Dave and Reese get into their go-to games right now, the ones they’ll always say yes to, and the ones they’d be thrilled to never play again. They cover household staples like Scrabble (Dave’s forever game), party chaos like Cards Against Humanity, and the games that turn Reese into a one-woman protest (Monopoly and Uno, mostly). Along the way there’s midlife nonsense: rogue gray eyebrow hairs, Dave’s “wart logic,” and a dirty martini that Reese does not trust.
This couples podcast episode is classic couples humor: Dave wants strategy, Reese wants the game to be fun, and someone’s always taking it personally. If you’re into relationships, marriage banter, and game-night energy that can swing from wholesome to unhinged in under 30 seconds, you’re in the right place.
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Reese: Oh my God, Dave, I'm so excited to be having a good time on this podcast.
No, that's not baby talk. That's.
Dave: I'm not even gonna say what it is. How about we just say this? Cheers. Cheers. I'm ready for this.
Reese: Wait, let's start.
Dave: We are starting,
Reese: you're recording this. You recorded
Dave: your baby talk.
Reese: Yes.
Dave: Yes.
Reese: I wish you didn't do that. That is mortifying.
It's not gonna be in the show
Intro Music: This is Dave. This is Reese, and this is Manic Joy, a podcast about life, love, and, and uncertainty.
Reese: Cheers.
Dave: Cheers.
That's pretty good.
Reese: That's good.
Dave: Yeah. Wow. You all right over there? [00:01:00] You're, uh, having some issues.
Reese: A yay. Today's a day.
Dave: Today is a day, but not much of anything.
Reese: No.
Dave: Happening today
Reese: because also. How is it six 12?
Dave: I know it's six 12 on a Saturday. We're recording on a Saturday today and today we're gonna talk about our go-to games 'cause we're a big game family.
Reese: We, I was just gonna say, we are
very much a game family
Dave: and maybe we'll talk a little bit about maybe some games we're not so hot on anymore that we used to be, be
Reese: I did make a list of that
Dave: and then maybe even, let's see if we run the same,
Reese: maybe even
Dave: same wavelength.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: Maybe even. Some games we liked as children.
Reese: Oh, okay.
Dave: So think about that.
Reese and Dave: Okay. All right. All right. Okay.
Dave: So that's what we're gonna talk about today. But it's, it's long hair, but is that from your, your back?
Reese: My weaves. It's from my weave.
Dave: So let's just talk about long hair for a second.
Reese: Wait,
Dave: every once in a while,
Reese: I just got that joke.
Dave: Yeah. Thank you. Every once in a while I'll get like a so I get, I'm at the age of. Hairs coming outta places that don't typically.
Reese: Oh, yep. Yep.
Dave: [00:02:00] It's the hair in the ears.
Reese: Maybe that's why you can't hear anything 'cause you have too much hair in there.
Dave: Maybe. No, it's not that bad. But every once in a while though, the, the point of a long hair though, on my lobe, you get one that's just like a wild hair. Oh, that's, or you know, I get that one like gray hair on my chest that just pops out or,
Reese: yes. The little random,
Dave: just like random stuff. Yeah.
Reese: I call him Harry.
Dave: Harry. Hairy. Harry.
Reese: Hairy. Harry. Hairy. Harry.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Yeah, I'm not, I don't think that's like that for women, but I am getting gray hair in areas that I did not have gray hair before.
Dave: Ooh, do tell.
Reese: And that, that is discouraging. I would say the big nuisance one that is driving me crazy.
And actually I don't mind my hair. Having like the gray.
Mm-hmm.
That's fine.
Mm-hmm.
You know, it's on my eyebrows. I have these thick, rogue. Two gray hairs and every time I pluck [00:03:00] 'em,
Dave: they just come back with the vengeance
Reese: cut. I pluck. I kept plucking the one,
Dave: did they die hard?
Reese: Then other one
Dave: with a vengeance.
Reese: It's really funny you said that because that's what Emily's watching with friends tonight and I'm like, I'm like, don't, because that honestly, that Die Hard is like, that's kind of my favorite one. I know. The original is.
Dave: Of course
Reese: the best. It's epic. It's a classic, but the third one is my favorites. Yeah.
And I, I was like, don't write all the lines. 'cause I say there's like certain lines in that movie that is my absolute favorite. So I only did one and then I'm gonna shut up about it because she'll kill me. But
Dave: Good.
Reese: Anyway, so yeah, so the Rogue. Eyebrow.
Mm-hmm. Don't like that?
No. At all. Not a fan. And down below,
Dave: oh,
Reese: in the hoo-ha area.
Dave: Oh,
Reese: there's some gray hairs and it reminds me of
Dave: You. Sure. You sure they're not cobwebs, but, um, sh. It was a horrible joke. There's that.
Reese: There it is.
Dave: There's that noise again. I had to, that I had to take that joke because No, don't [00:04:00] worry friends. It's not that at all. But that was pretty funny
Reese: way to save yourself.
Dave: Yeah. Yeah.
Reese: Because you know that joke applies to you. You are the joke.
Dave: I know. That's why it's funny, but no, it's not that at all.
Reese: Um, yeah, and I mean, it's not like, it's like a lot down there. Um, but it's enough for me to sometimes
Dave: It's not like my beard yet
Reese: when I'm there. No.
Dave: Because that's where I get all my grays.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Luckily, I mean, honestly, I,
I like the grays
Reese: on
Dave: your
Reese: beard.
Dave: It's very distinguished. It looks, it looks nice,
Reese: but that's, that's men.
Dave: I have
Reese: to say though,
men get the gray in the hair and in the beard and they look distinguished.
I think
when women get it. We are old
Dave: ads,
I think. I think you look great.
I don't mind the gray hair. Look, I'm, you know, my position on all of this stuff is like, I'm, I'm happy with us, like how we look getting old.
Mm,
I think you look fantastic. You look beautiful.
Reese: Oh,
Dave: and I like it.
Thanks
Reese: babe.
Dave: And so
Reese: that's just 'cause you wanna get laid tonight.
Dave: No. I don't want to get laid today.
Reese: Oh, that's why there's cobwebs. See,
that's,
Dave: that's the last thing I wanna have happen.
See the
Reese: dilemma.
Dave: Yeah. What's [00:05:00] interesting to me though is that I feel as though, like if I ever shaved my beard. Then
Reese: I would hate you.
Dave: I, I don't know if this was, is scientific at all.
Reese: We would get
Dave: divorced,
but my, but my thought is, my thought process is if I shaved my beard, then my hair would turn gray.
Mm.
Because this is where it's coming out. It's kind of like, so
let's Greek
Reese: mythology character
Dave: here we go
you're
Reese: creating for
Dave: yourself.
Let's really get on a another getting old theme and not even getting old theme, but
Reese: older. We're getting older.
Dave: All of us.
It's not
Reese: old of
Dave: Yeah. No, no.
Older.
All of us have, well, I don't know if you do, do you have, do you ever get a wart.
Reese: I can definitely say in my entire lifetime, I've never done,
you've
Dave: never had a wart. So I get them every once in a while but one, again, one of the things I found, don't know if this is any science, but this is Dave Science right now.
We need a...
Dave Science.
Science. Science. Science.
Here we go. Dave. Science. You ready?
Yeah.
I'll give you two pieces of Dave's science.
Oh.
