Reacting to internet trolls, PDA, & Who’s More Likely w/ Our Husbands
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The podcast segment blends personal storytelling and humor to explore marital dynamics, with hosts Abby and Matt sharing intimate insights into their relationship. A key moment involves a viral clip that drew criticism for depicting men yelling, prompting a thoughtful discussion on healthy communication—emphasizing that yelling is a red flag and that emotional control is vital in relationships. The hosts respond with empathy, noting that while they don’t yell, they also acknowledge the complexity of real-life conflicts. A playful game follows, where they compare everyday quirks like lateness, screen time, and overthinking, adding levity and connection. The conversation underscores a central theme: strong relationships are built on mutual respect, emotional intelligence, and open, non-confrontational dialogue. Throughout, the hosts maintain a warm, relatable tone, blending vulnerability with humor. The segment also briefly promotes Propel Fitness Water and OLLI, positioning them as science-backed, supportive tools for wellness and daily life. The overarching message is one of authenticity and shared accountability—highlighting how couples can grow by understanding each other’s habits, emotions, and communication styles.
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any disease. I told Abby that you came into the bathroom. Like, I just have to figure out how I
can binge more than Caleb. I did, I did. Always here is under some heat. Oh frick, what happened?
These men are like, it's normal to yell. We should yell.
If you have to yell to get your point across, you don't have either a good argument or you're
not in control.
Oh, he's dropping bars.
I think we get in the most fights at airports because you're always hungry.
I walk through security and my stomach just empties.
I have to do like a predictable analysis to know when she's going to be hungry.
I take care of myself, guys.
It's been four hours.
No, what's the most annoying thing you do that I think is annoying?
That I do?
Parting in the morning.
Abby called it trumpet butt.
No, I got that from Abigail.
It's actually a condition.
Welcome back to Always Here. We're your hosts, Abby Howard and Abby Howard.
Oh yeah, baby.
Oh no.
Hey, we're in charge over here.
Oh, sorry.
Sorry, I'll be quiet.
It's already started.
I'll wait to speak unless I'm spoken to.
Ooh.
Yeah, what are the, are we doing ground rules for this?
There are no rules.
No rules.
This is casual.
This is chatty.
Ooh.
But we have a lot prepared for you guys.
We do.
So don't feel like you have to freestyle.
Yeah, don't, don't feel like you have to be creative.
Let's stick to the script, boys.
Hey, real quick, if you haven't subscribed to Always Here, what are you doing?
They're on the road to 100K, guys.
Do you want to be a part of the, you want to be an Always Here founding member?
Wait, I like that.
Founding fathers.
We should call each other founding fathers.
I already was that following.
If you want to be a founding father, go ahead and, go ahead and subscribe.
Which one was I?
Thomas Jefferson.
That's right.
Yeah.
We, for Andy, throw up a little bit.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Thomas Jefferson?
That's right.
Yeah.
For Andy, throw up the photo of Abby when she was a founding father.
We've already talked about this before.
Like so many times.
Wait, has everyone seen the picture?
I love the picture.
It's hilarious.
I love the picture.
My favorite is when someone's like literally smoking at the frat party and you can just
see the smoke blowing around and Abby's there with all her friends dressed up like a bunch
of old guys.
Just so, so sober.
Classic.
And all the other ladies are like, and they're wearing nothing and you're a freaking founding
father.
I looked good.
Yeah.
I didn't want to hang out with me all night.
Right.
No, I did.
I just, until you looked like a dude, I just didn't want to.
Exactly.
Which I look like a dude all night.
You're like, it's fine.
It's not for you.
It's for the girls.
That's what I said.
We were married, I think.
I think we were married at that point.
Oh, yeah.
We were married.
I don't know.
Anyway.
That's hilarious.
Okay.
Well, that's Matt.
Yeah.
And here's Caleb.
Hi.
Hey.
They asked on our prepping call, they're like, how are Matt and Caleb different?
And I was like, literally, probably in every way.
In every way.
In every way possible.
You could possibly think.
Do we have a recording of my best man speech?
Yeah.
Because I think I pretty much said that.
Yeah.
You kind of did.
I mean, just to catch you guys up to speed, Caleb did ballet, tap dance, musical theater
growing up.
I played football.
Exactly.
I was the zesty one.
He can't even keep going.
He was a skateboarder.
He thought he was a skater for a while.
Wanted to be Tony Hawk.
I got straight A's.
Yeah.
He tried to be like Justin Bieber and would serenade for girls in middle school.
So that's Caleb.
Now, but yeah, you guys, this is what we were saying on the call, like you guys really aren't
that much alike, but I feel like me and Abby are kind of alike.
Yeah, we are.
So.
How are you guys better friends than we are is my question.
Because we have.
They hang out.
95% of things in common too.
I feel like.
We're getting closer.
Caleb and I are playing Minecraft more.
So.
That's good.
A little bit.
Maybe we should edit that out.
That makes us look weird.
I think it's sweet.
Cool guys play Minecraft.
That's true.
That's true.
Caleb's been a big Minecrafter.
When we were dating, I was like, that's really cringy, I think.
And then I was like, actually, it's kind of sweet.
All the YouTubers are doing it.
Okay.
That's cool then.
Mr. Beast, Ryan.
No, you guys need to make a trend where it's like, what's like the, I've seen these trends
where it's like people like worrying about their husband cheating and then it like cuts
their husband, like playing, like building like a Lego fort or something.
This is interesting.
Yeah, literally.
Just cut.
And then cuts it.
Caleb and I like building our Minecraft city with all the.
With the volume on so loud.
Yeah.
I like walked upstairs.
I was like, what is going on?
It's Caleb.
I like the vibe.
It's Caleb.
He always listen to things really loud.
Okay.
So on our podcast every week, first of all, we should just say we've both been married
for like.
Seven years.
Seven years.
Exactly.
Yes.
We got married like two weeks apart.
Yeah.
But you guys were dating longer.
So Abby's the OG Abby Howard and I'm just the.
The knockoff.
The knockoff.
The knockoff.
No, no, no.
Seriously.
It's like the value version.
Yes.
Yes.
Oh my God.
The value version.
The less cool.
Didn't you say one time that like some brand was like reaching out about doing a collaboration
and then they just like ghosted you.
Yeah.
They thought it was.
They thought it was the other Abby Howard.
I was like, that's fine.
It happens.
That's not.
They should have just gone ahead and collaborated.
You know.
That's sweet.
It's okay.
They thought they were getting a little bit more bang for their buck.
Probably.
It's all right.
It's all right.
No, no.
We.
Yeah.
We started dating before you guys.
And then we all got married three weeks apart.
Yeah.
Which was really fun.
October of 2013.
Right?
Yeah.
What year did you guys start dating?
June of 2016.
Yes.
Okay.
And it's coming up.
Wait.
That's your 10 year.
Decade.
Decade.
Yeah.
We're two months away from our 10 year.
Are you guys celebrating or what are you guys doing for it?
We gotta do something big.
Something big.
Something crazy.
I'm sure.
Something huge.
Maybe we'll go to the cheesecake factory.
That's exciting.
When can you not travel anymore?
Not for a while.
We have a long time.
But I don't.
34 weeks.
Isn't that when you're.
I think he's 36 weeks.
Okay.
But.
Yeah.
So maybe we'll do something fun.
We thought about going on a babymoon.
In which case that would probably be all.
All in one.
All in one.
Anniversary.
Dating anniversary.
Babymoon.
All in one.
But.
Something you guys may know from listening to our podcast.
Which.
First of all.
Do you listen to our podcast?
I do.
I've been.
I've watched every clip.
He's watched every clip.
You just watch the clips.
Caleb.
You watched a lot of them for a while there.
Do you fall in love?
I've fallen in love.
I've fallen in love.
I've fallen in love.
I'm falling in love.
I'm like.
That hurts my feelings.
I'm like.
Maybe three weeks behind.
That's actually better than I thought.
No.
That's pretty good.
Yeah.
Okay.
We love a supportive husband.
That's sweet.
Yeah.
But you know that one of our things we do is we share the hope and the heart with heart
and humor.
So.
We thought today.
We didn't warn them about this.
You guys are only going to share hearts.
Go.
No.
You can just share a hope.
Just a hope is good.
Yeah.
Are you okay with that?
Yeah.
Caleb.
You first.
What's something you feel hopeful about coming up this week.
Something that makes you feel happy.
That just happened.
It just happened.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
This is.
This is.
This is kind of like Zootopia, you know?
Yeah.
Okay.
My actual full time job is I'm a part owner of a pavement maintenance business.
So we work in asphalt and parking lots, filling cracks in asphalt, seal coating.
You keep saying asphalt.
Like what?
Like.
Because it's not just.
We don't really do concrete parking lots.
We don't do concrete.
Oh, Caleb got serious.
Yeah.
You're right, babe.
That's good.
So it's been really busy.
It's been a.
It's been a while.
We are doing well.
I think your hope is that you guys have been doing really good.
