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Texas Roadhouse
Texas Roadhouse is a restaurant chain you can find in many parts of the U.S. They’re being used here as the source for a specific drink you can order.
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margarita sour mix
Margarita sour mix is a bottled cocktail ingredient that’s meant to make a drink taste tangy and sweet without mixing everything from scratch. It’s a big part of the flavor in this drink.
Term
vodka
Vodka is an alcoholic drink made by distilling a fermented mixture. In this recipe, it’s one of the main ingredients that gives the drink its alcohol content.
Term
orange juice
Orange juice is just juice from oranges. In cocktails, it helps make the drink taste fresh and adds a bit of sweetness.
Term
vanilla syrup
Vanilla syrup is sweet syrup flavored with vanilla. Adding it to a drink gives it a richer, sweeter taste.
Brand
Total Wine
Total Wine is a store where you can buy alcohol and cocktail ingredients. They’re suggesting you can get what you need there to make the drink yourself.
Term
Long Island Iced Tea
Long Island Iced Tea is a popular cocktail made from several types of alcohol plus sweet flavoring. They also explain you shouldn’t shake it because it has soda in it.
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splash of cola
They add a little cola to the cocktail for sweetness and fizz. That’s also why they say don’t shake it—shaking can mess with the soda.
Term
sweetened sour
Sweetened sour is a mix that gives cocktails a balance of tangy and sweet flavors. It’s one of the ingredients that makes the drink taste “right.”
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tinker on cars
“Tinker on cars” means people working on their cars themselves—fixing things or making small changes. It’s common for weekend racers who want their cars to be ready.
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race cars
They’re talking about cars that are used for racing, not just regular driving. People often spend time working on them so they’re ready for weekend events.
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street stock
Street stock is a type of local racing where the cars start from regular street cars. They’re usually modified for racing, but not as heavily as more expensive race classes.
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driving through little safaris
It’s like a zoo where you stay in your car and drive through an area with animals. Because you’re close to animals (and sometimes other cars), it’s easier to accidentally hit something and damage your vehicle.
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pull over
To pull over means to pull the car to the side so you can stop safely. They did it because they saw a dog in the road and needed to get out and help.
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before phones / before being able to Google
They’re saying this was before smartphones and Google, so they couldn’t quickly look up directions or nearby places. That made it harder to find a vet fast while on the road.
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back seat
The back seat is the seat behind the driver and front passenger. They put the dog there so they could drive it to get help.
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rental car
A rental car is a car you rent for a short time from a company. Here, they used the back seat of that rental to help a hurt dog get to a vet.
Term
bush hog
A “bush hog” is basically a tractor mower. Farmers use it to cut tough overgrown grass and weeds.
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rotary mower/brush cutter use on a tractor
This is the kind of mower that spins and chops vegetation near the ground. If something small is hiding nearby, it can get startled when the tractor starts moving.
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fob
A fob is the small key you keep in your pocket or purse. It talks to the car so you can unlock it and start it without using a metal key.
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keyless entry
Keyless entry means you can unlock and lock your car without putting a key in the door. The car recognizes your fob and lets you use it.
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front straightaway
A straightaway is the long straight part of a race track. The “front” one is usually the main section people can see easily, and it’s where cars are going fastest.
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mound
The mound is the raised spot where the pitcher stands. Throwing from there is different than throwing from the field, so it can throw people off.
Term
throw out the pitch
In baseball, a guest sometimes throws the first ceremonial pitch before the game starts. It’s basically a “showtime” throw, and if it goes badly people notice.
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dugout
The dugout is where the team sits and hangs out during the game. If a throw goes into the dugout, it’s usually a clear sign it missed the target.
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Oh yeah, this is where it's going to be, girl. We're gonna hang out.
Open a bunch of jars, you got big strong hands.
Are you suffering from high crack?
I'm working.
Working that mouth.
Hi everybody, Dale Jr. and I are in the Dirty Moe Media studio for another round of Bless Your Heart.
I'm excited.
Yeah, I haven't seen you in a while.
Feel like you've been...
Since this morning?
Did I see you this morning?
You got up and left pretty early.
No, anyway, we got a good show for you guys today.
I've got something I want to talk to you about.
Guess what your daughter said.
Oh no, another one of those.
Guess what your daughter said.
When was this?
It was over the weekend when you were in Asheville.
Whoa, and you're just now telling me?
Yeah, because you know, I forget things because I'm overstimulated and overwhelmed.
That was really smart.
I didn't save it for the show.
I actually just remembered about this story this morning.
You're like, this is good show material.
It is good show material.
So guess what your daughter said.
I can't imagine.
I mean, cuss word?
It wasn't cuss word.
It was just something really crude.
And not a cuss word.
No, it wasn't a cuss word.
Guess which daughter it was?
Maybe we'll start there.
Probably Nicole.
No, it wasn't.
It was Ayla.
It was the sweet little angel Ayla.
What'd she say?
Like, this sucks, sir.
No, she was on her FaceTime with Stella majors.
And they're playing a video game or they're drawing or something.
They like to FaceTime and just share each other's screens so they can just chit chat.
And it's like they're playing, but they're not really playing.
And I'm cleaning up the kitchen, moving around her, but not really paying attention to her.
And Nicole's sitting right there too, just drawing.
And so all of a sudden I hear, I hear TJ, what?
Y'all are on the island?
They're at the dining table.
Yeah, like in the.
All together.
All together.
And I am kind of moving around the kitchen and going back and forth doing laundry, blah,
blah, blah.
And I hear Ayla say, I'm going to kick you in the nuts.
Guess who she said that to?
TJ?
TJ.
Oh my gosh.
She said that to TJ.
I'm kind of okay with that.
I mean, it's the only person, like he let it slip.
He like chuckled and walked away.
I could see him like full face in the computer, in the iPad, but I like broke my stride and
turned around.
I was like, excuse me, Ayla.
What did you just say?
I was like, hang up, hang up the phone because TJ had gone already.
And I was like, I cannot believe she said that.
I was, I stopped her.
I was like, where did you hear that?
And she goes, I don't know.
I was like, yeah, you do.
You know where you heard that.
Where'd you hear that?
And she was like, I don't remember.
And I was like, at that point she's taken the iPad has been taken away.
She's not on it at all.
And she goes to the couch.
I'm cleaning up.
They had been eating lunch too.
So I'm like cleaning up the lunch and I'm still in the kitchen and I look at her and
I was like, you know, we're not doing anything else until you tell me where you heard that.
And she said, I heard it from daddy.
I'm like, really?
Cause I mean, it's not really a term I've heard you say too much.
Whenever.
Did she describe where this happened?
Yes.
Of course I asked her more questions.
I was like, your dad said that.
I was like, when did, when did you hear your dad say that?
And he said, she said he's walking around the house on his phone and he said it.
I'm like, I don't know.
He said it to somebody on the phone.
In what context he's saying something about getting kicked in the nuts.
But your daughter's always listening just FYI.
And I asked her like, do you even know what that is?
And she goes, no.
I was like, are you sure?
She goes, yeah.
Don't tell me you don't or what.
No, I didn't.
I thought better.
I almost did.
I was like, don't ever say that again.
But especially to a grown man, let's just not, let's just not say that anymore.
Oh my God.
I was like, that's, that's enough of that.
Well, I have an admission.
So probably about three weeks ago we, it was me and her, I don't know if Nicole was around,
but I don't think you were there.
And I was in the living room and horsing around.
Like physically horsing around?
Yeah.
Like she was chasing me or something.
I don't know.
I was on the, maybe I was on the phone or she was chasing me and she said, I'm going to
kick you in the nuts.
And I said, what did you say?
Nicole did?
I love it.
Oh.
And I said, what did you say?
And she said nothing or I'm going to kick you in and change it.
You know, is that when I was upstairs?
Maybe.
Whenever it was, because nobody ever told me what she said.
Yeah.
That was it.
Yes.
That was that day.
And so I'm like, girl, you can't say that.
That is not all right.
And something I thought we didn't get through to her.
Dang it.
And then she straight up told TJ.
She said it to teach you like she had said it a thousand times.