The first is on the wart. So when I get a wart. You know, sometimes I get 'em on my hand. I'll get 'em on a, [00:06:00] like my leg or whatever. I will go and get it removed. And then eventually,
Reese: does that hurt? Is that painful?
Dave: Um, not really. I mean, they just kind of like freeze it,
Reese: slice
Dave: it.
They freeze it,
Reese: they slice it up,
Dave: they freeze it. Not slice it,
Reese: freeze
Dave: it,
and it kind of like falls off.
Then they slice it?
Nope. They freeze it.
Reese: I want 'em to slice it.
Dave: Maybe I'll just rub it on you so you,
No you know what
So you can get
Reese: one and can go get
it sliced,
I'm all set. You can keep your, that, those words to yourself.
Dave: So, so here's what happens I get one someplace and then inevitably it pops up in a new location at some point.
Reese: Fun.
Dave: And so I don't know if I've said this on the podcast before, but I know I've mentioned it before. Right now I have one on the heel of my foot.
Reese: Oh, that's awful.
Dave: No, it's fine. There's, it doesn't, it's just there.
Reese: Mm. You don't,
Dave: there's no pain.
You don't feel it?
I just know it. It's there. I can feel it. I like, I know it's there, but I don't like, it's not like my day to day. I'm like, oh my God, this wart.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Like it's not anything intrusive and it's fine, [00:07:00] but it's there.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: And I'm like, cool. I'm gonna take that. Until it gets to the point where I'm like, oh no, I have to do something about it,
Reese: right?
Dave: Because. Dave Science is like it's gonna go away, but then it's gonna pop some up someplace else.
Right.
Where I don't want it to be
Reese: like on your penis,
Dave: where you don't want it to be
Reese: like on your penis.
Dave: Exactly. So my point is my Dave Science says,
Oh, there's a
Reese: point.
Dave: I'm okay with where that wart is now.
Yeah.
And I'm gonna keep it there until I can't keep it there no mo.
Reese: I think you should get that on a shirt
Dave: now
Reese: and wear it
Dave: now. Dave Science part two.
Reese: Oh, there's more.
Dave: For whatever reason. I get when I have acne like outbreaks.
I get it. Symmetrically meaning if I get a zit over here, I'll get a zit over here.
Reese: Oh, matching.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: You still get zits. Like it's weird.
Dave: It's been pretty good
that you
Reese: still break out,
Dave: but I still do every once in a while. You know what it is? It's food. I think it's food.
Mm.
Dave: When I am eating clean and I'm fine [00:08:00] and
right
with the exercise, whatever,
obviously
drinking enough water.
Reese: Mm-hmm.
Dave: I'm pretty good. But if I get like, oh, let's go have some of that crap and then we do it,
you splurge.
We have like a crap day. Like that's when I'll, I think I get 'em, especially as like the sugars, like the candies and stuff. I think I get them from that.
Reese: I used to have bouts of bad acne.
Dave: Yeah. I was never,
Reese: when I was in my
Dave: horrible, but I always, I would always have
Reese: something
late teens into my twenties, and then it went away.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: I really, every once in a while I'll get a honker somewhere on my face, which, whatever, but I get the, I do get like hives and stuff, like on my chest and my back, like if I'm sweating.
That's why I don't like sweating my body just. Rejects it and then I end up like getting like rashes. I can't stand it. I would say like the only thing that I get that is like weird is I'll get a cyst.
The
Dave: only thing,
Reese: yeah.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: I get cysts.
Okay.
My mom used to get them like in, in her wrist and they used to do like the old school method where they would just.
Whap [00:09:00] it with a heavy textbook. Did you ever hear that?
Dave: I absolutely. Look at my face.
Reese: I know. Yeah. I can tell as I was saying that, um,
Dave: did I ever hear it right? Yeah.
Reese: Yeah. Um,
Dave: that's
Reese: the face that
Dave: has heard
Reese: that.
Yeah. Uh, I've never had to do that. They usually go away on their own. and I, I haven't gotten them like that much.
Dave: Okay.
Reese: Yeah, just the only thing that's like, like a weirdo thing is just the, the gray hair coming out on my
Dave: Alright.
Reese: eyebrow, which is really annoying, but it is what it is, I guess.
Well,
Dave: there you go. There's some,
could be worse there.
There's some, uh,, midlife, uh,
fun
Reese: facts.
Dave: Fun facts for you. This time around
something to look
Reese: forward to.
Yeah.
Youngin's out there.
Dave: Uh, cheers. Again, we're drinking today. I don't think it is as spicy as I'd like it to be, but it's a dirty, spicy martini.
Reese: Is it? It's not spicy.
Dave: Hmm.
Reese: It's not spicy.
Dave: No, it's not that spicy.
Reese: No.
Dave: I did use the spicy things that is passed its due date, so maybe that's why.
Reese: Maybe that's,
Dave: [00:10:00] but
Reese: why I'll be throwing up later.
Dave: You won't be
awesome.
You won't be, you'll be fine.
Reese: We'll see.
Dave: Now, for those of you who have been playing along and were with us last week, I want you to know that the pantyhose solution
Oh yes.
Has been working its magic outside.
Reese: Excellent.
Dave: We've got I've, I've noticed. A couple of them have slid off the roof.
Reese: Oh,
Dave: they didn't make it.
Reese: Because that's what pantyhose do. They slide off.
They slide.
Dave: Right. So just like,
Reese: just
Dave: instinctively
if you're wearing them
Reese: mm-hmm.
Dave: They, they slide down.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: And they slid down the roof and have made it onto the patio area.
Reese: Excellent, excellent.
Dave: But the ones that have stayed so far.
They have seemed to have done their job, which is to melt a channel within the ice so that when the ice is, the snow is melting, it can go through and escape and not build up as an ice dam.
Reese: Well, there you go.
Dave: So
Reese: you recommend
Dave: that method?
Well, I recommend. Doing the, the roof raking before you get to this point.
And unfortunately because of all the snow I was unable to, that's just [00:11:00] the, the stuff from the, the calm down. She's looking at her drink suspiciously now because I mentioned an expiration date.
It's it past the
Reese: due date. And
Dave: now's it's
Reese: super dirty.
Dave: It's a
different types of dirty.
It's a couple of days.
It's not anything crazy.
Am I gonna get
Reese: Ebola?
Dave: Yes, you will likely get Ebola
Reese: fantastic.
Dave: And then we'll have to figure out what to do with that.
Remember
Reese: that time Ebola was a thing and I. Borrowed masks and gloves from the when, when I was getting my boobs checked, I grabbed masks and gloves from the room while I was waiting to go get my boobs checked.
And I gave them to you 'cause you were traveling. Do you remember that? I was Put these on because there's Ebola.
Dave: Maybe that seems like something you
Reese: would do.
It was the early stages of CDC Reese.
Yeah.
Ebola was a thing.
Dave: I re so of all the things I regret about this podcast. I do regret we did not continue to have episodes regardless of how unhinged they were during that time of COVID.
I
Reese: know. It actually would've been,
Dave: it would've been really good.
It would've been good.
It would been really great to go back to,
yeah.
Totally be like, [00:12:00] whoa.
Yeah,
because we, there was such a, a progression
just to document
a progression.
Reese: What was going on
Dave: at that time with us.
Well, that's
it. Right. And it would've been something that everybody would've like, well, this is why a lot of the podcasts took off during that time too.
