Snowmageddon turns into a housebound, cabin-fever chat about homeschooling stress, record snowfall, and the chaos of an older farm dog (Gus) stuck on ice and demanding midnight rescues. The conversation also covers wrangling donkeys and horses after a gate latch mistake, plus Dale’s string of “getting older” injuries and a near-cat chase that ended in car damage. Between laughs, they swap drink ideas (High Rock vodka “pucker up punch”), debate Grammys fashion, and talk AI image tools, jerky, and a new fifth-wheel camper headed to Daytona and beyond.
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Snowmageddon hit North Carolina hard last weekend, and Amy is ready for the snow to go away, while Dale is enjoying everything being closed. Meanwhile, their dog Gus isn’t quite sure how to navigate walking on ice. Thanks to their “Drink of the Week”, Dale learned what “Galentines Day” is.
Dale and Amy’s donkeys got loose during the storm, and Dale had to play cowboy to corral them, which had Amy turned on. As if they didn’t have enough drama around animals, Amy wrecked her car trying to catch a cat.
Plus, apparently, Dale treats Chat GPT like it’s his friend and asks some odd things.
And in #AskAmy, they discuss the outfits worn at the Grammys, Dale at the MTV awards and Jessica Simpson’s dream about Dale.
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Hi guys, Dale Jr. and I are back in the Dirty Mo' Media studio for another round of
Bless Your Heart. We have a great show for you today. We're going to talk about
snowmageddon, chasing cats, and all kinds of fun stuff. Let's get started.
The following is a production of Dirty Mo' Media.
Oh, yeah, this is where it's going to be, girl. We're going to hang out.
Open a bunch of jars. You've got big, strong hands.
Are you suffering from high crack?
I'm working.
Working that mouth.
Let's talk about the snow for a second and the amount of time these kids are out of school.
Man, I noticed that it's been very...
It's been stressful.
Stressful for you?
It's almost giving me, like, COVID vibes in the house, you know, like we're on lockdown,
can't go anywhere.
I love it.
I know you love it. You got your chef, your toys and your hobbies and all the things,
and you don't have anybody bothering you. It's like your favorite thing.
But I need people, like I need energy from other people and being stuck in the house
with, you know, everybody needing things from me is just...
It's a lot.
I'm not the only one that feels that way.
Some of the other moms that have literally their kids have not gone back to school yet
are about to lose it, like truly lose their minds.
Yes, because doing the school and all the things virtually when you don't know how to do
common core math or like all the things that the kids have to do,
it's a lot. It's a lot on your mind.
You don't even know what I'm talking about.
Do you? I don't. I mean, I'm sorry.
I don't. I I'm thinking, man, the kids are home.
We get to hug on all day.
Yeah. I mean, that part is good.
And I like the snuggles and not having to pack lunches.
I know there are a couple of little things that are great.
I know they're going to go back and I know that, you know, things are going to go back
to normal and it is never going to snow like this again ever.
I mean, you know, most likely this is the most snow that I remember ever getting
in the, you know, 40 years, I can really recall.
Yeah. I mean, you know, we would have,
you know, we would have two or three snows in the winter
that were two to three, maybe four inches at the most back in the 80s.
And then it kind of trailed off to maybe one snow a year or a little
small, you know, little dusting.
That was crazy. It wasn't expected to have the weather.
It was awesome.
It was very magical.
And then and the girls playing in, it was a lot of fun getting them dressed.
Like, I didn't even mind that part.
Just the taking the clothes on and off in the boots.
Like we got the order down.
I think the way you feel is how I feel about the dog.
Well, Gus has been Gus has been next level annoying because he.
So I'm sorry, this is bothering some of your animal dog lovers.
I'm I've got a dog.
I'm a dog lover, but I don't love the way he's been acting.
We he too feels trapped.
He's like, I want to go outside.
I want to drink out of the fountain.
That's not frozen over.
That's his what he thinks.
That's his water bowl, truly.
So he goes outside and he's like, this is the experience with Gus.
All right.
So usually Gus is happy, calm, laying around, napping all day.
And he gets excited when he wants to go outside and he he hops around the floor.
And that's that's the queue.
I want to go out and he's thrilled, you know, go over the door, open it up,
it goes outside and he's going to come back to the door in about 10 or 15 minutes
and he'll bark.
He might lay down on a porch for a while and chill and look out.
And then he'll start barking.
He'll just you'll just hear him.
And that's come get me.
Let me back in.
No problem.
He's going to want to go do this again, maybe an hour or two later.
And that's sort of the pattern.
And that's what we've done for a long time.
But during the snow, so we got the ice first, right?
We had that ice storm, Gus is getting old and he's got arthritis in his hips
and he's got a bunch of fatty growths and all this stuff.
And he's just he has a harder time.
Yeah, he jumps up on the couch.
It's it's not as easy as it used to be.
Sometimes he laces sometimes.
Yeah, when he lays around for a while and he gets up, it's a it's a while
before he can get moving.
So he kind of, you know, if he lays down like all of us at our age, if he lays
down when you get up your sore, you know, from sitting in the same spot for five
minutes and so.
But so we get the ice storm.
He goes outside and his feet bust through the ice.
He gets 15 yards from the house and his feet bust through the ice.
And he's like, I'm stuck.
Yeah, hey, he goes to talk and just starts talking and won't move.
Yeah, he won't move.
He's 15 feet from the door and his feet have just fell through the two inches
of ice and he's like, come get me, I'm stuck.
And that's literally it.
And and so Dale's like, I think something's wrong with the dog because he's
walking around out there like he's basically sliding, but he's hunched
over like he won't stand up straight all the way.
Walks so funny on the ice.
Like, I don't think that's his arthritis or maybe he's, I think
he's going to the bathroom and he's not.
I don't know.
What did he get into?
Would you feed him through the mountain of things other than it's just ice?
If we don't take him out before bedtime, he gets us up at four, two, one, three
in the morning, he gets up and maybe you might take him down some, but most
time I'm taking him down and I go down there, let him out.