How big was the biggest crack you've seen in asphalt before?
Oh my gosh.
At least this big.
You're getting creative.
Okay.
Matt, what's your hope?
We need to cut that.
My hope right now, this is so nerdy, but I'm really excited because I think I'm finally
going to try to recover all of the old like photos and videos that I'd saved on my old
computer from like I think the early years of us dating.
And then like.
Is that why you've been sending me a bunch of.
Yeah.
I've been.
I've been nostalgic and I've been going back and looking at like all of our old photos
and videos of us together.
And and like I backed up my old iPhone back in like 2016 to the computer that like it
no longer works.
So I need to like probably use Claude to figure out how to get this computer to work, pull
all or at least just get the information off the hard drive that way I can like, you know,
see all those like old videos.
And photos again.
Yeah.
That's sweet.
That's sweet.
OK.
That unlocked up and hope for you.
It's it's not a hope.
It's just something I've been enjoying recently.
I've been using Claude to build an.
Claude.
Yeah.
It's really just for men.
Just AI.
It's just for men.
I mean with a name like Claude.
It's not tickling the ladies.
Comment down below if you're an always here girlie that also uses Claude.
Listen, I do use AI.
I just not using it.
I use it all day long.
Abby thinks we just watch AI videos all day.
I do see your YouTube recommended.
It is a lot of AI videos.
No, it's not.
It is.
I can't even spot it.
I don't even.
I could be consuming and I don't even know.
So I've been building like.
She's Google.
A workout tracking fitness app.
It's really cool.
Just kind of for fun.
It's cool.
It's got a ways to go.
But it's like, 10 years ago, it had taken like $10,000 to build this.
And now you can build stuff in two days.
Yeah.
That's cool.
It's just a little fun.
It's a new hobby.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Passion project.
Love that.
Those are great hopes.
You want the hard?
Sure.
You got one?
Yeah.
Bring it on.
Work.
Okay.
Cracks.
Just kidding.
That is tough.
My wife.
My wife?
No.
No.
Is that what you said?
My wife has been getting on my nerves recently.
Oh, cheers to that.
Wow, that's crazy.
Wow, that's crazy.
That's crazy.
Actually, that kind of leads us to the next segment.
What's going on?
What's happening?
Wow, that's crazy.
Wow, that's crazy.
Because this week, our Wow, That's Crazy hit a little close to home.
Because you guys may not know this.
But Always Here is under some heat.
Oh, frick.
What happened?
We're under heat.
We're viral.
Is it viral?
No, I don't know.
What is it, Addie?
Is it viral?
What determines viral?
I don't know.
Every time people say something like, oh, viral recipe, and then I go look at the original
recipe, I'm like, it has 10,000 views.
Yeah.
I think people just say viral.
That's a buzzword.
Well, then viral.
This went viral.
Okay, so you know that clip that Abby showed you beforehand?
Uh-huh.
It was 493,000 views.
Okay.
Doing good.
Okay.
Doing good.
400?
That video.
That video, you could say it reached the wrong demographic.
It did reach the wrong audience.
It reached the incels of the internet.
No, it reached the men, which really is never.
It's not really our target audience.
Our target audience.
And it reached, honestly, in my opinion, it reached the red flag men.
It really did.
We should yell.
So we have some comments here.
Oh, really?
Oh, no.
We got a lot of, all the men were mad at us.
So wait, maybe we can impose the clip here.
If a guy raises their voice, that is a really big red flag.
A guy yelling is so intimidating.
And I actually saw this video and it was about fatherhood.
They surveyed a bunch of children.
What is one thing you want your dad to stop doing?
It's going to make me cry.
Like almost all the kids said, I wish he didn't yell.
And if you're anything like me, you might be shocked to find out that this
really attracted a rise out of some men.
And I think we had to delete some comments, but here's the comments that we're going to call out.
And we're going to call them out by name.
Can I just share my thought on that?
Yeah.
Ayo, baby.
Oh, like if you can make a good argument without having to yell, then you don't.
You actually are winning.
That's precisely my point.
Honestly, I don't think you have control of your household if you have to yell to get people to listen.
Yeah, totally.
So we were shocked by these comments.
We were shocked.
And honestly, some of them are actually scary.
I'm like, these guys, I hope are single.
Like, I literally hope because. Can we put their at up there?
Yeah, sure.
We're a little loose over here.
Hey, they felt that it was okay to publicly comment this from their own account.
Yeah.
So. On our IP, so we're going to blast it.
This is more.
And I also think I would hate if an always homegirl found themselves with one of these guys.
That would be. Yes, it was a red flag dating episode.
So these. People are red flags.
Scott said, women should stop complaining so much.
It's always women saying how men should act.
Maybe focus on yourself.
What the fuck?
He's got a point.
Also, Scott did edit that comment.
So I wonder what he had before.
What was it about?
Scott, my man.
This is what Prince Chef said.
Have you ever tried. Listening.
okay hold on i think there is difference between yelling if like your spouse is upstairs and you're
like what you say like no there's that yeah we're warming up 1000 there's a difference okay
creepy gremlin 30 said they complain if we raise your voice and they complain if we don't and then
call us soft and then people wonder why you can't make them happy you know some of these i will say
some of these guys just seem like they they might have just had a really bad day and they're taking
it out on the wrong someone just needs to delete their app off their phone this one says delete the
apps okay this one's from alex smith 1986 i can't believe these are all real dudes like they have
profile pics he has his truck as his profile pic or car it says if you don't have an authoritative
figure in the house you will not know right from wrong because you wouldn't not you would have
punishments or someone yelling at you for don't wrong i just i just can't believe how many people
think like
strongly about that though i'm shocked at how many people just think it's okay to just yell
like just that that's just not an okay thing to do i mean okay there have been times i've yelled
at our kids like if they're running towards the street and i'm looking to get hit by the car
yes i'm going to yell because i need them to freeze and not get hit by a car there were some
arguments yes and that's not what i was in that point i think they should have known that that
that's that's what this person said that's like one of the few instances where i think it's okay
this one says well if i ever see my children doing anything life-threatening or bullying
their siblings i'm going to yell at them not to do that yeah yeah if your kid's going to go in front
of a car yeah yeah yeah that's not the context of this sweetie sweetie that's the highway
okay i think this one's crazy i got the vid you have no idea what makes a man a man if a man
raises his voice listen to him
look at his profile make sure too that's a crazy comment yeah i mean you have no idea what makes a
man a man if a man raises his voice listen to him
if a man raises his voice listen to him
inviting kissing on their lips
another red flag for this fellow just add another no this one's the one that really got me
maybe stop causing issues so much so we don't have or so we have to raise our voices or the
one above that i feel like your mouth shut and speak when spoken to then you wouldn't have to
ever experience that i feel like all these are like sub tweets that they're watching
bro it's really crazy
the speak when spoken to is like a little that's a little that's kind of put a shiver down my spine
a little shiver i agree in that yeah yeah this one's definitely the guy's fault let's not look
at what caused him to yell that would lead to accountability i mean there'll be so many these
fellas really need zero context to have such an opinion on this yeah so we want your opinion about
yelling you dropped your bar i shared my bar that was good that was good i don't i don't like but
but i don't like it and i there's obviously context and to yelling like again kid running
in the street exactly spouse can't hear you because they're upstairs even humor like sometimes it's
just funny if you're like i don't know i yell at cj jokingly and he laughs yeah yeah because he
there's context because i don't yell it right so he when i yell he laughs literally the angry
scary yelling i think the most common time i'll yell is when i yell uga to baga when i'm
playing with our kids and i'm the monster you should have kept that to yourself
i think there's quite a few videos of me yelling uga to baga that's fun yeah yeah i i agree it
and i was thinking about this uh because we kind of talked about this clip on our call and i think
about all the men in my life i think about you matt you caleb your dad my dad my sister's husband
like not a single male that i know that's in a healthy marriage is screaming at their wife in a
or an argument or like out of impatience and so i think i was a little shocked at the
amount of comments here where this just feels acceptable and there were some women being like
it's normal and i was like that's actually just not healthy it's hot yeah it's really crazy
so i don't know we just wanted to bring that up and get your guys opinions on it yeah
yeah there was also a sub argument that was like let's like it's like why do we normal
is not letting men have emotions it's like no that's not okay put put me
on blast have i ever yelled i've never heard you raise your voice i've raised my voice but not like
i don't think there's ever been tone you get serious and i think there's like an authoritative
tone that i also get if we're in like a heated argument but it's not yelling i think there's
a difference like you can be serious and have serious arguments and conversations and have
like a stern voice but it's not yelling out of like intimidation or out of control of anger
yeah and i also think i'm thinking also in the context of like
parenting and kids like you've already lost control if you get to that point like that's
already like your kids have already just they're gone you know what i mean so that's also what i
was thinking about when i was thinking about that because i'm like when you're choosing someone to
date to then marry then to likely have kids with this is the that was my thought process on that
take and apparently it was just not popular some other black didn't agree he said dad stop yelling
kid stop behaving yeah he said that that's what i actually would tune out the yelling in my house
yeah same not from my dad oh yeah whenever i got yelled at it was like oh okay like now i definitely
don't want to listen to what you're saying yeah you kind of lose respect a little bit oh yeah
