This episode of the couples podcast features hilarious couples humor and relationship stories on Valentine’s Day. Dave and Reese try to have a chill Valentine’s Day at home. Tulips. Jalapeño sliders. A “French Kiss” cocktail.
Instead? A towed car. Chick-fil-A timing drama. Surprise visitors. And a couples card game that somehow leads to an old “possible STD” story.
They talk Type A vs. Type B marriage, early dating memories, broken windows, editing obsessions, and what actually keeps them connected.
It’s romantic. It’s ridiculous. It’s very on brand.
Life is a group project. Be kind to each other.
And… wear a condom.
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Dave: You're gonna look at your 10 cards and you're gonna narrow 'em down to five.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: So you're gonna choose five. And then
Reese: Can I, you said I can look at them?
Dave: Yes.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: Then we're gonna narrow them down to five, and then those with the five we're gonna use on the show.
You got it?
Reese: Mm-hmm. No. So I choose five. And then what'd you say after that?
Dave: Those
Reese: I was choosing.
Dave: Those are the five we're gonna use on the show.
Reese: Oh, okay. I was in choosing mode.
Hope I don't shit my pants.
It's always fo followed with that, a hearty laugh and then a,
Dave: Here we go again. Exhausting. Yeah.
Intro Music: This is Dave. This is Reese, and this is Manic Joy, a podcast about life, love, and, [00:01:00] and uncertainty.
Reese: Are you recording?
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Oh.
What is this?
Dave: Now you're like,
Reese: What does this tastes a little bit like the, um
Dave: Mm-hmm. A little bit like the, um, what?
Reese: Uh, what is that one that we drink? The. French? Horn.
Dave: A French horn. The French whore.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: We drink that French whore, like
Reese: Not whore.
Dave: Oh!
Reese: Horn.
Dave: Sorry.
Reese: Get your mind out of the gutter. It's Valentine's Day.
Dave: Yes, Valentine's Day. All right.
Reese: It's Valentine's Day.
Dave: So this is called, you ready?
Reese: I'm ready.
Dave: A French Kiss.
Reese: Oh
Dave: wee wee
Reese: wee wee peepee.
Dave: Oh wee wee peepee.
Reese: Yeah, that's my,
Dave: yeah, that's what they do.
Reese: That's as far as I got in French class.
Dave: So this is gin?
Reese: [00:02:00] Yeah.
Dave: Elderflower.
Reese: Mm-hmm.
Dave: Which is what I think you were thinking about.
Reese: I love an elderflower.
Dave: Lemon juice. And you ready for it?
Reese: I'm ready.
Dave: Finally got to use it. It's definitely bad past its ex Best Buy date, but I was like, fuck it.
Reese: Is it the cotton candy?
Dave: No, it's better than that. Oh, rosewater.
Reese: You put that rosewater from 20 years ago that I bought in there?
Dave: No, no. I found roses and I squeezed them into the drink.
Reese: Instead of buying me flowers for Valentine's Day. That's what you did.
Dave: It's just No, I didn't buy you roses. I bought you flowers for Valentine's Day.
Reese: I know you did buy me...
Dave: God damnit.
Reese: You did. You bought me tulips.
Dave: And I bought you White Castle. Jalapeno sliders.
Reese: No, you bought you White Castle Jalapeno.
Dave: Oh. Oh.
Reese: But I will eat it.
Dave: I, I got us.
Reese: Oh, look at that.
Dave: Dummy.
Reese: What is the sound you? What is the sound you have going on when you laughing?
Dave: I don't know what you're talking about.
Reese: What is that in there?
Dave: I dunno what you're talking about.
Reese: You. You'll go [00:03:00] back, listen for it.
Dave: All right.
Reese: You're like, what is my, it's like this thing.
Dave: I don't think it sounds anything like that.
Reese: It's the COPD that you got.
Dave: Oh,
Reese: Is it COPD? What is it?
Dave: I, I don't know. Apparently I got it.
Reese: A asthma.
Dave: My asthma.
Reese: Asthma.
Dave: Yeah. No.
Reese: Happy Valentine's Day babe.
Dave: Happy Valentine's Day. Hopefully. I feel like...
Reese: Today...
Dave: There's gonna be more surprises. Already I was getting, when I got up earlier, I was getting a call from Rich 'cause he was tell, giving me the, I'm on the case stuff and then my dad was calling and I'm like.
Everybody just leave me alone. It's, you know what, it's, I'm trying to have a Valentine's Day with my wife.
Reese: I know. It's so funny because okay, with the last couple we, okay, so we do not make a big deal about Valentine's Day.
Dave: No.
Reese: We've never, and I actually, I mean, like when we were first dating, obviously, like, it's like romantic and you wanna do all those,
Dave: Mm-hmm.
Reese: Things that couples do, but, eh. I don't, I try not to get too excited about it because I, [00:04:00] especially for like women, like our expectations are very high with the romantic stuff and then like once...
Dave: And so you've lowered your expectations?
Reese: A hundred percent all the way down and down to the bottom, actually underneath the bottom.
Dave: Nice.
Reese: And so...
Dave: It's like an upside down take.
Reese: Well, because, you know, it's kind of pressure, especially for me, because you, you don't. Do gifts like you're not like. There's, I can't get you anything. There's nothing on Val. Like you're not gonna eat the chocolates. You don't like all that
Dave: Oh, I'll eat the chocolates.
Reese: And you don't even want a card.
Dave: No.
Reese: And the cards right now are like $10.99, so they can shove that.
Dave: I mean, if you would've me, a handwritten letter would've been nice, actually.
Reese: Oh,
Dave: Maybe that would've been so something.
Reese: Dear gentle reader. Maybe I should have,
Dave: We should.
We should do that maybe next year.
Reese: Oh, let's do that.
Dave: We write letters to each other.
Reese: Oh,
Dave: To express our love.
Reese: Is that what we're doing? It's gonna be like, it's gonna be like a ransom note,
Dave: But we'll write it on toilet paper.
Reese: Dave, why are you like this?
Dave: Be like, our relationship is shitty. Imagine.
Reese: No! That's...
Dave: I know I built this [00:05:00] shitty
Reese: No, please stop.
Dave: Boo boo boo.
Reese: That'll be your big Valentine's Day gift to me. Don't continue with that.
Dave: Aww.
Reese: So normally we don't really do much on the Valentine's Day front. Like we don't get all hyped up over it. And I have to tell you, I was actually super stoked the other day when you're, you were like, what do you wanna do for Valentine's Day? And I was like, do you wanna do something?
Like, what do you wanna do? And I and like we were on the same. Wavelength.
Dave: Mm-hmm.
