Dale Jr. Has One Very Specific Request for His Funeral

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If we're going to hang out, open a bunch of jars,

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Are you suffering from high-craft?

I'm working, working that mouth.

Hey, guys, Dale and I are at the Beach House again this week

for another episode of Bless Your Heart.

We have a lot of fun stuff to talk about.

Let's get started.

All right.

First thing we want to do, obviously, is get our drink of the week.

The Sudachi Lime Red Bull is here again with High Rock.

It's just it's convenient because we got our little Red Bull refrigerator

over there full of Sudachi Lime.

And it is also our favorite.

And we've been making this all summer.

Super light and refreshing.

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We have large bottles now.

So we have 1.75 liters and the many airplane bottles.

So all the sizes and they are now in stores everywhere.

So we saw some at the store down the street.

So that's pretty cool.

They'll probably pop in there next week and sign some bottles.

Anyhow, it's been there's another thing going on.

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Plus the 10% off.

So I mean, you're getting getting your jerky cheaper that way.

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So it's hot and ready.

Go get it.

Yeah.

We make the inventory and I mean, it's freshly made and we need to, we want

to get it out the door.

Yeah.

So it's fresh as it could be.

So I got an order at home waiting on me.

I'm going home today, but it's probably what you're going to eat for the next few

days since I'm not going to be there.

I was looking at beef jerky and Red Bull.

It's so quick.

Well, I mean, it's a, it's the perfect man meal.

I don't have a hard time.

It's like chicken dinner, but for men.

I have a hard time believing this.

What?

That it's 60 calories per serving.

Why?

I don't know.

I mean, that just seems too good to be true.

Well, it's because it tastes so good.

Yes, but it's dehydrated and it's lean meat.

So.

So like one bag, I eat one bag and I'm pretty full.

Yeah.

And that's a hundred and eighteen calories.

Hundred and eighteen.

I'm sorry.

I'm trying to do my math.

It's a hundred and eight.

Well, like seriously, a hundred and eighty calories.

Yeah.

I mean, it's really not a meal, but it's, it gets on me for sure.

I don't know.

You're eating a little small filet.

It seems like a meal to me and it makes you floss afterwards.

So it's like helping you out with that, too.

And now we're also a plus.

We're flossing more.

Yeah.

Should we talk about Buford?

Who?

Buford.

Oh, who?

Buford?

What?

Like he was a guy.

Oh, oh, it does kind of sound like it could have been a buddy on the street.

Who's Buford?

Hey, Buford.

Buford.

Buford got drunk last night.

Buford got drunk a.m. last night.

We had so much fun in Buford.

We did.

Dale and I decided to go down the road just a couple of hours from where we are

and visit this tiny little town.

I found a dive bar called the Filling Station or Fillin Station on my Instagram.

And I said it today.

I'm like, this looks exactly like the type of place you'd want to go hang out

and kind of give me like old Key West vibes.

We haven't found like too many dive bars like that around here.

There's a couple in town in Charleston.

But so we decided just like make a couple of day trip and go see what this town's

all about and the Fillin Station did not disappoint.

That's where we started.

We literally got into town, checked in our hotel and went straight to the

Fillin Station and I had a couple of hours and it was great.

Yeah.

But you know, you've got a keeper guys when your, when your wife is hunting

dive bars to take you to and she's paying the bill with a Bass Pro Club card.

That's when you know you got you a keeper.

What I think is funny here, he thinks that's so cool.

Every time I get that credit card out, I'm like, but it's your credit card.

You know, like, I think it's really cool too that you gave me this credit card.

Yeah, it has Bass Pro on it.

But yeah, a girl with a Bass Pro Club card, she might as well be driving

a monster truck around.

Well, I'll give you my knowledge.

I'll drive it for you if you want me to do that with a gun rack in the back.

Dream flags, dive bars, Bass Pro.

You're easy to please.

Yeah.

So the Fillin Station was perfect.

We hang out there most of the first day.

It you walk up to it and you don't know it.

It's a bar.

It's just like a flat front building with a really obscure front door.

There's no window or anything in it.

You push it open and it's just this cool little dive bar with like money,

all over the ceiling is one of those places.

It's a beautiful drive.

You know, the old Spanish malls hanging from the trees.

It's just a it's a really nice kind of experience to go there.

Buford's a small kind.

It's it's kind of a hidden gym, if you will.

If you know Charleston, Charleston's exploded.

It's in it.

You know, Charleston has a ton ton going on.

Buford's kind of like that hadn't happened to Buford yet, you know,

so it's kind of still got this small town, very tight knit community feel to it.

And we went to stay at Anchorage, Anchorage 1770.

This is very old house, 256 year old house.

It's a bed and breakfast and you can stay in the room.

And it was it was the first time you'd ever done that together.

Stayed at a bed and breakfast, isn't it?

Yeah, it was great.

Yeah, it was pretty incredible just sitting in that house in our hotel room.

Basically, you know, you you know, when you walk in there,

it's it's not a built designed hotel.

It's a house. It's a house that's survived decades and, you know, decades of all.

Yeah, it's been there for a long time.

Think about everything that happened in the last 256 years that it survived.

And when you're sitting in your hotel room, you're thinking, man,

I wonder what all has happened here, what what people have walked through here.

And it was fantastic.

The staff there was fantastic, super nice.

We had breakfast one morning.

It was delicious.

Everything about the experience at Anchorage.

Yeah, it was perfect.

It was great.

If we went back, I would stay there again.

And it's walking distance, literally two blocks from the downtown area.

Downtown is like this one little strip, a couple of restaurants,

a lot of places to shop and just fun little stores to go into.

Yeah, there's a lot of alleyways with little pockets of stores here and there.

So you can walk and just kind of explore without a plan.

It's real easy to do that.

And there's a couple of hidden little bars down underneath buildings and things

like that, which you can find that you wouldn't even know were there.

That was one of our favorites.

It was called Hending Ways.

It was pretty cool. Yeah.

So it just a great time.

I would definitely encourage anybody that's around or thought about,

you know, kind of venture an owl a little bit from Charleston.

That's a great, that's a great space to go get away for a day or two

to experience something a little different.

The people there were so nice.

Everyone around you was in a good mood.

Everybody was talking to one another, not everybody's just walking around

looking at their phones.

Like people really are engaged with one another.

Everybody knows each other.

It's also a military town.

So there's a lot of just younger military guys here and there.

And they're so polite.

Yeah.

We fell, we fell into a couple of bars and had great conversations

with all these people.

And Dale left like feeling like he was the king of Buford.

Oh, shoot.

Oh.

He had a lot of fans in Buford.

That's for sure.

And it's your head.

There's a military base nearby.

And so there's a there's a lot of young, I kind of, I'd say they're kids.

But the young, young folks that are there and enlisted

and and going through that, you know, experience.

And so there's a there's a lot of that going on.

Met a lot of those in some of the bars we were drinking beer in.

But we had a great dinner at the bull, the old bull.

Yeah.

If you go to Buford, downtown old bull, that's a great place to eat.

The owner there was fantastic.

So yeah, it was great.

It was great.

It was one of those places where we had we had fun everywhere we went.

And every every atmosphere was like a little bit different, but equally as

as rich, like we had a full experience in each little space.

I got to know everybody that was in there.

Everyone's talking to everyone.

It was so great.

It was almost like, especially that last Luthor's we walked out.

I feel like if we had turned around and said goodbye, the whole bar would have

been in unison been like, goodbye, you know what I mean?

It was just like, it was such a cool place.

And everyone, everyone was so friendly.

So absolutely would go back, take the girls.

We also got a laundry list of recommendations of other things to do

around there that are kid friendly and secret places to walk through the

marsh at low tide.

Like everybody just wanted you to have their experience.

You know what I mean?

I told Amy, it seems very much like a slow way of living down there.

Like they're just very chill.

I told Amy after two days that I couldn't come back with her without the kids

because she's too wild.

So that's usually why my line.

Like I can't hang out with Jill Jr anymore.

I'm over.

I can't do this anymore.

You are too rowdy for me.

Yeah.

And two nights in view for the second night, he started a drink at Margaritas

and I think he was a little wounded yesterday.

Yeah.

Now we have fun.

Driving home.

He was definitely feeling it yesterday.

Well, in the bull, they make all kinds of, I don't usually, I just usually stick to

be here.

It keeps it simple.

