Episode 8: Don't Wake the Mama Bear

In this episode, we explore the humorous and relatable dynamics of a couple navigating sleep, routines, and preferences, with a focus on sneezing, candles, and current events like the World Cup.


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couple, sleep, routines, sneezing, candles, World Cup, communication, humor


Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Episode Eight
01:33 Candle Review: Warm Summer Evening
06:55 Wife Question: Sleep and Morning Routines
11:29 Husband's Perspective on Morning Disruptions
19:16 The Sneezing Dilemma
22:09 The Sneeze Debate Begins
25:10 Morning Routines and Preparation
27:50 The Impact of Loud Sneezes
30:49 Understanding Sleep Disruptions
33:57 Technology and Sleep Habits
44:55 World Cup vs. American Sports

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Welcome to Score One for the Grays. Welcome to Score One for the Grays, episode eight. Numero 8. Episode 8. You've been you've been keeping track.

SPEAKER_01 0:13

I've been keeping track, yes.

SPEAKER_02 0:15

Numero 8 episode. On episode 8. Were we burning?

SPEAKER_01 0:22

Oh my goodness. Okay. I'm not too thrilled with this one. I did not even like open it. Yes. I didn't open. Well, I did not open it. I just picked. I randomly picked candles.

SPEAKER_02 0:37

You're talking about when you was at the at the Bath and Body Works?

SPEAKER_01 0:40

I did not smell. I just I just went. You didn't give it a whiff? Nope. I wanted an honest opinion.

SPEAKER_02 0:48

I mean, well so if you had given it a whiff, what would have made it dishonest?

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Number one, I didn't smell it. When I opened it, it was like, what is this?

SPEAKER_02 0:57

What made you get it? Okay, if you didn't smell it, this is very interesting to me now. It's very interesting to me. But okay, if you did not smell the candle, what made you get, first of all, what are we burning? What are we burning?

SPEAKER_01 1:10

We are burning a candle called Warm Summer Evening. I felt like it was befitting because we are we just had a thunderstorm and it's still warm outside and it's summertime. So I said, well, let's let's go with the feel of the talk about this, Akiba.

SPEAKER_02 1:24

We gotta talk about this.

SPEAKER_01 1:25

So go ahead. Let's talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 1:26

We gotta talk about this one. Okay, two part.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:29

Two-part question. First part of this question is if you did not smell it, I guess you kind of answered it just now when you said it it was fitting because of the season that we're in. That's why you got it. So if you didn't smell it.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

No, that's not why I got it. Oh, that's not why you got it.

SPEAKER_02 1:45

Okay, well, let me continue with the question then. If if if you didn't smell it, what made you get it? A and B, what's that name again?

SPEAKER_03 1:58

Summers.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Warm summer evening.

SPEAKER_02 2:04

It's it's a couple things that I like about a warm summer evening. It's a couple things I like about a warm summer evening, particularly when we outside taking it at, you know, taking it in, nice breeze, playing some cards. My man got the music playing.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:18

We might have dinner out there, you know. It's a lot I like about a warm summer evening. But I don't know if the smell is one of them. What's what's what's good about a warm summer evening smell-wise?

SPEAKER_01 2:33

You got the barbecue.

SPEAKER_02 2:35

Oh, you got me there, yeah. Okay, keep kicking.

SPEAKER_01 2:40

You know, some flowers do smell really good. You got me with the barbecue, though.

SPEAKER_02 2:45

So the so is this supposed to smell like some barbecue?

SPEAKER_01 2:48

It's not. But you ask, what do I like about opening? That's kind of one of the things.

SPEAKER_02 2:55

So you're not a fan.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

So I'm I'm not really a fan. So when I first opened the candle, when I took the lid off, there wasn't a smell. And my normal go-to candles, if I take the lid off, I can smell it. So I did not know what to expect. So the candle itself has a bunch of flowers on it. And that's all fine and well. But you know, me, I'm more fruity, I'm not floral, but it's a one-fragrance floral that I am obsessed with right now that's covered in roses and nocturnal rose. So I'm thinking it's gonna, you know, be okay. And then I had the honeysuckle candle from Bath and Body Work. So, and and I liked it surprisingly. But this right here, I'm I'm not really feeling it. It's I you can't really smell it. It's been burning for about 10 minutes. I'm right up on the candle.

SPEAKER_02 3:57

I don't smell I don't smell anything at all.

SPEAKER_01 4:00

So it's a real faint, and maybe that's why it's saying a warm summer evening, because they feel like the fra the fragrance is gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 4:09

So pardon me. Let me let me give a um pardon my chest and all that.

SPEAKER_03 4:14

I'm gonna give a bit of a waft.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

I mean, I smell it a little bit when you do that, but it reminds me of the backyard honeysuckle.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

Yeah, I'm not a fan. It didn't, it done, it doesn't do it for me. Not quite yet, at least. We'll um check back in after the um, you know, in the closing segment.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

Yeah, and we'll give our final thoughts. Why did I choose this? Because I know you're like, but I didn't even try to smell it.

SPEAKER_02 4:44

Because it's starting to start to come over here a little bit. And I'm not I'm not disgusted, but go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 4:50

I chose it because this is not my norm. I wanted something that my nose has never smelt before, so I can give an honest assessment.