I'm in my damn underwear.
You know, and I let him out.
We didn't do that.
Huh?
I'm sorry.
We didn't need that.
It's hard to catch what you're saying.
I'm just letting you know that I'm not ready to walk outside for what
it was about to happen.
He goes out in the yard, falls through the ice and he's like, all right,
come get me.
And I'm like, all right, so I go put on pants, put on a jacket, go outside
and I go to him.
And as soon as I go to him, he starts growling at me.
Like, am I helping you?
You don't want to help.
What's the damn deal?
You're going to growl at me.
I'm out here, 15 degrees outside.
I'm here to carry your ass, your 80 pound ass inside and you're growling.
And so, and I'll take him back inside.
So that's what happens in the middle of the night.
What happens during the day is he wants to go outside.
You take him outside.
He stands on the porch.
He goes cold.
Let me back in.
So he starts barking at the door.
You let him back in five minutes goes by and he has completely forgotten about
that and he wants to go back outside.
He's restless as well.
And he goes back outside.
He's like, holy s**t, it's cold out here.
Let me back in.
And he wants back in.
And then five minutes later, he's forgotten about that.
And it's like this constant, like he's, he's like, let me out.
Let me out.
Let me out.
And you're like, we just, you just let you out.
Like, what are you doing?
You're going out there.
You're using the bathroom at all.
I think he wants you to come out with him.
So he's like, when it's warmer, he and I go out for a walk.
Well, we haven't been doing that.
And so he's like, getting all excited because he wants you to come outside with
him when he, when you close the door and he's like, oh, damn, I don't want to be
out here by myself.
I don't entertain that idea because I'm never ever going to be iron taking the
dog for a walk.
I didn't, I don't, I, I, I, we live on a farm.
My dog takes his own ass for a walk.
I don't live in the city.
I'm not walking my dog down the road to get his legs stretched.
He was, if his ass needs to go outside, he can take his own ass for a walk.
We got 300 acres.
Be my guest.
Wear your stuff out.
But this like, oh, we got to take him for a lap.
So his anxiety calms down.
That's, that's, I like, I have a hard time with that.
You are that.
I am.
You are just like that.
I don't need you to take me for a walk.
No, but you need me to lay on the couch with you so you can
recharge, as you say.
Well, what's the damn difference?
He, he's used to that.
We walk together, we get the energy out.
He has not been able to do that.
That's why he's bothering you.
But also he doesn't growl at me.
Like if I go outside with the dog or if I go lay on him on the couch, he didn't
growl at me, not ever.
No, he only does that to Dale.
I don't know what that is.
They have like this weird relationship, but we're dudes, maybe you could have like
cleared a path for him where like he gets some grass to, you know,
that yeah, I laid it.
So when the ice storm was coming preemptively, I laid out all of the felt
blankets and different blankets like I have in the dog room down the stairs
across the path into the grass.
So like he had his own little section that was not going to get iced and he
would walk over the ice to the, he was always going towards that fountain.
But anyway, he's, he's just spoiled.
He's got all those things.
He just wants attention.
I haven't had to go outside to pick him up and bring him back in since the ice.
I'd say it's been a week.
We had seven and a half inches of snow.
I'm like, all right, we're over the ice.
The other two nights ago, he's like, I got to go downstairs.
It's, it's one o'clock in the morning.
We get down.
I like how you interpret how he's speaking.
If he could speak to you.
We, he's like, oh, he gets up.
His bed is in the floor at the end of our bed and he gets up and he paces up my
side, up Amy's side.
He's just waiting to see who's going to get really loudly.
And he drags his feet.
So he's intentionally like making as much noise as he can to get one of us to
get up and let his ass go down.
So he will not go down a set of stairs.
He falls.
If he goes down the stairs, you can't see very good.
His legs don't work.
So we got to go down an elevator.
So I get up, I take him into the elevator.
We go down and he doesn't go to the front door, which is where he should go.
He wants to go out back, out backs the hill that he's getting stuck on.
But we haven't, you know, we haven't happened in a couple of days.
And his ass goes out there and I watch him and he walks around.
He takes his poop.
He takes his pee and then he just sticks around.
He locks up.
He goes, come get me.
He's playing.
He's down this hill.
And I see him like, he's like, I know you're going to be cold.
I know you don't have any front legs.
He's like, I can't, I can't get out of the hill.
He's asserting his dominance over you, Dale.
Yeah, he's acting like he's acting like he needs wheelchair.
He's like, you ain't the boss.
Me boss.
Me help, help, help.
Come get me.
I'm going to freeze.
Yeah, you're, you're.
That's not right, but that's not how it is.
So I have to get my pants on and go out there and pick him up.
Don't pick me up.
And I'm like, this sucks.
You wanted this.
I don't, I did not want this.
This is not the part.
I don't know that this is experience for every dog owner.
Well, when they get older, you have all kinds of things you
didn't experience.
You didn't have that with rocket.
Right.
I don't want to put him down.
I'm not saying let's get rid of him.
Why didn't you say that?
Not accusing you of that.
I just want to get off my chest.
I'm, I believe my, you're, so maybe that's me relating to you, right?
And you're, you're, you know, feeling like you got island
fever or you're, you know, claustrophobic and need to get out of
the house and see some friends.
I think you just need to book another trip, Amy.
Well, we have another trip booked for our Disney cruise.
So very excited about that, but that on top of like homeschool and all
of the things that we got a new camper.
So like nothing happened.
We were stuck for a while.
It was just like kitchens open all day long, you know what I mean?
And then now it's like 20 things happening.
Yeah.
So there's.
So we got a, we got a Disney cruise.
It's just going to happen soon.
I just need like a girl's brunch.
That's what I was saying.
Like you need like a, we have had brunches scheduled every
weekend to crown our fantasy football champion.
And then we have to keep canceling them just because of the weather.
So that I want you to make sure you do more brunch.
I want you to make sure you get, I know we just can't get it.
We just can't get it to happen.