I don't want to get, you know, I don't get that line.

But they had a lot of very fun craft cocktails.

They had a ton of these great, you know, they had, it was not a old fashioned,

it was a new fashion, something like that.

And man, it was really good, but I don't drink bourbon much.

It slapped us around a little bit.

It did, but pretty fun, pretty good time.

And I was kind of wondering, we were a couple of things.

So we were, I'm a real follower.

And so when we're walking down the, wait, is Amy not?

I'm a real follower.

Okay.

Well, in this particular instance, I felt like I was more of the rule follower.

We're, this is around J.

You're a conversation, a safety guy, J walking, like you're worried about safety.

Yeah.

You're not a real fun safety.

Okay, fine.

I'm safety.

I feel like that's where we follow Amy's wild and crazy and dangerous.

And I'm, I'm like, all right, let's, let's do the safer here.

Um, so we're in, we're at this on this little strip downtown and there's tons

of little stores across the street.

And you're like, Hey, you want to check that one out?

Yeah, let's go.

And I'm like, you know, there's also some street construction and we were

bouncing around awesome.

Yeah.

That's a little important.

That was at the end of the road.

Not important.

And it's why we started zigzagging.

Well, we're standing there and I'm like, all right, do I wall, I'm on only a

few feet from the crosswalk.

Do I go to the crosswalk and cross?

That's what I would do.

And he's like, I'm like, all right, we're just doing this.

Let's, let's remember how quaint and slow this town is.

There's not a lot of traffic.

I know, but everybody in that town was watching us like,

yes, they were heavily watched.

That's for sure.

There they go in that store and we'd walk in and the guy, the guy at the counter

would go, whole town knows you're here, buddy.

Yeah.

And like, oh, cool.

And so I'm like, I feel like, you know, they're going to be like, look at them.

Jay walkers.

Yeah.

And I was, I didn't care about that whatsoever.

I mean, they weren't watching us Jay Walker and going, oh, they don't,

they don't use the crosswalk.

When do you, when do you Jay walk?

When do you not Jay walk?

I feel like you Jay walk whenever it's convenient.

Do you Jay walk in New York City?

Sure.

I mean, I wouldn't do it as much there because of the traffic and are so

many people walking, like it's probably just as easy just to get in the flow of traffic.

No way in hell.

I'm going Jay walk in a big city.

I am going to the corner.

I'm taking, I'm going.

There's some legality there that like you can get ticketed.

That right here.

Can you get a ticket?

Yeah.

What about Nashville?

What about Broadway, Nashville?

Broadway, Nashville.

I mean, it's probably not.

Yeah.

I'm probably not Jay walking there.

We Jay walk here in Holland.

The roads aren't even painted.

They're only stripes on them.

I'm talking about downtown where the shops are.

I know where we park.

Yeah.

The roads are there.

Right.

They're old.

I mean, that's, that's, I think that's the difference is like,

as the town gets smaller.

Yeah.

That's easier to do.

The rules are lesser people.

Then Buford's the perfect place to Jay walk.

I totally Jay walked, but I was by the way, some of the intersections are at an angle.

So you're not just, you're not just going to the corner to walk.

I didn't like, like you're walking to this corner to go diagonally this way.

It just didn't make any sense.

I'm like, I'm just going to straight line.

I Jay walked with her in Buford.

I'm just, it just made me think, man, that's a great conversation to have when I

probably, if Amy would, I probably would have went to the crosswalk without me.

No, oh, if Amy would have went as well, I probably would have went into the crosswalk.

That's what I was preferring.

Well, at one point you said something about it.

I did.

I said, we're going to the crosswalk.

She's like, no, full of stuff, like luggage and everything.

We were just getting there in the crosswalk.

Like I just said, it was like diagonally in the wrong direction.

I'm like, I'm not just going right over here in the hotel.

Buford's, you know, beach, little beach towns and stuff like that.

I will, I will Jaywalk and not feel bad about it.

But if I'm in New York City or a big city like that, I am not Jaywalking.

I have a question for you.

Yeah.

Like, and, and Nashville, like when you're waiting for the walk sign, but

you see no cars, will you wait for the sign to change or will you just go?

We were in a town, we were in that, um, that town in Pocono, Pocono, right outside

of, oh, what was it?

It was the man's name.

Yeah.

The town that Jim Thorpe, Thorpe and we were doing that.

We had the kids.

There was no cars there.

Nobody's driving around, but the sign's like, all right.

You got, you know, if you get your little walking man's yellow, don't walk.

And we're like, man, we walk, we're going.

It was hotter and damn it outside.

And we had the kids complaining about the other part of that too.

No, let's just keep moving.

But the other part of that too, is you got other people on the corner

street and it's kind of like, you don't even say it, but you have this, all, all

have this agreement, like, all right, we're doing this together.

Yeah, we're going.

I don't know who you are, but you know what I want to do.

And there is always one guy too that's not, doesn't give a s***.

He's going either way.

I know.

As soon as somebody sort of makes the, makes the decision, they're all in.

They're walking.

That's everybody goes.

Yeah.

You're the guy that's leading.

Especially from the fastest one.

They're not going to get me.

They're going to get the guy in the back.

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So, um, the other thing me and Amy out in the conversation about was we were in a

bar, this is about our drunk conversations playing, um, touch tunes, which I love.

I love to go to a touch tunes bar or any bar that has some, we talked about it on here.

So, um, setting the tone in himself.

Yeah.

Um, so I play Eminence front, which is one of my favorite songs all time.

It's top.

It's number one.

If not top three, Eminence front by the hoop.

And the next time he walks into the studio, you need to have that queued up.

It will put him in the best mood.

Even if his shoes and his hat don't match.

And I've requested to Amy that I want this played at my funeral.

He wants his cassette to roll in to Eminence front.

Not necessarily.

That's what I have in the vision.

Like that's not what I would work.

That's what you, as you're coming out, I'm, what other time would it be?

As you, as you lower him into the ground, you figure out when it's appropriate.

I'm dead.

Travis just nailed it.

I'm dead.

You've got when to play it into the dirt with Eminence playing.

What a, what a damn moment that would be.

I want that song played in my funeral, whether, you know, I don't know if

y'all have a little gathering later in the day, everybody kind of gets

together and just kind of hangs out and has some, has some food or something.

I mean, if we're playing in its front, we're going to have a party.

They can be kind of, yeah, have a party.

We can't just be sad and play stuff like that.

Exactly.

Thank you.

Yeah.

And Amy's like, I'm not doing it.

I only said that just to get him pissed off.

And I'm like, well, it did.

It got it right.

And then run it right to the notes.

He's like, I'm taking this to the streets.

We're going to talk about this on the show.

I'm going to get everybody on my team.

I, uh, I just get it.

He talks about this a lot.

I want this at my funeral.

I want to step into your own.

Like, dude, you're going to have to like, I know I have a

note list started with all your requests at your funeral, just in case that happens

to melee, but I'm like, hoping it happens in like 40 years.

You know what I mean?

Me too.

Yeah.

So, um,

not much talking about all the funeral.

There's not much of a chance that the song changes.

No, it's not going to change.

I would be shocked if it changed, I would be a little concerned.

Something's wrong with you because you mentioned that this is something you

really want.

You're adamant about it.

I wonder if other people have interesting requests for funerals for funerals.

You know, anything that would be outside of the typical normal.

The only thing that I've ever heard that like is always interesting to me is

like, I don't want it to feel sad.

I want everyone to celebrate.

I don't understand.

It's so hard to do that when you're sad.

It just really is.

Even if you like have a cocktail hour or whatever with as if people are

gathering and doing just your memorial service, not the actual funeral service

and burial, but it's just hard to not want to cry and be sad.

Especially if you're like, unless you're 90 and you had a long damn good life.

If you're the host, you kind of get to do what to choose.

How do you want to be?

Right?

You're the, if you're direct family, like brother, sister, wife, husband,

whatever, um, you get to choose your emotion.

You've earned this sort of, you're in that position right there and whatever.

You can be whoever you want.

Nobody's going to judge you.

But when you come there as a visitor to come to a service or not, you really

never know how to act.

You like always kind of super reserved, right?

Walk in the room, feel it out and read the room a little bit and see what

the mode is and, uh, the mood, I guess.

And yeah, never have I went to anything like that where it was festive

or everybody's like, let's have a good time.

I mean, you know, but, and so I hear that too.

