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What Would Dale Be Like As A Prom Date
What Would Dale Be Like As A Prom Date
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Dale Jr. and Amy share a laid-back conversation filled with humor and personal anecdotes, including their upcoming family ski trip and a playful game testing their pronunciation of tricky food and place names. They discuss favorite drinks, funny mispronunciations, and share stories about injuries and illnesses. The episode also touches on family life, health habits, and lighthearted debates about weather preferences. The casual banter and relatable moments make it a fun listen for fans interested in the personalities behind the racing world.
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Dale and Amy are on vacation, but came in last week to make sure there was a Bless Your ‘Hardt this week. Pronouncing words can be difficult, and this week the two played a new game called: How ‘Hardt is it to Pronounce. How many of the words below can you pronounce?
Dulce De Leche
Acai
Façade
Lativa
Sous Vide
Bruschetta
Gyro
Worcestershire
Moussaka
Quinoa
Epitome
Gnocchi
Dale and Travis then discuss that if they are dealing with a chipped tooth, they suddenly become a baby and can’t do anything until it’s fixed.
In the Ask Amy segment, they discuss whether they’d rather always be hot or cold, trying to avoid cussing around the kids, and what Dale would have been like as a prom date. Plus, sports that they would like their kids not to get involved with.
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Oh, yeah, this is where it's going to be, girl.
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, Junior and I are in the Dirty Moe Media
Studios for another round of Bless Your Heart.
We're on vacation this week, so we're going to film this
ahead of time.
And we have a fun game to play, but we we're going skiing
with the girls over spring break.
Yeah.
And so I'm excited.
We have mastered
putting on all of our gear and spent some time in the snow.
Well, the girls and I.
Well, yeah.
So I'm excited for just an adventure that's not the beach
because this is going to be fun for everybody.
I just have to say I know I learned how to snow ski a couple of years ago
and I'm pretty, pretty good with it.
I don't really need to do any more, but I'm hoping the girls want to tube.
If they ski, they ski, we'll ski.
I'll ski.
There's some night tubing that it's like I'm not in the dark.
I'm not eager to get down.
You're going to apprey is what you're saying.
I don't know. I'm not eager to injure myself.
You're not going to injure yourself.
Brack is lasky.
He went skiing broke his leg.
He probably went too hard.
We'll just do the easy, easy things.
We're going to be with the kids.
It'll be fine.
You can just hang out at ski school if you want.
Drink some, drink some cocktail.
I'm just going to watch them.
I'll do whatever the kids are doing.
If the kids are skiing, I'm skiing.
If the kids are tubing, I'm tubing.
Sure. We're going to go snowmobiling to whatever the kids are into.
OK, well, I think it's going to be a great trip.
We have a very simple drink this week.
This is the orange cream, sickle,
sip and cream sugar, lands and it is ice cold.
Fantastic. Dale's favorite.
Tastes great.
So if you haven't already, check out highrockvodka.com
and you can get the store locator and figure out where near you
you can find highrock and any of the Sugarlands products.
Also, remember, you must be 20 years or over and to drink responsibly.
We have exciting news too about highrock.
We have many bottles now and we have is it one point seven five?
We have a handle coming out soon.
So we're really excited about that.
What do you guys call the little bottles?
Airplane bottles.
I just call minis.
OK, because I've heard that people call nips.
What? I'm not doing that.
I'm with Dale, the airplane bottles.
Nips. Yeah.
No, I feel like nips is reserved for only one thing.
And you know what that thing is.
Yeah. No, it's a mini.
OK, I'm with you guys.
Yeah, thanks for that, Travis.
Any time.
We have a game to play.
Travis, you want to tell us what the games are?
First time we're playing a game this year
and it's called How Heart Is It To Pronounce?
How heart is it to pronounce?
Yes. And so if for the listeners, the words will be in the description
because the word will be up on the screen for Dale and Amy.
And we're going to see how they pronounce it.
Go ahead.
I'm going to let Dale go first
because he's got the more fun dialect accent.
Yeah, let's get there.
We go.
Dulce de Lache.
Dulce de Lache.
Dulce de Lache.
What is that?
Do you know what it is?
Sounds French.
What is it?
Amy, do you know the word?
It's Dulce de Lache.
Dulce de Lache.
Dulce de Lache.
What do you think it is?
