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Chevrolet Suburban
A very large family SUV made by Chevrolet that has three rows of seats and a huge trunk, perfect for hauling big families and lots of gear.
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Chevrolet Tahoe
A large, powerful SUV made by Chevrolet that is slightly shorter than the Suburban but still offers plenty of space and a strong engine.
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Lucid Air
The Lucid Air is a high-end electric sedan made by an American car company called Lucid. It is a battery-powered luxury car designed to go very far on a single charge and features a spacious, modern interior.
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Dodge Charger
A sporty, aggressive-looking four-door sedan made by Dodge that is famous for having loud, powerful engines.
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Millbridge Speedway
A small dirt race track in North Carolina where kids and professional drivers race small, high-speed go-karts to practice their skills.
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Carson Kvapil
A talented young race car driver who races for Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s team and is rising through the ranks of NASCAR.
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Shane van Gisbergen
A famous race car driver from New Zealand who shocked the racing world by winning his very first NASCAR race on the streets of Chicago.
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Sonoma Raceway
A famous, twisty race track in California's wine country that goes up and down steep hills instead of being a flat oval.
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road course
A race track that has left and right turns, like a normal winding country road, instead of just going in a continuous circle.
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North Wilkesboro Speedway
A legendary old race track in North Carolina that was abandoned and left to rot for years before being completely cleaned up and brought back to life for big NASCAR races.
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points race
A race where drivers earn points toward winning the season-long championship, rather than just racing for a one-time trophy or prize money.
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Oh, yeah, this is where it's going to be, girl.
If we're going to hang out, open a bunch of jars.
You got big, strong hands.
Are you suffering from high crack?
I'm working, working that mouth.
Hey, guys, Dale and I are in the beach this week for another episode
of Bless Your Heart.
We're hanging out in the bar this morning.
We have lots of fun things to talk about.
Let's get started.
Yeah, it's going to be a fun show coming remotely, not in the
the Dirty Moe Media Studio.
Travis is.
Hello, Travis.
How are we doing?
Yeah, doing pretty good.
We've got our high rock drink of the day.
Yes, we kind of week.
We it's just a drink of the summer.
We've got Sudachi lime and high rock and I feel a little cranberry in
mind. So yeah, cheers to everybody.
If you haven't already, go to highrockvodka.com.
Check out the store locator.
You can find high rock near you.
You also must remember to be 21 years or over.
Please drink responsibly.
I don't like these remote shows because Morgan's not here to make me.
I know we don't have a bartender with us.
Yeah, this is a bummer right over our shoulder.
We got our brand new Red Bull refrigerator and it's full of Red Bull.
The Sudachi is that he said Sudachi Sudachi lime is
right now it's my favorite.
I like the red, too, obviously, the original Red Bull.
But
pretty goes really, really well with with high rock vodka.
I've been doing the Red Bull vodka thing for 30 years, it feels like.
But wow, 30 years.
Well, aging yourself, he is old.
He is old.
Yeah, we're excited about this weekend, big weekend for
the United States, 250 years, July 4th, July 4th.
Every year is fun.
We celebrate it pretty hard.
Yeah, it's one of my favorite holidays.
It's Amy's.
Yeah, Amy loves it.
Unfortunately, this year, the fourth is falling in the weekend
and it does that for like the next couple of years.
Last year, we missed you, too.
So yeah, I'm off to the racetrack.
But here in South Carolina,
there's all kinds of cool, fun stuff to do around this weekend.
A lot of a lot of outsiders travel in to the beaches and so forth.
So it gets real busy and fun.
Yeah, energy is high.
Energy is real high.
A lot of a lot of people everywhere you go.
I really love it.
Every porch has flags and bunting on it.
There's just everybody's yard is decorated.
Everybody's wearing red, white and blue.
Yeah, we've got a big gigantic flag that Amy put up.
We'll shoot you a shot of that, Travis.
Yeah, I found an old.
It says 1776 on it.
It's an old I am.
It's not a real flag.
It's just, you know, something's a real flag.
What's a fake flag?
Everything's real today.
This thing out, Travis.
I sent you the yeah.
Amy kind of decorates the house as does everybody else around the neighborhood.
It's the only holiday where I can pull out all the decorations
and like really get overboard with it, where he doesn't lose his mind.
Like, it didn't matter how many red, white and blue flags I pull out, you know,
as opposed to Christmas decorations.
He's like, OK, that's enough.
But with it with the Americana garb, I get to like go as deep dive as I want.
Yeah, I don't know why, but it's like no matter how much
red, white and blue things that she puts out during the 4th of July,
all of it fits neatly in one box when it's over with the Christmas stuff takes up.
That's a garage.
Yeah, that's true.
This falls up.
Yeah, all the Christmas stuff is fluffy.
Fluffy and three dimensional brittle and delicate and careful.
You know, it's just like, I'll put stuff away.
You get it back out the next year.
It's a little banged up.
Kind of like when, you know, an aging body.
Yeah. Yeah.
And we relate to every time I wake up these days, my back hurts.
So I kind of feel like I'm the same.
Yeah, we hadn't been to our
our house in a while, at least I haven't.
And we did a ton of chores yesterday, washing golf carts and just cleaning up
and getting things kind of ready to go.
Well, the golf carts were more destroyed with the beach shirt and everything
because of the road work that's going on.
They're doing some work on the highway.
So they're they're so close.
They're almost done with it.
They're paving next week, which is, you know, but I can I can attest
the aches and pains.
Yeah, that's where I felt I climbed in bed and like, I don't know.
I'm at that age where you're already sorry for you go to sleep.
I'm at the age where when you're you do a lot in the day
and you sit down for five minutes, you get you start to try to get back up
and you're locked up, you know, kind of like everything hurts.
You're like, this is kind of what you're supposed to feel like in the morning.
Does they'll have the old man grunts when he gets up out of the chair?
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
I think that it's a it's an, you know, it's a guy thing.
Like you get to a certain age where even though it doesn't hurt to get up,
you still or it's not that complicated and you grunt.
He was grunting, carrying things around yesterday.
I'm like, I carried that all the way up the stairs and I didn't have to grunt.
I had to carry just let me know that he's getting the job done.
I think he does it for flair.
I was like, yeah, you mom, you're strong.
Yeah, she was trying to help me.
She's like, this one feels really heavy.
Like I got this, but, you know, now my back is tight and sore today.
So I'm right there with you, but I wanted to talk about the road
construction because the last week I was here,
I came down with the girls a couple of weekends ago.
I think over Father's Day weekend, you were in San Diego.
They're putting in a bunch of drainage.
They're putting in drainage pipes so they've had the road torn up for a while.
When it rains here, there's flooding all in the road.