And from, I'll hear that from people like, man, I want it to be fun.

I want, I don't want people to be sad.

I'm like, dang, I don't know how you, I don't know how you accomplish that.

Yeah.

I feel like people have to be sad, but, you know, we'll, we'll play the song.

Ralph, we're going to do it.

All right.

Just finding that moment is going to be what's the tricky part.

Well, so this is what I was thinking.

I went to, um, I went to a funeral recently and it was in this, the funeral

home was an old house in town, in this downtown area.

The, um, the individual whose funeral it was was, was in a, in a casket in this

room and you were, you could visit the cat, you know, you go through the line,

just the traditional thing where you see a, see a family and all that.

And then the rest of the house, everybody was just hanging out talking, you know,

and people come up and do, man, what's up, man?

And I kind of knew a lot of those people come because it was from the racing industry.

And so I was like thinking, and if that was some, happening at my

funeral, that the song or the songs or my, one of my favorite playlists that I've

made could be kind of just subtly playing in the background, not really loud or

anything, but just kind of that, you know, people have those storyboards of photos.

And they're all over the place.

Yeah.

And they're great.

They're a video reel.

Oh man, you look up and you're like, man, look at all these cool photos.

And they really encompass this person's life.

And it's all of the different years and all the different stages of their life.

And I'm like, you know, if I had my, maybe it's the yacht rocks, the, the, the,

uh, house above rock playlist I made or something like that going on, just barely,

you know, barely.

I've got an idea for years.

Dale, at the funeral, we'll have a touch tunes machine and people can pick

some music to play.

That's a good idea.

I'd be awesome.

And the money goes towards the alcohol.

Oh my gosh, the pain.

Yeah.

I don't know what that drives.

I feel like this used to be all inclusive kind of thing.

Yeah.

We do that sponsored by high rock rock.

That's hilarious.

But it would, it would be cool.

I think to have like some food.

I don't know.

Buffalo sauce.

Everybody's going to have belly issues at your funeral.

Speaking of food, Dale, uh, we have a gift waiting for you when you come back

to the studio.

Really?

You have a what?

Yeah.

Do you say I have a gift for you?

What is it?

Oh hell yeah.

We saw those.

We saw those online and Dale's, I was like, this can't be real.

I'm like, it can't be real.

You've not opened them.

Have you not?

No, wait, because I don't want to open them because if they're open for like

13 minutes, they'll have to pitch them when he gets back.

I want to circle back to that, by the way.

The, the, the food thing.

I have been in his presence many times where he has opened beer that is past

its date just to check and see if it's good.

So bear with me.

Why is it different?

Because you can't just throw a beer away.

I know, but like we aren't going to throw the Doritos away either, but he

has a very different opinion about the food versus beer.

He's going to sit and see if that, and he'll try every one of them.

And if it's bad, they'll just throw them out.

But he's going to, he's not going to throw the whole case away.

He's like, one of these might still be fine.

Yeah.

I'm tempted to tell you to open that bag and try one.

Would you, I will, I think we need to save it for when you guys are here.

Well, I got another buddy bringing some more.

So you can have that bag is what he's saying.

Okay.

Give it a try.

To be fair, everyone that's listening and not watching, these are ketchup Doritos.

Can we shout out to Bozy for dropping these off?

Yeah, he did a good job there.

Hey, look, you're wearing my t-shirt.

Say your t-shirt.

What did you get one?

I've had this for like seven years.

I didn't know we both had it.

Y'all are twins.

You have my t-shirt.

Don't get it.

All right, here we go.

Well, for the bag, it's, it's ketchup.

Not a lot of bad.

I bet it's heavy.

These are even our kids' favorite chips, these ketchup.

We do the ways, but they're so good.

They're not terrible.

What do you mean?

Now, I was hoping you would say it was fantastic, or is it just ketchup?

It's just ketchup.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

It's, it's, I could only have a couple.

It's like, at first it's fine.

There's more ketchup at the end.

Yeah.

But I think if I had like a beer, yeah, yeah, something that to like,

balance it out, wash it down.

The ones we've tried are the ketchup glaze.

And corn chip is different, maybe.

That changes the ketchup.

Yeah, you're getting some of the Dorito flavor.

Yeah.

The ketchup glaze.

The ketchup glaze are like, it's like eating a great basket of fries.

It's like eating french fries.

It's more like a french fries.

It's a potato chip.

Yeah.

And honestly, I don't eat french fries for any reason other than to eat the ketchup.

Just like what?

I like french fries only to dip it in the ketchup.

So if you have fries with no ketchup, you won't eat them.

I'll just eat a couple and that's it.

Like, I don't really care about it.

It's really all about the ketchup.

Any other condiments?

Mustard.

I love mustard.

Mustard with my mustard, please.

And I like mixing ketchup and mustard together.

That's what we used to do for corn dogs.

My dad would always mix it together and it was like orange sauce.

Tangy, tangy.

Super good.

I've seen that done before.

I can't, me and mustard don't hang out.

Oh, it's unfortunate.

Yeah.

You're a mayonnaise guy.

I'm okay with it.

I like mayonnaise now.

Oh, now it's grown on me.

It's grown on you.

I think it's because like moving to the South, it's like, it's used more often.

So you just start to like develop a taste for it or like growing up in Ohio.

It really wasn't like, wasn't really a necessary sandwich.

And it's not really that.

Maybe it would be a good reason not to eat mayonnaise if it was a funny sandwich.

I think it's good in the right application.

All right, speaking of the right application, I have a random thing that

I feel like all of us did as kids and our children are now doing this,

but they like to invite themselves everywhere.

If we go out to dinner with the neighbors, they have little girls.

The first thing Ayla does is invite herself over to come and swim.

And they've just gotten a new house too.

So they want to come see their new pool.

And so anytime we're down here, they do this at home too with other friends.

They're like, call someone says, well, let's just go over there.

I'm like, you can't just invite yourself over to someone's house.

That's not how it works.

You have to wait to be invited.

If we're around them and they reach, and if they ask us to come over,

then you can do that.

If someone reaches out for a play date, you know, we can do that.

Well, you can't just show up because she'll just, just go.

Cause kind of like you do with TJ, you just kind of pop in.

Yeah.

No, I don't think she can do that.

I do the, I'll be driving by.

So I drive by TJ's house to get to my house and I'll get like a mile away

and call him, Hey, man, you home?

Yeah, I'm here.

All right, I'm pulling in.

Here I am.

Hopefully you have pants on.

Yeah.

Hopefully you guys pants on when I show up.

You never know.

So like as kids, I don't know, we're going to, like we didn't have cell phones.

Most people didn't call each other that often unless you really needed something.

And so like you get on your bike and go down the street and knock on Johnny's door

and be like, Hey, can Johnny come out and play?

Like we did that all around the neighborhood.

There were kids everywhere.

And so like that was your method.

You get on your bike and just like go see who was home and who could come out.

Yeah.

Um, and so I was, our kids don't have that experience.

Well, they're trying to create it.

I guess, I guess like an innate thing to like, yeah, I'm a go see if they're there.

But there was a certain amount of manners that you had to have.

Like there was a process, right?

Like you didn't just walk into someone's home.

We ran up to, I had friends up the street and I ran up to their house.

Not knowing if they were home or not.

You didn't have a way.

I mean, we could have called, I guess, but I didn't.

We weren't really allowed to use a phone.

Yeah.

I just would run up there and if they, if they weren't home, I wouldn't make home.

Yeah.

If they were there, I would, you know, Hey, can I come in?

Or can they, can, can they play?

Or are they home?

I would always thought that's what you say is can so and so come out and play or

is so like, are they available to play?

Not like, can I come on in there?

That was an exciting moment when you got to the door and you're knocking.

You're like, it was adrenaline rush.

What's it going to be?

Who's going to answer?

Is it going to be dad?

If the dad answers, I was always like, you know, I didn't want them to get

dad at the door for some reason.

That was maybe intimidating.

I was more worried they were not home.

You're going to be sad.

I mean, as an adult though, like I will go over to Matt and Jackie's and if

they're home, I'll just walk in and if they're not home, I will enter the code

and then go into their house and then wait for them to get there, whatever.

You do that?

I mean, or I'll go use their, their pool, like, and so like, I can

see when they're coming down the road, if they're not there and I'll just wave

at them, I'll go into their house.

You just like, here I am.

