The Dale Jr. Download - The Proposal Story Dale and Amy Still Love Telling

Episode Date: June 18, 2026

Dale and Amy are back with a new episode of Bless Your ’Hardt, and this one starts with a story they’ve told a thousand times but somehow never gets old: the proposal. On the anniversary of Dale asking Amy to marry him, they look back on the trip to Germany, the tiny church tied to Earnhardt family history, and the moment Amy turned around to find Dale on one knee. Amy had no clue it was coming, Dale was just trying to “hit a home run,” and somehow she was more surprised he had a ring than anything else. Honestly, she thought there was at least a chance he’d propose with a car. From there, Dale and Amy talk about Pocono, Justin Allgaier’s win, the girls in Victory Lane, and the moment Dale’s daughter casually admitted she “kinda” wants to try driving a race car. Just kinda. No big deal. Definitely not something for Dale to overthink at all. Plus, there’s a Bay Breeze drink of the week, Dale’s latest music rabbit hole, Hershey Park stories, a Mr. Goodbar conspiracy, beach essentials, San Diego plans, and plenty of BYH married-couple fun. 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, honey. How's it going? You okay? You were in a great mood now. You're picking up your phone and now your deep breaths and all. Well, I learned that, so we're going to San Diego this weekend, and we've all been running the MX5 Mazda or whatever the thing is, on irasing. Yeah.

Because an SVG said that's what he's been using. On the new course? Yeah, at San Diego. And I just learned that SVG is quite a bit faster than I am. Shocker. It was disappointing. The greatest road course racer is better than Bail Jr. Well, I only ran six laps.

now he's been testing and testing for days. As he should. I got some, I could catch him, I think. Now we've got a challenge. He ain't no way he's better than me at eye racing. Wait a second. I've been doing it for 20 years. Yes.

However, you have said it is just like the real thing minus some of the environmental stuff. Maybe he's better at me at road course racing. On eye racing. Maybe. Oh, he is. Okay, he is. On eye racing now.

I don't know why you're fighting this. On him real life, he's for sure better. Well, I feel like that should translate, especially if he's been practicing more than you. So that's what, like, dropped you down in moods? Yep. I'm in a bad mood now. Put your phone down. Damn.

Start the show, man. Nah, we're excited, new show. We got our drink of the week. Let's get that out of the way. Let's get that in our mouths. It looks delicious. They'll leave that alone. Leave that.

The drink of the week, it's time for the drink of the week. It's in a high rock vodka. He can't stop thinking about it. It's called the Bay Breeze. What is it? All right, the Bay Breeze, which works out since we're going to San Diego. There's a bay around there somewhere. Two ounces of high rock vodka and three ounces of pure cranberry juice.

Don't use that non-pure. And one ounce of pineapple juice. One half ounces of pineapple juice. I'm sorry, one and a half. It's one and a half ounces of pineapple juice. And it doesn't matter. Pure, unpure. Pineapple juice.

Can I explain the pure part? Pure cranberry juice doesn't have any extra sugar in it. It's not cranberry cocktail. Gotcha. So it's why it's so tart. Mix all these ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake it up and pour over ice. But like you're probably going to get less hangovers though if it's pure because there's no sugar. There's not as much sugar.

So it's more tart. It's good. it's one of those drinks you could probably make into a batch cocktail too i feel like and then put some ice in it and like let it ice down it would be delicious you ever had that candy cry baby cry baby tears no but you've talked about it before it's like sweet tart do you still have some oh no you brought some in did he bring him yeah he brought some in a while back it's like a sweet tart it tastes good it's like a sweet tart yep good i mean it needs a little let's see.

You're going to put the orange in there? It needs a little strawberry apricot. That ain't orange girl. Apricot? Strawberry apricart. Now you're just adding letters in there that don't belong. Apple cart. Now we're an apple cart.

Damn it, Dale. No, it doesn't. It's good how it is. I put some apricard in there. Now, how is it? Take a slurp. It's already working. Come on, Pat, Paul.

Put that in your mouth. That's why he puts some in there to dilute it because he's already getting silly. Yeah, hell yeah. Perfect. Hell yeah, he said. It just needed to be less tart. It's good now. Please visit high rock vodka.com to find a bottle near you.

There's a store locator and you can find Sugar Lens products and High Rock in your area. And also remember, you must be 21 years or over. Please drink responsibly. All right. All right. So a couple things we want to talk about Pocono. We went to Pocono with the kids and we visited a town called Jim Thorpe. We want to talk about that.

But on the way here, So I didn't wear a hat today. Let's see. What are you doing, Johnny Bravo? I didn't wear a hat today because me and Amy, we got a date tonight. Yes, why don't we have a date, Dale? The date is because today is the anniversary of asking Amy to marry me. Wow.

Yeah. Neither one of us can girl math it back to what year that is. It's going to be our 10-year anniversary. How long we were re-engaged? We were in Germany at the church. Yeah, so like 14? 2014? Yeah.

Is that right? No, that can't be right. We got married at the end of 16, so did I ask you that in 15? No, it was a year and a half. I think we had an engagement. I think it was in the summer of 14. Got it. Cool.

Right? I don't. What the hell does it matter? Today was the day it happened all those years ago. Yeah, so he didn't wear a hat today just for that. Yeah, no hat today because we got dinner. That's so you know it's a special occasion. We got dinner, guys.

Where are you going? We're going to Epic Chop House. Mooresville, North Carolina. Bad ass spot. You mean good Chop House? Epic. Okay. What do you get?

Because you've done this joke to the girls before. How? He doesn't even remember. Oh, I did. You're right. It's the, you know, mediocre chop house. What makes it so epic? What makes it so epic?

Are you sure it's not just the good chopass? And the girls go, no, they get so angry. Well, he just about had you teed up. and going, I loved it. Man, good job. Yeah, I go to the chop house, eat some dinner without kids.

Epic Chop House. Moors in North Carolina. If you're in Moorsville and you've never been here and you're looking for a good dinner spot, Epic's the place to go. If you're looking for some great pizza, you've got to go to the pie in the sky.

Those two spots are my favorites in town. Yeah, and they're downtown. They're within a block of each other. Yeah. What do you recall from the day you proposed? Like, were you nervous? Last thing, you bus come by Junior Murder Sports

and pick you up some jerky boys beef jerky and if you don't want to come by Junior Murder Sports to do that you can get it online or on Amazon They did just get a box of 89 or 98 boxes We've got a hundred bags in here It's going fast

Just so fast Hey I sent some to Martin Trix Jr. He liked it I've been sending it to all my friends I sent some to your dad You did? Yeah you asked me too You gave me an address Oh, yeah, so I knew that.

That's been a couple months. I'm sure. Well, we know he likes it because you share it with him when we're there. Yeah. He loves it. We're mailing it around. Yeah. But back to when we got engaged.

Yes. So we're, oh, well, we're back to what? Why we got engaged? When we got engaged, the experience. We were in love. He was like a golden retriever today. Wow. What did you eat?

Golden retrievers are awesome. I'm going to take a out of the comment. Squirrel. Where's the freaking squirrel? I should have, that squirrel should live in here. I tried to tell you that. I was trying to tell you to put it up on that. No, I want it right here so I can twist it and look, yeah, do things with it and mess with you.

What about? So we were in Germany and we were there for genealogy. Dale had done a ton of genealogy work on the Earnhardt family and traced them back to this little tiny town in Germany called Ilbechheim. So we went there, we went other places. You want to know? We started in Ilbechheim. You want to know some anxiety? You want me give you something that'll give you some anxiety?

imagine banking all of the information that you have about yourself and your family's history going back 10 generations. So it's in 2006. This was the 1700s. I have trusted everything that the Internet has told me, which we know is pretty f***-fisky. And I went and got a expert genealogist in North Carolina to, like, verify that I was on the right path. And we went to this tiny, tiny town with 300 residents in the middle of nowhere in Germany

because that's where it said I was from. And we went there and rented or we stayed in an inn or a hotel, had four or five rooms. And it had a freaking awesome time. We drank with the town folk, like the carpenter, plumber, the electrician. They all come there for happy hour. day and we told them our story and why we were there. They didn't speak a look at English. No English.

We sat and hung out with them. We hung out with them for hours and we're completely unable to actually had any real conversation. On wheat beer and heffawisen and all that shit. And we, they were laughing and we were laughing and we couldn't tell what either one of us was saying. No, we were all just cheering and singing and having a good old time. At one point, we were back behind the bar pouring hefees for everyone.

There was a gentleman there that would kind of help sort of communicate, you know, hey he said this, he wants to know this, he's asking you this. Oh yeah, the one younger guy, yeah. And we told, we pulled me up on the Google. We're like, hey, look here. Oh, yeah. Remember? This is why we're here.

