September 12, 2025 • 9 mins
We go through a thread of commun unwritten rules in society and share some of our own
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So we will talk from time to time about the
unwritten rules in baseball. That's a big thing, and Thorn
I think they're stupid. You know. It's like, hey, man, sorry,
I know you got a no hitter going, but I
can drop a bunt down and try and get a hit.
It's like, sorry that I broke up your no hitter
with a bunt, But in the unwritten rules of baseball,
that's not allowed. You shouldn't be doing that, or you
(00:21):
can't celebrate a certain way or whatever. There's all kinds
of these unwritten rules of baseball, but they're old school,
and so it is what it is. Well, do you
have any unwritten rules in your life that you try
to follow or like tell others the way I grew up,
I had a lot of unwritten rules. Well they were unwritten,
but they were well known what rules were going on,
(00:43):
and I still follow them to this day. Of course,
the famous no garbage in the garbage rules that my
dad said, If you don't know what that means, listen,
nobody does. It's just the stupidest thing in the world.
In our bathroom, me and my sister shared a bathroom,
we were not allowed to throw any thing away in
the bathroom garbage bigger than a toilet paper roll. So
(01:04):
if he ever found, like God forbid, a shampoo bottle
in that, he'd lose his mind and he would yell
at us, no garbage in the garbage, and he meant
that because it would fill up too quick. And then yeah, yeah,
but then I had to empty the garbage. The crazy thing.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Why don't you Why didn't he do what Sky's husband
does and just empty all the trash cans every night?
Because I'm not insane, which is one of the wilder things.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I've ever heard. That's one more insane things ever. But
I still follow that rule to this day. No garbage
the garbage. Well, I mean, unless you're gonna take that
thing out right now, then don't do that. Don't do it,
bring it over to the big trash can. Sorry, of course.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
As I started doing that myself, since your life better
kind of but I thought you were ridiculous. And then
I swear to God and I say it every time
I do it. I go, no gar I say it
to myself, no garbage of the garbage.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You throw that giant Kleenux box in there, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
If we get like a big order of in and
out or something. I always just throw it away outside
into the trash. Can I'm gonna put that?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Oh can?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Stupid insanity? Yeah, of course. Another famous one. If you're
gonna go swimming, Oh no, this is not the time.
I got to wait fifteen twenty minutes, depending on what
you're eating.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You just got to We told you that. Doctors have
said that's not a thing anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Okay, good luck at the bottom of the pool when
you're cramping and dying. Yeah, it happens. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
There. There are other rules though, that now I have instituted.
They are unwritten rules in my house, I guess. So.
One of them is nobody is allowed to start eating
until everybody's sitting down. So I'm because I'm usually cooking,
and so my kids will sit down and I'm still
(02:43):
dish and everything, and I'll give them their plates. You
gotta wait until I'm sitting down. Once I'm sitting down,
then everybody can eat. Oh wow. But if you start
slamming food that ain't gonna go over well, that ain't
gonna go over well, you wait until everybody's sitting down.
That's a rule. And then my life. One of My
big life rules is don't ask me to help you move,
(03:08):
and I won't ask you to help me move. That's
a good one.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
That is apt.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
We're adults. Yeah, we can figure this out. You know,
pay for somebody to help you move. Do not ask
me to come over and help you move, and I
will never ask you to help me move. Done. That's
my unwritten rule in life. Sky you got in any
of these unwritten rules, Well.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
There's a big one in our house. But it wasn't
instituted by me. It was instituted by my husband, and
I don't know why I follow it, and I now
like have guilt if I secretly violate it. It is
no TV when the sun's up, except for sporting events.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I don't understand if you're sick.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
So if you're like really sick and you're in bed
all day, then yes, you can sit there during the
daylight out.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
You can't just chill and watch TV, not if the
sun's But what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Things around the house.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
There's always things to be done around the house, projects,
things you should be working on, things you should be cleaning.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Worked already, you do a job so you can't go
home then and relax.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I can relax.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
There's allay stuff to do.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I can't watch TV.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
But if I wanted to, like go swimming, if I
wanted to take a nap, if I wanted to read
a book, that's fine. But for some reason, in my
husband's head, if you're watching, if you're sitting down and
watching a show while the sun's up, you're like a
lazy ass.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Basically, he doesn't work well.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
But he's he's moving right now, he's honestly, come over.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Here you go.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
But if it's a sporting event, Okay, someone took that personal.
