Wife Approved with Shane & Caroline

Our backyard is a construction zone, the neighbors are watching (a little too closely), and Caroline finally found her passion. This week we talk backyard drama, decorating battles, getting older, and Caroline’s new mission helping local shelter dogs. She shares what’s pushed her to get involved, why fostering and volunteering matter, and why she wants to help save as many dogs as she can. Plus, a little Apple Vision Pro talk, Pilates pain, and the drink mix-up that almost made this a very different episode. --- 🎙️ New episodes every week 📺 Watch/listen on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts *💬 SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS:* Got a topic or question for us? Submit anonymously here: https://shanewhatley.com/wife-approved-podcast/ --- *📱 CONNECT WITH US* 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wifeapprovedpodcast 🏠 Shane's Smart Home YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ShaneCreates --- *⭐ If you're enjoying the podcast, leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts – it helps us a lot! Thanks for listening.* #WifeApprovedPodcast #MarriagePodcast #RealTalk #SmartHome Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:54 Backyard Chaos & Nosy Neighbors 3:49 The Drone Incident 5:49 Leopard Print, Man Caves & the Cooking Fight 10:39 Our Backyard Plan & Why We’re Doing It 16:52 Caroline’s New Mission: Helping Shelter Dogs 26:49 If Anything Happens to Shane… Dog Farm 38:17 Vision Pro, Art & Unexpected Tech Uses 42:50 Pilates, MMA & Getting Older 48:25 The Drink Mix-Up + What’s Coming Next

This week, Shane found a smart door opener that can literally open and close your doors for you—which sounds amazing… until Caroline starts thinking about hackers, AI, getting locked inside the house, and all the ways it could be used to terrorize the kids (which could be fun...). We get into the smart home upgrades we actually want, why fingerprints still matter on smart locks, Caroline’s campaign for smart curtains, whether Apple is EVER going to release its rumored smart home display, and why AI could finally make smart homes interesting again. Then somehow robot lawn mowers lead to an argument about who actually does yard work, the internet roasting our fence, whether the giant trampoline needs to go, and Caroline making a very passionate case for leopard-print cushions on the back porch. Plus: gray sweatpants and backwards hat season, Shane’s inability to buy Caroline clothes, and a surprisingly sweet MySpace love story from one of you. Just a normal week around here. --- 🎙️ New episodes every week 📺 Watch/listen on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts *💬 SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS:* Got a topic or question for us? Submit anonymously here: https://shanewhatley.com/wife-approved-podcast/ --- *📱 CONNECT WITH US* 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wifeapprovedpodcast 🏠 Shane's Smart Home YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ShaneCreates --- *⭐ If you're enjoying the podcast, leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts – it helps us a lot! Thanks for listening.* #WifeApprovedPodcast #MarriagePodcast #RealTalk #SmartHome Chapters 0:00 – Intro 0:45 – IFA Merch & Shane Can’t Buy Caroline Clothes 5:57 – Becoming More Like Our Family 9:23 – Would You Trust a Smart Door? 17:34 – Smart Locks & How People Actually Use Them 24:29 – Smart Doors for Dogs, Vacuums & Everyday Life 28:27 – What We’d Change in Our Smart Home 33:00 – Waiting on Apple & the Future of Smart Homes 40:39 – Robot Lawn Mowers & Our Yard Drama 52:17 – Backyard Plans & a MySpace Love Story

What would our dating profiles look like if we suddenly had to start over in 2026? Apparently… not great. This week starts on a much more serious note after a scary situation at our daughter’s school left us a bit shaken right before filming the episode. Thankfully, everything turned out okay, but it was one of those parenting moments that drains every bit of energy out of you. Then we desperately needed to lighten things up. So we decided to answer dating-app prompts and build the profiles we’d have if we were single today. Bucket lists, greatest strengths, love languages, biggest risks, dating dealbreakers… and somehow Shane’s entire profile basically becomes Apple, dessert, and food. We also get into whether we’d actually use dating apps, blind-date photo shoots, why Caroline would absolutely run a background check, old movie quotes, and much more. Turns out we should probably just stay married. Thanks for hanging out with us! If you have a topic, question, or ridiculous idea for a future episode, drop it in the comments or send it anonymously through the link below. --- 🎙️ New episodes every week 📺 Watch/listen on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts *💬 SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS:* Got a topic or question for us? Submit anonymously here: https://shanewhatley.com/wife-approved-podcast/ --- *📱 CONNECT WITH US* 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wifeapprovedpodcast 🏠 Shane's Smart Home YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ShaneCreates --- *⭐ If you're enjoying the podcast, leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts – it helps us a lot! Thanks for listening.* #WifeApprovedPodcast #MarriagePodcast #RealTalk #SmartHome Chapters 0:00 — Intro 0:31 — A Scary Day Before Filming (as a parent) 7:44 — Let’s Talk Dating Apps 10:41 — Building Our Dating Profiles 18:15 — What Is Dating Us Actually Like? 22:53 — How We Wind Down & Get Out of a Funk 26:34 — Two Truths and a Lie 29:49 — Would We Actually Use a Dating App? 31:17 — Love Languages & Dating Dealbreakers 34:33 — Movie Quotes, Rom-Coms & Why Movies Changed 44:12 — Caroline’s Pilates Update 47:16 — Our Embarrassing MySpace Era 51:41 — Dating Again Would Require a Background Check 53:13 — Wrapping Up