I hope I'm a worried that the brunch won't be enough.
Like you go on and do brunch and, and more if you need to.
All right.
Like brunch nails, spa, like what are you talking about?
We all just need to like get, get around each other.
Feeling how you need to feel.
I'm not worried about that part.
We've got a trip to, we're going to St.
Martins, I think we, we bought or one trip in an auction.
So we're going to go.
It was a charity event.
That's going to be fun.
Yeah.
So we got some things looking forward to you do.
All right.
Drink of the week.
Sponsored by High Rock vodka.
That's right.
Um, it's called the puck, pucker up punch.
Sounds like you're going to pet, punch somebody in the mouth.
Is that really what you think?
Pucker up man.
I'm going to knock you out.
Pucker up is not like sucker.
Well, I think about, do you know what's next weekend?
I think about pucker up, pucker up day.
I think about this scene in stroke race where he says he's going to give this
guy a clock, a clock, show this guy had a clock because it's fastest chicken in
the south is a sponsor on his car.
And he bought in a, one of the, one of the mechanics walks up to, to, um,
Diane, no, it's, uh, I'm so mad that I can't.
Struck race is Bert Reynolds.
He walks up to Bert Reynolds and said, Hey, Bert Reynolds, give us a
clock like cause he's sponsored fast chicken in the south.
And he's like, he looks at lugs Harvey, who is Jim neighbors.
And he goes, should I give him a clock?
And he's like, man, you got to give you a good clock.
You got it.
You know, he gets him all ready and he gets his head up and he
not socks, socks him one and it starts this big ass brawl.
So that's what I think when I hear pucker up punch is that varsity in
stroke race, pucker up punches, two and a half cups of high rock vodka.
That's a lot.
Two and a half cups.
This is made for, uh, we're getting down one cup of
chambered shim board.
What is that?
It's a orange liquor.
Oh, right?
Or is it cherry?
I think it's cherry.
Two cups of strawberry lemonade.
Mix everything in a picture.
Now we're making sense.
A picture, a picture.
You can spice it up with.
Gallantines.
You can spice it up for Gallantines day.
Oh, edible glitter.
What the hell is Gallantines?
It's when all of us girls get together on Valentine's day and
celebrate it together because screw boys.
You know, y'all just, um, change the name.
It's the single girls go out and you know, they don't need that's their thing.
I don't need a man.
I got my girls to buy me flowers or chocolates.
Let's go have Rosé.
Why are you looking at Travis?
He didn't make it up like the one that's telling us what it is.
He's over here trying to, he's talking to me.
I'm listening.
What am I supposed to do?
If you've, if you haven't lived under a rock, you should know it.
Like I've never heard of Gallantines.
Valentine's is between Amy and me.
I know.
So if you don't, going out with the girls is not in the, in the, in the picture.
Gallantines was created for girls that don't have a boyfriend or don't care
about having a boyfriend at the moment.
Like you couldn't have a Gallantines day.
Was it created today or no, it's, no, it wasn't created today.
It seems like a made up thing.
It's not, it's not brand new, but it's, I don't know, the last decade or so.
Well, it's true.
You can spice up your starting 2010.
If you're celebrating 2010 is when people started talking about you can
add edible glitter.
What mine has glitter yours is not.
Yeah.
I hope not.
They ain't no damn such thing as edible glitter.
And yet there is, watch me eat it.
Watch me.
I mean, what is it made of plastic?
You eating plastic?
It's like sugar.
Glitter, sugar.
What makes it glitter?
Magic, Ralph.
I don't know about that.
Don't ruin it.
I don't know.
Just let Amy enjoy your drink.
It's delicious.
You can put some garnish on it.
Mm hmm.
The garnish is just a word for stuff.
That's it.
Cause it's like, I do like the candy.
Put some stuff on it.
This is candy in your picture.
It is candy.
This is for you.
This is this part is what I like.
It looks like some sour gum, uh, gummy tape.
Yeah.
Travis put that together for you.
All right.
So that's your drink.
It's fine.
I like it.
Start.
It's delicious.
Don't listen to him.
He's on a roll today.
We need to get you to Disney and get you happy.
Well, we're going soon.
Can I talk about how, uh, how will you help me with the donkeys?
So we talked about, I'm sorry, bouncing around.
This is what my brain is looking like today.
We got, we've got a lot of stories we haven't been on for a while.
So I've always, I mean, a group in Texas always really like
Cowboys, the cowboy way, that whole thing.
I married a race car driver who likes to game.
I did not marry a cowboy, but if he doesn't know how to wrangle some donkeys,
I don't know what a cowboy is because all of the donkeys got out in between
ice and snow week.
We went out there with Sonny.
We blanketed all of the donkeys who are not used to this.
We've got, they're all like rescues.
So they're not used to being like fully taken care of.
They want to be fed their food and some of them like to be petted.
They think when you're coming by them, you're putting them to work.
That's right.
So they get a little crazy.
And so that was a lot of work just getting them blanketed.
Well, we had some, we have two big troughs that we put these deisers in.
So Sonny went to check on those, I guess, before we went to bed and didn't
fully get the latch done on the gate right there next to the, not the typical
gate, but right there next to the troughs.
Well, they found it as they do.
They knows every latch just in case, just to see.
And so we wake up, we've got the girls fully dressed in all their bibs and
all the things are going out to play.
And all of a sudden, all of the donkeys and the horses are just like
trotting down the road.
How many are we talking about here?
How many?
We have eight or nine.
There's, there's a mule.
She's gigantic.
Her name's Tilly.
There's a horse, there's a mini horse, and then there's five donkeys.
And so they're all just kind of slowly trotting down the road, except for the,
the horse and the mini horse are still in the pen.
And at one point Lakota, the big horse, figures out how to get out and then
bullets in there panicking because he's by himself.
And so we're just watching them just escape.
And Dale comes out also not fully dressed, ready for the weather.
He's like, what are we going to do?
I'm like, let's call Sonny because we don't know what the hell to do.