SPEAKER_02 5:01

Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Okay. It's starting to come together now. You chose this candle with the pod in mind so that when you popped it open for the pod, you can give a fresh assessment on what you think about the candles. Okay. I'm thinking that, you know, when you go to Bath and Body Works, whether it's it's it's the body products or the candles, whatever, one of the things you do is smell you all you smell to see if that's gonna be something you want to take home. So But I I get it now. You was trying to get something for the pod and get a fresh kind of a fresh.

SPEAKER_01 5:39

Like I said, I'm on two fragrances. It's the nocturnal rose and covered in roses.

SPEAKER_02 5:46

Fellas, since she mentioned the nocturnal rose, just I'm I'm just gonna do you a favor, fellas. The nocturnal rose, men's scent. Men's scent.

SPEAKER_01 6:01

I mean, I give it a five out of five.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

I like it. I enjoy it. She loves it.

SPEAKER_01 6:11

Five out of five. I left the review. I I don't normally leave the reviews on like body products. I had to leave a review.

SPEAKER_02 6:20

She loves it.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:22

Fellas, she loved it. It's amazing. Yeah. I'm talking about on me. Nocturnal roles, men sent on me.

SPEAKER_01 6:30

To be honest, I said he couldn't wear this out.

SPEAKER_02 6:35

Well, she did. She said, I can't even wear it out. I can't even wear it outside. But anyway, we're gonna check back in later on. Episode eight. Continuing on. You know how we do. Wife question, husband question, outside question. Then we reel it on in with the current events. So, that being said, what's your wife question?

unknown 7:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:03

Baby.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

So I gotta, I gotta set the stage, okay?

SPEAKER_02 7:07

All right.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

You know that I need a certain amount of sleep, right? You know, sleep is so very important to me. Like, just I mean, um I need sleep. Okay. What? I struggle with sleep. So when I get to sleep, like, sleep is so very, very important.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

It is. So it is.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

It'll be times where we are not working on the same day. I might be off. You might be off, right?

SPEAKER_02 7:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 7:40

So I know you.

SPEAKER_02 7:41

I think I know where you're going.

SPEAKER_01 7:42

You think you know? I think I will. Okay. So you know that when I work and you're asleep the night before, you know, I pull my stuff out.

SPEAKER_02 7:54

I definitely know where you're going.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

I know what I'm gonna wear. I know where everything is. Yeah. Like sometimes you don't even know that I've left, even though I'll say, I'll talk with you later.

SPEAKER_02 8:04

I'm gonna say, for right now, I'm gonna say that's true. Sometimes I may not even know that you left. Right. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

So, you know, I don't turn the light on. I use the flashlight to my phone. Though you don't know that because I don't wake you up. Like, if I'm opening the door, I turn the handle really, really slow and I'm opening it slow. And like I am tiptoeing.

SPEAKER_02 8:24

So tiptoeing.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

I'm tiptoeing. I'm so ouch. I'm walk, I'm walking so gingerly because I am not trying to wake you up. If the alarm goes off, I immediately turn it off. Okay?

SPEAKER_02 8:36

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 8:37

All right. We can agree.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

We can agree on that.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

Why is it that if you have to work, you wake me up? Like you stomping around, you flicking the lights on, flick. You I can hear it when it click on. Like, really? Are you really trying to wake me up? And oh my gosh, honey, I know you have allergies. I know this. And I'm empathetic about it. You sneeze one time, you're not aware that you're getting ready to sneeze. Startles me. Oh my God. But you don't try to muffle the other muffle. 17.

SPEAKER_02 9:17

This girl said.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

17 sneezes. 17.

SPEAKER_02 9:21

Okay, all right. So I'm stomping.

SPEAKER_01 9:23

You stomping.

SPEAKER_02 9:25

Flickering the light.

SPEAKER_01 9:26

Yeah, flicking. Flicking the light. Flicking the light.

SPEAKER_02 9:31

So it ain't even it ain't even just that I'm turning the light on. I'm flicking it.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 9:35

I'm stomping, I'm flicking the light, and then I'm sneezing.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

Yes. And then like you turn the lights on, right?

SPEAKER_02 9:45

I turn the lights on.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

So you're looking for your wallet. You're looking for your belt. You're looking for your shoes. Right? Right? So then what happens is you may play fair.

SPEAKER_02 9:55

You may play if you're in the room. All right.

SPEAKER_01 9:58

Okay, that's fine. It's dark. But then you turn the kitchen light on, which is in the perfect angle of my face. And I'm like, and you leave the door open. So when you leave, you say goodbye. And I got this meme mug because now I'm not going to be able to go back to sleep because you scared me number one, with your sneeze.

SPEAKER_02 10:20

So your your your intent is to deliver a meme mug?

SPEAKER_01 10:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:24

Okay, go ahead. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

I I started my question by I started my question. I said I have a buildup, right? Because sleep is very important to me. Like you've now interrupted Mama Bear. And she is just like, ah, at this point. Okay. So why? Why is it that if I can be cognizant of the sounds that I'm making not to wake you up, why is it not reciprocated?

unknown 10:59

Woo!

SPEAKER_03 11:00

Woo! You ready?

SPEAKER_02 11:02

I mean, you you sure?

SPEAKER_01 11:03

Not really, but okay.

SPEAKER_02 11:05

You sure? Okay, not really. I don't know. I mean. For the pod, huh?

SPEAKER_01 11:12

For the pod.

