Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew - 06 Pillow Talk

Episode Date: January 31, 2020

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my mom's gonna be mortified yeah she's gonna be mortified I've never told the story because of my mom exiting the house every night and walking laps around the house and I was standing against the wall hitting my head against the wall okay

That's all we got. Are you ready to roll, everybody? We're going to do this thing? Yeah, we can edit this a ton. Let's get going. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a couple things with Sean and Andrew. Today is a special episode.

I don't know if you guys can tell by. the setting that we're in. Also, the audio quality. We've got professionals here. Thank you. Shout out. We should probably hire professionals for hours. I agree.

We took care of some of the issues. Not all of them. We made it here, though. Yes. Wait, where's here? That's what I'm saying. We're in Miami at Super Bowl 54. Yes.

And who are we with? Sleep number, okay? Why? So we are doing this year-long experiment, I'll call it, with them. where, as you guys know, and we're going to do a lot of videos on this, sleep is as parents, as humans, as athletes. One of the biggest things that Sean and I struggle with,

and it can either set us up for success or failure. Like today. And so we're here with Sleep Number to try to kind of attack that issue, solve that problem. Yes. And we just kind of wanted to talk to you guys because we've gotten a lot of questions about what's been the biggest change that we've experienced

as parents. So let's just go ahead and jump in and hear what Marissa and Hunter have to say. Hi, Sean and Andrew. My name is Marissa. I am from Ontario, Canada. I just was wondering if you guys would like to talk about

dealing with a baby and how it has changed your relationship. I currently have a four-month-old, so I would be very interested in hearing about that. Thank you, Marissa and Hunter. I would say, obviously, the biggest change is apparent

is your sleep. I'm excited to talk about this today because you're tired. And so are you. I'm tired and we need to have this discussion. Should we tell them about today? You look sleepy right now. True. Excuse me.

You never tell your wife that she looks tired. You got water in your eyes. I'm sorry. I'll stop. You look tired. I'll stop. How tired are you? Are you thinking about it?

Tell them about set the context outside of we're here. So it's 8 a.m. Yes. Miami time. Yes. And we've been up for five hours already. Yeah, we're rocking. No problem.

You know, Drew decided to have a party at 3 a.m. And we partied with her. By the time she decided to go back to sleep, it was time to leave. You call that a party? What happened last night? She thought it was a party. You did not. You were pretty mad.

We get in some major fights when we get tired. Yeah, we do. We get spicy. Yeah. So anyway, if you guys are curious, that's kind of the backdrop of the situation. We are here at the NFL Radio Row, if you will, so surrounded by hundreds of That is radio row over there, babe. I'm sorry.

This is just the media zone. Fan gallery. Actually, this is what I'm reading. This is honestly the coolest setup in the entire room. That's a bed behind us, if you guys can't tell. And these are tables. This is a table. Are you okay?

I feel like you're winging out a little bit. No, I'm not. Don't think about it. Okay, funny story. I wrote this down because I didn't want to forget. Two funny stories. I have a lot of funny stories about sleep. So when I was competing, I was actually the most mental individual when it came to my sleep.

Okay. So much so that my mom ended up taking me to like five different doctors because she thought I was an insomniac. Because every night after practice when I came home, I would lay in bed and I'd be like, you have to go to sleep. You have seven hours of sleep now. You only have six and a half hours to sleep now. You only have six hours to sleep now. Oh, my gosh. And I would just think about it.

I'd be like, if I don't get to sleep, I'm going to have a bad practice. If I have a bad practice, I can't make the Olympics. If I can't make the Olympics. You've never talked as fast. My whole life is going to be over. I've never heard you talk to that. It was bad. I didn't sleep for months, like literally months.

I would, like, be bug-eyed at bed every day. And then I'd come into my mom's room. I'd be bawling and be like, Mom, I can't sleep. Chow's going to, like, be mad at me because I'm going to be tired. And it was just a hot mess. This went on for months. And then before every competition, even the Olympics, I never slept. maybe that's why

I was going to say maybe that's why I can manage no sleep right now as a parent but I really can't I think there's a term for that what you experience outside of just being generally a lunatic no it's sleep anxiety

you just know like your wife a lunatic and that I look tired you're digging your great you were going to sleep anxiety I have not it's that thing where you are like oh my gosh I have to wake up in 15 minutes and then you can't actually go sleep.