Yeah.
Was because everybody was like, what do we do?
Yeah.
And all the celebrities were like, what's the podcast?
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: And so, you know, now we gotta fucking compete with celebrities.
Reese: I know.
Dave: This is bullshit.
Reese: I know. This is terrible.
Bullshit.
This is terrible.
Dave: God
Reese: dammit.
Because if, if they,
Dave: you're already celebrities, do your own
Reese: damn thing.
'cause you know, this thing would've blown up. We would've been like super famous and shit.
Well the goal is we're
Dave: gonna see if we can do a little something. We'll talk about
Yes, we're on the TIkkyTok.
We're gonna do that later. We are on the TikTok. So Reese was kind enough too. 'cause I'm like, I ain't on the TikTok.
Yep.
So I'm like that Reese, that's Reese's zone.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: And we've been doing some of the things we've been talking about. We've got some automation set up. So, uh, we got some clips going to TikTok. We got some clips going to Instagram and Facebook.
Well, my favorite
got some clips going to YouTube.
Reese: Yep.
Dave: We're on all the places I know. So if you're on YouTube, you can follow us there. If you are on TikTok, of course, follow us there. Instagram, [00:13:00] Facebook, those are the big places.
Reese: My favorite. Um,
Dave: and of course you can go to our website and see. Listen here as well.
Reese: See and listen.
Dave: Yeah.
do you see what I see?
Reese: No. Oh. Um, is, is it a wart? It's gone. What? I was gonna say, it flew away.
Dave: Maybe it'll come back.
Reese: No.
Dave: So, well, here's what we were gonna do. We were gonna. Talk about the games, as I mentioned.
Oh
Reese: yes. Let's talk
Dave: about the game,
right? So you wanna start that? So
Reese: yeah,
Dave: I've made a list of my go-to games. Maybe we can alternate back and forth. Yeah.
Reese: Well let's do that.
Dave: Of what our go-to games are at this particular,
you said top five,
Reese: right?
Dave: I said top five, but then I added a sixth and then I was like, oh, crap. And I added another that I think is just a game that I'm like, well, we don't really play it much now.
Reese: Mm.
Dave: But I was like, but this is a game that I we both love to play, actually. Mm-hmm. So maybe I'm gonna start with that one.
Reese: Okay.
Start
Dave: with that one.
Ready?
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Because I think we both love this game. We played it religiously every week for a long time. When we lived in New York, we played [00:14:00] it for a period of time when we lived here. Yep. And every once in a while though, I think the last time we played was Cinco de Dos.
Reese: Yeah, I was gonna mention that game.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: But I didn't know if that's like officially. I thought we were sticking to board games,
Dave: so I didn't.
Well, but that's why I was like, but uh, that's why I was like, okay. Okay. It's kind of off to the side. Yeah. It's not on the list. It's off to the side.
Reese: I'll, I'll allow it.
Dave: So a game we both love is Texas Hold 'Em.
Poker.
Reese: Poker.
Dave: Oh my God. A no limit.
Reese: It's no limit. Texas hold 'em.
I'll play that anytime of poker. And I never thought that I would like that game as much as I did.
It's so good.
How did we start? How did we start playing?
Dave: I
Reese: don't.
And how did we start watching the whole, whole series of poker? Like why were we watching that?
What would
Well,
Dave: I, how did we start playing?
The
Reese: girls were babies when we were doing that. I remember taking them.
I think we
Dave: just got into Because like your mother liked poker, like she was a gambler.
Reese: Oh yeah. Yeah. Both of them. Both my parents were my grandmother too. They'd poker night.
Why
Dave: didn't start playing?
Reese: They actually, I [00:15:00] grew up.
Dave: Yeah. Well how
Reese: having poker games. Listen in my house. You know that story, right?
Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah.
Like Friday, Friday nights or poker nights, and they had their poker crew. Mm-hmm. Like the, the Motley Ist crew you've ever seen. And they played, they would start at I don't know, eight, nine o'clock at night.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Late until the next morning. Mm-hmm. I'd get up for school, be like, bye guys. Leave and if the shade was down, they were still playing when I got home.
Yeah, of
Dave: course.
Reese: And then sometimes they would go to Staten Island and play at. George Arbini's house. Mm-hmm. I think, not that anybody knows who that is, unless my cousins are listening, but I don't think they know who that is.
It doesn't matter. They had cable. We did not. Oh. And so I would always go,
Dave: you were po
Reese: because. No, my father just didn't wanna, didn't see the point in it.
Dave: Remember when, when I didn't, I was like, against cable, didn't have cable.
You were
Reese: against cable and cell phones.
Dave: [00:16:00] You moved in and you were like,
I
Reese: ruined your
Dave: life.
What do you mean there's no cable? Yeah. Oh yeah. You, you've made it more expensive, that's for sure. In terms of a cable and, uh,
Reese: and fun.
Dave: Well, yeah, and fun.
Reese: But yeah, so I, I grew up with poker and it, I. But they played a different poker. They would play like the different types. It wasn't Texas hold, it wasn't Texas Hold, whatever.
Dave: I'm a, I'm a, I'm a purist in that sense. Like I just wanna play that game. I love it. I like the structure
Reese: of it.
I would just like to know how we started it.
Dave: That's a great question. I think it was, it was definitely me.
Reese: Yeah. Oh yeah.
Dave: But I don't know, I don't remember how I got into it. Listen, this is how into it I was.
And like we, we often talk about how I go down rabbit holes with things or get obsessed with things. We had, do you remember this? I think you were involved. Remember we were playing email games, like where I would send people hands and then people would say how they would play. Do you remember this?
Reese: I barely remember that.
I don't think I participated in
Dave: that.
Oh, okay. 'Cause you know, it's in my, you know, it was in my. [00:17:00] Archive of emails and I found them a while back. I was like, holy shit. We used to do. That's crazy. So it was like Luke Hancock. We used to play Emily Sarkis, Paul Sarkis, my dad, I don't know, I think Bryant was in there like a whole bunch.
I got my dad into it. I think I got other people into it. And they also got obsessed and did their own plays.
Well, your father still plays.
He still plays. Right.
Reese: And he made poker tables.
Dave: Yeah. Well we still have one of those. Yeah.
Reese: Didn't we go to like a
Dave: with the Sarki?
Reese: No, no. No. That. Yeah. But didn't we go to like a a game in Brooklyn?
With my mom. We went to go play at some like illegal.
Dave: I think we did. I don't know why. I don't know what, it was probably illegal if it was with your mother, but
Reese: you're not wrong.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: But there was that, and then we went to Atlantic City.
Dave: We went to Atlantic City. We did for sure. We played, we went to a couple places and when we, and we played
Reese: yeah,
Dave: in some tournaments.
I like playing the tournament style. I'm not a big fan of the. The cash games.
Reese: Mm.
Dave: But I do love the tournament style poker because like, that's where like, you just have your buy-in and you know what you're losing, you know [00:18:00] what you're committing to. Fun. I love it.
Reese: That was a fun time.
Dave: We used to play every Friday.
Yeah. We had the Lime Lounge. We have custom chips that have the Lime Lounge on 'em, like it was,
and then you would have
Reese: your own tournament games in, in our
Dave: little
Reese: apartment
Dave: in Queens.
We had the, the Super Bowl of Poker. Yeah. Every year we had two tables.