So but if it's a sporting event, it's fine. That's
totally different. You're sitting on your eating chips, like, uh.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You got any of these unwritten rules?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Loading the dishwasher the right way. There's a certain way
to load the dishwasher. I don't put You can't put
cups and glasses on the bottom, no hate my wife
does that, yeah, because they don't get clean if they're
on the bottom.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That's madness. Stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Also, I don't like people touching the lights off everywhere,
no matter what.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Why that?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And also don't touch the walls. We don't even And
no TV in the bedrooms except for me obviously, because
I'm allowed to have But if you're my son, what the.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Unwritten rule is? Rooms on the front.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Rooms are for fun ms because if I ground you
and you go to your room and there's a TV
in there.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
But if I have toys, though, can I play with
my toys?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Rooms? Your rooms? Your toys are gonna be another room.
The room. The room is book and if you want
a CD player, that's it.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I can't wait to see what those I can't see
what's going.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
On Walker's room in five years? No joys in there?
Do you think I'm so stubborn? I didn't grow up
like that. You think I'm gonna let him grow up
like that?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You see what says and you got an the unwritten
rules in your life. I'd say a lot of your
guys were some of my same ones, but.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Definitely not that.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
But for sure, when my son says he's not feeling well,
unless you're throwing up or you got a fever, a
high fever, you're going to no matter.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
So if you guys a hundred, it's not high enough.
That's teeter tottering, walking off, walking off.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Well, this became a thread to of these important unwritten
rules in people's lives.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, and they're all over the place, but a lot
of them are pretty legit. One person says, you never
shake somebody's hand while sitting down.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
It crazy. Yeah that's the thing. I would never do that.
I don't know why, but I would not. It's respect
that it would feel weird too. Yeah that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, I've done that before. Well, like since I'm a chick.
It's like I've hugged somebody. Then I don't get up,
and then and then Alice, I'm sitting there, I'm like,
why didn't I stand up?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
This is so weird.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's weird. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Uh no talking during a movie.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I mean sorry, Yeah, I mean I like my comments,
so was my wife like my comments.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
If someone is wearing headphones, don't try to talk to them.
They clearly don't want to talk to you. Yeah, that's
like thorst go to. Don't talk to me, Yeah, or
on the airplane or walking by your neighbors or yeah, yeah,
all those things. Don't call somebody repeatedly unless it's like
literally an emergency whatever else it.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Is me to talk to you and you don't answer,
I'll just text you, Hey, call me when you can.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah. If I get multiple calls, I immediately think it's
an emergency. And if it's not, I'm pissed right exactly
what you called me four times? What the hell?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I also do this though, if somebody calls me multiple times,
I don't want everyone. I want to talk to them.
I say, hey, I'm on the phone with the customer
service right now. I'll call you back.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Well, so blatantly. Okay. Yes.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Another important unwritten rule, if someone lets you into traffic,
you give them away for a.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Head, not no doubt. If I don't get that serious, man,
I am full of rage.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You don't eat the last bite of something unless you
paid for it or it's been offered to you.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
But you can time you can ask.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Well, there's a time limit.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You can got to immigate.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
This, Yeah, you can, you can ask.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
But if you don't have permission, you can't just grab
it unless you're the one who purchased it. And the
final most important unwritten rule, this is more of a
modern one. If someone is showing you a picture on
their phone, you do not grab their phone.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You do not swipe, you do.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Not zoom in. Family will literally put her fingers on
it to make it bigger on your phone. She'll do
that every single time.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
They say you don't need to zoom in the one
thing I don't want people to do is when you
ask me.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I could ask you, because you would hate if somebody
grabbed your phone and zoomed in.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
No, I don't do it to everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It's just you.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Guys don't count.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Wait what, I really appreciate that
So we will talk from time to time about the
unwritten rules in baseball. That's a big thing, and Thorn
I think they're stupid. You know. It's like, hey, man, sorry,
I know you got a no hitter going, but I
can drop a bunt down and try and get a hit.
