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golf cart
A golf cart is a small vehicle people drive around a golf course. It’s usually slower than a normal car and is meant for short trips.
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club car
Club Car makes golf carts. They’re trying one out here, and it sounds like it’s fun to ride around in for their parade and outings.
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rust
Rust is when metal gets eaten away by moisture and air. If a car sits outside for a long time, it’s more likely to start rusting.
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mileage
Mileage is how many miles a car has been driven. More miles usually means more wear from use.
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battery
The battery powers the car’s electronics and helps start the engine. If the car sits too long, the battery can run down and the car may not start.
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transmission
The transmission is what changes the gears so the car can move properly. If it won’t go into drive, the car might still work in reverse but won’t move forward.
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drive
Drive is the normal forward mode for an automatic car. If drive doesn’t work, the car may not move forward correctly.
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reverse
Reverse is the mode that lets the car go backward. Here, reverse worked even though forward drive didn’t, suggesting the problem was specific to forward gears.
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reset
A reset here means turning the car off and waiting a moment. It can clear temporary glitches in the car’s computer, but if the problem keeps happening you may need repairs.
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trade in
A trade-in is when you give your current car to the dealership and use its value toward buying the next one. The dealer decides what it’s worth based on condition.
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Traverse
The Traverse is a Chevrolet SUV with three rows of seats, meant for families. Here, the host is saying he plans to trade his current car and get a newer Traverse.
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service
“Service” means regular maintenance you do on a car, like inspections and fluid checks. The goal is to catch problems early so the car doesn’t break down.
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dead batteries
A “dead battery” is when the car’s battery doesn’t have enough power to start the engine. If a car sits too long, the battery can drain and die.
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Toe truck
A tow truck is what comes to pull a broken car to a shop or home. It’s used when the car won’t run or isn’t safe to drive.
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oil changed
An oil change is when a shop replaces the engine oil. It helps keep the engine running smoothly, and they’re saying the paperwork process took less time than an oil change usually does.
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radio head unit
The radio head unit is the main “stereo screen/control box” in the dash. It’s what you use to play music and connect your phone, and they’re saying the older car’s one is outdated.
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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.
Hi guys, welcome to another episode of Bless Your Heart.
Dale and I are still at the beach,
so we're doing a little remote show for you guys.
Let's get started.
Got your eyebrows out of control, man.
You're like staring at me.
It's got caterpillars.
Dude, when you get to a certain age,
everything just starts growing faster.
Dude, I've got bushy eyebrows.
I'm well aware.
Yeah, but are you trim yours?
No, I kind of just pluck at them.
Yeah, oh really?
You pull them out?
Just pull some hairs out.
Or when I go get a haircut, I'll just ask them.
She does it.
The cum was kind of...
The barber doesn't do that anymore.
I'm sick and tired of cutting hair.
And walking around all day and then you get home
and you look in the mirror and you've got an inch long hair off your ear
and you're like, I've walked around all day with that
and a hair sticking out your nose or some sh**.
Yeah, half the time he's not picking his nose.
He's literally trying to get the hair out of his nose
or he's just poking them back up in there so they're not hanging out.
Looks like I'm picking my nose.
I'm just trying to get nose hairs out of there.
They tickle like crazy.
The worst is like, I'm usually like, you know,
clean shave and then like, I'll miss a couple and it'll,
they'll stick out like a sore thumb throughout the day.
I've even taken scissors at work and tried to just like...
Really?
Cutting out a little bit.
Yeah, because it's like, I could just tell there's like a couple.
Not the community scissors.
I mean, I feel like they're probably community scissors.
They're from $1.00 dollars.
That's a hell of a way.
Oh, that's funny.
All right, so the drink of the week, basically,
when we're in the studio, awesome Morgan Overstreet
makes us a bad little cocktail and she comes up...
She should open up her own company.
She should.
She comes up with all kinds of great ideas,
but we're on, we're at the beach house and my idea is a red bull blocker.
We're lazy and we like it simple.
Yeah, every day.
So Sudachi Lime.
Sudachi Lime.
It's so good.
The best drinks are just simple, like one or two ingredients.
Yeah, when you overdo it,
hey, it's too hard to replicate it if you don't have a recipe.
Man, what do you think?
They're never the same.
We've had a fun, fun week.
It's been a fun week.
Amy, Amy comes down here in the summer.
Sometimes one time, one year,
she came down here for the entire summer.
The whole time the kids were out of school, it was amazing.
Yeah, when they were little and didn't have any activities,
it was like beginning of June, all the way through August.
I had finally, when, when she decided she was going to come down here for the whole summer,
I felt like I had finally made it.
Why?
I was like, I have, this is everything that I've worked for.
My wife leaves me for two months in the summer and I get to have the house all to myself.
No, this is the best.
No, I'm going to be at the beach house with my family all summer.
Like I have worked my tail off to get this vacation house
and now I'm going to be there the entire summer.
I mean, I felt like I had checked the big box.
Yeah, I always thought it was a cool thing when people say like,
we summer in the Hamptons, or we summer in Michigan,
or like they have like a summer house.
If you're hearing some noises, they're paving the street.
We have talked and talked about the street being a problem.
They're finally fixing it.
It's just giant wheel, steel wheel, looks like a steam roller.
And it shakes and vibrates and it packs the dirt so they can come in there and lay the asphalt.
It's also like being on a shake plate though inside the house.
The entire house is shaking.
Yeah, so we're going to keep digging.
But if our cheeks start wiggling, that's why.
Nose hairs are tickling, it's not because they're long.
They're shaking right out of his face.
They're coming right out of their own.
Do you guys used to have the Key West house?
Are you kind of like happy that you ended up selling it?
Because I feel like you use this house more and you're able to more convenient.
It's more convenient because we can drive to it.
And the Key West house was old and had a lot of issues,
the wiring and everything about the house was 100 years old.
So it was kind of like a money pit, always needing repairs, always needing something fixed.
It needed a lot of love.
Every time we went down, we had to work on a project, the air conditioning maybe,
or like it wasn't something small, it was something rather large.
So it was a labor of love, but we wanted something we could drive to and that was
a lot closer and Charleston is amazing.
So Sullivan's Island just felt smart.
We love it here.
No, I used to race at Myrtle Beach.
And so all of these little towns around here, I'm familiar with Monks Corner and Savannah.
Because all the guys that raced at the beach with me in the 90s are from these areas,
from these towns, sorry.
And so I don't know that I never spent a ton of time down here outside of just racing
at the beach and racing in Somerville and places like that.
But it just feels like I know it, you know?
And so it's not, it's comfortable, I suppose.
Mount Pleasant's a nice area.
Obviously Charleston, a lot of people come down here to Charleston.
It's, Charleston's insane fun, lots to do.
There's so many good restaurants too.
Like you really can't screw that up.
There really are so many good places to eat.
Our Palm, Folly Beach, all these different places to go, do stuff.
There's restaurants galore.
We'll never eat at every single cool restaurant that's on some river way.
Yeah, I have a growing list and we'll just keep chipping away at it.