This is why we're here and who we are. And back in the day, it was Aaron Hart. So, like, anyway, there's still just 300 people living there now. There were only 300 people living there way back then. Yeah, the 1700s when we left, there were 300 people there. There's only 300 people there now. And luckily, that town, a town is clustered together in like a, you know, a 10 block radius, all the houses all together, because they farmed the land. They didn't have farms

sprinkled out around through, you know, everybody lived in the town, and they went out and farmed. And they had a church, one church for everybody. And there was a couple of businesses that operated in this town, but you wouldn't know it. You'd look at every house there. You'd look at every building. It looks like a house, except for the little winery that we set out. We bought a bunch of wine at. But we drove by this one house, Amy found it. where they had some, they had some wedding materials and stuff, and you bought some stuff? I did. So we sat downstairs and hung out with everyone. We were only there for one night, and then we were going to move on to the other cities and go to look at more documents and really kind of get into the logistics.

We went to the archives, inspire. Yes, inspire, yes. So we only spent one night and we enjoy ourselves. We're going to get up the next morning, go see the church, and then drive on. Well, we had gotten, I was pretty hung over that next morning. And I remember trying to get ready, knowing I was going to go see a church. I was going to put on a pretty sundress, whatever. Kelly comes in and she's like, so when you guys travel, do you guys coordinate your outfits just so your pictures are nice and everything? I was like, no, I didn't even think about that.

And she's like, okay, just curious. And I'm like, what a weird question to ask. Yeah, so weird. Well. She was about to blow the cover. She wasn't. She was just trying to check out what I was wearing just to see. She knew my plan.

She knew the plan. I didn't know the plan, of course. So, like, I just thought it was weird, but I was so hung over. I didn't think to ask too many questions. I traveled all over, I traveled across, I traveled across the ocean with this ring. Me and Amy, walking around, I got the ring in my backpack. I'd have been nervous. Oh, God.

It was really nerve-wracking. I was getting ready and blew my curling iron up because I didn't have the proper adapter. The adapter just curling irons were funny anyway. So I got half my hair curl, and the other half was still. really straight and I was like, crap. So I used Kellys and like tried to, it was a straightener. So I had to curl my hair on the other side, on the other side of my head with a straightener. Anyway, it was just like a mishmash weird kind of morning anyway.

So we get into the church. We're looking around. It's this tiny, quaint, adorable, like picture book. A thousand-year-old. Church. Small, big as this room. Hand-painted. Big as this room, room, rain.

And just stone walls, you know, just old. Really simple, but very light, like, airy. It wasn't dark and, like, heavy. And the pulpit, I guess, or wherever the preacher would. Yeah. It was on this little rise. He kind of walked up this little half spiral staircase up into this little DJ booth in the corner of the room and talked. I'm sure it was a DJ booth.

I mean, it looked like a DJ booth. In Dale's mind, that's where the DJ is still trying to make it to get a crime party going. Your imagination. It paints it. Yeah. To paint that picture. And all of the pews were hand painted on the ends too. I know we've told this story a thousand times.

Have we? We have, but it's so fun. So we're looking around and we're in the middle of church. We've been there for 15 minutes or more. We were outside looking around. Now we're inside. And there was a guy sort of helping us like, this is this, this is that. And then they were just like leaving us be for a bit.

And we're just standing in the church, just kind of looking around, admiring things. And Amy turned around and I finally just whipped out that dang ring. I turned around and he was on his knee. I'm like, what is happening? And Kelly's starting to tear up already. I'm like, holy shh. you're going to, at that moment, like, I kind of figured I knew what was about to happen. And Dale had never talked about getting engaged.

We have never discussed getting engaged, getting a ring. No, we weren't talking about it. And so I was very shocked. I mean, shocked is what you're going for when you asked someone to marry you anyway? We had talked each other minimally about it, but it was kind of like, yeah, neither one of us are ready for that. I mean, it's kind of where we left it. Essentially, yeah.

Kind of how we left it. And I didn't realize how okay I was with like not getting engaged, not getting married. Like life was fine. Until that moment I was like totally shocked, blown away. And he said what he said. And he gets up and I say yes. And then I'm like, are you sure? Like, are you sure, sure?

You want to do this? Like, and you got me a ring? Like I felt like I was completely out of my body. I thought for sure, even if he did ask me one day to get married that he was going to like try to do it with a car or something like that. he hates jewelry so much. Here's a car. Here. Here's a new Chevy pickup truck. Will you marry me?

I mean, we literally never ever talked about a ring. He had no guidance for me or anything. So did he nail the ring? I mean, it's beautiful. I would have probably, the only thing I would have done differently would turn my stone sideways. The oval would have been this way. Yeah. All right. But I love my ring. This is first time I'm hearing that. We never talked about it before or afterwards. I went in there and I said, just got to hit a home run on this thing, man.

So me and the jewel. I went to the same jeweler that my dad always went to. So there's some good history there. I'm glad that's a surprise because I feel like when they know it, like it's just not as like. Yeah. Like I always think of Lindsay and Carl and Summerhouse and Paige making fun of her when she's like, she wore a shoulder pads to the beach.

Like she knew it was happening. She totally knew. Yeah. She had her hair and makeup professionally done. Of course she knew. Yeah. Yeah. No, I had no idea.

The shock value was absolutely there. Well, we're, yeah. And then in the church, no less, like, what an amazing place to do that. Yes. Massive, cool connection. Yeah, so that was umpteen years ago today. Have you gone back there, Sensen? We have.

I have to say this. Did we go back to Oldersheim when we went back or we just go back to Brothenberg? I have to, I have to, we have to. We have to. We have. We haven't been back. Uh-uh. Ever.

We didn't go back to Roversham. Rottenberg, we need to go back to the end and all that. Yeah, you should. There's the whole thing again. They had a very simple breakfasts and stuff like, you know, just cheese and, and, you know. Cold cuts. They had pastries and stuff. They had like oatmeal and boiled eggs.

Like a farmer's breakfast. Yeah, like a farmer. Yeah. It was very, but it was fine. Went fun. All I remember, too, about breakfast is LW sitting and eating that bowl of musli, which usually like you soak overnight. And so it looked, essentially it looked like deer food.

And we just kept telling LW because he takes Alfalfa Talits every day. He's very like all about hunting. And so we're like, act like a deer, think like a deer, be a deer. Just every time he'd sit down with his breakfast because that's what he chose to ate was that like just seeds. I had thought for a while about asking Amy to marry me. And the holdup was how to do it. and how to make, because I wanted it to be as good as it could possibly be. And to her point, to her point, I mean, I was always around a racetrack.

I was always around racing. I was like, God, where could I go? Where could I do this? Nothing seems to make sense. No location, no process. Nothing seems to be good enough. Can't just go to some nice dinner. Can't just take her to some city, this like a vacation spot.

I can't just, you know, and I had told everybody that I was going to this town when I turned 40. I was going to go there and drink a beer. And so it just kind of all lined up. I was like, all right, that's the place. Like that would be the trip. That would be the in that location where my family worshipped 300 years ago. That's a hell of a risk, too. It was the beginning of the trip.

What if I had said no? Oh, man. That would have just, you weren't going to say that. No. You didn't know. I mean, no guy actually knows that, though. Like when you ask. Or he knew by doing it early.

It helps get the yes. It made the rest of the trip feel like a honeymoon, to be honest. I felt pretty confident. Yeah. I know you did. When are you not? I wish I was as confident as you are. You know, I'm not always that confident.

Yeah, you are. No. Okay. Well, so. It was a great. It was a great experience. Yeah, that's what we're doing dinner tonight for that. Hey, everybody. It's Dale Jr. Guess what? We are coming to San Diego.

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and this can include you. We drive So did you just give him permission to speak? I'm just saying like I wanted I wanted to invite him into this you're invited into this. Thank you Dale So music is really

impactful on me and probably everybody the same way. And I don't know why or how, but a couple weeks ago I got locked on to Timberlin and like Nellie Fittado and all that. Are you listening to a specific station? I don't know. I might have been listening to some random station or something and their Timberlin song

came on and I went, damn it, man, he was, he had a run. Dale's jamming out to some man eater. Yeah. He had a run. And, you know, he did some stuff. songs with Justin Timberlake and Nelly Fittato and there was just like this little like two, three year window where they had like this really solid couple of handful of songs. He was playing for mischievous girl on the way over here.

Like one of them was one of those. It's so good. And so I started listening to it. I'm like, man, we played these shit out of this stuff. And I remember when it was all over MTV and I was watching MTV quite a bit back then probably. and I was like, Amy, you must have been in college or somewhere, you know, in between graduating high school or going to college, and you're probably 20, 22 years old.