I'm sure he was.
He came up behind Stella and he was tickling her like harassing, harassing.
She tells the little boys on the playground.
Oh my God.
I know.
I know.
That's the problem.
Maybe now we need to tell her what nuts are.
So she'll quit saying it.
No.
How do you stop that?
You don't.
You're going to say what they want to say.
They're going to do all kinds of things.
I have an idea of how you stop it.
Okay.
Great.
You can't stop it.
Dale doesn't say it in the first place.
Yeah.
That's a good way to stop it.
I feel like we owe TJ an apology, but.
I couldn't believe Dale couldn't guess what.
We don't know what she said.
He's put us through.
Yeah.
If it was anybody else, I'd say I'll apologize.
He's not teaching our kids slang words.
We don't know.
Now Stella knows that term.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was blown away, but you know, say lovey or say whatever you want.
I guess.
Dale's blushing.
He's he's got some.
I'm not sure how I feel about it, honestly.
I'm sure this is not a popular opinion, but I'm all right with it.
Cause like I listen, I don't want her to be vulgar and rude, but I do want her to
stick up for herself or threaten some boy that he better back it off or he's going
to get kicked in the nuts.
I kind of think that's cool.
Okay.
To your, to that point alone, I agree.
I don't worry about Nicole doing that.
But her, her just flying off with, with it to like TJ or any other adult.
Not so cute.
I know.
I was wondering though that who's going to take care of her when, when I'm not there.
So like not there on the earth.
I'm just saying like in those moments, like who's, who, who's going to take care of her
when I'm not able to take care of her.
You're worried about her not being tough enough to stand up for herself.
Yeah.
Nicole straight beat and anybody.
No worries.
She is scrappy.
She is scrappy and she will, she will just her presence alone.
Like her demeanor seems like, I mean, she's five, but it seems like she's going to have
this sort of control.
Right.
She's got some gusto.
Yeah.
You're going to see, you're going to read it off of her.
And I though is really vulnerable, but also kind of quirky and also sensitive.
She's a bit of a, she's easy to follow.
Easy to, easy to join.
Yeah.
Right.
And so she, she might go do things or get asked to do things or joining on her, join
her friends in on things that she doesn't need to be doing or thinking about it.
That's going to happen for sure.
I know, but I'm like, you know, it's good to hear her say something like that to TJ.
Even if it's wrong that she has the guts.
Okay.
So I guess this is going to go nowhere.
Plus it was TJ and he more than likely deserved it.
Yeah.
There's a 75% chance that TJ brought this on himself.
Fair game.
Yeah.
Cause it was TJ.
Well, let's get to the drink of the week.
All right.
The drink of the week.
We got two different drinks.
That's a really good reason.
Right here with me, I had the deal.
This is what you can find at Texas Roadhouse nationwide.
It is on the menu.
If you menu car to be on your table and you can order one of these and try it out.
I am a big fan of cream, sickle ice cream.
Think is the greatest flavor.
One of the top flavors ever made.
And we designed this drink with Texas Roadhouse with that in mind.
Two ounces of high rock vodka, three ounces of margarita sour mix, two ounces of orange
juice, two pumps of candy, orange syrup, and then two pumps of vanilla syrup.
Pour the ingredients into a shaker, add ice and shake, pour into a glass and serve.
You can get these orange syrups and the vanilla syrups.
You can get all of this stuff to be able to make this drink yourself.
A total wine.
A total wine.
And it's great.
I would encourage you to go to Texas Roadhouse and try it as well because they're going to
make it exactly the way it's meant to be made and enjoyed, but we'll give it a sip.
It's good every time.
So we also have the Long Island Iced Tea.
And the reason is because Texas Roadhouse is debuting high rock vodka in these two cocktails
today nationwide.
That's the day at home right there.
You also have the Long Island Iced Tea if you are not into the cream sickle drink.
You can try that.
And it's one half ounce of high rock vodka, a half ounce of gin, a half ounce of rum,
four ounces of sweetened sour, and a splash of cola.
So you should just mix that up in your glass.
You don't shake it because it's soda.
And so nationwide, you can get those both today at Texas Roadhouse.
Awesome.
So both of them.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's a little beat that you're going to hear.
Someone talking on speaker.
We're having ice cream today at Junipera Sports.
Yeah.
I missed out on it because of the show.
Travis is pouting because he's not getting ice cream.
Well, he didn't get sort of the masters and now he didn't get ice cream.
It's just a week in it.
Something I got to tell y'all.
I went to Nashville Fairgrounds for the long weekend, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Come on Sunday morning.
I cannot tell y'all how many people came up to me and told me about this podcast
and how much they love it.
I hear, I mean, it is, it is there.
It's probably 10 to one that referenced this show versus the regular Dale Jr.
download.
I might hear, man, I loved your interview with Johnny Benson, but then I'll hear 10.
I love your show with your wife.
And I'm talking about 45, 55 year old racing mechanics with grease under their nails.
Talking about how they love the clips on Instagram.
And it's because we're a couple of goofballs.
People can relate to that.
I know why it's, I think the show is awesome and I know why it's well received,
but it's just awesome to actually be out in the world and have people come up to you
and just eagerly tell you how much they enjoy it.
Yeah, it is really awesome.
Yeah.
And they compliment the hell out of Amy.
Right.
I don't deal well with this kind of stuff.
Don't worry about it.
Just shut down for a second.
They compliment the hell out of Amy because, and it makes me feel awesome.
And they are like, they're like, because they see what I see.
They're like, man, you really nailed it there.
You got a good one there.
She's awesome.
She's amazing.
I love how she gives you a little hard time and all that.
She does it just perfectly.
Y'all have a lot of love.
Everybody feels that through the show.
And, um, and it's, it's great because, you know, you can, you, you marry somebody,
you know, you made a choice.
You're, you're with this person that you love forever and you've made this choice.
Um, but, you know, not a lot of other people really get to see what you see.
You know, and, and now your family, you get around your family, your friends,
they get to know that person.
They get to see what you see.
But man, it is so fun doing the show and having so many people receive it so well.
And mainly because of Amy, right?
They enjoy seeing, they see me enough on the Dale's Internet.
Yeah, but Amy, you bring out the difference of the deal that people don't see.
Yeah, I know.
I mean, that's, that's the fun part.
Like it's just who he really is.
The way that he chit chats with people otherwise is very different than the way he interacts
with me.
Of course.
I got a huge dose of this, this weekend.
And I just had to come back and tell you all about it.
Yeah, but it was good.
But let's get right to the topics.
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What else do you want to talk about?
Well, um, FaceTime language.
That was it.
The TJ story, the FaceTime, the FaceTime language.
Um, brainspotting?
Yes.
Okay.
Can I talk about this?
Hakeem Olajewan.
Okay.
What the hell?
So listen, I'm acting like this because I have not looked.
Dale has been very busy.
I've been busy.
He's not really put any notes in for this show.
I have not.
And so it's just my weirdness.
Amy's weirdness.
So I don't know what all these news.
He has nothing to do with the monkey, though.
There's monkey hug, brainspotting, pirate sisters, rocket landing.
We can hit pirate sisters right quick.
If you want to hit that.
All right.
I took Nicole, I picked her up on Monday.
We have swim lesson in about an hour.
So we have time to stop and get a snack and I take her to the smoothie place.
We get a smoothie.
We're sitting outside enjoying it.
She's like doing this with her hair.
She's like soaking up the sun.
And I notice that she's missing an earring.
Who?
Nicole.
What?
Yeah.
And I looked at her and I was like, where's your earring?
What happened?
And she's like, oh, it came out.
I'm like, what do you mean it came out?
When did this happen?
These are the earrings you get pierced with.
So like the back.
When did this happen?
Monday.
This week.
I haven't noticed.
I haven't noticed.
Because her hair is, well, it's probably not something you're going to notice to be
fair because it's jewelry, but.
Oh, I notice.
I'll notice if it's on.
I think that's, I think there's something to that though.
Let's go back to that.
I've, I've a look over, she doesn't have her earring and she says, oh, it came out.
I'm like, those don't just come out.
That's really hard to take off.
What happened to your earring?