You're extra.

Yeah.

I went over the other day and they weren't, they were still running some errands.

So I just made myself at home.

So that's a perfect example of make sure you have your pants on.

You know what I mean?

Cause if Travis is coming over on an ounce, no matter what, you better make

sure you've got all your clothes on.

There was a good process.

Usually I will, like I know, like when their kids are awake or not.

So like if it's like nap time, it's like, all right, knock ahead of time or whatever.

But like, if it's like their kids are up, like, we're good to walk in.

So you've even got the nap schedule down.

Yeah.

If it's like, if it's like in between like one and three 30, like, all right,

we're going to knock or whatever.

Yeah.

Jimmy Clare, though, you, you grew up with Matt.

So y'all have been friends for decades.

I've known him since I was like six years old.

And so y'all are like brothers.

Yeah.

Speaking of neighbors, though, did your parents ever send you next door to ask

for like an egg or a cup of sugar or a cup of milk?

It was always eggs or yeah, eggs, milk or sugar.

But the most funny was like, usually an egg.

That's so weird.

Yeah.

I always hated that.

Cause it's like felt so awkward.

Well, there's two things that could go wrong here.

You could break the egg and then have to go back or you would come back empty

handed and then they'd send you to the next house.

Like, don't come back until you find an egg.

That was a lot of intimidating work to talk to other people for their goods.

You should test that on Isla.

Oh my gosh.

Like, hey, go.

Yeah, I need, I need an egg.

Next door and ask for an egg.

That's a good idea.

She would be all about it.

I probably wouldn't get her back.

She'd be like, Oh yeah, she, she had the cold.

Like she had all these chachis in her house.

I, I went right in sat down.

She gave me cookies and it was great.

She'd be like, she wouldn't come back.

I don't know.

There was a kid across the street growing up that would just walk in and she was

little and this, and I was little at this point too, but this little girl would

just walk over and walk through the garage and come into the house.

And I remember my mom being really frustrated with that because sometimes

she'd have, or she just did, she just did this.

She would go from her bedroom to the laundry room or something to get

whatever it was she was going to put on and she wouldn't have all of her clothes

on.

And so like, if the kids would just come over, she would scream and go,

I know, like we always knew who was coming through the doors.

And at one point too, I remember the little girl not having, she was down

on her like diaper or something and the boy and her came into the house.

And my mom's like, where's your clothes?

And she says, or he says, well, she's Nikki Becky today.

And that's where we get the Nikki Becky day from the neighbor kids

across the street that used to like disbarged in the house, dressed or not.

But I don't know.

Dale, did you have memories?

Did you ever have to call the house phone to ask to talk to a girl

when you were younger?

Ooh, did you do that?

Call a household.

Like I would like you call like if you were dating someone.

Mr. So-and-so is Heather there to talk to?

You didn't do that?

No, I don't know.

You had to, right?

I just called the phone and the girl answered.

Oh, so she had her own phone number?

I mean, she just a room phone.

Like, I don't know.

I mean, I, I think at night, like enough, like in the evenings,

you know, she knew I was going to bring to get the phone.

Yeah, she knew I was calling.

So she knew she knew who was calling.

I don't know.

I had to do that.

You had it.

We had to do that.

Y'all didn't.

We had a, we have phone in the kitchen and I didn't get a phone in my room

with my own number until I was like,

but you couldn't answer your own phone.

15 or 16 years old.

Mom answered it every time you weren't allowed to answer.

Whoever was standing closest to it, right?

Answered it.

But like when I was 10, 11, 12, 13, sometimes boys would call the house.

Sometimes it was just friends.

Like we were all going to get together out of the movies, like a group of us.

It wasn't always like a romantic call, but I wasn't the one answering the phone.

You know, there was a protocol you and when you answered it, they always said

Ryman residents, like they didn't just say hello and wait.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

I don't really remember.

Oh, I don't really remember how it was.

And whether, you know, I think I would be scared.

I bet no one called your house.

That's what I mean.

I don't think anybody, everyone was calling Dale seniors house called us as much.

We were always calling out, but, um, I don't know that there

was a rule for us not to answer it, that had to be answered by treasurer.

It had to be answered by dad.

But, um, I mean, I think in the evenings, as we got to teenage years, we were

answering the phone a little bit, but early on, you didn't just pick the phone up.

No, yeah, you just didn't know what to do with it.

Yeah.

Or you knew it wasn't for you.

Yeah.

But I mean, I, I mean, I would call, you know, I don't know.

Yeah.

Did you ever call someone Travis and the dad say no, you can't talk to her?

See, I, I'm not really, cause I, by the time that I was like calling girls,

like I had a cell phone.

Really?

You're that much younger than us.

Damn.

How old are you, Travis?

I'm 38.

Yeah.

He's that much younger than us.

I didn't get it.

But you had to wait till, you had to wait till like after nine PM or whatever.

Cause the, you know, the night, the minutes back then for your phone.

So it was like night times and weekends yet.

So you'd wait till like nine PM to call or text.

Yeah.

Which is kind of late.

I mean, we were up late anyway, but not every night because you have school.

And then our houses, like my room was like above my parents.

So it's like, you're like whispering when you're talking because you don't want

them to know.

Yeah.

I sure.

Yeah.

I shared a wall with my parents.

So I had to be quiet too.

I used to sneak out of my house all the time.

We could sneak out of my, I could sneak out of the window.

The guy that owned the house before my dad had daughters also and he put

rose bushes in front of all the windows because they're like ground floor right

out the front of the house.

Damn, I'm smart.

And the words, it didn't really keep me in, but we also could just walk out

the front door, but I shared a wall with my parents.

And I remember being, having to like, even playing music quiet because I wanted

to go to sleep listening to my CDs too.

Had to, had to be super fired because it would wake them up.

Yeah.

I mean, I wasn't staying up late on the phone.

Like we, if we were talking to, if I was calling a girl on the phone, it was

like, there was a purpose for bedtime.

Like, yeah, I wouldn't, I wouldn't like you didn't just sit and

hang and gab.

Yes.

You didn't do that.

Oh yeah.

I used to damn, I remember sitting in a, I don't have like a great, like, I don't

have a visual memory of this, but I remember being in the house and playing

Millie Vanilly and calling up this girl and sitting on the phone for like an hour.

Yeah.

You're so pretty.

You're so cute.

I can't make you feel again.

Yeah.

The conversations were fucking lame.

Yeah.

But we were at the same, we're just, we went to the same schools.

So like, I was going to see her the next day, but you'd sit on the phone for an hour.

It was almost like we were still in Iowa, FaceTime each other now.

They'll, they FaceTime each other so that they're, can hear each other, but

they're not really having a whole lot of conversation.

They're just like spending the time together.

They're just playing games, doing their own thing.

Hell yeah.

I was, I remember being embarrassed, as I was saying, and hearing some of the

things like the conversations when you're that age are just so terrible.

Like nobody knows what's saying to one another.

Yeah.

They don't really have a purpose for conversation, you know?

Yeah.

Yep.

I had, um, I didn't have a girlfriend in school until the ninth grade.

It's pretty young.

Yeah.

But we, um, I had to go, I had this one girlfriend that, uh, we, we held hands in

the hall for two weeks.

Just in the hallway?

Like the two passes?

Just, I'm just like a general held hands in the hallway.

Like, did you, were you darting out of your class to get to hers?

So like, you know, I don't really remember, remember it being like,

an attentive boyfriend?

I wasn't, we were in some of the same classes together.

No, I wasn't attentive.

I'm trying to picture it.

I had no self awareness.

Did you pass notes?

You didn't write letters to her?

No.

No love notes?

I didn't have no self awareness like that.

I didn't know what, I didn't know, I didn't know to do all those things.

Everyone knows to do all those things.

Everyone around you is doing those things.

You could have like disguised it like a paper airplane and just like threw it at her.

No?

I didn't have anything to ask her or say to her.

Man, we just call lucky girl.

We're going to talk on the phone at night.

We hang out during the day holding hands in the hall and.

Went to a couple of dances around that period of time, and then it was over.

OK, yeah, I dated a girl in seventh grade.

I never after that.

After that, I never had another girlfriend the rest of high school.

High school.

He's like, that was, that was weird, not necessary.

No, yeah, I wasn't, I don't know.

I just, I mean, a lot, I wanted a girlfriend, but it was just like,

and there was a couple of the girls that I liked, but they were bad boy

friends or something like that.