oh yeah well because you're already like yeah it kind of puts that you're at the equal level as
your kid you know what i mean like it kind of just lessens your respect like you're saying
but then the other argument that was in the comments is like well if men have to stop yelling
crying that can be
so uh yeah i'm just really i think we should shout you guys out i'm thankful that you guys
are not yellers and um ladies it's possible it is possible we're basically perfect husbands is
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is not intended to diagnose treat cure or prevent any disease well that's good thanks for chiming in
and thank you for being good examples of wonderful men that are like strong and kind but gentle and
well one strong well i'm working on it i i benched oh i benched i benched 185 i liked it hey three
sets of 185 six reps and chach bt said that means that i my one rep max is probably 225 now i have a
confession matt i told abby that you came into the bathroom the other night like i had to figure
i just have to figure out how i can bench more than caleb i did i did it's just a little brotherly
competition you know you know you'll never be able to he's just gonna keep working hard you
want to shake on that right now okay you should shake on it sure that'd be all right all right
competition on
homie just let him get his iced coffee out of the way that's great these are the men that let us set
our standards so high yes so um they do exist the people that were like these girls are crazy
they're never gonna find that it's like hey we found them young too before we even really knew
so basically if you had no idea get married young okay anyway um okay so that's a good segue who's
more likely to bench more we're
gonna play a game who's more likely to dot dot dot and we have a whole good long list of this
so for say this game abigail abby and then you guys are just gonna say your guess of who's more
likely at the same time we'll count you down okay i'll talk about them okay so the first one do you
have you guys gone through this and agree on all no i have no idea what do you say i haven't read
them okay ready yep who's more likely to cry during a commercial any commercial during a
commercial think about this is for our wife this is for our wife this is for our wife this is for our
wives okay you're gonna say three two one three two one abby yeah okay so that one is pretty set
in stone i agree who's more likely to cancel plans last minute three two one abigail yeah i was like
you're never gonna cancel a plan i did the other weekend it's still haunting me oh yeah you did
i went the next night but then you still went to the show yeah you canceled but then you still
showed up the next day good
it's not necessarily always healthy um who's more likely to forget where they parked three two one
abby yeah i don't know yeah i feel like i'm really like a freak in the parking lots i don't know i'm
very like i know okay you remember yeah okay i get like nervous i'm like very watchy okay who's
more likely to say they're on their way but still be in pajamas three two one abigail oh
you said me okay let's let's hear the courts why well you know i will say when we first started
dating which was almost a decade ago abby was pretty good at being on time but then she met
this adhd man which happened to be me and uh you just you're you're late for everything now
yeah yeah that's true you were 30 minutes late for church
and you're like i'm getting in the car i said don't come
that did happen last week
the reason i was there early is because i was serving at church yes he was there early and i
just i didn't even make it on i didn't even make it i have to get to church 45 minutes early so
that's why we drive separately and so i've been at church for an hour and 15 minutes yes and you're
like i'm getting in the car and i said 30 minutes after were you actually getting in the car don't
come yeah i was did you come no i didn't come no i didn't i was like yeah he's right this is
ridiculous what am i gonna do i know you posted on your story like
what's your breaking point yes of like when you're like oh it's too late to still come to
something yeah and people are like 10 minutes and you're like mine's like 30 20 my mom said
she said they need to adjust abigail's burn score why for your comedy classes you've attended because
you come so late yeah she does they take off 15 percent of yeah they're like time yeah you have
to go you have to go to two classes for it to equal one i always make it for the workout i just
always miss the warm-up and the uh showing it's only a 45 minute workout exactly it is crazy
it's crazy and there's been no adjustment no i'm getting better i've been on time twice this week
that's amazing well i had today's on time what did you guys count today you were late today
no it wasn't abigail you were the last person to go into the class abby gets stressed out if she's
there on time yeah if i'm like early and like what do i do we did the whole warm-up no no it's not
i'd already done a ton of push-ups i do know how you feel if i get somewhere five minutes early i'm
like what what am i what am i doing i don't know what to do with my hands literally yeah i'm like
well i got time to kill yeah matt honestly you should that one i that's abigail she's more late
than me it's true especially right now yes she has more of a reason she's got a baby who's more
likely to laugh at the wrong moment three two one abigail i honestly don't know yeah maybe you just
laugh more in general than me yeah i think i do laugh sometimes when i'm uncomfortable so yeah
you're more giggly you're right who's more likely to bring snacks three two one abigail oh it's not
me i feel like abby well you don't bring snacks you're more of like a i baked a cake and cookies
i don't know what are we talking about like for a play date i was gonna say there was a time where
i didn't i was like oh cj's not really a snack kid and he would eat everyone else's snacks and
we probably need to start bringing him i thought we were talking about for self not kids oh okay for
kids abby's i think i think abby's better for both with snacks i i don't want to be without food yeah
i think you're better with snacks i don't know about that i feel like we're both good
who's more likely to read all the messages in the group chat but never respond
three two one abigail i think you respond to your texts i don't even know i don't even think you read
them i think that's my thing it's like you don't even read them yeah i don't read texts usually
now we're just frying abby's life this isn't fair this is good i do feel you how many messages
messages have you had like build up before like what's the max i think i was at 50 yesterday oh
okay i've been worse i've ever i've had like 100 before i'm at 29 right now okay um sometimes i'm
bad about text you know what's getting annoying too is now like i get so bothered when i get a
text from like somebody trying to sell me something it's like how the frick did you get my number i've
because it's it's like what happened with email with all the soliciting over email is now coming
into messages and it's really bothering like your roof and your trees just anything literally
anything at all like people somehow yeah i don't yeah i don't get any of those i don't want to say
too much because i don't want it to keep happening but like it's so three one four we are from st
louis um yeah i hate that i don't know what you guys are gonna say to this one what actually yes
i do who is more likely to apologize first
even if they're not wrong three two one abigail i'm just a jerk
i love you don't don't kiss now it's weird because we talked about pda too much
i love you not too much um who's more likely to hold a grudge three two one abby abby
i'm just a grouch no i agree with you guys i agree i waited for matt to say
i will say i it does maybe i just have short-term memory loss i'm just like dory but sometimes like
i don't want to say anything stupid but if it's like i'm like what did i do like oh we had we
disagreed last night frick what did i say and then like i'm trying to remember what it was
oh i don't think that's a grudge i'm like still sad about it why i'm like i'm like your memory
is so sharp i'm like i can't remember what happened i'm just like happy that the day is
like i have the notes you know in my brain yeah the quotes we kind of talked about this on our
last episode uh our red flag i'm just like i'm just like happy that the day is like i'm just like
episode that i do the silent treatment and abby's like likes to explosive no not it is explosive we
said you are an external processor where i like kind of that's really i go internal and i'm like
i can't talk at all until we're just talking about what we need to talk about and matt so
wishes i was like that something that really stuck out to me and this was enlightening for me um
listening to the gottman like the the i forget their names but the gottman institute the couple
that like had heads the gottman institute the gottman institute the couple that like had heads
institute seven principles of um the seven principles of a healthy marriage what's the
book title make marriage work no it's yeah the seven principles
principles of making marriage work i think yeah yeah i think that's the name of the book
and they talk about how it's like 80 or 90 percent i forget it might be 89 percent i forget
this is what he always tells me but no but like most conflict is unsolvable so you just have to
like push through it and yes you do need to resolve conflict like you can't just say oh well
most of it's unsolvable we should never unsolve like resolve conflict right but also there's so
many stupid fights that can come up in marriage where it's just like gotta just let it go sure
you know what was our last fight you guys know but we're not saying it out loud was it today or
yesterday no it was today or yesterday that's about the way we're at a couple weeks ago um i feel like
yeah a lot of conflict is more so uh resolving feelings yeah maybe more so than the actual what
the issue was is that what you mean that's a good point yeah it's like i'm gonna use that next time
yeah it's like we're resolving how that affected my thoughts in my field yeah yeah propel
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to diagnose treat cure or prevent any disease okay who's more likely to need a load in time
three two one i won't hold on oh yeah i just think who needs a load time i don't know what
they're gonna say to this okay i'll go three two one abby okay really i spent a lot of time with you
a lot less time alone yeah abby is actually is very extroverted yeah but you'd never want to be
alone what are you talking about i'm don't never leave the house
what are you talking about oh yeah but you don't count see that's where
yeah i thought i did count no no because you're just my safe person so i never feel drained around
you i don't think husbands count for this i don't think husbands count i don't think kids count i