And then she goes onto this whole story about how she slid on the, on the playground.
She slid really hard and then it just came out.
Meanwhile, she's got no scratches, no scrapes.
Her clothes aren't disheveled or dirty.
Like, I know she didn't fall down on the playground.
She's making this up, but I let her go just to see how creative she can get.
And then we get quiet.
I'm still just sitting there eating my smoothie.
And eventually she says, okay, mom, I pulled it out.
I was like, yeah, I figured you pulled it out.
Why?
And she goes, I don't know.
I'm like, well, where's the earring?
It's still on the playground.
It did come out on the playground.
And I said today.
And she goes, yeah, today.
Coley, why did you do that?
Why did you take it out and just leave it there?
We can't put it back in now.
Well, I wanted to be like Ila.
And she pulled out the same freaking one that Ila has missing too.
So now, and she wouldn't let me take the other one out.
I was like, this is not how we're going to play this.
This is your fault.
This is my fault.
Yes.
Because you've let Ila walk around for over a year with one earring.
I dare you.
I triple dog dare you.
You're her mother.
You're supposed to know.
To nail her down to the floor and try to take that thing out.
You're supposed to know how to do that.
I know how to deal with rational people.
I know how to deal with a little bit of crazy, but she, you know how she gets.
Look, what did, when we had to get the Amelia out of Nicole's toe, what did we do?
I've held her down.
Yes.
Stabbed her foot.
I got it out.
Yeah.
But she's little.
Nicole.
I was only two years older than her.
She's just bigger.
She's walked around a year with one earring, Amy.
I know.
Everyone in the world.
Now we've got two pirates.
Everyone out there is going, what's the deal?
You might as well let them take it to October for Halloween.
Let them dress up as pirates.
It's been two Halloween.
I've been there.
It needs to come out.
Well, now we've got two.
And the other one, the other one's just a little butterfly.
And it's like the colors rubbed off of it.
So it's like almost skin tone.
You can't really even see it, which is why you probably didn't notice that it was
going to begin with, but now we have two kids with the same problem.
But Nicole's earring hole is probably fine because she's had her earrings in for so
long, but she's not going to let me put it back in.
She said, so I don't know what to do.
I'm at a loss, but she loves her sister so much that she was willing to put herself
through that.
She was like, well, she doesn't care.
Like she's tough.
She's probably not like thinking this might hurt.
She's just like, I'm doing it.
I mean, if I were her and because it had to have hurt a little bit.
I don't pretend to know what the deal is with Koli, but she is tough.
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Yeah, so I've been doing brain spotting.
I started doing therapy with this new person and we all like have little issues or things
that I've like made marks on us in life.
And I've had therapy before and I feel like I've got a pretty good idea of how to deal
with things, but sometimes I still find myself emotionally distraught in a way that shouldn't
be tied to the things happening in my life now.
And so I was looking into and asking friends that have done this before about brain spotting
and EMDR, which is another type of trauma therapy.
And yeah, so I started the brain spotting.
I've done three sessions and the first two, the first one especially was really dynamic
because I had something that was really emotional to talk about.
And so it was real easy to like get into that and then do the therapy.
So basically what you do is like it's focused on reaching through your eyes and your visual
gaze through your eyes to a spot in the way back where you've stored trauma.
So like typically your eyes have this like visual pattern where every little memory has
a path, right?
And so they'll take a ball or something and then you'll follow it and like the person
that's doing the therapy can see your eyes moving and see if they look for different
things.
I don't know exactly what that is and know when they need to stop.
And then whether you're speaking about this memory that you're wanting to talk about or
something else comes up can help, but you don't have to say anything.
So you can kind of be going through the thing and then all of a sudden your eyes start moving
so she stops it and whatever you're thinking about will kind of become more intense.
And you might have like tightness of breath or your body might tense up, your hands might
start to sweat and you kind of just have to go with that and you can talk about it to
get through it faster or you can just process it on your own.
So anyway, it's been really interesting to kind of see what's come up for me, especially
yesterday when I went.
I went in feeling like I didn't have a whole lot to really talk about, but sometimes that
happens and then she's going through the process and then all of a sudden I remember
like this weird feeling in my stomach and so she stops the ball and the memory for me
that came up was getting made fun of by a school teacher in the seventh grade.
I'm walking down the hallway, got my backpack on, I'm going from one classroom to the next.
So wait a minute.
So you probably couldn't have pulled that memory out of your head, out of your ass,
but this brain spotting brought it to the surface.
It helps to bring it to the surface.
Ironically, yes.
So like it's something I remember, but I didn't think it was something that was bothering
me.
And so yeah, I'm walking on the hallway.
I've got my backpack on.
I'm wearing an Akema Lajuan jersey.
Now I'm not a sports fan.
I'm not super sporty in general.
I grew up going to dance lessons, blah, blah, blah.
But at that age, like all of us girls shared clothes.
So like one of my girlfriends had this jersey and everybody's wearing jerseys at school.
And so like she let me borrow it.
And I didn't even know what I was wearing.
Right.
And who cares, right?
It's just for fashion and for fun and to fit in.
And I remember this teacher making fun of me.
She calls out, she goes, hey Amy, who's Akema Lajuan?
And I turn around and look at her and I was like, huh?
And she goes, exactly.
And I remember thinking like, how embarrassing?
Cause she called me out in the hallway in front of all of these other students.
And apparently that like traumatized me.
I never barred clothes after that.
I really remember that happening and feeling so stupid and being made to feel stupid by
an adult in that format was like pretty sh**.
But the Akema Lajuan jersey thing for me is like funny now.
Like of course I didn't have any business wearing that.
I didn't even know who it was.
But I wanted to ask you like, have you had memories like that where like you were frightened
or embarrassed where you did something stupid like that and called out by an adult?
Is that normal?
By an adult.
Yeah.
Like, I mean, she was a grown up and I was about 12, 13 years old.
Sometimes like you start clowning the kids and like, okay, deal clown on the kids cause
they don't know how to handle it.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
And maybe that's why I feel that way.
I can't think of one, but maybe it's cause I've suppressed it too.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Well guys don't barb clothes or do anything like that either.
So it would have had to have been something you were like involved in like a sport maybe
like a coach.
Like surely one of the Uries made you.
Oh, I mean, I didn't yell that by your dad in front of his buddies.
All that sucked cause you're, you know, trying your ass off to like fit in or be accepted
or, you know, just be, just be at, be included.
Right.
He would at five o'clock in the evening, all the guys that worked there put their tools
down and they all gathered around this picnic table and other guys that were friends came
from their jobs and drove in and everybody sat around drank beer.
They might, some folks kind of continue to tinker on cars or bring in other race cars
that were weekend racers like Tony Jr. Me, my street stock, things like that.
And you just wanted to be accepted into that group when that happened because they were
hanging out being friends and you would just stand around and listen to them and laugh
and listen to the stories and they talked about all types of things, right?
Very mature and things that you weren't ever going to hear, right?
And you felt like getting kicked in the nuts.
Back to Islay from it.
I mean, they just talked about being men, you know, but they, what they, what they thought.
And so if you've slipped up or got your, you know, did, did something done one particular
time, there's two things.
And I hate to say this.
I love Tony senior.
Love that man.
Do anything in the world for Tony senior and Tony junior both.
But we had, we had some tough moments.
I, it's, it's hard to tell.
It's hard to tell a story and kind of hope, hope I'm putting you in the moment.
But one, so I wasn't very thoughtful.
I'm hanging out with them.
It's after five.
Typically they would get, you know, buddy, a buddy would bring a bowl of chicken wings over that he
made, or they would order pizza or whatever.
And somebody'd run and grab it.
We didn't have delivery back then.
I got, I ordered a pie on the sky pizza and went and got it and brought it back.
And I'm working on my street stock car and I'm eating my pizza.
So how old are you?
17, 18, 17, probably Tony's in everybody's hanging out and Tony senior came out there
and just chewed my ass for buying a pizza and bringing it over there and not buying
enough for everybody or not asking anyone if they wanted any pizza or wanted me.
I could have even asked if they wanted to order pizza and I could pick it up with mine.
