for a second. I think it would spiral into like this whole new part, like this whole new branch. Just like, that's how it works for you. I can't get, I can't get, I don't trust the new trend that guys are, you know, guys and gals are going out there and like getting this rookie card of a current player. And like, for example, Jaden Daniels, the owner of Washington commanders bought this one-of-one card of Jadens for like a hundred grand, maybe more, and now it's worth much, much less after the season that he had last year.

Now, if he has another great year and takes him to the super, Super Bowl eventually. That card obviously would rebound, but people are banking. It's a lot of money to spend. Yeah, guys, like my buddy, Landon Huffman. He bought a particular player's card. Who's the quarterback for the Tampa Bay? What's his name?

Baker. Baker? Yeah, Baker Mayfield. He got a Baker Mayfield card. Baker's hot, playing well, and he bought this card. And then Baker had kind of a down year last year, not quite as good. And so, you know, the card drops him. I'm like, I can't get in that.

No, your emotions. will go on the roller coaster too much with it. Well, I remember back in the junk wax days, there was a guy named Todd Van Popple was a pitcher coming out of the high school or college going to play for the A's, and everybody was buying his card. And he turned out to not turn into much at all,

and none of his cards are worth anything. All of us, you know, there's the cards right there. What are they worth? Like $6? Six bucks? How much do you spend on it to begin with? Like if you were just buying? We were like, he's,

one of hundreds of examples of players where we were all like, oh, we got to get this card. This guy's a prospect. He's going to be a badass. Yeah, you just never know. Yeah, and they don't. And I can't get into that. That's too risky. Well, not when they're cheap.

Also, Dale, I feel like Amy's right. Like, this is going to be like your paintball or your cycling thing. Like, if you get into it, you're not just going to like tip-toe. No, he's going to go handbone. And it's going to be a thing. You should see the collection of die-cast cars, which all of them are specific and special. and they have purpose. I don't have a car for no reason.

No, but there's a purpose. It started with I'm just going to get dads, blah, blah, blah. And now we've got way more than that. And they take a lot more space than baseball card. So like in the library upstairs where he's got his cases, he now has these little, these little... Cases, cases. They're small, they're not cases, though.

They're out. So they're like banking, like little pieces of a racetrack, and he's got them set up like they're running on a racetrack. And I look in the... window the other day and I'm like, holy shit. They're like all around the room now. They're everywhere. He's another one of those things he like sneaks into the house.

I know who's shipping. I know the label. I know the size of the box, but I see him and he's like all of a sudden he disappears. When I buy a custom dock ass for $500. They're so expensive. That's cheap. 500 is like the low end. Also stealing from dirty mo.

The box comes in the mail. I open it up, pull the car out, slide it in my hoodie and I creep upstairs and try to get I'm like, what are you hiding it from? I'm not your mom. And he wonders where Nicole gets it from. That's right. It's not that I think Amy's going to get mad or anything. I'm just embarrassed.

Why are you doing it? It's displayed. We can all see them. I don't know what I paid for it. But if you say, hey, dude, I already know. Yeah, if any box comes to the house labeled to Dirty Moe. I justify that the price is fair because there's other people willing to pay it.

100%. He's lost some of these cars and then gotten mad about it and had the guy making one on the side. I've lost the baseball card I've lost the auction Lost an eBay auction Not lost in the mail or lost in my Just lost your marbles

No I just feel like the baseball card thing Would kind of lead to that too But like I said Baseball cards are tiny Yeah it's possible Hey we got the drink of the week Don't skip forward

Because I want to tell you about this one This is my favorite drink This is my absolute favorite cocktail to make Yeah this is Amy's favorite And I'm not You know I'm not supposed to dog the drinks right because it's high rock vodka and this is good vodka it's very good oh um by the way i want to tell y'all i'm going to just have a step dude i got to tell you and this is this is awesome this is why you don't

want to skip forward high rock vodka in Forbes magazine right is one of the top five world's best vodkas according to the wine and spirits wholesalers of america yes it was voted as one of the one of the top ones. I mean... Best tasting. Yeah. I mean, they go through the whole gamut of things. That's pretty cool to be.

Like, Forbes doesn't mess around. No. This is no bull-h-oh. So I like, you know, we all like to go out and have fun. And maybe your cat, maybe you're, you know, occasionally have a couple of drinks. The vodka that we have is filtered seven times. And it's done with a Lincoln County method. And so it's super clean.

Very smooth, very clean. Dude, I promise you. If you were to drink, if you were sort of to do a test over the course of several months and drinking different types of vodka, the way you would wake up the next day feeling with drinking high rock is probably the one you're going to prefer because of how it's filtered. Right. And it's so clean. You don't wake up in the morning feeling all the crap.

Hating life. Hating life. So that's my favorite thing about it. That is my favorite thing about it. Because a lot of people will say, you know, vodka's vodka, whatever, you know. That's true. But the way you feel the next day can be, can you, that is in your control, right? And I do feel like that this gives me some control over that.

Well, High Rock also, the Sugar Lens has full control over the juice. So we're making it. From start to finish, it is made. We make it in the Sugarlands. A lot of people don't know this. Yeah. A lot of companies buy it from another source. Why don't always do the same thing?

It's not a label on it. It's very common thing. They're not even making it. Right. You know. And so a lot of people do that. And so, yeah, anyhow, y'all trust me on that and I'll stop. But we got the dirty martini.

It's the dirty martini. You could probably recognize the dirty martini. I'll try it. It's not my favorite. This isn't Dale's favorite, but it is mine. So you have, can I read the recipe? Damn. Sorry.

I can't. I can't lie. I can't tell a lie. He loves it. loves olives, but olives and vodka together for some reason. That's interesting. Just don't work for you, huh? I just don't get it.

Like I, this drink, listen, I know. If we put pickle juice in it, would you like it better? I know that the dirty martini is extremely popular. It is. I mean, it's been around for ages. It is a staple and any, you know, fine establishment. Yeah, absolutely. But I can't get down with it.

Well, more for me then. I think, is there not enough? Am I not? Is there not enough? You like sweet drinks. Let's just start there. I do love pickles and brine and olives and I love all those things. Is there not enough?

Do I need more olive juice? You probably need more. You want a filthy martini. A filthy. Yeah. It's dirty. You want extra dirty. Extra dirty.

There's stages of dirtiness, yes. Well, I don't mind what's the coffee one? An espresso martini. Yeah. Every college girl likes those two days. That's what's basic. Well, I know Tim Dugger drinks those. Yeah, well.

And so I've drank in a few of those, you know, and that's like, hey, I'm, I like the taste. I know I'm also going to rock and roll a couple more hours tonight. It's going to extend. And all night long when you try to go to sleep. The night. So that one I can get down with, but I'll be honest. I mean, I, it's tough. Well, you don't have to drink it.