Yeah, drink, drink.
Yeah, your thumbs up thing.
I didn't know what was happening.
I'm glad they're doing it.
You're flailing.
I was, I was confused on what the thumbs up was about to.
I was like, what is he doing?
Y'all had like a secret thing happening.
And I know what Amy's about to say, but I'm just saying I'm happy they're doing it.
I am happy.
I don't know what to do with my hand.
I am happy they're doing it too.
It just takes a long, it takes a long time.
And the timing of it isn't that great because it's fourth of July
and it's going to be busy and the road's still torn up.
But more than that, the weekend we were here.
So I've talked about before that you can't pull into the driveway.
So all the parking in front of the house is all we have.
And it's public parking right there.
So like the blocks are kind of funny around here.
Some, some roads have parking and some don't.
So I was just having to bank on getting a spot in front of the house
or schlepping the kids down the street or finding a spot somewhere,
which is fine, except that it's, you know, it's a lot more stress
with little kids doing that.
So can I say if you, if you're in one of the public spots
and you move to do anything, somebody is ready to take it.
It's like somebody came out of the woods just waiting for you to pull out.
The public, it won't last 10 seconds hard.
And we're right here next to the beach inlet too.
So, you know, there's a lot of people wanting to park here just for that reason.
So since we can't use our own driveway because the road's torn out
and they won't let us, it's literally like a foot drop off
down into the belly of the of the road.
So we couldn't get in and out there.
It's impossible.
She had to use some of the public parking.
I did. So that's fine.
It's right in front of the house.
But if you pull out and go eat or anything like that,
it's going to be a challenge to get it back.
So I bought myself some cones.
I ordered cones off of Amazon like a total Karen and was coning off
in front of the house, willing to get a ticket.
Because I'm sure that's not allowed, right?
Like, you're not supposed to put cones out in the public parking.
And it worked pretty seamlessly, to be honest.
Like cones for me had cones for my girlfriend.
So it coned off on, honestly, I'll cross the whole front
and it worked really well, except the last time we were pulling out
to go to dinner, Lisa's on the other side of the car trying to get
the kids in the car seats and I have pulled out a little bit
so that she could put the cones back out, right?
So I'm not actually in the spot anymore.
I'm kind of hanging off in the road, but the barricades are in the road too.
So I'm not really, really messing up traffic.
And anyway, so there's a guy coming through the stop sign
and he can't see that Lisa's on the other side of the car.
He just sees that the suburban's kind of pulled out in the road.
And he decides to start honking at me, that horn thing, you know,
that we talked about how rude that is, just honking for no reason.
Yeah. And we're at the beach, people.
We're not going anywhere fast.
So he honks and instead of doing anything out the window
to let him know we're like, hang on, we're coming out.
I just get out of the car and I walk straight up to his window.
Damn. I walked straight up to his window.
And he heard this story.
No, I haven't told you about it.
I wasn't mad, but I was at the point of the day where we're putting
the kids in the car for dinner. It's hot.
There's four children trying to get in the car seats.
It's it's it's been a long day.
I'm stressed out.
I'm in that weird, fuzzy space between I'm having a good time
and anything, anything could set me off.
So I just get out of the car and I walk straight up to his window
and I just stand there until he rolls his window down.
He's in there with his wife and he's like, I was like, listen,
we have little kids are trying to get into the car.
We're going to take a minute. OK.
You can see that I can't get into my driveway.
This is my house.
You're going to need to just chill out.
And he goes, you scared the shit out of me.
I was like, you probably shouldn't be honking then.
Like, what are you doing?
And so I got he rolls his window back up and I get back in my car
and I take my ever loving time getting out of there
because he was waiting to park in that spot.
Anyway, I'm like, man, now take me in my cones.
Like the whole thing don't mess with Amy.
I know I had had enough.
Yeah, into the show.
Man, none of our topics are going to top that.
I I used the horn when I was in San Diego,
but normally I have my Kia and my horn when I use my Kia,
it's like you're not allowed to honk at anyone.
If you're in a Kia, by the way, it's like my horns, like, excuse me.
But the Tahoe that I was driving out in San Diego was a rental
and I hit that and that thing was like, move, mother fucker.
That was loud.
And I just because it was just it was supposed to be a gentle,
but it was not a gentle.
Even have it in it to feel bad.
I did the sorry.
I have I have a truck that has a train horn in the bed.
It's obnoxious.
And it is freaking a hundred decibels.
And when you lay on that thing, you have to prime it.
Is an air pump underneath the hood.
So you flip on a switch to prime the pump pump
and get the compressed air in the tank.
Why would you put something like that on your truck?
To be the biggest ass you can be.
And that's what your goal was.
I mean, if somebody deserves it, they're going to get it.
So. Well, that took the home.
Yeah, I've never heard you.
I've never heard it.
You've had the truck at the house to show I love the truck
because it's huge, just like a big monster truck.
And she used to watch Blaze and she was just like Blaze.
The monster plays in the monster machines.
Yeah. So she's not at that point.
She was the same height as the tire.
Yeah, it's awesome.
It's huge.
Speaking of things that do speaking of things
that people do that drive you crazy on the highway,
I have a bit of confession to make.
I don't know if they even remember realizes this was happening
and this is probably highly illegal.
And we may we may get shut down just because we're we're we're
to be clear. Wait a second.
What happened? Well, I mean.
So this drives me crazy.
This happens quite often, honestly, and it drives me crazy.
And so you're you're coming down an own ramp
to blend on to the interstate.
The interstate is two lanes.
It don't matter how many lanes, but minimum two lanes.
You look in the you driver's side mirror
to see what kind of traffic's coming from behind on the interstate
as you're going to blend on to the right hand lane.
I mean, there's a there's a guy driving up.
You know, probably he's probably about ten car links back.
He's not beside you, but he's he's he's a little faster than you.
And he sees you coming down the own ramp.
And he knows that you're going to want to next blend on to the highway.
That's like your next move.
Your only move. Yeah.
He has nobody around him, nobody in the left lane,
and he chooses to stay in the right and walk.
And you either got a gun at the get in front of him or slow down
and let him go by when he could just easily blend over into the left lane
to allow you to have the right.
There's an ass.
I was we were getting on the interstate just as we were coming down here.
Yeah. And there's this guy just toodling along in his car
and I'm coming down the ramp and I'm like, my buddy, you know,
it's you and me, man.
And I just said, and I just started blending on into the highway.
Did you push him over?
He was behind me stills, but he had to slow down and he honks.
And I'm like, let's go, come on.
I'm just so I can't say that when you're not having manners on the road.
I don't. Yeah.
I've never had road rage.
I've never done anything on the highway that except for that one time
that charger got us off and I gunned it and had to stop me.