You know, he was, he's like, you, you know, he was, he was basically saying like, you're
so selfish and think about only yourself.
Everybody's here hanging out.
We'd all love some pizza and you just thought about yourself and when it got your own pizza.
So like you're, you're not like us.
You're over here.
Well, you were a minor.
Like, I know, look, I'm not, I'm not right or wrong.
It just chewed my ass in front of everybody.
That's kind of the same thing.
Like you were embarrassed publicly for something that you didn't feel like was wrong to begin
with.
I was like, well, I mean, ever since I felt like I should have absolutely thought enough
of Tony senior, Tony junior, all the other guys there to go, Hey, I'm going to the pizza.
Y'all want to order one or I don't have 20 bucks in my pocket.
I can barely afford mine, but you know, I will, I'm going if y'all want to order one,
I'll pick it up.
I didn't think about like that.
I was so selfish and I was, I was selfish.
I was about me, me, me, me.
And you know that you met me.
I was really all about me.
And so yeah, but I didn't meet you when you were 17.
I met you when you were like 30, what 33?
I got really good at it at that point.
Yeah.
Skills honed in.
Yeah.
And I mean, you know, you get, that was, that was another example.
But that's, you know, yeah, that's good.
You understand how I feel, but it's neat.
Like going through those therapies, like you still remember the things, but it doesn't
affect you anymore.
Like those, it doesn't drive either how you react to things that might trigger that same
emotion, which is the coolest part.
So do you feel better when you leave?
I do.
So the very first time I left, I had talked about our plane situation.
And we had a great session and then I left and I was really just overwhelmed and I cried
and I laughed and I cried and I laughed in the car.
And then I was just kind of emotionally drained.
Like I was laughing at myself in this like bizarre way.
Like to cry a little bit and then I would start to like laugh at myself.
You know what she said when she got home, she said, now I know how you feel like when
you're, you've podcasted with Travis for five hours, I'm really tired.
She's emotionally drained.
She's never said that.
So she said, I may have said something like that, but I didn't, I didn't include Travis.
I did not include you.
Sometimes he comes home after he's like been working his mind for however many hours and
like doing reads and he's like Johnny five power down and he lays out on the couch and
falls asleep for like two hours.
So I get it.
Like I was just completely physically and emotionally drained, but after the second
two sessions, I felt almost energized.
It was really cool.
So it's neat.
I feel like everybody should explore it to some degree because everyone has like some
little trauma that's back in there.
I don't, I mean, not everybody may, not everybody needs to see a therapist, but like I absolutely
believe in therapy, especially when you meet the right person that you have a comfortable
connection with.
And not every, you know, I don't know if you've, if you go see five therapists, only one or
two or you're going to really like want to go back and see and feel like you can, you
can make a bond with.
I got put in therapy when I was 12.
I went to other therapists in between then and Marion Amy, me and Amy saw a therapist
for a while and that was absolutely extremely successful because like I was saying, I was
really selfish.
Didn't know how to be a boyfriend.
Didn't know how to, didn't, I mean, my idea of a date was doing whatever I wanted to
do, grabbing drinks and raising hell.
It wasn't, you know, I didn't care if she had fun, you know, I figured if she was with
me, she was fine.
Right.
And he might have said that out loud a couple of times, like what you're crabbing about.
We went, we went to this therapist to get our relationship to peak performance.
And this lady was badass.
And she would tell, she would put me in my place.
She'd put Amy in her place.
It felt like it was super.
She was very fair.
We invited her to our wedding.
She was also very calm and like really very cool made back.
And so listening to her was easy.
She, we invited her to our wedding because we felt like she was really responsible.
The reason that we were able to get married.
One of my favorite things that she told us.
And now this is, this is her words.
And I was, I was like, I wasn't expecting this, right?
Cause you know, me and Amy would get in arguments from time to time, just like anybody else.
And it was often, if not always when we had been drinking, you know, we'd been day drinking
or night drinking or whatever.
We're out and having a few drinks and we get annoyed with each other or somebody's feelings
get hurt and it was just kind of spiral.
And we kept going to her and talking to her and talking to her.
And she's like, you know, and we tell her what happened, what got us mad.
She'd say, had y'all been drinking?
And we're like, yeah.
And she'd go.
And finally, you know, we go, we've been going for, you know, six months or whatever.
I don't know why.
I don't think it was that long.
We've been going for a few visits.
Maybe six sessions.
Yeah.
And she goes, we came in there mad as hell at each other.
Like the whole call right down to Charlotte.
We didn't need to speak to each other, but we're going.
Because we know we're going to, we know we're going to come out of this session with some
good notes.
We had gotten into an argument and we had been drinking a couple beers and hanging out.
Me and Amy would sit down in the basement at night, you know, just by ourselves before
we had kids and just I, I'd drag her down there.
I'd be, come on, let's go downstairs and drink some beer.
And, you know, she reluctantly go and by the end of the night, she's, you know, we're
bickering and, and, and not, not seeing eye to eye on something.
But we go into the therapy and she, and we're sitting down, we're talking to her and she
goes, were y'all drinking?
We're like, yeah, we were, we were drinking.
She goes, I got a bit, a bit of advice for you.
She goes, maybe, um, y'all should not drink.
And I said, not happening.
He said to her, he's like, nope, not in the cards, lady.
I said, I'm in, I'm not going to quit drinking beer.
And she goes, well then quit giving a about what each other's saying in those moments.
You got to wake up and high five each other.
Good night.
That was fun.
Whoopsie.
Like don't care so much about those stupid little arguments.
I was sitting there and I was like, who likes 80s music more?
Like it was absolutely awesome.
I was sitting there and I was like, wait, that's on the table.
And I looked at Amy.
I was like, you in, you in with this?
Like you just don't, let's just not give a if we disagree about something or get upset
at each other.
We're just going to say, you know, we'll have the time too.
One of us is disagreeing with the other person.
And then the other person's like offended that there was a disagreement.
Like, how come you don't see it my way?
Yeah.
And so it really translated into that.
Like everything just chilled out after that.
I heard saying that to us dude from that moment on and she literally was like, if you're
not going to quit that, if you're not going to quit drinking, then quit giving a about
these silly arguments and just get up in the morning and go, Hey, we got, we didn't agree
on something, but you know, love you.
Call it even.
Yeah.
And literally we adopted that.
And I mean, that was like 90% of our it was issues.
Yeah.
Cause we would carry this grudge, you know, for days.
And we're good at that too.
Oh yeah.
I would have loved to see Bell's reaction when she said, don't drink.
Dude.
Well, I mean, that was very quick.
I was like, nah, not happening.
Stop drinking beer.
Nope.
Yeah.
Well, then stop caring so much about that.
It's not a big deal.
It was awesome.
Yeah.
And I was like, what a rational thoughts.
I was like, hell dude, you're amazing.
Yeah.
She's brilliant.
She's brilliant.
She's brilliant.
We would still go see her today.
Just because you miss her.
Yeah.
And like, it's like going to get your old change.
You're keeping your car maintenance up.
You know, that's the way I look at therapy today.
Like I don't, I probably, you know, got a few things I need to work on from my
childhood or whatever, but I'm pretty happy where I'm at.
So I don't like go regularly, but every now and then I'll call up my therapist
and say, Hey man, I'm gonna come in and let's just have us, you know, sit down
and see what's going on.
And to Amy's point, like you get to a point where you're like, I don't
really feel like I got anything to talk about today.
I'm going to go and you go in there and you end up doing a little work, you
know, and
It's like going to church and never leave there going.
Well, that was a waste of time.
I will say though, I've, I've never experienced the success that we have
with our, the lady, me and Amy saw and every single time we left, we felt
like a million bucks.
Like we'd sit down with her for an hour and we'd get, we'd cut, we'd go in
there.
So discouraged, so lost and like not knowing what to do next and whether,
you know, but we just, we're just so disappointed and discouraged.
And we would leave there feeling like we got the tools.
We're going to get this right.
It's going to be great, you know, every time, every time we never left
there feeling like they want, you weren't seen or heard.
Man, that didn't.
Yeah.