I saw a video on Instagram.
This girl called it douche de louche.
And she's got an Australian accent.
She's like douche de louche.
Yeah.
If that's close.
Yeah, it was pretty bad.
And it's a dessert, right?
It's a dessert.
Yes.
It's like, I think caramelly.
Leche is milk, so I think it's caramel.
What's that one, Ralph?
Next word is?
The next word.
He's just shaking his head.
He's like, not Asia.
Asia.
Yeah, Asia.
Oh, you almost had it.
It's pretty close.
It's AsaÃ.
AsaÃ.
Yeah.
All right.
You know, those frozen fruit bowls.
It's like purple sorbet, basically.
And you get all the fruit on top of it.
That's an Asaà bowl.
I can see it.
There you go, right there.
You don't.
You had it.
Right there.
Yeah.
That's large enough.
All right.
The next word is?
Pasad.
Pasad.
That's right.
Good job.
Scroll back up, man.
Put it on the screen.
I don't want you prepping.
It doesn't matter.
Do you know what a Pasad is?
Latavia.
Latvia.
There you go.
Latavia.
I did.
I see it backwards.
You see it backwards?
Latvia.
Yeah, I see it.
And I think Latavia, but Latvia.
Latvia.
That's a place, right?
Yes.
It's a country.
It's a country.
Yeah, I've learned that.
Susphide.
Susphide.
No, it's sous vide.
Sous vide?
Oh.
And it's a cooking method.
Yeah.
Have you ever had food cooked with a sous vide?
I don't think so.
Oh, my gosh.
It's like a fine art to be able to do that.
The steaks that you have if you cook it with a sous vide
will be the best steak you ever have.
Just like super tender?
Because you can pick the temperature
and it's going to be exact.
And then you just throw it on the, you know,
to see it at the end.
And so I act like I'm done this.
I've never had.
My friend has and can.
And do it at home?
Yeah.
That's pretty cool.
He has a sous vide at home and crushes it.
Crushes it.
Yeah, I mean, it feels like that would be easy.
No, I have to try that out.
Next word.
Bruchetta.
Oh, bruchetta.
He came out with it fast.
That's one item that I hate.
It's bruschetta, right?
I don't mind eating it.
It's like Italian salsa, basically, right?
Sure.
I just don't like the because the balsamic goes on it, right?
Yeah.
You don't like balsamic vinegar?
No, you lose me there.
Oh, I could drink that.
They like vinegar too.
I'm good with that.
Yeah, I'm good with it.
Let's go to the next word.
He's waiting anxiously.
Gyro.
Gyro.
These aren't hard.
That's not what it is.
Gyro?
It's a gyro.
It's more like hero.
Hero?
Gyro.
I mean, this is gyro.
Which is a Greek food.
It's like a lamb wrap.
Worcestershire.
Worcestershire.
Worcestershire.
Or what's this here sauce?
Worcestershire.
That is one of the hardest words to say.
Musaka.
He did it.
Musaka.
He crushed that one.
I don't even know what musaka is.
Is that food too?
It's a, I think it's like a Greek meal.
It's with like...
The couscous and...
There's like dough on both sides,
but then like hamburger meat or something in the middle
or something like that.
Hmm.
Konoa.
I used to think this is Konoa too.
It's quinoa.
Quinoa.
They all hate quinoa.
I mean, it's useless.
It's useless.
All into the useless category.
Useless foods.
Epitome.
Epitome.
Nailed it.
Dailed it.
Ganose.
Ganose?
Noki.
Noki.
Yeah.
No, that's a good food.
Yeah, that's a good food.
And so that's the words we got.
Dang, all right.
You did it.
I think you did all right.
You did all right.
After...
Douche de Louche.
When you said Latavia and then Amy sent me the Douche de Louche,
I was like, okay, I think we've...
We've got a game.
We've got a game here.
I will say to some of these words,
they're not...
They're like French or whatever.
That's usually where they get people.
Yeah.
But yeah.
We should put some, like, actual standard English words in there.
We screw some words up in our language all day every day.
Are there any words that you just always...
He always says signal instead of signal.
It's a signal today.
Signal?
How does he say it?
Signal.
Signal.
Oh.
Instead of a signal, like, turn signal?
Yeah.
It's a sing-no.
Signal.
He's always done that.
Sing-no.
I've always done that.