And I was thinking, like, you know, when you hear that song, that's a song you probably heard in your car. You either had to, you might have had the city, but you also probably heard it at a bar or at a club or at a frat party or wherever, house party, whatever you did. So, like, when I hear songs from the past, usually I can, it sends me to a location. It sends me to a time or a happening or a thing I remember, a memory, or a person or a group of people. And so I remember jamming to that a lot back in the day, that type of music or that specific kind of song or two from Timberlin.

But I can't really say it takes me to a location. And I was asking Amy, like when she hears those songs, does. Where does she go? It kind of reminds me of friends. It reminds me of the group of people I was around. In that time of year. Was it college? I think it was college, yeah.

2006, 2007. You were in Kentucky? I was probably in Jacksonville. No. Her missus girl was 04, 03? 06. Yeah, I was in Jacksonville. I was a senior in high school.

Oh my gosh. I just remember dancing to it. I just remember dancing to those songs. Like, I don't know, for the most part, that's what I did with all of the party music was like the goal was to have just enough to drink, get up, and just dance my tail off. And that's what we did. But like at a bar, at a club?

I mean, we'd dance at a restaurant. I didn't care. Yeah. I mean, wherever we were. I've never been at a restaurant and seeing people jump up and start dancing. Really? Well, I mean, you're eating. You're not listening to Timlin.

Well, it's not an alback that you're at. No, I wasn't at the alvac. Where was it? I don't remember exactly where I was where I heard that song. But like, if I was in Jacksonville, all those beach places, like, it's indoor, outdoor, It was far more like going to Key West, you know what I mean? So if I was out eating dinner or whatever, there was like a patio. It wasn't like a closed-in restaurant where it's like there's other people just sitting down eating their mac and cheese, you know.

I've been listening to that for the last couple of weeks. I get in these little ruts, not in a negative way, but like I get in these little, I stumble into this and I stick in it for a couple weeks. You stumble it. Oh, like a certain genre or whatever. Are you like a rat in a trap or what? Like I fall, it finds me or I find it. And I get locked on to it like a rut, like a wheel in a rut. And I kind of hang in there for a couple of weeks

till something drags me the other direction. But I'm listening to, yeah, it's like whatever, what genre would you call that? Hip-hop. Pop, hip-hop. Like it's that. So I'm listening to that from 2002, Missy Elliott. R&B.

Missy Elliott was all. Yeah, R-N-B pop. Missy's songs. Remember they had those videos where they danced so good. That giant leather. So good. Yeah. And you would just be glued to the TV when that shit come on.

Yeah. It was hard to turn off. MTV was so good. It was right in that spurt. It was really, really solid. Yeah. Umbrella. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Work it. Work it's awesome. But I'm listening to a little bit of that when I'm riding around. But like, I like how music can take you back. Yeah. So the girls have, they beg me on Monday. to download a new app on their iPads.

It's called Magic Sing. So they have one called Magic Draw, or Simply Draw, Simply Sing. So it helps coach you to sing in your tune or in tune with your voice. So you sing into it, you talk into it, you yell into it, and then it kind of gets you in this range. And then it gives you songs Level 1, Level 2, so you have to sing your way through and keep practicing. And Nicole yesterday was singing in the Cranberry Zombie.

repeat and now she's got the song memorized and she's walking around just going zombie zombie it's amazing this is true this is a real thing so all the music in there too isn't just like five-year-old Nicole walking around the house singing zombie by the cranberries it's so good for an hour yeah i'm just wandering around singing it and um so like that takes you back too yeah and then her singing it's just like it's great it's like the cherry on the cake so good is ila loves to sing she goes upstairs and plays songs on her iPad and sings on top of her boy, top, you know, as loud as you can. Like no one else is in the house.

But she doesn't know the word. So she just, in a lot of spots, she's just making the sound, right? Yeah. Not really saying a specific word, but she'll just make the sound that it makes, that she thinks it is. But super loud. And I'm thankful because, like, I listen to her playing this game. And it's actually getting her to not only say the correct word, but like singing in the

right pitch and at the right volume. Yes. And so it's like, okay, you know, you're going to sing your ass off in the house all day. This, at least we're getting her to do it in her and the right pitch and the right volume. Yes. And also, like, it gives you all the words and she can read. So she's learning the words.

Whereas Nicole is just having to try to figure out memorize it. I thought, too, it would help Nicole learn how to read because she has to stare at the screen and watch the word because it's kind of like a. It highlights as it goes. It highlights like a karaoke. and so she's kind of seeing, recognizing letters and words and go oh. Yeah, she'll start to memorize them.

Have you ever thought about getting them like music lessons? Yes, I haven't signed up for that in the fall when school starts back. Nicole wants to learn how to play the violin. So we're going to start in something. I don't know if it's piano. I don't know that you start out in violin. They did like a little music camp last fall, I think, and they dabbled with it.

Nicole also said that she thinks she kind of. this is she made sure that you only know she kind of wants to try to drive a race car yeah she does so she got to I know you all saw her in the car with just and all guy or and dale um after they went on Saturday and she gets out of the car in victory lane and I pick her up and she goes mom I really liked being in the race car she like whispered it right in my ear and hugged me super tight and then later she's like mom I mean it like that was so fun I was like what was fun about it like the noise and everything and she's like, I don't know, I just liked being in the race car. And Dale didn't even consider this, but they get in that race car and it's hot.

Yeah. Like really hot. I considered that. My ass is on fire. Your ass is on fire. He even had a fire suit to sit on. My sole of my shoes melted and it's all over the school board of the car. That's what I was getting at.

You could see the print of the soul of his shoes stuck to the bottom of the inside of that car. It was that hot. Wow. I know. You just don't think it. Like, you know it's hot, but you just don't think about it. It doesn't register that also. There's not a seat over there.

The pipes go right underneath that. Bacon and the floorboard. Flores on the right side. So it was probably, you know, it's cooking. I just thought Dale was so excited about the whole experience in the moment that he wasn't really thinking that part through because he was about to throw Nicole in. I was like, no, I climbed in there. I climbed in the car and I'm like, it's too hot for my ass.

I can't sit on there. So I got to get on my knees or something, but there's no room for her to sit down. I want her to sit on my lap. She didn't have a ton of clothes on like she was on. Hollywood, who's our truck driver on the seven, took off his No Makes Fire suit and put it underneath my ass so I could sit down on the floor and not get burnt. And then Nicole just rode on my knees. Yeah.

And she got to hold the flag. She did. She held the flag and she didn't want to let go of that. So I helped her hold the flag because the wind could take it. And she wooed all the way to Victory Lane. She screamed and wooed. She's like, woo. Were you screaming?

Yeah. I was like, hey, honey, we're going to holler now. We're going to wave and we're going to wave at them. They're going to look at us. We're going to wave at them. We're going, woo. And she did that all the way to Victory Lane. really, really good.

And all that was great. She had a great time. Then we get in the truck and we're driving home. And this is a day later. We haven't even talked about it. And we're driving into the driveway Sunday after the race. And she goes, dad, you remember riding in that car with that guy? I was like, Justin.

She goes, yeah, riding in that race car with Justin. I was like, yeah, she goes, I wasn't scared. I was like, no, I didn't think you were. You didn't act scared. She goes, no, I wasn't scared. I didn't plug my ears either. Yeah, she hates that noises. I was like, no, you didn't do that either.

She goes, I kind of want to try it. I'm like, what do you mean you kind of want to try what? And she goes, I kind of want to try to drive a car. I was like, drive a race car? She goes, yeah, but kind of, just kind of. I'm not going to fully commit. And I'm like, well, I got, you know, we got little electric. We got a little electric car.

We got a little electric car. We've got a little track. I said, we'll just get out there and putt around and you can kind of try it. And she's like, okay. Yeah. So we need to do that. Yeah. It's before the, before it goes away.

If you really want to see. Yeah. I mean, you know, it's just. Ila's never going to go for it. She's too cautious. She's just not going to do it. And she's expressed that. Like she likes to dabble and play with her cart.

She likes to take her little everything around the track. She's got wheels with, you know, but she's not going to. be the one, but Nicole might. She might play with it a little. She might play with it. What was it like for you, Amy, to watch Nicole have fun and... Oh, I loved it. I mean, I would have crawled in that car if Dale said get in there with me. Or I would have crawled in there if Dale said, we can't get, like, I can't fit you go. I don't know. I would have done it. I don't like to pass up an opportunity for, like, that's like being in the huddle. You know what I mean?