But they keep adding new things and the chefs will start a restaurant and then
it'll get it rolling and then they'll move and do another thing.
So like you're always kind of chasing these really cool chefs that are in Charleston too.
But we have lots of fun here.
It's pretty cool.
I took the girls into town yesterday to brunch.
We wanted to just get in town for at least one day.
The majors are in town this week hanging out with us.
And we have like an annual Fourth of July.
We're on a ride right now.
He's making a big pass.
He's showing off.
He's coming right by the building here, right beside us.
He's like the Earnhardt's tape on Thursdays.
I'm going to get him.
Well, we got a big development.
Well, I want to get to look at this.
Let me start with my part of it because that's how the yes.
So speaking of nice things to do around here, we love going into Charleston to eat.
And so we had the majors in town this week.
They always come in town for the Fourth of July.
It's kind of an annual trip.
We do the golf cart parade and everything together.
All the girls have matching outfits.
Everybody gets dressed up.
The boys went to the racetrack this year over the weekend.
And so we got to do that by ourselves.
And we got to use the club car, which was awesome.
I get so many cat calls almost when I drive that thing around.
On the club car?
On the club car.
Just because it's like a little party bus.
We're trying out a new golf cart, the club car crew.
Crew, yeah.
And if we like it, we probably may get it.
I still have my old golf cart and it's still doing fine.
But I think you need to get this one.
I submit that we will be keeping it.
It is really awesome.
And the girls are obsessed with it.
And everywhere we go, someone's like, wow, I've not seen one of those.
How does it, how does it ride?
Even when we parked it for the parade,
all the other dads were coming over to go and like,
this is really cool.
How does this work?
How does this function?
And so it's a lot of fun and the battery lasts forever.
So I love this.
I love the club car crew.
It's been fun for us.
But I figure we'll probably get it once we,
you're going to break a lot of ladies' hearts if you get rid of it.
I'll say that three in particular,
a lot of little girls.
Yeah.
The three most important.
Right.
And me.
He forgot me.
Anyway, so there they've been in town this week
and the girls wanted to go in to see the aquarium and do the city market.
So I made brunch plans and you got to take advantage of getting into town
and eating as well.
So the boys had their podcast and they were going to meet us for brunch.
We are headed to Pugin's Forge after the aquarium and I get a call from Dale
and he's like, I got bad news.
And I thought for sure, there's like a 50% chance anyway,
they're going to try to get out of going to brunch,
coming all the way into town just to meet us for food.
But like when he said he had car trouble,
I was like, man, this guy will just do,
do you just find anything to get out of brunching with us and coming into town?
But unfortunately he did actually have some issues with the car and
had his own little adventure yesterday.
Just like the golf cart.
I'm trying to cut corners on some expenses here and there and this,
so we get this house down at the beach and it's the elements down here are terrible.
And so most everything outside gives beat up pretty fast.
Everything around the house, the house itself,
I mean, we're always kind of having to tanker and there's something that might go bad
because it goes bad quicker.
Like the ice machine motor, like the pumps and the ice machine.
Stuff that's just out in the elements,
it's just going to struggle to have a traditional lifespan.
And I've had to to her point, I've had to replace motors and gizmos and pumps
and all kinds of things.
The girls bikes even rest up so I can turn the wheels.
Just constantly having to kind of keep on top of stuff to make sure things are always working.
And we, you know, even outlets,
I've had to replace two outlets just on this trip that have, you know,
pulled one into pool, the GFI that quit working and then another one over by the irrigation
that quit working.
They just go bad.
Yeah.
And so same thing with the golf cart, same thing with our vehicle.
We keep a vehicle down here.
I'm not going to buy a nice expensive car and leave it parked for weeks at a time
at the airport or at the house here to sit and rust.
And man, I mean, I got the oldest, most mileage doubt to reverse.
I could find it just to get the cheapest car I could buy.
It was available right then.
So like we just found it, whatever, grab the car.
So we bring that thing down here and it's been great.
We've had it for five or six years and it does everything we need.
Every time we've come down here, it's cranked, it's ran, it takes us everywhere we go,
but it does sit for months at a time, months.
And sometimes we would go out there to, to the, you know, to the airport and the battery
might be dead or whatever.
But those, those were the things that you were going to have to deal with with any car.
Just driving down the road with TJ, it just decided to break.
So the transmission, you know, drive didn't work anymore, reverse was fine,
neutral, all those good things, but it wouldn't, it wouldn't go into drive.
And it wouldn't shift.
It would stay in first gear.
So we pull over and I'm like, man, uh, I'm thinking I'm going to turn this car off,
give it a minute reset.
It's going to be fine.
We'll figure it out.
We'll get home.
TJ is with me.
We, we call and better TJ than me.
Cause this would have been stressful if we had the kids and all it was so hot yesterday.
We are looking.
All right, dang.
There's a Chevy store, nine tenths of a mile away.
We called the set, the service department at the Chevy store.
Kelly answers.
Kelly is fat, fantastic.
She says, Hey, what's going on?
Well, we broke down.
We're just only a mile away.
She's like, I got a tow service that'll bring you here.
They'll be there in 20 minutes.
Toe truck pulls up 20 minutes later.
Flatbed truck, awesome dude.
I think his name, I got his name in my phone, but, um, me and him taught a couple of times
he, we, we get in the tow truck with him.
He clears out the front bench seat in the tow truck.
So it's, I don't know if that's really the way it's supposed to work out.
Like he's not supposed to take you to, he just takes the car.
I've had tow trucks taking places before too.
Kelly said, Kelly didn't know who we were from Adam and she's like,
TJ's like, Hey, can we grab the tow guy?
And she's like, he might let you do that.
So we ask him, he's like, yeah, I've moved some stuff around.
We'll get in there.
So we're only, we're only going a mile.
And so we get the car up on the flatbed.
We jump in the truck, we drive down to the dealership.
We, he drops us off at the service department.
He says, go in there, Kelly's in there.
We get out, walk in there.
And, um, he, she's like, Hey, he's going to take the car to the back
and get it, you know, get it into the system.
Yeah.
She's like, what's doing?
I told her what was wrong.
And she's like, okay, well, we're going to get to it.
We'll let you know.
And I was like, so I never really, I, I didn't know what.
But the process was going to be you, right?
So I'm like, this is his first time going through this experience.
I need to put a card down.
You know, do you need something?
She's like, I got your car.
I'm like, deal.
They've got your car.
They've got collateral.
She's like, I'm going to take care of your car.
And when we find out what's wrong with it, I'll call you.
You approve the, the fix and we're going to charge you for it.
And so I'm like, all right, we're good.
I mean, it was so easy.
I couldn't believe it.
I wasn't there five minutes.
They were like, we got, she's like, I got you in the system.
You're good to go.
And we called a Uber and it was too late to make our lunch.
So we Uber back home.
She calls me the next day and she says, Mr. Ernor, I got an update on the car.
So I called her back.
I said, Kelly, I heard you had an update on my car.
She goes, yep.