But I I've never done anything on the highway like like, you know,
I don't see if we're led in general.
I just well, I mean, you there are laws against using your vehicle
in certain ways on the road.
You get yourself some big trouble there.
That is me off.
And I'm and I wouldn't like I wasn't coming over into the side of his car.
He was still behind me by like a half a car length.
We were clear to come over into the lane, but he was it was going to be tight.
And I'm like, I'm coming over and he's
fast. Here he goes down.
He honks his horn and I'm like, man, I'd love to.
I'd love to just talk to this person.
Like, dude, why not? Just get over.
You see what's going on here.
You know what I need and you've got plenty here.
Plenty of. Yeah.
Let's work together here.
I feel like that's kind of like
so honking at someone when they were just trying to get in their car.
Like I'm the first. Everybody needs to just be courteous.
I'm the first person to let somebody over when I can tell
you know, they're in the right lane and we're running up on.
They're running up on the 18 wheeler and they're going to there.
I'm like, here, come on, get in front of me.
Come on over in the left lane.
I ain't going to hold. You know, I'm not.
I'm not going to make you go to the back of the line.
And I'm the first person.
I'm Curtis's and I could do a class.
I could have all of these that don't come.
Don't let somebody have the right of way or whatever.
I can have all these in a classroom and teach them.
Road etiquette, can you teach them?
If you're in the left lane,
you got to go at minimum the speed limit.
Yeah, because my God, on 77 every idiot is on the left lane.
I agree. So it's similar in South Carolina.
There's two lanes on the highway.
You've been down here a few times, Travis, you know, like once you get down
into South Carolina, it's just two lanes.
Well, there's plenty of trucks and cargo and different trailers
and things coming through here right now.
A lot of construction happening.
The way that people drive here has always driven me nuts.
Like you're in the left lane, you're going the speed limit.
Everybody's got a good pace, but there's always that one guy
that comes up on the right side and instead of slowing down
because he got too close to the truck, he just weaves right in the middle.
So now we're all bunched up and everybody's going to
freaking run into each other.
And it's like you're inchworming down the dang highway.
And nobody's really going any faster.
You know what I mean?
I hate that.
Yeah, I think Dale and I have conversations about it every time
we get in the car to come down here.
I'm like, there's a carry. Here we go.
I bet now, to be fair to us, I bet everybody driving down the interstates
about somebody around them.
You know what I mean?
Nine times out of 10, if you're driving 15 minutes down 77,
you're going to be something somebody's doing.
Right. That's because nobody uses their brain anymore.
Everyone's just like in a hurry or trying to cause problems.
We're not that bad.
We're just too many of the people that are in La La Land and they're doing like,
yeah, they're 55.
Like, let's focus here.
People put the phone down.
Yeah, one thing at a time. Drive.
So Amy saw the clip from Tuesday's show.
Yeah, I did.
I saw the clip from Tuesday's show about you and the cards and your father's
a gift and I have a question.
Yeah, we're in the Sonoma house in the kitchen.
You have slithered away from the family again to start messing with your cards.
I'm in the middle room with all of y'all.
Well, the rest of us were outside.
You were in the kitchen messing with your cards and I said,
oh, you still haven't opened all of those.
I thought you opened the whole pack and I knew he had gone to a card shop.
I already knew he went.
So there was really no reason to fib.
But he sounds like he straight lied to my face about having bought an extra set.
Like, I know I teed him up for the live
because I said you haven't finished opening all of those yet.
Because it was the same box.
Maybe he forgot which ones were from which memory labs.
Coincidentally, like she bought me a badass box.
It was a top's chrome platinum.
It's an awesome, awesome set.
And he had already bought himself some too.
I had inadvertently coincidentally bought these exact same box
as well as some other cards when I was in San Diego.
And so I was I'd open up everything except for
her box and the identical box that I had.
And so I laid in the bed one night and opened up one box.
It might have been hers, mine.
And she was with she was in the bed with me.
She's like, she thought, you know, I guess she assumes I'm open up her box.
But I'm just opening the cards and looking at why I assume that
because I didn't know you had bought yourself the same thing.
Yeah. And he didn't he didn't say that.
He was he was excited and shocked that I got him baseball cards to begin with.
And then that most of just and then I'm in the kitchen,
opening up the same same cards as you go. Hmm, you're still open in those.
I'm like, well, kind of, yeah. Yes, I am.
She big, fat liar. Yeah.
Amy, I'm impressed that you even got him cards
because that's like, I mean, we know how addicted it is.
And you kind of just I'm an enabler, Travis.
Haven't you figured that out yet?
That's the lead. He doesn't change because I enable it.
That's that's an amazing gift by you.
And that just shows how much I love it.
Yes, you're willing to go that far.
He's like, you are so thoughtful.
He wants to make pickle spears.
He's he had pickle spears on his trip.
So he wants to have panko fry, some of those butchers or pickles that we have.
So I get all the ingredients for that.
And he asked me yesterday, he's like, did you get the stuff for the pickles?
I was like, of course I did. He's like, you're the best.
I'm like, I know this is what being thoughtful looks like, you know.
She's got this built in gene of thoughtfulness.
Not everybody has it.
No, not everybody has it.
We're looking at one of them.
He told me that yesterday.
He's like, gosh, you're so thoughtful.
I was like, I know it feels good to be thoughtful.
It feels really good.
I thought I was thoughtful till I met Amy.
You did? You really thought you were thoughtful?
I thought I was average.
And then I met Amy.
I'm like, holy s**t, she's like to the to the, you're like full thoughtful.
I'm like half thoughtful.
It just depends on what it is.
But gifting is definitely not where he thrives.
Where do I thrive? Do I thrive at all?
I'm an honest question.
If it has something to do with boys and racing or whatever, like you are.
So if someone's child wants to get into a car or race car,
somehow you will figure that out.
You are thoughtful.
You've got all the things aligned.
I know who to contact.
I know who to do.
Blake Cook's going to race his son at Millbridge for the first time.
Next Wednesday.
And in a car that I own the engine and Carson Quapo owns the cart.
So I'm like, he's like, he's got his line of people.
You know, exactly who to contact and he lines it up
and he can make it happen in seconds.
And Blake didn't ask him to do that.
So that was very thoughtful.
He absolutely can do it.
But when he looks at me and he's like, yeah, I know,
but I don't know who to call to set up.
You know, I don't know.
I can call and set up a massage.
No, I won't.
But I mean, I don't.
What's the equivalent of calling like I call a buddy and go, hey, man,
I need a motor for this cart.
What's the equivalent to that for you?
For like, what would I do?
What would I be doing?
Listen, after 18 years together, I feel like we should just have to.
It shouldn't be that hard.