Don't overthink it. Don't overthink it. Exactly. Don't get in your head. Don't get in your head. Yeah. It went on forever. Tim's new scrambled egg loaded croissant.

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coming from our athletic background. If there's one industry where sleep is, like, highly regarded, it's athletics. Yeah, you had a, you had a freaking sleep coach. I didn't have this luxury. Maybe it would have helped my career. Yeah. Maybe I could have made it to another Olympics. The NFL is all about, like, trying to improve in every area possible, even if it's, you know, if it's a huge improvement or if it's a smaller one.

And so actually, Sleep Number did a partnership with the NFL trying to combat that. And there's legitimate, like, full-time staff positions. Can you work with gymnasts? We're mental. I'm just saying. But there's full-time staff members on NFL teams. We need full-time staff members on a gymnastics team. So they'll, like, they'll literally kind of track your sleep and they have access to how you slept the night before.

They'll get, like, a metric on it. And sleep number has, like, their sleep IQ number. But then based off of that, how well you slept the night before, they'll either increase or decrease, like, your workload based off. that so because there's a higher likelihood of tearing muscles and getting injured if you don't sleep well just because of general fatigue they had a guy monitoring that that's a thing does he like sit in the corner of his your room and just watch you sleep no no it's a staff member for every NFL player he woke up he moved you legit kind of look tired though it's funny I'm sorry I'm gonna stop do you want to say it again it's cute it's cute do you have

me to explain to you why but what i'm saying but what i'm saying do you want me to explain to the people why you don't look tired andrew i was up just as much as you were really let's talk about this uh because you were saying that you had these nights where you were staying up all night yeah you can sleep i remember you tell i want you to tell the story of when you competed after having okay my mom's gonna be mortified because yeah she's never talked about this story i've never told the story because of my mom. My poor mom. So I was 19. I had made to the Olympics competed. We're tired. Come out of retirement. And I was trying to make another Olympics. You said you were tired? I'm going to smack you. Oh, you've retired. I retired. And I came back. But I was,

okay, please hold for the punchline of the story. It was my first competition back. So like I had been training for a couple years and this was my first time back on the scene it was the u.s gymnastics national championships it was like the biggest competition in the united states that we host and it was a huge deal like the fact that i was coming back in first competition since the olympics and at the time i had really bad shin splins so i took a lot of like ibuprofen to combat that and it was like Right before I was headed off to championships, you go to championships a week early to, like, acclimate and to get used to the arena and the equipment. And my mom had ran to kind of restock my med. My mom had ran.

To kind of help me start packing. So she went and got me in the shampoo and the conditioner and the ibuprofen and anything that I could need at championships as a sweet mom would. And I go through that week, I struggled all week, I go through the competition, terrible competition. I fell on every event multiple times. And it wasn't until I got back home. It was like the next day after I arrived back home. I was unpacking. And I pull out that ibuprofen bottle.

And it was ibuprofen PM. And I had been taking it four times a day at like prescriptive quantities. and I was on sleeping medication for a week straight. During competition. What's it like to be so good, Sean, that you can win a competition while being on sleep met. I distinctly remember thinking, man, I'm getting old because I'm so tired. And oh, when I had to tell my mom that, she will never, like, she'll be mortified. I told that story because, like, she started bawling.

She was like, I'm so sorry. But you still won, I assume. I slept really good. I've never been so talented that I could do what you just did as far as, you know, challenging myself. Look, the competition's not good enough, so let me try to just. Let me just drug myself up on prescriptive sleep medicine. Bankmore oncores when you switch to a Scotia Bank banking package.

Learn more at scotiabank.com slash banking packages. Conditions apply. Scotia Beck, you're richer than you think. Go compete. There's been a couple times, I don't know if you've ever experienced this. When I'm tired as an athlete, though, I remember we were doing a weight test for football. There's like the 225 bench press test. And I had a term...