think more just like well maybe they can um who's more likely to google every symptom of COVID-19
wait i'm going back that's like your dad like your dad does that yeah and then i'm like trying
to think do you do that no i feel like you tell me to look it up you're like matt you look it up
right now no i find it you were like lewis ate all of cj's kinetic sand i'm like what all right
and i'll look it up i was like it'll probably be fine wait yeah that's kind of cute that our
wives go to us like when there's like some sort of moment it's like i need you to
fix it yeah this feels like a man because we're the perfect husband you worry about this
it's like i can handle the things i know at it but it's like if it it's out of the
orient like the tasks i know i'm like yeah you got this one i'm not gonna go do my own research
yeah no who's more likely to let the kids eat snacks for dinner three two one abby me
abby i don't know between the two of you between the two of us yes caleb i i always say this and i
mean this really kindly like you're a very capable dad and i have no i never like leave the house and
i'm like caleb can't do it or like you know what i mean i'm like he knows how to take care of them
he knows their schedule and stuff the one thing i do i'm like i don't know if the kids ate like
i just don't i think you assume that they eat before they go to bed and then when they wake
up you're like they probably already ate like you just always skip meal time
oh no no you don't think so i think i just for cj kind of expect cj to be like hey dad i'm hungry
yeah i don't like he doesn't he never does he could care less about eating so it's like
i'm like oh he probably didn't eat he probably i'll catch i'll catch our boys in the pantry
with like double double fisting chocolate chips just like shoving it in there we had to move them
up high and then that yeah you know what it was today what did they get into i couldn't find augie
what was it i was yelling but i could hear him okay and i was like what the heck i was like oh
he's in the freaking pantry open the door he has that massive like factory size bag of lucky charms
marshmallows oh no the floor and all no okay yeah we're gonna switch it up now in the game
and we're gonna have it to where between couple couple to couple we're just gonna say between me
and caleb who we think will be more likely to do these things and you guys answer who's more likely
between you two okay
so you guys are answering for yourselves all right let's do it okay okay who's more likely
to give into screen time for the kids caleb yep i'm more likely yeah we like for a while
augie would wake up and be like dad we watched darth vader like every which is honestly i will
say that is really fun because when we went to disneyland he got to meet darth vader he's obsessed
with like all things star wars and it's like a little it's just fun for us you know we have we
did a lightsaber battle on our play set the other day and it was dark out so like the it was just
like glowing in the dark you know that's how the lightsabers work and it was really i actually had
a lot of fun i kind of felt like i was aligned on that though because uh this morning augie asked to
watch darth vader i was like no we're not watching darth vader and then griffin goes that's only with
dad because he said he told me and i think it was because he said because griffin griffin scared of
darth vader but then i was like but at first i was like is he picking up on the fact that he's not
that we have different expectations maybe that's not good does griffin feel safe to watch darth vader
with me because i'm like you know keep him safe no because he said because he said because i don't
like darth vader oh he's like scared i think it spooks him out yeah um this one who's more likely
to panic over a minor kid injury between you guys i mean definitely me but i don't think either of
us really panic over minor kid injuries yeah what do you call minor i think i'd panic more of a major
i feel like i never panic yeah i've never seen you panic between us matt who's more likely to
panic over definitely definitely yeah definitely wait me you think it's me i would think it's mad
to be honest yeah i'm gonna be honest oh because i feel like i feel like when augie had to go to
the er i feel like i went into like fix it felix mode so you used to like your kid trip and fell
you like pick them up fast and run outside and it's okay it's okay
it's a wonder they're tough
that's funny i love that they perceived it differently because i knew you were gonna
say me but i don't know i don't feel like i panic but i did get freaked out about augie's
but i feel like that was a major that was a major not a minor case yeah you're more likely to panic
over the minor ones i'm more likely to panic over the major ones there we go yeah that's fair yeah
i feel like i feel like that was like new that was like newborn stage though where i was just like
afraid of everything you know like i remember like being like if i don't have that special
sock on them like what if they stop breathing like you just like think of all these like
doomsday scenarios as a new parent yeah you know i feel like that was like a phase i yeah i don't
feel like i've seen it as much recently i also don't see your kids get hurt that often yeah
augie's freaking tough man yeah i feel like he doesn't really get hurt who's more likely to
handle chaos like it's nothing oh caleb for sure matt between us who do you think handles chaos
like it's nothing like it's nothing it's kind of weird i feel like we it's dependent on like the
stage of our marriage i feel like what does that mean who's overstimulated at the time yeah i feel
like yeah but like depends like who like who's caring a lot you know i'm gonna actually give
myself this one you feel like oh you feel like you got it okay okay we were at the airport recently
i was like yeah i think i think i just don't think you
receive it as chaos so you're just kind of like nothing to be alarmed about here and i like no
something's wrong oh it's good who is more likely to give the silent treatment
yeah me for sure i'll go matt i yeah i feel like if it's if things are getting a little too
cuckoo crazy i just have to just like maybe it's a middle child thing just go silent no it's
actually not i think abby and i were like i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know
we were both like the uh what do you call it in hockey um the the like enforcer you know the
enforcer who's like beats up the other team in hockey i think abby and i were that for like our
families so i think if there if there was a parent that was like you know maybe raising their voice
i think we are the ones that would talk back and and we're married to each other so so i think so
i think like so it's like we can either have like an actual match so i think with us i'm like either
we can just like shut up and walk away so then i just shut up and walk away
interesting i think we're both peacemakers you're probably the peacemaker in your feeling wouldn't
you say would you say kate was a peacemaker no i would i would like just try to make humor out
you would yeah and i could never do that smooth things over kate would crack definitely the
peacemaker josh is a peacemaker you're right yeah like i would i feel like i would like
mimic my mom when she would get angry
That's the hard part for me is like I've never been funny and so
Trying to crack jokes.
Did not work.
I'll be like, you're not funny.
Yeah.
Go to your room.
It would just piss her off more.
This one says, who's more likely to stalk someone on Instagram?
Didn't you get a LinkedIn to stalk people's LinkedIn?
Yeah, but then I heard that people could see the profile you looked at.
And I was like, well, I'm not going to use it.
Yeah, on premium.
Well, I don't know who's got premium.
Who doesn't?
They don't even know.
I just wanted to see what people's jobs were.
I was like, what are people doing for work?
It is disclosed.
It's like a goldish box thing.
Oh, listen, I have never had LinkedIn for long enough to learn how it works.
But yeah, I did consider that.
I was like, I'm curious what they're doing for work these days.
Do you ever stalk people on Instagram?
Not really.
I don't know.
No.
No, I don't.
I feel like, maybe it's me then.
Because I feel like sometimes if I, that's where I have to be careful with social media.
Because sometimes I see, you can always see everybody's highlight reel.
And you get jealous.
And you're like, wow, what is, their life looks so much better.
Much better than mine.
What are they up to?
They look so, everything looks amazing.
Yeah.
You know, so.
That's interesting.
I feel like being in this industry, I'm like, I know, in my head, I'm like, that's good
for them.
But I think in my head, I'm like, I know it's always not.
Like, I don't feel like I struggle with the jealousy or comparison online.
Because I think just knowing this, I'm like, I know what I post.
Or sometimes what's going on behind the scenes.
You know how, like, fake you are?
No, I'm not fake.
But it just is, like, the best moments.
You know?
And I share the whole thing.
I share the hard things.
But I never share them in the moment.
That's why we like the hope and the hard.
That's right.
With heart and humor.
Thank you.
Thanks, guys.
Yeah.
This one feels pointed.
Who is more likely to get hangry and start a fight?
Abby.
Do you remember that?
This is making me want to pick a fight.
Do you remember?
What?
This is kind of giving me the itch to just, you know, call the riot.
You're the cutest little pregnant lady there ever was.
Do you remember when we were in Hawaii and Matt would,
like, just pull over any time Abby said she would get hungry?
I don't remember that.
Just avoiding fights.
No, we kind of talked about that on the last episode.
I was like, maybe that's why.
See, I didn't even perceive it that way.
That's how spoiled I am.
No, I don't think it's spoiled.
I mean, I think it was out of care to, like, take care of his wife and was sweet.
But, like, why was I so hungry?
I feel like we get in the most fights at airports because you're always hungry.
There's something about those.
Empties?
And it's like, you need food immediately or you're never going to get food.
No, we always fight in the airport, too.
No, that's what's dangerous with Abby is, like, she doesn't even know.
Like, it's kind of like with CJ.
He doesn't tell you when he's hungry.
That's Abby.
So I have to, like, predict.
I have to do, like, a predictable analysis to know when she's going to be hungry.
Like, at Disney, I could tell Abby was so hungry.
And so I got Wetzel's pretzels, but I knew that she did not want to do that
because it was going to slow us down from getting in the park.
And then when I brought the pretzels, then she ate some and the kids ate some
because everyone was hungry, you know?
Yeah, totally.
That's good.
That's good.
You're just anticipating your wife's needs.
Who is more likely to overthink a social interaction for days?
Oh, me for sure.
Matt Howard.
I will.
You do, Caleb.
I'm surprised you're saying that.