And he goes and gets in his truck instead and follows him down to the
racetrack where they all ran, gathers him up and just leads him back up to the barn.
And I'm like, well, he has a little cowboy in him and I'm kind of turned on.
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
I was, I stayed at the barn and put the feet out just to make sure when they
came back, they didn't want to leave again, but he does have a little cowboy in
him after all.
Well, one, when one goes, they all go.
So like, if you get one kind of heading in the right direction, the rest of them
kind of go where that one's going.
Tilly usually.
And I got them kind of all hemmed up over by the swimming pool.
They weren't going to go anywhere there and just waited for Sonny and Shelly and
a couple more people to come to just give us a little more, get them in.
To funnel them in.
And it was fun.
I've seen dad do that a thousand times and I've helped dad do that a thousand
times with some cows and.
Yeah, it's easier with cows, I think.
And I watch them, you know, lonesome doves.
So I'm, so you're totally a cowboy.
I like it.
We need more of that.
Yeah.
That was fun.
Putting the, getting, getting, we had them in this little corral and they're wild
and they'll kick, they kick the shit out of each other.
And I damn sure don't want to be kicked by one of them.
It'd be detrimental.
And, but we're trying to put these coats on them.
That was tough.
Like trying to get them, get a bit or what do you call the blanket?
Yeah.
Get a bridle on them so you can kind of.
Hold them still enough.
Yeah, enough.
Yeah.
And then trying to get around them without getting kicked and getting all these
straps and things underneath the legs and everything.
And you're, you're really, really.
And watching your back because there's another one close by.
Yeah, it was a lot, but we got it.
We got them all covered up so they wouldn't freeze and they act like they
don't want it, but I bet they probably appreciated it.
Yeah.
Well, they didn't know what was coming.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Animals, they say animals know what, know about the weather.
I think the Buffalo do, but they've been through that before.
The Buffalo loved it.
They laid all over the place.
They let, they had a foot of snow on top of them.
They laid out in it.
They have a barn.
They chose to lay out in it.
They love it.
And then they start running through it and kicking it up with their faces.
It's cool.
I had a friend that had a husky and the dog just did not want to come inside.
Yeah.
Just playing and loving it.
Yeah.
And they're not going to get hurt.
You can let them lay out there for hours.
Yeah.
Buffalo are the same.
Okay.
Gus is not.
What other, what other, I got, I got something I wanted to talk to you about,
but it's, you got other stories you want to tell?
I can't remember what.
I know you have one that you've talked about maybe wanting to tell on the show.
You had a little fender bender.
I've done a series of stupid things in the last few weeks.
Um, I hit my forehead on a shelf in the computer room, which I'm covering with my hat.
Plug in Isla's switch.
I was trying to do a good thing.
Plug in my daughter's game game system that she left laying out.
And so I go to put it on the charging port, which is all like perfectly
cabled up and, and, and tidy, you know, so I can't pull it away from where it is.
So I lean over to put the switch on the port and bang my face into a shelf corner.
This, this game table has this one word corner that I've seen for 20 years.
Amy wants me to put some orange tape on it now.
And I'm the perfect height to bang my face right on it.
She could walk into the kitchen, literal blood pouring down her face.
Blood dripping down my face.
Oh, damn.
I'm like, Dale's too tall to hit his face on this.
And Nicole, or I was too short.
So of course it's me and it's dark.
Bam.
So I've got a big old.
We're get Amy picks on because that when I cut my hands, she's like, you're getting
old.
He's not that age, where he hits his hand on a door handle and he's bleeding
over there.
He busts the knuckle like way easier now because your skin's like not as, I don't
know what, what happens to your skin.
There's probably a name for it in it.
Yeah, but like you can bust your, you can scratch yourself easier as you get older.
I know this makes no sense.
And I just, no, it makes sense.
I just didn't know that you were at that point in your life.
Yeah, we're there.
Oh, we're there.
Yeah.
And I, that's what I thought.
It just starts happening.
I didn't even come walking in there and she's got a hole in her head and she's
starting to bleed.
And I was like, I don't want to say it.
I don't want to say it, but damn, I was so mad, but I was mad at the fact that
it happened, but I couldn't be mad at anybody else because I designed the
stupid shelf to begin with.
You're reaching that age where you can't rub up against anything without bleeding.
It's so fucked up.
It's that's a transition to life.
It really is like, damn, I don't have battle scars.
I can't even hide the stupid that I do.
It's me right on my face.
She come home the other night.
She comes in, she says, oh, well, she come home and went to bed.
God, next day, gotta show you something.
Wait, before that, I came home and couldn't get in the house because Dale
had locked me out.
So this is the thing about Dale that I don't understand.
When I first met him, it was like an open door policy.
Nothing was locked.
People came in and out all the time to the point where like, you better
make sure you had your pants on because somebody was going to come in at
some point during the day.
We did leave the door.
We did leave the house unlocked at all times.
I was like, you know, I'm not going to, if somebody wants to break in, I'd
rather not tear the door jam up.
There's nothing in here that I give a shit about.
I don't have anything valuable.
And there's nothing that they're going to take that I'm going to go, oh my God.
So, but, you know, now we have kids and yeah, well, now you can't go up.
You can't go walk the dog and come back in.
He has followed you to the door, locked it, locked your ass out.
I mean, truly, I've had to bang on the door, kick on the door.
The kids, if I had to do the same thing, just go into the place that in
back, they get locked out of the house.
So I come back and I'm locked out of the house.
It's like 930.
It's not that late.
And I was going to tell Dale about what I did, but then I got so mad about that
I waited until the next morning.
But what I did was I dented my car up, back and into a pole, trying to
chase down a stray cat in downtown Morrisville.
So she was going to, if she caught the cat, she's going to bring it home.
Yeah.
I mean, it looked just like our old one tux.
It looked just like him.
It was huge.
It was like a big, fluffy, and it probably belonged to someone.
Yeah.
And you were going to, you were going to steal.
I was willing to steal the cat.