Reese: Yep.
Dave: And it was so 20 players.
Did
Reese: you ever win? I don't, I think I came close once.
Dave: I don't know if I did two and I got knocked. He did on the bubble I think did at least two times. Yeah. I can't remember if we did it three times or not.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: But I think my dad won one and I remember, I can't, I don't remember his name. We had some like, uh, an interesting group of people that played too.
Reese: We did. I don't even know where those people
Dave: came.
Like Ken, I think was Ken. No, not Ken, but a friend of Ken's Right. I think won once. What
Reese: a weird,
it was the guy weird. It was the guy that was married to the lawyer.
Was
Dave: that guy and we
Reese: went to his house.
Dave: Yep,
Reese: yep. And one time he brought me
Dave: Rob. Rob was his
Reese: name.
That was his name.
Dave: Yep.
Reese: And one time I mentioned that I liked White Castle and they were having a suitcase full of White Castle.
Dave: Oh yeah.
Reese: And he brought me it. Oh. And I ate a lot of it.
Dave: Yep.
Reese: And I got.
Dave: It was like, it was [00:19:00] like pulp fiction and you opened it up and was like,
Reese: it was, uh, but yeah, poker, I agree, but I didn't put that on my list because I,
Dave: so that's a game we love. Just one more thing because I like to my conquests, but remember the time I was up, like to the wee hours of the morning and I came running in because I. Was playing online poker at that time was also a big thing. I don't even know if that's a thing anymore. I'm sure it is
Reese: probably.
Dave: But we don't follow it anymore.
Like it got, so it got to the place where we actually, I sent letters to poker players that were like famous and they sent us their pictures back with their signatures on them.
Reese: That happened.
Dave: And so we hung them in our poker room.
Reese: Yep.
Dave: Which is wild.
Reese: Yep.
Dave: And, but also I won an online tournament and
I remember that
made a pretty decent payout.
Yeah. That I was very excited about. Yeah. That was like that feeling. I can equate only to being young and facing Mike Tyson. Imagine I meant in real life.
Reese: Oh my
Dave: god.
No.
I was like, wait a minute.
Mike Tyson's Punch Out on Nintendo.
Oh,
Reese: funny.
Dave: And beating him for the first time. Wow. My heart was raised like, dude, that game [00:20:00] was no joke, but I remember that and being like, Stan Stan.
I, I beat him. I beat Mike Tyson. And then this was me like Reese. Reese. I won. IWII won to poker a tournament.
Reese: I won the pokwer tournwament.
Dave: There it is. Bringing it full circle.
There it is there.
So anyway,
anyway, so there's that.
So that's just a high level, not even on the list, but a game we love to play and quite frankly.
Girl. I love that the girls play play and
the girls play too.
Play it now today. Have their friends over. They play more than we do I think at this point.
Reese: I know. It's so funny. And I think Emily won the last time.
Oh yeah.
They all
Dave: played.
Yeah. Good for
Reese: them.
I mean, they're good. That's good.
Dave: I think that's just a great game.
That's a a, a good mix of strategy plus luck.
Reese: Yep.
Dave: It teaches you And it's not about the gambling, it's about the game itself.
Yeah. You play the player.
I love games that a strategy played player. I don't like games that are just chance. Yeah. I'm like,
Reese: yeah.
Dave: With that, so. Okay.
Reese: All right.
Dave: What's number one on your list of go-to games
Reese: now?
So is this in order of like favorite? 'cause I didn't do, I just, I just put them there.
Dave: I kind of put them in order. But you can do what you want.
Reese: I didn't put them in order, but I [00:21:00] do.
That sounds right.
I think I like them all equally the same.
Dave: Oh, wow.
Reese: So I'm not like,
Dave: wow. You're an equal opportunity gamer.
Reese: I am. I am.
Dave: Board gamer.
Reese: Yeah. A board I bored
Dave: room and boarder.
Reese: Um, yes, Dave. Mm-hmm. Um, I put Pictionary, I love Pictionary, so I do not be on my team if you can't draw. You're be stupid.
You're gonna be on my
Dave: team. If you don't know Bill Cosby when I draw
Reese: Exactly. Exactly. Or the Citgo sign or whatever The fricking thing you try to draw.
It was Maps
Dave: was Map.
Reese: It was the Maps app. It was the Maps app and,
Dave: but I totally should have done it differently. But
Reese: anyway.
Exactly. But it's fine. But I love Pictionary and I have great memories of that game from
Dave: Yeah,
Reese: forever.
Dave: Just love that game.
I love, love game as well. I did not make my list because it's not a game We play frequently these days,
Reese: but I always recommend it every time we have like a group of people and everybody's like, what game?
Dave: Yeah, I know. It's just Pictionary. Like, I think at a certain point your game tastes [00:22:00] evolve. Maybe. I don't know.
Reese: I'll play Pictionary any time.
Dave: But I'll play that game anytime. I love it. It's a great game.
Reese: Mm-hmm.
Dave: And let's just say this, just in general, we said we're a game family. I love games.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: I love. Winning the game, of course, yes, but I also, I don't care if I win.
I love it. Because I, when it's a fun activity for everyone, like I love the active thing, do well,
Reese: sometimes it becomes not fun because you constantly win and it is really right. But But listen,
Dave: I'm not a sore
Reese: is soul crushing.
Dave: I will, I will say this
Reese: though. I'm a so loser.
Dave: You're a sore loser for sure.
You're a so loser.
Reese: I'm a so loser.
Dave: You're a sore loser. For sure. I'm a, I'm not like a a you hate that. I win all the time, but I'm also not like a, I'm not like a dick. You know how some people win and they're, they're poor winners.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: I'm not like that.
No, you're not.
I like, I like the fact
I'm just,
I like, when it's
a sore
Reese: loser.
Dave: And if you win, I'm, I'm like, disappointed. I lost. But I'm happy that you won. I just won a good game.
Reese: Yeah,
Dave: the biggest place I, I put this, and this is not a board game, but like when you think of like Mario Kart, for [00:23:00] example, that game, what I love about that game is how fun it is that. It gives everyone an equal chance to potentially win.
Mm. So meaning like if you're way in the back, like it gives you power ups to get closer to the front. Mm. And so the whole race is really anybody's race.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: And that's what I like. I like games that just come down to the last,
I didn't put
Reese: any video games
Dave: because that is also my,
I was just illustrates it's how I think about it.
So I, I love to win unless it's, I typically do,
Reese: unless it's Michael
Dave: Jackson.
I love when there's strategy, but I'm also, I just enjoy. When it's a good game.
Reese: Yeah, I agree.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Right. What's next?
Okay.
Dave: Okay, so well, number one on my list, and I did put them in order mm-hmm. Is, I think the ultimate game. Do you know what it is?
You know what it is my number one, if, if I had to choose the one game that I, that is the only game I can play forever moving forward. But would it be, let's see how, see if you can get this.
Reese: I was gonna say Scrabble.
Dave: Absolutely.
Reese: Yeah,
Dave: absolutely Scrabble.
Reese: I wrote, I wrote Scrabble with Dave [00:24:00] only.
Aw,
Dave: listen,
Reese: I don't wanna play it with other people.
I like when we play Scrabble and
I
Dave: will do that.