She goes, transmission is broke.
She goes, you're going to have to have a new one.
And I said, well, all right, I know what I paid for the car.
She tells me what the cost of the fix will be.
And I've decided that even if I do fix this car,
I'm going to get another one.
I'm going to sell, trade this in.
I'm going to get a new traverse.
And so I'll tell her that.
I said, hey, you know, I'm not interested in fixing the car for me.
I honestly just would probably pay it to fix the trade in,
but I'm not even going to do that with, you know, maybe you guys can give me
an assessment of the value of the car as is.
And we will, we're going to buy a new car from you, Kelly.
She's like, all right, I'm going to connect you to the sales.
And so Chris from sales calls me.
He's like, Hey, heard you on my car.
I'm like, I do.
I was like, I got that 17 model.
I want to trade in whatever you'll give me for it.
And I'm ready for another traverse.
We're just going to get a low mileage 2023-24 model.
We've already picked it out.
They got a car at another store that they're going to have brought up.
And we're going to be in a newer traverse next week.
So I'm going to go over there in a couple of days to settle the paperwork,
to be able to do the purchase.
And it couldn't have been easier.
And so, you know, I sent that tweet out on social media about the car breaking,
but I probably should have said, told you the rest of the story,
but I was trying to tease it for this podcast because I knew what I was going to do.
I knew that I was going to, you know, I'm getting a new car.
Yeah. I'm Chevy through and through.
We're just going to get another Chevy.
But I'll be honest.
I probably didn't keep up with the service on this car as well as I should have.
And I think I smoked the transmission fluid and that's why it broke.
But I'll do a better job on the next one.
I'm a service mechanic from back in the day.
I should know better.
But the salt, the sand, the wind, the sun, and just sitting idle, you know,
we've been driving down here a lot more too, because we've been bringing us.
We haven't been flying and using the car at the airport.
It's been sitting much longer recently than it usually does.
Well, we're going to get another one and I'm excited about that.
We've always, again, they're going to bring the car up here from a different dealership.
And I just couldn't believe, I mean, I can't believe how simple it is.
But I was thinking, honestly,
I wasn't worried about the car breaking because I had,
I knew when I bought this car that I was,
that it was old and somebody had traded it in because they want, you know,
you never know, you know, when you're going to use the vehicle.
And so I was just like, you know, it's going to, we're going to have to deal with dead batteries.
We're going to have to deal with some quirks and things that the weather
and stuff down here will do to it.
But when it broke, I wasn't bothered by it.
I was more bothered by the idea that this was going to be a day-long process.
And so I was absolutely incorrect.
Toe truck, there in a minute.
Toe to the store, he drops us off at the service, no problem.
No haggling, no, you know, none of that mess.
Get out, talk to Kelly, she's like, all right, you're good to go.
Man, okay.
I mean, literally Amy and them had just sat down.
When we're leaving, they were still sitting at their table.
They'd just gotten their drinks.
And shoot, man, it wasn't nothing.
And we're, and I've been playing phone tag with these people
and I've got another car on the way.
So it's super simple.
We're going to go in there to do some little quick paperwork Friday.
But I couldn't have been, could be happier with the experience
in terms of just, you know, finding yourself kind of stuck on the side of the road
and now getting into another car.
Probably takes longer to get your oil changed than that process took.
Yeah, I mean, yeah.
Usually I'm excited because the new traverse that we're getting
has that big gigantic screen on the dash.
Oh, those are the best.
I love them.
And, you know, the old 2017 has just old stock, old standard radio head unit.
And so we're getting to upgrade there, man.
We're going to be, we're going to be like brand new.
Blast some music for the record though, Amy.
Dale was like ready to finish the show to go to brunch.
So he was actually looking forward to that.
Oh, was he?
We did a show Tuesday.
He was like, he was like, are we done?
Like we got to, it's like teacher and I are going to go meet the girls for brunch.
Like he legitimately was ready to go.
Well, usually it takes him a minute to get his head wrapped around.
Because he'll say that like I gotta wrap my head around it.
If I have an idea that's not his and like I made a plan, he like takes him a minute to go.
Okay.
And then he gets excited about it.
But yeah, it was fine.
We had a little like, we walked through town and looked at an old cemetery and tortured
the kids.
It was so hot outside.
So we got a little fun and two.
Yeah, it was great.
Well, we're going to get our, we'll get our new traverse next week sometime.
Me and her have another little trip planned.
So we're going to work all work that around that somehow, some way.
But we are having fun down here in South Carolina for the month of July.
Till next time, Adios.
Do you want to hear about my?
I want to know what you did with the pool.
So I was over at my friend's house this past weekend and they got this like blow up slide
that you put on the side of the pool.
That's like, yeah, like for, you know, four or 56 year olds.
Well, we used to have one of those down here.
Yeah.
And so, you know, I was making painkillers all day long.
Are you injured?
Not injured per se.
One of the best cocktails, a summer cocktail.
It's called painkiller.
Oh, no, are you injured from the slide?
But yeah, I was making frozen painkillers.
It's not delicious.
You got a broken, you want a cast?
Let him tell the story.
No cast, but so they put their kids down for nap or quiet time and, you know,
drinks were flowing.
And so one of the people decided that, you know, hey, let me try to go down the slide.
And so I went down a couple of times, you know, jumping up and over it and kind of
leaning on it and going down.
Well, the last time I just jumped and like cleared it entirely and dove in.
And then I come up and I look at my knees and feet and they hit the bottom and my knees
and bottom, top of my feet are just bloody.
Oh my God.
You got road rash in the pool, but your head didn't hit anything.
My head didn't hit my head.
I dove down in my.
You porpoise at the bottom of the swimming pool?
Yeah.
Basically, you like.
Yeah.
So, you know, lesson learned.
Don't play with the kids toys down for nap time.
You're lucky.
I hit, I've hit my head on the, I dove into a pool and busted my head open on the bottom
of the pool.
Got lucky there.
He did that back in the day.
That's why I was wearing the do rag.
Yeah.
It's everybody probably knows it now.
The next day my friend Matt was like, man, my neck is sore.
He's like, I don't know why I go probably because we were jumping over the slide and
you probably landed in like wild banshee whiplash yourself.
Oh my gosh.
Our kids are at the sage.
You can't do that stuff.
Our kids have not even remembered that we had those blows.
We have a couple of blows so we can put in the yard, but they're so hard to take down.
We haven't even mentioned that we have them just so that they don't ask us to do it
because like they'll play out for an hour and then they want to take it down.
Yeah.
And it's so much work.
Well, I saw the other day.
I wanted to ask you guys, I saw the other day at Joey Logano, Joey Logano
officiated a wedding and I was wondering if any of y'all would officiate a wedding if asked.
I don't think anybody's going to ask me to do that.
So I'm just going to go ahead and say I probably am off the hook and no,
but I would be too nervous that I would screw up that most important moment
and these people's lives at that point.
Like am I the only one that feels like that?
I mean, it's got to be like a minister, like a true pastor or a minister from a church.