Yeah. And so that was cool that he got to do that with Nicole. I really was excited for her. I was sad that Ielo was so overwhelmed that she wouldn't go. she does not like being put on the spot. And so in that moment where we're like, hurry, hurry, hurry, you have to make a choice, you have to run. She's like, nope, I'm done. I'm not going. And she kind of locked up. And then she didn't want to get on the stage for Victory Lane either.

So she got bribed to get up there for a couple of pictures by Aunt Jamie. And then, you know, she got down. But she doesn't like all that attention. Nope. We had a great trip. It was. Everybody's dying to know. Did we go into the Hershey chocolate bar line?

Well, three of us did and one of us did not. Take a guess. I didn't go. And we didn't force him. No problem. We walked in there, though, and there was no line. Everybody hurting got scared and didn't go. They zipped right through.

Zipped right through. Had a great experience. Nicole is now old enough to, like, do the whole thing on the screen herself. So, like, you go to each station as it's going, and she was, we all had a great time. Went through so fast, actually, that we made those big Hershey, the Reese's cups also. They have gigantic. We haven't even cut into them. You didn't bring one back for the show?

I have three untouched. And I will bring y'all. one. I put potato chips and Oreos in mine. And the girls put all kinds of like sprinkles and all kinds other stuff in there. But like the salty chips in there have to be so good. Yeah. They have like a grocery store size candy selection. Yeah. Gigantic. You can just wonder around in there for hours. And it's a lot of the same shit. Like you can, you'll see the same Reesey cup bag over here and it's over there and it's all. But it's, you know, and I wrote, I pushed. I pushed. a golf car or a grocery card around in there.

He did. We come out. For about 30 minutes while they made their candy bars. He's not just got candy. He's got pajama pants. He's got socks. He has a pair of Reese's pajama pants and Hershey, like the regular, that basic ass chocolate bar.

Yeah. Pants. He's all fully decorated in Hershey now. Listen, I didn't mean nothing. I didn't mean no harm to Hershey around the candy bar experience. It's just not for me. It was strictly the line that you wear dissing. We did have to wait a while last time.

This year wasn't like that, but he was like, I'm fine with my choice. I got to tell you, I have one complaint. Oh, again? About the buckle in. No, it's not a complaint. I got a question. Not a complaint. Question slash suggestion.

Is this like one for the box? What are we doing? So the Hershey bar is the, it's the Budweiser. of the, in the, in the Bev. Yes. Of, you know, like, Budweiser wants red coat Budweiser, Anheuser Bush wants red coat Budweiser to be their premier brand, right?

Yep, it's P1. It's P1. And that's Hershey, the Hershey bar to Hershey, the company. And they have this candy bar that they've had for a really long time called the Mr. Good Bar. And when you buy the bag of assorted, you know, crack, Mr. Goodbar, Hershey Dark, Hershey regular. Everybody. What about the crackle? We don't have love for crackle.

Oh, you did? Most people will fish out to Mr. Goodbar's. And now not everybody. Some people do love the crackle. I think T.J. Majors loves crackle. That's what I would go for was be the crackle or the dark one. Well, you do like dark. I just feel like that

Mr. Goodbar has been suppressed. It's got some bad PR. Not bad PR. They don't push it. They don't want it to get too big. They think they know. They don't push it because they don't have to.

It sells itself. It doesn't. It doesn't. Well, it's good. It's better. I think better than a lot of the products that they make. But I feel like that they don't want it to get too much attention because Big Brother.

This is such a weird conspiracy you have. Yeah. It's a candy bar. So the reason why I think this way, got to hear this. So back in the days when I race with Bud, we ran the red car every week, right? Now, every now and then we'd run a special paint scheme, but not too often. Dad was doing a lot of special paint schemes. He had the Wheaties car.

He had the Bass Pro car. He had the silver car. And I would go to Bud and say, hey, you know, besides the baseball car, we don't really do much. And I was thinking, well, maybe you know, maybe. for the all-star race, we could do a blue Bud Light car. That'd be cool. And they were like, there ain't no damn way we're doing that. I'm like, why not?

It's like, it's your brand. And they're like, they already sell more than we do. We're not helping them. And I was really taken aback by how competitive it is inside the building between brands. So Bud and Bud Light, healthy white, you know, they're healthy. It's a healthy competition. And one won't do much for the other because they don't want to help the other brand succeed beyond what they're able to do.

So it's – Well, so I feel like in the beer industry, though, there's like kickbacks and, like, different things they get for that. This was 25 years ago. Yeah. This was a long time ago. And I believe that it's similar with Hershey and Mr. Goodbar. You're not wrong because I'm looking – it's treated as a variety brand. instead of sold as a standalone.

Yep. Yeah, so I've never seen you pick up a Mr. Good Bar at the grocery store. Well, I try not to pick up candy in general. Police, sir. Chocolate, chocolate maybe. What candy bars am I buying? You're buying any, if you stop, you're not really buying a candy bar unless it's usually sugar stuff. I like caramel.

Anyway, you're buying candy is my point. You do stop at the candy section. I like, if I am, if you're saying, hey, I'm going in to get a candy bar and you're getting one, which one are you going to take? it's Mr. Goodbar every freaking time. Mr. Goodbar is the best candy bar. Okay.

Now, I like Recy and Recy cups. Reeses. I like Reeses. We have a inner house battle over that. Man, I say a lot of wrong. I think that's a common. I say a ton of wrong shit. I think that Recy is just a regional thing

that North Carolina say. I say thousands of things. I was going to say this is one that you can't really just group to Dale miss speaking. I think this is a... A lot of people say... Yeah, a lot of people do this one. This isn't like a Dale. Well, I didn't hear it until I've met Dale.

Nobody I have ever been around in Kentucky or Florida. In Kentucky and Texas where they say Reese's. They all say Reese's. Just happenstance that M2 locations. Growing up, that one was always my favorite. So I was very aware of how it was said and not like, you know, Well, I like Reese's cups a lot. And they, those are, those are very solid.

But straight candy bar, I know everybody's got their own opinion, but I'm going to, My favorite is Mr. Goodbar. And I believe that with just an average amount of marketing, this would surpass Hershey Bar sales. I don't know about Hershey Almond. Out of here. I don't know about Hershey and Almond. Hershey and almond probably does better than regular Hershey.

Hershey almond. Like that chocolate almond combo is the best. Yeah. I wonder what their sales actually are. tail. You have gotten like laurax level on this.

What's that mean? The lorax? I speak for the trees, a little orange guy and Dr. Seuss that like stands on the stumps. I don't read you, Dr. Seuss.

You did at some point in your life, surely. No. Wouldn't do that. I'd darn hearts. Okay. We weren't, we were too poor

for Dr. Seuss. Like, what? You were the Mr. Goodbar because her she generates 1.1 billion. Goodbar is 175 million.

Wow. They're not even in the same sport. No, they're not doing the same playing field. Because it's not. It's not even the best peanut candy bar. Snickers. Snickers online one. Snickers is a number one. Snickers on line one. You can't even, you can't even try to compete with that. So Snickers and Mr. Goodbar, I wouldn't put them in the same category because Snickers has other ingredients. We're talking about a straight chocolate, milk chocolate candy bar

with one. Can you even get a Mr. Goodbar bar in the like the checkout line? sometimes but it's because it's not that good they only sell it in a variety pack with like the crunch and it is good you were five minutes ago you were saying it was a good

it's underrated but I don't you acting like it's this all right we need a poll well you have it well and not not some poll that's worded incorrectly

where people are not going to know how to okay how would you like the poll worded and we will cut it exactly let's say is Mr. Good Bar, A, epic, great, good, just okay. No, that doesn't solve anything. Yeah.

When we're going to take, then we're going to go, we'll see what the response is. If everybody, if it's overwhelmingly just good, we won't even put it up against Hershey. Well, it's called a Mr. Goodbar for a reason. It's not Mr. Epic Bar. Yeah. Way to go, Travis. I don't know, man. All right.

Put it up. If you're going to put a poll up, it's literally just a Hershey Bar and Mr. Goodbar. your pick, what's you taking? Regular, your regular Hershey bar or the Mr. Goodbar? See what people say. I would take a crunch bar over a good bar. No, same. I want to crackle.

We're not saying it's better than, we're saying Hershey's suppressing it. Nice crunch. They suppress crunch too probably. You guys like crunch? Yeah. Where's the crunch sales at? I like the mickel of ultra. It is.

But they're like, you know what? Crunch is doing good over here. They got crunching much. So you get those little tiny money on that. bites up in the little bag. We're selling plenty of crunches. We don't need the market crunch, okay? They're selling $150 million.