I don't know, you know, shouldn't be out after midnight kind of thing,
like a Gremlin and I wasn't, but it was late enough.
So I banged my car up.
She backed into one of the, and I didn't even get the cat.
She backed into one of those orange posts that's like break level, break
light height and knocked the rear bumper off of this car.
I didn't know the bumper off.
Well, I bent up the fender pretty good and I completely smashed the
light in slang for she backed into it and tore up the bumper and busted
the headlight.
It was pretty good, pretty good damage.
It was a good damage.
My car did not alert me that it was behind me to be fair.
I was using a little video game camera that we have instead of just
turning around and looking and it didn't see it either.
You didn't think about like getting out of the car and chasing the cat.
No, at that point I was like, better get my ass home.
I did get out of the car before I saw the cat before I got in my car,
which is how I saw it.
It's began with, and then I got in my car and I was kind of slowly
going down main street cats until it's still going.
I'm like, I'm just going to turn off here and see if I can head him off.
And then I didn't see the cat anymore.
So I decided to back out and then boom.
It's also why you just don't need cats.
I mean, I don't need a cat.
You're right.
Gus does not want a cat.
They all didn't want the cat.
I'm like, what would you have done if I actually brought the cat home?
He's like, what the hell were we going to do with the cat?
And it's somebody else's cat.
He's like, and you probably would have stolen someone else's cat.
It sounds like it wasn't a stray.
So yeah, that's, I don't know, lots of stupid choices.
That is what happens when I get snowed in and don't get to see anybody.
I start doing stupid things like that.
You have chat, uh, GTP.
What is it?
GPT?
I do.
Do you not use chat?
Chat, what?
I thought you used grok.
No, I use chat.
Oh, that's who your, your little buddy guy is there.
Oh, yeah.
Use grok.
No.
Yeah.
I just use chat.
I don't use.
Um, I've actually done a couple of tests asking that, asking like all of them
to make images and see which one can make the image the best.
And, and I'm in my very minimal, like non-official testing.
I think chat's probably better at it.
Better at it.
But, um, because I ask it to do photos and, and, uh, graphics all the time.
I think that's all I use it for.
I do it for our, um, our, our, uh, dynasty college football league.
Somebody wins a game and, you know, beats one of the favorites.
We'll make a fun graphic that makes fun of somebody or, or, or makes light of the
situation.
And so, um, I've gotten to use, I've been using chat quite a while.
Um, probably I'd say for almost a year.
I, a friend of mine asked me to, he said, have you ever went into your chat and
said, what's the most ridiculous thing you've asked me?
And I said, no, I haven't.
Now I don't think I've asked it too many ridiculous things.
So I did.
I said, all right, chat.
I said, what is the most ridiculous thing I've asked you?
And this is what it said.
You ready?
Yeah.
First off, it said, that's a stack category.
You've asked a lot of legendary things.
Here are the front runners and the one standout.
The one standout, this is the all-time champ, it said.
Man, this thing really fluffs.
Here you go.
Draw and it does draw an image of the entire division one college football
league celebrating New Year's Eve in the grid iron racers league.
That's our, that's our league's name.
And chat says, that's 130 plus teams.
Every mascot, all at one party inside your fictional dynasty universe on New
Year's Eve.
And it's like, that's not a request.
That's like insane.
Like, it's just that you can't do that to ask it to even try to do it.
Oh, it's like, that was ridiculous.
Um, it also, this is so silly.
I don't know how I got talking about this or somebody about the pirate pirate.
The pirate, the pirates eye patch.
So why did pirates, I think I saw, cause we're going to Disney and there's a
pirate night and we were talking about pirate patches.
And I thought also social media, I saw on social media, somebody said the
pirates weren't all blind, you know, weren't all one eye.
Right.
They would do is a tactical thing.
They had the patch so that when they went below deck and it was dark, they
would switch the patch to the other eye and this I could then see.
Well, it was already acclimated in the dark.
And I asked chat, it says, this is chaos tier.
Ridiculous.
Asking me to determine whether pirates were eye patches so that they could
swap eyes and see in the dark below deck.
No, it's sassin you.
Really?
It said, and it said, uh, so basically sailing you, it's not true.
Well, it did say that it's, it's a myth.
It's not real.
It did say this is, this is in the unhinge, but beautiful category.
You've repeatedly asked me to remake photos of you and your friends as
Looney Tune characters, World War two fighter pilots who just won the war,
drinkers in a Star Wars cantina, Simpson like cartoon characters.
And then while the while the image is being generated, you will type in all
caps, damn man, just make the photo.
Oh my God, you.
Do you sit?
Do you hit send?
Or does it just know I will, it will try to, it'll be like generating a photo.
And you are so impatient.
I fuck with it.
I'm like, hurry up.
You know, and it'll, it'll, you know, say something.
So I tell mine, thank you.
Like I'm polite to mine.
Oh man, me and mine.
I'm, I'm friendly antagonist.
If that makes sense.
They say that that's an ADD thing.
Yeah.
So open up your chat or you want me to do it now too.
And ask your chat.
What is the most ridiculous thing I've asked you to do?
Or what's the most ridiculous thing I've asked you?
And let's see what it says.
Oh, one of the things it said was an honorable mention.
Asking if speed weeks belonged to the endurance racing crowd.
Cause there's this debate online about speed weeks.
What's that moniker derived from in Daytona?
Did it encompass February and all of Emsa the 24 hours and everything else?
Or was it an ask her term for the two weeks when we were in Daytona?
I just ask it things to see what it says, but go ahead.
Okay.
So it says, honestly, you ask a lot of things.
The most ridiculous and a lovable way was turning a real person into a highly
specific legal questionable scenario.
So I asked it to make you into a criminal picking up trash on the side of the road.
A photo?
Yes.
And it told me that it couldn't do that because you were a celebrity and a real
person.
Oh, um, but it would let me put you in like, um, a public
service outfit, like a vest to do it.
But I couldn't, I couldn't take the context behind it.
I remember what we were doing.
Well, I do.