Just read the recipe. I just hate to give up. I'm not a quick. Take one more sip. One more sip for the, for the crowd. Nope. What about the olive? I love olives.

His or stuff with blue cheese? I think he's going to. I will sit down for a snack and get me a plate of olives, a pickle, all of the. A pickle extravaganza. You all have a little pickle of this, little pickle of that. Some grapes. Little pepperonies. Some grape.

And I'll do grapes alone. I don't put pickles and grapes. But I'll sit down and have a little, you know, what do you call that? Charkouterie. Chalcutery, no cheese. But I don't know, man. We should put that one in the game later. I can't.

I've never been a martini. Well, listen, we're not going to make you. I don't know what the appeal is. I like it. I know you do. I wish I knew why. Because it tastes good, bro. All right.

Well, you want to tell them how to make it since it's your favorite. No, you tell them. You're on a roll. Swirl a splash of dried vermouth in a chilled martini glass and pour out vermouth. Combined two and a half ounces of high rock vodka, two ounces of olive juice and a shaker with ice, pour into the martini glass and garnish with blue cheese stuffed olives, or just regular olives.

Visit Total Wine. We visited the Total Wine in Daytona while we were there. We signed some bottles. Also, heads up, we got the new bottles. Yes, this is a big deal. It's a huge deal. So fans will go into the store and they'll say, yep, I like the vodka,

but I wish they had the big handles. Yeah. What are those? The 1.5s? Yep. We finally have it. We're going to have 1.5s in the stores and airplane bottles.

Yes. So for those of you that don't like to measure, like myself. You just throw the whole bottle in there. I just get the airplane bottles and I just, that's how I do it. Yeah.

So. That's coming to you very soon. That's right. Keep an eye out. Total wine. It's been a great partner for us. There's our airplane bottles. He's bringing them over.

Thank you, Travis. Your tiny babies. Thank you. Yep. Send them right here. Yeah. So pretty exciting for us. High Rock's doing great. People are starting to catch on and realize how much of a great product this is.

You can find a bottle near you by going to high rock vodka.com. There's a locator. You just type in where you're at and it'll say, all right, there's an ABC store if you're North Carolina. But there's a liquor store down the street and it's got two bottles and blah blah. So remember to drink responsibly. You must be 21 or over. I lied. A handle is 1.75.

1.75. Yeah, you know what I mean. The big boys. The big boy. Yeah. We're going to have them. Now, if you want to do a little red bull in High Rock, now I get down with that.

Now we're talking. Now we're talking. I can support. Some of the noises you make, I swear, are you like a porch grainy sometimes? Ports grannie. Yeah. You know, like, you remember when Tim used to do the porch granny thing.

Tim Dugger used to do. Don't slam, don't slam that door. So Tim Dugger would put a filter on and make him look like a granny. And he would send us videos. It is hilarious. Honey, hey, take him shoes off now. Take him shoes off. Yeah, yeah, shut that screen door.

You're letting flies in. He's just as much of a comedian as he is a singer. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty hilarious. But sometimes you make a little like, yeah, you just did it. Well, you know, Nicole does that too. Oh, yeah?

And you're telling her and she need to stop. So Nicole has these voices. She goes, E! No, I don't, because she's just replaced her words with that now.

That's driving me crazy. But she just... We don't need to squeak at each other. Nicole is our youngest. And if she's frustrated by something, she'll look at you and go, uh-huh. Yeah, she's like growls.

She's always done that. Or if she's excited about something or she's maybe opening up a present, she'll go, E! Yes. and I start doing it too I just love it

I think it's the cutest thing so I'm encouraging it I'm sorry yeah part of the problem because I grunt too when she starts grunting or getting mad about something and going

you know I'll do I'll do it I'll be like yeah you can't beat him join him I guess I just think it's hilarious she'll grow out she's not going to be

a grunter and an you know she's not she's going to communicate when she's 25 years old it looks like a couple Neanderthals talking to each other Surely she'll grow out.

How old is she? She's five. Yeah. She's only five. She's the cutest. She's great. She's great. She's cute. Yeah.

Yeah, she will grow out of it. But it's really annoying when you're trying to get her dress and all she's doing is grunting at you. Yeah. All right. So let's address the elephant in the room. I wanted to keep it going for a little longer. What? The elephant in the room?

The total of 500. Listen. Listen. Explain yourself, Amy. I was in a weekend state. You have me trapped in a bus with the kids And I have a short shelf life I have a short shelf life in environments like that

I thought she was going to say I was laying back next to my handsome husband in bed And I was in a weekend state Well you know Not trapped in a camper with him I'm a fluffer I'm trying to make you smile and make you happy And you lay down and you were talking about the race I was like you just should run it yourself next year

And he looks at me like What the hell? Who has abducted my wife and put this chick here? I mean, I was kind of serious, but it's, listen, it is up to you. Yeah. It's always up to you. It's just so much work. Oh, my God.

It's so much work. You have no clue. I don't. You're right. I don't. But I feel like it would be worth the extra whatever. It ain't. Like, all right.

Look, if I could put a suit on and walk out and climbing the car and start it up and drive it off and race like hell, Hell yes. But you've got SIM. You're going to photo shoots. You've got to take picture. You know, you've got to get fitted in the suit and do all. It's just, there's months of lead up to. And there'll be so many, you know, people that are partners and think, you'll be a lot of media.

There'll be just a bunch of asks. You can't just go race. You'll be, you'll feel bad saying, no, I don't want to do all that. Why do you have to feel bad? Because I feel bad. It's a privilege to be able to do it. Yeah. And you feel like it's your job and your obligation to say yes to all of the things that allow it to happen, right? Well, this is part of the reason you've always felt so much pressure is because you feel that way.

Yeah. Instead of just enjoying the racing and separating those things for yourself, you know what I mean? Yeah. Like I just know that if I said, yeah, I'll do that. It will turn into a, a just a circus. And standing out there on the grid, getting ready to get in the car, there's just a circus. I mean,

I don't feel like that's a reason to say no. I mean, the other reasons make more sense. We go, we went to the Daytona 500. We stood out on the grid. Yeah. And it's not a circus in this,

in my current role. And I like watching, I like watching the circus. Not being the, you don't want to be a monkey in the circus. Yeah. So, I don't know.

I, I do love, driving. I do watch them go around the track and go, man, I'd love to be out there and feeling that and doing that. I would love that. But what if they created like a, wait, hey, okay. So the other part is, I got that big fat hand. I have never raced the next gen. I've never been in that car. I don't know where this is, it is racing at the cup level, and I will always feel this way. It is an elite level. You have to be freaking badass to be there and know where all every square inch of that car is as you're traveling around the track. Yeah.

