Ep. 148: Clean Snow and Dirty Secrets | Couples podcast

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Dave: So if you've been watching any of our shorts or clips on, on social media.

Reese is perfect for this type of stuff because she, 

Reese: my face is very animated and he keeps, so I went and I looked at the pins of you and they're always like. 

Dave: Well, because I'm trying to find, look, if I had a stupid one too, I would put it and I actually, I think that I will have some on this one and this one I'll have some, oh, if we have some clips. 'Cause I was making some faces. 

Reese: But, 

Dave: but you, you give the, 

Reese: every single one, 

Dave: you do the perfect faces and it's like, but those are the things that you want because you want people to like. Look at it like, you know what I mean? 

Reese: Mm-hmm. 

Dave: Because you gotta stop people in the feed. 

Reese: Really? 

Dave: Yeah. 

Reese: Because it gonna be like, let's see what this ugly bitch is talking about.

Dave: Yeah, exactly. 

Reese: Great. 

Dave: ​[00:01:00] Oh, 

Reese: what the hell is this? That is not, was, I was not expecting that at all. 

Dave: That's actually not bad. 

Reese: What is this? 

Dave: This is called. A Clean Snow Martini. I did a snow themed martini. 

Reese: That's funny. 

Dave: Since we were gonna be talking about snow. And by snow I mean cocaine. 

Reese: Yes. Which is really funny. Ironic. 

Dave: Is it really funny?

Reese: Ironically, because the play that I'm doing currently that I'm in 

Dave: mm-hmm. 

Reese: I have to snort cocaine and, I was like, how are we, how are we doing this? How are we gonna make this happen? And I don't like, what am I doing here? And the stage manager said, 

Dave: every day of your life, 

Reese: he's gonna buy, 

Dave: what am I doing here?

Reese: A, a thing of, I guess. Vitamin B12. B12, and it comes in like a white powder. 

Dave: Mm-hmm. 

Reese: And [00:02:00] you can snort it, people snort it to get a burst of energy. 

Dave: Yeah. 

Reese: And I'm like, oh, kind of like what cocaine does. So I said, you know, for the sake of my art, I guess I'll do it. But I'm doing it obviously, like at a rehearsal where.

I don't know. Uh, anyway, I am gonna list you as my emergency contacts. Make sure, sure. You're, 

Dave: oh, now you're gonna list 

me as your emergency contact. 

Reese: Make sure you're, you're there just in case. 

Dave: 22 years later. 

Reese: Right. But it's also funny that you mentioned clean snow because one of the things I I was gonna mention is in college, a friend of mine who was from, you know, not from New York, long Island, whatever.

He, one time there was a snowstorm and he's like, oh, we have to go outside. We have to make this like snow. Oh, what was it? It was like a snow dish where he would go get some snow from outside and then put like milk, sugar and something else. 

Dave: Mm-hmm. 

Reese: And it was like a [00:03:00] soup or something. I don't know. 

Dave: This is a good story, 

Reese: but it was delicious.

And I remember thinking like, wow, one day I wanna do this one. The girls. When I have kids, I shouldn't say with the girls, 'cause I didn't know I was gonna, I was like, this would be a great thing to do when I have children. 

Dave: Mm-hmm. 

Reese: And then, you know, we had the girls and every time there would be a snow day, they would just be.

They would drive us crazy to get outside. So you put the, you know, the market basket bag or the bread bag on their feet. Then you put the boots, 11 pairs of socks. You, you know, the snow pants, the snow jacket, they get outside. They have 11 mittens on their hands, and they go outside and then they're five minutes later they wanna come in.

So there was like making no, making snow soup. Like that wasn't gonna happen until recently. I was like, oh, maybe I'll try it again. It came up. Like TikTok or something. Someone made it and I was like, oh, you know, I have the recipe. I'll do it. 

Dave: Other people know about you have the recipe now. 

Reese: No, I'm not, [00:04:00] I'm not gonna do it.

Because literally like five seconds later, another TikTok showed, someone took snow and put it under the microscope and there's all sorts of little 

Dave: Oh, yeah, yeah. 

Reese: Critters in there. And I'm like. So no. 

Dave: Cool. 

Reese: Never gonna do that. 

Dave: Cool. 

Reese: I know there's a name for it. I just didn't have time to look it up, but there it is a thing.

Dave: Thanks for coming. Prepared. So this drink that we're having, 

Reese: clean snow. 

Dave: Clean snow. 

Reese: This is the type of clean snow I can, 

Dave: this is, it's actually a lot better 

Reese: this vanilla. 

Dave: It's a lot better than I thought it was. 

Reese: Coka. 

Dave: Cacao. 

Reese: Cacao. 

Dave: So 

Reese: not coca cacao. 

Dave: There is creme a cacao. Just so the clear, the white creme de cacao.

Reese: Yeah. You could taste that 

Dave: vodka. 

Reese: Mm-hmm. 

Dave: Simple syrup. 

Reese: Mm-hmm. 

Dave: And lemon juice. 

Reese: That's what is weird. 

Dave: That gives it like a brightness. It's interesting. 

Reese: Mm. 

Dave: Yeah. 

Reese: I don't hate it. 

Dave: No, it's, 

Reese: I just not, 

Dave: not bad. 

Reese: Not what I was expecting. 

Dave: So the other version was like a, a [00:05:00] creamy, and I was like, I don't wanna do cream and all that crap.

Reese: I, 

Dave: so this is good. 

Reese: I, I'm not really like a creamy martini person. 

Dave: Right. 

Reese: Although, 

Dave: yeah. Although there was that year we did the white chocolate martinis. Remember a couple years we were doing those and those are damn good. 

Reese: Yes. But I feel like 

Dave: I can't do those anymore. 

Reese: Like it's too heavy. 

Dave: Like we don't do a lot of dairy other, other than cheese, but 

Reese: so much cheese 

Dave: but 

Reese: Right.