I'm surprised you're saying that, too.
I think in high school you used to care more or so about, like,
what people thought about you.
Yeah, I feel like everyone cares.
I didn't really care.
Yeah, you didn't have friends.
That's true.
I had some amazing friends.
Just not, like, a plethora of them.
Just a plethora.
I had amazing friends.
I'm kidding.
I know.
Who's more likely to accidentally overshare?
Me.
Yeah.
Me.
Oh, my gosh.
Matt Howard.
If I could just enter, like, this is, if a, say Matt has to call to, like,
say a shingle on our roof is out.
This poor roofer is going to get a whole narrative.
That comes from Teresa.
100%.
I'm like, there's so many unnecessary details that you just threw in there
that this poor guy is going to get a whole narrative.
Yeah, he's just going to have to sort through.
I was actually thinking about that today for work.
A company we're working with texted me asking when we're going to be there
in the next week.
And I was thinking, like, oh, I could give them all these details.
I'm like, no.
That's mom.
She would give so many details.
So you've got to let them know why.
She's going to watch this.
No, that's actually.
I love you, mom.
You've got to let them know why.
It's just your trait.
That's one of the best uses of AI for me is, like,
I will just share, like, five minutes of details.
So I'll say it to AI, and then it consolidates it.
Into, like, two sentences.
And I'm like, oh, yeah, that's what I was trying to say.
Like, all that other stuff I said literally is not relevant to this person at all.
So we're going to do the rest of this extended version on Patreon,
and we'll come back.
These questions are way more juicy.
Oh, my.
No, they're not.
But they're going to be fun.
I have some on here that I'm excited to hear you guys answer on.
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For this next segment, we are titling it, We Asked Your Wife.
And we're going to see how well you guys know us, your wives.
Well, how well Caleb knows Abigail and Matt knows me.
Can we keep score?
Yeah.
It could be fun.
How many games are we playing?
This is a lot of games.
This is not a game.
This is a segment.
This is a segment.
Oh, okay.
And it's our last game segment.
Okay.
Okay.
I was actually very curious.
I'm like, does Caleb know me?
I think you do.
Yeah.
And I have to disclose that we have an advantage because we filmed an episode for our podcast
on Tuesday.
Very similar vibes to this.
Okay.
Very similar vibes.
So I got to come to play.
You have to come to play.
I also will say I didn't really know how to answer some of these.
Yeah.
There's a couple.
I'm like, I'm just going to see what Matt says.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt on these.
Yes.
Okay.
The first one is, what is the most annoying thing that you do?
That I think is the most annoying thing.
That you do.
No.
What's the most annoying thing you do that I think is annoying?
That I do?
What's the most. What annoys me the most?
Probably this.
No, that you do.
Probably this.
No, that doesn't bother me.
No, that's not it.
That doesn't bother you?
No, it does bother me, but that's not the most.
Just leaving my socks out?
No, that doesn't annoy me.
Wet towel on the bed?
No.
No, it doesn't get me either.
I don't really do that.
Sorry, you're exposing yourself.
I don't really. Socks, yes.
The wet towel.
You don't really do that.
Is it like putting something away?
No, it was the fart.
Farting in the morning.
Okay.
When I'm still asleep.
That's a rude wake-up call.
Wakes me up.
That's what. What is it with the morning?
I don't know.
I feel like you've been better lately.
It's like my alarm clock.
Yeah, I think because you do wake up so. You've been waking up so early that it hasn't. I wake up at 4.45 most mornings.
Yes, I feel like, you know, you're out of the bed during that phase, and I haven't heard
it lately.
4.45.
No, that's like literally a Howard.
That's a Howard thing, because when I went on my first trip with Abby's family when we
were in high school, I ripped one at like just like 7 o'clock in the morning, and you
woke up, and Abby called it trumpet butt.
Oh, okay.
It's a real thing.
It's a Howard thing.
It's so shocking.
Okay, Matt, what do you do that annoys me?
There's several things there for you.
Oh, so many things.
Chewing.
My chewing annoys you.
My. If I like am. If I get like sniffly with my nose, like. I'm like. I'm just trying to like sniff up like congestion.
You're like, that's gross.
No, no, no.
It's. I call it yakking.
Oh, yeah.
The little. Yeah, a little throat thing.
Oh, yeah.
I'm trying to like swallow.
I'm trying to swallow.
And this.
Okay.
I don't do that.
Yes, you do.
I do not do that.
Matt, you do.
I'll do it in the shower, but then it's like, this is my private time.
I'm taking a shower.
I'm trying to clear out my mucus.
He does a lot of weird things in the shower.
Another one would be when you burp when you're not eating anything.
If you're eating something and you burp, that's fine.
But like. If you just wake up in the morning and you just burp, like belch loudly.
I'm like, where did that even come from?
This is what I find. Is that not weird?
A belch is. Yeah.
And they smell really bad.
You're not burping.
No, you don't.
I feel like I never burp.
You never burp.
And he farts a lot.
And my worst setting for you farting is in the car.
The boys think it's so funny.
Don't do it in the car.
Just do it outside before we get in the car.
Getting a reaction from your sons is great.
It's so funny.
It's so cute.
Dude, every time. That was a good one.
That was a good one.
I did just say that.
Tooting.
Tooting.
So I read them a bedtime story every night.
And then after the bedtime story, they want me to tell them another one, but like make
up a story.
And every time the main character has to fart, and they laugh so hard.
Like for a two and three-year-old, the funniest thing that possibly could happen in a story
for a two and three-year-old is someone farting.
And then Griffin wants to tell a story.
And someone always farts.
And then he's like. And then he tooted.
And he like does that.
Lots of sound effects.
And then Augie, what's really cute is. And then Augie will tell a story too.
And he basically just like does a summary of the story that I told.
Or Griffin.
He'll just repeat Griffin's story or Matt's story.
And I have to like help him get through it.
Yeah, he gets stuck.
Some of the words he can't really articulate.
Oh my gosh.
That's really fun.
I feel like we just put you on blast.
What's the most annoying thing that I do to you?
I don't know.
Oh.
Matt will never answer these.
He thinks he's getting cornered.
That's funny.
I just have trauma from. of the stupid stuff I've said going viral.
Everyone hates me.
We'll only clip the thing that you say that you think is annoying
and that'll be the clip.
Not my whole list.
No, seriously.
We've already discussed it.
It's you being late.
Yeah.
Oh, that's valid.
That sends me.
That's valid.
Don DeLoney just says to go separate.
And I told him I was going to do that and Matt goes, that's rude.
I think it's rude too.
It hurts my feelings.
Well, yeah, maybe you'll change.
Okay.
But he's the one that's late in their relationship,
so I think it was fair for him to say that.
That's true.
Okay.
What's her idea of a perfect date?
September.
It's like a date, like a calendar date.
That went over my head.
That's fine.
It's from Miss Congeniality.
I've never seen that movie.
Me neither, but I just know it's a thing.
I thought you just came up with that.
No.
I think it'd be something related to, like,
no phones or, like, super intentional,
a nice dinner,
and then maybe something that's, like,
new.
That we've never done before.
I was trying to think of the word for it.
I don't remember the word.
Experience?
Yeah, do, like, something together.
Yeah.
Novel.
Novelty.
Fun.
So something that's novel,
so I know I'm being vague,
but novel, dinner, minimal phone,
so a lot of intentional time.
I mean, that's amazing.
That's a great answer.
I did say hike and have dinner.
Good food.
But I think hike is just like a. Hike like a new route.
There you go.
Yeah.
I love that.
What do you think I said, Matt?
For your perfect date?
Cheesecake factory?
And. Do you want me to say that out loud?
Oh, bouch.
Wow.
Oh, come on.
A movie?
He doesn't get the point.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
No, I know this.
And we've done it so many times.
We go to Barnes & Noble.
Yes.
And we go pick Abby on a book.
Yeah, that's what I put.
Yeah, Abby loves going book shopping.
Yeah, I like it when you pick out my book for me.
I barely know how to read, but. But I like going to Barnes & Noble
or, like, when it's. He does.
When it's snowing.
And I know we can't do that here in Phoenix.
Yeah, that's. But it's just, like, that cozy vibe.
That sounds idyllic, honestly.
It's like a coffee.
And that right there is why we need to move back to Hawaii
so that we can just experience, like. The snow.
There's no snow in Hawaii.
Do they have Barnes & Noble?
On Haleakala, bro.
Mauna Kea.
You had that really fun. You played in that date night in Kansas City
where we went to Barnes & Noble
and you did a little scavenger hunt.
And you had different things, like,
pick out a book that makes you think of this.
Then we came and we convened.
And we convened and shared.
That was fun.
That was really fun.
Okay, the question is,
what's her most prized material possession?
Huh.
Probably whatever book you're reading.
Oh, my gosh.
What?
Material possession?
I could replace that easily.
Okay, maybe. I think. Oh, you have said that you didn't care about our car
when I bought it,
but then after driving the Tesla,
you were like,
I like driving this car.