Reese: Of I just, let's stay home. Great. That's a great start like that. Let's stay home.
Dave: So far so good.
Reese: Aces, right? And then, you know, like, you know what? Let's, uh, we'll make some meals, we'll do some stuff. We'll watch some movies, have a nice little romantic like home Valentine's, I dunno, whatever.
It's not like we're not home all the time. It would just be. On Valentine's Day, I don't even know what to say about this. Anyway, then we find out, we're not gonna be alone. 'cause now we're not empty nesters.
Dave: [00:06:00] Mm-hmm.
Reese: Anymore.
Dave: Mm-hmm.
Reese: It's gonna be a romantic Valentine's Day with Emily and Liam.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Also aces.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: I'm like, okay that, you know what? That's fine. Um, Jonnie actually went to her boyfriend's. Cool. But I did appreciate that she sent a picture of the pink sweater 'cause we all decided to
Dave: Oh, she was wearing one too.
Reese: With the pink. Yeah, she had her pink sweater, so she sent the picture of it.
And then Emily and I had ours.
Dave: I'm very upset. I didn't get into the pink sweater mix. I would've joined the club,
Reese: You know, next year.
Dave: Had I been invited?
Reese: You were not. It was a girls only club.
Dave: Oh. Oh. Let me know when I'm supposed to send in my membership fee.
Reese: Yeah, well the membership fee is jalapeno White Castle.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Sliders.
Dave: And, and I got some, so I went to yoga this morning and the sourdough lady was in
Reese: Mm-hmm.
Dave: And she makes this killer. Sourdough jalapeno cheddar bread and it was the only one left and it was like, hold that for me. I'll pay you on the way out. And I got it.
Reese: You thought it was gonna be a good day this morning
Dave: and oh,
Reese: You were so hopeful that you had that last jalapeno bread.
Dave: I did
Reese: sourdough bread.
Dave: It's been a good day. It's been a good day actually,
Reese: No, [00:07:00] actually it worked out. It was just a nuisance and weird.
Dave: It was just, oh, we some things we didn't expect.
Reese: Action packed.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Day.
Dave: And we, you know, and so we, we were like, we definitely, we, you were like, I want to get Chick-fil-A, you know, like, all right, let's get Chick-fil-A.
Reese: Well, I was like, that'll be my gift to you. I'll get you.
Dave: Oh, thanks.
Reese: I was like, I'll, I'll pay for the Chick-fil-A. You make dinner later on. I was like, I actually only asked for one thing. I wanted the little cupcakes from, Baked by Melissa, which,
Dave: Mm-hmm.
Reese: I've that's been on my bucket list.
Dave: Which we got.
Reese: Which, which you got me. We all like dove into it. Those were delicious.
Dave: So you have a little something else coming for you, but it's not here yet.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: So it should,
Reese: Can you gimme my hint?
Dave: Should arrive next week. No.
Reese: God damn.
Dave: I can't, but, uh,
Reese: But okay, I get it. Yeah. But we, you know, that was really nice.
So, so you go off, you do your yoga, I'm like struggling. I'm like, do I get a bed? Should I get outta bed or
Dave: Should I get outta bed?
Reese: I'm like trying to get myself to like rally. Then I get a text message from the neighbor across the street and she's like, Hey, I think they might have towed your car, one of your cars last night.[00:08:00]
So I immediately go and I, I look on the Ring, I'm gonna sue Ring, I'm suing them class action suit. Who's with me?
Dave: Oh, God we gotta hear this story again.
Reese: Fucking terrible, terrible, terrible hate them. 'cause what is the point? So anyway I go to check it and. I don't see anything of a tow truck. And now a tow truck is loud. Like it, it's,
Dave: Well, it's, it's not based on sound, but yes.
Reese: Well, it did record the cats in heat for 10 minutes outside
Dave: Mm-hmm.
Reese: That it recorded.
Dave: Mm-hmm.
Reese: Like it just, that went on, that was on the Ring at 10 something. And then you see a black car going backwards and kind of stopping in front of the house and then driving backwards.
Dave: Mm-hmm.
Reese: And it's really weird.
And I'm like, what even is this? So then I go and I look at the live. And his car isn't there?
Dave: No.
Reese: I'm like, oh shit. So I call you right away. 'cause I saw that you were in transit coming home, and then five minutes later Emily comes in and she's crying and upset [00:09:00] and that, that's upsetting. You know what I mean?
Like it's, it sucks. Like it's just such a
Dave: Yeah, it sucks, but so, but it could have been much worse.
Reese: I know,
Dave: but
Reese: I know
Dave: everything's situated, but yeah.
Reese: Yes. But it was just like, what a happy Valentine's Day your boyfriend's. Car is gone great. So we, you know, we figure everything out. We're like, okay, whatever.
My favorite part is I tell our neighbor, Rich.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: And I'm just like, Hey, this is what happened. And this is the car that I think called it in because what what had happened was he, Liam parked his car and then someone across the street decided to park right adjacent. And so it was a little difficult to get down the street.
Dave: Yeah. Because of the snow we have,
Reese: because of the snow.
Dave: We've had a huge dump of snow the last few days. Well, the last couple of weeks like Right. Have come in and it's still out there. And so they haven't, they don't do a very good job plowing close enough like to the yard.
Reese: Yep.
Dave: So there's like ice out [00:10:00] there now that's like, partway into the street.
So it's difficult to get by on the streets.
Reese: Right.
Dave: And. For whatever reason he parked in front there.
Reese: Well, no, but he always
Dave: facing the wrong way.
Reese: He always parks there, but it's not even that
Dave: Well, when there's not snow, but yeah.
Reese: Yes,
Dave: anyway.
Reese: Anyway, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because someone came and parked a.
Right adjacent next to him. Like why, like park a little bit away. So this way, brain.
Dave: Like across the way they parked.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Yeah. So there was no way for people to get by,
Reese: Right.
Dave: I guess so.
Reese: So this person could have parked further up?
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: They could have parked further back. No, they parked right adjacent across the street.
So this way it was hard to get across. So this black car that was going in reverse couldn't make down the block. My assumption is this is the person that called to get the car towed. And I guess they were saying like they heard honking, so this person was outside honking instead of honking.
Get out, tap on the door, ring the doorbell, say something first. It's only like 10 30 at night's, not like three o'clock in the morning.
Dave: Whatever, man.
It's easy to say. And if you're in the other situation, you [00:11:00] wouldn't do those things either, so.
Reese: I might because
Dave: No, you wouldn't.
Reese: Okay. Here's the thing. To be neighborly and to be part of the community that you live in.
Dave: Mm-hmm.
Reese: We've given respect at least two or three times recently because of the snow people parking in our parking lot. Parking in our driveway.