Bench press test. Bench press test. Say that 10 times. Bench press test, bench press test, bench press test. Challenge, go. I know. Do it. No, I'm out.

Anyway, I had a term paper due to that same day, and so I stayed up the entire night. Literally the only all-nighter I've ever pulled in my entire life. I drink like three energy drinks. I mean we've pulled a few all-nighters with little Drew. True. We're going to get to the parenting aspect of this in a second. I woke up and the bench press test, bench press test, bench press test was at 8 a.m. And. But you didn't wake up because you were already awake. Okay. I arrived. I showed up. And my muscles legitimately were not working. I couldn't even do one rep. Have you ever experienced, like, the paralysis? I mean, evidently not. Evidently, I'm a better athlete than you because I competed at the National Championships on sleep medication. Everybody already knows that.

So why you've got to rough it in. Anyway. So that's kind of the athletic backdrop of a relationship with sleep. I'm actually curious. I wish I wish I could interview. I told you you retired. You can't even talk right. do you want to say it again i wish i could interview the football players like each one individually

it'd be really cool to see like a study on what their like sleep routines are the night before the super bowl i think you'd be surprised i think the majority of them will have very disciplined sleep routines but i'm sure there's a handful i forgot that because you all are pampered and spoiled individual. I was just here fighting for myself. It was prescribed to us that we get like nine hours of sleep. They take it seriously. It's a thing.

They will alter your practice if you don't get enough sleep. That is smart, as they should. Yeah. Every sport should do that. I'm very jealous. I wish I could go back in time. So obviously those stories about our athletic pass fit in. We're at the Super Bowl.

Yeah. But also I want to talk about, because this has been, Are you giving me the tired eye? No. This has been the biggest. We should have a tally system going on. Say it again, I dare you. What are you going to do?

You're not going to come across the table. I might. Okay. The biggest thing that we've struggled with, we've mentioned this in videos, the argument, the biggest argument we've had is you waking me up as I was sleeping so that we could argue about sleep. The argument was we should never argue and we're tired. We should never wake each other up to argue.

I went and took a 45-minute shower and just built up my argument and then came in at midnight and I woke you up to argue. You're proud of that. I am. All I remember is your arms going as you're laying down in the bed. It was hysterical. Okay. I just feel like it's a good time to, you know, talk about why that might be.

Wait, what is your opinion on going to sleep angry? I said this line the other day. I'm curious what your thoughts are. if marriage is about not going to bed angry, parenting is about not waking up angry. It doesn't make any sense. There's so many things that happen at night. No, because if you really think about that whole line

that you just put together and you're really proud of, it's like, okay, if you're not supposed to wake up angry, so does that mean in the middle of the night when you're parenting, if there's an disagreement, you're supposed to argue it out? How many things happened last night that you were frustrated at me about? How do you not wake up angry? Explain it to me. I'm just saying act like it never happened.

Well, first of all. Act like it never happened. That's what I'm asking you to do. I don't think that's a general, like generally a good rule to go by in a relationship. Let's just let's talk about last night as a sample of what happens. Okay. Drew woke up at three. And here's the thing.

Here's a tough part about parenting. We have so many, we have so many gadgets. We take sleep. Seriously, too. Yeah. We have so many gadgets in our room to try to help us sleep well. So I have like these little in-air, like sleep sound things. Drew has a sound machine.

We got special pillows, covers, weighted blankets. You want to set it up, you want to set it up, though? What? I am laying in my side of the bed with the monitor. I don't have a luxury of wearing sleep ear pods because I have to watch the monitor. and then I have to try to wake you up if she wakes up and then you get mad at me if I wake you up to go take care of her.