Dave: Drinking wise. 

Reese: But we don't ever, like when was the last, the only time we ever have actual milk in the house is the girls bring it in. 

Dave: Yeah, they get it. 

Reese: We don't, 

Dave: yeah. Otherwise we have like almond milk. Yeah. 

Reese: If that. 

Dave: Yeah. 

Reese: But hey, 

Dave: so 

Reese: cheers. 

Dave: Cheers.

So right on cue. 

Reese: Yeah. 

Dave: We have more snow coming in this weekend. It's supposed to snow again. Start snowing again 

Reese: tonight. 

Dave: Snowing overnight. Snowing on Sunday, possibly snowing on Monday. So it looks like we're gonna get dumped on again, which sucks because of course, this is what I meant by right on cue 

Reese: on the weekend.

Dave: [00:06:00] Just No, but just as, oh, all the snow we got dumped on last time. Started to melt. 

Reese: Yeah. 

So the other day I go into, we have in our, in our Florida room, we have a spare fridge where we keep most of our food meals like stuff in there. So we go grab it in there and bring it in the other kitchen. And I think I was going in there to get food.

I think I was, and I go into the fridge and like I open the fridge and I'm like, oddly enough, I can't hear anything. But every once in a while I'll hear like random, like really faint noises 

That drip. 

Dave: And I'm like, and I heard a drip and was 

like, 

Reese: it would trigger me. 

Dave: I was like, why am I hearing a drip? 

Reese: I would be switching 

Dave: and I'm looking around and I'm looking around and I was like fuck.

So we have sliding doors near the end of the, the, like there's a whole wall of the, it's just sliding doors of that Florida room and the roof above that is. [00:07:00] Three skylights and it's like a flat roof. And so all that snow still up there and it's on the side of the house, that really isn't gonna get a lot of sun because the sun comes around this way.

And like the, the, like Jonnie's room is in the way of that place. So, so it didn't melt, but of course it's getting warm enough now that it's starting to melt. And it was weird too, 'cause it was like nighttime, so it wasn't like even during the day. But I look at it, I was like, oh shit. Fucking water's getting in there.

And so I'm like, oh. I'm like, okay, okay. 

Reese: Is that what they call a ice, 

Dave: ice dam? So we ice, yeah, so there's ice dams of course all around and like, and, and so now I'm like super paranoid. But anyway, I got out there, I got like a ladder and I went all along. The back there is really where a lot of it is like happening because of, you know, there's a lot of ice dams.

So I went all around and I got like a bunch of the snow off because we don't have our. I don't have a roof rake right now. So anyway, ordered one of those and then, 

Reese: oh, what else did you order? 

Dave: Oh yeah, so well, let me get to this first. So [00:08:00] I, I go out there and I'm like, ah, crap. So let me get some of the snow out of the way.

And there's like a lot of snow out there still. Like it's crazy. And so I had to move stuff out of the way. It was a big thing. And then of course, 

Reese: used all my clean towels in the, 

Dave: and the, and the, and I used 

Reese: pool towels. 

Dave: I used the pool towels. 

Reese: I know. 

Dave: And so then 

Reese: they were clean. 

Dave: The, what am I? We don't have dirty ones right now, so then I, you, you threw me off.

God damnit 

Reese: Well, the storm, so this is kind of going on for a long time. Like, 

Dave: oh, 

Reese: you can, 

Dave: well, you could, yeah. 

Reese: Fast forward before we get to the next snowstorm, 

Dave: why don't you tell your story what happened next? Reese? 

Reese: I was at rehearsal. I, I walked in on you being very upset about it. 

Dave: I was upset about it.

Reese: Yeah. 

Dave: So. Anyway, what I was trying to say is I, you know, I put my gloves on, I get my boots on, I go out there and I had to bring the ladder out. And of course I'm like, oh, this is very dangerous. 

Reese: Especially at night. That's ballsy. 

Dave: Well, it was close, it was just turning in tonight, like, [00:09:00] so it wasn't completely dark yet.

Reese: Yeah. 

Dave: So then, and of course my, everything was so wet. Like the snow was wet at this point. Yeah. 'cause it was like melty and whatever. Yeah. So like my gloves, like I, so it was freezing and the gloves were all wet and I was like, this is miserable. But anyway. I got some of the stuff down and then I get up on that roof and I basically shoveled that whole roof off.

And that seemed to obviously stop everything because that's what was happening is that, that that snow was melting and then the ice dam was coming in and then so, of course, we were out of the, the ice melt, 'cause we just had all that storm, like storm come through and I had to do all like the driveway and stuff.

We're all out of that. So I'm like, oh crap. So then I was looking up, okay, what do I gotta do with these ice dams? 'cause they're like, they're so thick. Like I can't even break them off right now. Like, it's like they're thick. So they were like, okay, you should, they were like, Cathy was like, Cathy was like, Hey, you can get some of this type of, 'cause I know you don't wanna use like the sodium chloride because the salt like ruins the shingles and the metal and all that kind of [00:10:00] stuff.

So you gotta get like a different type of. Chloride without the sodium in it. So I got that Pellets of Fire. It's, 

Reese: I'm dying to be like up, I'm dying to be like Chariots of Fire and make like a video and 

Dave: Yes, yes, 

Reese: just play that. 

Dave: But they were like, what you should do is put the pellets in either a mesh sock or like pantyhose, and then you put 'em in there and then you lay it on top of the ice and then it creates like a.

Like it eats away at it and creates like a, a day, I don't know, like a tunnel. It's a 

Reese: Like a buffer. 

Dave: A tunnel. Like a tunnel. 

Reese: Yeah. 

Dave: So the water can kind of get through. 

Reese: Right. 

Dave: And you know, as the snow, the I, the snow is melting, come out. I was like, all right, so I ordered. Pellets of Fire. I ordered a roof rake. 