Sing-no.
Mm-hmm.
Like sing a word.
I get it backwards.
I put the N in the wrong place or something.
He gets that from his mom.
She used to say Fuginia and Fumosa.
Yeah.
It wasn't a mimosa.
It was Fumosa.
Instead of Virginia, it's with an F.
Yeah.
Fuginia.
My grandma would say Cincinnati and Washington.
Washington.
Can he...
Our bus driver, he goes...
He washes the clothes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He still does that.
No, it's Washington.
He's Washington.
I don't know where you get that from.
He'd probably be able to say Worcestershire really well then, too.
Oh, yeah.
Be able to crush that one.
I'm trying to think if there's any words that I mispronounce.
People say that I say, like, Toyota, funny.
Chevrolet.
Chevy.
Chevrolet.
Chevrolet.
Chevrolet.
Chevrolet.
But I get Toyota...
People talk about how I say Toyota on the broadcast.
Yeah.
There's a little...
How do you pronounce...
O-I-L.
Sorry?
Ohio.
Ohio.
How do you pronounce it?
O-I-L.
I'll...
O-I-L.
Oil.
Oil.
Oil.
Got to change the oil.
Yeah.
Oil.
That was ridiculous.
I had to, like, look up at the sky to try to visualize what O-I-L was.
It's, like, Ohio.
I'm like...
Like, what?
Did you see the hockey?
I just watched his speech at the end.
Yeah.
The USA Olympics.
His teeth were all smashed out.
That is something else.
I don't know why they don't wear mouthpieces.
That's a great question.
I mean, I feel like that sport in particular, it should be a standard-issued thing.
He might have one in.
No.
You think he had one in and still had one knocked out?
I mean, that puck coming through...
No.
It was a stick?
Whatever.
I'm just saying.
He still had it.
Still can get your teeth knocked out, even if you got a mouthpiece in.
That one was broken in half.
That was probably my feelings the most.
It's probably been broken before.
And he didn't even miss any playing time?
No.
I would have been out of commission for a week.
Yeah.
I cracked my tooth of New Year's, and I'm like, all the entire weekend, I didn't do anything.
Because it hurt your feelings so bad, or did it actually physically hurt?
It just bothered me, even with, like, I put dental wax in, but I still just didn't want
to do anything.
Dental wax?
Dental wax.
Yeah.
If you ever have, like, a chipped or cracked tooth by dental wax, and you can cover up
the cracker, so if you need time to get to the dentist.
If I chip a tooth, nothing in the world can happen next until I go get it fixed.
Yeah.
So you're like Travis.
Like, I can't...
If I chip a tooth, I'd cancel everything until...
Life is permanently canceled until it's fixed.
I call my dentist, and I'm like, all right, I'll be there at 6 a.m.
I'm like, I don't care.
Like, I'll come as early as possible.
I'll get up at 3 o'clock in the morning, and I'll give a s***.
I am getting this fixed, and there's nothing happening until that's taken care of.
Are you like that if you have a cold, too?
Like, if I have a cold, like, I baby that cold, and I'm like...
I mean, he used to be like that, and now, since we have kids, he knows he can't.
Yeah.
Like, he can't just cancel life and lay on the couch.
I give him all these...
I give him a stack of vitamins, and I'm like, swallow this, and get going.
And so he's...
And they do work.
Yeah.
We did get real sick last year, where we were both in the guest bedroom.
Yeah.
So I got it first.
Shut down for like days.
It had to have been the flu.
I got it first, then Dale ended up with it the week later.
So at least it was just one at a time.
We weren't both out of commission.
It was so nice.
Amy was like, you just lay here, don't do anything, just rest.
I know how bad I felt.
If I hadn't gotten sick first, I would not have had that much mercy on him.
You serious?
I'm just going to get laid here.
Oh yeah.
You act like you're always in trouble and like, you don't get to do anything fun.
I do feel sick, but this is super cool.
I'm just taking a vacation.
Like a staycation.
A staycation.
Yeah.
Getting service.
Yeah.
Meds, water.
Damn, it was awesome.
You made a fire.
Yeah.
I bounced right back, got back up out there about three days.
Let's do some Ask Amy.
Let's do some Ask Amy.
So first question comes from Tara and she says, would you rather always be hot or cold?
I think I'd rather always be hot.
I think hot.