You know, it's just, it just is a bad mixture. Here's what we've struggled with. What? Sleep. Yes. No, in the middle of the night when you're woken up. Yeah. There's this process of trying to assess the situation

and gather information. Okay. Are you talking about yourself? And then decision making and then this compromise and negotiation that has to happen as parents. should I tell the people all while happening at 3 a.m. with a sound machine that is freaking blaring in the background. And as you guys know, if you guys have watched our YouTube videos versus our podcast, and YouTube videos, I'm like pretty hyped up. I'm loud. You don't like that side of me. In general, I talk really low and quiet. Yes, you do. So that's, you'll get mad at me because I'm like, Andrew, I can't hear what you're saying. Because there's two sound machines. And then you get mad that you have to repeat yourself. Yes. And then we're frustrated in it. So maybe the moral. the story is you should talk louder so we can just cut through that wait i want to tell the people

what happened at the hospital okay right after we had drew okay okay so 22 hours of labor you know c-section i'm laying in bed the first night are you trying to set the tone for like pity on you absolutely okay i can't move it's fair i can't sit up i literally cannot function on my own i had to have my husband or a nurse help me so right next to the hospital bed is drew in her little bassinet and then right next to the bassinet is the little futon that you were sleeping on i woke up in the middle night because drew was crying and so she needed fed well i can't sit up i can't grab her i can't console her i can't sue her nothing you had to do it okay i said your name 22 times at increasing volumes.

She legitimately counted. And then ended up having to throw a water bottle at you two feet away because you couldn't hear me. And you couldn't hear your infant. You couldn't hear your infant. What's up with the air quotes? Screaming her head off. I think you have like,

I think your sleep coach taught you to sleep too strong, too deep. Like, it's a problem. I wonder if that's a thing. I have sleep anxiety. You have like sleep zombieness. You think that's a technical term? Yeah, that was bad. I'm disappointed in the word I chose.

Yeah. Here's what I realize, though, when you're sleepy, fatigue, tired, not you, everybody. This is my experience. It's so easy to like stop thinking about everyone else and only think about yourself. Absolutely. Absolutely. That's also what I think we struggle with is like, I can't be thoughtful if I'm tired. Well, then that sucks. That's not good for marriage. We made a rule in our relationship. If you remember this.

When we were like really starting to figure things out, figure out how to argue right before we had a baby and everything changed. Yeah. We made a rule that we were not allowed to bring up arguments or like things that were annoying us or anything when we were tired or going to bed. how well have we done at that um ever since we had drew we're failing at that miserably but we're always tired now yeah which is crazy so okay we wrote this out and i wanted to walk through it because i think it's really funny okay sleep deprivation yeah sleep deprivation sucks yeah can bring out the worst in people um we said it turns kids into monsters we're trying to come up with like analogies like what happens when people are,

with certain groups are fatigued. So everyone can fill it in for themselves, but sleep deprivation turns kids into monsters. Yeah. Turns husbands. Into, can you say that word on air? Into,

you can fill it in. Turns wives into, you wrote this one. Yeah, that's definitely not on air for me. Turns parents into train wrecks and athletes into zombies. Yeah.

I remember waking up as an athlete. plate tired and being so miserable because having to function on no sleep is just the worst you just know your body can't do it can I just tell you some stats about what like marriage and sleep well there's an Oxford study that says sleep one partner's negative sleep habits can negatively affect the others well we know that well this is a thing because as I was doing research on this. I'm curious your thoughts on this concept. This episode is brought

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around known as sleep divorce. I'm not kidding. No, this is the thing. What is this? It's where couples are like, hey, for the sake of our marriage, we're not going to sleep in the same bed. No. Okay. I'm not. I am not proposing. Are you proposing this? Are you proposing? Are you trying to sleep divorce me? I'm not. What are your thoughts on it, though, is my question? I understand it. I'm not a fan of it. Neither am I. Really? No, because I feel like our most intimate

moments happen when we're like sleeping or about to go to bed or waking up. That's where in like, you know, just a lot of things happen. I'm not, you're cute is what I'm, what?

That's not. Where are you going with this, Andrew? You're turning red. No, I'm just embarrassed. Oh, cute. You're really cute. I feel like, okay, so this is, as we mentioned, we're doing this partnership with sleep number.