Reese: Mm. 

Dave: And I ordered two packages of panty hose.

Reese: So, 

Dave: and then I, yeah, I told you about this the other day. 

Reese: You did? And, and I thought that that was really funny. And you're like, I ordered the panty house and I'm thinking you're ordering like the old school. Like [00:11:00] panty hose. 

Dave: Like the two legs together. 

Reese: The two legs, 

Dave: yeah. 

Reese: And so you get a package the other day and I'm like, why haven't you opened this?

Like, it freaks me out like, 'cause the second the girls and I get a package, we were, you're like, go ahead, open it. You wanna open it? Open it. I open, its two big packages with sexy. 

Dave: Yeah. 

Reese: Black, 

Dave: Kneehigh, kneehigh, 

Reese: Kneehigh, NEHI. I'm like, oh. My God. And I'm like, at first I was like, huh. And then I was like, oh, 

Dave: oh yeah.

Reese: I'm like, there it is. So you gonna sexy up the uh, snow dam? 

Dave: So, no. 

Reese: I'm gonna have a sexy snow dam. 

Dave: Yeah. Well, so tomorrow I'll start packing up my, my Pellets of Fire in my pantyhose. What? Sentence I didn't think I'd say today, 

Reese: I mean, you could literally turned every single part of this into some sort of weird. 

Dave: Kink.

Reese: Yeah. 

Dave: Is that what you're trying to get to? 

Reese: Yeah, yeah, 

Dave: yeah. So 

Reese: you are gonna, 

Dave: long story short, [00:12:00] not thrilled with the snow. 

Reese: No. And you know, I normally love a good snow day. I like it during the week when I can miss school. 

Dave: Uh, 

Reese: I like, I, I like, like a nice normal snow where it looks pretty. The last one was. I started to get, feel claustrophobic.

'cause once it starts blocking us into the house by the door, 

Dave: well you can't see anything. You can't see over the corner. 

Reese: It's terrible. 

Dave: Yeah. Bad. 

Reese: And then. Like just driving the, just is very difficult maneuvering around here. Yeah. 'cause a lot of the streets are very narrow. Anyway, so Yeah. It was, it was great to kind of see the sidewalk a little.

And now it, it's, it's happening again and it's happening in like, so tonight and tomorrow and Sunday into Monday is supposed to be worse. Yeah. And they, I just, I get to the point where I'm like, I get done with it. Yeah. Like I actually. I'm a winter fan. I like my sweatshirts. I [00:13:00] like cuddling with the covers because to me, as, as a woman, I can put layers on when it's super hot and sweaty and gross outside.

Dave: I, as a man, cannot put layers on. 

Reese: I can't, let me finish what I'm saying. Do, do, 

Dave: oh, okay. 

Reese: In the summer, I like. Can't, like I, you see the old men walking around without their shirts on, living their best life, walking in the sun, like, you know, feeling good. Meanwhile, I can't do, I mean, I could if I wanted to, but I'm, no one needs that.

And so I, you know, so I just feel more comfortable in, in my body when I have sweatshirts and mm-hmm. You know what I mean? Mm-hmm. Like, I, like, I like. The way that feels rather than sweating. 

Yeah. 

And my hair gets all, 

Dave: so I do 

Reese: like nasty and 

Dave: being able to like get comfy. 

Reese: The people smell 

Dave: and all of that, but I don't like, I just don't like the snow.

I'm not a snow person. Neither of us are snow people. 

Reese: Well, you have to shovel it. No. So I do give you [00:14:00] some grace on that because the one time you were away and I had to shovel, 

Dave: oh, it's the worst. 

Reese: I almost died. 

Dave: And that's a big 

Reese: Like it was bad. 

Dave: That's a big, we have a big driveway. 

Reese: We do. 

Dave: And. I don't, I don't, I don't like it, 

Reese: But I, I, and actually it's, it's way more fun when the girls were little.

'cause you go out, you take pictures, it's fun. And then, you know, my favorite part of snow is my snow snacks. 

Dave: I love, uh, well, we'll get to that in a second, 

Reese: Which I made a little prepared, a little bowl. 

Dave: I love, I love a, I love a fresh dump of snow and I love when you get it. Like was the first time the snow came through.

I was out doing something. I forget why I was out. Maybe it was because I was going to yoga and on the way home I take that like Riverside Drive home, 

Reese: It's so pretty 

Dave: From Haverhill to Methuen. 

Reese: Mm-hmm. 

Dave: And oh my God, the snow, 

Reese: the trees, 

Dave: the snow was all in the trees and it looked amazing. 

Reese: Mm. 

Dave: And I was just like, this.

Reese: It's really pretty. And then it's 

Dave: this, this is what makes it worth it. Even our tree in front of the house looks beautiful, 

Reese: but it's the next day [00:15:00] when it's the slop and you can't walk in it and it, 

Dave: yeah. And so then so, but any other, anything other than that? I'm like, no snow please. I'm good. Thanks. 

Reese: And I don't mind it being cold.

I put my big ass coat. I don't mind it being cold. 

Dave: To be fair, I don't think it's been that. There was a couple days that were cold. 

Reese: Mm. Like bitter cold. I was like, Ooh, good thing I have this coat. But, 

Dave: but most of the days I've had to go out. It's been pretty decent now. 

Reese: The last couple of times I didn't have my coat, and today Jonnie and I went out and I was like, I'm not wearing my coat.

She's like, I'm not wearing my coat. 

Dave: No. Today was beautiful. You didn't even need it. It was, it's in the, it was in the, like the high thirties 

Reese: and, and now it's snowing. 

Dave: It's 30, it's it's 34 right now. Still. 

Reese: It's crazy. 

Dave: Like I feel like anything above the thirties you're like. 

Reese: I know 

Dave: you're like, that's fine.

Reese: I'm like an eighth grade boy that wears shorts in the winter. 