Man, she was, she was so good.
I remember going in there and the very first time and feeling like I'm, you
know, just don't have a lot of confidence.
Things were pretty.
Things were pretty.
It was a lot.
It was mad too that we had to drive all the way down to Charlotte.
I don't go to Charlotte.
I don't ever go to Charlotte.
You live 45 minutes away.
Somebody got to be somebody closer, right?
20 minutes.
Nope.
It was worth, it was worth every mile.
Jane was her name.
Yeah, Jane.
She's a, honestly, man, I'm telling you, she was, she was an angel.
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Speaking of weird gifts, there's this video that I've seen over and over again, and I sent it to Travis.
There's a man, and they're in India, so mind you, like, animals are everywhere.
They're kind of used to that, like, freedom of animals roaming around cities, right?
Well, he wakes up, and he's got a monkey asleep on him, like, cuddled up on him, fully asleep, like, hugging him.
Screened it, Dale.
Instead of, like, freaking out.
He just gets his phone and video tapes, and this monkey is out.
This is a random wild animal?
I've paused it, like, you can kind of see, like, the windows are...
His pet.
I don't think so.
So you saw this, and...
I saw this, and I thought to myself, well, that seems like a cool thing.
Like, I've always wanted, like, the deer in the backyard to come up and eat out of my hand,
or, like, some random monkey to come share fruit with me on a vacation.
No.
Which is like a silly Snow White dream, right?
Amy, we've done that in the Honduras.
We did do that in Honduras, yes.
You had this dream, you didn't even remember.
Maybe you need to do some brain spotting.
Well, we had too many beers on that trip, to be fair.
That one's just piled back in there.
But, like, he didn't freak out.
If you were on a vacation, or if you were just in your house...
I have to believe that this is this guy's pet, monkey.
If you woke up and this monkey was asleep on you, would you just let it happen,
or would you get nervous that, like, he was going to wake up and bite you,
and then you'd be foaming at the mouth?
This monkey knows this, man.
I'd lose my...
You would lose...
This is one thing.
You...
But if you lose your...
Then, like, what if he bites you?
Look, y'all want to believe that the summerhouse thing is fake,
but you think this is real.
Yeah.
I fully believe the summerhouse thing is fake.
I believe this is this man.
And I believe this is real.
I believe this man and this animal know each other.
What do the comments say, Travis?
Everyone's jealous of him.
Everyone's jealous of him.
Yeah.
I'm not jealous of him.
I'm jealous of him.
I don't know.
I kind of think it's cool.
I don't mind being cuddled like that.
You don't like animals?
I don't want a monkey.
I mean, like, you're talking about feeding a monkey.
I don't...
Wait, this is not what's happening here.
He's not feeding it.
No, but she...
I don't want that monkey laying on me.
I don't want to feed an animal food.
He's not feeding it.
I'm just saying in general, like, I...
Why are you taking it to another whole level?
You're not taking care...
He's not...
We're not asking you to take care.
We're not asking you to adopt.
No, Amy was talking about though, like, if you feed an animal,
like, I'm just saying all of this, I don't want.
Yeah, yeah.
We get that.
I don't either.
Nobody in here is ready to go adopt an animal or a monkey right now.
But would you like a hug?
No.
I got a barn.
Not from a monkey.
No.
Oh, man.
A dog is the only animal that I want anyone to get from.
So if you go on to us, Joe, you're not going to get in the koala thing
and, like, cuddle a koala thing?
Pedagangaroo?
Oh, my God.
No, I wouldn't pedagangaroo.
Nothing's going to punch you.
Nothing's going to kick you straight in the face.
I'm sure they've got some that you can actually get near.
I don't know.
Even a little tiny one.
You see those people are driving through little safaris
and animals...
They're feeding animals through their car.
No, I don't want any of that.
Yeah, we've done that before.
Honestly, that just bangs your car off.
What about cats, Travis?
No cats.
I don't like cats.
You don't like cats?
You know, you've got the same personality as a cat.
You probably would get along with them really well.
No, I'm friendly.
I'm like a dog.
So are cats.
No, cats are friendly, though.
They're friendly or selective.
They're friendly to their owners.
Dale is personally friendly.
He's fidgeting over there.
He's like...
I'm fidgeting.
Oh, like cats.
You've got to like cats.
I've had four cats or five, maybe.
Yeah, he had two cats when we first started dating.
They were gigantic, too.
I was going off by that.
Mancoons, man.
They're awesome.
Well, the monkey thing, I think, is cool.
We would have a mancoon now if Gus wasn't in the house.
Yeah, we would.
Yeah, he's not allowed to have any brothers or sisters.
There was another video I sent, Travis.
It's crazy.
And this has to be real.
Don't you dare tell me this?
It's fake.
This lady's floating around in what looks like a pond, a lake,
and she picks up what she thinks is a log,
and it's an alligator.
Oh, shoot.
Watch this.
What are we doing watching clips on this show?
This is the kind of stuff my phone feeds me.
And you told him?
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah.
She just bends down.
She feels something touching her leg, and she picks it up,
and all of a sudden, it's a gator.
She throws it.
Oh, my gosh.
That's some...
I mean, she isn't like a muddy, swampy area.
I was going to say, I don't want to judge, but...
She's kind of foolishly in the wrong water here.
Yeah, I mean, look at the bank.
There's all kinds of animals running around in that bank,
and she's cleaning herself off in that little water.
I would totally sh** myself.
Yeah, I don't know.
But it just let her pick it up.
Yeah.
It could be dead.
I think it flailed.
It looked dead.
No.
It looked dead.
It's not dead.
Look, it moves its head.
Yeah, it moves.
All right.
But then, right at the right moment,
she unknowingly held...
They almost kissed each other right there.
She unknowingly held it in such a way
that renders the alligator asleep.
Did you see that?
I don't think...
If you turn them on their backs, they pass out.
Look, you watch.
You watch the video.
She smartly rolls it over and will pass us out.
Wait, what?
She throws it away.
Okay, Steve Irwin.
Yeah, that's what happened.
Yeah.
No, it does not.
Yep.
I know.
I made this sh** up, dummy.
Why'd you look it up?
Just to prove to you that it doesn't.
Oh, my gosh, Dale.
Because you would have kept going with it.
I know it.
Oh, my gosh.
Man, that high rock drink is doing its job today.
Jesus, I'm just having fun.
Dale's getting silly.
All right, should we play a game?
Yes.
Let's play a game.
So we're going to play a little game of most likely.
Most likely.
So obviously, it's either you or Dale's the answer.
We don't answer together.
We're not competing.
No, you just pick who you think is most likely.
Oh, most likely to do the thing.
Got it.
Who's most likely to get hangry and deny it?
Hangry?
I don't deny it.
I would probably deny it.
I can't deny it.
I'm a straight rider.
Got the police coming in.
I would not deny it.
If Amy said you're hangry, I'd be like, damn right.
Where's my food woman?
I would be saying things to be like, yes, food quick.
Yeah.
He's not going to feed himself.
He's going to wait for you to do it.
That's not true.
He had the audacity last night.
So he eats dinner before I take the girls to the dance class.
I come home with some takeout.
I had a...
And I'm making the meal for the kids.
He had already fed Nicole because she had danced earlier.
So he had eaten.
I didn't have whole dinner.
I had like four or five ounces of chicken breast and that was it.
Well, who knew because he was eating as we were leaving the house.
But I come back with the food and I didn't get him anything because I thought he had
eaten dinner.
He's like, well, I didn't eat enough.
And so he eats all the leftover kid food and sits down.
I'm like, wow, you've had hours to feed yourself.
There's food here around.
He's not going to feed himself.
He's like, I'm self-sufficient.
I'm like, the hell you are.
The only thing that you can find is candy.
He brought candy up to the office the other day.
And you ate it?
Because you were like forcing us to eat this candy.
What kind of candy was it?
I don't remember.
Was it the bag he had from Key West?
You were still passing out the candy from Key West?
I've got to get rid of this gum.
I cannot eat the gum.
Of the sour gum.
I have too many crowns to be chewing on.
Mine wasn't even sour.
I think it lost its sourness.