Matt, that's not a prized possession.
It's usually more, like, sentimental.
Like, something that is, like, irreplaceable.
There's only one of them.
All the cards that I wrote you when we were dating.
Oh, that's a good one.
I was going to say. Maybe this is a bad answer,
but just, like, the security box that's got. No, don't you have a keepsake box
with, like, birth pictures?
Yeah, that is it.
It's not what I said,
but that is my answer.
Like. Yeah, because now I'm thinking through this a little bit more
and I'm like. I was like, oh, my memory box.
Ultrasound pictures.
Yeah, and, like, all of our love notes
and just special. I have special keepsakes
from a lot of, like, monumental things.
This is a really. This is a really toxic thing about me,
but I'm not, like, attached to really any item.
I think once I lost my wedding ring the first time,
I was like, well. Oh, yeah.
I did put my wedding ring on.
And that was on the honeymoon, too.
I actually think that's healthy.
Yeah.
The opposite of that, turn into hoarders.
That's true.
Yeah, but sometimes I'm like,
I really wish something was, like, super. Like, that thing.
This year, we're going on a trip to Italy,
and if we have the money,
like, I think it'd be fun for you to get a really. to really kind of, like, splurge on a bag.
Ooh, get a little Louis Vuitton purse.
I really. That's really sweet that you say that.
Like, I want you to be able to do something like that.
Oh, that'd be crazy.
That'd be really fun.
And that could be your, like, not sentimental,
but your, like, one thing that's, like. Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Oh, I just thought. You do. You like designer.
I have, yeah.
I always have since I was a little kid.
I feel like I look at it in, like, the art category.
What's your, like, dream?
So, like, for me, like,
when I was working at a financial planning firm,
and I was learning about it,
I thought, like, different corporations.
I thought, like, Tesla vehicles were cool.
So, like, my dream was, like,
one day I'm going to own a Tesla.
Mm-hmm.
Like, is there, like, a bag you're, like,
one day I want that bag?
No, I don't have. I've actually been doing some research on bags
because we've kind of talked about this.
I don't have just one
because I feel like I get nervous where I'm, like,
I don't want to pick one that's trendy
or just, like, in the moment that I love.
But then also I'm, like,
well, maybe I do just find something
that in the moment really speaks to me
and I feel, like, very drawn to.
But then I'm, like,
but then do I just go something really classic?
Never yet.
No, we would never. We wouldn't be offered an Hermes.
A girl can dream.
A girl can dream.
No, actually, no, it's not Hermes.
But there are different brands
I specifically like their style.
Which brands?
I like Gucci.
I like Louis Vuitton.
What's different?
Like, what makes Gucci and Louis V
different than, like, Hermes or other. I just don't know that stuff.
It's just kind of more, like,
the vibe of their house.
Like, Hermes is very preppy,
very polished.
I don't feel like I'm a very polished person.
You're like a Balenciaga girl.
I mean, Balenciaga is very sporty
and cool and edgy.
I think they've kind of made a comeback.
Canceled.
They were at one point, yeah.
But I'm not a very big Balenciaga.
I don't know.
I feel like I've been thinking. I never thought about it a ton
because I never really thought
it would be something that I would. like, we would ever buy.
I just saw, like, stupid video.
Like, I. Sorry, yeah.
When Balenciaga got canceled,
there was just, like, prank channels.
That were, like, adding to the fire.
Yeah, yeah.
Just, like, doing stupid stuff.
I'm just thinking of. Anyway.
I would want. And I think for me,
and we talked about this the other day,
I could see myself, like, art.
Mm-hmm.
Like, Caleb Wood Splurge on. Oh!. custom art.
Like, there was a YouTube short
that popped up,
and this guy uses only charcoal,
and he makes art.
Mm-hmm.
And it was, like, Christian. Christian art.
Mm-hmm.
It was really cool.
Like, amazing.
Incredible.
But his stuff was, like, 10K or 25K.
Really?
Like, the Jesus Painter guy?
Like, 25K.
The guy that paints Jesus?
This guy is way better.
This guy. I mean, it's, like. It's art.
It's really impressive.
I think. Ooh, yeah.
Which, obviously, we can't afford that, but. Yeah.
I feel like, in my head,
if I ever made, like, a big splurge. Like, I'm talking. Well, how much are those bags?
They're, like, 2,000 to 3,000.
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
I mean, some can get up to, like, 25.
You know what I mean?
It depends on the brand, but. That makes sense.
Majority of them kind of fall in, like, the 2 to 5.
I was going to preface it.
We don't have the money for this,
but I'm just saying, in the future. Yeah, it's, like, a goal.
It's one of our goals.
It could be, yeah.
I like that.
But you guys don't have anything.
We don't. Abby has no designer stuff.
Don't have anything. Designer?
No, not currently.
Or, like, you don't have an item that's, like, oh, that. Yeah, I thought of one, but it was kind of sad.
Wait, what is yours?
That would probably be the thing that we would probably want to take.
That's the only thing that we could. That we have, you know.
That would be the one thing that's, like, irreplaceable.
But even that, I'm, like, not specifically emotionally attached to that.
Did you know that I figured out where I want her name on my arm?
Wow, is this the time that you're telling me?
This is the idea that I had, like, two days ago.
But I want to have all of our kids' names on my arm.
That's cute.
And I want them to write their names.
So. So we need to teach Augie how to write first.
Got to work on that.
Next year?
Yeah.
He's catching up fast.
I mean, you'll have more kids, so just as they can write, they get to. Yeah, they get to write their name on my arm.
Maybe at three years old, you get to. Oh, that'd be kind of cute.
Yeah.
If it's your birthday, you write on my arm.
That's cool.
I'm going to have to do four, because we never did it for Griffin at three.
Oh.
You'll be at four.
You've got to be at four.
Yeah, that's cute.
Give them a little bit more practice on their penmanship.
Let's just skip party trick.
I don't think I have a party trick.
I have a party trick.
What is it?
Walking on your toes?
No.
Oh.
We'll skip it.
Why can't you say it?
What is it?
What is it?
What?
I got to know what it is now.
Hey, I want to know.
I think we've said this before on the unplanned.
What?
Caleb can lactate.
It's a party.
Maybe not.
Oh, my gosh.
Maybe not.
That's too good.
That's really good.
Cut it.
That's really good.
Cut it.
It's like when I've been working out a lot.
Wait, why does working out a lot make you lactate?
Testosterone.
It's a thing.
I don't know.
Testosterone makes men lactate?
I think both levels go up.
I don't know.
Are you kidding me?
I didn't know that.
I didn't know.
Yeah.
It's pretty crazy.
You're telling me testosterone makes you lactate.
I think all my hormones go up.
That's the one.
Working out actually makes them girlier.
Yeah.
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okay
who is her favorite artist?
this one's easy
well not easy
but simple
it's easy
yeah Beaver
yeah good
it's easy
I'm going for you
Johnny Swim
yeah good job
where is she happiest?
Disney World
oh my gosh
I'll take that
I put with my family
oh okay
oh did you go location
or
no I didn't go location
place
sitting on a couch
watching Love on the Spectrum
no baby
I just said with Caleb
and I only said
with my family
because she said
with Caleb
and I was like
well I can't be a jerk
I was like
by myself
with a margarita
okay what's her love language?
all of them
except for gifts
yeah you're right
but my main one is
quality of time
yeah
service
yes
good job
good job
nice
what's mine?
words of affirmation
what's Matt's?
yeah he likes
words of affirmation
I like words of affirmation
physical touch too
probably because our parents
never gave us
words of affirmation
your parents are very affirming
very affirming
yes they are
I hope they watch this
very affirming
oh you know they're gonna watch this
my mom's gonna be pissed
I know
your parents are very
very affirming
should we just wave at the camera
and say hi Teresa
everybody look at the middle camera
three two one
hi Teresa
we love you
we love you mom
what does she spend
the most money on?
grocery budget
always gets blown
that's what I put
groceries
really?
yeah
what do you find
at the grocery store
that you have to have?
I just buy it every
I'm like yeah that's all
that's good
that's a good flavor
yeah I'm like
that looks fun
we gotta try that
yeah
what's your budget?
I'm so curious
what is the budget
for groceries?
she doesn't know
I never look at it
I just assume
I'm like
I probably went over it
dude you know what's crazy
I have it in my head
I'm like I don't want to
go over this number each week
I think it's 600 right?