No, it's actually my brother has officiated a wedding and it takes like 10 minutes online
to make it so that I get all that.
And I've heard about this and I know.
Marty Smith has done it.
A couple of them.
Yeah.
I know certain people have done them, but I wonder where that got started because I don't know.
I've always, the first, I remember the first time I heard of that.
I mean, it was many, many, many years ago and I'm like, really?
Like not a minister, not a pastor?
Yeah.
I feel like there's some sense of it's not as legitimate of a union if it wasn't ordained
by an actual church efficient.
That's my feeling too.
And you know, obviously other people feel differently.
Yeah.
So Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey just got married and Adam Sandler was their efficient.
All right.
Like what if you're not religious?
I like I don't go to church.
Okay.
I don't have a pastor like a preacher that I go to.
Yeah.
That's a good point.
Well, so we didn't either particularly like we were, we would go to church at St.
Mark's Lutheran when we went, but for the most part we were at the racetrack on Sunday.
Right.
So like we're not going to church every Sunday.
We had Nick Terry from MRO Marius, but he is of the church.
You know what I mean?
Of the church.
He's not, you know, just a comedian or a random friend.
Yeah.
I mean, I guess I connected to religion.
So I just assumed that like to, you know.
Well, as a religious sanction is a religious union.
Otherwise we're just, you know, hanging out and holding hands.
We're not really married, right?
I get, I get why you would ask somebody and it'd be an honor.
My friends probably know not to ask me because I have to take it serious.
And then I can't partake in any of the festivities before and I'd also just be very nervous.
I agree.
I would be too nervous to ask to do it.
But you would probably turn it down as what you're saying.
Like respectfully, no, thank you.
I don't think that would be a good idea.
I would be the same.
Honored.
I would be flattered, but I wouldn't want to do it.
Would you do it anyway?
No, you wouldn't be.
I would try to find a way out of it.
Okay.
I can see you saying yes because you were so honored in the moment and put on the spot
and then go in and like literally like imploding afterwards.
I know it.
The day of the event.
I would just be like, I want to vomit.
Yeah.
Well, how did Joey do?
Who did he marry?
One of his friends?
I'm sure he was fine.
Um, I have to check his Instagram.
What do you make of Adam Sandler?
Like that's odd to me.
I agree.
I don't feel like it's pretty odd, but I also thought it was odd that they decided
to get married in Madison Square Garden.
Like out of all of the places they could go,
like she could have bought an island somewhere and built her own castle.
You know, it's like, we're talking, I mean, they could do anything.
They did it.
And Madison Square Garden is where she shadows.
That's a big one.
Yeah.
I thought that was very strange and this is, you probably,
you guys aren't going to like this take, but having a wedding around a holiday to me,
I think is dumb because you're ruining a weekend for.
We had our house's New Year's Eve.
I'm aware.
Yeah.
And we did it because we were kind of tired of doing New Year's Eve the traditional way.
We used to go to New Year's Eve parties as well.
And we're like, this kind of falls in line with that.
Plus it's in the off season, which is always when you get married.
If you're bringing an erase car driver, you have to do it and like you got one month.
And so it was far enough away from Christmas and everybody's traveling in January.
I literally was only a race car driver for another year after we got married.
Yeah.
If we'd have waited like another two years, we could have got married any time of the year.
Six months.
We could have waited six months.
I got married in like an off weekend in June.
But you couldn't have invited like a lot of people.
Exactly.
So he wanted a giant wedding and wanted everyone there.
It was not important to me to have, I wanted a tiny little beach wedding
and I was fine with whatever.
But I didn't need the big wedding.
He was like, absolutely not.
We're having everybody's going to be.
I'm doing this once.
I'm doing it.
And so that's how we landed on New Year's Eve.
But it was fun.
But I look at it as like the 4th of July is a fun weekend.
Now I get their famous and like holidays to them.
But and most of the people there don't look at it as like a holiday weekend Friday off.
But like to me, it's a selfish move by them.
It was it.
I mean, so here's what I'm going to say to you about planning your wedding.
When you get into planning a wedding, it is selfish.
The whole process is like about you, which is when you're doing it for yourself for that one
wedding, you're like, you don't care.
You're allowed to be and you like give yourself that grace, you know what I mean?
So they did do it on Friday and then people could have spent the rest of their weekend
doing whatever.
But since they were like a lot of buildup and everybody was in New York
and you were seeing all that on your phone, Tamela and I both who she's very much a Swiftie
were like, oh my gosh, is she going to get married on the 250 fourths of July?
Surely she wouldn't do that.
Like why would she even want to do that?
So it was it was a fun thing to kind of like just banter her about back to the
New Year's Eve deal.
Like I know it.
I know and agree that it's like, you know, kind of cliche to get married on the New Year's Eve
or or a holiday of any kind really, but New Year's Eve especially.
But I didn't care because I had kind of I think Amy and I both had worked that out of our system,
the traditional New Year's Eve celebration.
Yeah, we were at the age to really going out for New Year's Eve.
And yeah, that's on me.
So like we had kind of we kind of ran that it ran its course.
But I wasn't done partying.
So like that I had gotten tired of that particular party.
But now I had the same had a new reason to party on the same date.
You know what I'm saying?
The other thing we thought about it is you get married on New Year's Eve.
You always have the excuse to like celebrate or throw a party or you have the excuse to
like not participate and go celebrate your anniversary anywhere you want to.
It has come in clutch for like being able to avoid certain parties.
You're like, hey, man, no, that's our anniversary.
Yeah, sorry.
Me and Amy is going to be doing X, Y, Z.
I think it was our third anniversary at Amanda and Bubba's wedding, which was fun.
Because like I mean, you're already in your like wedding fields anyway.
And you're like, oh, yeah, it was it was a good way to feel like a couple veterans.
When you go to a wedding on New Year's Eve, on your own anniversary,
you're like, yep, we're the we're the OG and now we're cosmically connected.
We know all about this.
We started this trend.
Oh my gosh.
So speaking of trends, I got a trend.
Isla is perpetually messy with food.
I mean, both of the kids are, but Isla, like Nicole will clean her plate up.
And when she gets to the sink, she wants to wash the plate.
Like she's thinking about the whole process and likes to do that.
Isla does not think that way.
And she gets that from you partly.
She gets that from you partly, I think, because we were both very messy kids.
Like both of us would hide food underneath the bed or like would be lazy enough to like
not take our plate back to the kitchen and just hide it under the bed.
Drink the juice box.
Drop it right where you're at.
Yeah, yeah.
Like crush it.
Boom.
Juice box.
So I come upstairs that we're in the bar and there's a video game up here.
So she and I like to come up and play the touchscreen game.
And it's not a problem.
So they come up, they have a bag of veggie, veggie sticks, those old straw shit things.
And I didn't think anything of it when they brought them up here, but when I came up the
next morning, they were displayed everywhere on the couch and the bag was kind of flayed open.
And so I came downstairs and I was really mad at her.
Like listen, I let you up and go there and play, but you have to clean up after yourself.