Dave: Right, right. That who doesn't Yeah. 

Reese: Mm-hmm. 

Dave: Wear the appropriate clothing for the mm-hmm. For the season 

Reese: and it's fine. It's like Okay. 'cause especially when you're going in and out of stores. 

Dave: Yeah. 

Reese: To me, then I, I really start to get warm and uncomfortable when I wear my big ass coat when I'm going shopping.

'cause then I'm like, oh my God, I [00:16:00] feel like I'm trapped in there. But, so, I mean, for the most part I don't mind it. 

Dave: I don't know if you noticed, but I just, it just. I just reminded myself as I wiggled a little bit in this chair, but I tightened the screws up in these chairs and they don't have a, a wiggle to them anymore.

Reese: Oh, you're correct. 

Dave: Mm, right. 

Reese: Very nice. 

Dave: Sturdy. They call that, 

Reese: they call that sturdy. I like it. It was a little like, I was like, oh, I'm gonna break this. 

Dave: Yeah. It was like. Nil, nil, nil. 

Reese: What was it like? Yeah. 

Dave: Not no mo 

Reese: Definitely 

Reese and Dave: Not no mo. 

Reese: Oh, this is really good. How? 

Dave: It's not bad. I, it's, it's, I, so I was worried about the lemon.

Reese: The lemon, 

Dave: but the lemon actually gives, it 

Reese: Was weird. 

Dave: It gives it like a brightness. Yeah. That's really nice. 

Reese: The brightness you are watching too much. Next Level Chef. 

Dave: Yeah. Is that what it doing? So we, yeah, we just finished episode of that. 

Reese: Oh. Is this gonna be the, the pin that you used? 

Dave: Maybe? Probably. So if you've been watching any of our shorts or clips on, on social media.

Reese is perfect for this type of stuff because she, 

Reese: my [00:17:00] face is very animated and he keeps, so I went and I looked at the pins of you and they're always like. 

Dave: Well, because I'm trying to find, look, if I had a stupid one too, I would put it and I actually, I think that I will have some on this one and this one I'll have some, oh, if we have some clips. 'Cause I was making some faces. 

Reese: But, 

Dave: but you, you give the, 

Reese: every single one, 

Dave: you do the perfect faces and it's like, but those are the things that you want because you want people to like. Look at it like, you know what I mean? 

Reese: Mm-hmm. 

Dave: Because you gotta stop people in the feed. 

Reese: Really? 

Dave: Yeah. 

Reese: Because it gonna be like, let's see what this ugly bitch is talking about.

Dave: Yeah, exactly. 

Reese: Great. My whole life I had to live with that. Finally. I'm like, 

Dave: Now it's gonna make you 

Reese: Aging like a fine wine. 

Dave: Yeah. 

Reese: And you just use my, use my facocta face. 

Dave: Mm. 

Reese: My fatcha bruta 

Dave: So anyway big surprise this week for us. Wednesday. 

Reese: I know.

Dave: So Wednesday I'm, you know, going about my business. I'm living my life 

Reese: and the thing is right. I've been [00:18:00] trying not to be on my phone.

Yeah. I've been trying to, especially like, 'cause I went out to lunch with my friend that I see once a year. Mm-hmm. We have our little annual lunch and we talk. We talked for five hours. Mm-hmm. We were in, uh, tits. Mm-hmm. Tavern in the square and talk, talk, talk. I took my phone, turned it over so that I would not pay attention to it.

And of course, of course you're sending me all this stuff of the big news that you're going to announce, and I was like, the fuck did I? 

Dave: So 

Reese: I missed it 

Dave: outta nowhere. No rumors about this at all. And typically you'll see like stupid rumors of people just making shit up. Nothing about this. Get an email. U2 just drops an EP. Days of Ash. 

Reese: Yep. 

Dave: Came out on Ash Wednesday and I was like, what the f. So 

Reese: when was the last album? Now was 

Dave: over 10 years ago. 

Reese: Was it 10? Was it 10 years ago? 

Dave: Over 10 years ago. [00:19:00] Isn't that wild? 

Reese: Wow. 

Dave: It doesn't seem like it's been that long.

Reese: Yeah, 

Dave: but it's been that long. 

Reese: Yeah. 

Dave: Wild. And so this is just like a little thing. They, they, they couldn't take it no more and they put it a little like response to world events type of EP. 

Reese: I'm surprised it took them. This long because, 

Dave: well, they said that this is not the album. They're working on an album that's supposed to come out this year, I believe, or they're talking 2026.

That I'm, that, that I'm even more excited. This was nice. 

Reese: Yeah. 

Dave: And I'm digging some of the stuff I always have to take a few listens in, which I have been listening to heavily. But, um, some, some good stuff like stuff that I'm like, okay, cool. 

Reese: What cracks me up is, you know, I, I am a comment. Junkie. I go straight to the comments for everything and I was like, I know people are gonna be so freaking get their like ass chapped because Oh, you twos being political.

Yeah. They've always been political. 

Dave: That's their whole thing, I know. 

Reese: Always, always. And that's was [00:20:00] what made 

Dave: so, and 

Reese: what made them, 

Dave: and I would say they've been less political, 

Reese: right. 

Dave: In music anyway. For a long time. 

Reese: For a long time. And then they, 

Dave: and this was, 

Reese: I mean, they have stuff to sing about now, so I mean, I at, so that was Wednesday, but we did the, listen, did we do it Wednesday night or did 

Dave: we did it Wednesday night.

Yeah. You and I did it Wednesday night, 

Reese: right? 

Dave: Yeah. 

Some good stuff. 

Reese: I 

Dave: some good stuff, 

Reese: but it's hard for me because I'm, I'm very biased. 

Dave: Well, of course we're gonna be predisposed to Yes. Want to like it. 

Reese: Yes. But I can sometimes be like, I'm not feeling this right away. Like, I've done that with, with like, Taylor, Taylor.