SPEAKER_02 11:13

Wow, wow, wow. Okay. Alright. I'm gonna start here. I don't know if I should start. Okay, yeah, I'm gonna start here. I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna go ahead and take I'm gonna go ahead and take a dive from the top rope. Or or uh the hundred foot platform. I'm just gonna go ahead and dive in. First of all, on the matter of stomping the feet, on the matter of flickering the light.

SPEAKER_03 11:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 11:47

On the matter of sneezing 17 times. Okay, no, let me take that back. Let me take that back. Hold on. Let me take that back. Okay, on the matter of stomping the feet and on the matter of flickering the light.

SPEAKER_01 12:02

Flicking the light. When I mean flicking the light, you you kind of like that. So it makes it you making a noise.

SPEAKER_02 12:11

Okay. On those two matters right there, I'm gonna call cap. I'm calling straight cap. Straight cap. I'm talking about crispy fanatics, Washington Nationals cap. World champion 2019 cap.

SPEAKER_01 12:32

So do you think you Oh, wait a minute?

SPEAKER_02 12:36

Because I let I let you rock, right?

SPEAKER_00 12:38

Yes, you did. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 12:40

So that that's the first, that's the first thing. Is I'm calling cap on stomping the feet and flicking the light. Here is my assessment on what's going on right now. And um in these times, in these morning times, when you off versus when I'm off. First of all, in my opinion, in my opinion, what's going on here is you are a much lighter sleeper than I am. Agree. Because of my army background, the sleep part in the army, you gotta get it when you can get it. It don't matter what's going on. If you're in the deuce in the back of a deuce and a half for those who remember deuce and a half, so if you're in the back of a uh LMTV for those who in the LMTV era, when when you gotta get it how you get it.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

True.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

So stuff don't really wake me up like that. That's that's but you're a much lighter sleeper. It is my contingent. Am I saying that right? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 13:45

It's gonna be, I mean, it's gonna be okay for this part.

SPEAKER_02 13:48

It's it's it's it's my testimony, Your Honor, that I am putting just as much effort into being quiet on the behalf of your sleep as you're putting into you being quiet on the behalf of my sleep. But the difference is I am a heavy sleeper and you are a light sleeper. I am never trying to stomp when you're off and I'm walking from the bathroom to the I'm not stomping. I call cat because Okay, okay. Sometimes, sometimes there's the hazard of two little two little things we like to call your cats.

SPEAKER_01 14:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:29

Yeah, there's that. There, there's there's that. Oh, sometimes there's that habit that you gotta that you gotta watch where you step in and all that type of stuff. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I think it's a good thing. It's not a smooth transition from the bed to the bathroom in that regard. Okay, I'm I'm I'm tiptoeing. I might, okay, I'm not tiptoeing.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

Yeah, I was gonna say, I know you're not tiptoeing because I'm looking at your feet. You're flat foot.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

You're looking at my feet?

SPEAKER_01 14:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 14:59

Okay, anyway. I'm trying to be quiet. I'm really trying to be quiet. When I bust the corner, going over to my side of the bed, right? Let's just say, um, my lips a little chap, so I'm gonna grab some of this birch bees right here from the TB stand. As I'm grabbing the birch bees, what happens? What you doing? Yo! Oh, I was quiet as a church mouse. That little that little that little that little thing woke you up for real? Okay, I'm trying to be quiet, but you a light sleeper. You a light light, you, you, you a light sleeper. I I I am never flickering the light because, and this is why I say, you ain't playing fair, Akiva. You playing fair. I'm operating in darkness until I might need to look for something, like my wallet or something. I'm looking in the dark. But because you hear me looking in the dark, you say what you're looking for.

SPEAKER_01 16:06

Because maybe I can help you to help just to stop the noise.

SPEAKER_03 16:10

Okay, I'm looking for my wallet. You now get up.

SPEAKER_02 16:17

You get up, up out of the bed, like you're gonna help me look for my wallet. So naturally, okay, now we're looking. Now I'm not looking. Now we looking. So what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna flick on the light. Because now we looking for my wallet. Why should we both look in darkness? For what reason should we both look in darkness? That's why I say that ain't necessarily fair. If you was in the bed, still, still sleep, in the bed, sound asleep, I'm not just gonna flick the light on while you sleep. That's not how I operate. So what happened?

SPEAKER_01 16:46

I'm a much better than that.

SPEAKER_02 16:49

Much better husband than me.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

I turned I turn my um flashlight on on my phone if I need to find something. But I mean, you knew you didn't have to work. So, or you knew I didn't have to work. So, how come you didn't gather this stuff the night before like I did? It's okay, because that's what I started doing for you. I started getting your wallet, I started get gathering your phone, your earbuds, your ear pods, everything, and I set them so you know where they are. Have I not? Do I not? I grabbed your book bag. You do, you do. And it's kind of selfish because you're waking me up. I was like, how can I? Yeah, I was it it was it's motivated out of selfishness. How can I do that? You wasn't just doing this for me? You was doing this for you the whole time? You were waking me up, baby.

SPEAKER_02 17:39

So for three months, I've been giving you mad credit for really, you know, putting in work on getting me ready for work. And the whole time you was doing it for you?

SPEAKER_01 17:51

No, I'm just messing with you nuts.

SPEAKER_02 17:52

I'm appalled.

SPEAKER_01 17:53

I actually was doing it because you were forgetting stuff. So now what I do is make sure that it's out and then I'll call you to make sure.