I don't know where the corners are. I don't know. I don't know. You don't know the car. That when we get into the very finite moments of adjustment and driving and decision making an instant like bam, bam, bam, bam. I don't know that I still, I don't think you can just jump in and all that comes right back. I think you need to be doing it every week to be able to be as sharp as you're going.

going to want to be. And so if I go out there and those guys are moving reacting quicker because their minds are where my mind used to be, you know, and they're quicker reacting, they're sharper. I'm going to notice that. And I'm going to go, I don't want to do this unless I can be as good as I remember being. I understand. Right? Yeah. And so while it's fun and I do enjoy it, I only want to do it if I feel like I am absolutely 100% as good as I can possibly be. How are you going to know? How do you know? I only can be that good if I'm doing it every single week.

It ain't something that it's, I feel like it's, it's, it's, I feel like it's, it's, I feel like that it's naive to think you can just jump in a cup car and go, go run well. the Daytona 500 and not having driven one in almost eight years, nine years. So I think it's naive. And I think it's, you know, I think I think any cup guy like even Blaney, a friend of buyers would come in here and say, hey, man, yeah. Are you sure? You're going to have your hands full.

Yeah. You know, and so look at Justin. Justin tests, he runs the next gen car a lot testing. He does the wheel force car. He's got a lot of time in the car. And he's still, you know, found himself in a position where. where, you know, things didn't work out, right? And people would say, well, you know, he wasn't ready for being pushed out that far.

And he made a, he made a, you know, people would say maybe Denny or some of the people would say, that happened because he doesn't do it every single week, right? And so, or had he been doing it every single week, he might have not. Made a different choice. Yeah, yeah. So not, I don't want to insult Justin. He's great. but I feel like I would really be over my head.

I hear you. And as much as it would be fun, it would be fun, but I would end it no matter what the result would be going, man, I realize I don't, I'm not there anymore, you know? So are you worried a little bit too,

putting all that aside, like how it would affect your ego? Not so much of my ego. I don't mean that in a negative way, but like, yeah, I know what you mean. I wouldn't say ego. I wouldn't say ego, but yeah, it might, it might drive home the truth that, you know, you're 51.

You're not as, you're not going to be as sharp because you don't do it every week. It's like golf. Like if you want to be great at golf and truly doing a great job hitting the ball and putting it where you're supposed to do it. Yeah, it takes a lot of it. You need to do it all the time. You can't just, and another example, and I'm not, I'll end here. Casey Kane came in the studio probably six years ago.

Yeah. And he was back and forth about driving his dirt cars. And I'm like, why don't you drive them? Why don't you drive them more? He goes, man, I get mad because I do it every now and then and I'm, and I get my ass kicked. And I can only do it well if I'm doing it every week. And I can't do it every week.

And so it's frustrating. I want to do it. It's fun, but I can't be as good as I won't because I can't do it all the time. And I'm like, yep, totally understand that. And so, I mean, it's the same in the cars tour. like I badly wish I could run the entire season. Yeah. I can't because it would make me better when I do run.

I go and run one or two races and I run I don't run as well because I don't run it every week. And I don't know what those other guys know because they're doing it every day. And I'm like, you know, it's fun, but damn, you know, kind of got an arm time behind my back when I'm doing it, you know. So. All right. Well, we settle it. Thank you for bringing that up. But I, listen, you know what?

I was taking a back when I saw that come up on my phone yesterday. I was like, holy shit. I can't believe you said that. I didn't want him to come out and acknowledge. I wanted to sit there for a little longer. I thought I was just going to be in the camper and that was that. We're going to leave it there. Well, I said that.

I said that selfishly maybe because the reason why I said that, I didn't want y'all to cut a video. I didn't want you to cut a highlight reel. I thought it could live deep inside the podcast. I didn't want you really cut a highlight reel, but you did. And I didn't get in your way. But you did. I knew it was going to stir everybody up.

But one of the things that bothered me when I retired was people were blaming Amy. And so I saw people on social media and I know you're not supposed to read. I mean, I'm an easy target. That's like where everybody goes. They were like, I bet Amy told him to quit. It's Amy. It's her. She told him to stop.

Amy told him not to do it anymore. And that's not accurate at all. And so when you said that the other than that, I was like, man, people would not believe that she just said that. They wouldn't believe your point of view. And so, you know, I shared that. I shared a conversation. I shared that, you know, with everybody. And I made the choice to stop.

And Amy and I, Amy supported my choice, but she wasn't sitting there going, man, you need to stop. No, I was very careful with what I said to you. Of course, I wanted you to be healthy and safe and all the things. But also you have to be happy. And your choice has to be yours or you have to, because you have to live with it. So, no, I mean.

And you understand today, while we have a crap ton of things going on, and we got two girls that we're trying to raise into great people, you understand, like, you know, I need to go get a little out of us. Scratch the itch. Yeah, go scratch the itch and have a little fun every now. Yeah, we all have to scratch our itch, right? And we figure out how to make that fit. Yeah.

And so, yeah, that was. Speaking of scratching itches. Oh. We went on a Disney cruise. Oh. We're letting the kids scratch a ditch there. It was I've never been on a cruise

Let's just start there I've never been on a cruise boat It wasn't really in my interest To ever go on a cruise I just felt like I've seen the Titanic Shame on me right Like if it happens to me shame on me

So I was just never interested in going on one Like you can fly to an island You can go to Disney World But we decided to go on a Disney cruise Because Tamla and TJ were going And Tamla is very well versed and does bookings for Disney. So it's like the perfect person to go to Disney with.

And so we have the girls set up with like all of the outfits and all the things and the itineraries made. And so we go on the cruise and it was fun. The only drawback for me is the thing you can't control, which is the weather. So it was cold and windy, very windy. So the boat rocked quite a bit. And then we didn't get to dock on one of the islands one day because it was too windy to even. and getting the boat slip. I mean, there was like some drawbacks on that regard for me.

And it made the whole experience just a little bit more skewed, right? It was amazing. It was amazing. It was amazing. The boat's amazing. The shows are amazing. I'll tell you. It's very well done.

But like, that's the thing you don't think about when you go on a cruise is like, your trip may be completely different than you imagined because of the weather. Yeah. So it's like any trip, though. I'm sorry? That's any trip, though. It was a great trip. Yeah, it was.

I'm going to tell you, we get there. I'm anxious. trying to park the car, get us out, get us on the boat. I don't know how this process goes. Getting on the boat was simple. They got a good system. They know what they're doing. Yes.

Everybody's happy. They're trying to, they know you're trying to have a fun trip. So even the people trying to get you on the boat and process your customs and all that, everything's super nice and good. And it's Disney. Everyone's got a smile on their face.

Everybody wants to make sure your experience is as happy as it could possibly be. So one thing that I'll say is I had no idea how much alcohol is on this boat. No clue. When you're not getting off the boat too, all you do is sit in the little bars and things and hang out and drink. I'm like, you know, I'm thinking Disney Cruise. I'm thinking there's going to be characters running around. Kids are just going to be running up to Mickey and goofy and just going to be. it's going to be just Disney just pouring out of every hallway and everywhere you go just Disney's everything.