Do you want me to tell you and Garrett or mess with Mike?
Oh, yeah, we messed with Mike.
So Mike got himself a little pickle with the, with his speeding ticket.
And so he's going to get so mad at me for saying that, but here we are.
And so Garrett, there's my, Garrett's a friend of mine that's retiring from
the state troopers and he's been a state trooper all his life.
And I said, Garrett, let's mess with Mike.
Let's, let's, let's pretend like you're going to help him, but I'm going to
do a favor with the, yeah, I'm going to do some community service to get
Mike out of his ticket and Mike's going to refuse to allow that to happen.
But me and Garrett are going to like go forward, like put it into motion and
like leave Mike with no control.
I wish there was a camera on him.
Mike melted down for an entire day.
This is happening and it was early in the morning.
I mean, really to be messing with somebody really early.
And we're sitting in a meeting and Mike is losing his mind.
He's not telling us what's going on, but he's assuming everybody in the room
is in on some kind of a joke to the point where he's like being kind of mean,
to be honest, he can't focus.
He's not, he's pacing around the room.
He's in and out of the office.
And eventually we figure it out.
Dale is screwing with Mike and about, about the ticket, but.
And that's why you wanted to generate that photo.
That's why I was trying to help at that point mentions.
Let's see.
Repeatedly escalating images and edits.
Oh, because I've done a lot of.
Turn this into a normal Rockwell picture.
Turn this into the thing that Dr.
Seuss put the kids.
I like to turn pictures into like artwork or something silly.
No, gift tags.
What I asked it to make gift, gift tags from Santa.
Okay.
In a pinch.
Yeah.
It says, you're not ridiculous.
You're imaginative, decisive and unafraid to ask bold questions.
Oh, damn.
It's because she's nice and I'm nice.
Yeah.
And it's nice back.
Do you have yours where it talks?
No, I'm scared to do that.
I don't want to get that attached.
I feel like you're attached.
Amy doesn't like it.
And so I will be in the car and I'll start talking to mine.
Making it and it's talking back to the speakers.
Amy doesn't like it.
So I go in harder.
Amy's like, no.
Amy doesn't like it when I talk in the car to other things and Amy talked to it.
You did.
I didn't have a choice.
He teed me up.
The kids were in the car too.
So it was like a whole thing.
You didn't have a choice.
No, because he was real person.
It feels like a real person.
That's what I don't like.
It's so weird.
It's the strangest thing.
Yeah.
And it's wrong.
Like I, I get, what do you mean it's wrong?
It's so wrong.
So I use it 99% of the time to generate graphics for our, for our
dynasty college football league.
And I'll be like, Hey, Kentucky beat Louisville 17 to 14.
And, and make sure you put the grid iron logo on there and have the team on
the field celebrating.
And it'll, it'll add like things that I didn't ask for.
Like this is a conference champs or some shit.
Like, you know, it'll put things in there that you're like, OK, now I need
you to take that out.
I didn't want that part.
You went too hard.
Yeah.
And the logos on the helmets are wrong.
And sometimes it'll put like, that was an Ole Miss.
I was making an Ole Miss graphic and it had some of the Ole Miss players
in white, some in red.
I'm like, the team needs to be on the same color.
You know, so like it's so.
It's so dumb.
It's flawed, but.
I wish you could just take a bunch of generated images.
It's very, yeah.
I wish you could just take a bunch of images and just dump them and be like,
hey, and I like all of these and make this, you know, like make this scene.
Yesterday, I was in Nashville and Tim Duggar took me to this burger place
and it was me and Tim and Steven Steffen.
And it was this was fun.
So yeah, I was like, I was like, Amy, I'm at this mash burger joint.
It's cool.
And I took a picture of it, but I was like, you know, it doesn't, I don't know.
It doesn't have a logo and it doesn't have me and Tim in there.
So what I did was I took a picture of the logo that was sitting.
It was on the table, like on the napkin.
I took a picture of me and Tim and Stefan, just a selfie.
And then I took a picture of the room and I said, take these three photos
and put it all together.
And it did.
It gave us.
You can do that.
That's what I did.
And it gave us this great photo of us sitting at the table with with the.
The burgers, the logo in the background.
Yeah, maybe these gigantic burgers.
I was looking at it in my car, too.
So I'm like, there is no way he's going to eat that.
And then go and you had an appearance after that.
Like he's going to need another extra buffer hour.
If he eats all that, I'll ask it, I'll ask it questions that I know the answer
to in terms of like racing statistics or history.
And it'll, it'll miss something or get something wrong.
And I'll go, hey, that didn't happen.
And it'll go, you know, you're right.
That didn't happen.
I'm like, well, why'd you like?
So that's the thing I've heard about Chad.
It'll basically tell you whatever you want to hear, kind of like the internet.
Like you can search anything and it will tell you exactly what you want to hear.
You can't take what it says for face, you know, at face, what is it?
Take it for face value.
Yeah, you've got to take whatever it says.
You better check it.
So why are we even wasting our time?
It's still because I'm lazy.
It's just fun.
It's like lazy.
No, it's I think it's for me.
It's a toy.
It's just like a new toy to work with.
And but I'm not using it for anything that's like I'm going to.
I'm not using it like I'm sending this in and this is my official.
Yeah, I hear you.
Well, yeah.
So, I mean, yeah, people are using it that maybe they are taking it too serious.
They're they're expecting more out of it than it's able to do.
And I think that they should be better aware, I guess, that it's not as good as it.
It's not as good or legit as it not yet.
Let me help you.
It's got a lot of work.
They got a lot of work and I'm sure they're going to try to make it better.
But I've asked some of those like I feel like that's why they've launched it.
They want you to help it get better and smarter, which is what's the scary part.
I, you know, I, I downloaded a couple of them and asked them to generate photos again
for the college dynasty stuff.
And they're not good.
They're really bad.
So like chats decent, but you still have to ask it to fix a couple of things.
And the damn time it takes to generate a photo is almost not even worth it.
But all right.