She got very sour.
Yeah.
Nicole had to spit hers out too.
She couldn't handle it.
Next question.
Who's most likely to rescue an animal?
Me.
What?
I've rescued an animal.
You failed at it, Amy.
What?
How did I fail at it?
You tried to wreck your car, but you didn't rescue it.
Oh, yeah, you're right.
Oh, yeah.
You backed it into the pole.
Yeah, I couldn't even catch a cat.
Catch a cat.
I was driving with a friend.
We were in, I was in Michigan.
I was probably 16, 17 years old.
I was in Michigan for the race.
And me and a friend were going to go across the Canadian border.
That sounds stupid.
From Michigan.
It's like a three, I don't know how far.
Do you have a passport?
Do you have to?
But back then you didn't need it to go to Canada.
Yeah, this was in like 1990, something like that.
And so we're going to drive there.
And on the way, we saw a dog that was laying in the middle of the road.
And we got out, everybody's driving by.
We pull over, we get out.
Dogs alive.
Barely.
And we, this is before phones.
Like this is before being able to Google where something is.
Yeah.
And we put this dog in the back seat of the rental car.
And luckily, I don't know how we figured it out, but we found a vet,
literally like three miles away.
We pulled in, knock on door.
It's like six o'clock in the evening.
Somebody was in there and we just give them the dog and they take the dog.
And I don't know what happened to it, but.
But you rescued a dog from the middle of the road.
That's amazing.
That's the part of your heart I really like.
So I absolutely, every time I, you know, I would definitely.
I've rescued animals for that.
Sambo that came, the black cat that I had here.
So I was sneaking out of the house in high school and found it in a field and took it home.
I was like, mom, it just showed up at the door.
Yeah.
One time dad was mowing with his bush hog.
Now I was, I was probably 13, 14, maybe 15 years old.
Dad was mowing with his bush hog and saw a bunny, a baby bunny run out under the tractor.
He, his story.
I pulled my glove off and through it, knocked it's knocked, knocked its feet out.
Munder and it tumbled and I ran and jumped on it and got it.
His story.
And so he brings it home in a big cardboard box.
This was like two and a half by two and a half, three by three big box full of pine needles.
Yeah.
And it burrowed in this, it burrowed this cool little tunnel and we kept it for like three,
four days for the bottom started.
He's like, you know, it's going to pee and it's going to ruin the floor.
Yeah.
And he took it back to the farm.
But do you think that he really just rescued that one bunny or did he run over mom and then
find the bunny?
No clue.
Damn, we don't got to worry about, we're not.
Well, you said, you said his story over and over again, like me, we don't believe dad.
Dude, no.
He threw his glove to hit the thing and knocked it off balance so he could tackle it.
Sure.
That's what I mean.
Yeah.
Okay.
I understood.
All right.
What do you got next?
Next question.
Who's most likely to sing in the shower like it's a concert?
Dale.
Really?
I'm not likely to sing in the shower.
You do not sing in the shower.
No.
Amy doesn't sing ever.
I sing when I'm by myself.
Right.
I try to sing in the car this morning with the girls I had the eighties on eight on.
I'm singing, I'm singing and the girls are like, can you stop?
I'm like, no, you can join me, but I'm not stopping.
So that's why I don't sing in front of anybody because I get judged.
Yeah.
Ila and Nicole both sing.
Constantly.
Yep.
I sing a lot in the car.
No, it's not me.
It's definitely him.
Next one.
Who's most likely to win at trivia?
Probably Dale.
I feel good about that answer.
Yeah.
He's got lots of information in there in the filing cabinet.
A lot of useless information.
Like a lot of random useless information.
He's reading things all the time.
I'm like, why is that so interesting to you?
And trivia comes around and he's winning.
Who's most likely to have their phone at 2% always?
Amy.
Really?
Yeah.
It's a 2% one.
I can't find it.
That's for sure.
I would say if you, if you polled us in conversation with each other, Amy has said the words,
my phone's about to die, probably 10 to one.
Yeah, but that was years ago.
I'm just saying my phone is rarely about to die.
Yours is more often.
Here's where the loophole is a net.
The phone might be close to dying, but then he's just switches to his iPad.
So he's still available.
He's still online.
I put the phone on charge.
I know.
So like that's what I'm, he's on his phone, I think more, which he refuses to believe.
We're not having that conversation.
So his phone does, his phone does get close to dying.
How did we get to, he's only selling more.
That means your phone's going to die faster.
Not necessarily.
If you keep it charged.
He's not keeping it charged.
He's always around the charger.
I know where I'm the one who puts all the chargers in the house.
I know where all the chargers are.
Yeah, I know.
You come and you're the chargers that I plug in too.
You can't, he's like a wire thief.
Have you lost your phone?
Have you lost your phone recently?
I lost it twice today.
I didn't have it this morning.
I ran out, I ran out two different errands this morning already and I didn't have it.
Well, you know what, screw it.
Nobody can get to me either.
If you were to sit in our house for a day, you would hear her find my phone alert at
least twice.
I'll be hanging out.
Where's your iPad?
Why?
Can I have it?
No, I just need to find my phone.
I'll be hanging out and all of a sudden across the house.
I'm like, yep, Amy's looking for a phone again.
I did it yesterday and it was still in my purse.
I had gone and come back and just didn't even take it out of my handbag.
I've lost my purse.
Let's check.
I've lost my phone.
Let's not check in our purse or nothing.
Sorry.
Very overstimulated and overwhelmed.
This has been a lot.
It's impressive.
Well, thanks.
I'm glad I can entertain you.
Yeah.
Is it just your phone that you lose?
Yeah, for the most part, yes.
I know if it's Keyser.
No, the keys in my purse or in the car.
I don't usually move that around too much.
I don't have keys anymore.
I think that's a lie.
Okay.
Well, you still have to have the fob.
I don't lose the fob.
I'm pretty good about that.
It's just my phone.
I just leave my fob in my car.
Yeah, fob stays in.
If I get free truck.
If I go to Lowe's or something, go to store.
I put it in my pocket.
But when I get back in the truck,
I throw it back in the console.
Let's steal Dale's truck one day when he's here.
Yeah, you could.
You take it for a couple of spins right now.
Get some ice cream and go rip.
Let's see here.
I'll drive him out of the truck.
Who's most likely to...
If he steals my truck, I'll just drive him out of the truck.
You gotta hold me down.
Who's most likely to laugh at their own joke?
Dale.
Me.
Dale.
I tell him some good ones.
He does that regularly.
I tell him some really good jokes.
He starts laughing thinking he's going to get you to laugh more.
So you're just holding one.
Now, since you're laughing, I don't want to laugh.
Since you're already laughing at your own joke, it's not funny.
I can't figure out what I'm supposed to be laughing at.
I tell some really smart, good damn jokes.
I can't help but start laughing and she refuses to laugh.
Amy refuses to acknowledge it's funny.
It's like a game for her.
I feel like the game is yours.
I've got so much self-control.
I'm like, yeah, it's not funny.
But I think Dale starts laughing so that a lot of times it elicits people to laugh anyways.
I know.
So that if the joke's not funny, they're still going to laugh.
Yeah, that's true.
But it doesn't make me laugh.
I'm not the one person who can't crack into that.
It goes back to being selfish.
As long as I'm having fun.
That's not wrong.
I mean, listen, if you're not going to laugh at your own joke, what awareness?
That little flaw still in there.
We didn't work that one out.
If you're not going to laugh at your own joke, who is?
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What do you got Travis?
First question is what do you guys think of the astronauts returning?
Pretty cool.
Super stoked about it.
Geeked out all the way.
It happened.
We practiced this was Friday.
Yeah, you were gone.
We were practicing in Nashville and we ended practice right as they were coming back into
the atmosphere.
I caught a couple minutes of it on TV showing the thing coming through.
Then I had to go out and do some media, a little media scrum.
We talked about it.
I was like, yeah, they're coming back right now.
The media is like, yeah, yeah.
I'm like, man, that's pretty cool.
I didn't get to watch the whole thing, but I got a t-shirt.
He did get a t-shirt.
I got really jealous.