SPEAKER_02 18:00

That was a that that would have been a major play. You would have scored a lot of points from wives across America if you made it, if you, if you presented it to me like you was trying to get me prepared for work, but really what you was doing was allowing yourself to get, you know, some more sleep.

SPEAKER_01 18:18

You they would have been, yeah, girl, we gotta learn that we're done. So the points are gonna come in for the fact that um, like, I just got tired of you forgetting stuff.

SPEAKER_02 18:32

Okay. Okay. All right, cool. That's fair. Let's if if if I can progress the situation and say it's fair, it's a fair question as to why I don't prepare in the in the at nighttime for times when you're off. That's one thing I can probably do better is preparing for the day the night before, particularly when you gotta sleep in.

SPEAKER_01 18:57

But I've been, I've been helping you. Nope, nope, it's it's okay. I'm gonna I say, where's your wallet? Give me your wallet. Where's your phones? Make sure your phones are right there. The only thing that I cannot control, but what I've been saying is take your clariton are those sneezes.

SPEAKER_02 19:13

Let's talk about the sneezes. Let's talk about the sneezes.

SPEAKER_00 19:17

Okay, let's talk about the sneezes.

SPEAKER_02 19:18

Because one time sneezes had us in a serious situation. It did. It really did. My sister-in-law had my sister-in-law came over to referee. A sneeze situation, y'all. A sneeze situation. Nikia, you can you can attest to the fact that you had to come over here and referee a sneeze. Please hit the comments. And I won't be offended. I won't be offended either way. But anyway, let's talk about sneezing.

SPEAKER_01 19:48

Let's talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 19:49

Yes, I suffer from allergies.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

You do.

SPEAKER_02 19:52

Badly.

SPEAKER_01 19:52

You do.

SPEAKER_02 19:53

It's a true statement that I don't sneeze once.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

Nope.

SPEAKER_02 19:56

I don't sneeze twice. It's gonna be at least three.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

Actually, it's up to four now. Like one time, it's gonna be at least four. Four or more.

SPEAKER_02 20:07

Sometimes it's seven. I'm just saying it's gonna be at least three.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

No, I'm saying now it's now four or more.

SPEAKER_02 20:14

All right, I give it, I give you the sneeze count. I give it to you. It's gonna be four sneezes.

SPEAKER_01 20:22

A minimum.

SPEAKER_02 20:23

Let's say a minimum four sneezes. Now, I'd rather not sneeze at all.

SPEAKER_01 20:27

No, I get it, yes.

SPEAKER_02 20:28

Me? I'd rather not sneeze at all. It's not a it's not a uh a pleasant ordeal sneezing seven times.

SPEAKER_01 20:37

No, it's not.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

At all.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

I feel bad for you.

SPEAKER_02 20:41

That's why they say bless you, right?

SPEAKER_01 20:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

So if I could if I could choose, not only for myself, but for my lovely, beautiful, gorgeous queen Akiba from the Congo.

SPEAKER_03 20:57

Okay. So let me do this. I gotta back away from this. Okay. Sneeze. That's a sneeze. That's what you give me. And then there's a sneeze.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

There is a way that you can snifle your sneeze and still get whatever is irritating your nose out. You don't have to be imagine being in a deep sleep and hearing that. It's startling. Okay, no, no, no, no, no, no. Sometimes when you sneeze, you're asleep. Right? And so you can't contain that.

SPEAKER_02 21:44

You mean to tell me that sometimes when I'm asleep, I sneeze?

SPEAKER_01 21:48

You do. Okay. Right? It's gonna wake you up, right? Does it wake you up?

SPEAKER_02 21:54

Me, yeah. Sometimes it wakes me up.

SPEAKER_01 21:55

So it wakes me up too, right? But you can still like make it Quiet. You don't have to have this grand sneeze. It's like I'm a sneeze. It's bothering me, so I'm a bother you.

SPEAKER_03 22:12

Okay. All right. Acknowledgement.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

You know, we um you should always start at a place of agreement.

SPEAKER_01 22:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:24

So, not play. But but no, here's what I do agree with. I agree that I sneeze a multitude of times, if that's even the correct usage of multitude.

SPEAKER_00 22:35

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 22:35

Um it's we can also agree that I sneeze loudly. Yeah, I do. I sneeze loudly.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

Um with me. Cause I've s I've been around you in other times. Oh, don't do that.

SPEAKER_02 22:54

Don't do that. Come on, don't do that. Okay. You're trying to No, don't do that. I know you're not about to, you're not about to say that that I decide I'ma sneeze more loudly when I'm around you. That's that's not what we're about to do now, is it?

SPEAKER_01 23:08

You're just free. You're just like, I'm just gonna let the sneeze go. Whatever.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

Okay. All right. And look, let me not, I'm not trying to bully you into you not having your own opinion on what you think about my sneezes. So when I say we're not gonna do that, I uh maybe I should retract that. That's really how you feel? You feel like I s I turn up the volume button on my sneezes when I'm around you?

SPEAKER_01 23:37

I feel like in some cases, depending on where you are, you'll kind of keep it low or try to contain the volume.

SPEAKER_02 23:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 23:47

But when it's just me and you, you feel like I'm free to sneeze however I want. Let me that's fine if if we're awake, I don't really care. But sleep.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

Okay, so let me go ahead. Let me go ahead and offer my opinion on it. Again, in review, in review, because I can concede some things. One, I can see that I could do a better job of preparing for the next day on days that you're off. On days that you off, I can do a better job of preparing for the next day the night before, thereby creating less noise.