Let's not, let's keep it there. I can't believe how passionate you are about chocolate. I just thought, I've been a Mr. Goodbar fan forever, and I'm like, what's the deal? Why ain't I seeing billboards and shit with Mr. Goodbar on it? Why ain't I seeing advertisements? It's a... Mr. Goodbar, call Dale. He wants to help you out.

Why ain't they Mr. Goodbar roller coaster? Can we talk about the roller coasters, by the way? We got, what was that roller coaster where you rode? So Nicole didn't get to ride most of them last year because she was too tiny. And this year, she has reached the height to ride all the things that Ila rode last year. So we started out with the big ones, the Comet and the Super Dupor Looper, both that she did not get to ride last year. Do you have all those photos? I have a bunch of photos, yes.

Of us own them? Yeah. The ones they take of you, like you riding? Yeah, on the way out. We need to send them to the folks. So they can use them in the clips. I will. So we wrote Comet first.

Comet is an old wooden roller coaster. And it beats the hell out of you. All those, yeah. It was made. It just yanky all into place. It was made just after World War II. It feels like it. And I don't know that I bet it was really a thousand times smoother when it was new.

So here's the thing. I don't think that it could be, it shouldn't be any damn different, right? Like I know it. It's bucking so rough. There's no way that it hasn't like made itself worse. Like it's bugging. bucking so hard that I just can't understand that it hasn't made itself more rough. I agree.

I think the shocks and springs or whatever in it are just... Just the pylons and wood and shit just shifting under... But doesn't that make it unsafe? Isn't it like regulated? It has to do... It has to sit in this little box, right, before you can get on it? It's safe, but it's just not... Oh, it's safe.

Yeah. I thought they were always rough. I just feel like that... All wood and roller coasters are just more rough in general. Yeah, I agree. They are. Wood is much rougher. But I think it has gotten worse over time.

It's a hell of a ride. I'll tell you that. It is so bad. We started and ended the day with that damn thing. We did. I know. The second time it was like... It wrecked us both.

Broker necks. The first time we got in the super duper louver, I'm on... And this was made in the 70s. And this loop is so tight that like it's over and done with in like a half a second. But also we were told that it was made. in a way where you could actually not wear restraints and not fall out. So, like, it's that small. As you're riding in this coaster, it's always shoving you down in seats.

Yeah, the G-Force is pretty good. But when I'm going through this ride, we're on the front row. I'm sitting with Nicole. And just because I'm scared that she's going to slip back because she's so small, I've got my arm across her, and I'm watching her most of the trip. But we get to that loop, and I'm watching her, and we go around, and then we get to the very base fit before it shoots you back up, and it did something really strange to my neck.

I almost felt like my head whipped around like this, but it was rough then from the get-go for the rest of the day. It was a little bit not right. We rode all the roller coasters literally looking at our kids, watching them laugh. Yeah, watching a... It's bad news to go into a turn or a loop-in-loop with your head turned. It's not a good choice.

We're too old for this. Popping and carrying on. I'm like, oh, damn. So Nicole got on every ride? Nicole wrote everything. She had a blast. Yeah. She was...

woo-hooing. And I mean, of course, like when the drops come and they take your picture, her face looks like she's filled with terror, but she loves it, you know. It's off, happy. Yeah, she's having it for the whole time. We rode a jolly rancher, roller coaster, and it's a big adult roller coaster, and Ila was big enough to go on it, and she said, all right, I'll do it. It was just Dale and Ila.

Yeah. And so me and Ila rode a full-on adult roller coaster, and it goes super fast in a big loop, and then goes backwards the other way. So like you ride forward and backwards. And we rode it and I got off and I felt a little funny in my belly, I'll admit. But we have rode it and Ila's had fun and it took her breath and it shook and scared her in a good way. And she was laughing and having fun. But she was like, dang, that was a real deal.

We're walking down the plank off this thing and the kid walking in front of us just drew up all over the place. And I'm like, hey, dude, you all right? and he's like trying to nod and he just let a rip again. He's like, thanks for checking. And I'm like, I love. We got to jump over all this now, honey. Don't step in that. Oh my God.

That would have been disastrous. Was he alone? Was he alone? He had some family. We turned around and looked and waited and they were a couple folks with him when he finally got to the bottom of the ramp. But he had just drank a bunch of Kool-Aid like it was all blue. Oh, gross.

It was like neon blue. There was no food in it. It was just neon blue. Coolade. Gross. Poor thing. Poor guy. Yeah, we were sitting down there.

We rode the bumper carts. Eating candy. We did ride the bumper cars. Yep. Somebody put on social media after we put that picture out. Like, I know we don't think about it, but you get on those rides, you're driving a bumper car hitting other people. Oh, yeah.

Unbeknownst to other people, they turn around and Dale Earnert Jr. is like bumping the rear end of their cart. We were freaking racing. Yeah. I was racing. We were trying to win. He was Carson Hosevar out there. He was Carson Hosevar all over the place.

We got stuck in the top grooves. So we had to go the longest route around this racetrack. But, you know, we passed more cars than anybody. Before we started, though, I don't know where my kids picked this up. But they started showing us the L, the L, like we're losers. Oh, yeah. They're five and eight. I've never seen Ila do it.

But apparently it's something they picked up somewhere. We were looking at them and I'm like, they're calling us each other losers. I like, Ily goes, Mom, we're going to beat you. And she puts the L up. She's like, we're going to beat you. We're going to beat you. And I'm like, dang. I know.

From then on, Nicole would stop doing it. And then they were calling the nanny a loser. Oh, it was not the nanny. It was Jamie. And Jamie was a loser. It was so weird. I'm like, where did y'all get that? You know where I got that from?

You remember Smashmouth? Yeah. It's on All-Star. Yeah. They mentioned it in there. That's where I started doing as a kid. I remember it from, I don't know what the song's called, but you're a loser, baby.

Beck. Beck. Yeah. So, oh, we're at the theme park, and we had a guide. He was fantastic. Name was Dakota. La Cota. La Cota.

Sorry, I thought it was Dakota. Did you call him? No. Yeah, did you get the name right this time? Steve. Guys, it's been a couple days. So he was awesome. I want to comply.

He's, why do you watch his shit? So he was badass. He was. Super nice guy. But he's like, hey, y'all ought to go to, we're told. and we're like, we're going to Pocono for the rest of the weekend. He's like, you got to go to Jim Thorpe. I'm like, that's the name of the town?

He's like, yes, Jim Thorpe. I'm like, that name sounds familiar. And he's like, yeah, he was an athlete, done all this stuff in the Olympics. I'm like, so they name the town after him? It's pretty cool. He's like, no, they did name the town after him, but he's not from there.

And I'm like, what? This is such a weird puzzle to try to put together. We go. It was not far from where we were staying. We go. Just on the street. We go to Jim Thor. We're, me and he's telling me this, not Amy.

And so we get done with the Hershey Park and Amy, you know, we're just kind of looking at the rest of the week and like, hey, what are we going to do? And I was like, well, Lakota said we ought to go to Jim Thorpe. She's like, what? I'm like, yeah, and it's only 14 miles away. He's not too far. He said it was beautiful, like Switzerland of the northeast. I know.

When he said that, I'm like, okay, whatever, I start Googling. Yeah, so she starts looking at it. How many years have we been to Fokono? I've never heard of all. the Switzerland, Pennsylvania. So we go and, oh man, it wasn't far. We drive up there and there, there's a couple of trains that will do a little, you know, two-mile trip in and out of town.

And there's this one main road that goes up a hill and there's these shops all on each side. And it's just like a general store and an ice cream shop and a t-shirt and a candy and a jerky and all these little random stores. And we walk up the hills. hill and shopped down one side and up the other and looking around and we got something to eat at the pub. There's a little pub at the bottom of the hill that I'd love to go back to and get drunk.

And he had eyes on the pub as soon as we got off. Oh, yeah. Well, my production crew, my production crew that I bragged about on here, they liked to have a good time. And so I sent a picture of that pub because we were at Jerry's pub in Michigan having a good time. And I was like, hey, here's a pub in Pocono. We can have a good time.

So I sent that to them. And they were like, oh, hell yeah. We're checking out. There's a lot of good pubs around Pocono. We get on the train and we rode the train out of town and back into town. That was so neat. And but the story around how the town got its name is so strange. It is strange.