Dave: Take two. Take Take that back. Take it back.
Reese: No, I don't take it back. Let it be what it is.
Dave: Re and go.
Reese: Okay. And people parking in our. I was gonna say parking lot again.
Dave: Thunderdome.
Reese: I dunno why it's a parking lot but apparently it is a parking lot because everybody days free to kind of park there days. Yeah. So like twice we're just like rude who does that? And we're like, all right, you're like, calm down. We'll give them a little grace.
Dave: Mm-hmm.
Reese: If it's too long, then we'll do something about it.
Dave: Mm-hmm.
Reese: And we did, we, there was no panic, there was no freaking out. Okay. And they moved their car eventually. Honestly, if I had to park in someone [00:12:00] else's spot or whatever, do whatever, I would make sure I would be like, Hey. Especially if it's the house. It's not the apartments.
Dave: Yeah,
Reese: it's the house.
Dave: No,
Reese: Whatever.
Dave: Hey, is it cool if I park the car here?
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: 'cause we're gonna do this. Of course it is.
Reese: Right?
Dave: Yeah, of course. It's cool. But don't just kind of do it and then like not say anything.
Reese: But then also just the towing was a little, this guy could have just easily backed out and went around the corner.
We think it's someone down the block. Great, awesome, tight community. It's so wonderful Methuen. Anyway happy Valentine's Day. So that happens. They figure it out. You. Our big thing was, oh, we're gonna do Chick-fil-A. Like we were chomping at the bit to
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Was it time for Chick-fil-A?
Dave: We, we were fasting in the morning.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: And then we had planned like, all right, we, we knew we had a task that needed to be completed at some point, but we didn't know when it was supposed to happen, but I was supposed to be told when it was gonna happen,
Reese: And that didn't happen.
Dave: So, and then, so like, I was like, all right, well I'm gonna order, it seems like it's not happening now, so I'm gonna order this food.
I'll go pick it up. And just after I ordered [00:13:00] the food and I'm getting ready to like leave
Reese: The second you pressed submit.
Dave: Like I get up to go get ready to go and then people show up with, and I'm like, oh, okay, well I gotta go 'cause I gotta go do this. I wish I had known you guys were coming right now.
But it was fine. It all worked out,
Reese: But it was just like a weird, it was just like also,
Dave: But then at the same time, so they were leaving, those two were leaving to go get the car from the pound and then our other daughter was leaving. So everything was just happening all at the same time...
Reese: All at once. And it's people
Dave: And it was like pandemonium.
Reese: It's people moving stuff into our basement.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: We said like, we can store some stuff. So it was like all of that. Not once has it really f it hasn't had the essence of the Valentine's Day.
Dave: Yeah. We wanted a relaxing,
Reese: A relaxing,
Dave: We're just gonna relax. We're just,
Reese: It's gonna be cool.
Dave: And then
Reese: What do you, okay. None of that.
Dave: But we finally got there.
Reese: Well then we finally sit down. We've been watching Dexter with Emily, so we're like, we're gonna finish this series.
Dave: We finished, uh, the Original Sin, uh, series.
Reese: What are we, 20 minutes in? Your Aunt Vig shows up.
Dave: She shows up. 'cause she's been trying, [00:14:00] this was my favorite thing though.
Reese: You really should do a dramatic reading of the email.
Dave: I'm not gonna do the dramatic reading, but she sends, I get a text from her the other day.
Reese: She's hilarious.
Dave: And she's like, I can't believe it. And then in all caps comes like, it, all this stuff keeps coming back and I can't believe it.
I'm like, okay, she's, 'cause she's trying to send a card to Jonnie for her graduation. And I'm like, huh, that's strange. I'm like, why would it be coming back? So she sends me a picture. Of the envelope. And I was like, well, that's not the right address. That's, that's not even, that's not a street that exists.
Reese: Nope.
Dave: And so I was like, that's probably, I can see why they're returning it to you.
Reese: Yep.
Dave: And she was like, oh boy.
Reese: Like
Dave: Like I'm showing my age. So then she stopped by, which was great to see them, but it was like really
Reese: She was adamant to make sure that both girls got their graduation gift so and so. She didn't want Jonnie to think Yeah, she forgot about her.
So,
Dave: So it was great. So is anyway the dropped by to bring that
Reese: I take a picture
Dave: That, yeah.
Reese: I send it to Jonnie of all of us with,
Dave: Meanwhile Jonnie was like, I wasn't
expecting to get anything,
Reese: So, so I send it and I said, Vig [00:15:00] came with your card. And she wrote, tell her I've been waiting and waiting and waiting.
Dave: Mm-hmm.
Reese: By the door for it.
Dave: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So funny.
Reese: Oh, it was, it was amazing. All the things were kind of like annoying, but also like
Dave: They were fine.
Reese: It it a funny story that you're gonna tell. It was so nice to see Vig and Paul. So that was like really nice, nice little surprise. We finally finished.
Dave: We finished Dexter,
Reese: Dexter Original Sin. Top notch, highly recommend.
Dave: And then next on the list was Let's have a drink.
Reese: Yep.
Dave: Let's do this podcast.
Reese: Yep.
Dave: And then, uh, we'll probably have some dinner and then we were gonna do some creative things over in the lounge area over there.
Reese: Yes. I'm kind of excited for that, too.
Dave: That'll be fun . And we've got two options now, so we can,
Reese: Did you open up the...?
Dave: I didn't open up the second one yet.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: I don't know what it is. So we can see. So this is the Creative Side Quest thing. I don't actually, I think we talked about this once. Ended up, up cutting it out.
Reese: We talked about the Mandela one.
Dave: Because I kept, well, no, we didn't. We did.
Reese: Oh.
Dave: But we didn't,
Reese: But you didn't use it.
Dave: They don't know that we did.
Yeah, because, 'cause they ended up showing the, the address of every body on the,
Reese: Dave holds up the whole thing. I'm like,
Dave: Hey listen, [00:16:00] this whole video thing is new to me, man.
I don't know
Reese: The, the address of the person and our address. And all of our information are there.
Dave: Oh,
Reese: So we took that out.
Dave: Oh, probably.
Uh, you know, because
Reese: Anyway.
Dave: But if you do wanna park in the parking lot, it's $20 on the weekends.
Reese: We honestly, it would be a great way to make a buck.
Dave: Oh, my god.
Reese: I could sure use it. This is crazy town. Alright,
Dave: So...
Reese: So...
Dave: Happy Valentine's Day.
Reese: Happy Valentine's Day.
Dave: Remember I almost wanted to say happy Thanksgiving again.
You've got parking lots and I've got the holidays all mixed up.