600 a month
which is just way too low
yeah
we're feeding a toddler
I don't know
I'm like third person
eats nothing
what I think
what always cracks me up
is how everyone
acts like Costco
is saving you money
when like
we never leave Costco
without spending $300
yeah
I know
you know
like you just
and you don't have to
come back till next week
I know literally
seriously
no this is the problem
with Costco
as soon as I find a snack
I'm like the kids
are gonna love these
as soon as you buy
the Costco size
they hate it
and then you're stuck
with it
Bobos
the kids really
led me astray on Bobos
yeah that one
and look I love Costco
but like you're not
saving by buying more
they just have it
into like a cool
looking massive bag
just their shrimp
is pretty good
you know
yeah I will say
their fruit
that's why I always go
because their fruit
is so affordable
and way better at Sam's
but then the other stuff
and the meat too
but everything else isn't
I actually do think
I mean per like gram
or item
you do save
but you just eat more
yes
you consume more
we do consume more
yeah
yeah
oh the other thing
the reason we keep
our Costco membership though
is because of their
return policy
it's amazing
I've heard of people
that like
buy a couch
and use the couch
for like five years
and then just take it back
return it
get their money back
that's a sin
that's not okay
I feel like that's bad
I'm not okay with that
but like if we've had
defective products
like we had a vacuum
we bought from Costco
for like 600 bucks
took it back
and there was no questions asked
do you guys go there for gas?
we don't do the gas
they have electric vehicles
oh yeah
well one
it's true
dude the line
that people stand
yeah cause gas prices
have been so high
yeah
but you're sitting
in a line for 45 minutes
running your car
you're losing a gallon of gas
while you're sitting there
I don't know
I'm like I don't know about that
it's crazy
what do I spend
the most money on?
probably clothes
I think
I think
cause I just saw
I just saw
I think like $450
at Zara
that's for our children
for our kids
which I'm like
that's okay
that's clothes
but
yeah
what
what would you say
for yourself?
travel
oh yeah
we are
that's one of the most
expensive line items
for sure
yeah we do travel
we do travel
a lot
yeah
how many PTO days
do you guys get?
that's the thing
is we
it never quite
feels like vacation
like
okay so like
Disneyland
like we made a YouTube video
out of our Disneyland trip
which was cool
but yeah
what I would like
to get better at
is like doing less
I would like to
we should do more
intentional travel
where like
we're not going to record
a single thing
maybe one a year
I don't know
just cause
that would be cool
I feel so
like it's
I feel so ridiculously
lucky that we get to
vlog
and make that work
when we travel
but
it would be cool
to just like
travel and not
think about a video
and just like
be completely
100% present
you know
it would be cool
okay last question is
what is your favorite
thing about you?
my biceps
I was going to put
muscles
but then I was like
well that's
I was kidding
I don't know
when you see me
like playing with CJ
yeah that's sweet
our kids
I was trying to think
of like what
something that I would like to do
and that I've
the whole time
I've like known you
and loved you
and I said
he's so wise
thanks
I love everything you say
love you
11
times
11 times
to do the kiss
Matt what do you think
is my favorite
trait about you?
my chest
hey you listen
my chest
and my passion
my passion for chest
my chest
and my passion for chest
see I switched it
I said
you're friendly
that's what I said
on our podcast
I know
and you said passion
we can't really get a point
for that
yeah
ask
ask
ask
Abby
well that was really fun
that was fun
yeah we always do
a voicemail segment
on our podcast episode
and so we thought
it'd be fun
if we had voicemails
that you guys answered
hey
yeah
oh wow
hey guys
so fun that the husbands
are on the podcast
funny questions for you guys
if you and your spouse
got arrested
what do you think
it would be for?
thanks love you guys
what do you think
it would be for?
arrested
something really dumb
like something really stupid
like we forgot
to do something
we forgot to pay a bill
that's what it'd be for us
we forgot to pay a bill
and we're like
no
you don't get arrested for that
you don't get arrested for
tax evasion probably
no
honestly taxes
really confuse me
the thing
the thing that I was thinking of
is like
if our kid has to like
really pee
and there's no bathroom
close probably
just go in the bushes
whatever
and like
I don't know
but like
isn't that technically
you know
public indecency
I was thinking about
us being public indecency
speeding
speeding
yeah
Matt
okay going back to the
not wanting to answer your phone
you also don't look at your mail
so I could see Matt
getting like
I don't know
like a couple tickets
and then not paying them
missing
missing a court
like missing jury duty
missing jury duty
yeah I could
that could happen to me
because of the mail
yeah
that's good
but I feel like the
the heart of that question
was like something
you guys did together
oh
yeah
yeah
oh
you guys could be
the public indecency
no
we're not like that
that's what Caleb
that's what Caleb
just said to me
I was like
we love to get it on
but we're not the couple
going out of the bedroom
bro
like we've always
we've always been
strictly in the bedroom
mostly
yeah
I'm not like that
yeah
I ain't too scared
what would ours be
ma'am
we are a Christian couple
we don't break the law
that's true
but it would be
probably
public indecency
oh yeah
wow
what else would it be
I don't know
honestly
because
yeah I don't know
didn't we
weren't we making out
when we were dating
one time
when a police officer
came up
and like knocked on the window
and was like
you guys need to leave
everyone's had that happen
yeah
they have
yeah thank you
they have
this is a really good make out
hey Abby and Abby
this is Gracie
um
I was wondering
if you and your husbands
have any marriage advice
for newlywed couples
getting married here
at the end of May
and I would like
some advice with that
as well as
any advice
for
young newlywed couples
who aren't married
who are only 19 and 20
thank you
and have a great day
wow
sounds really true
yeah what's
congrats Gracie
yeah congrats
congratulations
so exciting
oh my gosh
yeah I think
I think like my
number one advice
would be like
have
good people
in your life
like speaking
speaking into your life
if you want
you know a mentor
um
that could be
someone from whatever
like religious institution
you attend
it could be
a counselor
it could be
just someone like that
like a couple
that you look up to just because I think like
you're going to it you're like it's just inevitable that you're going to encounter
conflict at some point in your marriage and you just want to like stay the course and remember
why you made that commitment to each other um because i think we live in a world today where
people are just so quick to be like girl you deserve better like what like but i think it's
like you just i think marriage and like relationships are about being selfless and
loving your partner well and i think if you both approach the relationship from that viewpoint i
think you're going to have a very long happy marriage that's great advice i agree but 86
percent of it won't be solvable so just to worry about it caleb what's yours you're at the age
where there is still so much life to do and you're not established yet and we've felt this
like you know
we weren't people who are getting married at 30 are like understand how life works a little bit
more and are probably more often than not less financially stressed and just enjoy those times
together uh because there will be hard times but they'll be it's fun to look back on like yeah we
were slumming it together you know yeah look at those times in your 20s when you're you're
you call them our struggle years but in like a fond way it's like our time your time to like
figure it out and try new things and throw spaghetti at the wall and see how it works
and what does it and like struggle together and i feel like that has given us a fun and a cool
foundation for hopefully our successful years you guys would throw spaghetti at a wall for fun
just for fun yeah cut that we can cut that that was bad
is your advice like like make money young so you don't have to be stressed
just like enjoy enjoy just enjoy your struggles enjoy it just enjoy enjoy the grind together like
enjoy slumming it working hard figuring things out i've never heard that term slumming it i've never
i feel like it's a term i think it's a term okay like you're not gonna move in to uh i don't know
what they do for you're not gonna move into like a three thousand dollar three bedroom apartment
penthouse and whatever city you live in like most likely you're gonna be somewhere more affordable
most like most people at 19 yeah usually yeah you just kind of like go on adventures together
just do a bunch of new things together yeah it's really fun yeah hey this is cabbie um this
question's for caleb and uh matt i'm a long time listener a big fan of the shows and uh
yeah big fan big fan of the work guys but um yeah i know both girls have said in the past that
you guys don't think they're mean to you ever except when you're sick and i know man i just
gotta say like these abby's and abigail and addie like they're just so beautiful and funny and smart
and amazing talented and i mean even like humble really humble um so i just my question is maybe
do you guys ever look inward
this is abby yo
who is that
that's abigail wait that's abigail
was that you
do that voice
oh that's so
i just went like this
hey this is cabbie
you said cabbie i was like at the name i was like what what name was that play the question
that's so funny hey this is cabbie um this is for caleb and uh matt i'm a long time listener a big
fan of the shows and uh yeah big fan sounds like you're out of breath but um yeah i know both
girls have said in the past that you guys don't think they're mean to you ever except when you're
sick and i know man i just gotta say like these abby's and abigail and addie like they're just
so beautiful and funny and smart and amazing talented and i mean even like humble really
humble um so that was where i knew it was you maybe do you guys ever look inward inward maybe
and see maybe why um yeah that's my question and i love you guys so much and i'll see you next time
bye
basically basically cabbie basically cabbie's asking uh you know basically saying we're the
problem in our relationship with that earlier when i was like i don't want to talk about the
sick things because i knew that question was coming so i was like we're not talking about
this because i know i had this voicemail planned yeah it's a problem wait wait let's address this
right now okay i said do you ever think you should look inward we just established that
wives become little demons when we're sick little little demon ladies yeah they do you know we cough
two times and it's like oh my gosh horns come out what a loser get over yourself you're not sick
it's all in your head i sneeze and i like you just turn into a little yeah
i'm not very funny so i should let you make that joke i'll say well i just feel like when i'm sick
i'm still going i don't sleep all day i don't sit on the couch what do you do when you're sick
well you're at work scale so i'm working i'm taking care of the kids you too i have never