We actually that tonight, we should finish that game. We should have dinner and maybe finish it. Okay. Because we're close to done.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: I absolutely love that game. I
Reese: guess there's winning, not me,
Dave: but listen, listen, you, you gimme me. Get a run for my money.
Reese: But I like playing with you. But you because, because understand. Yes. Yeah, I have, and it, I, it makes me very happy and my goal is to win,
Dave: of course.
Reese: Uh, but I like playing with you because you understand it takes me 20 minutes to choose a word.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Because my strategy is I have no, I'm not gonna tell you my strategy.
Dave: That's fine. I don't need your strategy.
Reese: Why would I tell you that?
I,
Dave: well, you're not thinking, why would you tell anybody that? But I, I, I love playing that game.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: That, that is my,
I
Reese: do have a strategy with you though,
Dave: like Yeah, of course.
In general,
Reese: whatever.
Dave: My all time favorite game Scrabble started when I was in fifth grade, I guess is when I started with Scrabble.
Actually, I, that's a lie. I [00:25:00] started before that because I, I used to play with my grandmother. My grandmother on my mother's side, Alice, we used to play all the time, and there's something about it that I just, obviously, it brings memories back of that. I think I got my own game in fifth grade, meaning I got my own Scrabble board.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I think I used to play with my grandmother before that, and then we just used to play all the time. And so for whatever reason I love it.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: I love it. And I'm, I mean, if I'm on my, I mean, you see me, I'm on my iPad. If I'm on my phone and I've,
you're always
Reese: playing,
Dave: I'm playing Scrabble.
Reese: I've got an online game
Dave: I'm playing and I'm playing against the computer.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Whatever.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Like I love it.
Reese: Yeah, I know you do.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: I put Cards Against Humanity.
Dave: Okay. So that's my number two.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: And that's my number two in the list. But my number one in terms of a party game. Tell me, tell me more and I'll tell you more about mine.
'cause since you said it,
Reese: what about Cards Against Humanity? Yeah, again, which,
Dave: okay. Which,
Reese: when did we start playing that?
Dave: Long, long time ago.
Long,
Dave: long time ago.
Reese: Like we, I think we [00:26:00] played that game when it came out. Like it was
Dave: like
Right. Which is
Reese: essentially,
and we were always known for "The Charests will bring Cards against Humanity."
Yeah.
Dave: We, that's our game. That's game our
Reese: game.
Dave: That's essentially, and I didn't know this because I had never played that game, but it's essentially Apples to Apples, right? Yes. Which is the, pretty much the tame version. Mm-hmm. And so I love that they made, this is a more adult version that's inappropriate and so inappropriate, whatever.
Reese: I learned so many words.
Dave: So good. That, that you, that you that
Reese: I had to Google, don't search it up.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Yeah. Because then it's in your history and I was like, oh. Who wrote that? Mm-hmm. Like the people that like write the examples crack me up. But I love that game because you can actually sit with a bunch of people.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: And you're all good people. Yeah. You're all good. You're good to the human race. Yep. You're kind to animals. You tip well. Yep. You're a good person. You genuinely are not racist or homophobic or a piece of crap. [00:27:00] Like we would not hang out with people like that. We're not like that. However.
Dave: You can be completely inappropriate.
Reese: You are a disgusting, it's fine asshole during this game. Yeah, because,
and
Dave: it's hilarious.
Reese: You want to play and, and I also feel you play the player too of if you have the card, of course, that you know is gonna make this person Yeah. Laugh. That's my favorite thing. Yeah. I'm actually, I love playing that game.
I think I play that game really well.
Dave: You do. You do play that game well. Yeah. I like that. So now, as much as I love games, so here's why I love this game so much. 'cause again, we love being around our friends. Mm-hmm. Being around people. And when we're in a large, when you're in a large group, it's such a simplistic game.
Right. And easy for everyone to just pick up and play.
Reese: Right.
Dave: Without having to do much explaining.
Reese: Right.
Dave: And that's the problem with, as much as I do love games that have some intricacies to them, which I'll mention a couple of here,
more
Reese: than three rules. I'm out.
Dave: I'm in, in a [00:28:00] large group. I'm out.
Particularly when, like, let's be honest, when you're in a large group or drinking Yeah. Like you're not,
and one's
Reese: listening and
Dave: you can't play some of the games that you would like to play.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Because of that fact. Correct. In this game is a perfect, it. It, I'm gonna go as far as to say, unless someone can prove me wrong.
If you can prove me wrong, honestly, if you're paying attention and you can prove me wrong here, I can't think of another more. Perfect. Party game than Cards Against Humanity. Mm-hmm. For adults.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: And even for kids.
And
Reese: they made a family version and I bought it for us, but we don't really play that because we like to play like pieces of shit
Dave: and I have never laughed so much.
Reese: Yes.
Dave: Or been amazed
Reese: Yes.
Dave: By answers and things that have happened playing that game.
Reese: What, what is your. What is your top favorite card when you get it or if it's in the mix?
Dave: I, I can't give you a top favorite card, but I'll give you my top favorite [00:29:00] scenario was the time that we were playing with Jen. It was just three of us and we were playing it.
And it was a twofer. Oh my God. So some of the cards are a this and a this.
Reese: Yes.
Dave: And
Reese: that was a once in a lifetime experience.
Dave: I don't even know how it happened. Like I can't even fathom the odds of this happening.
Reese: Right.
Dave: Was you got deja vu
Reese: Yep.
Dave: For both answers. Yep. To the twofer card.
Reese: Yep.
Dave: And I almost lost my mind.
Reese: Yep.
Dave: I was ready. You know when the cartoons, when you, when they run through the wall, like there was almost a Dave shaped hole in the house? Yep. 'cause I was like. What the fuck?
Reese: Because how ama That was amazing.
Dave: The
Reese: best.
That was amazing.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Whenever I could play either the, well, there's, okay.
There's, um,
Dave: buckle I love folks.
Yep.
Reese: There's a, what is it, Sue from accounting.
Dave: Mm.
Reese: Fucking sue from accounting.
Dave: That is a good
Reese: one.
Always makes me laugh. [00:30:00] The white side of Obama.
Dave: Yep. Yep.
Reese: Um,
Dave: that's a good one.
Reese: Yep. There's another one that I, I, I always seem to get these.
Yeah. And I love them. There was, there was one, there's one about a flute, a tiny flute, whatever. It does a singing.
I think
Dave: there is,
Reese: but whatever it is, I just, there.
Dave: There
Reese: are so many,
Dave: so many. And they're amazing.
Reese: Amazing. And I don't think there's ever been a time that anybody got upset or offended.
Oh
Dave: no.
Because, you
Reese: know,
like offended.
It's
Dave: just,
Reese: it's just, and then you laugh. You laugh '
Dave: cause it's so ridiculous.
Reese: It's so ridiculous
Dave: and funny. It's the best one. Like the answer is like, that's the best answer.
That's the
Reese: best
Dave: one for sure.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Yeah. That is the ultimate party game,
Reese: so. Yep. Good.
Dave: Fight me.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Change my mind.
Reese: You.
Dave: Okay, so this is a newer discovery 'cause I don't think I've ever played this game until more recently.
Reese: I'm having a hard time drinking this drink because you told me that,
Dave: oh God, get
Reese: over it.
That thing was expired. Get over it. And now that's all I can think of.
Dave: Get over it. It's delicious.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: Rummikub. So this is a game.