I'm going to call a I need a motor for Amy.
I need a new engine for Amy.
OK.
I can do it.
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Listen, I got a preface before you start rolling into the story.
This week, we are good parents.
We love our children.
We are really good parents.
They're super sweet.
I don't like the worst and they challenge us.
And so sometimes we challenge them back.
But it's for growth, always for growth.
If you had been sitting there watching this happen,
you would think that we were the biggest parents.
Don't say that.
I was saying she said yes.
Listen, we're at dinner the first night we get here with the pub.
As we always do.
And Nicole doesn't like spreads.
We've talked about this.
You want to catch up mustard, syrup, none of that.
And so she's ordered a piece of grilled chicken plain and she has got chips.
The kid won't eat anything with flavor on it.
Regular normal potato chips.
And so I've I've challenged her with maybe trying some mustard.
Just just in case.
That's the wrong thing to start with.
We tried ketchup already and she gagged.
But she just put her finger in it and she tried gagged.
She won't do.
So and so she won't do any of it.
It's the consistency.
It's pasty.
So well, she just gets really mental.
She gets in her head about it because she'll eat chocolate syrup.
Like it's it's not totally the consistency.
I think it's just the flavor and then like her psyching herself out.
So I put some mustard on a potato chip and I'm like, how about you try this?
I'll give you 20 bucks.
And she's like, nah, I don't need 20 bucks.
How about a squishy?
Because I have a box full of squishies for bribery, obviously.
It at the house here and she goes, yep, I'll do it.
I'll do it for a squishy.
But I'm just going to put my finger in it.
I was like, no, you have to eat this whole thing.
And she's like sniffing it.
So I give her the chip and it's got some mustard on it.
And she wants to like stick her finger in it and just try it that way.
I'm like, no, you have to eat the whole chip.
So she gets it really close and she's sniffing on it and she's like
trying to tuck herself into it.
And finally Dale's like, you got to just do it.
Go for it.
And so she sticks the whole chip in her mouth with the mustard on it
and she starts to gag, but she's chewing it up.
Like she's really going to be able to swallow it.
And then all of a sudden she starts barfing all over the table.
Dude, I would too.
That's I'm on Nicole's side with this one.
Oh, I am too now.
Like, well, I won't do it again.
But honestly, she said yes.
Like she knew what she was saying herself before.
Think about how like super simple and innocent this is.
Like it's it's a it's a little bit of mustard on it.
It's the size of my pinky finger now.
It's not like I've got nobody's nobody's going to eat this
and just blow chunks all over the table.
That's not what's usually going to happen, right?
So I'm like, I'm thinking, man, this is this is the kind of shit I do.
Like I'm always trying to bribe them to do stuff.
I want them to do tri-buffalo sauce, whatever.
And I'm like, this is Amy's trying to bribe them.
That's not her style.
I want to challenge her to try new things.
But also I was a little bored.
I felt like it was a good idea at the moment.
Yeah. So she she she puts in her mouth
and immediately starts like gagging, gagging, gagging over and over.
And eventually just throws up.
It wasn't loud.
Like to the point where I'm looking at and he goes
and like points at her and I look over and it's happening.
And so I just grab a bunch of napkins and like we felt.
I felt terrible for her.
I didn't. She's fine.
I know.
She's my little girl.
She's your little critter.
She just she's fine.
But I could not even look around the room.
No, I was so terrified of what someone else saw.
What other group sitting there in the pub was mortified,
like looking at us going, what are y'all doing to this kid?
They didn't know that we asked her to try.
I know. We didn't ask her to order.
We asked her to eat some mustard.
It's not the same thing.
It's like food, you know, it's not an oyster either.
It's like not something weird that like most people don't like.
It's freaking. But why don't you start with like barbecue sauce?
What do barbecue sauce with the chicken?
Do something like mustard in a chip?
Hey, she won't do barbecue either.
Listen, next time we'll try barbecue.
See how that's like.
But that was a little more like mustard in the chip is awful.
Oh, I did my must my chips and mustard.
I'm a mustard chip.
Oh, thank you mustard with my mustard.
So there's a big debate in our house.
Around expiration dates on foods.
Dale seems to think as soon as the expiration date hits,
it has to be thrown out.
Oh, no, it has to be.
Even if it's a thing that has not been opened, not true.
That's exactly how you've always been.
I remember having that pantry cleaned out and you throwing things out,
even if it was like ketchup that hadn't been opened.
Yeah. So if it's two months, three months, four months more,
like if it's a couple of weeks and not opened, it's fine.
See, I haven't had a different, different opinion than you thought.
So two weeks.
It depends on what it is.
If it's unopened.
Yeah. I mean, you know, like steak, chicken, meats, things like that out.
When it crosses that date, it's it's done to me.
Yes, 100 percent. It's out.
So but if it's something that's,
you know, in the pan, in the pantry, a dry good, right?
And it's a couple of weeks or so unopened, still fine.
But if it's a couple of weeks and it's open,
then it's definitely not something I want to eat.
I'm not even going to mess with it.
I'm not. I'm not.
I mean, it's got a date on there for a reason.
Yeah, the date is on there so that they have a marker of which
their quality is is benchmarked.
Like you can still eat it.
It's not going to hurt you.
Like if you can open a bag of chips that are a year old and just check it out
and see if the word expire mean, I mean, is it like no.
But that's that's more like for like legally so that like they can't be sued
and like it's just a suggestion liability.
Yeah, for the most part, especially if it's something completely dry.
I don't adhere to that.
So I mean, I'll take an Advil to if it's expired.
But now I do some medicine.
No medicines, what I wouldn't do because it won't it can lose like its effectiveness.
Yeah, that's OK.
If it's effective, I still want some of its effectiveness.
That's how I feel about the chips.
You threw all my snacks away.
We have a snack drawer here in the bar.
Damn, you told me to.
I've told you the dates and you said, yeah, throw that out.
Throw that out because he starts arguing with me.
And I'm like, you know what?
It's not even I never start arguing.
I'll get some new snackies.
Start arguing. Yes, you didn't.
You're like, but it says that's April to April.
No, that's not how it is.
Fine bag of chips.
How that went.
The only thing I told you to throw away immediately was open stuff.
Yeah, which is obvious.
It's sale. Yeah.
So I have a question.
OK, yeah, I have a question for you then.
So I drank like the lactate milk and it was the expiration date was
like June 18th and I had it earlier.
I did like I just opened that smell test and then it smelled fine.
So I so the free stuff lasts longer than they.
Is that the end of the story?
No, he's like, but like so it's like 10 days after its expiration date.
Is that too much for you?
Did it hurt your belly?
No, it's fine.
That's the measure for all things.