And so, and the boat is absolutely full on giving you Disney all day. And so there's places to go see movies and rewatch shows and there's shows every night and trivia and all kinds of games happening. There's just stuff where you can be in multiple places. at once. But I was like, you know, maybe they'll have like a little bar hidden down at the bottom of the boat for the adults late at night when everybody's tired and the kids go to bed and they're like, all right, here's your, here's your beer. He's imagining he's going to be like in steerage with all the other dads trying to escape

their families. Helping row the boat. It's just like hiding out of. No, just, I just figured like, you know, that's where you have to go find his good time. I felt like there'd be a very minimal, you know. Bar experience I didn't expect much You know

And it's for the kids This trip's all about the kids Well for us it was for the kids But some people go on those trips Without kids There's some adults on there just about themselves Disney adults scare me Yeah

Disney adults scare you Yeah They're different for you Are there something Let me tell you man They was Five bars On this boat

Oh I mean at least Yeah One I mean At 9 p.m. No kids allowed There's some adult only restaurants And things too that are a little bit like a higher scale.

But so all of the bars, though, are themed. They are, it's like a Disney ride. Everything, every inch of the walls is covered with whatever the theme is. There's a pirate bar. There was a haunted mansion bar, which we all loved immensely. The haunted mansion bar is the coolest bar I've ever been in. Ever. So you've been to the Magic Kingdom and you've been through the haunted mansion ride.

It's just like that inside. There's like the whole room is like Gothic and dark. and the lights change and there's music playing constantly. There's a fish tank in the middle of the room that's got skeleton, holographic little fish. It's like being in the house of the monsters. Kind of. A little. Yeah.

So there's a big fish tank in the middle. There's a fish tank in the middle of the room. There's chairs all around it, couches everywhere. Everything very Victorian looking old. And in the fish tank is skeleton fish. Yeah, little holograms. And they look like they're really in there. And it's holograms.

Yeah, it's holograms. And then there's music playing. So eventually when the music starts and the fish start dancing to the music. Like everything is just very thoughtfully done. Just like you would expect. There's all these photos on the wall. There's like an old war hero and a, you know, I mean they're like 16, 14, 15 hundreds.

And there's a lady on the wall. And they all look like regular, normal, old vintage. Pictures photograph and pictures. And then the room gets a little gloomier and the music gets a little more intense. And the pictures come to life and their eyes start moving around and looking around. And then the lady grows the snake hair. she turns into Medusa. She turns into Medusa.

And that was one picture in particular that Nicole locked in on. She's like, Dad, what is that? What's that lady got on her? Why should she have snakes on her head? I told Nicole, I was like, that's Medusa. I remember the story about Medusa. I remember watching the movies back of the day. Yeah, the Odyssey.

And I'm like, that's Medusa. If you look at her, you turn to stone and don't like eyes with her. Shame on you, Dale. So I had told her before. I totally believed everything I was telling her. She did. I had told her before. I'm like, that's Medusa.

It's part of a mythological story. She's not real, but she is a character, kind of like Mickey and Minnie. They're not real. They're just characters. Well, Dale Full is all and tells her, like, if you look at her in the eyeballs, like, this is the next day. We were back in the bar. If you look at her, you're going to turn into a statue. And so she was scared to death of that whole idea.

She was scared, but she kept saying, can we go there? Can we go there? She wanted to go in there. She loves it. She loves it. She's like, I want to go to the creepy bar. I want to go to the creepy place. Yeah.

And, of course, they have like Shirley temples and all kinds of things. of like cool cocktails for the kids to drink too late. Nicole was nervous to be in there but wanted so curious to like go there more and figure it out. She's like but then finally we're sitting there on like the last day and we're sobbing. It's like

three in the afternoon. And she's like, I want to get out of here. She grabbed me by the arm. She's like, I'm ready to leave. And I was like, what? She goes, I don't want to get turned into stone. And I was like, honey, it's not real. I was like, I didn't.

didn't want to not tell her it wasn't real because it's not real well no I didn't want to I didn't want to say it's real she's a real person that's definitely I didn't say any of that but I didn't want to I have a hard time like knowing what to tell them like about the fantasy of it and I was like I don't want to ruin her this our experience and her experience and say this is all fake that's a machine you know that's well you have to tell her it's a machine how the show the picture I know and so I tried to let it be a fantasy and And you forgot she's five and going to have nightmares. And she goes, oh, I don't really like it anymore. And I'm like, okay, okay. It's not real. The lady's not going to do anything. The first night we got home, both of those kids woke up like an hour after we put him down,

scream and crying. Nicole has never woke up crying from like a bad dream. She was having dreams about Medusa coming after her. Dang. You said that Stefan told you he got to have some screen time this week. What is that all about? We promised we weren't going to mention names. Well, it's too late.

Oh, damn. So he can figure this out for himself. So we're playing our college football dynasty, and we stream. And Stefan was streaming. And his girlfriend was giving him a hard time because he was playing a game. And then on another television, he had somebody else's stream up. And she's like, do we need all this going on? Like, this is way too much screen time.

Haven't you had enough screen? time. Having you had enough screen time is what she asked Stephen. And we give him so much about it. Well, because on the stream, his microphone was live. Everyone could hear this playing out. We all heard her in the live. So yeah. And so now we're like, hey man, you, you, how's your screen time this week? Are you getting close to your quota? Are you getting over? So funny. And he told us the other day, he come, we're leaving Daytona. He's like, man, I'm going to be able to play all my games and do all the things. Girlfriends out of town this week and get to have extra screen time. time limits this week. And I was like,

I was like, that's the new. That's the new term. That's the new slang for my, my better half out of town. No screen, no screen time limits this week. That's when you know. I can have unlimited screen time.

Yep. And so I was wondering that might be, have you ever had code for anything with your boys, your friends, your, he asked me this because he used to do things that were bad. It's like pretty regularly. So he would have code words for things.

Like, did you have a code word with your brothers or sisters for something specific if you're around your parents? I'm like, no, I didn't have those things because I didn't do bad things. I don't have code words. I didn't either. But apparently Dale did do things like that. I don't remember like having code words, but. He goes, do you have code words? I'm like, you mean like speaking pig Latin?

I used to do that a little. No, but like, you know, the word you had the other day, the Valentine's. Day or whatever. Galentine's is not code. It is. The hell it's not. It is not code. If you don't know what it is, it's code. If you didn't start getting Galentine's posts in your phone

regularly after that podcast, like, it's a very regular thing. If you don't know what the word is and never have heard it, it is absolutely, it feels like code. That's just you need to get out more. Yeah. Watch a TV show.

I need to get out more. I'm freaking out. Have you not, I mean. Where am I? I'm out. I have been all over the world. I'm tired. Oh, my God.

That's the problem. You're just tired. I need to get in more. I need to get in more, not out. No, Galantines is not code. I need to sit down and stay at home on the couch. That's what I'm all about. You're never going to learn anything new sitting on the couch.