Yeah.
I mean, neither one, neither one are great.
Hot.
I grew up in South Texas.
Hot.
I feel like I could acclimate to and get used to.
Cold would be always annoying.
Yeah, it would.
Because you, even you literally can't get rid of that.
And you're bundled up.
No, you can't mentally.
No.
I mean, you could bundle up.
Is that allowed?
But then you're, but then you're like.
But then you're bundled up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then you're wearing all these things.
Hot is the way you are.
What was it like for you when you moved to Kentucky and had to deal with cold weather?
It was terrible.
So I moved 2000 and I went to Kentucky 10 days after graduating high school.
I didn't even have a coat.
That was a quick move.
I was just like, I want to get out of this tiny little town.
I live in so bad.
I signed up for summer classes and just went.
And I didn't even have winter coats of like 8am classes in Kentucky.
When it got cold, I didn't go.
I got kicked out of English because I didn't go enough.
Well, why didn't you buy a coat?
I don't know.
Like it's not like winter classes was 10 days.
It's not like I didn't have an idea that it should get cold.
I just didn't, I don't know.
I didn't.
I just didn't have a coat.
And so I didn't go to class.
I didn't deal with it very well is what I'm saying.
I'm like, I ain't going outside.
It's too cold for me.
That was always the worst is wintertime walk into class.
Yeah.
You're just like.
And yes.
And English was all the way across campus.
8am.
I mean a lot of bad choices, to be honest.
Typical freshman year.
That's also where you got to be clever with like the scheduling.
Like never too early, never too late.
I thought if I get my classes done, then I have all day.
I can get a job.
I can do my work, whatever I have to do for class.
And it didn't really work out very well.
And so I, I, from that day, from that semester on after that
semester, I just did classes like Tuesday, Thursday, and I
didn't do anything on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday.
That was a smart way to do it.
I once had Tuesday, Thursday also, and it was the best
because you get four day weekend Tuesdays.
Okay.
You're back.
And then Thursdays are kind of tough.
But you're like, just get through the day and I get four
day weekend.
Very smart.
It was probably my favorite.
And always just avoided Friday classes.
Never schedule a Friday class.
That's right.
Nobody wants anything on Friday.
No.
Next question comes from John and is how do you handle when
accidentally cussing around the kids and then they want to
start saying those words?
What's funny is like Dale and I stopped, we were, when I was
pregnant with Ila, we used to cuss a lot.
We just, like Dale, the F word was like a filler word.
You know what I mean?
And so when I was pregnant with her, I remember telling Dale,
we have to stop cussing now or try to phase that out now
because otherwise it will be too hard.
And so we did a good job of that.
And I feel like when I was little, there wasn't any
cussing going on.
And then when Nicole came, we both kind of gave up and
every once in a while, I feel like I was the first one to
slip up in front of the kids and say word, but they haven't
tried to repeat it.
Luckily.
Yeah.
So I think right now they're five and seven and we're,
we're still pretty cognizant of it, but we're a little more
careless these days.
And I will ask if I met, if I slip up so I might be on the
phone or something.
This happens this week.
And Ila might hear it in a conversation I'm having with
somebody and we're driving to school or something.
And I'm like, Ila, did you, did you hear any words in there
that were bad words?
And she'll go, yeah.
And I'm like, all right.
All right.
So, you know, they're bad words, you know, I don't,
don't want you saying any of those.
You'll have like a rational conversation.
Yeah.
Like I just, it'll be like the word or something like that.
And I'll say, Ila, did you, in that last sentence I said,
did you hear a bad word?
She goes, yeah.
And I'm like, all right, as long as you know it's a bad word,
you're not supposed to say it.
You can get older.
You can say it, but you can't say it till you're older.
Yeah.
But they're not allowed to say like dumb or stupid or anything.
They're not allowed to call each other names like that.
We call them out when we hear them say just stuff like that.
Yeah.
So we're pretty particular, but.
They think the word but is so funny to say.
So they'll like add that onto the end of something that's normal
just to make each other laugh.
Yeah.
And we, yeah.
I remember I was visiting my aunt and in their town was a
physical dam.
And so I thought it was so cool that I could use that word.
I'm like, can we go see the dam?
Yeah.
I went to the dam.
Damn.
I want to see the dam.
And I was just using the word over and over again.
I thought I was like, yeah.