I told you about this, like there's going to be bugs in there, then we're going to have
mice in there that I'm like, I try to really scare her with this process.
Like what and what comes after a mouse, a snake like lions and then we're going to have tigers
and lions in here.
Bears, bears will be in here.
It's a big old problem.
And so she comes upstairs and her version of putting it in the trash can was to hide it
underneath a baby swaddle that she plays with with her dolls on top of the bar,
on top of the bar top.
I came up here with Tamela later after I thought she had handled it.
And there's this pink swaddle on top of the bar and I'm like, that's weird.
And I pull it up and that bottle, that whole bag of like it's flayed open,
just veggie straws everywhere.
And I look at Tamela and I'm like, can you believe that that's what she thought
putting it away was?
And so here comes Stella and Ayla.
We were coming upstairs to get a drink for the pool.
I'm like, Ayla, can you explain to me what your thought process was here?
And like, why did you hide this underneath the blanket?
Like, why didn't you put it in the trash can?
And she's like, well, I really just wanted to make sure that they were hidden from Nicole.
Just in case Nicole came up here, she wouldn't want to eat any of my veggie straws.
I was like, they are stale.
They have been sitting out all night.
They are gross.
And I asked you to put them in the trash can.
And Nicole is not even here to defend herself.
This has nothing to do with your sister.
Those things still got in the year.
I'm like, they were open.
They were opened and left out.
Well, in the meantime of this whole thing, and Tamela's standing there too,
she's like, girls, we gotta throw the food away.
Stella's like, can I have one?
Like she didn't care at all.
I'm like, these, neither one of these two kids has listened to anything I said
about throwing the damn food out.
So we're not like, we're not, we didn't get anywhere.
We're not making any gains.
But I just, I don't even know what to make of that.
Like her hiding it underneath a blanket.
Yeah.
Like it was put away.
I mean, I am guilty of doing critter things like that as a kid.
So I don't, at what point does she grow out of it?
I don't know.
But.
Well, we're doing all the right things because we got one child that knows the difference.
And then with Isla, for some reason, it's just not clicking.
I'm just hoping one day she just wakes up and just like, you know what?
I'm just going to decide to start doing this a little bit better.
I guess I need to be a little more tidy and me myself.
I guess brushing my hair is a good idea today.
I should probably throw this away.
Clean the place.
I'll leave it laying all over the place.
But I don't even know if I was allowed to take snacks like to my room.
I wasn't technically allowed either.
I snuck it in there and did it anyway.
They're not supposed to do that either.
But up here, it's not a big deal.
There's a drawer full of snacks.
We've got fresh snacks now.
We talked about that.
But yeah.
No, we didn't accept her.
They're getting to that point to where they are sneaking into places and getting things they want.
Yes.
And so that was quite an adjustment for me because I did that all my life.
I have always been.
He's still sneaking things under the house.
I had done a candy.
Still do that.
I sneak cards.
I sneak cards.
I sneak this.
I sneak that.
I sneak whatever.
And I've just always been that way.
And I remember doing that as a kid around the house.
And I mean, I got caught and busted a few times and some big got some big trouble.
Stealing change out of my dad's change jar.
We used to still change off my dad's dresser too.
I always had it on.
I stole like a $125 out of his change jar.
He had a big giant one full of quarters.
And so I fished them all out of there.
But when the girls started doing that, I was like, oh, you know, and then rage to like,
oh man, you know, not my child.
No, no.
And now, you know, and I have to like remember like, man, you know,
they're a child.
They're so if they're not going to push the batteries a little and do some things and make
you go, whoa, I mean, my initial reaction was to like punishment.
You know, yeah.
You're going to show no military school.
Yeah.
We ain't doing that.
But the more I think about it, I'm like, you know, it I'm not.
I'm not worried about Iowa as much as I was.
I think that I mean, she's going to have to sort it out whether she's just not worried about it.
I know, but she's going to have to.
She's going to have to sort it out whether it's something that comes naturally as she gets
more mature.
Or if we really have to step down and give her more structure, she's got to.
Yeah. Well, especially here on like summer vacation, she is unbothered and I'm worried
about anything like that.
Like the dinner table last night, you were talking about how she just staring it.
Yeah.
Tamela when Tamela was trying to.
Yeah.
So Tamela was trying to hand her a plate of nachos that she had made for her like a little
like a cheese to couple chips on a little plate.
And I was instead of taking it from her, just wait just like stairs at her and waiting for
her to put it, place it down in front of her.
And I'm like, I look grab the plate.
I look grab the plate and like she was not responsive whatsoever.
I'm like, does she not even hear me?
And then I yelled across the table and it was like, Amy, she's all seen.
She's about service.
She's like service.
Service, service, service.
She always has.
And she's a princess.
You know, she wants it done, put in front of her, done everything, everything presented
and handed and Nicole's not the opposite.
I want to do it myself.
Yeah.
And like, oh, hey, do you want to help me clean the dishes?
Okay.
Like I'll say, if I say, all right, y'all, I'm taking the trash out.
So I might put a new bag in.
Nicole comes over.
Nicole comes running over.
She wants to do it.
I'm going to do it.
Ella will, I was like, Ella will leave the room.
Yeah, so hide.
She'll ignore what you said and walk in the other direction.
Conveniently disappear.
We did another food test last night at the restaurant too, by the way.
We, TJ doesn't eat vegetables.
Oh my gosh.
He'll eat an onion.
Yes, no vegetables.
But he ordered fajitas last night.
So he's got peppers and onions and like the game, the game out with a giant roasted whole
jalapeno on his plate.
It was so big.
It honestly looked like a poblano pepper.
It was huge.
And Madeline also ordered fajitas and took a bite of her jalapeno, you know, willingly,
just to see what it tasted like.
The first bite was nothing.
Second bite was pretty spicy.
And so they all get up to go eat ice cream.
We're going to settle up at the check.
And TJ is still sitting there with that pepper on his plate.
I'm like, hey, TJ.
It's jalapeno.
This thing's like five inches long.
It's giant.
Yeah.
And I'm like, TJ, I'll give you a hundred bucks if you eat that jalapeno.
The whole thing.
And he was like, absolutely not.
He's like, I'll take one bite.
I was like, if you take only one bite, you absolutely have to swallow it.
You can't spit it out.
And he's like, nope, can't do it.
My stomach will be torn up for days.
Da, da, da, da.
All of his excuses.
And Dale like, I'll give him a hundred bucks.
I'm like, this is my bet.
And he was like, TJ, a hundred bucks, just take a big bite of it.
You don't have to swallow it and spit it out.
And he did it.
And he was huffing and puffing for 30 minutes after that.
And he didn't even swallow the whole thing.
He took the bite, chewed it about 34 times.
Yeah, he did.
Instinctively just chewed it a little.
Like that stuck in his teeth.
So he had seeds all in his mouth.
It was awesome.
And he did get a hundred bucks.
And so we get home and Madeline goes,
TJ got a hundred bucks to eat the jalapeno.
And I was like, you have to talk to Uncle Dale about that.