Reese: Yeah, that's alright.
Dave: So, so here's what we're gonna do for today. We've got this couples edition of Tales. So these are the, I got all the, I got all the cards.
Reese: All the cards.
Dave: You need cards with questions. I got 'em.
Reese: I got all the cards.
Dave: I got all the cards with questions.
And so here's what we did. You might've heard us in the earlier stages of this. Well, that may or may not make into the show, but we gave each other 10 cards randomly. And our job was to go in and pick five of them questions with which we would ask each other. So, Reese,
Reese: Any questions about how I'm sweating.
Dave: You hot in that sweater.
Reese: Sweating my sweater.
Dave: You know why they, call it [00:17:00] sweater.
Reese: 'cause I'm sweating.
Dave: Uh, you didn't mention that. Beautiful heart shaped necklace that I made with my hands for you.
Reese: It looks like, honestly, I. I cherish it. I love it. It's,
Dave: It's amazing.
Reese: It is definitely something that you would make.
It is very,
Dave: That was a craft.
Reese: It's very detailed.
Dave: That is a craft.
Reese: It is very detailed.
Dave: If there ever was one,
Reese: This is like, when it's the apocalypse and you can't buy anything anymore,
Dave: And all I can find is barbed wire,
Reese: some barbed wire,
Dave: and
Reese: Here I made you a gift.
Dave: Yeah. Barbed wire and something else and chicken coop.
Reese: Poop
Dave: Chicken poop. Yeah, that's, that's actually, it's, I, I rub it on there to, to make it shiny.
Reese: Let's, let's wrap it up. Keep going. Wow. It's been a day. All right. Let's take another sip.
Dave: Mm-hmm.
Reese: You read your card first.
Dave: All right. I'll see what I got first here. You ready?
Reese: I'm so ready.
Dave: All right. Here we go.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: What's something we do as a couple that makes you feel the most connected and [00:18:00] cared for?
Reese: Aw, probably this. This podcast,
Dave: Really? This makes you feel cared for.
Reese: It does because, because,
Dave: No, yeah. Yeah.
Reese: You curate it so that both of us are a part of it. Like it's not, you, it's not the, you show, it's
Dave: Da, da da da da. Yeah.
Reese: But no, it's, and you also are, you know, I, I love our quality time and the conversations that we have.
Dave: Mm-hmm.
Reese: And I get your full active listening, which is really nice.
Dave: Same, same.
Reese: Because normally during the day I'll be saying stuff and you'll be like, what are you going about again?
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Like, okay.
Dave: Well, again, it's difficult during
Reese: Okay, Tennessee Williams. Sorry.
Dave: Let's, let's... Hi.
Reese: Whatcha going about again?
Dave: Like
why are we in a
Well, it's difficult during the day because I am working during the day and it's not always easy to.
Reese: And all I have
Dave: get into
Reese: is the
cats to talk to.
Dave: Into The Reese mindset and they must be
Reese: It's hard to get,
Dave: That's why they run [00:19:00] away into other rooms and hide.
Reese: No, no. They hang out with me all day.
They like that someone
Dave: They do, do they?
Reese: Gives them attention. Yeah. No.
Dave: So,
Reese: So this podcast,
Dave: Okay, good. I like that. I get, okay. What's your question?
Reese: What is one difference between us that you love?
Dave: Ooh, what's one difference between us that I love?
Reese: That's a good question.
Dave: Hmm.
Reese: I like that question.
Dave: The difference between us that I love the most. I would say that I'm trying to figure out if it's like, so let me,
I'm going to back into it. Okay.
Reese: Oh, like the guy who called the tow company?
Dave: Yes. I'm gonna back into it.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: Because here's what I love, so maybe you can help me work my way into this.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: What I love is how. We like the similarities are that like, we, like we get together and like we laugh.
Reese: Mm-hmm.
Dave: Right? Like for example, like last weekend we decided we had the house to ourselves. And so [00:20:00] like, we actually stayed up late and we had some drinks and we
Reese: Mm-hmm.
Dave: We goofed around and then like we were up like listening to music and we were dancing around, right?
Like we were doing all stupid shit like that.
But that is something that we definitely have in common.
Yes. But what I'm trying to get at is like the energies that we bring to it are sometimes different. And so that's why I am struggling because I'm like, what I like is like, yes, there's the similarities in it.
I'm gonna help you. You ready?
This, this is exactly what I wanted to have
happen.
You're very much, you are very much, and I don't know how we have survived this long, but you are very much a type A.
Yeah.
And I'm a type B.
Okay.
You help ground me.
And I think I help remind you that not everything is permanent.
That you have to be able to adjust and pivot because at any point, nothing ever stays. The same example we do the food order.
Mm-hmm.
Stuff.
Mm-hmm.
And we've been doing this [00:21:00] for months. Typically, I need to change after a while.
Mm-hmm.
I can't stay doing the same exact thing like I do like a little structure till I hate it.
You will continue that structure.
Yeah.
Till the end of time.
Well, I get bored after a while too.
And I said to you...,
I wouldn't say that, but I
Can we switch up the menu a little bit?
Yeah.
And I was a little nervous. Bringing that up because I know that you like the structure of it and I, I didn't wanna throw a bomb at it, but I just, you know,
So here's what's interesting is it's not so much the structure that I like about it.
Yeah.
It's the not having to think
Yes.
That I like about it,
Which I also appreciate, which is why we started this to begin with. But I'm, what I'm saying is I think. Because you are so structured Type A personality, and I'm a type B, that I think we compliment each other and we've learned to do this.
Oh, of course, yeah.
Through communication.
Yeah.
Of you know, [00:22:00] just how to handle the conversation about stuff. Like sometimes I do stuff and you're like, dude. I like this way. Can you it could be for the way stuff is placed in the kitchen.
Mm-hmm.
You are like, I need to get to this thing like this and it drives me crazy.
'cause some things I need to be put away, I don't wanna look at it.
Mm-hmm.
But some things you like to have out.
Then there's like stuff that I do, like the cutting board.
Mm-hmm.
You call that the landing pad for me.
The landing pad. I had had to clean it off today.
Yeah. Because I put stuff there, because that,
yeah.
For me, in my brain. I will look there and be like, oh, I need to do that. Like, it's my reminder spot. But for you, you're like, that's my cutting board.
I'm, that's the place where I do,
that's where I cut things.
I who do the cooking need to cut things,
But for me, I'm like, that place is where I look at it.
Me who does not cut things
Oh, let me do that.
Needs to. Yeah. Which I know you sometimes cut things.
No but, I cut myself.
Yeah. And you and I, I got a damn cut on my finger. I'm like, I dunno where the hell that came from. Yeah.