I got away with one.
I found a little cool.
Being sneaky.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's funny.
Cuss words really aren't that great, but there's a couple of,
there's a couple of them that feel good to say like the F word.
They just does.
I was on the phone with speakerphone with Dale the other day.
I was picking up both of the kids from school.
So they're both in the back seat and he calls.
I think he was here all day.
Was it Tuesday?
No, it was Monday.
Whatever.
He was here.
He was coming home and he's like, what's going on this evening?
I was like, I have bunco.
And the first response without any hesitation was.
I'm like, you're on speaker.
I don't think I said it that loud.
That energetic.
I just went.
Was that loud in my speakers in the car?
I was like, because I mean, and then I said, dude, it seems like you're doing that every
week.
She's like, it's been six weeks.
We didn't do it last month because of the snow and the ice.
I'm like, really?
God, it feels like it's every other week.
It's so big.
You know, if I have a one, two hour dinner, he's like, oh man, she was gone forever.
Because the week before we had our fantasy football league Christmas dinner where we
crowned our champion.
We had had to push that off too.
So we finally did that the week before.
He's like, you're always gone.
But she's like, the kids are in here.
I'm like, oh shoot.
Sorry.
Yeah, I was too late.
But neither one of them have tried to say that yet.
I can't believe that Nicole to be honest.
Yeah.
I feel like that's coming.
We've gotten lucky.
Yeah, it is coming.
The funniest thing also is if a kid can't pronounce a word and instead they're cussing.
Yeah.
Like they're trying to say like frog and they're saying.
Yeah.
Like that.
Do y'all remember the first time your parents were got angry with you for saying a cuss word?
Yeah.
I didn't ever want to have those conversations.
Like I was scared enough of my dad, but I didn't.
He never had to like, he said he gave me a spanking once when I was pretty little because
I was getting into something and not listening.
And as he said, it broke his heart just as much as it made me sad.
He never did it again.
But I never really stepped out of line too much either.
I always told him where I was going.
I always like minded the rules.
I didn't ask for too much.
Like my sisters were not the same, especially Katie.
At one point during high school, cause she and I butted heads too and we didn't hang out
in the same crowds.
I was like, you're doing this all wrong.
Like you just have to tell them where you are and they won't make you come home at like
nine o'clock.
Yeah.
She's like, I ain't telling nobody nothing.
I'm like, it must be a second kid thing because I've seen it and heard it, you know, so many
times, but she wouldn't listen to anybody and she got in a lot of trouble.
I'm a little worried about your grandma though with hearing it trouble this episode with
all this cussing.
I know.
Granny's, I hope Granny doesn't pay attention to this.
Has she called to complain about your cussing yet lately?
No, but she likes to do it when we're in person.
Okay.
She likes to make sure that she can embarrass me in a group setting.
Oh, that's funny.
Um, our next question is how do you think Dale would have been like as a prom date?
Oh, wow.
Terrible.
He would have been very quiet.
I know how our first date went and that was when he was an adult.
An accomplished adult.
You know what I mean?
He probably would have been like this cute little nerd.
What did we say on our first date?
Nothing.
There were no words except for it's time to go.
I don't believe that.
We sat in this Mexican food restaurant that was an old church.
It's still there.
Do you remember?
Well, it's changed restaurants there.
Like this was more of like a.
It's still restaurant.
A higher end, not Tex Mexi.
And so we sat down and ate and we ordered soup.
I got black bean soup, Dale got corn chowder or something.
And then we both ordered meals and, um, he ate his soup and then he ate mine cause he
thought mine would taste better.
So he ate his first and then ate mine.
And then when we got our plates, he inhaled his food.
If you don't already know that about Dale, he really does not even taste it.
It's just all goes down in one big golf.
And then at the end of that, I had had two or three bites.
He stands up, puts $100 down on the table, stands up and is like, all right, it's time
to go.
Are you kidding?
Are you kidding me?
He's like, no, let's go straight, straight face, not smiling.
And then the whole time we sat there, it was just super awkward.
Like, I don't know what to say to him.
We've been hanging out a little bit, but I didn't have like a list of questions.
And, um, it was just weird.
He just, you know, gazed at me like I've said he does.
He just stared at me and then ate my food and was like, it's time to leave.
And there was no food in his apartment.
The loft that we were, that he was living in when the house was being built.