It's like, sorry that I broke up your no hitter
with a bunt, But in the unwritten rules of baseball,
that's not allowed. You shouldn't be doing that, or you
(00:21):
can't celebrate a certain way or whatever. There's all kinds
of these unwritten rules of baseball, but they're old school,
and so it is what it is. Well, do you
have any unwritten rules in your life that you try
to follow or like tell others the way I grew up,
I had a lot of unwritten rules. Well they were unwritten,
but they were well known what rules were going on,
(00:43):
and I still follow them to this day. Of course,
the famous no garbage in the garbage rules that my
dad said, If you don't know what that means, listen,
nobody does. It's just the stupidest thing in the world.
In our bathroom, me and my sister shared a bathroom,
we were not allowed to throw any thing away in
the bathroom garbage bigger than a toilet paper roll. So
(01:04):
if he ever found, like God forbid, a shampoo bottle
in that, he'd lose his mind and he would yell
at us, no garbage in the garbage, and he meant
that because it would fill up too quick. And then yeah, yeah,
but then I had to empty the garbage. The crazy thing.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Why don't you Why didn't he do what Sky's husband
does and just empty all the trash cans every night?
Because I'm not insane, which is one of the wilder things.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I've ever heard. That's one more insane things ever. But
I still follow that rule to this day. No garbage
the garbage. Well, I mean, unless you're gonna take that
thing out right now, then don't do that. Don't do it,
bring it over to the big trash can. Sorry, of course.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
As I started doing that myself, since your life better
kind of but I thought you were ridiculous. And then
I swear to God and I say it every time
I do it. I go, no gar I say it
to myself, no garbage of the garbage.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You throw that giant Kleenux box in there, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
If we get like a big order of in and
out or something. I always just throw it away outside
into the trash. Can I'm gonna put that?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Oh can?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Stupid insanity? Yeah, of course. Another famous one. If you're
gonna go swimming, Oh no, this is not the time.
I got to wait fifteen twenty minutes, depending on what
you're eating.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You just got to We told you that. Doctors have
said that's not a thing anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Okay, good luck at the bottom of the pool when
you're cramping and dying. Yeah, it happens. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
There. There are other rules though, that now I have instituted.
They are unwritten rules in my house, I guess. So.
One of them is nobody is allowed to start eating
until everybody's sitting down. So I'm because I'm usually cooking,
and so my kids will sit down and I'm still
(02:43):
dish and everything, and I'll give them their plates. You
gotta wait until I'm sitting down. Once I'm sitting down,
then everybody can eat. Oh wow. But if you start
slamming food that ain't gonna go over well, that ain't
gonna go over well, you wait until everybody's sitting down.
That's a rule. And then my life. One of My
big life rules is don't ask me to help you move,
(03:08):
and I won't ask you to help me move. That's
a good one.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
That is apt.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
We're adults. Yeah, we can figure this out. You know,
pay for somebody to help you move. Do not ask
me to come over and help you move, and I
will never ask you to help me move. Done. That's
my unwritten rule in life. Sky you got in any
of these unwritten rules, Well.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
There's a big one in our house. But it wasn't
instituted by me. It was instituted by my husband, and
I don't know why I follow it, and I now
like have guilt if I secretly violate it. It is
no TV when the sun's up, except for sporting events.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I don't understand if you're sick.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
So if you're like really sick and you're in bed
all day, then yes, you can sit there during the
daylight out.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
You can't just chill and watch TV, not if the
sun's But what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Things around the house.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
There's always things to be done around the house, projects,
things you should be working on, things you should be cleaning.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Worked already, you do a job so you can't go
home then and relax.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I can relax.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
There's allay stuff to do.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I can't watch TV.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
But if I wanted to, like go swimming, if I
wanted to take a nap, if I wanted to read
a book, that's fine. But for some reason, in my
husband's head, if you're watching, if you're sitting down and
watching a show while the sun's up, you're like a
lazy ass.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Basically, he doesn't work well.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
But he's he's moving right now, he's honestly, come over.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Here you go.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
But if it's a sporting event, Okay, someone took that personal.