Every time I have something new,
I get a sympathy.
You get a sympathy, whatever. [00:23:00]
Yeah.
Yeah, I cut myself with two knives.
I jumped up, I sat on the counter
Yeah.
To go grab one of my plants and I hit the knife
Yeah.
Rack and two of the knives fell down on my fingers and literally blood splatter. Yeah. All I thought of was Dexter. I'm like, great. Um, but yeah, so I think that's how that answers that question.
So I was say so I would say, yeah.
So I think what it, to sum up, no. What I think it is, is that like there are times when I will. This is not the right word, but,
Oh boy.
I succumb to
Yeah.
Your advances of what you want to do. Like, you know what I mean? Like, okay, let's, let's just do, let's do it your way.
Yes.
And when I give freely to that, we have a good time.
Yes. Because sometimes my way is little.
Not always.
I like a little chaos.
Right.
You know what I mean? And, and I think that
Oh, you do?
That's good. I do sometimes
and every once in a while for That's fun.
Yes.
For me.
And not all the time.
Not all the time.
But yes. Okay. There you go. You did it. Alright, your turn.
Okay. [00:24:00] Do do. Ooh. What's a skill or hobby you'd like us to learn together?
Oh, interesting.
I actually think this is an interesting skill. We, I, I, I, I'm, I'm gonna answer for you, but I'm gonna answer for me, I like that we're like, you know your answer from earlier, like, I like that we're doing this. Like obviously it was first a way for us to just connect without the device.
Mm-hmm.
And just talk for a while and spend some time listening and all of that. But then the techie, geeky side of me loves the, all the. Technology and the editing and, and then doing all of that. And if I told you what I was doing last night and today you would be like,
Yeah.
Your eyes would cross.
Yeah.
But I was doing like SEO for the podcast to see if we could start to get it in front of more people.
What's that?
You're like SEO search.
Don't use your jargon on me.
Search engine optimization.
Oh god.
Yeah. So people looking for a podcast
Nerd Alert.
Exactly.
Nerd alert.
Exactly. [00:25:00] So, but anyway. Uh,
What's a hobby or skill you'd like us to learn together?
Reese: I said this a while back and I think I, I take it back because I don't think I have the energy for it anymore.
Dave: Dancing?
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Yeah. I would. So I would love us to do, like, I would love for us to learn like an actual choreographed dance number.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: For a thing that we just pull out every once in a while.
Reese: Yes. So
Dave: Like, we used to do goofy dance and that was just fun.
Reese: It was fun.
Dave: Like you and I just whatever
Reese: At weddings. At weddings.
Dave: Of course, at weddings
Reese: We would, we would do,
Dave: But I would love like a,
Reese: Our dance number.
Dave: I would love like a showstopper.
Reese: Well, there was a point where I was like, oh, we should take some ballroom dancing.
Dave: Mm. Yeah.
Reese: I've changed my mind on that. I'm like, no, but I would love
Dave: Krumping, right?
Yeah. Krumping and twerking.
Oh
No. I feel like what I'm dying for us to do is learn the scene from. Waiting for Guffman.
So you mentioned that the other day. I would do that, but I would wanna do it so we could wear our, [00:26:00] our matching.
Yeah. Yeah.
Comfrt, sweats.
Comfrts
Set.
Yep.
And
Sweat set.
Sweat set.
And so I can sweat some more.
Yep.
Sweatin' to the oldies.
But I would love to do that. I would, so here's what I would love to do. I would love to just get that script.
I don't wanna watch it. Like I have seen it recently, but I don't really remember it.
Right. Right.
I would love for us to come up with what it would be for us.
Yes.
Because that's, I think what part of the joy of what that Guffman type thing is, is that's
Let's do that
Improv for them.
and add it to,
I would love just
The podcast at some point.
I would love just the, the, the script
And the us to do it. Yeah. That would be fun. I would do that. That would be fun.
Is that an acceptable answer?
A skill that That's a skill.
It is a skill.
That's a, an improv skill. Kind of sorta. It's an, it's a skill. It's an acting skill.
Yep.
And it's a hobby that we like to do.
Yep.
Why did I say it like that?
Like to do.
That we like a to do. Alright, what's your question?
Oh, that's me. Okay.
I think so.
When was the last time I almost made you pee your pants with laughter?
Oh, wow. I feel like we have a lot of those.
We do.
Wow. [00:27:00] Alright, see again, I'm gonna need your help. When did we when we were laughing? I feel like we're laughing all the time.
All the time.
All the time. We're laughing. There are so many times, but like close to peeing the pants, laughing. I don't know. That's been a while. I feel like.
I feel like there was definitely a couple of those the last weekend when we got shitfaced and stayed up till three o'clock in the morning. I was like, how is this possible?
Yeah.
The one I think of all the time there's two.
Oh, you know what was really funny? So my birthday party when we were playing that game and you were talking about the spit takes.
Yeah.
And it was like, you and me and blah blah. And we're like, spit takes and like we had like the thing and like, so that was really funny.
But doesn't make me wanna pee my pants.
No.
But when we did the spit takes
Yes.
That made me wanna pee my pants.
Well, it also makes me think of, I immediately think, I mean, it's, it was a while ago.
Yeah.
But the time when we were. Fucked up alone in the house, and we thought someone was breaking in.
We thought somebody was.
So this was at this [00:28:00] house and then I grabbed the bat.
Yep.
And then we were like walking through the house and you were like, you were with me. You were like, behind
We were like army crawling because we thought someone, we heard scratching. We were like, messed up. So we're just like, someone's trying to break into the house.
Yeah.
And, but we were laughing at it.
Yeah.
But then we weren't laughing at it because then we got scared. But I think we have those moments.
We just, we, we make each other laugh a lot
All the time. All the time.
Yeah.
But I don't know about peeing in the pants, but I mean, like back in the day,
We definitely
With the spit takes,
I, I feel like we
And all of that just
Again, like
We're just is goofy.
This, this is the age that we're at.
Yeah.
I, it's so hard to
I know,
Remember, like, huh, yeah,
I know.
That happened.
I know.
I don't remember the thing, but all I know is in general, I'm laughing and always having a good time.
I know. Same
For the most part.
Except for when I'm like, Ugh.
Except when I'm like, fucking fuck.
Ugh.
Yeah, exactly. Ugh. Here she goes again.
Well, the, I just said, I said something absolutely hilarious at the beginning of the podcast, and you're like, ha. [00:29:00] And you do. Every time you give like this hearty laugh, and then you're like,
It's because I'm again...
It's like so exhausting.
I'm older and my heart is like, stop it.
I know. Stop it. Stop it. All right. You go.
Do any of my friends make you uncomfortable?