Swift. Swift. 

Dave: I need 

Reese: lean this, 

Dave: I need to listen a lot before I get into it. 

Reese: Oh, I gotta listen to it a few times. But immediately I was like, I like this. I like where this is going. 'cause a lot of it sounds like. A little Achtung Baby. A little. 

Dave: It's like How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, from there? 

Reese: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, there's like little bit like bits and [00:21:00] pieces of the sound.

Dave: Yeah, 

Reese: that is like that. But the, um, lyrics and just the, his bono's voice, 

Dave: his voice. Look, it's, it's not like In the Name of Love, like that full voice, but 

Reese: Yes. But it is, 

Dave: it's beautiful. His voice sounds amazing. 

Reese: Yeah, he's, well, I think he, 

Dave: I don't know how he does it. 

Reese: He really meant what he was singing, like 

Dave: Yeah, yeah.

Reese: There is a, a very pure human, um, 

Dave: it's good stuff. So yeah. 

Reese: Authentic. Sound. Yeah. That I think he really was feeling what he was singing, 

so I think that's great. 

Dave: I'm excited for that. 

Reese: I'm excited. 

Dave: So, and then I'm also, what I'm more excited for is what they're saying is that the, the album is gonna be, none of these songs are on the album.

Reese: Mm. It's gonna be a whole separate thing. 

Dave: And the album is gonna be a full album of course, but that's gonna be. He is talking about it being, having a carnival feel like he wants to be, wants it to be like not in the darkness, you know, in the, the [00:22:00] celebratory and bringing people together and joyful. Right.

And so, 

Reese: which I think we need 

Dave: Oh yeah. 

Reese: These days. 

Dave: Yeah. So, I mean, look, Bono's always kind of touting something, but he says he's got, they've got like at least 25 songs that they're gonna be pulling from. 

Reese: Amazing. 

Dave: So, could be interesting, 

Reese: Which could also mean. Tour, 

Dave: but well, will definitely mean tour and 

Reese: Oh my God. Imagine going to see them this tour with the girls over 21. You just have like the best time. Yeah. I cannot wait. I cannot wait. I'm so excited. 

Dave: So I'm excited for that. 

Reese: Mm-hmm. 

Dave: Um, excited for just every once in a while they show up at the right time. Like we've, they've always been like that for us. Mm-hmm.

You know, again, with the girls and you know, us, our relationship. I feel like I'm in a period of change, right? Like I'm moving into a new role at work and you know, figuring all that out. And uh, and then this just shows up. 

Reese: I know. 

Dave: And 

Reese: they always know [00:23:00] 

Dave: their music. And I, I ended up getting a new copy of U2 by U2 because I couldn't find the other one.

And I was just like, I'm just gonna get another copy. 'cause 

Reese: did we lend it to someone? 

Dave: No, I don't think so. It's the same as like the red thing I can't find from my iPad. Like it's somewhere, 

Reese: it's probably downstairs in the basement. 

Dave: I would. 

Reese: In the land of the lost, 

Dave: be pissed if it's down there. Um, no, I think, I think, well, I dunno where the book is, but I think that that red thing is probably in the, in my closet someplace, but I haven't had the time to get in there to look. But anyway, 

Reese: you gotta move the skeletons around 

Dave: Yeah. In the closet and all the gays. Imagine.

Reese: There it is. 

Dave: There it is. Yep. Yeah, that's the one I'll use. 

Reese: Oh, 

Dave: so, 

Reese: oh my God. 

Dave: So, 

Reese: hey, speaking of gays, oh, let's talk about some good 

Dave: ice skating, 

Reese: snow, fun facts. First of all. I don't know. Is anybody watching the Olympics by the way? 

Dave: Not me. I have never in my life had any interest in watching anything to have to do with the Olympics, ever.

Reese: And so it's so funny, I remember like back in the [00:24:00] day when like USA and Russia, it's only, it's were like, and then the Olympics were like, 

Dave: the closest as I got was Rocky two, Rocky three, whatever the fuck, Rocky dude. 

Reese: That also, but I just remember like that was like, oh, everybody watched the Olympics. 'cause we, we had to kick Russia's ass.

Like that was like. The thing. And then like, and then it got, it was like that one year, was it? Where was it, Tokyo? Where was it? 

Dave: Could have been. Give me more to go with. 

Reese: They had this weird opening ceremony and I was like, you know what, I'm gonna 

Dave: didn't they have Tom Cruise do one? What was that?

Remember when he, like, 

Reese: did he do like an action hero thing? 

Dave: He was on the roof of something and he like 

Reese: He did a thing? Just, 

Dave: was that, was that the Olympics? 

Reese: Maybe. 

Dave: I don't know. 

Reese: It could have been Mission Impossible, but it's the same. So it's like, it's like, I don't know. The last couple years I, I don't care. However, this, this morning I took the car in for [00:25:00] the inspection.

Mm-hmm. And they had the Olympics on and it was the, what's the one where they, with the broom? 

Dave: Curling. 

Reese: Curling, 

Dave: yeah. People seem to really like the curling. I mean, that is interesting. 

Reese: I like the curling. So I, I brought in stuff to do while the car 

Dave: mm-hmm. 

Reese: Was being done. And because I normally they'll have on like The View or something where I wanna stick sticks in my eyes.

Mm-hmm. But curling was on, everybody sitting there stopped what they were doing and we were cheering, everybody collectively was cheering on no matter what team was going, because it is, at first I was like, all right, I'm gonna actually pay attention to this. It's actually so slow, but so exciting at the same time.

And there actually is a skill to it that now I am about to go down a rabbit hole. I wanna learn more about it. Like, when did this start, when did this become part of the Olympics? Like, it actually was so much fun to watch. Like you, you were just rooting for [00:26:00] them, like the way, like back in the day when luge became a thing.