Reese: We have like three of [00:31:00] those. You've, you
Dave: got .
Well, I got into it
Reese: crazy. Yeah.
Dave: Well, because what, so I have the original version, right? Which is just, uh, you can play with four people.
Reese: Mm.
Dave: And then, because now we have the, the girls have their boyfriends and if we're gonna play, we need at least six.
And so they have a six player version. Then I got one because I travel all the time. I got a travel version. So I've got three versions of Rummikub in the house now,
Reese: and I like it
That game.
Dave: It's not my
Reese: favorite
Dave: It's Well, so for me, this is one where strategy. Yeah. And like luck. And again, it's like poker almost.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: I love the Game of Rummy card, game of Rummy to begin with.
Reese: Also don't like Rummy.
Dave: Huge fan of that game. This is a, a, a spin on that. And a fun game. Fun game and can, can go off the wa off the rails a little bit when you're trying to like make, 'cause you get to play like your cards, but you can then, or tiles,
Reese: right?
Dave: But then you can also build on and manipulate other people's tiles once they hit the board. And the object is to get rid of all [00:32:00] your tiles.
Reese: Mm-hmm.
Dave: So much fun.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: A lot of fun. Emily loves it. Yeah. I have that on my iPad too. I'll play that from time to time. That's a great game. Yeah. So that's on my number, that's number three on my list.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: Of today's games.
Reese: Um,
Dave: but you got
Reese: Ransom Notes.
Dave: That's on my number four
Reese: Ransom Notes.
Dave: I'm with you. We put the, was a phenomenal, we're saying the same things at the
Reese: same time.
I know. Because we play the same games.
Dave: What a great buy that turned out to
Reese: be.
Well, that was a, that's a brilliant game. Yeah. That is another game.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: That you play the player.
The words are so. Random. Yeah. That you can make if, if you're, and it's timed. Mm-hmm. So you have to go like, kind of quick. But
Dave: and that's loosely timed.
It's just to kind of help you along. Right. Because it could be like, you know,
Reese: and, and sometimes like the shorter the sentence, sometimes just one word is the funniest. Mm-hmm. And who's the best one of the family that wins all the time?
Jonnie.
Jonnie,
Dave: she's great at it.
Reese: Jonnie, she and she used minimal words.
Yeah. And [00:33:00] it's always,
Dave: yeah.
Reese: Top notch. Yeah. It's always so, so, so, so good. Yeah. And there's never been a time that we didn't play that game and not have a good time.
Dave: Highly recommend. Yeah. That's a newer game.
It's
Reese: a good investment.
Dave: It's a, it's a fun game. And so the, the concept of that game is similar to Cards Against Humanity.
Somebody reads a card. And you each pull these little magnets that are like, you know what,
like the ones that you get on the refrigerator, right?
It's all different words.
Reese: The only thing that talks about that game is that you have to pull the magnet pieces apart to it.
Dave: Yeah. There's a lot of, of, you know, whatever, but you have a little, little magnetic tile that you then try to answer whatever the question is on the card with the tiles that you have
on a little tray.
And because they're not complete sentences, they look like ransom notes.
Reese: Oh my God. It's so good.
Dave: And it's amazing. Yeah. It could be like. Tell someone you got attacked by a bear. Right. Could be a card and like then you have to like with whatever tiles that you have. Yeah. You have to try to explain that to somebody.
Reese: Much fun.
I have tons of pictures. Funs, if you wanna use one of those as an example. Yeah. 'cause between that and Cards Against Humanity, sometimes I have to [00:34:00] capture, I think I have the deja vu one too. I took a picture of that, that one. I gotta see if I can find that.
Dave: But that, that one you have to, I know we definitely took a picture of that.
Yeah, because that is like mind boggling.
Reese: That was amazing. But yes, so that one,
Dave: So, so I agree with, you wanna play that all the time. One, so I'm gonna go to another one. So now this is by the same company. Two, two games from the same company. This is like a newer game company.
Reese: And this, this one, I was also mad 'cause it's a lot of thinking.
Dave: So I know what you're gonna say.
This is again, this is not a like a big, this isn't like a everybody's drinking party. Yeah. And this is like you got a small group that want Yeah. Is together to play a game. Yeah. I love it. Yeah, and it's funny because the way it is, uh, positioned, it's called abduction as DUCK and it's a duck game.
And it's called like a, a weirdly strategic,
Reese: I don't even like this. Olive. What? Well, olives, what's wrong with this? Olive
Dave: olives are fine, but I don't know. They're, they're, I don't know what they taste like, but they,
I'm depressed.
The I olives were not expired.
I
Reese: know, but it tastes weird now because it absorbed
Dave: the
listen, listen, just [00:35:00] drink it.
It's alcohol, drink it.
Reese: It's like rubbing alcohol.
So
Dave: this game is a lot of fun. So the basic premise of this is you're trying to arrange
I'm Kitty
Reese: Dukakis.
Dave: Is you're trying to arrange your, your ducks in formations to collect points. And it's. It's kind you kind of just gotta play it to understand
Reese: it.
Yeah, it's fine. It's, it's actually,
it's a
Dave: lot of
Reese: fun. It's like,
but I don't need to play that all the time. Right. Because I, it's too much.
Dave: I could play it all the time.
Reese: I know.
Dave: Because I like the strategy of it. Yeah. And it's, it's weirdly, it is weirdly strategic. Yeah. So I really like that game that comes in at my number five.
Ransom, Ransom Notes is number four. Abduction is number five. And then I had a bonus one that I added. But you have, what's your next one?
Reese: Balderdash. I always wanna play Balderdash.
Yeah.
Dave: I'm not,
Reese: I love it.
Dave: I don't mind playing it. But that's the one you kind of make up the definition, right?
Is that what that one is?
Reese: Yeah. They give you, they give you the word.
Dave: That's not my favorite.
Reese: Do they give you the word or they give you the, they give you the definition and [00:36:00] then you have to, I think they, like everybody writes the definition of what they think.
Dave: I
Reese: don't remember.
It is, and then you pick,
Dave: it's been a long time since
Reese: we've
Dave: played that.
Reese: One, yeah. But I, I will, that and Pictionary are like my tried and true. I will, if anybody ever suggests it, I'm like, I'm in. I wanna play. Those are my,
Dave: So I love that game. I actually, actually, I have i'm adding a six to the list, and then I have some other honor. Honorable mentions.
Reese: Honorable,
Dave: honorable,
Reese: tolerable man.
Dave: Honorable mentions the honorable,
Reese: the ho,
Dave: judge.
Reese: See? See what's happening is that your brain is getting corroded. Be because you used expired. That's dirty juice.
Dave: That's fine. That's fine. Dirty juice.
Reese: Yep. Done. Dirt cheap.
It's
Dave: close. You almost said dirty Jews.
Reese: I did not. I did not. And that might have been a Card Against Humanity
Dave: card.
Exactly.
Reese: Um,
Dave: so listen, so you ready? And you're gonna hate this one that I added as number six to the list
Risk?
No. Oh no. That's a I'll, I'll get to that later.
Mm-hmm.
Reese: I [00:37:00] have a hate category.
Dave: Okay. You ready? This might be on it, then Cosmic Wimpout.
Reese: Fuck that game. You make up the rules to that game. And
I
Dave: don't,
Reese: I
Dave: will die on that hill.
So this is why people hate this game.