SPEAKER_01 24:23

Okay, but hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up. I wanna I wanna say something.

SPEAKER_02 24:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

Yes, you do look for things, but I'll tell you this. I really do enjoy gathering your things and having them laid out for you for the next day. And the reason because you in the morning, just when we're together, you have so many things that you got going on. You have your work phone going off and you have to deal with other people. So I try to take the stress of you having to look for certain things. Because you've you've already started work. As soon as you woke up this morning, your phone, I'm like, I don't know how you do it. So anyway, so I I enjoy that. And I also have a little routine. Me doing this, and you the the whole reason that I started this wasn't that you were keeping me up. Again, it was because you were forgetting stuff, like your wallet and your you don't work around the corner. So it put me in a routine. You know me, I like routines. My routine is I have to leave before you. I don't know why, but I I love to leave before you.

SPEAKER_02 25:40

Oh, that's something you enjoy doing?

SPEAKER_01 25:41

Yes. I enjoy, and I'm in the middle of my prayer for you. I say, hold on, because I have to check on him. And I say, Do you have your wallet, your phones, your coffee? Do you have your walkie-talkie? Do you have your book bag? And then you break it off for me. And you say, Yes, I do.

SPEAKER_02 26:01

You enjoy that?

SPEAKER_01 26:02

I do. And then I enjoy saying, I can tell you, hey, traffic is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That is what I enjoy. And yes, it's That's sweet. It's it's some things to help lessen. You you know what I'm trying to say.

SPEAKER_02 26:19

That's sweet. You enjoy being a what what the church I grew up in, they call that a help meet. You enjoy being a help meet. I could tell you enjoy, you you enjoy being a help meet.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:29

And that's that's appreciated. That is. That's appreciated. Now back to this, uh back to this discussion about this, about these sneezes. Let's get back to that.

SPEAKER_01 26:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

All right.

SPEAKER_01 26:42

So we we off of the waking me up with looking for stuff because we settled that.

SPEAKER_02 26:49

We settled it sounds like we settled that in that you saying you enjoyed taking a role of helping me the night before prepare, or even the day of preparing for my day.

SPEAKER_01 26:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:59

We okay. All right. I'm gonna I'm gonna leave. That was that was one of that was exhibit C on your flow chart. So we'll go ahead and erase that off of exhibit C.

SPEAKER_03 27:09

All right.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

Okay, cool. All right, now to these sneezes. To these sneezes. Okay. Yes, I sneeze loud. Yes, I sneeze numerous times.

SPEAKER_03 27:21

I am not in agreement with you.

SPEAKER_02 27:25

I'm sorry, I'm not I I am not I am not touching and agreeing that I sneeze even more loudly when I'm around you.

SPEAKER_01 27:36

That's not what I said.

SPEAKER_02 27:37

Other areas.

SPEAKER_01 27:38

What I said was you are not that you're doing it loudly on purpose. Okay. You're just not trying to contain the sneeze. Like if you were in a doctor's office around a bunch of people, you're not gonna just out and sneeze really loud. Yes, I am.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

You are no Yes, I am. Yes, I am. Okay, I'm I'm I had to burst in. I had to, because I've been I've been waiting for my turn the whole this whole time. So let me go ahead and get get mines. Yes, I am. Yes, I am. I don't control my sneezes. There are times when I have tried to stifle my sneeze in terms of the volume. I have tried this, and it's not pleasant. It really not. It makes for a worse situation for me. Not cardiovascularly, um, uh respiratory-wise, it's not uh, first of all, it's not effective. My attempts have been in vain because the volume still shoots out. I might get like a um, what happens is multiple sneezes, Lynn, seven sneeze, Lynn, right? So what happens is on sneeze two and three, I may try to stifle my sneeze, right? It's totally, completely like unselling for me and it discombobulates me. So then sneeze five, six, and seven return to its normally scheduled program.

SPEAKER_01 29:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

Because I'm so bothered by times three and four trying to that now it's like five and six and seven go back to hatch you. So what do we do about this?

SPEAKER_01 29:25

Because when you sneeze and I'm sleeping, like it's so startling. Like my watch will be like, oh my gosh, your your your your your heart rate is alarming. So it's affecting me and my heart.

SPEAKER_03 29:41

It's affecting you and your heart. All right, what do we do about this? Um okay, I'm sorry. Uh I hope you don't get offended by this.

SPEAKER_02 30:01

But if it wasn't me sneezing that was gonna affect your heart rate, it's gonna be something else that's gonna affect your heart rate because you are scaredy Cat Akiba.

SPEAKER_01 30:11

Yeah, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 30:12

I'm sorry. You you scaredy Catakiba.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

You you're the scariest person I know.

SPEAKER_02 30:17

So you're the scariest person I know.

SPEAKER_01 30:20

So loud things do startle me.

SPEAKER_02 30:22

Like you are easily startled. Can we agree on that? I sneeze loudly. Can we agree that you're easily startled?

SPEAKER_01 30:29

I am not disagreeing with you. True. I was going down the road and I was passing a big truck and he hunked his horn. I'm like, what? Why do you hunk his horn?

SPEAKER_02 30:39

Right. Gotta live. I'm just kidding. I'm just playing with you. I'm just saying, though, you are easily startled. So it's it's it's almost like what I said with the first, with, with the sneeze two, three, and four, it's like, why stifle it when you know that five, six, and seven is gonna be what it's gonna be?