Yeah.

There's a couple of the girls that I would have held hands with, dated

whatever you know what I mean?

The air-coated held hands, held hands with, I don't even want to know what that means.

But they were, you know, there was one girl that just would not

would go on and about her boyfriend.

And he was older, like a senior.

And I'm like, did you want to try to say shut up?

No, I just was like, I, yeah, I just, I don't know.

It just prepped you the wrong way.

You're like, this is enough.

I couldn't figure out why, like she wasn't getting the signal

that I didn't want to hear that.

I wanted to, I was interested in her.

You have to say it.

I know.

I wasn't good at saying it.

You don't have to say her name, but do you remember her name?

No.

Yeah.

I can then look it up in the, I got my yearbooks.

Oh, that would be fun.

Let's see what she looked like.

She looked like some high school kid in the nineties.

Yeah.

Or the late eighties.

I remember in seventh grade, we went to some like camp for the week

in school and like at lunch, if you guys, if everyone at their

table didn't finish their plate, like you didn't get some award.

And I looked at my girlfriend and I'm like, I'm breaking up with you.

If you don't finish your plate, we're getting this golden spud.

And she didn't.

I'm like, we're done.

Wow.

Travis, you're like, you're not a team player.

You cannot be a part of my life anymore.

I can't, I gotta be with a winner.

Did you eat it before?

We can't.

No, because you had to finish your plate.

You couldn't.

Well, how would they know?

You could have done our salad and eaten the chicken.

No, there's, there's people walking around like you can't just.

Have you all ever seen the show, The Wonder Years?

Yes, I used to love that show.

So that was kind of my experience.

So the girl that, when he, the girl that I held hand, the girl that I was

boyfriend and girlfriend with when I was a freshman would be the girl that I

would, that I would want, that she'd, she'd go on and we didn't date anymore

after two weeks.

Yeah.

And so for the rest, for the rest of the ninth grade, 10th grade,

11th grade, 12th grade.

You were like, she's the one that got away?

Yeah.

She was, she, I was in the, it was like The Wonder Years.

I would watch The Wonder Years and go, yep.

There it is.

And every year she would write like two pages in my yearbook about how

great a friend I was and how we were still friends and just on and

about how awesome I was.

And I was such a good friend to her and I'm like, man, this is terrible.

You let four years go by and you didn't even tell her that you liked her still.

That's on you buddy.

Yeah.

She gave you all the signals and you didn't bite the bait.

She was dating seniors.

I know, but I bet if you had to send something to her considering how much

she thought you were nice.

She was dating the guy on the football team and all that mess.

I was, I was like freaking five foot three.

Yeah.

And if you tell a girl you like her and she rebut like, and she declines it,

then you like feel like a loser.

So it's hard to just tell a girl when you're in high school that you like her.

I probably told her.

She probably had to, she probably, I probably told her that at times.

I'm sure I, did you do like you do with me?

Like, did you just grunt at her and like wait and tell her to go places?

I'm not, no, I was totally different person back then.

Oh man, you came in.

You were a caveman.

Not back then.

I was, I was a mint when I was, so I was really short.

So super short.

Like a month or two.

You're super tall now.

When did you grow?

I was, I was four, I was 410 as a freshman.

I got my driver's license five foot three on my first driver's license, five

three, which is my height.

Yeah.

And so, um, and I'm, I never, I mean, I'd had a, I'd, I'd had a little girlfriend

that was on the block over at Mamal's house when I was 12, but you know, you

didn't, that was just puppy love again.

So I go to school and this girl's, I didn't know at its time and she's

flirting with me.

I don't know who she is.

I'm like, I just, I'm just going to this school for the first time.

I was a freshman at Moore'swood, St.

junior high.

What's she doing?

Like dropping her pencil a lot in front of you.

She was just giggling around the room and, and, and I don't know.

Just doing little things to touch your arm.

Yeah.

And talking to her friends and laughing and pointing at me and stuff.

And she was, she was flirting with me.

And, um, so that's, that's how that, that's how it happened.

Okay.

So she was in control of the whole thing.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

And I was, I had no idea.

Yeah.

I'm going to do this, but I don't know what I'm doing.

I don't know what I'm doing.

Oh my gosh.

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There's one other thing I wanted to talk about and this is quick, but I think

everyone on the planet has seen the soccer player early with his raccoon.

Early.

Yeah.

I feel like taxidermy is like the new accessory now.

I know his was probably like a, a gag gift as well.

And he wasn't sure how to pack that in his Birkenbag.

But that made me so tickled.

You were ahead of the game, Amy, because you had the squirrel weeks ago.

Weeks to go.

And I didn't even, and we aren't even champions of anything.

Yeah.

Champions of Buford.

Of love, champions of love.

I just thought it was funny.

He had that thing on his private jet underneath his arm, like a foot.

Like he was carrying it like a football.

He was proud of it.

I think that means we got to bring the squirrel into the studio somewhere now.

I think the squirrel does need to be in the studio.

She's above the fish tank right now at home.

Just we think the fishes are thinking fishes are playing.

What is going on?

I told y'all we could put it above on top of the Red Bull cooler.

Over on our set.

I feel like she needs our own little seat.

Man.

Okay.

They all still not sure about that squirrel.

Just come on board, Dale.

I'm whatever y'all put it in the room.

I'm not, you know, it's not my decision.

Y'all just do it.

Do something.

All right.

Hey, he gave us free reign.

All right.

Everybody remembers the golf cart incident, right?

Where my, I bought this really cheap, used, rented golf cart that was

beat up and banged up and we cleaned it up, painted it and put new batteries in it.

And, um, and it's had, we, it's broke down on Amy once and broke down on me

twice with children on it, broke down on her twice with the kids on.

And she's like, they'll, they were a little too.

I had to carry both of them.

She's like, you're, you're, you're, um, trying to, trying to go through and go,

go to cheaper route is, is making things difficult.

Let's skimp in other areas, not this.

Yeah.

So we got with the club car folks and they had this club, this golf cart called

the crew and they were going to let us try one out.

And it's fantastic.

It has a bench, L sectional style seat on the back with a table.

Yeah.

It's bad to the bone and girls are obsessed with it.

Everybody, everybody that sees it obsessed with it.

It's really cool and it's comfortable.

Yeah.

It's really comfortable.

And of course it's going to, it's going to perform.

Um, and so we've had it.

I still have old blue, my old rental still have that one.

I'm probably not going to get rid of it, but, um, it's a nice little backup to have

when it also works every time he's driving it.

Yeah, it does.

It breaks down on Dale.

Nothing ever breaks down on me.

Um, so it's good to have two and TJ and his family come because they can take

off on that one and go get ice cream or whatever they want to do and get away

from us if they want to.

But, um, so that doesn't happen, Dale.

We want to escape this.

So Amy, I'm at the race.

I'm at the race and it is about the O'Reilly race is about to start at Atlanta

and I'm getting ready to go out to the pit box.

All right.

I'm going to take over.

So Carson, our niece is in town.

It's just she and I and the girls.

And, um, it's real busy in town for whatever reason, there's a lot of people.

Um, it was busier than the fourth of July.

I don't know what was going on in town, but it was super busy.

So we decided instead of staying in town and trying to find dinner or whatever,

we were going to go to Mount Pleasant.

Well, we get towards the Sullivan's bridge and it is not working.

So everything's backed up.

We turn around, I go towards Isle Palm, really gridlocked.

And my map is telling me from here to right across the bridge is going to take 45

minutes to get off the island.

So I can get off the island.

Um, so we decided to change our plans and come back to the house.

I parked your car and get the golf cart out immediately.

Just like load up and go into town.

We stopped for the ice cream shop.

And as we sit to get ice cream, the skies fall down.

Like we are in a crazy rainstorm.

It came out of nowhere.

And I didn't think to check the weather because it was sunny all day.

And, um, yes, I know rainstorms can pop up in the summertime here, but this was,

this was more than your typical rainstorm.

So we got ice cream.

We ran across the street because there's a lot more shops and restaurants and

things we can hang out in while it's raining, while it's raining.

Cause it looked like it was going to rain for like an hour and a half or so.

And we end up upstairs in the Mexican food restaurant and hang out.

And by the time the rain goes away, it's like seven 30.

It's pretty late sideways.

It's super hard.

Um, and there was like lightning strikes everywhere.