We’re back after a little hiatus, and apparently Caroline had a GREAT time while Shane was gone. 😂 Shane finally made it home from events in Boston and Berlin, Germany after basically forgetting what sleep feels like. So this week is a genuine catch-up. Caroline tells him why the house was suspiciously peaceful without him, what solo parenting while sick actually looked like, and why she maybe could’ve handled him staying gone a little longer. Then we get into the important stuff: sex robots, a robot with an unnecessarily large butt, tech concepts that probably shouldn’t exist, robot vacuums and mowers we’d actually buy, and what Shane really thought about IFA this year. We also get into Apple’s new foldable iPhone, that $2,000 price tag, all the Apple rumors that never came true, Vision Pro, and whether Shane should finally branch out and make iPhone videos. Plus, we’re already talking CES — except this year we’re bringing our child. Caroline has given her exactly one rule: do. not. complain. Basically… marriage, parenting, travel disasters, weird tech, Apple, and the usual nonsense. Thanks for hanging out with us. ❤️ --- 🎙️ New episodes every week 📺 Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get podcasts *💬 SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS:* Got a topic or question for us? Submit anonymously here: https://shanewhatley.com/wife-approved-podcast/ --- *📱 CONNECT WITH US* 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wifeapprovedpodcast 🏠 Shane's Smart Home YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ShaneCreates --- *⭐ If you're enjoying the podcast, leave us a 5-star review – it helps us a lot! Thanks for listening.* #WifeApprovedPodcast #MarriagePodcast #RealTalk #SmartHome CHAPTERS 0:00 — Intro 0:58 — We’re Back… and Already Exhausted 5:33 — Solo Parenting, Sickness & a Surprisingly Peaceful House 11:43 — Sex Robots, Big Booty Robots & the Weirdest Tech at IFA 16:16 — The Tech Shane Actually Wants in His House 22:00 — Berlin vs. Vegas & Shane’s Brutal Travel Home 29:02 — Apple’s $2,000 Foldable iPhone 35:43 — Apple Rumors, Smart Home Disappointment & Vision Pro 44:52 — Upcoming CES Plans & Why Caroline Actually Loves Going 51:38 — Travel Burnout, Europe Culture Shocks & No Air Conditioning 59:02 — Should Shane Start Reviewing iPhones?

Caroline had a girls’ night last night…and showed up to record this episode with one of the worst hangovers of her life. So naturally, that leads us into a completely reasonable conversation about marriage boundaries. 😂 How late is too late to stay out without your spouse? Is it okay to accept a drink from another guy? What about opposite-sex friends, texting an ex, having a “work husband” or “work wife,” strip clubs, giving someone your Instagram, or following thirst trap accounts? We go through a whole list of situations and decide what we’re personally okay with, what feels disrespectful, and what is an immediate absolutely-not. Plus, Caroline embarrasses Shane, we confess one of our worst parenting moments ever, and somehow a smart lamp becomes part of the hangover recovery process. As always, these are just our opinions and what works in our marriage. Let us know where YOUR lines are because we already know some of y’all are going to disagree with us. --- 🎙️ New episodes every week 📺 Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get podcasts *💬 SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS:* Got a topic or question for us? Submit anonymously here: https://shanewhatley.com/wife-approved-podcast/ --- *📱 CONNECT WITH US* 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wifeapprovedpodcast 🏠 Shane's Smart Home YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ShaneCreates --- *⭐ If you're enjoying the podcast, leave us a 5-star review – it helps us a lot! Thanks for listening.* #WifeApprovedPodcast #MarriagePodcast #RealTalk #SmartHome CHAPTERS 0:00 — Caroline’s Brutal Girls’ Night Hangover 5:05 — Our Horrible Hungover Parenting Story 11:19 — Embarrassing Shane at Jiu-Jitsu 14:20 — Girls’ Nights, Location Sharing & Trust 19:28 — Drink Safety & Accepting Drinks From Other Guys 23:04 — How Late Is Too Late When You’re Married? 27:02 — Guys vs. Girls Going Out Without Their Spouse 32:21 — Strip Clubs & Marriage Boundaries 33:43 — Opposite-Sex Friends, Exes & “Work Spouses” 39:24 — Giving Out Your Number or Instagram 41:47 — Thirst Traps, Sexy Pictures & Social Media 47:44 — Should Married Couples Check Each Other’s Phones? 51:48 — Big Purchases: Permission or Just a Heads-Up? 53:53 — Venting About Your Spouse to Friends 56:43 — Should You Share Intimate Marriage Details? 1:00:59 — The Hangover Verdict & Shane’s Hated Smart Lamp