Except if you're on your phone, scrolling, you'll learn about Galantines. So, you know, back to the story, like, you know, if I say to Stephen, you know, say you go on another girl's trip and I say to Stephen, hey man, no screen time limits for me this week, you know, he'll know what I mean. He will because it's like a personal joke. And so you've never had any of that with your friends? Oh, like. Yeah. Not necessarily like code words. I feel like that's just like sarcasm.

Yeah. Which, of course I have that. Have you had any sarcasm? I had a friend like in high school Like we always said like he was whipped So we just like You're locked up and like he can't go out Like the girlfriend's got him under wraps

Yeah In your shackles Whooped That's what we used to call it Man you're whooped Like T.J We would

We would give TJ a hard time And tell him You know when he couldn't do something Or go with us somewhere We'd tell him he's whooped And he'd be like Man I got a five year old at home You don't know what it's like

And we weren't None of us had kids yet. And we're like, he used to give TJ a really hard time. Yeah. Every time he would miss something, I'd go, man, you got that five-year-old at home. T.J. can't be here.

He's got the five-year-old at home. Even when his child had now turned eight, nine, ten years old, that was still the running joke. Yeah. Where's T.J.? Yeah, got that five-year-old home. He could be here today. But now, and so that, like recently, you know, I apologize to him.

I'm like, dude, I am so sorry for all those years. Now that I have kids, I totally understand. And now it's Tim doing it to us. Yeah. Can't go anywhere because the kids. Got those kids. Yep. It's just part of life.

So another thing you asked me was about skipping school. Speaking of doing bad things. Yeah. Had you ever skipped school? He asked me if I skipped school in the same conversation. And I'm like, no, I didn't skip school. Our girls were looked the other day. I didn't do bad things.

Yes, I love. So we got back from Daytona. We flew back in the morning on Monday. because of the weather. So they were like an hour late to school, which I didn't think it was a big deal. The school was fine. Ila was not fine. Ila does not do well being embarrassed.

She doesn't do well with like falling out of the structure. She needs she needs to stay in her box, right? She had no idea she was going to be late to school. We're flying. We stayed. The weather was bad Sunday after the race. So we just said, hey, we'll not even worry about it. We'll get up in the morning.

We got up at seven and left Daytona. and I'll think she's going to show up at school on time. When she learned she was going to be 30 minutes later, whatever it was, she fell apart. She fell apart. She melted down. I took her to school that morning. Dale took Nicole because he had to come here, I think. I heard about this because I took Nicole. Yes.

And so she generally does cry if I drop her off. She gets emotional, so I was prepared for that. But she cried in the house right after y'all left. She cried twice in the car. She cried in the office when I'm checking her in. The lady, like, walked her back, and she was just, just in tears. I'm like, this poor child just did not do well with being late.

And her teacher even emailed me and said, I'm handling her with care today because she's very sad. I wonder if when she's with me, because I take her to school every day. I wonder if when she's with me, she does want to cry, but she doesn't. Because she doesn't cry in front of me as much.

And when she rides with you, she feels like this. She can have her emotions. She can be vulnerable and cry. Right. I'm sure there's some truth. She's riding to school every day with me back there going and feeling miserable, like wanting to cry, but not doing it.

I hope not. I hate that thought. Well, I don't think so. I think she was tired and we had gotten up early and the whole process was different. She was just like a little out of sorts. But I asked you, I was like, had you ever skipped school before back when you were young? No. You said you did.

No, I said I have never skipped school. You never skipped a day. I never even considered sipping school. I never considered it. I wasn't about to do something that dumb and get caught. That's the thing. I never wanted to get caught. I'm not trying to answer to anybody for doing something stupid.

Unless it's like an accident, right? Like, I'll own up to that. I'm going to tell you. I did sneak out of the house a few times. Yeah. But they never got caught. You're going to get caught first period. You're going to get caught.

You're going to get caught. You got caught skipping out of the house? No, I never got caught doing anything bad. I did plenty of stupid things. But skipping school is something you're going to get caught doing. I never snuck out of the house because we didn't live anywhere. We lived too far out. Yeah.

To do that. Nowhere to sneak to, you know. Yeah. I didn't. I lived in one of those like I had two skipping school stories. Okay. And one's really short with Kelly. Kelly skipped school. She had...

Is this like high school? Yep. She was a senior. And I must have been in the 10th grade. She had a 1987 Monte Carlo with the fast back. Badass car. and I didn't appreciate it then, but it's badass today. She wrecked it and had borrowed a Beretta, which was a badass car, Chevy Beretta,

and driving it around, she skipped school and drives this Beretta. She ran into back of somebody. Damn. While skipping school, so now she's wrecked the Beretta. I'm in school, and they called me to the principal's office, and I have no clue why. and I'm not, I'm not getting trouble.

Yeah, you're like terrified now. I'm like, what in the hell? Yeah. They call me to the principal's office, and I go up to the principal's office, and they said, your sister's out front needs to talk to you. And I was like, this is not making sense. Why is she in school? Why is she out front?

What is she out front? What is going on? Something bad's happened. Something serious is what is going on. Right. So I go out, I mean, right out front of the school, right through the doors, and there's the barretta parked at the street in front of the school. And Kelly's like, I don't know what to do.

I wrecked a burrata. And I'm like, you're skipping school? She's like, yes. And I was like, what is going on? Why? Yeah. Are you skipping school? I was like, I'm jealous.

And it's bull-h-h-ass. We tell each other, everything. You didn't tell me you're skipping school. Like, I had no idea. And I'm like, man, I don't know what to tell you. I mean, what do you do? Right. You're going to have to go through the consequences of this one.

And that was a bad influence because I now want to skip. up school. Really? Now the idea is planted. Now I'm like, hey, she can do it. And she's a great student. She's well respected in her class. And here she is skipping school.

And she's going to totally breeze through it and be fine. And I'll skip two. And so I got with some buddies. What a follower. I'm like, I got with some buddies mine. I'm like, y'all want to skip school? And they're like, yeah. Oh, no.

And I'm like, let's do it. we're going to go all the way up. So Statesville used to have a really great mall. And I'm like, let's just go to the Statesville Mall, hang out all day. And so we go, we skipped school and drove to the Statesville Mall. And we feel like, you know, we're up there. No one's ever going to know. You don't feel like a criminal?

No, oh, you felt free. Like you felt like you were. Was your freedom right? Yeah, you're like, this is great. They, you know, well, they don't know where we are. they don't think we're sick or whatever. Meanwhile, you're in public at the mall. Yeah, but we're in states.