I mean, if you didn't make you bar, you're fine.
Did you have diarrhea?
No, I did not.
Did you get any kind of stomach pains and then do a lot of farting?
Did you break down a rash?
No, rash is good then.
Yeah, I think milk is scary.
Your body was probably like, what the hell?
But you didn't know, you know that.
What?
OK, you put it down in there and your body's like, Jesus, this guy's an animal.
He's a freaking idiot.
No, I would say milk is something you have to be a little more careful with,
but the lactose free stuff does last way longer.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
So I was like, I do the smell test or like the cheese.
Sometimes like I just like look and like I don't see any mold and it's still good.
Yeah.
And then you just cut the moldy part off and go for it.
We have.
No.
That's when you got to pitch it, Amy.
You can't just cut the mold off.
Yeah, you can.
We have snacks up here in this bar, right?
We only come up here every couple of months.
And when we have guests up here, you don't want them opening up a bag of chips
and then being stale and them having to go, what the hell?
They don't keep fresh around here.
You know?
And so, you know, if it's like if there's chips in there that are six months old,
four months old, they got to go.
I didn't grow up like that risk.
We ate it anyway.
Well, I get it if I'm going to eat it, but that's like community food.
It's not going to hurt someone's belly.
It's just not hurting the belly.
It's a.
No, he's got a point if the chip loses its crispiness and people bite into it
and that's going to ruin the.
I know.
No, no, no.
Everything.
Somebody's impression of us and what we're providing them is going to go down.
We're going to get a four star rating instead of a five star rating.
Here's what I challenge you to do, Ralph.
I would challenge you to open one and just try it first.
I haven't get, would guarantee you that it would still be crunchy.
It's its job to be crunchy.
It doesn't get squishy unless you open it and expose it to the air.
Same thing.
Like it doesn't do that unless you expose it to the air.
I have had, I'm 51.
I've had experiences.
I mean, I've experienced this stuff.
I have, I have been eating old food for a long time too.
And I've never had one that was.
I guess.
Wait.
All right.
Hold on.
I got a question.
Whoa.
What?
I mean, in terms of stillness.
You're just bougie.
You're bougie.
I'm bougie.
You're redneck bougie man.
I guess so.
So Dale, you're throwing away chips that the bag hasn't even been opened yet.
Yes.
Yes.
From April.
Like snack size bags of chips or crackers or something.
Those are, those can last years.
I don't see.
Are you?
I thought you were talking about like an open bag of seal.
Like you think chips can last years.
Yes, sir, Bob.
In a sealed bag.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
It's full of preservatives.
I mean, that's true, but it doesn't mean it's going to not be stale.
Yeah, it does actually.
So all right.
We had chips in there from February, January.
We had chips in there from December, 2025.
You're eating those?
Yeah.
I'm going to try it before I throw it away.
You're eating them?
Yeah.
Travis?
Yes.
From what year?
From what month?
Travis.
What's your threshold?
They could be from 2025.
If they're a bag of ruffles, potato chips.
Open those puppies up and going, yes.
They're going down.
Y'all are in the minority.
Let's get a poll.
No, it's two against one.
There's two here.
You're the minority.
I believe we need to put this out of the public.
See what the truth is.
All right.
I feel like we need to just stop throwing away good food, Ralph.
Yeah.
That this is the public house.
It's like.
Public life is a no go.
So yesterday I was in the swimming pool with Isla and I saw something that I can't explain.
Well, I guess I can explain it, but I saw something I didn't believe was possible.
So there was that we have some wasp that fly around.
Yeah.
And every time you come down here, there's a new wasp nest to find and hunt down and take care of.
And so we're in the pool and there's a wasp that's kind of flying around in the yard a little bit.
And he comes up to the coping of the pool and stuff every now and then.
And we had this fishing net.
The net is like six by six inches.
It's a kid's toy.
And it has a rod handle that's probably let's say a foot and a half long for catching butterflies.
Yep.
And it's bright orange.
And so I catch this wasp with this net and now have the wasp in the net and I put it in the water.
Way low, like a foot and a half deep into the water is I'm holding the wasp, the handle of this thing.
It's a foot and a half long in the net and the wasp is in it all underwater by about a foot and a half.
Isla's got on her little goggles and I'm like, swim, look under water and see if that wasp is still in that net.
I just wanted her to see the wasp and she's like that I'd called it and she's like, yep, the wasp is in there.
And she goes down again.
She goes, dad, she comes up.
She goes, dad, dad, he's out.
He's coming out.
He's walking up the handle.
And I'm like, what?
How?
He's like underwater and I let go of it and the handle, the net.
It floats.
No, the net sunk and the handle bobbed in the water just the very end of the handle sticking out of the water by about two inches.
That wasp crawled all the way up the handle out of the water onto the tip, stood there for a second and flew away.
What the hell?
Yeah.
That's an evil bug.
He was underwater for 20 seconds more.
He walked.
That's a tough wasp.
He walked that handle like it wasn't sh**.
I'm glad to let go of it.
He just stuck my ass underwater, no less.
That would have been a pleasure.
It saved your life.
I can't believe that they can swim like that.
I didn't either.
Or even just march underwater.
Yeah.
Who could do that?
They can't.
This one just must have, I just Googled, they would normally drown.
I would assume the same.
Yeah.
I would assume when their wings get wet too, they can't fly.
I'm going to hold him underwater and drown this thing.
Because I was like, there's a bee flying around.
She's like, we can't kill the bees.
They've got to pollinate.
Yeah, she's like, they have a job.
They have a job.
We need to keep the bees.
She's like, I think I know a job.
We can kill it.
I'm like, all right.
So I'm drowning him.
Trying to.
Damn, his ass was going to walk out of there, sting me on the way out.
Yeah.
How about that sh** dude?
I let go of it.
And I mean, it was like 34 seconds later, he come crawling up their damn pole
right out of the water.
I was like, what the hell?
Yeah, that would have blown my mind too if I saw that.
And then I was been trying to tell Amy for the last 12 hours.
And I'm like, don't tell her, her.
But I was like, I got to tell her.
I want to tell her.
Why not?
Why?
Oh man.
They are our wasps.
They'll like bury in the grass too, right there next to the pole.
So they come out of nowhere.
Well, now we know we literally have to have a fly swatter sitting around.
The net's not good enough.
You need to get one of those like the ones that look like little rackets that have
like you press it in electrocute some.
Oh, do we not have one of those?
Sounds fun.
I mean, it probably wouldn't last down here in these elements.
So I need that.
Nothing lasts down here.
I know.
I need, this is what I like to do.
So when I'm, I usually like to do everything on my own or I've gotten better at doing
everything on my own, but sometimes I just get to my wits in and I reach out to the
internet.