So but if it's a sporting event, it's fine. That's
totally different. You're sitting on your eating chips, like, uh.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You got any of these unwritten rules?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Loading the dishwasher the right way. There's a certain way
to load the dishwasher. I don't put You can't put
cups and glasses on the bottom, no hate my wife
does that, yeah, because they don't get clean if they're
on the bottom.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That's madness. Stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Also, I don't like people touching the lights off everywhere,
no matter what.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Why that?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And also don't touch the walls. We don't even And
no TV in the bedrooms except for me obviously, because
I'm allowed to have But if you're my son, what the.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Unwritten rule is? Rooms on the front.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Rooms are for fun ms because if I ground you
and you go to your room and there's a TV
in there.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
But if I have toys, though, can I play with
my toys?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Rooms? Your rooms? Your toys are gonna be another room.
The room. The room is book and if you want
a CD player, that's it.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I can't wait to see what those I can't see
what's going.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
On Walker's room in five years? No joys in there?
Do you think I'm so stubborn? I didn't grow up
like that. You think I'm gonna let him grow up
like that?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You see what says and you got an the unwritten
rules in your life. I'd say a lot of your
guys were some of my same ones, but.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Definitely not that.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
But for sure, when my son says he's not feeling well,
unless you're throwing up or you got a fever, a
high fever, you're going to no matter.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
So if you guys a hundred, it's not high enough.
That's teeter tottering, walking off, walking off.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Well, this became a thread to of these important unwritten
rules in people's lives.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah, and they're all over the place, but a lot
of them are pretty legit. One person says, you never
shake somebody's hand while sitting down.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
It crazy. Yeah that's the thing. I would never do that.
I don't know why, but I would not. It's respect
that it would feel weird too. Yeah that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, I've done that before. Well, like since I'm a chick.
It's like I've hugged somebody. Then I don't get up,
and then and then Alice, I'm sitting there, I'm like,
why didn't I stand up?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
This is so weird.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's weird. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Uh no talking during a movie.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I mean sorry, Yeah, I mean I like my comments,
so was my wife like my comments.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
If someone is wearing headphones, don't try to talk to them.
They clearly don't want to talk to you. Yeah, that's
like thorst go to. Don't talk to me, Yeah, or
on the airplane or walking by your neighbors or yeah, yeah,
all those things. Don't call somebody repeatedly unless it's like
literally an emergency whatever else it.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Is me to talk to you and you don't answer,
I'll just text you, Hey, call me when you can.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah. If I get multiple calls, I immediately think it's
an emergency. And if it's not, I'm pissed right exactly
what you called me four times? What the hell?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I also do this though, if somebody calls me multiple times,
I don't want everyone. I want to talk to them.
I say, hey, I'm on the phone with the customer
service right now. I'll call you back.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Well, so blatantly. Okay. Yes.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Another important unwritten rule, if someone lets you into traffic,
you give them away for a.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Head, not no doubt. If I don't get that serious, man,
I am full of rage.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You don't eat the last bite of something unless you
paid for it or it's been offered to you.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
But you can time you can ask.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Well, there's a time limit.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You can got to immigate.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
This, Yeah, you can, you can ask.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
But if you don't have permission, you can't just grab
it unless you're the one who purchased it. And the
final most important unwritten rule, this is more of a
modern one. If someone is showing you a picture on
their phone, you do not grab their phone.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You do not swipe, you do.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Not zoom in. Family will literally put her fingers on
it to make it bigger on your phone. She'll do
that every single time.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
They say you don't need to zoom in the one
thing I don't want people to do is when you
ask me.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I could ask you, because you would hate if somebody
grabbed your phone and zoomed in.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
No, I don't do it to everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It's just you.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Guys don't count.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Wait what, I really appreciate that
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