We might as well be in freaking New York City or we, you know, Florida. You know, for us, we were a long ways from home in our minds, right? Yeah. You know, we're 16 years old. We're like, dude, we're 20 minutes up the road. Nobody's ever going to see us. And so we hung out at the mall, you know, and we ate and we went and looked at the CDs and we went in a couple more stores and then like it's 10 o'clock.

clock and we're like, I'm kind of bored. This is. At 10 a.m. Yeah, I'm kind of, what are we going to do now? And so we drive and we get in the trucks and we're driving around in the parking lot just being idiots. Like doing donuts? No, just driving.

We're just driving around and I saw a traffic cone. And I said to my buddy, I said, hey, I'm going to drive by that traffic cone. We're in the backside of the mall, empty parking lot for the most part. I was like, I'm going to drive by that thing on your side. side. I want you to grab it and just throw it in the bed of the truck. We're going to be going about 20 mile an hour, just quick movement, boom, boom, boom, he does it.

And we're driving around the rest of the day. And I get home and I'm like, hey, I'm going to do this. I can't, in my mind I was going to put it in my bedroom. I'm like, where my dad is not going to. Yeah, so dad's going to figure it out. So I take it, we had these pine trees on in the lot next to us was empty. And it was pine trees down both sides. of that lot and there was tons of pine needles.

And so I go out into that lot and I take that orange cone and I bury it under these pine needles. And I'm like, there it's, there it is. I'm hiding it for now, right? I don't know what I'm going to do with it. Dad finds it. Literally like the next day, I don't know how. I don't know why he was down there for. Maybe he saw me.

He probably saw it. He probably saw me doing it. But I'm like, he'll never see it. and he finds it. And he's like, hey man, found this cone. What the hell are you stealing cones for? Yeah. You know, this is illegal.

Where'd you get this? And he's like, where were you? And I was like, um, statesful mall. He's like, when did you go to Statesville Mall? I was like, yesterday. He's like, when? I was like, morning? He's like, you didn't go to school?

I was like, no. I was like, he's like, take it back. Yeah. Made me drive all. the way up there and put it back. Shamefully. And that was my one day I skipped. That's not too bad of a punishment, to be honest.

Yeah. Just a little shame. Yeah. I'm surprised you didn't get more trouble than that. I'm also shocked that your sister wrecked two cars back to back like that. I was too. Is that the only wrecked she got in? I don't think so.

No. Probably not. I had a couple of traffic accidents. Yeah, I know what yours. I flipped my pickup truck, flipped it big time. I think we talked about that on the show. The other time,

so I was with a friend of mine and I was in a, I was in an extended cab, brown, two-tone, no carpet, crappy truck. My dad got me for graduating high school. And I was mad. I say crappy because, I mean, I was lucky to have a car, but my dad took my S-10 that I loved

and he just didn't even tell me he was doing it. One day my S-10 was there. and the next day it was gone, and now there's this farm truck. And I'm like, Dad, why? What? And he's like, got you a truck,

extended cab, and it had no carpet. It was just rubber mats. Did he think he was doing you a favor? And it was brown, two-tone brown, like a tan, then dark brown.

Tannen tope. Gross. I mean, I was cool with my S-10. I loved it. And this truck's, two-tone brown trucks sucked. And so,

So anyways, we were driving, me and my friend, I don't know what the hell we were doing. I don't know why we were way up there, but way down there. We were in Concord next to the Sharpton Murray Speedway, and we had been messing around in Harrisburg or something. I mean, I'm probably only 18, 19 years old. And I said, we're driving down the road. And I said, hey, I'll show you where my granddaddy lives. It's dark.

It's like 10, 11 o'clock at night. And I had, my granddaddy lives off this road right next to Charltonerer's Speedway. And Kenny Schrader owns the house now. But I turn off this road and I'm like, there's Granddaddy's house. Robert G., my mom's dad on my mom's side. And I'd never been past his driveway, right? We went there, turned into the driveway and would leave all my life. Never knew what was beyond that point.

And so I drive past it and I'm talking to him about all the cool things we used to do there and came up like running 50 miles an hour, 45 miles an hour, on a absolute 90-degree left-hand turn. Holy shit. And it's got those signs on the side of the road that had the arrow telling you to freaking, like, your ass is going left. Is your buddy not going, hey, man, slow down?

I mean, we're going off the road, wide open. And I turned a wheel and I stood on the gas, wide-ass open and turned sideways and slid, I slid off the road, like, in a dirt track. And I took out these arrows that are pointing, are like one, two, three, four. And we just, we went right over the top of them. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.

Like an ice, like a snow, like somebody snowskying going over the, clipping the, the moguls. Yeah. We're like, plop, plop, blah, blah, blah. Oh, not the moguls, yeah, the flags. And so we go kicka, clagling, clang. And I get her straightened out and get back up on the road. And I was like, holy f*** out.

You know, we're both like shaking. And I'm like, man, we ran over the sides. Let's take a look at it. We pull, we get down the road a little. bit we pull over, get out, and I'm, look down, there's no damage really to the side of the truck, but I have slashed both rear tires. Holy shit. So now you're stuck. Yeah. And so that was, that was the, that was the other kind of accident. I never heard that story. Yeah. That was a wild one, yeah. I think that's the only time I've crashed.

I felt like, oh. Your life is a series of crashes. I had, um, I had a 65 in Palo. I got T-boned at a red light. I was going through, had the green, and a lady come wide open and drove into the door and T-boned my car. I had a couple buddies with me. Nobody was hurt, but she hit us hard going 35 mile an hour. Goodness gracious. She never saw the red light, but, you know, older lady and everybody was fine.

I took that car and quartered it. So we cut the car in half and we cut it up front and half and in the back hat. We took that whole back off. We got a donor car and I rebuilt. I still have it. Blue 65. It's been in my family since it was already new. So that car, we had to cut 25% of it off and put it back together.

Probably wasn't worth doing. Yeah. But I don't know. I think about it. I've probably been more crashes. We are excited for asking me session and all your questions. What do you have, Travis? All right.

So the first question comes from Tiffany. And she says that she's going on a girl's trip. to Key West and she wants to know what's the correct number of nights that they should go down there for. Sorry. Okay. Key West, in my opinion, if it's a girl's trip, you can have more nights than if you're with boys. Sorry. And the reason for that is you know when to go to sleep.

So like you go down there for four or five nights and have a couple of like, we're going to like party, but like have a good dinner and go to bed. Boys don't let you do that. They'll rip still two or three in the morning in Key West. And so like, you blow your motor. way faster. Is that the right way to put it? That's a great word. We were trying to talk about code.

Blow your motor. Blow your motor. Yeah. So we're going to have a Key West's trip. I will have one coming up. One of my friends is turning 40. And so we're having a trip down there for her. And so we're going to go for.

I got one coming up. I think just three nights, maybe four. Yes. So honestly, if it's a girl's trip, I'd say four is a good number, like a long weekend. Yeah. There's lots to do. Then you can plan some different things. You don't feel like you're.