SPEAKER_01 30:57

Cause you get the the mean eye. You get the mean look.

SPEAKER_02 31:02

I am no stranger to the mean look. Me and mean look. Mean mug. Me and mean mug, we me and me, if me and you got 20 years, me and mean mug got cumulative 19.

SPEAKER_00 31:17

Oh. Whatever. Okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:23

But, but, but uh what I'm gonna do is since that first initial sneeze wakes both of us up, please listen out for me. Because my next sneeze situation is gonna come with sneeze two and three being stifled attempts. And I want you to look over, or not even look over, because you can't turn around that fast if you face the other way or whatever, but I want you to listen intently on what's going on. And I guarantee you, if you listen intently on what's going on, what you're gonna find is you're gonna say, honey, never mind. Never mind. We don't need anyone passing away in this book.

SPEAKER_01 32:08

No, I don't even want you to experiment with it. Just, you know, I have to Never mind.

SPEAKER_02 32:14

That's what you're gonna say.

SPEAKER_01 32:15

That's just something that I have to live with.

SPEAKER_02 32:17

Yeah, but I mean, you know what? That was a long time. Take your clariton. We, yes, I need to take my claritin. Things I need to do that I need to improve on that I'll take responsibility. I mean, I'll take ownership. I'll take ownership of. I'll take ownership of. I'll take ownership of of one.

SPEAKER_03 32:36

Okay. Um I'll start in reverse order, uh, trying to stifle some of that sound in the sneeze.

SPEAKER_02 32:45

But so that you can also see what, you know, what that does to me. But then also two, is I'll do what I need to do in the mornings.

SPEAKER_01 32:55

But you said you was No, no, no, no, no. Right, right, right, right. I do. I mean, you even you know what? I'm not even gonna say uh I like to do the coffee. But you are so busy that I really try to get your coffee for you and have everything so you can just grab and go. But you tell me.

SPEAKER_02 33:15

You like being a wife. I don't even know why you brought this to me. You like being a wife. Because you, as much as you like your sleep, you like being a wife. You like getting your husband up and getting them prepared for work and doing all that. You know, you like to get to the city. When I have to go to work.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

Not when I'm off.

SPEAKER_02 33:34

However, so the night before, so here's here's here's the compromise then. The night before, what will happen is I'll gather your stuff.

SPEAKER_01 33:41

Yeah, you can. Yeah, I'm gonna gather your stuff. That's that's what I do. I'll gather your stuff. I even make sure the coffee pot is done. Now, do I turn it on and turn it around? Yeah, I mean.

SPEAKER_03 33:59

But we're gonna stay right there, though.

SPEAKER_01 34:01

That's all that you've been doing.

SPEAKER_02 34:04

You know I'm tickless. Hey, uh, well, that was a that was a that was a good little 30-minute wife question right there. Surprise, surprise.

SPEAKER_00 34:14

Oh, what? A sneeze. A sneeze. A sneeze.

SPEAKER_02 34:21

Gentlemen, can I get a can I get a hey man? Can I get a amen? Hey, look, but can I get a husband question though?

SPEAKER_00 34:29

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_02 34:30

We're gonna keep it right there. Okay. Since you brought up the sleep, we're gonna keep it right there.

SPEAKER_00 34:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 34:34

Husband question. Since you brought up the sleep, very important topic. You brought up the sleep. I'm just trying to gain some understanding with this question. Just some understanding when it comes to sleep. With all you're getting, get understanding. It's a Bible verse.

SPEAKER_03 34:51

Anyway, I'll come to bed. Sometimes I might be up watching the game, you know, next room, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

You back sound asleep, you know, and I'm done with watching the game go game off. I've got to come in the room. I'm about to go ahead and get in the bed. And the office or family guy might be playing on our really nice 50-something-inch TV. It might, the light might as well be on. As big as the TV is. The light might as well be on. And and and Michael and them is cutting up. And this the volume is at a point where you can, I mean, I can clearly hear it, you can clearly hear it. Whatever, other than the fact that you you sleep, it's on. All right, hold that right there. All right. Now, in your in your meme mug situations that you're talking about when I'm waking you up or whatever, one of the things that tend to disturb you is on occasion, if I grab my phone, I'm not talking about sound coming out.

SPEAKER_00 35:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 35:58

Because I understand if sound comes out, bam, you up like that. If if it's a if it's one little bitty sound. Sound ain't came out. I just turn the phone on.

SPEAKER_03 36:07

Bing.

SPEAKER_02 36:09

I'm just turning with no sound. Akiba.

SPEAKER_03 36:13

The light. You got the you got the it's in my face.

SPEAKER_02 36:17

You got the light in my face. Oh, yes. And now that's ruined your sleep. You might not get, you might not go back to sleep for another two to three hours, right?

unknown 36:27

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 36:28

Okay. All right. So this is what I'm trying to gain some understanding about. Sometimes not only is the TV on, but you'll be watching. I'm sorry, you're not watching. You're asleep. You're asleep.

SPEAKER_00 36:42

I'm asleep. You're asleep. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 36:43

But while you're laying down, sleep on your side, your tablet, mind you, this is your tablet?

SPEAKER_00 36:50

What tablet?

SPEAKER_02 36:51

It's the biggest tablet that Apple makes.