We Googled this and it was kind of hard to understand. Jim Thorpe passed away. He was this. incredible Olympic athlete done all these crazy things won all these different categories very athletic kicked everybody's ass when he passed away his wife

wanted to do something erect a monument or something to remember him by to continue his legacy to make sure that it didn't go away they are not from there nowhere near from there they're from Oklahoma

yeah Jim Thorpe's from the middle of the country she this town and her somehow or another got together and they agreed to build a monument to Jim Thorpe and renamed the town Jim Thorpe and that's what happened yeah but they had they went in return they wanted his corpse they had they had his burial site in that that I wasn't 100% sure of but that's what Lakota said Lakota said they bought the remains of Jim Thorpe yes from her and brought them to the town, to put it to monument. So we drove past that. I wasn't 100% sure if he's truly buried there. Well, there's a big casket-looking granite box and a monument with his body. How about that? So it seems like it makes it all real.

Now, we just want to put it out there. If any towns want to name their towns, Dale Jr., that Amy might sell me. No, I'm not. That's the weirdest damn thing I've ever heard you say, ever. But it needs to be super remote and totally unrelated to anywhere. Somewhere in Alaska. I've ever been. North Dakota-ish, kind of something like Arkansas, any of those places that would have zero.

Instead of Key West, it's Dale Earnhardt, Florida. Oh, man, no, that would make too much sense. Dale, Dale, Dakota, we're going to be put in North or South Dakota. I don't know, Junior Dakota. Yeah. So there was, this whole battle for his remains went to the Supreme Court. Bullsh-sh- I'm looking at an article from 2015.

It doesn't seem like a lighthearted thing. It does seem like a hard thing to have done. But Pennsylvania won the battle. So he is there. And who are they fighting? Yeah. Oh, the rest of the family members. Yeah.

So his family didn't love what the widow had done. And we're trying to fight it? the whole thing is just so weird it would make sense if it was his hometown or even somewhere where he lived forever worked, had a family, made his impact in but having nothing to do with him

he's a Native American. Oh, this was his third wife. He was a Native American too. That was his third wife, Dale. What does that mean? I mean, why is that so funny? Well, it sounds like he's probably got family members that...

He's got a lot of family members. You do the math. Mm-hmm. well, all right. How long were they married? His name was Patricia. All righty then. So, yeah, his body's there.

Well, Jim Forf was cute. It really was. I imagine, like, going in the fall would be better just because it was blazing hot. But there were so many cute little boutiques and things to go in and out of in the buildings. And the architecture was great. The inn right in the middle of the town is so cute. Well, if you let Dale go back to the pub, you'll be able to get this trip to happen sooner than later. Well, I'm going to drop him off at the pub and go shop on my own.

And I'll know where to find him. There you go. That's what I did in QS. Like, you sit here. I'm going to walk around. I'll come back. He'll hang out with George straight. He'll find George.

And then, you know. There were a couple little spots up the street that it would have been cooler to go in and drink a beer hanging out. Like little alleyways with like a door off to the side that like just hid. Everything's very hidden. You have to know where you're going. It made it really fun. And the Harry Potter. I think it was Harry Potter.

There's a Harry Potter tour. There's something to do with the haunted mansion. A Disney was designed after one of the buildings in town or the haunted mansion ride. Yeah. It's cute. Lots to look at. Lots to do. It's tiny, but worth a trip.

I agree. The only other thing we did in Pocono that was notable was taking a hike. And I like to do this. I used to do this with Sherry Pollux. Everywhere we went, we went on a hike. I know Travis is rubbing his face, like this hiking thing. Hey, it was fun. He can't stand hiking.

Hey, hey, hey, hey. Next time you need to come with us and you and Nicole can sit somewhere by yourselves. I ain't been hiking and I don't remember. I had a good time. But I'm going to tell you right now, my ass was a little worried we was going to run into a black bear. And I didn't know what was going to happen if we did.

I mean, we're in the Pocono Mountains. Yeah. Yeah. And we didn't have nothing on us. We didn't have no spray. We didn't have nothing. But we said, all right, we're going to. I felt like, man, we're being really irresponsible because we got a five and an eight-year-old with us.

And we're going to wander off into the woods that we've never been to any. I mean, we are really remote. He worries. And I'm like, he's going to worry a little. One of our little girls is going to get attacked by bear. Good grief, Ralph. That's a fair concern. Yeah.

And we're going to have to. answer to that. It wasn't like we stumbled into the wilderness. Nope. But sometimes bears stumble into you. We are, we have chosen to hike. You're in their house.

Yeah. We have chosen. I have been to Pocono how many years. I've never seen a bear. We did a one and a half mile hike in to this waterfall and all the way back out. And Nicole was raised in hell the whole time. I mean, hiking is not her thing.

I mean, I'm with Nicole in this one. I took, I took Nicole to the lot of plantation just this last week too. So she had a high. hike twice in one week. She was over it. I'll travel with you guys. I'll be Nicole's like personal assistant and take her somewhere else. Yeah. So we were like half a mile in and she's already whining and complaining and telling me her legs hurt. It was not her thing. I got a video of

her. She says hiking is the worst. Thank you, Nicole. She complained the whole time. But there were like other people. There were other kids like jumping off the rocks into the water. It was really cool. and we could hear people talking. Yeah. And we got there and there was like these six teenage kids that were jumping into the water. They had a big rope swing.

They were having the time of their life. Yeah, they did. They had a good time. Oh, I feel like you might have been overthinking the mayor thing if there's a lot of people. There wasn't a lot of people. There was six kids at the waterfall.

We walked a mile and a half. We saw nobody. Oh, okay. Never mind then. You said there was a people. To be fair, we picked the most obscure trail. We had a book at our house, the rental house,

and it had their favorite ones. And this was the one on the bottom. Yeah. And it had court. It had coordinates to get to the parking. So it didn't have like a state park logo or anything. That was probably, the people that made this list were probably like, jokes on you.

Beginners, beginners, hardcore, hardcore. And put the hardcore ones at the bottom. And just to see like if anybody actually falls for this shit. We're going to put that one in there too. We did. We picked that one. I had a good time. It was great.

The only problem I had was I forgot. I wanted to track it with my watch that I got from Bass Pro Shop. You forgot to track your wall? And I forgot to start it until I got to the waterfall. Is that why you were asking me about what you considered to be a good hike when we got out? He's like, Amy, what's like a good workout? Like a good hike. I'm like, he's like, how far do you have to go?

I'm like, I don't know. I feel like you have to base it off a time because you can't really. But doesn't your garment still at least count your steps? Yeah. For the day. Yeah. So you still know like what you are. No, no, no.

It's fine. I just like putting it on Strabo and showing off. Oh. Yeah. It's all about competition. It's all about. It's just showing off. I got into the,

People go, that ain't shi. You know, some people talk shi. Or people might go, damn it, I saw two bears there last week. We pull up and that's the first thing he does. And he goes, like, Amy, what are we doing out of here? We don't have any spray. I'm like, spray for what? I got, I got bug spray.

He's like, bear spray. I'm like, if a bear's that close, are you seriously going to get out some spray on the backpack? Don't run away. We were walking in there. And, I mean, we've walked about 30 steps. He goes, if anything nefarious happens, you just run with the kids and I'll go the other way and I'll stand guard

I don't know what he said I'm like nefarious what do you mean nefarious the whole thing is ridiculous I was like no no like if just anything goes on you take off running I'm going to distract them yeah right he's got to do the honorable thing as the man Dale's going to climb a tree and we're going to be sitting ducks you know I in that moment was

prepared to take to him he's going to sacrifice himself for you guys as the family dude I was doing it that's a noble thing I was doing it I was like We don't have to get nervous about everything we do. Let's just enjoy this. Between him and Nicole, I'm like, God, I'm stressed. My heart rate was up.

I'm sure if I had my watch on, I would have gotten a double workout from all that. But it was fun. Pocono's great. We had a great time. I knew we were going to. We got some, we got in the lake. We did a couple of things we hadn't done before also when Dale was at the racetrack on Sunday. So I'm highly recommend it.

Hey, guys, Dale and I are in the Dirty Mo Media Studio for another round of Ask Amy. What you got? First question. people saw you guys obviously celebrate in Victory Lane, but they want to know, what do you and the girls do during a race when Dale's obviously on the pit box watching his drivers? Well, the girls are always excited to go to MRO at the racetrack. It doesn't matter which racetrack we go to. That is the only thing they care about. Explain what MRO is.

MRO stands for motor racing outreach. So it's a Christian-based program that's basically like a traveling camp, if you will, for the racetrack kids. They also host Chapel on Sunday morning. So all of the drivers and their wives and families can go. It's a little camper with an extended awning and a tent and all kinds of toys, video games. And there's a couple gals there that will watch the kids for you a little bit if you want to run, you know, do something or go into the pits or whatever. The kids are fine. You check them in.

