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A Question For You
00:08:37
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| Hey, everybody. | |
| I debated. | |
| In fact, I raised the issue with two of my two colleagues, and they were equally ambivalent. | |
| Do I continue just on the coronavirus and postpone the male-female hour show? | |
| Cancel it, not postpone it. | |
| And I thought, no, I'm going to combine them. | |
| So the second hour Wednesday is the male-female hour, and I have a question for you. | |
| Every so often I just ask a question and then react to your responses rather than offer you an idea and you react to that. | |
| That's what usually occurs. | |
| But I'm just as happy to just hear what you have to say because I don't know the answer. | |
| So you've now been cooped up with your significant other. | |
| Spouse, significant other, partner. | |
| Do you know, by the way, do you know that in California, do you know the governor does not refer to his wife as the first lady? | |
| Did you know that? | |
| The first partner. | |
| What bugs him about the word lady? | |
| I'm serious. | |
| It's not a rhetorical question. | |
| See, you have to understand, if you are not offended, you're not on the left. | |
| Something must offend you that is not offensive. | |
| That is a characteristic of being on the left, which the governor of California is, by definition. | |
| I mean, nobody else can get elected. | |
| The first partner. | |
| Okay, anyway, I'll look into that. | |
| So, you have been, what, about five weeks? | |
| How long? | |
| Five weeks? | |
| It's a long time. | |
| Where your significant other has not left the house unless they're in essential work. | |
| And by the way, that is one of the great things. | |
| We realize that much of the essential work is done by plumbers, electricians, and the like. | |
| Right? | |
| Delivery people, grocery store workers. | |
| If your significant other is a professor of gender studies, they're home. | |
| Anyway, back to the question. | |
| So you've been together now five weeks. | |
| I mean, really, really together. | |
| So now, here's the question. | |
| Not how is it going. | |
| That's not my question. | |
| We've done that. | |
| We'll unfortunately probably do it again. | |
| The question is, does this make you want to spend after this is over? | |
| Want to spend more time at home together or less time? | |
| Be honest. | |
| I have no vested interest. | |
| I mean, obviously, I would hope you'd all say, oh, it's such a wonderful thing, and I hope he's home, or she's home, or I'm home much more now. | |
| As a result of seeing how nice it could be. | |
| So that's my question for you, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| What lesson will you derive from this time together? | |
| More time at home? | |
| With each other? | |
| Less time at home with each other. | |
| I don't even know. | |
| When I think about it, I don't even know. | |
| I couldn't guess what people would say. | |
| I could just as easily imagine, you know, look, it's too much time, obviously. | |
| Nobody should be home for five weeks. | |
| That's house arrest. | |
| However, you know, having more time together. | |
| And, you know, not just seeing each other in the evening after a hard day's work for either or both of us. | |
| Well, actually, it's almost always both. | |
| Even if you don't get to have a paid job, you probably have a very tough job, and that is running a home. | |
| And between the two, that might be tougher. | |
| So, that has not changed, obviously. | |
| But at least your significant other is now with you. | |
| By the way, it does not reflect poorly on your relationship if you would say, no, no, I don't want to spend that much time together. | |
| It's not normal. | |
| and don't be embarrassed if that's what you think. | |
| Leaving every day or five days a week and then coming back might be a very wonderful way of appreciating each other. | |
| Nice to see you after a day away. | |
| Or nice to see you back after you've been away. | |
| So it does not reflect poorly on your marriage or relationship, if that is your answer. | |
| But it has to have had some intellectual... | |
| Slash emotional impact all this time together. | |
| And making you think, whoa, this is really nice. | |
| I'd like more time together. | |
| Or even meals. | |
| You know what? | |
| If you have kids around, not every family has a meal every day together. | |
| But I'm sure you're having a meal every day together now. | |
| Is that tempting? | |
| Gee, I would like to do that more. | |
| It's not just a significant other question. | |
| All righty, everybody. | |
| 1-8 Prager 776. And very curious to get your answers. | |
| Dennis. | |
| Another Dennis. | |
| Silver Lake, California. | |
| Hi there. | |
| Not only another dentist, but my wife's name is Susan. | |
| Ooh, that's eerie. | |
| Do you call her Susan or Sue? | |
| And I love my fountains, and I like cigars, but gave up my cup pipes a long time ago. | |
| Oh, I thought I was talking to myself until you said that. | |
| Like everybody else here in L.A., it just so happens my wife is a bit of an introvert. | |
| And I am quite the opposite, an extrovert like you, like to be around people. | |
| And it's been actually a little bit harder for me, but our relationship has, because we're both retired and we're around most of the time anyway, but it's actually somewhat improved. | |
| I think I've learned to tolerate her a little bit more, if you know what I mean, and appreciate what she needs, you know, just really. | |
| Which is nothing. | |
| Avoid human contact at all costs. | |
| So I'm out doing all the shopping runs and the Costco demolition derby and all that kind of stuff. | |
| But we've been doing really well. | |
| So have you resolved you would like to spend more time together now? | |
| Well, we already do, really. | |
| But I'm not going to give up my golf. | |
| And I think I need to be away. | |
| I think she would agree, you need to go out and do things every now and then so I can even have more peace and quiet because she's just that kind of a person. | |
| All right, so it's reinforced. | |
| You know what that might be? | |
| I'm not making this as a cast-in-stone statement, but one possibility is that this time, Has rendered the good stuff better and the bad stuff worse? | |
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Valerie's Honeymoon Phase
00:00:34
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| That's just a possibility. | |
| Okay. | |
| Let's go to Valerie in Denver. | |
| Hello, Valerie. | |
| Hello, Denver. | |
| Yes. | |
| Good to speak with you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I was just calling. | |
| I was telling your screener that this has reinforced. | |
| My husband and I, we've been married for a little over a year. | |
| And we're still in the honeymoon phase, so working from home together has been fine, but not on a permanent basis. | |
| Okay, tell me why when we get back. | |
| Yeah, I haven't heard from newlyweds. | |