We're really excited to be, going on this journey with you guys let's just talk about why sleep number could be a good fit for us because you and I are such different sleepers because it supports the sleep divorce but yet you're in it doesn't think about it

it combats it think about it it supports the sleep divorce no but you stay in the same bed okay that's a really bad way of saying no that's a great way of saying you can cater every person can have their own individual sleep settings I'm saying like if you're at a point where like sleep divorce is a thought like it's just so bad then you absolutely need to

sleep more sleep never bed because you can actually cater each independent person's side to like your own settings yeah so like you snore I love I love firm mattresses and you love super soft ones yeah I want to like I want to be engulfed by that's my nightmare that's my nightmare that's my nightmare and then Also, you know, like, those little things you put babies in that are like... A swaddle? Giant pillows and they just, like, sink into it. That's what I want my bed to feel like. I legitimately have no idea what you're describing there.

It's like a big pillow and it's like, you put them in the middle and they sink and it just like hugs them. No idea. They also have a snore button. Yeah, you need that. You know, you snore too. No, I don't. I breathe. Okay.

Sean and I have some sleep stories to share from like when we first met. isn't it always interesting when you start dating a person like the first time you have like a sleepover you learn a lot about that person like it could be make or break the first time you like spend the night together really like if you were a super bad snore it was probably i was probably out how bad a snore am i like on a scale one to ten you're not bad because like it's fixable i'm like babe and i punch you and i'm like turn over and then you're fine okay but like if you snored from the time you went to sleep the time you woke up couldn't handle it Sean has this really gentle snore it's kind of like hmm it's like that really this is like ASMR right now hmm you're so weird

you're so weird no okay let's continue about the sleep number thing because it's cool I'm really excited I think it could help us out because there's a lot of frustrations that happen with our sleep like what as we have just shared um so let's just walk through I'm not here's an interesting stat CDC has declared that sleep disorders are a public health epidemic really and that one and three adults are not getting adequate sleep

sleep that's nuts but one and three adults have children that's why they all need sleep number beds one and three adults share one child. Yeah. Do the math on that. I don't know. It didn't make sense. No.

It didn't make sense. And then what I'm excited about is the fact that they just, sleep number just did this whole NFL partnership. Mm-hmm. Right. But there's so many advantages outside of the performance where fatigue really just kind of negatively affects everything. Whether you're an athlete.

The fatigue affects everything. Yeah. It's like. Even podcasting, as we're seeing here live with you right now. You are not being nice. I love you. I'm just kidding. Yeah, you should apologize for that.

I'm sorry. How's your podcasting going right now, Andrew? I'm having a blast. Is it going well? Are you sure about that? It's actually super cool. We're at the Super Bowl. Yeah, no.

We brought Drew to the Super Bowl, which is really cool. Where is she, by the way? She's just walking around. She's venturing around. But no. sleep is like make or break for anything whether it's your job your relationship if you haven't figured it out it can be brutal yeah um so sleep number the stats are in they say that it can help improve quality sleep because we're not getting we're not getting a ton of quantity sleep anymore

although i'm hoping that the lights at the end of the tunnel that we can see with a three month old do you think the lights at the end of the tunnel i just feel like hopefully she'll start to sleeping, you know, 12 hours straight, and maybe we can do. Regardless, we're not getting a ton of quantity of sleep. So what can we do to increase the quality? That's what I'm focused on. The quality of the sleep that we're getting. They say sleep number beds can increase the quality of your sleep by 15 minutes a night.

That's awesome. Which is over 100 hours a year. That's what that adds up to. Do the math. Do it real quick. That's insane. That's crazy. think about that

100 hours 100 hours of sleep right now sounds awesome just straight start the clock now and seeing in like four days think about that doesn't that sound great

as new parents it does no it does we wrote this down I think it's funny to talk about I feel like okay we said outside of athletics

sleep is a huge part of relationships besides the arguing do you remember when we were dating we asked a question, do you remember each other's first sleepover? And we got to laughing

because we couldn't remember our first sleepover because you left every night at like 4 a.m. No, our first sleepover was this. We've talked about this when you came to visit me for the first time in Nashville. You had no place to crash. You lied to me and said you had an hotel room. Hey, I came to meet you.