That noise? Is that the noise you're talking about?
That was it. A little bit.
That's my, uh, what's what we call it? Badlands? What was the fucking movie I just watched?
Oh, Predator?
Predator Badlands. That's my predator sound.
He just,
Uh, so do any of my friends make you uncomfortable? Why?
Ooh. Careful.
No. Yeah, I know. No, I mean, maybe, but I wouldn't mention it because I don't know if that person listens. Not enough where I would make a big [00:30:00] deal about it.
Reese: I feel like my friends make you more uncomfortable than your friends.
Dave: Um,
Reese: And you don't really have a lot of friends. 'cause your friends are my friends and they like me better than you.
Dave: I have, I have tons of friends, by the way,
Reese: But they like me better than you. So they're my friends.
Dave: Oh. Oh. Is that what you think?
Reese: I took 'em.
Dave: Is that what you think? No. I, I think... So to be fair, I think our mu our friends. That aren't mutual friends like each of us mutually. Right.
Reese: Mutual of Omaha.
Dave: Yes.
Reese: I'm just, I'm trying to think like who...
Dave: You know what I mean? Like friend your friends like me, my friends like you.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Like, I don't,
Reese: But there's no one, I, I mean, I'm trying to think.
Dave: I feel like I'm trying to, yeah, like I feel like there's not many of our friends that would make either of us uncomfortable because if. I guess we wouldn't choose friends that would make people uncomfortable to begin, like in general.
Reese: Right?
Dave: Like, you know what I mean?
Right. [00:31:00]
And if, if there are those types of people, those are people that are cursory,
But I also feel like
Like they're not those people...
We would agree upon the person
Of, like the person who is like, yeah.
Because we usually like the same
Yeah. Like type of people.
Person.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I would say, I mean, this is your question, but,
But, but is there one of my friends that you could think of that you're just kind of like that guy?
No, that's what I'm saying. No, like again, there, there are people that are on the cursory, not like, not like, and so those are people who were like, yeah, like, we're both kinda like me.
Yeah.
Like, not like, but the people that we like choose to be
But we're good
Friends with was like,
Yeah, that's fine.
Yeah, that's fine.
So, okay.
Yeah.
I think we're good there.
Yeah.
Alright.
Alright.
My turn? If you could watch a movie trailer of our relationship.
Ooh.
What moments would make the cut?
Oh, what moments would make the cut?
Do I have to read that five more times?
No.
Or do you need it?
No, this one I feel like I have. You
ready?
Is the other one too deep?
I had a little French Kiss in my throat. Whoa. [00:32:00]
Wewe mon sherry?
Yeah.
Oh,
Okay. You ready?
Yeah.
I'm gonna give you, I feel like this comes to me quick. You ready?
That's what she said
In the trailer would be first meeting and being meh. Then would be, uh, moments of couldn't act on love then like. Engagement making soup together, laughing, stupid shit.
Doing the uh, uh, spit takes and the identify yourself,
Yes.
Immediately.
All of that stupid shit.
Yeah.
And then.
Or when I drove past you and I was like, Dave, I screamed Dave out the window.
Yep. Yep. Traveling together.
Yes.
Living together.
On the Fung Wah bus.
On the Fung. Oh, remember we used to do the Fung Wah bus?
The Fung Wah, and we used to do the Jim and Pam where we would share the,
Yeah. We would have one earbud.
Yep.
From the headphones
And then we had the. What did we have? Did we have...
We had an iPod at that point.
We had an iPod. [00:33:00] Right?
We had an iPod.
And we used to play the game,
The game, the like what song is this?
The music game.
They used to have like a trivia game on the iPod that we could do
And we would just travel together. Raw dog in that trip with no phone.
That was rough.
No, social media was, what was the people?
$5.
It was good
Fung Wah. Bus?
Yes. Was, but it was,
Got us to where we needed to go.
It was good until the time
That time where we said never again.
Never again because everybody fell asleep. Fucking bus driver's. Like, you know what, I'm gonna wake everybody up to stop at Wendy's.
It was like Burger King or something.
Why would you do that?
And then, and then somebody threw
up
And then threw
up
Misery. Misery.
And it went, oop, it
Reese: like
Dave: And that was our, we were like, never again.
Reese: We're like, this is it. We're done.
Dave: Never again.
Yeah.
So, so all of that, I would say when we went to California obviously we went to Vegas. Pieces would be in there and then. Having the girls going back and forth from Queens to Brooklyn. And then I would say, moving and then coming here and then the girls now like just parenting moments.
Like I would, there would be [00:34:00] moments and then. I mean, we've had some banger fights.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: And we haven't had like a banger in a while.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: But I would have, like we would for the drama in the trailer, you would need the clear moments of like when you broke the window downstairs. When we lived in Brooklyn...
Reese: When
Dave: I punched
Reese: the
Dave: window,
Like when I like broke shit. Like we've all, we both have
Reese: Broken things.
Dave: Broken things. For sure.
I broke the cabinet here one night.
You broke the thing. Yeah, I The mirror in there. I had that door open so that the heat gets into the pipes. Yep. And my dad was like, that mirror. I'm like, yeah, don't talk about that.
Reese: That's a long story.
Dave: Yeah. That was a, and
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: But and so like, yeah, some of the, well,
We're very passionate people.
Some of the rage.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Like that we've had towards each other and with each other, but then also the moments of where we. Apologize to each other and communicate with each other and, and
We say stuff to make each other cry, which,
Reese: which
Dave: I love making
Reese: you cry.
Dave: And, and well, listen, I don't pr appreciate when you tell me how fat and stupid I am, but you know...
Reese: Not
Dave: to your face, Dave, not to your face.
That's how you make me cry. But
Reese: I
Dave: would never say that to
Reese: you.
Dave: And then, but then I think the, the highlight, you're not [00:35:00] the, the highlight of it all. Thanks. The highlight of it all would be.
Just the girls and
Reese: A hundred percent
Dave: Us hanging out together.
Reese: Mm.
Dave: And even with the people that they bring into the fold.
Like, I appreciate the people that they bring in.
Reese: Mm-hmm.
Dave: Because they get to experience and they appreciate the camaraderie.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: That we all have and the fun that we have. Like, it was great for my birthday to have them involved in playing the games, because I remember growing up too, like. Like when I would come and hang out with like my dad and Carol for example, and they would have their friends over
Reese: mm-hmm.
Dave: Then we would all do things together.
Reese: Mm-hmm.
Dave: And it was fun to be part, like, to be like, part of that were
Reese: When you were grown up
Dave: Adult group, like, you know.
Reese: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A hundred percent.
Dave: So, uh, I forget what your even, your question even was, but
Reese: That's it. No, you did it.