Reese: Ke the rules,
Dave: fucking
the best game.
Reese: Dumb.
Dave: A lot of fun. Except they're very intricate, these rules. And I, I lay the rule book down in the table and I know the, the rules by heart. They just have weird names. It's like, okay, like it, it's actually a lot like Rummikub to be honest, but it's just.
You've gotta roll die and you gotta get certain combinations of dies, and then you have to do certain things to get into the game.
Like
Reese: every time I would kind of think, oh,
I
Dave: did good.
This is
Reese: good. I can do I?
And
Dave: then it'd be like, Nope.
Because
Reese: it gives, gives because then you gotta jump up and scratch your ass and pull a, a.
An ace of spades outta your It's
Dave: true, it's true.
Reese: Vagina. I'm like,
Dave: so, so the dye are like six-sided die, but they like, they have, uh, symbols instead of the actual, you know, the pips instead of they have symbols instead of [00:38:00] the pips. And then, and then the Gladys Knight comes in, which is kind of like the rules.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: The rules are funny because it's like you roll and it's like, okay, you may not want to, but you must roll again. Yeah. Or, oh, you rolled the flash. You gotta clear the flash.
It's made up. And then yeah. It's,
Reese: it's, we're playing Bamboozled.
Dave: And the best. Well, it it, that's kind of what it's like. And the best way to play the game is to just, I'm gonna describe the rule as it happens because you can't really, and that's why it feels like I'm making it up,
Reese: I guess, who wins every single time.
Dave: Well,
Reese: I'll give you one guess.
Dave: Well,
Reese: it's not me.
Dave: I love that game. It's so good. It's so good. Yeah. All right. What? What do you got? You got
Reese: we. Well, I just said I the, I already told you Scrabble with Dave, but
Dave: I'm gonna give you got honorable mentions.
Reese: I No, I went to
Dave: don't go to hate yet.
Games
Reese: I hate.
Dave: All right, so let me give you a couple honorable mentions and then we'll go into the games of me.
Okay. We're not so hot on now. I have Yahtzee. I love that game. We don't play it a lot, but I did get us a version of it so we can see play it.
I did see
Reese: that. Yep.
Dave: The Celebrity Game.
Reese: [00:39:00] So yes,
Dave: it was a good party game.
Reese: I was thinking of that while we were having the conversation. I was like, I can't believe I didn't put that on there.
Dave: Which is now a game, a card game.
Reese: Yeah. We played
Dave: that
Called Monikers that we played on my birthday that I got, that I got as a gift, which is great. It's, it is the same premise. It's, yeah, it's just a little bit different way to do it.
Reese: So we played that, but then we're like right after that game was over, we're like, let's play celebrity game now.
Yeah. Which is alway again. Also very funny.
Dave: Yeah. So that, that's a good, or they
Reese: call it
Dave: Salad Bowl.
That's a good party game. So yeah, whatever they call it it's, the idea is simply, if you're playing it without the cards or whatever the celebrity game is, everybody that's playing the game writes down, let's say three people that everybody in the room would know.
Right. It could be celebrities, is usually the easiest way to do it. Or they could be people in the room
Reese: every single time. Every single time. What's the one name that is in
Dave: Bono?
Reese: Well, yes,
Dave: Michael Jackson,
Reese: Michael Jackson,
Dave: Michael Jackson and Bono always show up.
Reese: And then if we're at the house, everybody always writes Peppah and Magic.
Dave: Yes.
Reese: You always mention,
Dave: typically
Reese: person's [00:40:00]
Dave: animal.
So animals. Yeah. So the idea is you write these three names down, so every person playing writes three names down, and then you fold up that piece of paper and you put it into a hat.
Reese: Mm-hmm.
Dave: And then you play teams and you have a minute.
It's a minute.
Basic. Yeah. You have a minute to the first round is you do, you can say whatever you need to say to get people to say the name on the paper. You can, the name of the person. You can't say the name, the person,
Reese: and you can't act it out and you can't.
Dave: It's just whatever words will help somebody get it.
Reese: And you can't rhyme it.
Dave: So then, so you get, so you get the names and you keep going until you go through all the hat and then you get each round after a minute, you count up. How many people got, we typically play that you can't pass,
Reese: right?
Dave: And so if you get an award and you can't get it, you're kind of stuck.
Reese: You have to, you have to stay on it, which I
Dave: think,
and then that goes back into the hat, and then next team has to start from there. And the object is to get through all the names. So that's round one, right? There are three rounds. So the second round is then all those after you, you add up points from that round.
All of the names go back into the hat. And [00:41:00] now is it pantomime first?
Reese: No, it's,
Dave: or is it the one word? One word.
It's one word.
Yeah. So now all you can do
Reese: a whole, a full, say whatever you need to say to get through it.
Dave: Then it's you
Reese: Second round.
Dave: You can only say one word,
Reese: Right. Second round is one word, and you have to pick.
Dave: So this is where
a
Reese: good
Dave: word.
Reese: Otherwise you're screwed because you can't pass
Dave: at that point. So the, the fun part of this game, I think, 'cause I love games where you have to just be participating the whole time
Reese: you have to be present for
Dave: this game
is you have to, to be paying attention. Because sometimes people like it could be like, let's say Michael Jackson, right?
And somebody could say something stupid. Yeah. That makes sense in the context of the round that you're playing, right? That you could be like shovel.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: And you're like Michael Jackson. Yeah. Because it made sense in the context of how Right. The team and you have to be paying attention to get that and group talking about it.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: And so that means like hard words like you made, like we had one when we played the Monikers version of it. That was like, what, five or eight, like three ton pigs. I don't even know. Remember that one was, yeah.
I don't
Reese: even know what that was,
Dave: but it was like, but we knew it because.
Reese: Someone said something [00:42:00] previously so we can bring it back to do that.
Dave: Right,
Reese: and then once you get through that, the last round is. Pan acting it out. The,
Dave: is that charades?
Reese: Charades,
Dave: basically.
That's
Reese: what
Dave: it's,
Reese: you cannot say
Dave: any
Reese: words. That's
so,
Dave: you just act it out.
Reese: Ah, so good.
Dave: And you were, well, you're good at all of the levels, but you were the master at the charades version of that game.
I was, yeah. You were.
Reese: I was good. I was really in it because that's, that's another game that I'm very serious about. Yeah, you are. You also cannot be on my team. No, if you're not gonna take it
Dave: seriously.
You, so just, if you haven't picked up on this yet, Reese is both a so winner mm-hmm. And a soar. Loser.
Reese: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Dave: And I meant to say that the other way around.
Reese: It's
Dave: fine,
but whatever it is, you're miserable either way.
Reese: It's fair. It's fair. It's totally fair.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: There's anybody that has ever played any game with me knows that
Dave: no. Good.
Reese: And I just, go ahead. I just had a funny thought, but it, it's fine. Go ahead.
You gonna
Dave: keep it to yourself.
Reese: I'm gonna keep that one to myself. I'm gonna lock that one.
Dave: Uh, so you, I have [00:43:00] games that I'm cold on now that I like. I used to like, but now I'm like, I don't need to play
Reese: that.
I don't even say cold. Mine is just hate.
Dave: Hate. Okay, so what do you got? Gimme one.
Reese: Monopoly.
Dave: Yeah, I have that. That's number one on my list.
Fuck Monopoly.