He came home yesterday with the NASA t-shirt that says not flat.
We checked, which is so good.
It's hilarious.
Ila and I had just had that discussion because she's very excited about all the astronaut
stuff too.
And we were talking about how the explorers used to think the world was flat.
Like if they got to the end of the map, they just fell off.
So the shirt with the timing was perfect.
Yeah.
So I might NASA sent, heard all of us talking about it on our podcast here last couple
of days and social media and whatnot and sent us a bunch of stickers and hats and all
kinds of stuff.
It says this is shirt with the NASA logo on it and it says not flat.
We checked.
It's hilarious.
Yeah, it's so good.
Next question people will know is, have you been paying attention to Coachella?
No.
I have little and the only reason is because I follow a lot of influencers that always
do the clothes and stuff.
And so they're heavy into that.
And then I also saw that Ingrid took their daughter, Ingrid Gordon.
Oh.
Yeah.
Would you ever want to go?
I am interested in going, but I feel like once I get there, I'll be annoyed that I'm
there.
Like I feel like I'm a little too old now.
Like I missed the window of feeling like I could go and fit in.
Ingrid just goes to, you know, supervise her daughter.
Yeah.
But it does look like it's pretty like the concerts.
If you've got the good access.
If you're just like in the gen pop section, it does not, it does not look.
Have you been?
No.
Yeah.
It's not my vibe.
It's not your vibe.
Yeah, not mine either.
So there's three headliners that are there.
If you could design your own festival with three headliners.
That's a good question.
Who would you want?
Three headliners.
That's a hard one.
That is hard.
I'm going to put Alan Jackson in.
And I know that this isn't Coachella-ish.
It's your festival.
It's my festival.
Alan Jackson, Dwight Yocum, and Ella Lingley.
I'm a very big Ella fan.
She's a girl crushing hard on her.
She's probably the biggest thing going right now.
It's a tough one.
It is not.
You should really have it.
Just whip it out of your pocket.
No.
Put it in your top three.
Just throw a couple out there.
His are probably rock bands.
Yeah?
Speaking of rock bands, we were watching Summer House last night.
This pissed me off.
And Jesse said something about...
Was it Jesse?
I think so.
No, it was...
What's his face?
West.
West said something about one of the...
You remember it better.
They were talking about some girls.
And West says...
The guy says...
Oh, she liked rock music.
And West goes red flag.
How in the hell is that a red flag?
Wait, what?
Red flag to what?
Well, I mean, he's a walking red flag, so I don't know...
I totally agree.
Rock music is out of fashion with the...
If it was like the Scrimmo, then I'd be like, okay.
But rock...
No, that's good.
It was just like a blanket tournament.
She wasn't even playing any music.
It was just like, yeah, she's really into rock music.
And he's like, ooh, red flag.
Yeah, it's fine.
So we were annoyed for the rest of the show.
But anyway, Dale's not going to participate in the top three.
I do want to.
I'm looking at...
I got to go.
I'm not good at this, so...
And I want to get the answer right.
Who are yours, Travis?
Kit Moore.
What?
Kit Moore.
Who?
Angels and Airwaves.
Would be one.
Can I listen to them three times?
No.
I know.
I'm messing.
Fans were so mad at Justin Bieber.
What'd he do?
It was a very...
Did he go on stage and watch YouTube?
He played old songs of his and sang a little bit.
And I actually thought it was creative.
He sang over his child voice.
So like he sang some of his old hits and sang with the child voice.
I thought it was a kind of an odd choice.
The show was very understated.
Supposedly though.
I don't know if it's true or not.
Bob Sieger and the Silver Wolf, man.
Sorry.
I want Lionel Richie back on...
I want Lionel Richie on my stage, too.
I'm going to add him in.
So he removed him?
I got four.
He'll be the surprise.
I'm taking out...
You can keep it.
It's your festival.
It's my festival.
He's a surprise.
He's the encore.
He's going to finish this off all night long.
How awesome would that be if the concert's ending and all of a sudden Lionel's like,
guess what?
We're still going.
Yeah.
Come on, Papal.
Oh, this is probably going to be ever clear.
Oh, yeah.
So listen, ever clear is in my top 100 of bands.
They're not in my top three, but they...
So if you're going to sit down and listen to a concert, you want a band that can play
the hits, right?
R.E.M.
Such a lot of longevity.
R.E.M. would be great.
Oh, yeah.
I was in Kansas for a cup race.
I remember this vividly.
I was sitting in my camper.
It was like 2014, and we're getting ready to go out to intros in an hour or so, and
they were playing on the front straightaway.
Everclear was on the front straightaway, and I was sitting there, and I'm already an
Everclear fan.
I remember when they came out, they were great.
That was my kind of music, and they played song after song after song after song, and
it was one of them things where you're like, I like a lot.
They have a lot of good songs, and then I already got about five or six songs that they
didn't release that were just B-sides that I like, that I jam with.
So if I were to go to Everclear show, I'd probably know and like and enjoy every single
song they played.
Which, I can't say that even about some of my favorite bands.
There's always going to be those three or four songs or that new song that I don't know
yet or whatever or the cover that they never, I never knew they did.
It's just always, there's always going to be a little lull in the show, but Everclear
would be great.
Bob Seeger just incredible.
I love, I wish I would have seen Bob Seeger at some point.
And Angels and Airwaves, we saw them live in Charlotte and Angels and Airwaves and what
Tom did with the sound for that band, how he basically kind of took Blink and really
made it sound like Blink was out in outer space.
It's amazing.
I mean, I just love that the bands sound.
Every song they play just really gets in me.
I'm seeing in the chat some people want a Spice Girls reunion.
They've done that recently, and I don't think Posh did the latest shows, but they have
done that.
Beastie Boys has been thrown out there.
Beastie Boys was something I thought about, but I was like, you know, missing a member.
The Black Crows, Nickelback.
Nickelback, yeah.
So it's some people.
Next question, it's funny that we were talking about pets earlier in the show.
Someone asked, how do I convince my wife to let us get a cat?
Tell her that there's mice in the basement.
Oh my gosh.
She's not going to fall for that.
Say, man, some mice in the attic.
I've seen some pellets up there.
So this is like a rodent killer?
Yeah.
Don't.
If you got a cat around, you won't see the mice anymore.
I guess that's a good tactic.
Have you had to use that before?
No.
But I mean, that's what they do.
That's pretty easy.
Except for then you're just going to have dead mice laying everywhere.
No, they eat them.
No, they eat them or take them outside and throw them away.
They're really, they don't just they don't just leave it laying anywhere.
There's they're clever and smart animals.
Travis is a cat hater.
He is.
I am a cat hater.
He's a non-believer.
He's a non-believer.
Yeah.
You don't like love either to you, Travis.
Yes, I do.
I'm just kidding.
It's not cats.
Next question, if you could give your daughters one trait from the other
person they have, so like a trait that Dale has or Dale and a trait that Amy
has to pass down to your daughters, what would it be?
I don't know automatically what one I hope to have.
So Amy is Amy's super, super, super good at gift giving and knowing
Amy's going to surprise all of y'all at some point with kindness
or some, you know, she's going to think about some moment in your life or your
birthday or something that, you know, you're just not going to expect her to
recognize or do anything special for.
And she just does that all the time.
I see her when somebody does when somebody does something, she's always got to
thank you or and it's a it's a gift giving or a note or something like that.
And so and I tie that also into her ability to like know the perfect gift
for whether it's for Christmas, for her birthday or whatever.
She just pay attention to people's interests.
She pays attention to make them excited.
And like that means that leaves a mark on me.
She pays attention, but she also will not give you a mundane, typical.
Gift she has, you know, she is going to give you the thing that you're going to
you're going to go, wow, damn, that took that took some thought.
Like, where did you even find this?
You know, and she's great at that.
I love that.
The hunt for the thing is always part of the fun for me, too.
I mean, I love giving gifts because it's exciting for them as well.
But it's fun for the search, the hunt of the thing is fun.
So it's the thoughtfulness, I think, that I hope our girls get at least one of them.
Surely one of them will get it.
Yeah, hopefully we got a 50 50 shot here.