So there was no snacks in there, nothing to eat.
I was pretty hungry.
Dale, would you have brought a corsage to Amy as a prom date?
It's probably.
Did you go, you didn't go to the prom?
No, I was, uh,
I blame it on racing, but I was, um,
You weren't racing yet.
No, I mean, I was racing at 16.
I was racing at 15.
Um, I just didn't.
I mean, I.
You just didn't really want to do it.
There was a couple girls that I would have asked to the dance or whatever,
but they all had boyfriends.
Some of them had boyfriends didn't go to school.
You know, there weren't even boys that went to the school we were at.
Cause there's a lot of schools around South Ireland and all that.
And you had this girl that you liked and she'd be dating a boy at another school
or whatever.
So I don't know.
I had friends that were girls, but I don't know.
I just, uh,
So as a guy, you just can't go to the prom by yourself.
You just can't just go just to hang out and.
No, no, you did not go without it.
I didn't think that you went.
We had dances, right?
And so at the dance, everybody would come by themselves,
but the prom was for.
That's the way for couple dates.
Yeah, that's the way it was working in my brain.
Yeah, probably would have felt the same.
Did you ever have the Sadie Hawkins dance where the girl had to ask the guy.
Yes, I loved that.
So in Texas, we dressed up like hillbillies too.
Like you wore just like.
You're dressed down.
Fandana plaid, like every, like the guys were Jorts.
Like it was played up, very costuming.
And so that was so fun.
What's this called?
Sadie Hawkins.
Sadie?
Sadie Hawkins.
Yeah.
It was another dance where the girl asked the guy.
Yeah, they should do.
They should have done that back in the day.
That would have been nice.
And maybe somebody would have asked me.
Oh, I was short.
I wasn't.
I wasn't this thing you see sitting here today.
You weren't the specimen you are now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was little.
You were probably cute and sweet back then.
But not.
I was all those things, but not the guy you wanted to take to the dance.
Aw.
Yeah.
I was shorter than all the girls.
Really?
I was probably five, three when I got my driver's license at 16.
So I didn't really get tall or taller till like I was a senior.
Yeah.
I entered high school 4-11.
4-11?
Yeah.
I was 4-11 as a...
Wow.
Yeah, 13.
I was 4-11 as a freshman, I suppose, right before I got my license.
When did you sprout up?
The next like, probably like 16 months, just shot the foot.
Just like over the first couple of years you did.
From like that 15 to like 16 range, just boom.
Yeah, that's just the difference between girls and boys.
I was full grown at 12, but I thought for sure I was going to be tall.
And then I stopped growing.
I was so sad.
Like everybody, like you go home for the summer and then you come back to school.
Yeah.
You just like, you go, you get out of school for the summer and you come back to school
and everybody else had sprouted up.
And I was like, dang it.
This is it for me.
I was sad through all of my high school years thinking that I was going to be...
Tiny.
Tiny, like five, eight was going to be the highs I got.
Yeah.
But luckily I got decent.
Well, I'm for a guy that's probably a little bit different being a girl if that's petite,
it's not so bad.
Yeah.
A guy you don't want to be under six feet, I feel like is like the...
Under six feet?
Yeah.
I feel like that's the line of...
That's tall.
That you want to reach.
Well, you'd love that.
I think, you know, I don't know.
I feel pretty good.
I'm not quite six feet is what he's saying.
I'm not quite six feet.
I'm five, 10 and a half, but I'm pretty happy with that.
Good to know.
I don't go around like TJ going, damn, I wish I was taller.
Sorry, TJ.
Did TJ say that?
TJ took a stray.
Does he say that?
No.
You can tell he's exuding that.
I thought he'd enjoy hearing that.
But he's thrilled.
Yeah.
The general is going to be really mad about that.
Anytime you want to get TJ, just do a hype joke.
You got him.
He's very sensitive.
Or, you know, rag on buffalo.
Yeah.
The hype thing though, I feel like you can't control it.
So I don't want to always...
Yeah, that's not fair.
Yeah, but it's TJ.
So there's sometimes when you just don't care because you're so mad at him.
And he deserves it.
Yeah.
I'm not saying just walk around doing hype jokes on anybody that's short.
This TJ would call me.
Dale used to call me little legs.
What?
He called me four eyes when we first started dating.