SPEAKER_00 36:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 36:54

They don't make a tablet bigger than this.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

Right.

SPEAKER_02 36:57

This tablet that's playing a show is right here up in your face. Your nose, your nose is nearly touching the screen.

SPEAKER_01 37:05

To be fair.

SPEAKER_02 37:06

Your nose is touching the screen.

SPEAKER_01 37:07

To be fair, it's dark. The show is not a light show. So the light that's emanate in whatever.

SPEAKER_02 37:18

But that would seem to further prove my point because it's dark in the room. It's not at this bright screen.

SPEAKER_01 37:23

But the screen is not bright.

SPEAKER_02 37:25

Okay, it's not at this bright setting, mind you. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 37:28

And it's a dark show.

SPEAKER_02 37:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 37:31

But I'm playing my game. I'm not watching anything on my tablet.

SPEAKER_02 37:34

Okay, but you're sleeping.

SPEAKER_01 37:35

Yeah, the other night I was.

SPEAKER_02 37:36

But you're asleep. But you're asleep. And if I turn my phone on just to check the little weather for the next day or whatever, ooh, so bright light, bright light, you gizmo. Bright light.

SPEAKER_01 37:51

I wish I could show you. So the game that I play is not, it's in a dark mode. So it's not bright. It's not a white light. Your phone, when I remember saying it, it was like right there in my face, but it was a bright light. It was almost like you turned a flashlight on. So you have your light all the way up on your phone. I don't do that on my tablet and or my phone. The TV, true, true. I do fall asleep with the TV on, but it's not like it's right in my face.

SPEAKER_02 38:30

But it's on, right?

SPEAKER_01 38:31

It's on, but it's not right in my face.

SPEAKER_02 38:33

But let me take a step.

SPEAKER_01 38:35

What you do? Because I'm used to that. What you doing? I'm used to that noise. What you looking for? So you've introduced a step. The show, you get what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 38:47

Who's there? What you mean? Who's there?

SPEAKER_01 38:50

Me. You know there's a difference. I know the office, I know that there's no loud noises, no startling stuff. So when you take a step, that's new. That's introducing a sound that I'm not familiar with.

SPEAKER_02 39:12

I'm just saying, I'm just saying, okay, you know, I like to keep it truthful. I like to keep it all the way one thou out. So you are correct. I keep my phone on a bright setting. There are times because you made complaints in the past where I do, when I, when I open my phone, I slide the brightness down. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 39:31

I don't see how it don't hurt your eyes just on a regular uh day-to-day usage. It just too bright.

SPEAKER_02 39:39

I'm a screen guy. I like bright screens or it's just the Samsung moment. How many people remember the Samsung moment?

SPEAKER_01 39:45

Not me.

SPEAKER_02 39:46

It's just too bright. Anyways, okay, yes, I keep my phone bright. However, I'm all the way, my phone is not even like in the bed. My phone is like off the bed thing, and you way over there in our king-size bed, and you on some bright, light, bright light. Your phone or your tablet, while it may be at a dimmer setting than mine, it's literally in your face.

SPEAKER_01 40:17

I don't, I don't see it. It's dark. In your face. I really don't, I don't see it. Yeah. And it's by accident. I don't mean to fall asleep with it. I really don't.

SPEAKER_02 40:28

I don't think, I mean, I don't I I don't think you would tend to fall asleep. It's just, it's just, it's just mind-boggling to me how that that one little turn on could be like the one little kid-d-dude.

SPEAKER_01 40:39

Because it's something new. So if if by any chance the tablet went to a really bright screen, it will wake me up. But I keep it so dark, it's not gonna happen. But either way, it's really not healthy for you. I should not be doing it in any way.

SPEAKER_02 40:56

But would I fall asleep? Yeah, because you don't want to end up with it.

SPEAKER_01 41:02

And I had that the times that I do have a show on, it's because I'm not trying to disturb you. So I'll just put this show on.

SPEAKER_02 41:15

You're so generous. You're not trying to what?

SPEAKER_01 41:17

The disturb to disturb you. So I'll put it on my tablet and leave the TV off because the TV is so bright. But I have the TV on because I don't like going to sleep in the dark. So it's it's basically a night light.

SPEAKER_02 41:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 41:34

So That's why it's the shows that it's on.

SPEAKER_02 41:39

It's new footsteps and it's new light that's disturbing you as opposed to the light that's directly in your face and the shoulder's been on for two hours. It's the new sound and the new light. Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 41:51

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 41:52

Hey, I guess I gotta just live with it then. And get the meme of when I accidentally checked the weather.

SPEAKER_01 42:01

You should have checked it before you got in the bed.

SPEAKER_03 42:06

I guess I should have.

SPEAKER_01 42:09

No Twitter.

SPEAKER_02 42:11

No Twitter.

SPEAKER_01 42:12

Does does does Twitter have like where you can make it the dark version?

SPEAKER_02 42:18

I got the dark version on all my apps.

SPEAKER_01 42:20

Oh no, you don't. Do you really?

SPEAKER_02 42:21

I really do. I don't, I don't, I don't rock with the light version. I brought my light.

SPEAKER_01 42:25

Is your phone so much brighter than mine?

SPEAKER_02 42:27

No, it's definitely on the brightest setting. No doubt. It's on the brightest setting, but it's in dark mode. It's dark mode, but on the brightest setting. Yeah, I'm a screen guy.