100%. On the water, don't just stay in town, get out on the water, do some things like also that the boys don't want to do. That will extend your trip and give you more of a vibe for the island, I think. But, I mean, you could stay down there as long as you want. As long as you're a pirate, you can stay down there. Do you want a QS? Yeah. What's your favorite QS spots?

Favorite QS spots. Everybody always ask this. So to eat, I love the raw bar because we like the buffalo shrimp. It's right in the marina. The scene's just nice. He eats the oysters like it's going to be his last meal. He does. Two minutes to get it done.

He does. It's impressive. He'll order a dozen oysters and then order another dozen. He's sat there and eaten at least four. Best buffalo shrimp I've ever had. Facts. Dude, it's insane. You have to go to Blue Heaven if you're going to go down there just because it's like a landmark.

You sit outside. Food's great. You can't make a reservation. So be prepared to stay around. Food's very heavy, but it's supposed to be the best. Yeah. They have brunch as well. So you could brunch there and then move on.

It's real food. It's not bar food. It's real food. And they have great key key lime pie. As far as bars, we love Bobby's because we like to sing karaoke. Bobby's Monkey Bar. Bobby's Monkey Bar.

Amigos. Tacos. You can sit on the rail and like people watch. It's like the main square in downtown where like there's this corner of just bars and busyness. Right across from Caponis, which is also a landmark. You have to be careful with their salsa there though. Did it light you on fire?

No salsa is nice. It blew us up. Damn. Did not know it was going to be that hot. It is so hot. They have good margaritas too. Hanks is good. So I'm going to tell this.

So what did you do? Nothing. Just so you know, we as a company are trying to do a end of year show. And it will be like a one to two hour show and it will mix all of our hosts. Okay. And in Key West. So the last race of the year is at Homestead. So race Homestead go over Monday to Hanks and do it on Hanks live stage at like noon.

You know. Really? Yeah. Well, that sounds fun. Because they're going to want their live music on the stage at night. We're not going to, you know, we're not going to try to muscle in there probably. But I don't think Hanks even knows we're going to approach them yet. They don't?

But it could be anywhere. Do you think that space is big enough? Yeah, we're just going to do a live show, three or four guests, I mean, three or four hosts, maybe Freddie, me, I mean, you if you wanted. And you don't have to be up there the whole time, but we do like, you know, we do sort of a end-of-season celebration of everything that's happened that year and close out the year. Okay. And we'll, we'll, Hanks will be my preference, but it could happen anywhere. And so we're trying to put it together. I love that idea.

And then. Does Mike approve this? Yeah. Mike and Tiff have. Whoa. Well, they haven't. That's a stuff in the ride, they haven't really said they approved yet.

Oh, wait. Doing Dale things. Yes or no, buddy. They've nodded in approval. They haven't verbalized. Oh, they haven't. The budget hasn't been improved, but they like the idea.

I got it. But I think it'd be a lot of fun. And we invite, you know, if we get ahead of it and start promoting it in the summer. If we just book the house and make the plans. Well, fans can say, you know what? I'm in town for the race. I'll extend my, you know,

trip to Monday to go down to, Key West and see this live. So we'll get our genuine audience that I want to really listen to us. That's a great idea. Instead of just the walk-ups in Key West that are there for tourism going, what the hell is this going? Who are these chabronies babbling around? What are they talking about?

What's the bar that has the touch tunes that Amy hijacked? Oh, Mary J. Mary Ellen's. Yes. Mary Ellen. That's a good one. Do you like Mary Ellen? I like Mary Ellen.

So that's inside too. Like when you get to Key West and you get super hot, go to Mary Ellen's. They have great food. Great air conditioning. A great air conditioner and bartender in there is really great too. But yeah, there's lots of good fun places to go hang out. It's the next question. I think this will run right in with what we're talking about here.

But it comes from Tim. You're hungover. What's your go-to breakfast sandwich? Bread, protein, cheese. Kind of what's your go-to sandwich? Honestly, when I'm hungover, I kind of don't eat breakfast because I'm scared to put too much in there. I don't know. I like...

I like a cheeseburger. I like a burrito. like I want Mexican food, like bean, egg cheese. Yeah. That's what I grew up eating. I love that. So if I can eat anything from Taco Bell when I'm hungover, I'm very excited. That's when if you get if you get Taco Bell the night before, you order enough so you know you have leftovers.

I've never had leftover Taco Bell. Really? No. Also, I feel if I over-order a Taco Bell, I feel like I can always stick it all in there. Like I always eat all. I got room for one more. Yeah. What is your hungover?

It's greasy. Yeah. French fries are always good too. I mean, you know, sausage or bacon, egg and cheese biscuit is going to do it. A biscuit? Yeah. Yeah. Simple.

Gotcha. What about yours? I'm a bacon egg and cheese on like a Asiago cheese bagel or something like that. That is so specific. Or like a jalapeno cheddar bacon. Halapino cheddar bagel. So do you pre-plan, like you were just saying, and have that ready for the fridge if you know you're going out and like you're probably going to be hung over? No, because I prefer if I can get it like.

Super fresh. Yeah, especially if you get a place that's like fresh. Like there's Lyndon Bakery here in Morrisville. Yeah, it's so good. Their bagels are made. So like the next morning, it's perfect. But if you know you're getting talked about the night before, like an extra T-Secordita crunch is never going to hurt. It's not going to hurt you.

No. Yeah. Next question comes from Doug. Is there a pet you wouldn't let the girls get? Yes. I don't want anything that has a cage that they have to keep in their room, like a hamster or a snake or a lizard. Madeline, Majors, had a bearded dragon, and it was cool, but she had to feed it live bugs with tweezers. And I'm like, that's where we start.

It's where we stop. We're not having extra critters to feed the critter. So like a snake, we have to feed it mice. No. Nicole's been asking for all these things. Yeah. She wants a critter to keep in her room. And I think I can't.

can't do it. My sister had a hamster. Rest and peace. Well, yeah, we've heard about patch. That didn't work out well. Well, it never does. I mean, that's right.

It doesn't. Hamsters are pretty fragile. And, yeah, if you're not on top of things, they go south fast. I had a fish tank in my room as a kid, and that was a lot to take care of. We have a fish tank now, and we've had one since we've had the house. And I've tried to tell Amy, I'm like, I'm kind of ready if you want to get rid of it. And this space of the house, it's like right in the middle of the house. And this whole part was designed around the fact that Dale had to have a fish tank.

So I'm like, no, we're keeping this. You're going to have to deal with a fish tank. You know, back in the crib's days, you know, everybody had fish tanks. So like, you know, we'll have fish tank. That was like the centerpiece, like the showcase. Yeah. And it is in the center of our house. Yeah.

