Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Email Habit That Drove Ben's Wife Nuts | Itty Bitty Bit

Episode Date: September 15, 2026

A harmless email sign-off turns into a full-blown relationship debate when Ben Boyce' wife points out he’s apologising for things he’s absolutely not sorry about!    Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!Instagram:  @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My wife had a go at me yesterday. Well, just said, you do something all the time. Because sometimes I do like an email. And I will... Sometimes. Yeah. And I will sometimes link her into emails. Firstly, she gets annoyed when I link her.

She's like, sometimes I don't need to be linked into it. She's like, are you being? Are you BCCing or CC? Cs somewhere and she's like, I don't care. I don't want to be on part of this one. I've got too many other emails to get through. And I might as involve you. But anyway, so that's not the real issue.

Does she even open them? No, sometimes. Oh, yes. She's a woman after my own heart. But she's like, why do you always? always say sorry to bug you. Oh, yeah. And she's like, you're not sorry.

You're like, you're taught these people for a reason. And why you be sorry? Like, I don't know. It just feels like a nice entry, just like a last little entry into the conversation. Sorry to bug you, but here's all the stuff I'm going to bug you about. Yeah. That's like, that's such a female thing to do where I was like, hey, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. It's like, don't apologize.

Just go in there with your request. That's what she's like, she's like, you're emailing them for a purpose, just go in there and go, hey, this is, in a nice way, but just don't be like, sorry to bug you. I'm like, I like a sorry to bug you. Amanda feels like she's been bugged by being ced in all these emails. I'm sorry to bug you on that, Amanda, but yeah. No, you're not sorry, though. She should reply, all go, you have bugged me.

And you're not sorry. Maybe I need to stop it. I don't know. You always apologize and you don't need to. You're always like, I think it's an anxious person thing because I don't do. Yeah, you're like, sorry to bug you, but I'm just, I feel like that's a nice little. I always appreciate it. I hope this email finds you well.

No, I hate that. You don't. Hope this email. You're like, you know the emails, you put the address in. No, I think that means

you find you well as I always took it as like feeling well. Like, hope you find you well. I always thought it was like, I hope it finds you well. Oh yeah, feeling.

Not like the email is, but it's what I really did. I thought it was like they've just thrown it out into the universe and hope this one lands. It's like kind of saying how are you

but they don't want an answer. find you well but yeah. They don't want an answer. Yeah, rather than like how are you question mark and they're going to go through and go good and then go on you. I always write emails and I'm like blah blah blah blah blah blah and then I have to go back and write pleasantries because I've just been like, hi, I need da da da da da and then I'm like that first line is kind of redundant.

You're right, you know, but you feel like you need to kind of just kind of hope it finds you well, sorry to bug you. I would love to just be like to the point, send. I hate having to write from Mugan because it's like, well you know who it's from. I just want to put a sentence in what I mean. I respect people that just write it in the subject line and there's nothing else. I do a bit of that.

Yeah, that's quite good. Like back, okay, this is it. Straight to the, it's like the comment section on the internet. They're like, wow, there's nothing. No pleasantries, nothing, just a subject. You write it in the subject line in capitals and end with legend. It's like, you're yelling. But then I just wrote the body of the email too.

It's a chaotic approach to email, but.