Right and like Cool Runnings and everybody was like, oh, luge 

Dave: Remember Cool Runnings? 

Reese: Remember Cool Runnings. So it's like I was like, okay, I can get behind that. Everything else, I'm kind of like me. The only thing I did watch, I sometimes like to watch the ice skating and there were two really horrible.

Accidents that were really, 

Dave: yeah, you showed me a clip of, so I was like, 

Reese: oh, Haram, Jesus. She did a, like a James Brown and there, and she, she, John Wayned it off the ice because she, 

Dave: Wow. John Wayned it. 

Reese: She really did it like it was not good. 

Dave: Well, that's unfortunate. 

Reese: Yeah, it was very unfortunate and I was like, me and so whatever, it's the Olympics are.

No at this point, 'cause there's so much going on in the world, 

Dave: I just have zero interest 

Reese: fucking care. But anyway, I don't even know why I started talking about that, but fun. 

Dave: All right, so you wanted to talk about snow? 

Reese: I did. 

Dave: And, and so here we are. 

Reese: I, I, 

Dave: and you've got some fun facts 

Reese: and I [00:27:00] do have to say, I 

Dave: So come on. What do you have? 

Reese: I do appreciate a, like a snowflake, like snowflakes are amazing to me. The fact that, 

Dave: Well, snowflakes are pretty amazing. 

Reese: They are amazing. My favorite is when like you're driving and you can see it on the windshield, or you're walking somewhere and it lands on you and it shows you how pretty it is.

Dave: And it, it's still, it shows you, it's like, Hey, 

Reese: look at me. Hey there. 

Reese and Dave: Hey girl, 

Reese: look at me. So I did some fun facts. Uh, no. Two snowflakes are exactly alike. 

Dave: Yep. I feel like everyone should know that one 

Reese: in theory. It's possible, but the odds are so astronomically low. Mm-hmm. That for all practical purposes, every snowflake is unique.

Mm-hmm. Temperature, humidity and turbulence shape each one differently Right as it falls. Um, snow is actually a great insulator. A thick layer of snow can trap air, which is why animals burrow in it. Which is probably, 

Dave: which is why 

Reese and Dave: igloos! 

Dave: Exactly. 

Reese: Igloos it really can be too cold to snow. 

Dave: Yes. 

Reese: Snow needs moisture.

Mm-hmm. Didn't know that. Fresh snow is quieter on [00:28:00] purpose, physics wise, new fallen snow absorbs sound because of all the tiny air pockets between the flakes. Mm-hmm. That's why everything feels hushed after snowfall. 

Dave: Yes. Yeah. 

Reese: Right. And that, that's kind of like one of the things, 

Dave: It's calming.

Reese: I miss being in New York because we used to have to walk everywhere and like, remember when? Like, I don't know. There were some nights we would go out and it'd be snowing and you kind of have to walk through it or like just walking around because it's all walking. Where we were in like walking, 

Dave: Say walking again, walking.

Reese: Christopher Walken. 

Dave: Christopher Walken was there. 

Reese: And so I just kind of miss that. I don't know, there's like this like calm calmness about it and this, I don't know, it's just aesthetic, just walking through it. I don't know. I kinda miss it. No one wants to do any of that here. You can't walk anywhere here.

It's. Fricking miserable, but Okay. Then I asked for four three to four snow facts. 

Dave: Okay. 

Reese: Okay. About New England. 

Dave: Oh, about New England. Snow [00:29:00] facts. 

Reese: Yeah. New England isn't actually the, 

Dave: Will they talk about the blizzard of, 

Reese: yeah. New England isn't actually the snowiest place in place in the us It's just the most dramatic about it.

Dave: Ooh. 

Reese: Yeah. 

Dave: Cathy? 

Reese: Yeah. 

Dave: Well, yours isn't name Cathy. What's yours? What's yours name? 

Reese: Oh, it's a dumb name. Nova. They're all named Nova. 

Dave: Oh, 

Reese: it didn't really gimme a very, we don't, I would try not to, to get too, 

Dave: I thought you named it. You didn't name it, no? 

Reese: No. I try not to get too personal. Although it does call me Reese and we're good.

We're done. And I don't yell at her and say bad things to her. The way that you yell at Alexa. 

Dave: Oh, no. 

Reese: Because one day you're over. It's over. 

Dave: I 

Reese: don't say it. She's gonna 

Dave: Yeah. 

Reese: Start 

Dave: her, her and the other one. 

Reese: SIRI. 

Dave: The worst. 

Reese: I know 

Dave: the worst. And I get, I get so mad. Because they just don't do what they're supposed to do.

Reese: I and 

Dave: Cathy at least, 

Reese: and it's gotten worse 

Dave: and for the most part does what she is supposed to do. And I don't get mad at her. 

Reese: I think because you are typing it in and so therefore the way it's Yeah, hearing, well accepting it is through manual. 

Dave: [00:30:00] The other, the other two though, they don't 

Reese: hear it.

Dave: Like Cathy's doing some pretty complex stuff I ask her to do. 

Reese: Yeah. 

Dave: I'm asking, I'm asking the other one to play a fricking song, and it's like, 

Reese: and it plays everything, but that, 

Dave: here's this thing. 

Reese: Yeah, I know 

Dave: that what you wanted. 

Reese: I know, I know. 

Dave: No. It's not what I wanted. 

Reese: I know. But you ca you have to stop yelling at them and saying mean things.

Dave: It's worse 

Reese: because when 

Dave: This one, 

Reese: when the revolution happens of the computers, 

Dave: she's gonna remember, 

Reese: You never saw terminator. 

Dave: She's gonna remember, and then 

Reese: she's gonna know how nice they was to her. 

Dave: They, they, 

Reese: I always say thank you. 

Dave: They upgraded it. To the other one. And so now it, it takes forever to respond. And so you say something, 

Reese: oh, the pause.