So you're welcome. I wasn't going to just invite you to stay with us. That wasn't like our first sleepover though because I slept on the couch. Sean slept on the couch. Yeah. Like our first sleepover, like same bed sleepover. You would like cuddle and then leave because you were like. I let you fall asleep and I'd be like to see you later.

I can't stay here. Yeah. It was hysterical. You got to do what you got to do, you know? Yeah. I do want to talk about one of my, I think my brother just told you this story. Oh my gosh. The story is ridiculous.

Yeah. So I was a Boy Scout. This will tell you everything about our relationship right here. Will it? Yeah. Apparently, everything about our relationship right here in this story. Apparently I used to sleepwalk a ton, like literally do laps around our house. I'm really glad you don't anymore because that would have creeped me out.

So here's what I'm saying. While everyone else was sleeping, I was training at night. I was putting in hard hours of running laps, getting my cardio in, increase. Anyway, I used to sleepwalk a lot. So I'm at Boy Scout camp. We had this wilderness survival class. We had to build lean-toes and, like, sleep outside. Anyway, I woke up one morning, and everyone was, like, freaking out.

They're like, Andrew, do you remember anything from last night? I was like, no, what happened? Why is everyone so excited? They're like, you had an obstacle course running. You were doing laps from the flagpole to the picnic table. And then you were walking through the fire pit, Andrew. And I was like, what a weird prank. What a weird, like, story to tell me.

Why would you tell me this lie? I checked the bottom of my feet, and it was straight charcoal. I had actually walked through the fire in this little obstacle course race. And then you told me, I was like, when you first told me this, I was like, that you have a problem. Like, we should figure this out. And then you're like, it wasn't just a one-time thing. I used to walk a lot around my, like, old house and elementary and middle school and high school. If, like, as a parent.

I'm a dedicated athlete. One, I hope Drew does not get that quality from you. we are setting every alarm and lock in the house to make sure that she's not walking laps around her house in the middle of the night, sleepwalking. Have you thought about that? Like really think about that. Like your child, your parents' child, you,

was like exiting the house every night and walking laps around the house. I think it's cool. I'd be very proud of it. You would be proud of your kid. Yeah. You wouldn't be concerned at all. I'd be really proud. I do remember, I had like two sleepwalking episodes.

So one night, my mom said that she woke up and she kept hearing this like thud. Like it sounded like a banging or like someone was knocking at the door, but it was consistent. And so she woke up, she walked into my room and I was standing against the wall, hitting my head against the wall. Okay. And mine's concerning? I've never heard this story. That freaks me out. Yeah, it was weird.

Makes me feel like you're like demon-possessed. I don't know. It was really, it was disturbing. What? And the second time, the second time. I don't know if I want to hear anymore, to be honest with you. Second time. So my parents' room was right next to the stairs.

Mine was like down the hall. And my mom said that she like heard the stairs creaking, woke up, and I was standing at the top of the stairs. And she's like, honey, what are you doing? And I was like, I was trying to open my windows and they wouldn't open because I needed to do my bar routine. so I thought I would go downstairs. To do your bar routine? Yeah. But the most concerning part of that is sleep.

I was completely asleep trying to exit the windows of our second story. But I couldn't figure it out in my sleep state. So these are concerning. They're just as concerning as you walking laps around your house. No, banging the head against the wall is next level. Definitely. Definitely next level. I am curious.

If you guys have any interesting sleep stories, please write them in the comments below. I think they're hysterical. I mean, I've had friends who have, like, made full-on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Wait, I want to tell you, okay, so here's one parallel between parenting and athletics is during college football, we'd have 4 a.m. workouts, morning workouts, right? Yes. And it would be two months long.