They're safe. They have organized activities and they can sit and craft and paint. And all the kids just like meet there from the deal lots. That's cool. They love going there. I sit in there sometimes and just chit chat with everyone because I also get to like kind of reconnect with people I haven't seen in a while or all. A lot of the moms will be around there. I'm sorry?

A lot of the moms hang out around there watching the kids and stuff. Otherwise, I just find a suite or I go to pit road every once in a while, but not that often. I feel like I'm in the way. I always have. I don't go into the garage unless I'm going through to get to something. Yeah. So this past weekend at Pocono. So they won't, you know, I've asked if Ila, Ila is eight.

I've asked if Ila can come sit on the pit box with me at the racetrack, and they're like, nope, no minors. What age is not a minor? I don't know. So she's not old enough. And I'm standing there, and I, we're getting ready to win the race. But it's the last restart or some shit. We've got 10 laps to go or whatever.

And Amy shows up with the girls at the back of the pit box. And I was like, hey, I was like, I don't know if they're supposed to be in here. True to form. He gets nervous. immediately. And he's like, they're fine. Nobody stopped me. I walked through all these gate guards.

So many officials. Everybody just gave me. Everybody's like, or just kind of turned and looked the other way. And I'm like, all right. Well, get them on up here. I got them up there and got them to sit down so they can kind of hide up on top of the pit box. And that was so much fun because I was like, I'm pointing at the monitors.

I'm like, number seven's in the lead now. We need number seven to win. Number seven. And they're watching the monitors and looking around and all the things going on. and cars are restarting and the field comes running by and they're like holding their ears. They got some foamy plugs. It was so cool.

They had a great time. They're going to never get to experience that if we don't just push the limits a little bit. We're going to snowmen. We're going to win again. They're going to see it again. They need appreciation for it, I feel like. If they just go spend their entire trip at MRO,

they don't really understand where they are. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. I'm all about them coming to the races and going to Victor Lane every chance we get. Yeah, it's, I mean, a moment that you're not, This year, though, they go to two races. You can't redo it, right?

You have to seize the moment. They go to what? They go to three. They go to Daytona. They go to Daytona. And they go to, a couple in the summer. Sometimes we go to Talladega in the fall. Yeah, it's been a while.

Yeah. Like we talked about earlier, like the moment with Nicole and Dale, like, that's a memory that Nicole will have forever that she wouldn't have had. Yeah. She's already like talking about wanting to dabble in a race car. She enjoyed every second of that. Next question. Speaking of traveling, people saw your post on Instagram. What's the state you have?

haven't visited that you want to Alaska. I think he was talking to me, Ralph. Sorry. Dale claims Alaska is the only state he hasn't been to. Have you been to Rhode Island? Probably. Do we know for sure?

I have. I have. I've been everywhere. It's near Dover. I've been there. I want to go to Maine. I've been to Maine. Steele-Tarts from Maine.

He's described his childhood and how amazing. I checked off Rhode Island in Dover. Oh, really? You're like, I can see it so it's done. We're done. To work. But yeah, I want to go see Maine. I want to go do like Nantucket and.

I had a friend get married up in Maine like by the water. Yeah. And like the day before like went to some like shack on the side of the street that was having like fresh seafood. Like it was. Lobster rolls. And yeah, go there and like the springtime or whatever. It's perfect. Yeah, I want to do that.

We need to go Luke's lobsters. Luke's lobsters. They make lobster rolls. Luke's. So I met. I went up to. work with, I went up to do some function with the, with Mickey with the United, the United Pittsburgh Medical Center, the guy that helped me with my head injury.

Yeah. And I met a relative of that family that owns Luke Lobsters. And he also had went to get some help with Mickey and he had read my book and we connected. He wrote me this really cool note. And we went and ate at their restaurant. It was awesome. Oh, amazing. The best, the best lobster roll I've ever had my life.

from Luke's lobsters. And I think they've opened up some stores around New York and so forth. Let's go. Cold or hot lobster rolls? I imagine they'll make it however you want. No, but which do you prefer? I've only ever had it cold, to be honest.

Cold sounds good. I just had lobster the other day. If you have a one one. In Pocono, in Pocono, there's a restaurant near the racetrack, there's a restaurant called Louis and Louise Prime. Louis Prime. And I swear when I was little

and I'd go to the races with that in the mid-80s that we went in that restaurant ate. Now, Louis, it was a different name or something because Louis' Prime hadn't been around that long. But I swear I've ate in that same building with that. And we went to Pocono. We always went and ate there. So when I raced, I always take Amy there,

and we now take the kids there. Well, to be honest, when we were racing back in Pocono back in the day, before you were venturing out, I was scanning the perimeter for things to do. do. And Steve and I drug him to Louise. And he's like, I've been in here before. Yeah.

And he was like, I'm pretty sure I've been in here with dad. And so it's a cool building. But yeah, he did order a lobster. It was a size of Texas. It was huge. So good. I like lobster. Is there any seafood that you don't like Dale?

I feel like you like. He eats it all. I need all. He'll even eat a snail if you give him one. I mean, if he eat oysters, it's, I feel like you're because dad was eating it. He got some escargo or whatever. I remember this was like in that early 80s. we're in Daytona or somewhere down there.

And he had, he ordered some and asked me if I wanted to try one. Nope. Don't have been a no thank you for me. I don't order those when I see them on the menu, but I have eaten them. You have eaten them a few times in front of me. Yeah, but I'm not, it's not oily and kind of not good. Yeah. Kind of not good.

Next question they want to know how. If I say this, name the one appetizer that if you see it, that if you see it, you get it every single time. Mine is a shrimp cocktail. So if they have a shrimp cocktail on the menu, it is absolutely getting ordered. And it's not for the table. Yeah.

I remember you telling that. We've talked about this before. He's not sharing a shrimp cocktail. If you have a Bavarian pretzel or beer cheese, I will order it. We ate a few of those this last week, too. There was pretzels all over Pocono. Yeah.

Yeah. The girls love that. That's their favorite. But Nicole won't eat the salt. She knocks the salt off, which I find to be blasphemous. I was usually like kids want all the salt. But she doesn't do spreads or any of that stuff. So she wants a plain piece of bread and Ila's on the opposite size.

She takes Nicole's extra salt and sticks it in the cheese and like salting up her cheese. Oh, there's sometimes I'll take the end and pick up that. Yeah. So good. Speaking of the girls, somebody want to know how do the recital go? The recital went great. We had so many friends come and bring flowers. They had, of course, their performance was great.

don't have video yet. I still have to get that from the dance studio, but they were so cute. And they're little ballet buns. They did great. How many did they have? Nicole just had one dance. She did ballet or ballet as she says. And Ila had two. She had jazz and tap. And so Ila's tap dances to stay in alive, which was great because it was like a little discoy and she's out there like doing this. Really? Oh my God. I had missed it. Yeah. That's awesome. What was harder going from zero to one kid or one to two? Oh, one to two. One is one and two is 20.

I remember Shander Johnson telling me years ago, I thought having kids was going to be so great. We had our first one. That's Jimmy James' wife. That's Jimmy James. Jimmy Jam has taken a resurgence. Jimmy Jam was tweeting today. Jimmy Jam, his interview was epic.

Dale and I cracked up, listening into that. But anyway, Shander told me years ago, she's like, I thought I could master this. One child, we were like, no problem. got this down. She traveled with us. Everything was easy. And then I had the second one and I was like, holy smokes, what did I do? Two rocked her world. She said two rocked my world. I was like, that's interesting because, you know, I feel like dogs kind of feels like the same thing. Not the same. Not at all the same. She's not wrong. One is one and two is 20 and it changes a dynamic in

the house. If Ila is there by herself, it's so quiet. But with both of them there, it's like madness. They're singing, and then if one's singing, the other one has to sing louder, even if it's not bad noise, it's just a lot of chaos, you know? It's not impossible, obviously, but it does change the dynamic of the whole experience, to be honest. Interesting. Next question, they want to know. What's anything new added to like the beach supplies that you're going to be using this summer? Well, Travis, we currently can't even get into our beach house because of the road construction. Oh, it's still going on?

Still going on. Yeah, they've tore the road up. Peaking through the ring cameras. Yeah. So on the road that we live on or the house is on, they're putting in some really, really big drainage. Very robust. And it's going to be great.

But it looks like it may not be finished for the 4th of July weekend, which is insane. It looks like they should have started in November is what it looks like. It looks like they got started a little late in the season. The 4th of July weekend is going on. is already madness around there. Especially that block. Oh my gosh.

The access to the beaches right there. Oh my gosh. They knocked into our new fence this last week. Yeah, yeah. It's okay. Everything is fixable. It's fine. It's fine.