I need a retractable extension cord that will handle the elements.
So I've put, we're on a beach.
I've got in the garage.
It's not out in the rain.
It's downstairs covered, but it's a breath, breathable garage.
There's wind blowing through there.
It's slatted and this, I've had to put two retractable extension cords in this garage
because they keep failing.
And I don't know why.
I mean, I know the elements down here and it, the, the sand, the salt water, the salt
beach and everything, but I don't know why these retractable extension cords keep failing.
Cause we have, I mounted two fans up in the ceiling of the garage.
They're your standard grilled, big, you know, 16 inch, 18 inch fan, pull string, crank,
you know, two or three speeds, them damn things have been hung in this garage for
Since you're bought the house.
Four or five years and run like a champ.
They'll sit down here, not turned on for months.
And that's the worst thing for anything down here is for it to sit turned off.
If it's working, it's actually kind of better off for everything down here.
I've had to put two water pumps in our ice machine maker outside because the pump,
magnetic pump keeps failing it because of the elements out here.
It just up over time, but then fans have never, they keep working and working and
I can't, I don't know what the hell is about it.
The extension cord, but I need a retractable one, not no regular extension cord.
Hell, I can go buy one of them anywhere.
I need a good retractable that you pull out and you let it go and run winds itself back up.
It's for the golf carts, which is why he wants it to go away.
So it's not laying through the, through the garage.
Yeah, you don't want it out there.
No, I mean, I'm using a regular cord.
That's fine.
I want the retractable one to work, but I can't find one to last.
So shoot me a suggestion out there.
Somebody send him help.
There's got to be one.
The internet's got everything.
That's what this is good for.
So if you like stuff, you talk about it.
The internet tells you about it and says, this is the good stuff of that stuff.
Oh my gosh.
That's the best thing about the internet.
That's the best thing about podcasting.
He's really just using you listeners.
No, it's, if you talk about things, good answers, things you like, things you don't like,
things you're struggling with, whether whatever it is, whether it's material items,
whether it's emotional stress, work, whatever.
And it's like therapy.
Now you got to weed through a lot of you got to weed through a ton of and if you ask
for a good retractable drop cord, you got to weed through the, but you'll find a good one.
You'll have one within a week.
I guarantee it.
I see it.
And your phone's probably listening.
It's going to start feeding you.
I was just going to say, at this point, it's just going to pop right into your feed.
You don't even need to worry about it.
Just open up your phone and just say retractable cord.
Yeah, I'm surprised he hadn't found one just doing that anyway.
I think it'll be okay.
Today is the day that I finally come public with my issues in retractable cords.
So this is the first time people are hearing about it.
Give it a little time.
Okay, guys, we're back with another session of Ask Amy.
What do you have for us this week, Travis?
So first question people will know is what do you think about Amanda not returning to
Summerhouse?
I think.
Hey, wait.
Wait, what?
News to me.
What's going on?
News flash.
Amanda's not returning to the Summerhouse.
All right.
I wasn't sure who wouldn't come.
I figured there would be a few people, one or two, that wouldn't be on it.
But so is Amanda.
Amanda's the one that's getting...
Well, West is also not coming back.
Well, of course.
Okay, so Amanda and West are out.
Amanda has officially proclaimed that she is also not coming back.
I feel like we could have saw that coming.
I think that now she's got the in the city show and I'm not shocked.
But I'm kind of surprised that she's on TV anymore right now at all, unless this whole
thing, as we started from the very beginning, the whole thing might just be a ruse.
And they were getting divorced anyway.
And like this whole thing is what a hell of a thing to put yourself through.
But maybe it's all just for show.
I don't know.
I don't think that this is like a fake thing though.
It's hard to understand.
If it was fake, it's very developed, but...
It's gone too far for fake.
It's gone too far for fake.
Okay.
Hey, somewhat related.
Craig Conover is at the race this weekend in Charlotte.
There's Chicago.
Yeah.
I'm like, what?
Not Charlotte.
Chicago.
He's Grand Marshal or something.
Oh.
Yeah.
He texted me.
He's like, you're going to be in Chicago for the race?
Let me see.
We are big Southern Charm fans, obviously.
We've talked about Southern Charm quite a bit.
For real.
They're all very nice people.
I should have mentioned it.
He's on Southern Charm.
Yes.
He is invited to the Chicago Racist Weekend Honorary Starter.
Oh.
I wonder what the Chicago tie is.
I don't know.
I was surprised to hear that as well.
Yeah.
That's cool.
Speaking of races, Amy, we saw Ila finally getting the car.
What was it like for you?
What was your thoughts?
Yeah.
She is always a little scared.
And so I will put her in situations where I'm like, she's going to be challenged
and she's either going to go with it or she's going to lock up
because she locked up the first time she got, you know,
put in that position and get in the car.
And so I told her going up to the race, leading up to it
and during the day of the race that if they won,
that it was her turn to get in the car.
And she seemed excited about it.
Her dad had talked to her about it.
She was all about it.
And then we get in the moment and everyone's staring at her
and it's time and she has to make a choice very quickly.
And she walks over to the car with Dale.
And then she turns around and she comes right back to me.
She's like, I can't do it, mom.
And I want to do it.
She was worried about it being too hot in the car.
She just worried about everything.
And then Nicole's like, well, I want to go.
So she like screams,
throws her hands in the air and runs over to daddy.
And then Ila decides she wants to change her mind
and she's going to go back.
So I'm like, holy, come over here with me.
And so coley cries and I'm holding Nicole.
She's crying against my leg.
And then Ila finally gets in the car.
And she pretends the whole time that she's not having a good time,
but she was smirking and loved every second of it.
But she's not going to admit that.
She's talked about it since.
So I know that she enjoyed it,
but she's definitely not like the natural daredevil that Nicole is.
And Nicole was crushed.
She's like, dang it.
She said, no, she changed her mind.
Like it was a whole thing.
I thought we were going to have like two kids crying at the race car.
And then SVG is like, what the hell's going on here?
It was definitely like more time spent trying to get that to happen
than we should have been doing right there at that moment.
But I think she liked it.
I love how Nicole is like, please don't do it.
I want it.
She's like, she's now like fully bought in.
She loves it.
She was banking on Ila, chickening out.
Yeah, I'm kind of interested to see where this goes with coley
because Ila don't think would have any interest whatsoever
in genuinely like trying to, trying to drive something
or getting any kind of a cart of any kind.
But we have carts and there's, we have little tracks
and I can get, I can get coley on a little slow cart and have her.
That's what all the kids did.
I mean, I could, I could tell you two dozen children of crew chief drivers
mechanics that all got their kids on tiny little carts
and by themselves just let them run around this little track
for hours on end.