No, I didn't.
He called me little legs.
Yes, you did.
Little legs.
Yes.
At what point you said that to me?
I did not remember this.
It was the only time my entire life had been called that.
Little legs was fine because that's like a...
I feel like he's saying it from the endearment like being funny, but four eyes is...
He wasn't like calling me like a name trying to be mean, but he was...
But not like how you four eyes.
When I had glasses on, when we first started dating, I had glasses.
I had contacts.
And so in the evening, when I'd take my contacts out and I'd have my glasses on the bed or
I'd just decide I didn't want to have them on my face, he would get so mad because I
couldn't see the TV.
The rather large TV.
My eyes were pretty bad.
And so, yeah, he used to call me four eyes just to try to talk me into getting laser
treatment on my eyes, which I was terrified of.
This is the way I thought.
But he wears glasses.
I'm going to be here into submission with name calling.
No, no, no.
This is the way my brain worked.
I was like, man, I've met the woman that I want to marry, the love of my life, and we'll
never be able to lay in the bed at night and watch TV.
What the hell?
She's...
I'm like, the one thing.
The one thing that I was really looking forward to in this relationship is laying in the bed,
watching TV at night or in the morning, and she can't do it.
Well, she put her glasses on.
I know.
I could do it.
But I had to take all that stuff on to go to sleep.
I don't know.
Yeah.
He talked me into the laser treatment.
I got it done.
The best decision Dale ever made for me.
I've thought about getting that.
It was a dream.
I have worn glasses since I was seven, like my entire life.
It was a good thing to get talked into.
The doctor was fantastic.
His mom took me.
She had had the same laser done on her eyes.
She took me down there in her little red Corvette, and I got my eyes laser.
She brought me home and dropped me off at the back door, and I army crawled from the back
door all the way up to my bed.
I was living with Jamie Goddard at the time.
You can't see.
You can't see anything.
You have goggles on, and then it takes like 24 hours for your sight to fully come in.
I'm nervous that something's going to happen.
I'm going to be blind.
I was terrified at the same thing, but you're awake through the whole thing.
That's why I'd rather be put out, like go under, and they do it.
Well, I don't think they can.
They need your attention.
That's where I would.
Well, they give you a volume, and then they put these numbing drops in your eyes, and you
don't feel anything.
Can you smell the burning?
It takes 30 seconds.
No, I didn't smell anything.
30 seconds.
Yeah.
The thing comes down.
It goes, and it goes up to the other eye, and it goes, and then it's done.
They flip the lenses back over, they put the goggles on, and you set your own.
Yeah, but like the flipping the lenses over is not part of the 30 seconds.
Yes, it is.
It's done with a machine.
Oh.
Yeah, that might.
There's like marginal room for air, as long as you're strapped down, too.
Like you can't go anywhere.
You're really strapped in.
Yeah.
Hard.
Like your head is slammed.
And you're, like I said, they gave you drugs, so you're not really upset about anything.
I don't like being tied down, you know how I am.
I need more than the normal amount of drugs for that.
Yeah, well, horse tranquilizer.
Yeah.
I've thought about it.
You would be fine.
I highly recommend it.
You should do it.
You want to do it?
We can both do it.
If I ever am a candidate, I'm doing it.
Oh, your eyes are just too bad.
You can't do it.
I used to have the best vision.
I used to have 2010 and sharp as a tack, fricking badass.
And then around 38, 39, it started going.
And so yeah, I miss it because it's like playing like sim racing, right?
So when I'm sitting as a sim racer, when I'm sitting my sim rig, I got to wear the computer
goggles that are basically the reader's prescription over the full ends.
But it has a sweet spot and outside that sweet spot gets blurry.
But if you look here and there, everything's sharp, but all my peripherals blurry and I'm
so used to my peripheral being perfect.
That's another word he says.
Money is peripheral, peripheral.
And so I wish I could go back and get it done.
And I wish I could go back to where I was.
I thought, man, I miss being, I miss my sight being as good as it was.
Yeah.
There's all kinds of moments in the day when it's annoying.
It is a gift.
Thanks for mine.
I just thought of a word.
When I first moved here, I pronounced it.
Jitan road.
Oh, Jitan.
That's how it's pronounced, right?
I don't know.
I said Jitan road.
Oh, Jitan.
I pronounced Irodale.
Irodale.