But damn, the timing is not good. Especially, like, you want your own parking. Well, right. And so the front of our house is public parking. So you might be able to park and you might not at your own home. It sucks. I'm like, I'm really annoyed about it.

I'm far more annoyed about it than he is. I'm not. Sorry. I feel like I opened up. work, but I want to go to the beach with my kids. I can't get in and out of the driveway. I told her. I said, that shouldn't, that should not and would not deter me.

Reparking and parking is the hard part. Yeah. Because of where we're located, it's very busy. What shocker though, is Amy? Because you are the criminal, though. You're the one that just breaks turning laws and just do whatever. So I figured he'd be the one to. Usually Dale's with me and I feel like I'll get out of it.

Oh, my gosh. So back to the beach, though. What's, uh, have you guys, what's like a must. have that you have to take out to the beach with you guys. I need shade. Yeah, we always usually take one or two shades. The Shibumi is always with us because it's easy to put up. Is that still the number one like shade out there on the beach? I think so. We have a few. It's the most popular one. It looks like you can rent them. There's so many out on the beach. It's actually kind of pretty. It can be a little bit noisy if it's really windy. It doesn't take a lot of wind to get up, though,

so that's good. But we have a few different options. If it's just a couple of us, we just take like one little screwing umbrella because he'll use that and I don't really, I don't want to be in the shade. I want to get really brown. I bring the power drill with the little attachment. Yeah, jails it down. You're down in there. A piece of cake. We have, we have like a specific cart that's got these big bubble wheels on it and so we put the cooler on there. We've got a speaker. We have a system. I get all the inside stuff. He gets all the cooler stuff together and then like we sometimes we pack it up to the night before. God, do they like. So excited. Very efficient. Yeah. About it. Are you always in charge of the music, Dale?

yeah but i mean there's a station down there called um check radio we play everything and so you know we put it on that and i don't even i don't like to have to work or fool with it or DJ you know and so we just turn that on i actually buy this is this is so much fun so i encourage people to do this i find the cheapest battery powered old school turned twisting knob radio off of Amazon. And I buy that and I throw that in the bag and we turn that on to Chuck FM, get the antenna right. And it's like going back in time.

Yeah. He keeps those in the garage show here and at the beach. So the music's always playing. So at the garage at the beach house and the garage at our house, one of those old crappy radios is turned on ever so lightly. So you can barely kind of hear, you know, some pet shop boys or a little bit of hollow notes. Your pet shop boys.

A little bit of Holo notes, some audio speed wagon. Yeah. You know? Sometimes a little slim D-on. Yeah, every now, man. And it's barely playing over in the corner. It's just good. Yeah.

You got to have it. Have you ever tried the Call-A-Notes hotline? No. There's like a number you can call and you just hear like Hall Notes. Oh. Oh, really? Yeah. Do they have like recordings that sound like them?

Probably not. I think it's like their music. Like calling Santa Claus, you know? I forget what it is, but. I'll have to look that up. Yeah, but so like I don't even take a Bluetooth or sometimes I leave my phone at the house even, and we'll just take that radio and we just play that a regular radio station. Because you know how like, so I say kids, but like the 20-year-olds and the teenagers these days,

they're going back to cassettes and CDs. They're going back to CDs. Oh, really? Yes. Like there's this sort of human shift toward physical. Tangible. copies. Yeah.

Similar to like the collecting vinyl, but people are buying CDs again. And they just, I think the convenience of downloaded music is taking some of the fun out of it because you just don't have that same appreciation for something. Like the thrill of the chase? Yeah.

And so, which I think's neat. and that's kind of the same thing about this old radio, right? Instead of just, oh, man, you know, I got everything in the world I need on this damn iPhone, and I'm going to Bluetooth it to this badass speaker. And take it and get sand in it. Which is awesome.

I mean, when I'm at home jamming in the bar at my house, I want the best shit going, right? I want a big-ass sound system with my phone and all my funs, all the music I love. But if I'm going to go out and try to have an experience with my family and really kind of have an authentic sort of nostalgic experience on the beach, bringing that shi-old radio out there that sounds like

a little crappy dash speaker. A little static in it. Yeah, it sounds like a dash speaker in an old car your mom had. It's just really neat. And you never know what like deep hole that the radio station is going to have that you wouldn't have had. Right.

It's good. It's a good station. It really is. That's why I love still listening to like Pandora and stuff. It's like, because I'm, it might play something that I didn't think I wanted to hear. I'm a Pandora guy.

That's how I use. When Pandora came out and went public, I bought stock in it and thought I was going to be like a billionaire because I'm like, this is the best way in the world. It's like a radio station. Oh my God, are you kidding me? It's amazing. And you can cure it and like it and drive it.

The stock hasn't changed in value in like 20 years. God, that was one more thing I wanted to talk about. Take it to the beach? No. I don't have to think about it. It just jumped out of my head. It jumped in and out? Yeah.

I hate it when that happens. It'll hit you right when you're at Polka Note. Oh. She said it. So, what did I say? I'm nervous. The Thrill of the Chase. Oh, The Thrill of the Chase.

So. What did that trigger? That's the name of the card store. So. Oh, yes, this is hilarious. So we get to Pocono and we're, you know, I'm looking to see where the closest card store is and there's nothing around Pocono, right?

But there's this one up north of us about 15 miles called Thrill of the Chase. and it's a very brand new these dudes just open it they got hardly anything in there but they're brand new right they've been open for a couple weeks and i was like they got disney cards for the girls and i'm like maybe i can get there we'll get some disney cards amy'll be cool with it and um i kept trying to drop some hints and amy wasn't wasn't wasn't feeling it totally to be fair though every single day he's dropping a hint about if we're going by here there's a card store or i'm going to do this oh there's a a card store. We do some driving, right, to take the kids to do some stuff.

We were driving to hike. Yeah, that's right. It just coincidentally happened to be on the path. That's why I wanted to hike. So on the way back from hiking, we get, we slow down. That's why he had all that pep in his stuff. Yeah. We just thinking he was going on that way back.

And I turned on the turn this thing when he's like, where we're turning into what's here. I mean, it's a nondescript strip mall. There's nothing really else in there, no cars. No signs. This brand new strip mall. nothing on I mean it's just very basic and I was like well there's a car story in here and she goes you gotta be kidding kidding me and I pulled down there and look in the windows she goes don't look like they're in there no it didn't it really didn't I'm like sure they're

selling cars we're not going in there like and I'm like you're not dragging me and the kids into that weird weird space so we pulled out of the parking lot went on down the road they didn't have anything in the windows either like if they had just opened two weeks ago yeah I believe that, but there's no signs, nothing. Like, how do you even find this place? Thrill of the chase. Maybe next year I'll get in there. You guys just keep digging.

There's a, there's a, um. Oh my God. There's a, there's a card shop in San Diego 15 minutes from the hotel called money, honey hole. I've already talked to Kevin King about going there and meeting me. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Another iriscer.

Lives out there. those who don't know Kevin. Kevin, let's get together, man. Let's meet over at the card shop. He's like, honey holes right next to you. So I will go there. Oh, such a good friend. That's cute.

It's good to have friends in low places. I looked at the schedule, though, and we got shit going on. So I don't know how I'm going to get to the card shop. Yeah, Dan, this work thing. He's got to work. He's got to the card store. I have a friend that lives out in San Diego, and he's like, you're going to be able to meet up. I'm like, I doubt it.

I know. I thought I would do it. And then I was like, shit, oh, the truck race is happening. I got to watch the truck race. I got to learn the track. I can't like miss any opportunity to like get better for Sunday. So I don't know. There was a dinner plan Friday night that I think got canceled possibly.

So we might be able to get over before it closes. I'm sure you'll figure out a window. Eating's for losers. I'm sure they've got a pizza shop somewhere nearby the card shop, surely. I'm sure you could arrange something. San Diego is me also room service is, you know, right there for you. I went to San Diego once. It's nice.

nice. I love the Navy SEAL bars. McPeas is right there. I was out there last time. The one day spent like four hours just sitting at the bar. Yeah, that's cool. The San Diego Chargers were my second NFL team. And they moved.

They lost them. Cool. I just like blue and yellow because dad's ringing. Oh. So like back in the 80s, I was like, I like the Chargers. That powder blue. That little bolt. Back when you picked just based off of their logo.

Lightning Bolt Charger. That's kind of a, you know, Everything's an animal. Wait, did that remind you of hard charger? Lions, Eagles. Huh? Did that remind you of hard charger? No.

It just was blue and yellow like Dad's Wrangler car, and they had a bolt, and I thought it was neat because it wasn't an animal. Yeah. Yeah. Got it. I don't know. Anyway, I think that's a good spot. All right. Thank you guys for your questions.

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