She was like, that's bullshit.
Oh, yeah.
So I had something that I noticed.
And this, if this makes a show, it makes a show.
If it doesn't, it doesn't.
I don't know.
I just thought it was something I'd talk to y'all about.
It's kind of personal.
But I noticed that people.
I noticed that people are better greeters than I am.
And so wait, what?
I know.
So I don't know how to explain this.
So we like, they actually say hello.
I have to be careful because the people that are,
I'm going to be the people that I'm going to,
the people that are this is happening with are going to hear this.
Oh.
And so if it doesn't fly, we'll just cut it.
But so I'm working broadcasting, right?
And I work with this specific group of people
and I don't see them for an entire year.
Some of them, some, some people like Plotart,
I see Burton, Adam, I might see,
but there's some people, especially down,
down in the production side that I won't see.
I get an email, maybe a text or something from time to time,
but we won't, we won't see them at work or anywhere for a long, long time.
And so when you get back around them,
when you go back to Brock,
it's like get re-appointed.
You're kind of like, yeah, I'm kind of shy and standoffish and like,
oh, hey, good to see you.
All right.
Yep.
Excited.
Yeah.
It's going to be a good year.
Yeah.
We're going to have a good run in five races.
It's going to be fun.
But the Tart and Adam are like getting full on bro hugs
with all these people and like,
oh my God.
Oh, oh man.
So good to see you.
Everybody's hugging everybody.
And I'm just standing there like, nobody's hugging me.
I'm not.
I like hugs.
Man, what the hell?
Why am I not?
Because it's because you're standing there like that with your hands crossed.
I don't know, man.
But I'm like, you know, everybody's like so glad to see each other.
And I am too.
I'm thrilled to be there.
But what is it?
Um, I, I feel like,
do y'all know what I'm talking about?
I would walk up and hug Steve.
No problem too.
Before I hugged, walked into a room and just hugged you.
You don't give off like, come hither energy, you know.
You don't give off bro hug energy.
No, are you kidding me?
No.
Like I see the Tart walk up and do the handshake.
The handshake.
This is, this is Dale.
Like typically a, his phone's in his hands.
He's probably looking at his hand and be like, hey, hey, yeah.
Nice to see you.
In fact, it was from safety blanket.
You know what I mean?
Safety blanket.
Don't make eye contact with everybody.
But like, hey, nice to see you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you, but you're like, you don't, when you see someone come up to you,
reach out, like you're not engaging first.
And I mean, as a guy, like a girl, especially like if some of the women
that you're around or whatever, they're not going to just walk up
and start hugging on you.
Yeah.
That's just not a normal way to interact.
I don't think, but Steve, I mean, Steve's like boisterous.
The golden retriever.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I know.
And that's, that's exactly what I'm talking about.
And it makes me wonder if, man, am I not?
It makes me wonder if
is that reason why people don't want to go, hey, man, good to see you.
Because it would probably be as awkward as that
because you'd sit still, like you'd probably clam up.
So you are affectionate, but not with like everybody in the damn room.
So like Tamal and I were talking about this.
She's not much of a hugger.
And I will hug too, but I'm also not like not with everybody.
So she and I have known each other for almost 20 years
and we're not going to walk in and like embrace each other.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
I'm careful about, you know, people are weird about boundaries, right?
So I don't like, I don't go up and put your, yeah, across the bubble.
Yeah.
I hear you.
I might with Adam and Steve and because I know that we have real history with all those people.
We established an agreement there, but.
Are you a hugger to Travis?
Do you like walk in and just hug anyone?
It depends who it is, but like definitely like the bro handshake of like seeing somebody,
you know, like dap them up.
Next time I see you, Dale, I'm going to go in full handshake for you.
I like, you know what my favorite thing to do is?
No, you can't do that.
That's just awkward.
I know that's the whole point.
So I have a friend Brandon and we've talked about this.
I think Brandon Suggs does not like to be hugged.
Like really doesn't like it.
And so I hug him on purpose.
I'll hug him anyway.
And now he kind of just like knows it's going to happen.
And so he doesn't get so annoyed.
I do too.
And he hates it.
Yeah.
So my favorite thing to do with handshake.
So when I see a co-worker and he puts his hand out, hey, Dale has going.
He puts a, I stare at it and I get, and I bring my hand back real slow and I come in real slow.
That's so weird.
Like I'm all like I'm all clamped down on a vice.
That's bizarre.
I know.
That's why nobody's coming at you.
They're like, that man's going to break your hand.
I make it like this is a very important handshake.
And that's why people don't do it.
All right.
When we first met, he would just stare at me.
He'd just stand in the room like in my vicinity and just stare at me like bird dog style
until I came towards him.
Because otherwise it just never ended.
He was so weird.
Do you remember doing that?
You don't?
No.
But I guess this is a broader conversation around just my awkwardness.
But I've noticed.
One of the many ways.
You know, we got with the Amazon group and that was a great five weeks and TNT, same thing.
And there's a lot of people in the production and a lot of people in the work group that
facilitate a ton of stuff for us.
They do a lot of, you know, they make all of our, when I say us, they make the talents job
really easy.
They handle all these little frivolous things like clothes and everything.
And they tell us where everything's it.
They bring everything to us.
And these are the people that make our jobs super, super easy.
And so Steve and Adam and all the other people are super nice to them because they're very
thankful and appreciative.
And I don't know how to like, I'm not hugging them.
There's not comfortable for me.
And so how do you do that naturally in your own way?
And so when I sit, when I walk into the room with Adam and Steve and they go hugging everybody
and I'm standing there going like, yeah, how are you doing?
It's like, I feel like I'm, I'm not appreciative.
It shows off that maybe I'm not as appreciative.
I'm not as happy to see them.
I'm not as thankful for them as Steve and those guys are portraying.
Well, maybe next time you walk in first.
Yeah, but I'm still not comfortable just hugging people.
You don't have to.
I don't think that anybody needs your, if you all all did the same thing.
Yeah.
Y'all aren't all the same.
I don't think that matters.
Plus, honestly, they do more TV work.
So like they're working through the fall as well, right?
And so they probably have more time with these people anyway.
You're also just more of an intro.
The part is not an intro.
Not even a little bit.
I wouldn't worry about it.
All right.
Well, yeah, I think you're thinking that.
Okay.
Shocker, Dale's overthinking it.
I've saw something that Travis put in the notes a couple of weeks ago and we didn't talk about it,
but Travis apparently has a mating call.
I didn't put this in the notes.
What if you did?
Why would I put this in the notes?
There's got to be like a sound that like turns you on like, and it doesn't have to be like,
for like, it's not like sexually, but like, it could be anything.
It could be anything like the sound of a blender.
Like somebody's going to make some margaritas or like the popcorn popping or like
the pop of a champagne bottle.
I would say so you can have probably several.
You can have several.
Yeah.
Mine would be opening the opening, the sound of a beer opening.
Can pop in the top.
Pop in the can.
Bush.
What about like fire in a car?
No.
Really?
I mean, yeah.