Dave: There'd be so many things that I would want to include in this trailer that it would be, it'd be like, you know, when you put on a trailer and you're like, but they just showed us the whole fucking movie.
I'd feel like I'd, I'd have to be, I'd be have to have somebody take it away from me and edit it. [00:36:00]
Reese: Because there'd be too many.
Dave: Cause there'd be too many things.
Reese: I know. And I actually can pinpoint more of the positive things and the negative things.
Dave: Well, of course.
Reese: Even in the negative things, I always go back to, I always think about how amazing you were.
Dave: No you need the negative things.
Reese: What?
Dave: I said you need the negative things.
Reese: No, you do. You do. But I'm just saying like I always think about, and
I always tell the story of when my dad died.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: And how well before he died, how. Wonderful. You were to him. You only knew me for a couple of months before he got sick.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: And you were just outstanding. The way you took care of him in the hospital and then when he died and like how you just, you were just there and, and you went along with all the crazy Brooklyn stuff that happened in Ricuglia, a funeral home.
Dave: That shit's crazy.
Reese: Like he was so respectful to Vinny.
Dave: That shit is crazy.
Reese: You were so respectful to Vinny.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Like it was just, I don't know. You know what I mean? Like
Dave: Mm-hmm.
Reese: It, I think with, even in the negative things like. There's always the positive stuff that I always think of, so I think, yeah, I agree with that movie trailer. I [00:37:00] think that would be a good, we should make a, a super cut.
Dave: A super cut of us.
Reese: I'll go talk to Lorde,
Dave: Go talk to Lorde
Reese: I'll talk to Lorde.
Dave: See if we can figure out.
Reese: All right. You go.
Dave: In what ways does my personality compliment yours? I mean, we've been talking a lot about this already.
Reese: I know
Dave: that's pretty simple. I feel like we're just,
Reese: We're hilarious.
Dave: We're,
Reese: And we find our own jokes funny.
Dave: Well,
Reese: Sometimes we find each other's jokes funny.
Dave: We, we, we do make each other laugh a lot,
Reese: And sometimes you laugh at things when I'm not trying to be funny and I'm like, that was not a joke.
Dave: And then they go, my mistake, my bad.
Reese: And then I go cry in a corner and be pissed off at you. And then passive aggressive for about an hour or so, and then we move on.
Dave: It's a good time. No, I, okay. Well, this is your question, so you answer it. Anything else you wanna add to that?
Reese: No.
Dave: In what ways does my personality compliment yours?
Reese: No. We're hilarious.
Dave: We're Well, yeah, I know. But beyond that, I think in real, in realistic terms, beyond being hilarious,
Reese: No, but I feel like we just, we have each other's back.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Like,
Dave: We're on the [00:38:00] same page with certain things.
Reese: Yes.
Dave: Particularly, I mean, I think most importantly with just raising the girls.
Reese: Yes.
Dave: But I mean, I think in other things we,
Reese: But I think as far as like life goals and,
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: And where we see. Our lives going. As we're getting older, we're definitely on the same page.
We're just like, we're way more mellow than we used to be.
Dave: Well, I think that just comes with age too, like
Reese: Well, it does, but some people really fight it, and you and I are just kind of like, no, I'm good.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Valentine's being home just. Eating food and chilling out and dealing with whatever chaos shows up at the door.
It's fine. It's all good.
Dave: All right. What else you got? We got, we got one. We got, I got one more and then you got one more.
Reese: What activity makes you lose track of time? I, I, I chose this one specifically because I can, I know one in,
Dave: There are lots of activities that make me lose track of time.
I mean, puzzles.
Reese: That was my second for you.
Dave: Editing the [00:39:00] podcast.
Reese: That's my first,
Dave: Yeah. 'cause like that just takes a long time. And I don't, so it's one of those things that where like if I could pay somebody to do it, I would, but I also like learning it. And so there's a skill part of it.
Reese: I think you enjoy that and that's why,
Dave: I enjoy certain parts of it
Reese: I don't make a big deal about it
Dave: That well look, if you want this thing to be,
Reese: You get immersed.
Dave: If you want this thing to be,
Reese: you immerse yourself cause you like to learn.
Dave: But I think the thing that people, most people don't understand about editing is that it takes a long fucking time.
Like you can have, like this is what we're at 45 minutes right now. And I'm like, in my mind as we're doing this, I'm like, I'm like, ah, fuck, this is 45 minutes Now that we have the video component to it too. 'cause I'm just like, that's gonna be five, at least five hours of my time to, to get everything that needs to happen.
Not just edit it, but like make the clips and do the thing. That's like five hours in work.
Reese: That's a hundred percent why I picked this card.
Dave: Yeah,
Reese: Because I was like, you're gonna answer that without a
problem.
Dave: And, and that's honest. To be fair, that's not because I want to do that.
Reese: Hey,
Dave: I like [00:40:00] learning it.
Reese: You could be online gambling or watching porn.
Dave: That's, yeah, that's fine.
Reese: So,
Dave: Well, I mean, that would be third on the list.
Reese: That would be fourth on the list.
Dave: Okay. So this is a doozy to end on my last question for you.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: You ready?
Reese: Yep.
Dave: What makes you feel most distant from me?
Reese: Interesting. There's a couple things.
Dave: Okay. Which one makes you feel the most?
Is that it?
Reese: I, well, I would say our philosophy in routine, so I feel like. You go to yoga, you do these things and you're very practiced with it.
Dave: Mm-hmm.
Reese: Whereas I will set some goals for myself and do it for like a couple of days, and then I'm like, eh.
And, but then I watch you like, get up and go to [00:41:00] yoga. I watch you, you get up for work and you have a routine, and you do that thing, and then you go to work and you do your thing and you're very like, meanwhile, like, if I was working from home, I would be unhinged.
I I'd be, I, it would be so bad for me.
Dave: So it's interesting because I feel like, so yes, I think humans in general are creatures of habit and routine. But some of those things are because I would appreciate, like, I could very easily, like, I love that today, like our goal was just to sit in front of the tv.
Reese: Mm-hmm.
Dave: Like I, I enjoy, I mean, we used to do this all the time, right? Remember when we didn't have anything to do and we used to just watch. DVDs of like 24 all the time.
Reese: Yep.
Dave: Like would have a show
Reese: one after another for hours,
Dave: just like, and like, and that was our day. Like, we'd stop to eat and we'd like, you know, whatever.
But like, that was the day
Reese: Until like three, four o'clock in the [00:42:00] morning and just keep watching it.
Dave: But I, I recognize also that like with the work from home things, if I'm gonna get anything done, like I have to. Structure the day in a way.