Fish tank was a sign of, you know, status. Yeah. But now I'm like. Well, the kids love it. Let's just get rid of it. But she's like, nope. No, we're not going to look. It's too much.

undo. I watch Southern Charm and there's a person on there that has a snake and they showed her like frozen mice and like that and she had like the mice had to fall out to feed it. Which is gnarly. Like I can't do that. Hard no. No. So anything, anything fuzzy that we can hold, I'm down with. Okay. Bunnies, goats, cats, dogs. Bodies are caged animals. I know, but you can, it's not like it's, I've had a rabbit. I had a bunny in the house. You did? In the house? Yes, in a cage in the house. They're loud. They don't sleep at night. They're not colonel. So like you don't hear crap all day long. You turn the lights out and all of a sudden that thing starts running laps in the cage until 4 in the morning and you're like, what's the deal? Well, my bunnies stayed outside. He had a cage outside on the porch. Well, we have a barn we could put

a bunny in. I had a bunny back when I worked in dealership, changing oil. And one of the other mechanics was moving to California and he took the bunny. I was like, man, you're going to take this bunny? I don't want it. It's a hell of a parting gift. He's like, yeah, I'll take it. I'll take the buddy. What was the bunny's name? Probably buddy or dude or something. Everything was buddy. Everything's buddy.

Buddy or Cuzz. I ain't trying to name. I ain't trying to remember names. I'll just call you what I'm going to call you my friends. Oh, so, dude. I had a cat named dude. I had a cat named Buddy. I had a cat named Cuzz.

All of the terms. Did they respond to it? All the terms of endearment. Did they respond to it? That was their name. Yeah. Yes. Okay.

Just checking. Well, yeah, that was their names. Well, I could understand if a cat wouldn't respond to Cuzz. Come on, Cus. Up up here, Cus. Come here, Cubs. Last question. Speaking of Cribs, a couple of people had this question is, Amy, what did you think of Dale's MTV Cribs house?

I actually walked through the last one before we tore it down. And the Cribs videos are just funny. What he chooses to highlight or talk about and the way he describes things is still. I love the way he describes things and his analogies and the way he pronounce his words. So it's just fun to look back on it. But they always, the opening of the fridge was my favorite part of any Cribs episode. I wanted to see what was in the fridge. And so like, I don't remember what you had in yours.

But people always had like water bottles and crystal and everything was like. We had crystal lined up perfectly. I think we went and bought some just because everybody had it. Yeah. Like we'd never drank it in our lives. And we're like, yeah, we'll get some crystal. And we had a bunch of bud in there. I can't remember.

I can't remember either. Yeah, I actually did get to walk through the house, though, before he tore it down. I mean, it was cool. A lot of the same items are still in our house now. We still have some of the furniture. I had a purple and orange couch. Remember that? Yes.

That was in the dirty movie studio at one point for a while, or at Hammerhead. Yeah. It was pretty. I feel like Dale's had a whole other life before he met me. This is like. I had blue shag carpet. Yep. In his bedroom.

Like five inch tall. Four inch tall shag carpet. I love shag carpet. He took that Elvis thing real serious. Why do you like shag carpet? It feels good on your feet. Like walking on a cloud. Next question.

We're still alive here, pal. I know. I actually forgot we were alive. Let's go hold on. Travis. All right. We've got time for one more question. Tina wants to know,

have you guys been watching the Olympics and any sports, Amy, that you like to watch for Winter Olympics? For whatever reason, I've been watching more of curling than anything. The curling has been on the television when I sit. I've watched some of the clips of the ice skating, which I love. Some drama in the curling with the cheating. Yeah, that one guy pushing it with his finger and then screaming about, I didn't touch it. He totally cheated. And then the

female team of the same country did the same thing. Did the same thing? Yeah, Canada. The Canadians are cheaters? Yeah, I can't trust them. Wow. I wouldn't have been that. I was, I bet on Canada to win a hockey game and they came through yesterday. That's the other thing. He had his app out and he was betting on the Olympics. I was like, I feel like that's the one thing you shouldn't be able to bet on. Like,

it's not like a typical sport. No, that's the one thing you should be. She thinks the Olympics are too pure. I feel like it's a celebration of like, of these athletes

that are extremely elite. And that's not like a typical season of stuff that you should be able to bet on. I know. Unpopular opinion. Hey, I've got a little odd,

quirky sort of, you know, principles to. I love watching the ice skating though. One of the girls that performed to Madonna got a video from Madonna and I saw her post about that

so that was pretty cool. She was like celebrating her so it's fun. I love the Olympics. Did a flip, a figure skater? Yes. Ah, yes. That's insane.

I have a hard time pronouncing his name. Ian? Gideon? Yes, so his name is hard to pronounce. But his routine is insane. So he won, I imagine. Oh, yeah. He took the gold home for sure.

But the thing is that flip doesn't actually count towards his score. It was just flip. It's just to say look what I can do and you can't do. The first time I saw the clip of it, he did it and landed on one foot and Airbus out of it. I was like, wow. And he what out of it? He was completely fell apart when he did his next one.

No. Like four times. Really? Yeah. Came in like eight or nine. Bless him. It was awesome though watching it. I like the, I like the racing on the speed skating, the short track and the big track stuff too.

I like it. Did you see Colin Yost do the bobsled? No, I saw Jason Kelsey. Did the what? The skeleton where you lay down on the thing, go head first. Oh, shoot, I didn't see that. I saw Colin Yose's video doing the bobsled. He was riding along with one of the athletes.

And his rendition of what his life felt like was amazing. He was like, I thought it was going to die. Yeah, I need to look it up where Flavre Flav did the skeleton. I mean. So he's riding by himself face first? Yeah, I think he really did it. And they said he said he was. like 60, 66 miles an hour.

That's got to be terrifying. Yeah. I think that's cool when they let regular people do the things with the athletes because it lets you really understand how hard it is. Not that he's just anyone, but I mean, he had to have done a little some training or prep. Yeah, for sure. I didn't know you could just show up and go, hey man, send me down the same me down the thing. Send me down a luge.

Well, Flavor Flav does a lot of stuff for the Olympics and getting these athletes paid and stuff. So makes sense. but I think around here you can do curling. There's a place here in Charlotte. Is it at Joey's ice skating rink? Curling's like a bar game. Just on ice. Now Dale thinks you can do it.

Well, I mean, it's like shuffleboard. It is similar to shuffleboard. It's harder because you're trying to slide on ice. Huh? People drink beer when they do. Yeah, this place you can in Charlotte, you can drink beer and do curling. Have you done it? I know, but I want to.

I mean, it sounds like a good challenge. Maybe we should go. have no interest in doing it. Wait, you just said you thought it would be easy. There it is. Flav-a-Flave-la-Flave. But yeah, so... This TV.

This thing's sucky. There it is. Well, they can't... The viewers can't see it either, so... I know. Well, I don't see it. I mean, I do care about the viewers, but... We'll watch it later.

We'll watch it later. Look it up. Everyone, look it up. Things trying to think right now because they're in the next garbage. This is the most awkward live as gaming ever. It's not awkward. It's honest and authentic. Okay.

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