So we weren't trying to get on the golf cart, even just in the rain because of

the lightning.

Um, and so we finally get back on the golf cart and we're halfway home and it

just stops on me, just stops.

And it didn't show any signs of issue when I took off.

And I'm like, Oh, of course this is going to happen to me when Dale is not here.

And we're in the middle of the street.

We're back in the neighborhood section of the island now.

So it doesn't matter that bad.

And Carson's tough.

She knows exactly how to manage your car.

She drives race cars.

So she's like, put a neutral, we're going to push it, at least push it out of the

way, and I was like, so we push it out of the way.

And she's like, you know, it's not that heavy.

Let's just keep pushing it.

I'm like, great, good idea.

So we pushed this thing like six blocks and eventually both of us tie her out.

And I, uh, leave it on the side of the road.

And I, there was like a little code on it.

It just says, what did it say?

It was giving us a smile.

It had a little alert signal on top of the screen and it had a little hit, a

little verbiage down on the bottom of the screen, but nothing to look up.

It wasn't like a code.

So I'm sitting in the camper.

I'm getting ready to go to the pit box to start for the rally race.

She texts me golf cart trouble.

I'm like, oh man.

Yeah.

So get on the phone.

She's like, man, it just stopped.

I don't know what happened.

We had a bad, bad rainstorm and us, you know, so we're, I'm like,

it was exposed fully to this.

It just got just stormed on hard.

And she, uh, she takes a picture.

She's, I'm trying to get information from her visuals, pictures, images, videos.

I'm Googling forever.

So the race starts, a rally's going around.

Well, I missed the whole first stage of the rally race, trying to like Google

stuff on this thing, trying to figure out how to like help her.

He's stressing out.

He's like, should we call the car?

It's, we're trying to get a hold of maybe somebody who might know the

dealership's clothes.

Yeah.

So she just, uh, I parked it.

And the only reason we stopped, cause we would have pushed it all the way home

is the lightning that the thunder started again.

I'm like, okay, we're close enough.

We're going to get the girls off and just walk home and I'll come back to get

this and a little bit.

Maybe it just needs a minute.

The kids are on the golf cart while Amy and Carson are pushing it videoing,

videoing them with Amy's phone.

And they, yeah, clowning us the whole way, not even buckled anymore.

They're just standing up, holding onto the table, like they're having a parade.

You know what I mean?

So Amy goes, Amy's like, I'm going to go back out to the cart and try.

I gave her like a couple of things to try.

It might reset it.

And, um, she goes back out there and jumps on it.

And it cranked, it just worked right away.

It started right up.

So we must have water or something in our chamber or whatever that it didn't like.

And it finally just rained out.

But, um, if it, I've done, I've read about it and as bad as it was raining, if it

does get rain on any kind of this, uh, any kind of mechanical stuff, like

the throttle sensors and things like that, it falls out and we'll, because you

don't, I mean, I imagine it's to protect itself, but whatever the issue was dried

up, we haven't had a problem with it since no, I love that thing.

I don't, I don't even care that it did that.

You're not getting, you're not getting rid of it.

I love it.

Um, we just always were having an adventure around here and it always

usually, always usually, it usually happens when Dale's gone, which may make me

the problem.

I might be the problem.

So Amy, you know, it takes a lot of courage to,

this is, I have been, um, I have been scarred by an event that happened.

What?

And this is why I think it is a little bit of Amy.

So, wow.

Well, let me explain.

All right.

Let me explain.

So, and I had a, I had Ray Evernham restore an S 10 pickup truck for me when

it's just, it's exactly like the truck that I first, my first vehicle, right?

And it doesn't shift well.

You have to, people will understand this that, that have driven cars like this,

but if you just mash the gas pedal, it will stay in first gear.

You kind of have to, whatever you think it's time to shift, you kind of have to

lift off the gas just a little to allow the transmission to shift into second.

And you kind of have to work the gas pedal for the shift to happen as you go

through that process up into fourth gear.

And that's just the way this old truck is going to be.

It's a 1988 truck.

And so we are, me and Amy are down at the tree house or something with some friends.

Amy's going to run up to the house to get something.

So she jumps in my little S 10 truck and I hear her driving away wide as open in

first gear.

She's not going very fast, but she doesn't know to lift off the gas.

So this thing's turning like 7,500 in first gear forever up the hill.

And it's like, out of the site, out of, I mean, and I'm like, oh, my God,

it's going to destroy this engine.

And so, and she gets back and I'm like, man, you, uh,

have a parking brake, you really weren't, you're rigging that truck.

Hell, she goes, I just drive it and not normal.

I feel like there's a list of instruction before I got in the truck.

This is how I was supposed to drive it with the old golf cart.

It's an old rental beat up kick that had his teeth kicked in its whole life.

And I've already had to put a new master cylinder on it and change the batteries

already once and put water in the batteries too.

Like things that, well, the reason why it does, but I mean, it's hot down here

and water evaporates, simple.

Yeah.

So it's just, you're always got to maintain things down here.

But when I drive that old cart, like I don't, I drive it like 50% everywhere I go.

Like I slow, I ease off when we're just pulling away from a stoplight.

I take it easy.

Right.

And Amy's just like, mash the brake, she's just like, push the pedal off.

It goes, yeah.

And I'm like, this thing is, I'm having a good time.

I'm having a good old time in my car and this little old car.

It's like straining in a hundred degree heat trying to carry it.

I carry the whole family down the road.

And so, you know, that's, that's why I kind of think, you know, the, it's probably

best for Amy to have the new cart.

Yeah.

This is why girls like shiny new things.

Sorry.

No, it's all right.

Well, the cart's great and it was, it was coming in the rain, but it's great.

It's a good shape.

It's fine.

I wanted to say this on social media, but I'll say it for the show.

There's not many things that are more annoy, annoying.

There are not many things in this world that are more annoying than having to have

the direct signature on a delivery.

Yeah.

Oh, the worst.

Especially when it's not previously discussed, like don't send it and have that

attached unless you know that I'm going to be at home.

I bought a baseball card off of eBay and it, it's like, I don't know, I don't know.

Was it, it was delivered to my house.

I'm not home and it was delivered to my house twice and I missed delivery

because of the signature.

And so the third time they'll, they'll send it.

And if you don't do it the third time, they're sending it back to the seller.

And, or you might have to drive over to the, to the FedEx place to pick it up, but

I didn't even know this was happening.

And I just happened to look at an email and it's like, Hey, we missed delivery

again, and I'm like, again, and I look and it's like signature required.

And I got no alert from FedEx or anybody that, and I have a FedEx account.

And I was like, I got no alert that, uh, that it was even needed a signature.

Or sometimes, you know, you just overlook his, you know, when, and, and, but man,

I wish there was a better process.

Like on some packages, they allow you to go online and do it digitally.

You can do that with DHL.

Why don't they do that with every package?

If I am not in town and don't want to do a vacation hold or anything like that

on the parcel, why can't I sign for it online in my account that just so you

can just drop that damn thing off the box?

It is a literally the size of my hand.

What I'm trying to have delivered.

It's nothing.

And, oh man, I was so annoyed.

That annoys me too.

We ordered wine and Sonoma last year and the same thing happened.

I didn't know exactly when it was shipping, but it was in the fall.

They don't, they don't ship expensive.

So expensive.

It comes out.

We aren't home.

I don't know where we were, but we weren't homes and they did the signature

required delivery out at the farm and no one was there to receive it.

And so it went all the way back to California.

And I'm like, couple months go by and I'm like, that wine never came.

And so I'm, I called them and they're like, well, we tried to deliver it.

And I'm like, why did you put a signature on it?

Well, they don't have a choice because it's wine and it's North Carolina.

Totally understand that.

But damn, I didn't know it was coming.

Yeah.

I could have had somebody there to receive it.

I have the app and all that, all that stuff, notifications on all that

bull.

And somehow another is still missed it.

I do too.

I get alerts when sometimes when you buy stuff because it's coming to the same

address, it's all lumped some of it.

And so yeah, I don't, same thing.

I've had that happen.

And the worst part is they're delivering like from nine to five.

And I'm like, I can't be there.

And I'm like, and then it was being sent to me as a gift and it was alcohol.

So I get it.

But so I'm like, can I change the delivery?

Well, I'm not like a member or whatever.

So I'm like, well, what are we going to do?

And I'm like, can I come pick it up?