They just come out to the house.
They would come out to our house and we just tell them,
come on Sunday, Saturday, whenever y'all wanted to come.
And they just be down there by themselves with their dad,
just running laps over and over.
They get off, take a little break.
And Ila's done that.
She's done that on her little cart,
but it's not like something that drives her.
It's like something she'll play with,
but it's not something she's passionate about.
Yeah.
So, yeah, we'll see.
Coley seems like she, she's, she's pretending or she's serious.
I can't tell, but she says she wants to learn more about it.
Yeah.
Are we still in the kind of phase?
Yeah, we're still in the kind of phase.
Everything's in the kind of phase.
She, except for mustard, she definitely doesn't like that.
Well, listen, coley, I'm with you on mustard.
So stay strong on that one.
It's awful.
We heard Dale talk about the Sonoma trip out on the download.
Amy, what was like kind of your highlighter?
What'd you like best about going out there?
I always love going out to Sonoma because of course,
I like the wine country because of the wine,
but the weather is just so nice.
It's beautiful.
The sun is out.
It's like, there's no clouds in the sky.
And it's a little chilly in the morning,
super hot in the afternoon.
So like you get to just experience just really different weather,
but the girls had a blast.
We stayed at the Stanley Ranch this year.
It was our first time and they have a chicken coop.
And I think that was their favorite thing of the whole trip
was just getting to go inside this coop and feed the chickens.
So we did that a couple of times and they could pick them up.
And so Nicole and I, we both chased the chickens down.
You know, everything has a swimming pool.
Everything has all the things,
but the chicken coop was special.
And so they love that.
I love the racetrack too.
It's one of my favorite ones.
I like that it's a road course.
And it's like not like a flat, basic road course.
It's more dynamic.
So it's fun to watch.
Uh, have any of the Jesus has made its way to solvents islands yet?
I'm probably.
Yeah.
I've got some in my bag.
I haven't put them anywhere yet.
I'm surprised he hasn't.
He should have a couple in his pocket at all times.
So we get those Jesuses at Sweetgrass and keep them on the countertop
right next to the checkout.
So like we do have several of those at home.
Like every little backpack has one in its pocket.
So you're already aware of this before?
Oh yeah.
The pocket Jesus.
Um, but I didn't know that Dale would be so excited about it.
We need a little tiny Dale juniors or even your dad is to give the number,
the little number three.
It's always so fun.
Yeah.
I got a text from a coworker at junior motorsports and he goes,
I just saw the social clip.
That makes sense.
Why I have a Jesus in my office right now.
He's like, I don't know where Jesus pops up.
I wish we wouldn't have cut the social clip though.
So that people around the office would have been wondering what's going on.
Yeah.
Where it came from.
Mike has three in his office.
I don't know if he's found them yet.
He's on vacation.
So he, he won't even know about him until he gets back.
Probably understood.
You got to hide him in places that'll surprise you.
Like, I don't know, an inner drawer and a seat and a cup holder.
There's one in one of the bathrooms.
There's one in Travis's space right now.
There's one in the room Travis is in right now.
Can we see it?
Should he be able to see it?
Look over by the, look over by the door and then the glass wall.
Oh yeah.
He's over in the corner.
Listen, it's just a little blessing for you.
I put, I put one in the bathroom in the men's bathroom at dirty move.
Awesome.
Just a, you know, bless the bathroom.
Did you order a box as well?
I did not order a box because we've got a lot.
So Stephen ordered some and then I ordered some sitting next to him,
but Stephen thought he was ordering them to give to me.
So he comes into the dirty MoMedia studio.
Here's your box of Jesus.
I said, that's your box.
I've got my own box.
And he goes, he was the look on his face when he was like,
when he realized that he was the owner of a box of miniature Jesus.
He was like, okay, now what am I going to do with all these things?
You know, he's like, this is, this is more a challenge.
Dude.
And I said, just get rid of them.
Like put them everywhere.
He comes back like 20 minutes late.
He's like, all right, they're everywhere.
I'm like, the whole box.
Really?
I'm looking at my box going, this is going to take a while.
Right.
Yeah.
Like you got to take it, not to, you can't just put them all in one office.
You got to take them wiki places.
I don't want to think about this longer than I have to.
I'm just going to get rid of them.
That's funny.
You could have just sold them in the shop downstairs.
Give a little Jesus on your, Jesus and jerky.
Jesus and jerky.
You buy a bag of jerky.
You get a Jesus.
There you go.
Next question.
Speaking of potato chips, what's your go-to potato chip?
Potato chip or chip?
Oh man.
Lay salt and vinegar.
Give me a chip.
Hands down.
Lay salt and vinegar.
Lay salt and vinegar.
Really good.
I also really like the chili cheese Fritos.
Fritos have always been on the top for me.
Those are my favorite as a kid.
There's another salt and vinegar that's really good too.
And I can't remember the name guy.
I can't remember the brand name, but it's the ones in the can.
Huh?
No, no, no, no.
They're, it's in a bag.
They're like kettle chips.
They're super tart.
Yeah.
I remember where I bought those.
Oh, they're, the name is the name.
It's a very specialty.
The name feels like a very old vintage brand.
I can't remember the damn name, but they're freaking good.
Salt and vinegar to me is just such a cool combo flavor for a chip.
Even for like almonds and stuff.
Salt and vinegar almonds.
I love the jalapeno kettle chips.
Yeah.
I can't get down with jalapeno flavored things.
I like jalapenos.
Yeah, I'm with you.
It doesn't have the same vibe.
No.
It's something that's always kind of been strange to me.
I do like jalapenos in my wine though.
It's like a trend that I do actually like.
You slice up jalapenos and stick it in your sauvignon blanc or your rosé.
And over time it gets more spicy.
But it's good.
I don't think I've ever thought of that.
Fresh ones.
Last question.
Fourth of July is this weekend.
When is the cutoff for you to, for people to stop doing like fireworks?
And it's being like annoying.
My opinion.
Like can you go Monday?
Don't.
So traditionally fireworks, the more, you know, the local public setup or your
buddies down the street that do it every year, it usually happens in the evening,
right?
Yeah.
Sometime.
You know, I think once it's, once you've kind of started that like official
fireworks display that's going to happen that you're going to do in the evening
or that's happening at the town square or whatever after that's done.
And it's beyond midnight.
Like I think it's, we moved on to the next day.
Like it's, it's over.
Yeah.
It's the fifth.
Yeah.
I'm with you.
I feel like if you're still shooting fireworks off at two o'clock in the morning,
three o'clock in the morning on the fifth,
or even like the next day in the afternoon.
So like, yeah, July the fourth is the day.
