That is what occurred to me when comic and podcast host Joe Rogan had a three-hour interview with Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the newest episode of his podcast, “The Joe Rogan Expertise.”

No, Rogan and Zuckerberg did not point out me or my fiancée by title. However they did complain that their wives interrupt them when they’re working from house.

Rogan broached the difficulty by mentioning “a giant pushback now about folks going to the workplace, quite than working from house.” Loads of corporations have been tightening their insurance policies about working from house, together with Apple, which made headlines lately when its workers signed a petition opposing a brand new plan requiring them to return to the workplace three days every week.

In response, Zuckerberg famous how “our firm’s really fairly forward-leaning on distant work,” explaining that there are some sorts of work that “you are able to do fairly effectively from loads of completely different locations.” Zuckerberg expressed an identical sentiment in June 2021 when his firm introduced that workers may proceed working from house if their jobs could possibly be achieved remotely, even after the pandemic ended: “We have discovered over the previous yr that good work can get achieved wherever,” he wrote then.

Zuckerberg continued, “From her perspective, it is like, ‘Oh, not a giant deal, it was fast query, simply return to what you are doing.’ It is like, nah, that is not the way it works.”

Now comes the half the place I’m the issue.

Nevertheless, after listening to Rogan and Zuckerberg, I spotted I am the one who interrupts my fiancée, versus their notion about their wives. In distinction with Rogan, who says he runs away from his spouse when he has an thought, I run to my fiancée. As Hend put it lately, residing with me is like having “my very own private radio present.” (Fortunately, she mentioned that playfully.)

Despite the fact that I host my SiriusXM present from the corporate’s studios two to 3 days every week, I am house day by day doing prep for the present. I am at all times making an attempt to provide you with present concepts and dealing on articles to put in writing, and she or he is my go-to. Whereas I am now not a full-time standup comedian, I nonetheless carry out regularly, that means after I provide you with a brand new joke, she’s the primary to listen to it.

I understand now after listening to Rogan and Zuckerberg that I interrupt my fiancée quite a few instances a day — at all times considering it is a easy query, oblivious to the way it may interrupt her being within the “zone.”

Now, my fiancée being the compassionate, caring individual she is, has not complained to me. Nor has she appeared on the nation’s top-rated podcast — like Rogan and Zuckerberg did to vent about their spouses. (I ponder how their wives responded once they heard the feedback?)

However as Zuckerberg appropriately famous, working from house is about discovering the precise “combine.” That’s one thing I’ll must work on extra to be truthful to my fiancée — as do others who assume it is solely a slight interruption once they ask a “fast query” to a beloved one working from house.

Oddly sufficient, Rogan and Zuckerberg could also be serving to me turn out to be a greater companion and co-worker. Now, the one query is whether or not I ought to I interrupt my fiancée to inform her what I’ve discovered.