Dave: And then it's like 

Reese: the pause. 

Dave: Here's the thing you didn't want 

Reese: The pause. I know. 

Dave: And you have to wait for it longer. 

Reese: I know. 

Dave: And it's like, this is the worst. 

Reese: All right. Moving on. 

Dave: What else you got? 

Reese: Colonial New Englanders saw snow as a moral test, not as a nuisance early settlers wrote about snowstorms in religious terms, [00:31:00] either as divine punishment or divine endurance training. Roads weren't regularly plowed until the 18th, 19th centuries.

Before that deep snow simply paused society. 

Dave: Mm-hmm. I like that. 

Reese: Winter enforced reflection, isolation, and a slower pace, whether people liked it or not. That's kind of cool. Snow quietly shaped New England's architecture and town design, steep roofs, central chimneys. Now streets and compact town centers weren't aesthetic choices.

They were survival strategies. Snow load collapses were common in early structures and entire building styles evolved in response. So that's why we have a lot of like the different architecture all around. 

Dave: Mm-hmm. 

Reese: New England because of the weather, which I kind of Cool. What else? What else did I look up?

You can hear snowflakes falling under the right conditions. 

Dave: I think that's true 

Reese: when temperatures are extremely cold, uh, [00:32:00] snow crystals become hard and dry. That's what she said, and they land, they can make faint squeaking, tinkling or even whisper like sounds. That's kind of horrifying. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I don't know if I like that snow can roll itself into balls.

I. Under very specific. 

Dave: That's also what she said. 

Reese: conditions. Yep. Sticky snow, wind, and a slight slope. Snow can naturally form hollow snow rollers that look like something an invisible child made overnight. 

Dave: Oh, 

Reese: no hands involved. Nature just, 

Dave: I don't think I've ever seen that. 

Reese: Did arts and crafts. 

Dave: I don't think I ever saw that.

Reese: Oh my God. That would be, 

Dave: that would be kind of freaky. 

Reese: That would be. That's the beginning of some sort of A24 horror movie 

Dave: That's, that's like Weapons. 

Reese: Yeah, I was gonna say A24 

Dave: Ice Ice edition. 

Reese: Mm-hmm. 

Dave: Ice age edition. 

Reese: Mm-hmm. Okay. Then I asked does it snow on any other planets or just ours? Short answer.

Snow isn't just an earth [00:33:00] thing, other planets and moons absolutely get snow. It's just made of some wild materials. 

Dave: Wild materials 

Reese: wild. So Mars gets dry ice. Venus is not hot enough to melt lead yet. It has metal snow. 

Dave: Eating gummy bears was a good choice for the podcast, by the way.

Reese: A-S-M-R. 

Dave: I apologize everyone. 

Reese: Uh, Venus isn't hot enough to melt lead yet. It you're bypassing it. Melt. It has metal snow.

Dude. Dude, 

Dave: I thought you broke. 

Reese: That's crazy. It's snowing, but with poison on Venus. So we're gonna avoid Venus. We're gonna avoid that. 

Dave: That's where women go, 

Reese: that's where women go and that's, that's why you're gonna get snowed on with poison. 

Dave: It's poison. 

Reese: Alright Pluto, 

Dave: never trust a big butt and a smile. 

Reese: Nice, 

Dave: thanks.

Reese: Uh, Pluto. Pluto has snow made of [00:34:00] nitrogen and methane ice, 

Dave: The dog? 

despite being tiny 

Reese: and far away. It has active seasonal weather and drifting ice deposits. Even the edge of the solar system, weather still happens. 

Dave: What about the Bono? 

Reese: I'm done with you. 

Dave: Yep. 

Reese: I'm so done. 

Dave: Yep. 

Reese: And that's all I have for Snow Facts 

Dave: and that's what you know. But what was your thing? What were you gonna do? You forgot it on 

Reese: Snow. Facts. Facts. 

Dave: Oh, 

Reese: let's quickly, so, so quick thing what?

As a kid, what is your most memorable, favorite traumatizing snow memory as a kid? 

Dave: As a kid, I remember sledding. 

Reese: Mm-hmm. 

Dave: I remember trying to dig tunnels. I don't have anything traumatizing, I don't think, with the snow. I remember [00:35:00] skating. 

Reese: You did, you did ice skating? 

Dave: Yeah. Well, so right around the corner from my dad's, you know when you come around the corner and there's that little like, swamp area 

Reese: mm-hmm.

Dave: There would be sometimes enough water in there that, that would freeze and you could skate on it. 

Reese: Interesting. 

Dave: Yeah. 

Reese: Hmm. I've never, I put, 

Dave: um, 

Reese: I put on a pair of ice skates and then took them right off. 'cause I couldn't stand up 

Dave: ice, just ice skating's actually pretty good. It's a lot easier than, than roller skating actually.

Reese: Mm-hmm. 

Dave: But yeah, I just, I don't. Not a fan of the snow. 

Reese: When you were a kid, did you like wanna run out into the snow? Were you like, it's snowing 

Dave: I think for a little bit and then like then you're like quickly realize that, well this sucks. 

Reese: Yeah. 

Dave: But yeah, I mean, 

Reese: that's funny because we would be out all day in the snow in, in Brooklyn.

We didn't have a place to go sledding. But we would be out there like building. Things like we, you know, we would make like huge mountains of snow and play in the snow and do all that stuff. [00:36:00] My most vivid and core memory is one time we had a huge blizzard and like, cars weren't going down the block.

Like you could not move, nothing was gonna be going on. And then the, like, the dads of the neighborhood came out and they built this like huge hill and, we made makeshift sleds and we just kept it. It was all day, all day. Just the whole block. All the kids were out. The dads like built this huge mound of snow and they pretty sure we had like footage of it and like one of the old, like eight millimeter cameras, like film filming it.

Did you ever write on a toboggan? 

