The Bird Show

Early this morning, Jeff was telling us that he and his wife, Jessica,

gotten a little bit of a scub last night. It wasn't even a fight. It was a temper tantrum by me. Like, I'll take the blame for it. I was just having a bad night in the kitchen. But you said it was brought on by her total lack of respect and irresponsibility. No, it wasn't lack of respect. It wasn't irresponsibility. I'm completely, I am convinced, and you'll see all these surveys from time to time, and, you know, Melissa will put them in our news. The number one cause of fights between couples this year is money or cleaning the house or sex or, you know, there's a half dozen. You'll probably make a very short list of the five or six things the couples fight about.

And communication will be on there.

But I think that's communication like, oh, one person doesn't talk enough or too much or whatever.

And I think if there was a law that required everyone to say, to pause just two seconds before they said what they had to say, fights would be cut

by two-thirds, if not more. Because what too often happens is Jessica and I will find ourselves

not fighting about a particular issue, but fighting about the fact that we're fighting, the way

one of us talked to another. And the perfect example happened last night when I was making, I made homemade pizza dough and

homemade sauce, and I was all excited to make a homemade pizza.

And I went to the bottom of the stairs.

Jessica was upstairs, and I yelled up, do we have a pizza pan?

Because I remember seeing one, you know, just like a tin thing.

I remember seeing one, but I couldn't find anyone around the kitchen.

And she says, no, we don't have one.

That was somebody that we had borrowed.

And then I made this statement, and this is referring to something Jessica did earlier this year,

I wish you hadn't thrown out our pizza stone,

referring to a pizza stone that my parents gave us for Christmas like five years ago

that to me was perfectly seasoned, it was dark, it had burned spots on, it was perfect.

Jessica just thought it was gross. She thought it was too dirty. And we didn't use it enough. And it was taking up space in her cabinets. So she's like, I'm going to throw it out. We battled over it for a week. And then finally, we didn't talk about it for a few days. And she used that opportunity to toss it out. So I said to her from the bottom of the stairs, I wish you didn't throw out that pizza stone or you shouldn't have

thrown out that pizza stone or something. me to toss it out. So I said to her from the bottom of the stairs, I wish you didn't throw out

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