I feel like you should say yes.
Anyway, like a race car.
The sound of a race car.
Sound of a race car.
Yeah.
A racing racing sound.
A cocktail shaker.
Yeah.
Like a cocktail shaker.
What else?
Bacon sizzling.
Sizzling.
I was just thinking steaks for like, yeah, something sizzling.
Oh yeah.
Fajitas, the sound of fajitas.
So I always get annoyed when people order fajitas.
I know, but I'm just, it's a sizzle.
Yeah.
Everybody knows the sound of fajitas.
I used to get embarrassed when anybody at our table growing up because I grew up in Texas.
TJ ordered fajitas last night.
Yeah.
But like back in, like in Texas and those restaurants that carry them up for all highs,
like a whole scene, it's almost like when you order a bottle at a club, you know,
like there's this whole like scene.
TJ ordered the fajitas and then he poured the queso in his skill
and in his sizzling hot skillet.
So that was kind of clutch.
He was a pretty boss move.
I was like, that's a pretty powerful move.
So that is, yeah.
TJ melted it back down.
Melting it back down.
Now he had these big galava cheese and onions and meat all sucked together.
And the hell with all the other stuff they gave him that he didn't even touch any of it.
The rice and beans.
Yeah.
Rice, beans, vegetables.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What about like a golf ball hitting the club like that ding?
That's a good sound.
There's so many good sounds.
That it?
No?
Nobody has that?
I think I could probably think of a couple more if I just wouldn't put on the spot.
So that sound you're talking about though is not, it's not even a mating call.
It started in college and I don't remember how, but like we would just be at the bar
and just start.
That was the noise.
What?
So you do have an actual call and it's just for your buddies or what?
Yeah.
Is it like everybody's time to leave?
No, it's just like, I don't know.
We're just drunk and just like being dumb and just like.
That's f***ing hilarious.
I'm so going to do that right now.
I see you now.
Yesterday I was trying to get his attention.
He's sitting up here outside and I'm like, y'all Dale, y'all Ralph.
And then I cuckalled at him because we used to do that like cuckoo.
He didn't answer that either.
So I just had to scream Earnhardt upstairs and he's like, oh, oh, I'm an Earnhardt.
You're an Earnhardt.
I'm like, yeah, but you're not listening to the 20 other names.
I just like sure to swimmer that had that that sound that he made.
Then we get a swimmer guy that got in trouble.
I don't know.
This was back when Hogue was around.
We used to give Hogue a hard time because he kind of looked like him.
He was an Olympic swimmer.
I don't know.
Come on.
And he would make a noise like he had like a catchphrase that he.
Oh, the goofy guy.
Oh, oh, you made fun of Hogue.
I know.
Oh my gosh.
What was it?
I'm going to Google.
Hang on.
This is what that reminds me of.
Y'all are new going.
You're talking about Ryan Lochte.
Lochte.
Yeah.
There it was.
So we used to mess with a friend of ours.
And we used to say that all the time because he looked like the guy.
And his girlfriend dated the guy.
Oh, that's right.
That's what it was.
Damn.
And his girlfriend had dated the guy.
And his girlfriend dated him.
And so we walked around and go, yeah.
Oh my God.
What a bird.
That was so much fun.
Yeah, we were ass.
We were.
Oh, man.
That's the role of a friend, though.
That's your job is to give them a hard time.
Push all the boundaries.
Oh, yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Do we have some Ask Amy today, Travis?
We do have some Ask Amy.
Let's see here.
Speaking of drinking, people wanted to know.
We've found out about Jimmy Jam.
And SVG said is Altarigo's Frank.
Do you guys have a drinking Altarigo name?
I'm not really.
Do I?
I don't think so.
Shamami.
I'm going to have nicknames, but not really like a drinking Altarigo.
Amos.
People call me Amos.
Yeah.
Shamami was one I got called in high school,
but that wasn't like a drinking name.
It was just a fun nickname.
I don't think you do either.
I don't think I do.
He actually gets just super chatty when he's drinking.
Yeah.
Yes, you do get chatty when you're drinking.
Oh, man.
You've even admitted it to me before.
Yeah.
Oh, I'm chat.
Until he has a couple of years.
And then he was chatting.
I'm shocked that Dale doesn't have a name.
I mean, he's got so many nicknames anyway.
Do you?
So some of my friends will call me Douglas.
Douglas?
Woo, Douglas.
I mean, why not?
So yeah, that goes back to college.
Is that your middle name?
No, that's not my name.
It's got nothing to do with your name.
Where does Douglas come from?
Too long of a story that's not really that funny,
but it carried over.
And so like Matt Keller, a lot of times will refer to me
as Douglas over Travis.
Gotcha.
I like it.
Yeah.
Next question.
Do we have an update on the extension cords?
No, no.
I mean, we got we got my Amazon.
I do have an update.
I did get some ideas from some from some folks
of maybe some better quality brands to buy.
But I I actually double ordered by mistake
when I got the last one that just broke.
And so I was walking around in in the in there in our little
storage and I found a brand new brand new one in the box.
So I just threw it up.
But so we'll just wait for that one to die.
We'll see.
We'll see.
And then we'll see how this one stays alive.
It's a common theme around here.
Yeah.
If you leave outside, but it's died is dead.
It's going to be I mean, it's crazy.
Good to know.
Next question here is does listening to an audio book count
as reading it?
I would say yes.
I've read like 10 books.
So I would say yes.
Yeah.
I got into reading the Bible here lately.
I haven't read the Bible in a really, really long time,
but I got back into it and I'm doing this Bible study
with a couple of friends.
And so they're like, hey, man, I'm this far along.
And I'm like, I'm not I'm not that far along.
You know, and they're like they're like hauling ass through this,
you know, this process.
And I'm like, all right.
So I downloaded this audio book of the Bible for my own life.
I'm a phone, so I'll throw it on in the car or the truck
just to kind of catch up to them.
Now, I need to look at the word.
It helps me to remember what I'm reading
if I'm actually seeing it on a page.
Yeah.
But so that's what I'm doing, too.
I'm reading Hail Mary, but I have the audio book as well.
But I'm doing both at the same time to help me like super focus on it.
That's also distracted so easily, to be honest.
Yeah.
I also found that to be helpful, too, is like to people
and things is crazy a bit.
But to have the audio book going while you're actually holding the book.
Reading the book.
That you're trying to read.
I mean, it's like having an assistant.
You know, it's like in school.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I just feel like I'm like, oh, man, this is way easier.
I don't know why this is easier because like if I don't have sound
and I'm trying to read a page, I just don't retain it.
I don't know why I can get I can lose my train of thought.
Yeah.
Sometimes I get distracted.
I have to like go back sometimes.
I will be like halfway through the page and all.
And I'm thinking about I'm doing around the house.
They're going to do the next day.
And I'm like, I'm not even reading this anymore.
But I've gotten through a whole page, but I don't know what I just read.
Yeah, I do the same thing.
It's the weirdest thing.
That's scary.
We're going to have two kids that are going to do that.