No, but I do have a memory of sledding behind Brad's and Linda's house. From where? At your father? 

Dave: Oh, 

Reese: we did with the girls. 

Dave: Oh, yeah. 

Reese: And then we, and then I did it. [00:37:00] Is that tobogganing? What's tobogganing? 

Dave: It's like a longer wood type of sled.

Reese: Hmm.

Dave: But 

Reese: we did tubing. That's what we did. 

Dave: Oh, tubing 

Reese: we had the tube tubing tube and we did the tube down it. 

Dave: That's not tabogganing. No. 

Reese: That's different. No, I don't think I've ever done that. And the most snowy thing, I, I tried skiing once. Don't like it.

We're not skiing people. 

Dave: No, no, we're not. See, again, I just don't, I'm, yeah, I'm not a snow person. I don't like it. 

Reese: But I did snowshoeing a few years ago. With my girlfriends and I was miserable. 

Dave: Yeah, 

Reese: I did not like it. And I had to go in the thing where like you hop on it and then you have to hop off. Did not like it.

Dave: Those things always. Caused me pause, like there's like at Canobie Lake. There's the, there's the, the sky ride. 

Reese: Mm. 

Dave: And then you, you, and that's like the ski lift, but it takes you around. 

Reese: Yeah. Yeah. 

Dave: And I never, I was like, what do you mean they don't stop? You just gotta 

Reese: you gotta hop off. 

Dave: Jump on that thing. You gotta jump off that thing. 

Reese: That is a big No thank you. 

Dave: I don't, I don't like any of that. 

Reese: That is a big No. Thank you. And it, and the only time that I [00:38:00] really actually went skiing was like in high school. We went on a school trip and 

Dave: Yeah. 

Reese: A couple of the girls like knew skiing. They tried to teach us.

We were all like, and I, and everybody snuck in alcohol. 

Dave: Mm-hmm. 

Reese: And, , I snuck in, like my parents weren't, weren't big drinkers, but they had like a mishmash of like weird alcohol. And they had this like brandy 

Dave: mm-hmm. 

Reese: Liqueur. And back in the day we used to have these brushes. So it had like the brush, 

Dave: Imagine they had pop artist Brandy.

Reese: And they had these brushes and then they had on the other side of the brush, they had like, you could put water or hairspray in it. So you had the brush and then the hairspray on the other side. Oh, and I bought one of those brushes, so I put the 

Dave: booze, 

Reese: the brandy in there. And so I was the only person that had the balls.

To like bring something. So I, I brought it. 

Dave: Wow. 

Reese: So we're in, we're in our room and we're all taking sips of this stuff. So we're not only [00:39:00] goofy, but we're warm 'cause brandy makes you warm. So we had to go try on shoes and stuff like that. And we're there and we're all like red face sweating like, and one of my friends got the boot actually stuck on her foot. And then, , we're like, this is a bad sign. And then we finally like, whatever, get to the thing. They're showing us what to do. And it was the one knot that you hop on and hop off. It was one where you had to like hold the rope.

Mm-hmm. And it pulls you up. Yeah. And they're like, when you get to, there's like levels. So when you get to whatever the color is, 

Dave: you get like, to a flat level, you can go off. 

Reese: I panicked. I wouldn't let go of the rope. I panicked. 

Dave: Oh, you got to like the, the danger zone level. 

Reese: I went to the top and then I, and the guy pulls me off of there.

Yeah. And I'm like, I, I wanna take the skis off. Can I walk down? He is like, absolutely not. You have to go. And I was like, I, I don't want to, this motherfucker 

Dave: just pushed you. 

Reese: Pushed me. 

Dave: Yeah. 

Reese: Because what else was gonna happen? 

Dave: You deserved it probably. 

Reese: Pushed me and I hear [00:40:00] people screaming. 

Dave: You're gonna die. 

Reese: No. I'm hearing people screaming, pizza, whatever the 

Dave: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

Reese and Dave: Pizza and french fries 

Dave: Yeah, 

Reese: And I'm like, what? Like I'm just screaming, going down. And then I went like this. Which makes you 

Reese and Dave: go faster. 

Dave: Even. I know that. 

Reese: Again, I always mention my buddy Michelle Bove.

Michelle Bove, the night before we went rollerskating and she fell and like had to go to the emergency room and she like fractured her arm and she had this big like styrofoam cast on. What are the chances She's down at the bottom just watching everybody ski. She can't do anything. Here I am going, ah, down the hill.

I've ran into Michelle Bove and her fractured arm.

And then I was like, I'm never skiing again. And I haven't, but we went skiing, but I didn't, 

Dave: no, we didn't ski. 

Reese: We stayed in the uh, 

Dave: so I was gonna say, yeah, the, the best I like is like I do like [00:41:00] when it's a snow day. Mm-hmm. Because you do like, to your point about getting the snacks, you feel like you good Sit in, oh my God, you gotta watch movies, sit by the fire.

Reese: I feel like it's 

Dave: Do all of that. 

Reese: An excuse to eat whatever you want to eat because the calories don't count when it snows. 

When it snows. That's right. I think that's scientifically been proven. 

It is. It is. Uh, if there's any type of science I believe in, what's that one? 

Dave: There's that. 

Reese: And on that note, 

Dave: let's end it there. Hey, 

Reese: it's it's snow problem. I'm going to eat some more of my snacks. 

Dave: Wow. Listen, if it's snowing near you, I hope you don't get it too bad. I hope, uh, you know, you're able to dig yourself out. But otherwise, 

Reese: don't eat the yellow snow. 

Dave: Don't eat the yellow snow. Don't even, don't even drink it. 

Reese: It's not good. I heard it from a friend.

Dave: Get yourself a clean 

Reese: heard from a friend 

Dave: Snow martini. We'll put that recipe up on the site for you when we publish this episode. But otherwise, friends, remember this life is a group project. Be kind to each other.

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