And finally they said, yes.

When I get there, like, oh, part of it was damaged.

And I'm like, so you broke a bottle.

Like, and I had to, this much struggle, just even get what you, what I have here.

And I'm like, come on.

I had to tell Sonny and Shelly, uh, who are out there at the farm this morning

to sit around and kind of hang around at the gate so that they might catch the

FedEx truck.

What was it they were waiting on to?

A car or a baseball card?

A baseball card.

A training card he said.

A training card.

I always said that.

It was, I'll tell you what's kind of, it's a Jackie Robinson.

I mean, it's a freaking badass card.

So I did not want that to get sent back to a seller or by any chance be stuck at

the FedEx spot.

Yeah.

You should have it sent to junior motorists.

I know, moving forward.

I'm nervous about that as well.

They get so much mail and a lot of mail directed to me that they, they might not,

you know, no, it's free from you.

They might think it's a fan mail letter that might get sent to the side or

something like that for opening later.

And, but I'm, I don't know.

You're probably right.

I'd probably send it, but you don't know sometimes that it's going to need the

signature until after that.

Yeah.

But that's where the issue lies.

I don't like, you know, I wish they could, the best way to prevent this electronically,

the best way to prevent this Dale is just don't buy trading cards.

Funny.

Well, we're past that.

We have way past that.

We're on like obsession level.

Yeah.

There's no end game for cards.

Is there?

She asked me to quit playing.

She wanted me to quit playing college football, so religiously with TJ and the boys.

Yeah, because TJ's college schedule was dictating our schedule at home.

Like you were in the league.

You understand, not just like, hey, and I quit it.

That's not what I asked him to do as well.

So I quit that.

I didn't want him to do that in the middle of our vacations or any other time.

Cause like TJ, for whatever reason, we've called him the general for obvious reasons.

Amy, and whenever he's playing those things, it's like,

that's fine.

TJ said, well, TJ said, I got to be in the league.

I'm like, can I get a TJ said, Amy, fine.

My point of this whole thing is if a man puts one hobby down, he must pick up another.

Is that true?

That is true.

You can't.

Yeah.

What are we going to do?

Yeah.

We, what are we going to do?

If I'm not doing that, I'm going to be doing something.

Like I take, if you take one, a track, a track out of the player,

you got to put another one in.

We'll say that's fine.

Yeah.

I'm not, I'm not complaining, but we are, I don't even really know

like where your collection starts and stops.

Like there's, you've got cards everywhere at this point.

And yeah, yeah.

Where are they?

That's my point.

I don't know.

You're hiding.

You don't know where they are.

Well, you have some here and you have a bunch at home.

It's like you stopped your hobby.

In her mind, they're like shoved in drawers and then she's going to open up my

shop drawer and there's going to be baseball cards.

This is how you see it.

Kuzi's like you'd open any random drawer and all of a sudden Kuzi would fly out

of it and I feel like that's what's going to happen with the baseball cards.

Like it's good.

They're going to stand deck right out of the door.

Keep when TJ was here last week, they were sitting around doing cards every

single day and they were looking at cards.

He's like, they're here, but I don't know where they are.

And my little, I got my little cubicle downstairs here and there cubicle

my little room.

Okay.

Drug dealers have stash houses and Dale's got them for his training cards.

It's just, it's going to start giving me a box to hold on to.

And it's cool.

Head to toe, yeah.

Fire cabinets go in there.

They blow when they're stacking money in the rooms in that house in Vegas.

I've got a room.

I got a house down here off, off the street over that way stacked cards.

And all the other fellas in town rent space to do their soup.

Oh my gosh.

Hey guys, Dale and I are at the beach house for another episode of bless your heart.

And we're excited for your ask Amy questions.

What do you have?

All right.

So first question people want to know, are you concerned about coming back to the

studio and sitting in your chair after Freddie has said in it for multiple weeks?

Yes.

So we had this conversation yesterday.

I saw a picture on social media that Freddie likes to hang out in my chair.

When he's waiting to start the show, his first episode of the show,

and I can get down with that happening occasionally.

It's a very comfy seat.

But my first thought was this guy must be farting in it.

He looks really comfortable.

And how many times has he sat there and farted in my chair?

Is it like full of fart smells?

So like when anyone else comes to sit down, the fart cloud comes out and like you,

there's no escaping it.

I'm curious, but I'm being sure not to stick my nose to the cushion to check first.

I think if a man, I think if Freddie sat in your chair for 20 minutes,

odds of him farting in it are 90 percent.

That's so gross.

Yeah.

And he sits in it for like two hours because the past like three weeks,

he hasn't been doing, doing the show because he's like vocal issues.

So he's been sitting there while they take DBC.

Then he's absolutely farting in.

I think he still wants to be helped with the show.

He's got vocal issues.

So he's not burping either.

Probably he's all coming out of his butt.

And that chair is very like perfect for farting because it like holds it in.

Like people out won't know.

He's definitely farting.

It's definitely.

It's two hours.

So yeah.

Gross.

The question is how many times?

How many times?

How many days is he?

I mean, I would say he's probably farted in at least 20.

Yeah.

That's so gross.

And I go, so we're sitting here, we're on our phone and Amy goes,

I hope he's not hot box in my chair.

And I go,

I hope he's not hot box in the sea in my chair.

And I said, oh, hot box a man.

You know, it's kind of like when you roll up the windows and you're smoking cigarettes

or joints or whatever.

And you hot box a car.

And she's like, no, no hot box.

You can hot box farting into stuff that's hot boxing.

So I go in urban dictionary and sure enough, hot boxing is farting into a chair or farting

into anything.

You can hot box a car by farting in it.

Yeah.

Well, I would say hot box heavily on a team plane coming back from a racetrack once.

Yeah.

All the guys on the crew are farting all the way home.

Yeah.

And so one of the, one of the people in the plane, what could have been the pilot was

like, yeah, what I said, this is the hot box express.

So I,

They called it that because it was such a common thing that the boys do that.

So I tweeted to the Freddie, Freddie post on during my media that he better not be hot

boxing that seat because that's what Amy said.

Yeah.

Carson goes, Uncle, you know what that means?

Of course I know what that means.

Hot boxing.

Yeah.

The number one definition of hot boxing.

I understand.

This is like number three.

This is on urban dictionary.

If you scroll down.

Well, this is what the dainty girls call hot boxing.

I never hot boxed a car.

Yeah.

It's number, it's number four.

Number three is rather.

Let's not get into.

Interest.

Yeah.

But it is a meaning.

It is.

Yeah.

Before he tweeted it just to make sure I wasn't setting him up for failure.

Yeah.

I was like, I don't want to be putting this out there and that's to be wrong.

Yeah.

I know the original meaning of hot boxing for sure.

Cheech and Chong.

Yeah.

I watched Cheech and Chong.

Yeah.

Every time I hear the word hot boxing, I think about Cheech and Chong in their car.

Yeah.

All right.

What's your next question?

Next question is people said they love, they know that you love wine and pickles.

Have you tried frozen pickles in your Sauvignon Blanc?

No, I haven't.

Apparently that's a new trend.

No, we don't.

We haven't got all the stuff for it.

We need to do it next week with Tim here.

Well, Tim ain't going to eat a pickle.

I will do me.

Come on.

I know, but we'll be festive.

Tim's going to be here.

So let's do something fun.

Let's cook for everybody.

I just want to fry some pickles.

Damn.

I'll make them for you.

How about that?

I want to make them with you.

Oh, you do?

Yes.

Okay.

I want to see if it works out.

It's going to work out.

We're not going to fail it though.

Yep.

We got this.

I have not tried pickles in wine.

I have not heard about pickles in wine.

I've done martinis with pickle juice, which are delicious.

And I've had, of course, a pickle backshot with Jameson.

Yeah.

And I've done all the jalapenos in my mind.

But the jalapenos aren't pickled.

They're fresh.

And so they've got that like margarita vibe.

But I'll try it.

Yeah.

We'll try anything once.

Like a dill pickle.

Yeah.

That's what people do.

I'll try it.

I'll report back.

I'll see how that works.

You can probably try it too.

I'll give it a shot.

I bet you'll like it.

Pickled everything.

I do.

Next question.

People will know, what was your favorite thing growing up when you went over to your

grandparents' house to do?

Or is there like one thing that you look forward to?

