How To Load A Dishwasher

What are the secrets to a happy marriage? Apparently loading the dishwasher properly has a lot to do with it. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am occasionally asked. I Joe am asked about the
quote unquote secrets to being in a long, happy marriage,
as I am privileged to be in one thirty seven years.
But we're married when we were ten. We had to
get our grandparents' permission because our parents were just in
their teens. Anyway, try that math on the answer. The

(00:26):
brief answer is you've got to make that a very
high priority in your life and get very very lucky
in a lot of different ways, personality wise for instance,
or you know, just choose each other well and get lucky.
But I've become aware in reading this Wall Street Journal
article that evidently that how to load the dishwasher is

(00:47):
a big issue for a lot of couples. Oh boy,
it's a source of strife and arguments and disagreement. And
I'm like, really, human beings can argue over anything. I guess,
but I've never argued about it in my life. But
I do have a certain way I do it. Seems crazy, right,

(01:08):
I picture you as a meticulous loader of the dishwasher.
I am. I've got a special, certain way to do
it right right. That does not surprise me. But I've
gleaned from this article because I am not a meticulous guy.
In a lot of my life, I'm certainly more relaxed
about stuff. Whatever is fine. I consider pickin as a

(01:31):
flaw at least in some you know, in most realms
of life, which is odd because I've got like seven
and eighty pet peeves. But it never even occurred to
me to load the dishwasher anyway. But you put all
the place there and then the bulls are there, because
that's what it's made for. But I guess there's some
people who just loaded Willy Nelly just wherever anything fits.

(01:52):
You're a psychopath. Well, and that anybody who insists on
putting these there and those there as like dictatorial Nazi
issues going on, which is so funny. There was a
majority of Americans sixty five agreed that there's a right
way and a wrong way to load the dishwasher, according

(02:15):
to the folks that you gov who pulled this. Another
pole said, the average American household has eighteen arguments a
month over dishes dish for laded issues, from leaving them
in the sink to who should wash them, who should
empty the dishwasher, that sort of thing. I always loaded

(02:37):
it and unloaded it so it never became an issue. Yeah,
people have a certain way to do it though. Yeah.
That just haphazardly putting stuff in there. That just seems
crazy to me. That makes me uncomfortable just sitting here
that that happens. I know, isn't that funny? Now? I
would say, once it's it's mostly loaded, it's time to
run it, and there's room for a few more things.

(03:00):
Get creative. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, right, if you start
with just randomly putting stuff in there, it's the same
way you build a society based on laws and logic
and ancient wisdom, and you're some creativity on top of that.
But you don't start with the dreamers. Don't have dreamers, right,
your constitution. Put the balls over there where they belong,

(03:24):
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