SPEAKER_01 42:38

I'm a screen person too, but it You don't even open your phone.

SPEAKER_02 42:43

And we got you got a fold and you don't even open it. You got a phone, you don't, you know, you got a fold seven that you don't open. You looking at me like, how you gonna tell everybody I got a fold seven that I don't open? I mean, I didn't know that that would touch you in a sore spot, but you have a fold seven that you don't open.

SPEAKER_01 43:01

I don't want to open it. I death feel like I'm gonna break it.

SPEAKER_02 43:07

Why did you obtain a fold seven with no intentions on opening it?

SPEAKER_01 43:13

So what had happened was we always have had the same devices. So I was trying to be like you.

SPEAKER_03 43:26

But aka I Lin Link can't have nothing. Yah.

SPEAKER_01 43:35

We can right have another question. We can have another question.

SPEAKER_02 43:42

I'm just saying, i if if if it even extends to stuff that you didn't even even want, you um if your husband got something you feel like you need it.

SPEAKER_01 43:52

That is not true. No, no. So I don't like figuring stuff out. So I knew I needed a new phone. You were getting that phone. So I was like, okay, well, I'll get the phone too. You can figure it out and you tell me how to work the phone. Basically. I don't need all of this. I don't need to.

SPEAKER_02 44:14

So why don't you just stay with the phone that you had?

SPEAKER_01 44:15

Because it was broken. I needed a new phone.

SPEAKER_02 44:18

I'm talking about the S series, is what I'm talking about. Why not just stay with the S series?

SPEAKER_01 44:23

Well, is this not the S series?

SPEAKER_02 44:26

No, there's a full. There's a full, the full series. Well, I mean Samsung, but it's still a phone series. Samsung, sorry. And it's still an same operating system. Well, okay. Okay. I get it. Okay. And you got a big old tablet thingy that you enjoy better, so it's no use in you opening up your phone. If I had a big old Apple tablet, maybe I would treat my phone differently. I don't know. Maybe I wouldn't even have the full phone. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 44:50

I mean. But, but um, I will say I can't handle it.

SPEAKER_01 45:02

Whatever. I don't even want this phone. I really don't. I'm just waiting.

SPEAKER_02 45:08

Well, look, we spent so much time on the husband question and the wife question that how about this week? How about we skip the um outside question? Okay. But we can jump straight to uh current events. I got a current event.

SPEAKER_01 45:19

Okay, what's the point?

SPEAKER_02 45:20

Because I want to know what you think about this.

SPEAKER_01 45:21

All right.

SPEAKER_02 45:22

Right now we got World Cup action.

SPEAKER_01 45:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 45:26

World Cup action. What do you think? What's what's your take on um the fact that the whole world, to the whole world, this is like the biggest thing since sliced bread, right?

SPEAKER_01 45:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 45:40

Except one country.

SPEAKER_01 45:42

What country is that?

SPEAKER_02 45:43

The United States of America.

unknown 45:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 45:46

It's several things, it's way bigger than the World Cup. Like you know, like the Super Bowl, like the NBA playoffs, like like, I mean, even baseball, World Series, the Olympics, that's all bigger than the World Cup as far as in terms of what people care about. But yet all around the world, there's nothing bigger than the World Cup sports-wise. Why do you think that is?

SPEAKER_01 46:11

I really don't know. You're asking me, and I don't really know anything about soccer.

SPEAKER_03 46:20

Okay. All right.

SPEAKER_02 46:22

I mean, I I and I got mad respect for the athletes. I got mad respect for the sport. I got mad respect for the fans. It's just not my cup of tea. All right, now my end-of-show assessment is that I smell nothing.

SPEAKER_01 46:37

Yeah, I don't smell anything. Um, and then, well, that's not true. Every now and again, I'll get a a whiff of a flower of some or of some sort. But it's a very weak throw candle that is just not my cup of tea.

SPEAKER_02 46:55

Summer.

SPEAKER_01 46:56

Warm summer evening. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 47:00

Yeah. It's warm summer evening gets two thumbs down.

SPEAKER_01 47:05

I just give it a one star.

SPEAKER_02 47:07

One star?

SPEAKER_01 47:08

One star.

SPEAKER_02 47:09

Warm summer evening smell like a warm summer evening, and the dog just went outside and pooped.

SPEAKER_01 47:18

No, it does not.

SPEAKER_02 47:20

No, I don't. That was slander.

SPEAKER_01 47:22

Yes, it was.

SPEAKER_02 47:23

I apologize. Warm summer evening though doesn't have a smell. It doesn't have a good throw.

SPEAKER_01 47:29

It doesn't have a good throw.

SPEAKER_02 47:30

It doesn't have a good throw. I apologize. It doesn't have a good throw. I apologize, BBW.

SPEAKER_01 47:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 47:41

Hey, well, that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 47:43

But you know, maybe if it's in the bathroom. I know they say don't leave candles unattended. But if it's in the bathroom or a small enclosed room.

SPEAKER_02 47:51

But if somebody do that and and something bad happens, then they say.

SPEAKER_01 47:54

Don't leave it in the bathroom.

SPEAKER_02 47:56

Okay. Yeah. Don't do that. Be safe out there on a warm summer evening. That concludes our episode. Score one for the Grays. Episode eight. Episode Ocho.

SPEAKER_01 48:12

This was fun. Ocho.

SPEAKER_03 48:13

So we're not gonna sneeze, right?