taken a sick day since we've had children neither have i we were we were both growing up pretty good
couple weeks being sick together is a crazy experience oh it is bad there's no parenting
happening yeah it's movie day for everybody movies are playing yeah you watch paw patrol
mighty pubs seven times maybe not that much we probably did like two or three movies when we
were sick you know you know yeah just survival it is what do i do i just pretend that i'm not sick
and just keep going i love that for you just try it next time
no at one time i was thinking about
recently when you were sick i was like you know what matt always says i'm so mean when he's sick
i'm just gonna prove to him that i'm not i feel like i made you homemade too but i really tried
that day that was really but i know that if you were to wake up sick the next day 24 hours you
had 24 hours for that that version of me it was gonna expire the next morning i was like if this
and then you know what you were better the next day so i was like maybe every time i'll just give
him 24 hours yeah i just need 24 hours of grace
and then i i was like making sure i was like
deep breath he comes downstairs you're sometimes when you have the sunglasses on inside yeah well
you know when i get a headache from the congestion it's always freaking congestion
like it just hits my head and it feels like there's an elephant on my head and so wearing
sunglasses less light going in my in my eyeballs makes my head hurt less yeah i'll bully you for
that one that one gets me yeah um the sunglasses
just sleeping on my head and i'm like oh my god i'm so tired i'm so tired i'm so tired i'm so tired
just sleeping all day it's okay you know what do i specifically do that annoys me it's just the
sleeping i'm like he's just abandoning me he's abandoning me and that just hurts i did feel
really bad when we both were sick and then i started to feel better and i started eating my
soup and then it was a lot i saw your face change caleb started um like gagging because he was gonna
throw up but i was sitting there eating my dinner and he was just gagging at that point and i looked
at him like this and i go i'm eating my dinner mean and then he started throwing up and it was
a lot and i immediately felt really horrible because i was like that was so mean and i had
to apologize and i comforted you i feel like when you throw up it was just like i'm eating my dinner
or when girls when girls throw up it's like when guys throw up it's like
it's
different
it's so scary i'm like do you need to do that like the yours is like a really loud cough
everyone's clicked off by now certainly certainly that i'm done yeah we gotta get out of here
that made me leave well that prank had me on
have you ever looked in order
if i seem
off this episode it's because i've been so anxious about that break can we answer any
more questions from cabbie does cabbie have any more abby that did not sound like you no it didn't
no it didn't honestly it got me yeah hearing that back i was like oh i should have been a little
more obvious maybe it was so angry yes i was so out of breath i was so out of breath what would
have been funnier is if you would have asked a real question and then like we answer it then
you're like you guys die laughing like it i think you you were you were so close like you
could have asked a real question yeah the humble thing that was what i knew when the name when they
said cabbie i was like what the heck is that and you start cabbie you start chuckling a
little bit and i'm like i want to laugh but i don't want to make fun of this girl's name well
when you started laughing yeah i i didn't want to make fun of her either and then i started laughing
when i realized that it was a like a prank i was just couldn't believe it was your voice yeah i
don't actually know how i did that hey guys this is cabbie and yeah that's how i did it do we have
recipes yeah i can do one okay do you want to do recipes guys yes we'd love to so last week i made
breakfast for dinner oh and that was tater tots eggs and cj's favorite jimmy dean sausages
i made all of that and then also we had some fruit that was already cut up yeah and some yogurt
perfect and that was dad dinner that was a great dinner when i do dad dinner it's i usually grill
but actually i always grill i i don't think i've i can't remember the last time that i've like
cooked our dinner and it wasn't me grilling but usually when i grill which is essentially every
single time i grill
you
abby will make the broccoli and then we'll heat up rice in the microwave delicious yeah what's
your favorite grill seasoning uh abby seasons the salmon and it's really good i like marinator
i love salmon that's my favorite i think it just it's i've never been into marinades more
yeah but we do really like the kinders they're basic seasonings we've been trying out steak i
did burn the steak two times so we're doing steak again tonight so you got another chance yeah but
i learned to turn the grill heat down we'll see you guys
find a happy medium yeah you probably get a good crust i didn't get a good crust on my inside was
the inside of the steak was perfect but i didn't sear it enough so there wasn't like a good crust
i even like burnt steak though so it's okay well i mastered how to make chicken and salmon and
burgers and then i try to do steak and it like is completely different he's the most literal
grill chef that exists but like he doesn't mess it up i follow the temperature to the heat it's
all about the temperature of the meat yeah you do grill very well thank you i'm opposite i'm more
just very good i'm not a good grill chef i'm more just very good i'm not a good grill chef i'm more
visual oh really dude i could not do that i could not do that because sometimes there's like one
random piece that's like not hitting 165 when it's chicken and like you cannot serve your kids
raw chicken you're gonna make them sick you know so it's the bigger piece
no actually the other day it wasn't it was a small piece it was just on a part of the grill
that wasn't getting heat for some reason it's true yeah okay well i guess they took care of
that i love that that wasn't really a recipe matt if you want to have the best dinner of your life
that's really easy just get the best dinner you can get the best dinner you can get the best dinner
just grill some salmon put a little bit of lemon what do you season the salmon with some lemon
some really good i love sea salt they're actually local here it's s e e they have this garlic and
herb salt sea salt that's on top that's really really good sprinkle the the salt and then lemon
anything else um it comes i get it pre-marinated oh but we've done non-marinated yeah i just used
lemon in that salt and then we put sauce on it at the end oh that's actually the special thing
that the special ingredient to have really good salmon is put um sweet thai chili sauce
on your rice and then it just like pairs so nicely with like the broccoli and the lemon
i think it'd be fun if you guys did like like what they do on those cooking shows where they cook and
you talk at the scene i don't know how you do it yeah they have like a podcast but you're you make
something for the wait that would be really cute yeah what if you ladies did a podcast while you're
cooking that'd be fun that's a great idea let's go okay well we have a review we just want to
shout out those of you that like comment rate give it five stars and recently some of you guys
have been hyping us up on youtube apparently really really because our last podcast episode
got hyped oh yeah we got hyped how does that work so we looked it up we did have to google what that
meant it means that some of our viewers it's a it's a feature for smaller creators but like
some of your viewers they get a certain amount of hypes they can do and our viewers hyped us
wait that's so nice i know it's so thanks for hyping them yeah so i mean i guess just
engage however you can with whatever platform you're on to just basically show the platform
that you like us and that you intend to come back because it really means a lot yeah and so
thank you specifically to kate and babies who said five stars love it i've been listening to
the unplanned podcast since it started and my favorite episodes were always the sister-in-law
ones no offense matt it's okay i just love girl talk that's okay this new podcast is now one of
my favorites and is always hilarious he he my two-year-old recognizes abby's voices in the car
and says we're always here keep it up oh that's so cute i love when people tell me their kids
always go like wow that's crazy yes i've had multiple people because i never hear it because
we're just in the studio bringing them in every time it is a cute sound clip yeah that was really
fun well thank you kate for your listening and your review and thank you guys for calling in
especially cabbie that was a really good question long time listener big fan of the show just
hyping up the gas if you guys want to call in at
leave a voicemail you can call 602-456-9690 and we're just super appreciative thank you guys for
being on today's episode thanks for having us the hottest podcast hosts in the world
well we love you guys and we're thankful for you guys all and remember we're always here
and we'll see you next time
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The hosts, Abby and Matt, discuss their marital dynamics, highlighting their shared values of communication, humor, and emotional support.
A viral clip sparked backlash for its portrayal of men yelling, leading to a public discussion about healthy communication and red flags in relationships.
The conversation includes a lighthearted game where couples compare personal quirks, such as being late, having screen time habits, or overthinking social interactions.
Summary:
The podcast segment blends personal storytelling and humor to explore marital dynamics, with hosts Abby and Matt sharing intimate insights into their relationship. A key moment involves a viral clip that drew criticism for depicting men yelling, prompting a thoughtful discussion on healthy communication—emphasizing that yelling is a red flag and that emotional control is vital in relationships. The hosts respond with empathy, noting that while they don’t yell, they also acknowledge the complexity of real-life conflicts.
A playful game follows, where they compare everyday quirks like lateness, screen time, and overthinking, adding levity and connection. The conversation underscores a central theme: strong relationships are built on mutual respect, emotional intelligence, and open, non-confrontational dialogue. Throughout, the hosts maintain a warm, relatable tone, blending vulnerability with humor.
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The podcast explores relationship dynamics, including communication styles, red flags like yelling, and shared experiences such as parenting, marriage, and daily challenges.
Yelling during arguments is highlighted as a red flag, as it often indicates a lack of emotional control and can create a hostile environment in a relationship.
They emphasize that healthy conflict involves resolving feelings and emotional impacts rather than just the surface issue, and that most disagreements are unsolvable, requiring mutual understanding and compromise.
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