Well, when I went to Granny and Papa's house, I always like playing in her jewelry or asking

her to like let us play in her jewelry.

She's got the funnest braces.

She's got bracelets and things.

So we used to go to church with them as well.

And so she always used to sit next to us and she'd bring little snacks.

Like she had a little bag of vitamin C drops, which we know are not medicinal.

They're basically just candy.

And then she, she always had bracelets on.

And so we'd like play with her bracelets and church and her little vitamin C drops.

So she always had, she was always festive and fun.

And then Nana and Granddaddy's house, I used to like to bake.

So she would let us get in the kitchen and make pies and all kinds of things.

And she taught us how to do it and let us make a mess.

And we were just free, free to be over there.

So it was always fun.

Free to be free to be.

She looked like she, but no, she knew we were kids and we were going to make a mess.

And she was okay with that.

Hello about you.

So I at Teresa's parents house, her brother, Mark, I believe was his name,

had a bad ass collection of Archie and Jughead cartoon comics.

Cartoon comics was a car based comic book.

And I, and he wasn't so nice to let me, this little punk kid come in there and look and read all of them.

He had a library collection, just insane.

And I think about that all the time, but how he just let you play.

He never complained.

I mean, if I was him, I would have been like, you know, no, don't touch my stuff.

But I wonder where that collection is all the time.

Cause it was so cool.

But I'm trying to resist yours not to create models.

Oh, but yeah.

So let me do the cards, Amy.

I've been thinking about it.

Oh my gosh.

So the, the thing that I like to do at Mamaw Earnhardt's house was she had a bunch of trophies and models and magazines racing, racing, racing.

And so old photos.

So just, and I would, I would wonder, she had this crawl space under her house and it was dug out into the earth.

Ralph Earnhardt would go under there and there would be little cams and cranks and heads and engine parts under there.

He had this stuff under the house.

And it was so freaking cool.

Why would he do that?

Well, that's just where he stored some of the shit.

He dug under the house, into the crawl space, dug down into the ground like feet for these alleyways and the actual level ground was the shelf.

So like he walked through these little hallways that he dug and on the ground level was all his little parts and stuff.

That's crazy.

I've never been told that story before.

We can go down there.

I'll show it to you.

Oh, it's still dug out like that?

Oh yeah.

I ain't getting under there.

That's where Dale keeps his trading cards.

Yeah, that's where they are.

Oh, you guys.

Yeah, that's right.

I don't know the house.

I didn't know that.

I used to.

Because you had a shop at the backyard.

Yeah.

He had space.

I just nosed around and everything, you know, at Memmall's house.

It was always something hiding somewhere.

She had an upstairs.

She still does.

Memmall had an upstairs area that she rented out.

They rented it to families, tons of people.

My cousins lived up there.

And so there's this entire living quarters upstairs in their house.

It's like a time capsule.

When you go up there.

Oh yeah.

It's like going back to the fifties.

The bathroom tile is the bathroom.

All the pictures up there are old.

So there's everywhere up there and just know, you know, even today I can go up there and

just piddled around looking, looking at stuff for.

Yeah.

She passed away.

We went up and or even when she's alive, we go upstairs to see what it looked like.

Every time you went up there, you found something new.

I found from last time I was there, I found an old record player dresser.

You know, those big box furniture pieces.

They're like, you know, 54 by four foot or, you know, they were kind of like,

yeah, they're long and they're, it's just for a record player, you know.

And I wanted to kind of restore it, but haven't gotten around to it.

But that'd be kind of fun one day.

That is fun.

So at Grand Union Poffals too, they have a player piano that's really old.

And that was the other favorite thing to do over there is to put the scrolls in

like the old paper scrolls, you know, to put those in.

And we've had so many good fun memories.

Nice.

Just like singing and dancing and loudly.

Right by our house where me and Amy live in North Carolina, there used to be an old

house that was abandoned.

And literally you could, we would sneak in there at night.

I mean, I'm talking just even 10 years ago, we'd get drunk down to Sloan and go, hey,

y'all want to go see the abandoned house?

Oh yeah.

Okay.

Let's walk up there.

We'd walk up there and you could go in there.

And I mean, just clothes, still in the closet, furniture, still in the living room.

Oh, Lord.

You remember that?

I didn't go.

You never went.

Bulls***.

No, y'all used to take off the chips too and I would be in bed already.

Oh my gosh.

You always did that stuff after I went to sleep.

Yeah.

Well, you could go up in this house and they had, they had the same thing up there, like

one of them big furniture style pieces that was a record player.

And then they, but they ended up tearing that house down.

But you were just mischievous your entire life.

I'm nosy.

I'm a wonder.

I mean, if there's a graveyard down the road or any, I'm going to want, I want to get

scared out of me.

Yeah.

So we'd go somewhere to try to get spooked.

We need to do that in Charleston because we're some really cool sanitaries here.

Oh yeah.

But I mean, I remember in my 20s when I'd go down to Riddle Beach and stuff and hanging

out with friends down there, we'd drink Boone's Farm and be like, Hey man, let's go to the

cemetery.

Let's go sit in the cemetery.

Let's go to the cemetery and walk around.

Oh my God.

I don't know why.

I like it too.

I think that's fun.

I don't know why it's fun, but you just go in there and just sit around and hang out

and drink and.

Yeah.

You got a little spook.

Spook yourself.

Yeah.

For me, going over to my dad's parents, they, you know, grew up in the Great Depression.

So their basement was stocked with food and like my grandpa would like rotate and date

everything.

Let's get all the snacks available and he had hundreds of hot wheels for me to play with

just like lined everywhere.

Like he probably, there's probably at least, I don't know, two to 3000 that he had.

That's amazing.

And all the snacks I could ever want.

Does someone still have them?

Yeah.

They're at my dad's now.

We need to find, we need to find a way to sell some because I bet you we have at least

5000 now.

I don't sell them.

What if you have kids that trading cards?

Travis, you might have a little boy.

You want to keep them?

Probably not.

Why?

But yeah.

Dale gave his car collection to Wyatt when he was little.

So all his little matchbox cars and everything, he had them in this big metal box and he saved

them and Wyatt got to have them.

So I feel like you should save them.

Somebody's going to enjoy playing with those.

I mean, when I was homeless, I brought a bunch back and gave them to Matt's son.

I probably gave him like 50 of them.

Unopened.

Oh really?

They're probably worth something?

Yes.

A lot of them aren't even, a lot of them are unopened.

Oh wow.

I thought maybe they had all been played with.

There are some that like obviously play with, but there's a bunch that aren't even open.

Still in the package.

That's cool.

Yeah.

So last question here is they want you to rank pancake swaffles and french toast.

Pancakes, waffles, french toast.

French toast, pancake swaffles.

I feel like waffles are fun to look at, but I get annoyed with how much they rough up

my mouth.

Waffles can be a little crunchy.

French toast is just the best because of the powdered sugar and the french toast recipe

we love the most is ice cream.

If you take vanilla bean ice cream, melt it down and then like soak your bread in that

and then put it in the skillet and it is sensational.

There's so much sugar in the ice cream and it makes like a creme brulee crust almost

on it.

It's top notch.

Yeah.

I like pancakes are good, but they're not as french toast as badass.

So I know we've talked about this in the past, but anybody listening, if you kind of like

french toast or you think you might want to try some or if it's kind of wants you,

get you wanting to give it a shot.

If you're intimidated by all the steps, this is easy.

Use ice cream, vanilla ice cream.

Just melt down some vanilla ice cream in a bowl.

Use that for your french toast toss.

Yeah.

Oh my God.

It's amazing.

It is.

It is amazing.

It is life changing.

What was the bread though?

You have to use brioche, like an eggy bread, but a thicker bread.

Cause otherwise it'll just fall apart.

I think if you even if you use regular bread, I think it's still be pretty solid.

The Texas toast would be fine.

It's still be pretty solid, but the brioche bread was perfect.

Yeah.

I have the bread to elevate it.

Pepperage farm.

They've got like the thick and it's actually, there's one that's french toast flavored.

Oh really?

I've seen croissant bread lately.

I would like that, but I've never seen french toast flavored bread.

Yeah, buddy.

It's, it's so, cause it's then you don't have to add any other ingredients.

So if you just wanted to use egg wash or the ice cream and you just throw it on the skillet

and you're good to go, you can skip some of those steps.

Love it.

Okay.

Yeah.

So all right.

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