And every day would kind of be like this haze, right? Like, I don't even, actually looking back on it, it doesn't even feel like my life because you're just tired the entire time I would get like four hours of sleep you'd work really hard and then you're tired the rest of the day wiped out it's kind of the same parenting

when you're waking up two or three times in the in the night where like it's pregnancy everything's weird oh yeah you know what I'm saying yeah but I had a buddy during one of these workouts

it was a 15 minute drive for him I don't believe this story it's true I don't believe it and it's a one and a half hour workout class started at 10 okay so he he he this guy drove to the workout did the entire himself yes did the entire workout and then at 10 o'clock he woke up in his car and had no idea how he got how he got to the stadium he was somewhat awake I this is what I think I think he was like in a haze driving hated the work

out and then passed out and slept really hard so like when he woke up at 10 he was like I don't know it just happened was it a dream or was it not there's no way he was asleep driving what I'm saying is that's how I feel like the last couple months have been as a parent I have no idea I have no idea what's going on that's terrible I can't believe I don't know how I got here but here we are we took a point we called him the ghost writer that was his nickname the ghost writer yeah that was his nickname I don't feel like that's very justin if you're listening to this that story's about you You know. The ghost writer has nothing to do with sleep.

Don't take the fun. Ghost, don't sleep. Don't take the fun out of the nickname, okay? Please don't. Please don't. Fine. It was after. Sean just had a fan girl passed by.

It was actually after I retired. She's still saying your name. I got really into running. That would maybe have. That might have helped the situation. Let me tell you some things about sleep. More stats. No, because it's interesting.

What I'm saying is this applies to whether you're an athlete, a parent, or doing whatever. Sleep, bottom line is super crucial to healthy living. Lack of sleep is linked to cortisol levels increasing, which is a stress hormone, not great. Having a good amount of sleep increases your immune system and its ability to work. work, it increases your ability to focus, it sharpens your cognitive function, and your general physical and emotional health and well-being. That sounds pretty convincing to me. So, the moral of the story, everyone needs to sleep number, bed. This is what's cool is the sleep IQ number tells you how well you sleep. Yeah. Right? So you have your own personal sleep coach.

Yes. It's amazing. You don't have the creepy person. We've been through the whole thing, though. Yeah. I have one huge question for you. I was about to close out. This is better. Did you notice that? This is better. I was a huge question.

Okay. Ready? Yeah. If they get good sleep, who's going to win? In the Super Bowl? Yeah. What other game? I don't know.

We're sitting here at the Super Bowl. Who's going to win what, Sean? You know, I have mixed feelings about this, though. Why? Explain to the people why you have mixed ones. So the Kansas City Chiefs was the first team I signed with coming out of college. So do you have resentment towards them, or are you supporting them? That's what I'm trying to figure out on a personal level.

I think we'll actually maybe do a video on this about how. So you're going to cheer against to them? I haven't said my answer yet. Be a better person than that, Andrew. You're putting words in my mouth. As we're going along, you're literally. No, I can see it. I can see it in your eyes.

I think the 49ers are a better team. Do you actually believe that, or is that resentment talking? Who do you think is going to win, Sean? I think the chiefs are going to win, Andrew. Okay. Anyways, I hope, yeah, I hope they all are very rested. Maybe the other team is just not as rested. I hope you get some rest, Sean.

I'd be great, Andrew. This is fun. How can I get more rest, Andrew? So, as we said, we're going to be talking about a lot. of things in relation to parenting and the struggles that we have thank you guys for asking those questions Madison and Hunter sleep for us legitimately has been the biggest struggle because it's affected everything else we've done it changes our tone it changes how we interpret things that bed looks great but we're gonna be

talking about other things so if you guys have ideas please submit those to us you can email a couple things pod at gmail.com and in the comments down below please share your sleep stories. Yeah. I want to hear about your guys' first sleepovers. Any funny, embarrassing sleep stories? Any like sleep walking stories? Sleep tips that you have that could help us out.

We're into sleep. Oh, and what's your sleep number? Your sleep IQ. I like that. Thank you to sleep number for hosting us here at Super Bowl 54. It's been awesome. Have you seen? Did you hear that guy talking really loud in the background the whole time?

Yeah, did you see this? What if I talk that loud all the time? What if I talk that loud all the time? You do. If you guys haven't yet, please subscribe to this podcast. Share it with your friends and family. Give it a rating. Five star, ideally, if you thought it was a five-star show.

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