Irodale.
Irodale.
I remember the first time I said that out loud too, because I'm like, not from here.
He's like, he just laughs his ass off at me.
Like who would know to say it?
Irodale.
Yeah.
That sounds wrong.
That looks like Irodale.
Irodale.
So we have one other question here.
Is there a sport or activity that you secretly hope your kids don't get into so that you
don't have to go and deal with?
To be honest.
Any travel sport.
I don't want them to do the competition stuff, dance or cheer gymnastics.
I don't want any travel.
We're going to have to do it at some capacity.
Nope.
We can enjoy the comfort.
We traveled and chased you all over the country.
Dale.
Yes.
There is a sport that's going to cause some traveling, but like the dance competitions
and all that stuff, I grew up doing that.
And I remember the scene, the tortured soul look on my parents face having to sit through
that all day long.
Yeah.
It's only fun for three minutes while your kids perform.
We got tools and things now to occupy our time.
I'm not too worried about it.
I mean, I hope that I got some people that get, you know, I know some friends that have
kids that are in travel sports and they, they're like, you know, once you're in, you're in.
You can't really take your kid and their dream of doing it away, right?
So you continue down this path.
But I want them to do sports like ball sports.
We've tried to sign him up for soccer and things like that.
And they don't want to have anything to do with it.
I want them to go for it, at least, you know, try it before.
And they got to do it now because it's harder to enter into that.
Yeah.
It's harder to enter into that when you're in, you know, seventh, eighth, ninth grade
having not been in any kind of a organized sport.
Yeah.
So being part of a team is important.
Make friends and learn how to work.
Man, I'm eager for them to try.
Get a work ethic.
But I'm going to cap it at the, at the school level.
Like we will play for our school.
We'll do those things at that level like I did.
But we're not going to join like this regional club and start traveling up
down the East Coast.
Well, that's like, it's all a money game.
It's a big money game.
They're like, they're just making money off of the parents.
He's not wrong, but everything costs money.
The gymnastics cost money.
The singing lessons cost money.
You can do it and get the same fun experience, get the same life lessons,
learn how to win, learn how to lose, all those things in the.
I tried to sign Isla up to do Run Club after school.
Like they just have like a little kind of like, they're not running track.
It's not that serious.
But a lot of the people and the little girls in her class will stay and do
Run Club after school.
And she wouldn't even sign up for that.
She said, please don't make me do that.
So I don't think that we're going to get athletes.
I would make sure if you can, I swam.
Oh yeah.
Don't let your kids get into that because the swim meets are the swim meets
are all day sometimes.
And let's say that you're in, you usually can be in up to five events,
but most of the events you're done in like three minutes.
So now you're just sitting there watching other kids swim and it's all day.
You're trying to entertain yourself, feed everybody.
It's very hard.
Yeah.
It's brutal.
Swimming start early.
Yes.
So if you can noted, don't get into swimming.
I was thinking something like soccer or basketball.
Golf is a sport that the tennis golf.
No.
I don't want to, I want to watch them do it and enjoy that.
I don't want to watch my kid golf because you're going to have to follow
the round.
No, I'm not golfing it.
You can golf with them.
If they get they learn how to do and then we'll carry on.
You can use a golf simulator at home, which we don't use.
I want it to be like soccer or basketball, like traditional high school
sports.
They're girls, Ralph.
I know.
I see girls play those games.
They're like petite little girls.
Like right now they can get some physical attributes by playing
some sports they need to.
I get why you say golf, but remember, like if they're in a tournament,
that's multiple days.
I can go with them.
He might stay home.
Walking whole to whole.
Yeah.
Like look, whatever they like that we're doing, but I'm just not going
to encourage golf.
I mean, I've never enjoyed.
I've never been, golf's never had any kind of role in my life.
We do have a simulator.
I never mess with it.
I've regretted it.
I wish I played with it.
It's just like one of those classic sports that's not going away and
that they can do for the rest of their life.
They can't play basketball forever.
Great.
You can't like, you know what I mean?
Tennis golf would be a good, good point sport for them to learn.
For all the reasons.
Yeah.
Well, we'll see.
They're not into it right now.
Not at all.
No, they're not.
They want to dance and sing and be Taylor Swift.
That's what they want to do.
Dream big.
Yeah.
That's all I got for Ask Amy today.
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