I hope both of our girls have Dale's tenacity level.
He's like, not going to take tenacity.
He's not really like going to take no for an answer.
He usually gets what he wants and he figures out how to like what avenue
works best to make that work, make that happen.
I don't think that's a flaw.
Like it's not a, it's got any examples.
I mean, look around you, I like to tell him like he's got a horseshoe
shoved up his ass, but I feel like it's really, he just knows how to get what he
wants and and being able to like stay at it or stay on top of things and having
the tenacity to ask for things that most people probably would have left out.
Yeah, quit on, yeah, that's true.
I have, there's things that happen when I like, I'll have an idea and and
there'll be three or four people that'll say, man, we don't need to do that.
And I'm like, no, we're doing it.
We're doing it.
Yeah.
So to that point too, like when he tells me he wants to do something, even if he
thinks he's just like having the conversation, like, oh, brain, like a
brainstorming conversation, I'm like, oh, God, that's about to happen because I
know he will make it happen.
Yeah, you can see me getting nervous.
He's like, nothing's happening.
I'm like, but it's gonna at some point.
Yeah.
That's a good question.
Um, next question is, is it weird to have your mother-in-law do your laundry?
Like if they're visiting?
I would say yes.
I would say yes, especially underwear.
I mean, I think it's weird to have a housekeeper or somebody doing it because
that would be weird.
I agree with you.
Yeah.
I would say yes.
Do you want to know something?
What I, I, I gotta get this out of here.
So as he shits in his seat, remember we're live.
So listen, this is funny.
Um, I went to a speaking engagement this morning in Atlanta.
I got up in the morning at six o'clock and flew to Atlanta, went out on the stage,
buttoned down sports coat, did an hour on stage, fly open with an interview.
And then I came back to the plane, got on the plane to leave.
And I took my, so I put my shirt on in the plane, right?
As we're descending down the, you know, 10,000, 5,000 feet.
I'm back here, put my shirt on, took it in, put my jacket on.
When I got this shirt this morning, it had the tag in it.
And I pulled the tag out of the back and, you know, it's on a hanger and
I put the coat around it and I take it and put it on the plane.
Well, I got up, you know, got up and I put, put all that on and I go, go out of,
get out of the plane, go do the thing, do the, do the speaking engagement.
And I came back and got in the plane and I took, I started to take my jacket off
and I put it, put it off to the side, start, took my shirt off and went to
hang the shirt up, grab the jacket to hang it up.
And on the floor is that little cardboard strip that goes in the collar.
And I do not know whether that was in the shirt the entire time or whether it
fell off as I was putting the shirt on initially.
Well, when you felt it, maybe not.
Nope.
Well, I think I did all of this with that cardboard, cardboard thing in my collar.
Man, his collar is really.
It's really doing its job.
I, I'm surprised if someone, I'm surprised that if someone did see it,
they didn't go, hey, you got your things still in there.
Yeah.
Hey, let me help you out.
Yeah.
Surely you didn't.
I went and spoke to like, you know, I don't know, 2,500 people, maybe with a
cardboard collar still in my shirt.
That's better than your fly.
Yeah, I was going to, that's, oh man, that would be the end of my speaking career.
I would never do it again.
And he really brought it.
The fly was open.
I would never.
You'd never go back?
No, I wouldn't.
I won't throw out pitches like I still get every, every, every now and then I get
a rare request to throw a pitch and I've done it before.
And I mean, you know, I can throw a baseball.
I can throw it across.
You know, if you stand over there with a glove, I can throw it to you.
You won't really have to move.
You know, I can get it across the plate and I've done it, but I've seen how they
treat people that get it wrong.
No, sir.
Roast.
Roast you alive.
Why do I need to go put myself and potentially put myself in that situation?
And throwing from the mound is different.
Like people aren't used to throwing from the mound too.
So I think that messes them up.
Look, I'm just trying to tell you the whole thing is scary.
Yeah, it's hard.
There's no good comes of it.
There's no good that comes of it.
Only bad.
It's one of those things where they're like, come throw out the pitch.
They don't, nobody goes home and goes, damn, did you see him throw that pitch today?
That was great.
And nobody's spreading that around and telling everybody how bad ass you were
about throwing your first, but they just tell you if you're wrong.
Yeah, you only see the clips if it was really bad.
I couldn't, who threw out the pitch last night.
There ain't nobody talking about that.
But if he, you know, threw it in the dugout, it'd be all over there.
Yeah, it's going to be on ESPN.
Yeah.
Speaking of flies and done, how do you handle if someone has their fly undone
or like lettuce in their tooth?
Like, are you someone to tell them?
Are you just like they're out on their own?
The lettuce, I'd tell them no matter who it is.
If it's a fly, it depends, like if you have something in your mouth or
your teeth, lettuce in your teeth, something in your teeth or a booger.
I just, I just tell you.
But if it's your fly, depending on how well I know you, I might have somebody
else say it, you know what I mean?
Oh, no, I do say it like immediately.
Like, dude, you got someone on your base or got a bat in a cave.
I constantly check to see if my fly is up.
Same.
Yeah.
It's like a thing.
Yeah.
No, I don't worry about it.
No, I'm just, I'm trying to do it in such a way where you can't tell I'm doing it.
Are you doing it right now?
No.
Is your pinky going?
Yep.
You know, you grab your belt.
Yeah.
It's around.
Is that why you're always grabbing your belt?
Yeah, maybe, you know, you grab your belt.
Make sure everything's buckled and fastened and tight.
Just kind of check and make sure everything's where it's centered and
everything makes your belt centered.
Leave the bathroom.
You always double check.
Yeah, I mean, for sure.
God, nothing worse than walking around your fly down.
So embarrassing.
And then like you, like, if you see someone else, it's like,
especially if you don't know him really well, it's like, I don't want to tell
him that there's zippers down because what, like, what am I looking at?
Have you ever had that pair of pants?
But the thing is, it's like the shiny zipper just comes out at you.
Like, whether you're looking or not.
Have you ever had that pair of pants for pair of shorts that where it comes
down sometimes by itself?
Like it's, they're so old and worn out that you've had them forever and
the fly will just drop.
Yes, it's the worst.
No, no, that's not a problem for me.
Once I once, if a paired double crosses me like that, this is in the trash.
I've had a couple pairs that, yeah, like I've owned them for like 12 years,
some old shorts, you know, board shorts.
And the zipper gets wore out and it'll just walk around and you're like,
all right, your days are done.
Yep.
That's a good idea.
Yes, I think that's a good place to end asking me.
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About this episode
Dale Jr. and Amy trade family chaos stories, starting with Ayla’s crude “kick you in the nuts” line delivered to TJ over FaceTime—then they debate whether kids should learn to stand up for themselves (and how much is too much when it’s said to adults). The conversation shifts to Amy’s brainspotting therapy, including a resurfaced seventh-grade embarrassment memory, and how therapy can change emotional triggers. Between that, they review Texas Roadhouse’s new High Rock vodka cocktails, swap weird animal-video reactions, and play “most likely” trivia before an Ask Amy segment on space returns, Coachella, and more.
Original notes
Dale and Amy are back for another episode of Bless Your ’Hardt, and things get chaotic fast. It starts with their oldest daughter dropping a very “Dale-coded” phrase on a grown man over FaceTime, and Dale’s explanation only makes it funnier. Amy opens up about brain spotting therapy and a buried childhood memory involving a seventh-grade teacher, a Hakeem Olajuwon jersey, and a moment of public embarrassment that stuck with her longer than she realized. Dale answers with one of his own from his teen years, getting called out by Tony Eury Sr. for not offering pizza to a crew, and how it shaped him.
They also get real about couples therapy and the one piece of advice that completely changed how they handle arguments. Of course, it would not be an episode without the chaos: Dale giving a 2,500-person speech with a cardboard collar still in his shirt, the girls walking around with one earring each, and Travis going down a Google rabbit hole after Dale makes up a wild alligator “fact.” Plus, Ask Amy returns with questions about festivals, cats, and social etiquette disasters. And do not miss this week’s Drink of the Week presented by High Rock Vodka.
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