What's this pickle jars?
It's just a little bit of a jab at you with the pickle jars.
So you know how much he loves pickles.
I'm sitting on the couch the other day.
It's like 430 and he's eating his dinner because he's got gray hair now.
And that's what he does at 430 is he does dinner, whether the rest of us are eating
not or not.
And the only reason I am alerted to the fact that he's eating his dinner is because I
hear a knock, knock, knock and I turn around and he's banging a pickle jar lid with the
whole jar, like brand new jar pickle, banging the jar against the stone column in the house.
Like, excuse me, what are you doing to loosen the lid?
That's right.
You don't go outside and bang it on the on the ground, right?
Like you can't bang it on the interior of our house.
He did that in the kitchen enough times where we now have a chunk out of the countertop.
Just chip.
So they'll next time grab a butter knife.
Because that's what I told him.
Get a knife.
Use the handle you got.
Grab this little thing in the drawer with.
I don't know that trick.
I'm unaware.
Just take a butter knife.
Take the part that you would hold and then hit it the lid three times on the but it
was where you can just lift it and pop the pop the seal, like you sticking under the
edge.
I want it to screw back on.
It will.
It will.
On you just it just lets the air out enough where it like pops it.
Well, I've always tapped spun and tapped, you know, the Mason jars spun and tapped
them.
I've never seen anybody do that till I moved to North Carolina.
And the only reason I know he got that from his mother.
And the only reason I know is because she too had a chunk taken out of her countertop.
I'm like, damn.
And so when he started doing it on the wall, I'm like, that's enough.
We're not now up the wall to you stay over there in the kitchen.
I was like, I was like, you know what, if we knock some if we chip this stone column
wall, it's stone, it's already I know, but it's not chips already.
It's not real stone.
No one will know it's veneer.
I will know they're never going to walk by that thing.
I told him was like, I stand at that counter chopping my chopping board right there and
look that dent that chunk taken out.
And like every day I have to see that.
I'm sure there's a way for somebody to like make that chunk.
Not with the actual material that the counter is made out of.
No, but it'll look real.
No, it'll look like a tooth filling.
No, thanks.
OK, our new camper is here.
Wait a part.
We have.
We we have been we've had a fifth wheel for the last couple of years.
Love it.
Um, we got a very bare minimum model to sort of get our feet wet and
understand the responsibilities and and and all of those things.
Great idea.
Um, time to ramp it up where we were putting our so we go to
Camping World.
We looked online, found us a model that we really liked.
Um, and.
We are, uh, let me see.
It arrived last week.
Huh?
Yeah, it came last week.
So, um, that's something that's new and pretty exciting.
It's called the grand design is the brand that made it.
And, um, really happy with the layout.
Got a lot of got a mid bump for the kids and, uh, king size bed for us.
Uh, the last one we had was a queen.
Um, and so I'm pretty pumped about it.
Yeah.
Getting it all set up.
Yep.
It's going to Daytona.
We use it for the, uh, summer stretch of doing some of these races for Amazon
and TNT and then we're going to take it on some trips, Texas Easter.
So exciting to have the new camper from camping world.
Thank you camping world.
We've been, uh, big fans of theirs for a while and, and now that we don't have
the bus and join these fifth wheels and the Dooley.
Um, is there a feature Amy that you're like that this one has that you're excited about?
Yes.
The way the kitchen and everything's laid out and it's got like a full
size fridge versus where the other one was kind of petite.
So I couldn't get any like serving platters or anything in there.
Anything that like you want to roll outside and put in those big
for like Easter and stuff, really fit in there.
So when we go down for Easter and you're cooking, um, for a bunch of people,
you just need that space.
So I'm very excited about the way all that's laid out, but also
couches is a sectional, which is nice.
Yeah.
There's a lot more sitting space to lounge.
Um, and then the kids have like this little bunk room where we can lock them in
there, get tired of them.
There's not a, I don't think there's a door.
Is there?
Yeah.
If Dale can lock it, if he can find a way to lock it, he will.
Yeah.
That's true.
I might have to put a door in there.
You're going to have to put a door in there and lock them in.
Um, they're excited, like having their own little fun space.
And so it's all just laid out so great.
It's going to be an awesome time.
It's easier.
It's going to be easier to live in there versus where the other one was kind of split.
This is kind of, yeah.
And there's one door in, one door out, the other one had two doors, two bathrooms.
We're sharing a bathroom with the kids.
Yeah. So with little girls, they had their own bathroom and back door.
So that was kind of a nuisance.
Trying to make sure they were worried about them, you know, getting in and out or
just not really wanting them to be able to put in the whole roll of toilet paper in
the toilet, you know, that's what Nicole does.
Yeah.
She gets bored and she starts, you know, to choose violence and that's what she goes for.
We're excited about that.
Yeah.
It's going to be great.
They're excited about Daytona too, because they love going down there.
They do.
They love Daytona, not because of Daytona, but because of MRO is a little playground.
There's a playground at MRO, but they'll figure out the racing stuff at some point.
All right, we'll go right in to ask Amy.
All right.
So first question next weekend is Valentine's Day.
Dale, Amy, do you guys have any special plans or how do you handle this with a Daytona trip?
Well, we've had many Valentine's days in Daytona and usually we would just get
each other a little candy from CVS or Walgreens.
We've talked about that.
We would drive, we get in the car, we drive to the gas station.
She goes in, gets her stuff, I go in, get my stuff.
Then we go back to the bus and we'd give each other our stuff.
And then just eat all the candy with the kids now.
We like try to prepare a little bit for them, like giving them little baskets
and keep it pretty simple.
I don't know, Valentine's Day I've never held is like a really important holiday.
I don't know.
Love is every day, right?
But we'll be in Daytona and the Xfinity races on that Saturday.
So maybe we'll be celebrating Valentine's Day.
Do the kids still do like the little they make the boxes, taking to school and kids all they do.
They do.
It's really cute.
They still have their shoe boxes.
And they make them look like a mailbox and they get to decorate it.
