How To Annoy Your Wife

Summary

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You Betcha Radio – Episode Summary

Episode Title: How To Annoy Your Wife
Date: March 9, 2026
Hosts: Myles the You Betcha Guy (main host, absent in transcript), Tyler, Becca, Jerrod (not present), guest Richard Feeler
Theme: Midwest domestic quirks, hosting etiquette, and comedic marital annoyances

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Overview

This episode dives deep into the uniquely “Midwest” traditions of hosting guests, the peculiarities of inherited fine china, and, most comically, the subtle (and not so subtle) ways to annoy your spouse once you’re married. Filled with banter and playful sarcasm, the hosts and guest Richard Feeler share personal anecdotes and riff on classic Midwestern hospitality and relationships.

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Key Discussion Points

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1. Midwest Hosting Etiquette

(00:00–03:45)

• Shitty Beer and Cutlery for Guests:

  • Richard poses a question about whether guests should get the lower-tier beer, cutlery, and even bathroom.
  • Tyler quips: "The closer I am with them, the worse I treat them. My sister comes over ... that's for you." [00:27]
  • Hosts agree real friends get “skunky beer from the back of the fridge” – a sign of closeness rather than disrespect.
  • Becca observes that drinking lousy booze tastes better at someone else’s place because “what’s free?” It’s more about the camaraderie than the quality. [00:38–00:47]

• Fine China and Sentimentality:

  • Discussion about “everyday stuff” vs. saving nice dishes for someone special.
    • Tyler: “You’re not whipping out the fine china for these people.” [01:11]
  • Everybody seems to have inherited fine china, much of it sitting unused.
    • Tyler: "We have three sets of china ... I've looked up the resale, and one of them is, like, 2,500 bucks for the full set." [01:29]
    • Most sets are just stored out of sight – more heirloom than utility.
  • Richard jokes: “That was our grandparents' generation of Beanie Babies. ... Every grandparent has fine china.” [02:32]

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2. What To Do With That China?

(01:29–03:45)

• Tyler struggles with guilt, practicality, and family tradition:
  • "I'm slinging it all to all of my relatives because I don't want to sell it or donate it. ... I know for a fact we don't need three sets of fucking china." [01:59]
  • His sisters only want a cup or two, but he balks: "Well, no, then the set's broken." [03:03]
  • Becca agrees: “You can’t do that. You can’t sell it individually … the value's in the set!” [03:10]
  • Marketplace humor:
    • Richard imagines the china listed online, with Ryan stumbling upon it: “Is this still available?” [03:29]
    • Becca: “You’d be in a bad place in life if you’re doom-scrolling for fine china on Marketplace.” [03:41]
  • Becca’s Midwestern scruples: “Knowing it’s Tyler’s mom’s, I would not... That’s not some coin I’m looking to chase.” [03:45]

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3. The Art of Annoying Your Wife

(04:10–06:27)

• Newlywed Antics:

  • Richard, freshly married, asks: “What are some new ways I can annoy my now wife?” [04:26]
  • Becca reassures him: “I don’t think there’s anything new after you get married. Just keep doing the same things.” [04:31]
  • Tyler lists “classic” ways: “Just breathe out of your mouth. That’ll piss her off. Chew louder. ... Just chew, period.” [04:35–04:45]
  • Becca affirms: “Yep.” Humor that the most minor habits suddenly become irritating.

• Subtle Sabotage:

  • Richard suggests: “Once a week, ask them to come downstairs ... and just say you figured it out. ... Do that ‘til she catches on.” [04:57]
  • Tyler takes it further: “I just start moving shit around. Put the cups in a different cupboard one day.” [05:10–05:15]
  • Richard again: “Do different labels with seasoning. So put the thyme on the parsley and parsley on the thyme.” [05:21]
  • Tyler offers the infamous utensil switch: “In your silverware divider, put the forks in the regular spoon spot...” [05:26]

• How Far Is Too Far?

  • Becca cautions: “You don’t want to go to too much work.”
  • Tyler jokes darkly: “Let a little air out of one of her tires. Not to the point where it’s dangerous, but to where the light comes on ...” [05:52]
  • Becca notes the flaw in the plan: “She’s not going to fill it up, though. You’re going to have to fill it up for her.” [06:02]

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4. Car Maintenance & Gendered Stereotypes

(06:09–06:27)

• Mock-instruction to "cut the brakes" results in mutual confusion and a quick realization that none of them know about car mechanics.
  • “I don’t think that’s how brake lines work in vehicles. I think they’re all one line. I have no clue.” – Tyler [06:09]
  • Becca sums it up: “We can’t talk about cars because people get pissed.” [06:19]
  • Tyler admits: “The roast said us talking about cars is like girls talking about sports.” [06:24]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On real friendship and quality of refreshments:

  "The closer I am with them, the worse I treat them."
  – Tyler [00:27]

• On inherited fine china and Midwestern tradition:

  “That was our grandparents’ generation of, like, Beanie Babies.”
  – Richard Feeler [02:32]

• On what actually annoys your spouse (and marriage reality):

  “Things that you were doing pre-married will now just annoy her. So you’re good.”
  – Tyler [04:35]
  “Just chew, period.”
  – Becca [04:45]

• On the effort-to-annoyance ratio:

  “I think it’s just your daily activity that is what should annoy her. So if you're, like, having to swap labels out and shit, you could be doing something way better with your time.”
  – Becca [05:43]

• On their own lack of automotive knowledge:

  “We can’t talk about cars because people get pissed.”
  – Becca [06:19]
  “That roast said us talking about cars is like girls talking about sports?”
  – Tyler [06:24]

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Key Timestamps

• 00:00 – 03:45: Skunky beer, real friend treatment, and the fate of inherited fine china
• 04:10 – 05:15: New ways to annoy your wife—marriage changes nothing
• 05:21 – 05:43: Household sabotage (utensil swapping, spice mislabeling)
• 05:52 – 06:09: Pranks that backfire (tire pranks and unintended consequences)
• 06:19 – 06:27: Admitting car ignorance and Midwestern self-awareness

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Tone and Final Impressions

True to the You Betcha style, the tone is lighthearted, self-deprecating, and steeped in Midwest humor. The hosts embrace playful teasing between friends and spouses, poking fun at regional quirks and themselves alike. There’s a clear sense of camaraderie, with laughter over life’s minor annoyances and a good-natured acceptance of traditions—be it about that untouched set of china or the everyday ways we needle the ones we love.

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Transcript

[Richard Feeler]

When you have guests over for dinner, do you give them the shitty beer when offering beverages? Not just beer, but the shitty cutlery, the shitty chair at the table. Let them use the shitty bathroom.

[Tyler]

Firmly. Depends on the guest. I know that's a lame ass answer, but if one of my best friends is coming over. Yeah. I'm trying to put the skunky beer from the back of the fridge on him.

[Becca]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

The closer I am with them, the worse I treat them. My sister comes over like, like, no, you can go get the Malibu from the old bottle if there's only an inch left. That's for you.

[Becca]

Yeah, I think there's just. There's something about drinking old booze at someone else's house. Like, it doesn't taste as bad.

[Tyler]

Yeah. What's free?

[Becca]

Exactly.

[Tyler]

You're getting it as a gift, so it doesn't taste as shitty. Yeah.

[Becca]

Now in terms of, I mean, I'm just gonna give them whatever's in my. Like, if they want something good, I'll give them something good, you know, because I, I, I, that's just part of having a good time with your buddies or with guests or whoever it is when it comes, like, the shitty cutlery and stuff. Like, I don't have, like, shitty specific cutlery to, like, give to guests when they come over.

[Tyler]

Be like, every day, like, your everyday stuff. You're not whipping out the fine china for these people.

[Becca]

Essentially, my wife is for everybody. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Tyler]

Okay.

[Richard Feeler]

Do you have fine china?

[Becca]

Well, I don't think it's china, dude.

[Tyler]

We have.

[Becca]

I think it's, it's like, it's just nice, like, glassware and plates and that we use when guests come over.

[Tyler]

This is an actual point of contention at my house right now. We have three sets of china, like, nice fine china. Like, I've looked up the resale, and one of them is, like 2,500 bucks for the full set. Whose are they all handed down? So I have a set of my mom's, and Becca has a set from her mom and then also a set from her grandma. And it's like, well, I'm not sentimental with this china. I'm trying to get rid of mine.

[Richard Feeler]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

But it's like.

[Becca]

You are?

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm slinging it all to all of my relatives because I don't want to sell it or donate it. But I also don't know. I know for a fact we don't need three sets of fucking china.

[Becca]

No.

[Tyler]

Where we, we've eaten off them One time ever in the history of me being married to my wife.

[Becca]

Yeah. But there's no, like. Dude, there's no, like, sentiment if you. If you never see it and use it, then there's really no sentiment there.

[Tyler]

Right. Two of the sets are in cardboard boxes in storage.

[Becca]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

And the other set is in a hutch in the basement base tucked behind a corner of a wall.

[Becca]

Yeah.

[Richard Feeler]

I feel like that was our grandparents generation of, like, Beanie babies. Like, they all bought it.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Richard Feeler]

Worth something someday, which it kind of is. But still they would just. I feel like every grandparent has fine china.