Reese: Mm-hmm.
Dave: That allows me to get things done.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Right.
Reese: And then
Dave: So,
Reese: And then while that's happening, like knowing that you are home, you really stick to the structure and the routine.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: And it took me a long time to be okay with just not walking right into the office when you're doing stuff. Like, I will send you a, a text and be like, can I come in there? Yeah. Or can I print something? Yeah. You know what I mean? Like Yeah. And I realize no, he's at work. So sometimes like you're home.
Yeah. But I feel like you're at the, at office.
Dave: I run out to grab
Reese: and you're not here
Dave: like some water. And you're like, yes. And I'm like, goodbye.
Reese: No, can't,
Dave: Like, I'm not, this is not where I am right now. Yeah.
Reese: And that's why sometimes that that will cause some distance. Yeah. And I'm just like, well, I thought you know, you're,
Dave: And then you, you're I, but I want No.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Pretend I'm not here.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: That.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Could [00:43:00] be worse.
Dave: Yeah. Could be worse.
Reese: But that.
Dave: Okay.
Reese: Okay. You ready?
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: What's one of your favorite memories from when we were first dating?
Dave: Ooh. I feel like we've talked about this.
Reese: Stop saying about when it was meh. That kind of pisses me off.
Dave: I wasn't.
Reese: Cause I was never meh with you.
Dave: I was never gonna say that. By the way,
Reese: You always bring that up though. You're always like, yeah, when I first met you, I was like, Hey,
Dave: In a trailer there was the first thing.
Reese: Mm-hmm.
Dave: Yeah. Anyway, get over it
Reese: No.
Dave: And how about now when I'm meh? This moment right now, God dammit. So the question was good and you made it negative.
When is, what was the question again? See. See,
Reese: I did not.
Dave: Don't play that. What was the question again?
Reese: Oh God. What's one of your favorite memories from when we first started dating?
Dave: I have so many. I love. [00:44:00]
Reese: How about the time when you called me up and you said that you may have a STD.
Dave: I was not sure you were gonna say that
Reese: from me.
Dave: And like, why would you bring that up? Why would you say that? Why would you say that?
Reese: That plays in my mind on a loop.
Dave: But
Reese: All the time.
Dave: Okay, so listen. So listen,
Reese: and that's one of the things that I never had from a guy before who would call me up and be like, Hey. And it was so casual. Well, we were hanging out that night.
You're like, Hey. Oh yes, I'm gonna, our date's gonna be this.
Dave: So listen.
Reese: Oh, oh. Also P.S. I think you might have given me a STD.
Dave: So,
Reese: All right, I'll see you later.
Dave: So this, you know, but here's why it was so,
Reese: I was in Mandee's.
Dave: Okay, you ready? I was in Mandee's
Reese: And I was like.
Dave: Oh my God. Okay, but you ready for why it was so casual?
Because I had already
Reese: Had an STD from somebody else.
Dave: No,
Reese: No, I'm just kidding.
Jokes, jokes. Jokes.
Dave: I was, I had already decided in my mind that we were to be [00:45:00] together. And so it didn't matter.
Reese: Oh,
Dave: We would have this thing together and we would deal with it how we needed to deal with it. That's why it was so casual.
'cause it's like, well that's unfortunate, but who cares? It's just gonna be her and I anyway, so it doesn't matter. I love that. That's where you went. But
Reese: I went immediately there
Dave: You went there. You went there. So
Reese: I like to be provocative.
Dave: I guess so. And that's why you get STDs.
To be fair, I was wrong.
Reese: Uh, yeah, you were,
Dave: I, I, I, I let the internet sway me at a time where I was doing research, but I got checked and everything was fine.
Everything was fine.
Reese: I was like, meanwhile, I'm alone in Mandee's. And I'm like,
Dave: I may have jumped the gun on revealing the news,
Reese: But eventually that became one of the qualities that I appreciated about you.
Where there you just. Say it.
Dave: Wow.
Reese: You just say things and [00:46:00] I'm not saying like, you just say things like for no reason. Like you are pretty comfortable with being upfront about stuff.
Dave: I'm comfortable being upfront about things.
Too a fault. But you've
Reese: learned to the nuances of how to say things to me without me sending me
Dave: Yes, yes.
Reese: Off in a
Dave: Yes.
Reese: Um,
Dave: Well listen. What's the Huey Lewis song? I'm happy to be stuck with you.
Reese: Stuck with me and my, and my STDs.
Dave: Uh, yes.
Reese: Alright, so here's the question. What's one of your favorite memories from when we were dating?
Dave: I, I thought we were done.
Reese: No, I, I took it over.
Dave: I was hoping we were done.
Reese: Let's not leave it on an STD. Let's make it,
Dave: I never wanted to even start it on an STD, but
Reese: I just, I
Dave: Wow.
Reese: Again, like my tinnitus. I never will miss an opportunity to tell that
Dave: Oh,
Reese: story. 'cause it's really funny.
Dave: There go,
Reese: It's, it's actually really funny. Funny.
Dave: Can't wait to see how that clip plays on YouTube.
Reese: Yep.
Dave: Uh, favorite memories? So many. Honestly, so many. The good and the bad. I love all of, I love all of [00:47:00] our story. Like, look, this is me being like completely serious,
Reese: But dating.
Dave: Dating again. Okay, so just dating like, I don't know, like Serendipity. Uh, the Dave thing, the, uh, the first time we were at Belvedere Castle all of it, like the soup, the, the, the, the U2 day, like getting locked out.
Of the, of my apartment When you were trying to on a, like a, a wireless phone because you couldn't find the apartment like
Reese: Yeah. In a cab. Trying to figure that. And then
Dave: Your car getting broken into like, uh,
Reese: And towed.
Dave: Being there for you and your dad. Yeah. When all that happened. Like all of it.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: All of it.
Reese: That's all good stuff. It's such good stuff.
Dave: All of it. 'cause again, STDs as well. I'm gonna bring it back. I do want to end at an STD.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: Because sometimes I look, you can't get rid of an STD.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: And I would never want to get rid of you.
Reese: Aw.
Reese and Dave: Happy Valentine's. Happy Valentine's Day.
Dave: Friends, [00:48:00] listen. Friends,
Reese: I love you like an STD I can't get rid of.
Dave: That's gonna be my, I love you. That's, this is my trick. My trick or treat card. What?
Reese: What holiday are you on?
Dave: Happy.
Reese: Happy Kwanza.
Dave: Hope you have a great Thanksgiving. Friends life is a group project. Be kind to each other.
Reese: Wear a condom,
Outro Music: We got the right stuff, we put the hammer right down.
We got the right stuff we put the hammer right down.