The only thing about that is I don't think that they they don't use like cards
like they used to everybody takes like a trinket or a squishy or try to stay away
from candy just because nobody needs all that.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
And so they'll end up with like squishies and
finger traps and all kinds of stuff like that.
Yeah.
I'm a candle making on Valentine's Day.
You are.
Yeah.
With your girlfriend.
I missed that last week.
It is just barely Travis has a new girlfriend in there.
Where'd you find her?
We've talked about your dating app experience is no mutual friend.
A mutual friend.
Yeah.
So that's how we met.
That's nice.
Yeah.
So that's what I'll be doing.
How long have you been dating?
Since September.
OK.
Well, I'll be a while.
Cando making on.
I don't think Amy's like, why didn't I not know sooner?
I know.
I'm like, I'm so I'm the one under the rock now.
I'm excited to meet her.
Yeah.
And I want to see what candles you make.
Yeah.
So clearly you didn't set the date or she said it.
And I was like, that's perfectly fine by me.
Well, they'll probably have champagne and stuff like that to drink.
Yeah.
I'm just curious though, if there's going to be just like a big group
of like girls for Valentine's Day or if it's going to be like.
I bet there's a solid mix.
Yeah.
You'll be fine.
Yeah.
So our next question, Amy, I saw you posting this on Instagram.
People want to know what you think of the Grammy outfits.
I love watching a red carpet.
I never watched the shows because I just don't.
But the outfits were great.
I feel like I mean, there's been some really out there stuff.
Like I remember Lady Gaga showing up in like a whole set.
Remember when she like was in that cocoon thing.
And so like everybody's far more tasteful than they used to be.
But I thought they were great.
I love the fashion.
And I like it when they're a little bit weird and out there and great.
The Grammys event.
Is the Grammys the one for the weird or is it like summer?
Summer classy, super classy.
Summer more out there.
It just depends on who's really trying to get attention.
Heidi Klum showed up in what it looked like a plastic Barbie box situation.
She looked like a giant mannequin body and she couldn't even walk in it.
I'm like, her nickname is the body.
Like why do we have to do that?
But if you're Heidi Klum, I guess you can do that.
Or are we needing that much attention that we just have to show
up in a Barbie skeleton?
Like what are we doing?
How does she sit?
Yeah, I just wish that like I'm sure she took it off after the carpet part.
She just like, I just never saw any other pictures of like outfit number two.
You know what I mean?
Maybe they maybe maybe she just walked the carpet and got it literally.
Like maybe she just walks the carpet and that thing and then pops off
and she's got a dress on and the rest of the day.
She's not in that certainly right.
She can't sit in that.
I don't know.
She doesn't love a good costume.
She always does really good.
That thing didn't hinge the hips.
There's no way she's sat in it.
No, she could barely move her legs and it was like when I saw her like
doing that little shuffle, I'm like, I don't think she's had this on ever
until this moment.
Oh, surely she has.
Well, she would have adjusted it to be able to actually move her legs
a little better, maybe that's part of it.
Like the whole thing was supposed to be a scene like that.
That's what I mean.
She's interesting.
It's all about catching attention.
Yeah, did you have a favorite outfit?
No, and I get really bothered with a lot of the celebrity like so Harry Styles.
I just don't get what he does.
Yeah, I just wish that the problem is these celebrities have money
and they're all like attractive people, so they try different stuff.
And I just wish that all these celebrities had like one friend
that's like, you look like an idiot.
Go put something else on.
Like I just I don't get what these celebrities are wearing,
but I'm also not this like fashion person.
So yeah, for me, I mean, it's not for me.
So they're not all for me either.
Like Harry Styles is a good example.
He could be perfectly put together, but he likes he loves weird clothes.
He just does his thing.
He's like an open jacket, no shirt underneath.
And like that just doesn't.
And it was very short.
Like he I don't know.
I don't get it.
I don't get it either with Harry Styles, but there's so much fun stuff to look at.
Yeah, I wonder.
I don't know enough is the is some of the awards shows where the carpet's a big deal.
Right.
They're not there's not a you know, the red carpet gets its own show.
Yeah.
And is there some awards shows where they all real they all like
know to keep it classical or traditional, I suppose,
in terms of just, you know, beautiful dresses and nice suits or whatever.
And then there's this other show where they know that it's kind of like
it's a little bit crazy.
Yeah, where you had it.
Well, anything with music is a little bit more pushing boundaries.
So like the Grammys, the MTV Awards, the music awards,
the Met Gala usually pretty out there.
The Met Gala is very out there on purpose.
Yeah, it's supposed to be like an art piece.
So the rest of them, otherwise, I think it's pretty classy.
I suppose.
I mean, you're not you're not going to see some of the crazy, crazy stuff.
It's some of the more traditional like the Oscars or something like that.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
I mean, I don't know.
Yeah, it's to be expected.
And there used to be these to be really out there.
I never remember back in the day going, man, I can't wait to see the red carpet.
Don't don't you remember when Lil Kim showed up with just the purple
pastillon and the purple glitter?
That was cool. That's MTV.
Oh, yeah.
But yes, like the carpets used to be just as crazy or worse.
But, you know, now that we have our phones, we can see it so fast.
And so, I don't know.
Did you ever go to any word show?
Dylan, are you just wearing just like a suit?
I went to the MTV Music Awards and I got to go on stage and introduce Lincoln Park.
It was a really.
It was a really interesting deal because
left eye had just passed away.
And there was a thing on stage with Beyonce and the rest of the rest.
She wasn't in TLC.
Wasn't she?
That's the child.
Beyond Destiny's Child.
Destiny Child was up there.
Oh, I think I thought that they were just a child and they were receiving
an award or they were acknowledging left eye or said there was some sort of
a just a little speech or something.
I can't remember exactly what was.
So then I was, I didn't know where I was in the show, but I walk backstage.
And all the grips were back there and they had die casts.
All the guys that pulled the ropes and do all the stuff to make the stage
do what it's supposed to do in the middle of the show.