Oh my gosh.
I personally don't think it should count.
If you if you have the book in front of you, I'll count it.
But if you're just listening in the car, you didn't read the book.
Yeah.
Okay.
So you like it's if it's face value reading the book.
No, you're just listening to a book.
Yeah, you're just listening to a podcast.
That's true.
I guess that makes sense.
Yeah, you have to have the tangible book for it to be reading.
Damn.
Next question is what do you think of people that send audio text messages?
I like them.
I like it, but I still can't figure out how to do it.
And every time I accidentally push that button, I have no idea what I just said.
I will send and if I send you an audio text,
it's because I so like if I had a I just sent one to Adam.
So Sunday during the race, we were calling the last couple of laps and I called
Christopher Bell briscoe.
So I had briscoe chasing briscoe.
And sometimes when you're just, you know, I don't even know I'm doing that until after
the fact someone goes, oh man, you miss, you know, you called this guy the wrong guy.
And it happens sometimes during a race.
It might happen every single race, but I know that if I'm going to get on.
So Adam's the play-by-play.
He's really the guy that's supposed to be doing all of the work in the last lap of the race.
And if you're going to get in there and do anything, you better be smart and not just
to be doing it.
Say the wrong name.
And so I screwed up a great, I screwed up the call on the last lap of a race and it's his call.
And so I was like, I texted him and I was like, man, I heard, I heard I goofed up.
Sorry.
And then I went back and watched it and I sent him an audio message
so that he could hear the inflection in my voice and hear my insincerity.
And so I think that's when it's good to do.
Like don't be sending them just to be like, yep, meet you downtown.
I'll see you later.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
Let's have a story or something that's too long to text down.
When inflection and tone is important, it's sometimes a good idea to send.
And Jimmy Johnson sends audio text messages.
And I think that's cool because he's, that's, it takes a little extra effort.
And it's a little personalized.
It's more personalized.
You know what I mean?
I still can't figure out how to do it.
Yeah.
Oh, it's super simple.
Tim sends them to me all the time.
I know.
So like every time I put like the microphone button, it's not listening to me.
It starts automatically.
You're just going to have to show Granny how to do this.
But I, I can, I do voice text, breeze to text all the time,
especially if I'm driving in my car.
Audio.
Yeah.
So like how am I doing?
He's working.
He's doing it.
So how am I doing that on accident?
Like if I'm ever, it's starting and I don't know what I did.
Because I'm not prompting it like that.
That's right in the message box.
Just hit here.
Now you're recording.
Hello.
No, no, I get it.
I love you.
Okay, never mind.
Bye-bye.
Now you know.
Yeah, but I don't know how I'm doing it on accident.
So I'm not pushing that like that.
I don't, I mean, I don't know how you're doing on accident.
There's gotta be a shortcut that's available.
That's how you do it.
Cool. Thanks.
I'm going to send them to you all day now.
Next question, Amy.
Do you think that Jimmy does it because they go away?
Like are there people that send them just because it disappears?
Well, you can save them.
I know you can save them, but you don't have to save them and then they disappear.
I don't know that there's a thought process behind that.
I don't know that there's an agenda behind it.
I just think it's a personal touch of like, hey, bud, how's it going, man?
I heard from you a while.
I just like them.
I think they're good, but only when you're, you know, it's a real,
a real story to tell or some, or it's important to hear tone or.
So I'm good with them.
What about you?
I'm not a fan of it, though.
I understand what you're saying about if you need to have like tone or express,
you know, you want them to be able to hear because you can't read tone or whatever.
It makes sense for the one off, but I'm, if that, if that's at that point,
just make the phone call then.
Yeah, that's a good point.
My own, you know,
I don't know.
I feel like sometimes the phone call lasts too long.
Sometimes you don't have really time for that.
Like you want to, so it's kind of selfish.
Like I want to send it.
All I've got to say is this.
I really don't want a conversation.
I just wanted to tell you this.
That's fair.
I'm just going to leave this here.
Next question.
Amy, people want to know how do you go about best making sure the kids
are suntan lotion is fully applied for them?
Oh, that's a great question.
Tips.
I got lit up Monday.
He didn't put any sunscreen on.
I've not been putting any on this week.
I lather my girls from head to toe, especially here.
If they're going to be outside for like an hour,
I don't worry about it so much because like your skin doesn't need all that stuff on it
every time you go outside.
But if they're going to be outside all day in the floor at the beach, especially,
I tie their hair up and I start with their face because that's their least favorite.
So I get their face out of the way.
So I know I did a good job before they start squirming around
and then get them from there down.
But I also have some, some goop I put in their hair when they get in the swimming pool
to keep their hair from turning green.
Yeah, I have like special stuff to put in their hair before they even get in the pool.
It's a process like we can be fully ready to go.
And then it's another 10 minutes because we're going to cover ourselves.
And they haven't had any sunburns.
We're going out on the beach today, I think.
Yeah, they like the boogie board.
Boogie board.
That's the thing now.
Boogie board.
So you have to like watch for the tide and everything because the beach here is so shallow.
It's a must.
If it's slow tide, there's no water.
Like it's you can walk half a mile almost.
It feels like out to the sandbar, which is fun too.
But you can't take the boogie boards out.
Yeah.
I saw on Instagram the hack that they people use like a makeup applicator.
I have sunscreen on that.
Yeah, like a makeup brush.
I have those and I've used that before.
And it worked really well, especially when they were tiny
because they wouldn't sit still and I didn't get in their eyes or anything.
Dale's like distracted neck out of me right now.
I don't a little baby Jesus.
Yeah.
Got a big Jesus over each other.
Between the wrestlers legs, too.
That's a weird place to stick a Jesus.
Yeah, he's standing on a pot.
He's standing on a.
Here he is.
Jesus, Mike.
Yeah, the makeup brush does work really well.
Yeah.
Very ridiculous.
I think this is a good spot to finish the show.
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About this episode
Dale Jr. and Amy do a beach-house remote chat that starts with funny “good mood” stuff—bushy eyebrows, nose hairs, and the reality of aging grooming battles—then shifts to simple drink talk (a Sudachi Lime Red Bull-style “blocker”). They get into why they chose their current Charleston-area beach setup over an older Key West house, and how the area’s restaurants and Fourth of July traditions keep the vibe rolling. The highlight is a real-life car trouble story: a cheap rental vehicle with transmission issues, quick help from a nearby Chevy dealer, and a tow that saved the day before brunch plans.
Original notes
Dale Jr. and Amy are back from the beach for another laid-back episode filled with vacation stories, parenting adventures, and plenty of unexpected tangents. From Fourth of July traditions in Charleston to the latest sports card obsession, there's no shortage of laughs along the way.
The pair swap stories about raising kids, debate whether they'd ever officiate a wedding, and share the everyday sights and sounds that instantly put them in a good mood. Plus, Dale opens up about something he's noticed about himself that has him completely overthinking social interactions. If you've ever taken a family vacation, questioned your parenting, or wondered if you're the awkward one in the room, this episode is for you.
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