[Becca]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

So after I go through my Rolodex of relatives of seeing if anyone wants my mom's fine china and nobody wants it, then I'll throw it on the open market. Full set, by the way.

[Becca]

Yeah. I mean, if you can get 2,500 bucks. Absolutely.

[Tyler]

It's not hers. That's 2,500 bucks.

[Becca]

But, well, even if it's 500 bucks.

[Tyler]

Right? Right. Yeah.

[Richard Feeler]

200 bucks.

[Tyler]

Yeah. And I'd ask my sisters, and they're like, no, we'll each take a cup. I'm like, well, no, then the set's broken. Yeah.

[Becca]

You can't do that. You can't sell it individually.

[Tyler]

And then I can't sell it as a matching set.

[Becca]

Correct. Because that holds value in itself.

[Tyler]

Yeah. And also you for thinking you can get away with just taking one cup from me. Why do I have all this stuff? Ye.

[Richard Feeler]

You list the china, like, on a Friday night, then Ryan sees it the next morning on Facebook. Marketplace.

[Tyler]

Is this still available?

[Becca]

Yeah. He lives too far away to get out. He's out of my range. Oh, I. Well, unless I. Unless I'm doom scrolling Marketplace, then I'll

[Richard Feeler]

get to fine china.

[Becca]

I'll get to like. Yeah. Yeah.

[Richard Feeler]

So you'd be a bad place in life if you're doom scrolling for fine china on Marketplace.

[Becca]

I know. Unless you can find. I mean, I'm always. I'm always here for a hot deal. It doesn't matter what it is. If it's a good deal and I can make some. Make some coin off it. But I. Knowing it's Tyler's moms, I would not. I mean, that's just not a. That's not some coin I'm looking to chase.

[Tyler]

It's.

[Becca]

Yeah.

[Richard Feeler]

So you have principles.

[Becca]

I do, yeah. Yep.

[Richard Feeler]

Richard Feeler. So I recently got married. Exclamation mark.

[Becca]

Congrats.

[Tyler]

Did he type that out or are you just verbalizing punctuation?

[Richard Feeler]

Verbalize. I feel like I have to verbalize punctuation.

[Tyler]

Okay. Yeah.

[Richard Feeler]

Just got married, so I recently got married.

[Becca]

So I recently got married.

[Richard Feeler]

Yeah. What are some new ways that can annoy my now wife?

[Becca]

I. I don't think there's anything new after you get married. I think you just keep doing the same things.

[Tyler]

No, honestly, things that you were doing pre married will now just annoy her. So you're good. Just breathe out of your mouth.

[Richard Feeler]

Yep.

[Tyler]

That'll piss her off. Chew louder.

[Becca]

Chew.

[Tyler]

Just chew, period.

[Becca]

Yep.

[Tyler]

Fart. I mean, any normal bodily function. Just do that.

[Becca]

Clear your throat a lot.

[Tyler]

That'll piss her off.

[Richard Feeler]

I'd say, like once a week, ask them to come downstairs for something, and when they come downstairs, say you figured it out. Do that until the sheet catches on.

[Becca]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Becca]

That's not a bad idea.

[Tyler]

I figured it out. You're good.

[Richard Feeler]

Yeah. That's a mild way to annoy them.

[Tyler]

Yeah. I just start moving shit around.

[Richard Feeler]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Put the cups in a different cupboard one day.

[Richard Feeler]

Yeah. Do different labels with seasoning. So put the thyme on the parsley and parsley on the thyme.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Oh, here's a good one. In your silverware divider, just put the forks in the regular spoon spot and then put the spoons in the regular fork spot.

[Richard Feeler]

I like that.

[Tyler]

It's nothing. Nothing that major, but that'll really annoy her.

[Becca]

Yeah. So I think. I think that's like. You don't want to go to too much work, too.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Becca]

Because I think it's just your daily activity that is what should annoy her. So if you're, like, having to swap labels out and shit, you could be doing something way better with your time.

[Tyler]

Just think, just let a little air out of one of her tires. Just don't. Not to the point where it's dangerous, but to where the light comes on and she has to go fill it up.

[Becca]

She's not going to go fill it up, though. You're going to have to fill it up for her. So you're just like. You're creating more work for yourself.

[Richard Feeler]

Cut to the. Cut the brakes on one of the tires.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Yeah. Just cut the front brake line. Is that how. I don't think that's how brake lines work in vehicles. I think they're all one line. I have no clue.

[Becca]

I don't know anything about cars.

[Richard Feeler]

We can't talk about cars because people get pissed.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Becca]

It's like, really?

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Becca]

Because we don't know anything in that roast. Yeah.

[Tyler]

The roast said us talking about cars is like girls talking about sports?

[Becca]

Sure, yeah.