And then I like fireworks and I don't care about the noise, but I feel like
fireworks on the first, second, third, leading up good.
Yeah.
Afterwards a couple of experimental fireworks.
It's like Christmas music after the new year.
Like if you, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
So you cut off the fireworks at the end of the fourth.
I thought I was going to be stingy.
I was going to give people, I'm going to give people July fifth.
Cause especially since it's a Sunday, if you want to sell fireworks.
Is that only because it's a Sunday this year?
Yeah.
I'll give you the fifth.
I thought that was going to be stingy.
Okay.
Since the fifth on a Sunday, you might have a little tolerance there,
but I think, honestly, man, I just feel like it's like Amy said,
it's like we got this radio that plays in the garage and it plays on this radio
station that play once it's Christmas time, right around Thanksgiving,
they play Christmas music all the way.
I think they play it all the way to Christmas day.
And right after Christmas, it changes back to regular programming.
Yep.
It would be freaking weird to walk in there on the 26th,
7th or 8th and their Christmas music still playing.
Yeah.
Cause emotionally we have moved on.
Yeah.
We are spent check done.
We made it to the finish line.
That's kind of the same thing with the fourth.
It was awesome.
The buildup is so big too around here.
It was awesome.
That's probably another reason I feel that way.
Like the fifth needs to be a reset days.
Yeah.
Sunday is a reset for.
Hangover day.
Normal summer stuff happening.
All right.
No fun for Amy and Dale.
No fun.
No, we had fun yesterday, buddy.
We had fun all day for all day on the third.
We had fun on the third, the second.
We're having fun today.
Speaking of the fifth is recover, sleep, get your ass ready for Monday.
Speaking of fun.
I forgot about this is not an ask Amy question, but we forgot about this topic.
What the hell's going on with the corn salad?
Yeah.
So we went to our favorite restaurant here last night and they didn't have the corn salad
again because they sold too many batches of it.
Yes.
The day before it's so popular and I think it marinates.
It's not something they just freshly make.
I was told it would be back today.
Yes.
We asked.
We wanted to make sure that we could get some.
So she said that they just had to get it together and it has to say.
I was wondering if it was our corn shortage or what?
Yeah.
I text Travis immediately and he gets on the Google and he's like, there's absolutely
no shortage of corn in the United States.
Period.
Ever.
Period.
Chat did not like me asking about that.
Yeah.
He was offended that you appalled even that you asked such a question.
Where's all the corn?
I hope Dale because you haven't had any yet, right?
And like Amy was able to get some a couple weeks ago, but you aren't.
I'll get some soon enough.
Yeah.
Okay.
He hasn't to answer your question.
No.
He is deprived of the corn.
It's all right.
Amy decided to brag about it to us.
I did.
I sent a photo and everything.
I feel like it was a small victory.
Like they had it in stock.
Yeah.
I'm out in San Diego trying to enjoy my drink and then Amy just rubs in that she gets the
corn salad.
Yeah.
Little food porn.
Food corn porn.
Corn porn thing.
Y'all know.
Don't remember setting me up for that.
I knew I was going to.
It was a plan.
We had a plan all along.
I feel like sometimes we were going to wrap this all into one big bow.
Y'all plot against me since I'm the only chick.
No, we don't plot against you at all.
Well, y'all are aware of stuff that I obviously am not because a, y'all are boys and then
y'all are probably on social media reading things.
I don't like tick tocks and stuff like that.
You're going to meet.
I don't have to drive it.
You know, but you're all over X and all those reddit.
Like, yeah, zero plotting against you.
I'm lame.
I stick to the gram.
Speaking of Chicago, uh, I got word that it will likely be a sell out this weekend.
Oh, and I also got word that they are looking to go back even though the Charlotte Chicago
street course has been teased as a return.
Really?
They, I didn't think they could do both, but it sounds like both is actually on the
table.
I think it's going to be a fantastic race and a badass racetrack and a lot of fun.
Um, so yeah, I was hoping it would be extremely popular.
So it would stick around.
So it looks like I was kind of thinking, you know, they're putting so much into it to get
us back.
Like financially, it's got to be costly just to get the track back in order.
So it's good to hear that there is a plan to continue.
Was it in bad shape?
Well, I mean, it's just been sitting idle for about four or five years.
So if a track doesn't have a race, a sanctioned race coming, they just let it chill.
Like they're not.
Yeah.
I mean, just needs a new fresh coat of paint.
Make sure all the plumbing works.
Oh, wiring and electrical and not the actual physical track itself.
No, it's everything else around it.
I mean, the physical track itself probably needed a little bit of killer and stuff like
that.
Oh my gosh, really?
Probably.
I mean grows up to the cracks.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Oh yeah.
I mean, if you leave it sitting, it's going to look like our, you know, like your driveway
would.
Right.
But it's not like a retired track for life.
Like somebody's surely pulling the weeds now.
I don't know.
I don't either.
I don't know.
One like that.
You're the expert.
Yeah.
Well, Wilksboro was dead.
DED.
Well, it ain't no more.
It's alive.
DED.
Yeah.
Dead.
Wilksboro's back, baby.
Finally.
All the way.
All the way back.
Like also our race was cool, but the points race is officially, we are all the way back.
Yeah.
Good job.
I'm pumped.
I get to broadcast this race.
I know.
I can't believe it.
What a full circle thing for you.
Right?
Yeah.
The universe.
All right.
Well, I think that's a good place to stop.
All right.
Thank you guys for all of your questions.
Thank you for listening.
Hopefully you had a good time and we will see you next week.
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About this episode
Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Amy host a special remote episode from their beach house ahead of the July 4th weekend. Amidst local road construction blocking their driveway, Amy shares a hilarious confrontation with an impatient driver who wouldn't stop honking while she was trying to secure a parking spot. The crew also debates the etiquette of car horns—comparing polite Kia beeps to Dale's obnoxious truck-mounted train horn—and discusses the physical toll of yard work as they get older.
Original notes
This week on Bless Your ‘Hardt, Dale Jr. and Amy are recording from the beach as they catch up on everything happening lately. Amy shares a story about confronting a driver who wouldn’t stop honking while she was trying to load the kids into the car, while Dale Jr. breaks down one of his biggest highway frustrations and why simple road courtesy seems to be disappearing. They also dive into whether expired food is actually still safe to eat, recap Isla’s first ride in a race car following Shane van Gisbergen’s Sonoma win, laugh over a wasp that somehow survived underwater, and share their plans for the Fourth of July.
Plus, in this Ask Amy episode, they answer listener questions about Summer House, their Sonoma trip, favorite potato chips, pocket Jesuses, and more. Let us know in the comments: Would you eat unopened chips after the expiration date? And who’s right when it comes to merging onto the highway?
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