We're In A Fight Right Now, Correct?

The guys discuss the always uncomfortable car ride home after a fight. How do you stop those in their tracks? 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A new study suggests that men are better than women
and using a map, while women are better at sitting
silently for the rest of the car ride after you
tell them that.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Man the silent car ride when things have gone south.
Oh oh, that's a rough one.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
And then the the effort to warm the air. When
to make it, how to make it? I'm a fan
of the utterly irrelevant. Wow, that car is yellow. Why
do you get such a bright yellow car? Just anything,
but the topic must not touch on topic.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well, who's the first one to say out loud or
we're me? Who's the first one to say out loud?
We're in a fight right now? Correct? You need to
be told, Well, I just acknowledging this situation.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Wow, So you want some sort of formal declaration of
hostilities right exactly? Declare war?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, this is an undeclared this is a police action
on it. We're not at war.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Okay, wow wow. I've always am just trying to get
us to the bargaining table. But sometimes you have to
let things cool down before you can get to the
bargaining table. Oh, one hundred percent. You've got to have
a cessation of the hostilities. There's got to be a
truce before the bargaining begins, and that's hence the yellow
car something we can agree upon. Yes, that's a crazy color.

(01:43):
I've had that work. I've also had that go really
really wrong. Well, THENDY, But it's a diplomatic opening gambit.
Sure exactly, which don't They don't always work? Yes, Katie?
Why do we don't have all in and in here? Yes, Katie, No,
I'll tell you what works.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
At least with my husband, he'll he doesn't talk the
whole Oh look at the yellow car. That would set
me off, like, oh yeah, look at the yellow car, Joe.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
You know, how about how about a hand on the
knee in a gender squeeze? Does that? That's it? That's it,
that's the ticket right there.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Drew will take his hand and he will put it
just over on my knee, like are we are you
going to bite?

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Or are we okay? And that's when I'll be like, Okay,
we're still a thing, right, Yes, we're.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Still finding you that I love you in spite of
the current tension.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yes, as long as you don't pull back a bloody nub,
it works out.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Okay, Yeah, yeah again. Please customize your response to the
person at the other side of the bargaining table. If
your spouse would respond to the hand on the knee, great,
go with the yellow car.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
And it depends on what the the transgression was. I mean,
you know, because they've in severity.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
So right, right, have you said something you know you
shouldn't have? Well, then you know different, different deck of
cards needs to come out.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Oh here's here's good, A good one. A did a
pregnant woman just walk up to you and then declare
you the father? Some different situations, Now that's a for instance.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, I was gonna say, uh, the old depending on
the season, are you cool enough, you warm enough?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
That'd be a good one too. I have absolutely done
that one. That is it? That is it? A I
want you to be comfortable hate me? Yeah? Right, let's
be comfortable while hating each other.