I love that. Hilariously, we have the same one at the same time.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Right.
Reese: So, well, because I think some of these games too, we have played,
Dave: I, I used to not mind Monopoly. I don't have the, I don't have the patience to play
Reese: Monopoly.
I do not
now.
Dave: And
Reese: I get mad,
so I'm
Dave: fine without playing.
Reese: I get mad at Monopoly.
Dave: Well, you, but you get mad at all the games, so.
Reese: No, but I get.
You
Dave: get
Reese: extremely mad at Monopoly.
The two games that I, that I put here? Definitely. Yeah. Or I get mad.
Dave: Okay.
Reese: I'm just gonna give you the ones that I have done.
Yeah, go
Dave: ahead. Let's have it.
Reese: Yeah. So Monopoly.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Just 'cause I don't have the patience and I, and I, ugh.
Dave: Yep.
Reese: I hate it. And Uno.
Dave: Ah. I like Uno.
Reese: I know un You guys always wanna play.
That's a
Dave: fun
Reese: game.
I know you guys
Dave: play. You really do hate it. I forgot. Do hate it. I forgot how much you hate Uno.
Reese: I do hate it. Yeah, I, there's just something about it because the cards are never in my [00:44:00] favor,
but she
Dave: does love Dos.
Reese: Yeah. Yeah. Dos a hundred percent.
Dave: But
Reese: Uno,
but Tres,
Dave: no Tres is meh.
Reese: Um, yeah, it's me. So yeah, I do, I do not like it because people are so shitty during that game too.
Dave: Oh, because you don't like the. Skip you
Reese: reverse.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Drop four of a sudden like,
Dave: haha,
Reese: fuck you.
And then all of of a sudden I have like 18,000 cards.
I have all the cards then
and then
Dave: you, and
Reese: then, and then I can't dig my way out of it. Then I'm suffocating. I'm
Unlike like any other Lebanese person fucking you
Dave: take it very personal.
I
Reese: do take it personal. I do. I take it personal 'cause because you guys know I don't like it. Yeah. And so you're like, oh, let me save the worst fucking card for this bitch.
No, thank you. So I'm gonna pass on that one. Hated. And we did try to play it one time. Risk.
Dave: Risk. Yeah. So that's another one on my list because
Reese: I thought I would like it. Hated it.
Dave: I used to love that game because once you get past the initial [00:45:00] stages of it, it, it is very strategic at that point. And again, I love the strategy type games.
But I guess it's a couple reasons why I am, it's, I'm not hot on that game anymore, is because, well, no one will play with me for one. Yeah. And it's a, it's a game that takes a long time. Right? And so it's like, it's perfect for like a snow day and you're gonna be in the house doing nothing all day, right?
It's like, let's go, let's play.
Reese: I'd rather,
Dave: but you eat, do not remember. You got me the, the, the.
There's like a special version,
Lord of the Rings version. Yeah. Yeah.
Reese: And we
Dave: tried to play it.
Don't even keep, I don't even, I don't think I even have a version of it anymore because I know we'll never play it.
Reese: Yeah. We, um,
Dave: because
Reese: when we were living downtown
Dave: Brooklyn
Yeah. You, you did, you did humor me and play it two
Reese: times.
We tried to play it and then, um, I remember I
used,
Reese: I accidentally
Dave: hit the board.
Reese: Hit the board, yeah. With an article of That sounds, clothing sounds, and I was like, oh, no. Oh my bad.
Dave: So another game
Reese: that was my strategic move.
So
Dave: I'm gonna add, do you have another one?
Reese: Tag for no reason. I don't like running.
Dave: All right. We're not even gonna talk about that.
Reese: I [00:46:00] know. It's fine.
Dave: So my other game's is that a game that I used to like, but I'm at the point in my life where I'm like, I don't need to think that much. I like to be strategic and I like to think chess.
Reese: Oh yeah.
Dave: I don't have the brain to,
and girls
Reese: are into that too.
Dave: When I was younger, I was too, but I think at a certain point, either you're in it and you still continue to play. Mm-hmm. But I'm at a point where I'm like, if I'm gonna play a game. I want it to be more fun.
Reese: Yeah. Chess
Dave: is not fun.
Then I want it to be thinking.
Yeah. If that makes sense. Yeah. And so, yeah, that's a game that I'm like, no.
Reese: And it's also a game. You have to think like so
Dave: far ahead.
It's just so much. Yeah. I, again, I like it and I love the concept of it. I just don't wanna play anymore. Yeah. It's just too much for me.
Reese: Yeah. Now I'm with you.
Dave: So now,
Reese: and well, I was gonna say, do you remember again, honorable mention it was fun at the time.
Don't know if I would do that again. Do you remember one of the.
Tell me
games that we played during COVID with the girls
Dave: during COVID. I absolutely do not. Was it, was it [00:47:00] wash the groceries?
Reese: I was really good at that game actually. Actually it was called Wash. Wash, the Groceries and Cry. And I was really good at that.
Good game.
Really good
Dave: at that. Yeah.
Reese: No, we did the unsolved.
Dave: Oh yeah.
Reese: What was it?
Dave: Murder?
It was like the murder. Mystery games.
Whatever Murder Mystery did. Yeah.
Murder case.
Reese: Murder case. Do remember when we used to play Murder
Dave: Case?
Yeah. Yeah. We did a couple of those and then we did one. I think we, did we solve one?
Did we solve that of them?
Reese: We did. Did
I
Dave: think we solved one?
We did,
Reese: and then, then I was ordered another one, and then it went to someone else's house and then, then I had to email the company and then they sent a new one. But
Dave: yeah. Yeah,
Reese: it was fine. It just took a lot. To do.
Dave: Alright, so here are the three games that I'm gonna say that I remember as a kid.
Reese: Mm-hmm.
Dave: Well, one, I don't really remember, but I know it's the one my dad says that I would make him play all the time. And he wanted to e stab himself the eye.
Yes. Chutes and
Reese: Ladders.
Dave: No, Cootie Bug.
Oh,
Reese: Cootie Bug. That's
Dave: right.
Yeah. That's the game. That co bug. He was like, Ugh.
Reese: Yeah
Dave: and actually now that I think about it, I remember playing [00:48:00] Simon.
Do you remember playing Simon? Yeah. The red thing. Yeah. Yeah. So Cootie Bug.
Reese: I actually kid liked Simon. I liked games, Simon,
Dave: like that memory games
was fun because that was little. B, B, b.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: And then Candyland of course.
I love that was such a, and Chutes. Chutes and Ladders. Yeah,
Reese: those
Dave: were
Reese: great.
Are classics
games.
Classic.
Those were great games. I, I do remember those.
Dave: So those are the games my friends.
Reese: Perfection.
Dave: Perfection. Okay.
Reese: Which I still have.
We
Dave: have it.
And it's missing one.
We're missing piece. We have one piece piece. Perfection. Good game. Yep. And anxiety inducing
Reese: for you.
Anxiety inducing. And I, I love it.
I'll still play it. And Operation is was also,
Dave: so
that's the other one. I was just gonna say, that was also a great game
Reese: that all
Dave: the
Reese: time
Dave: growing up. Yeah.
Reese: That all
Dave: time do.
Remember. Barrel of Monkeys.
Reese: Barrel of Monkeys. Um,
wow.
Pickup sticks we used to play.
Dave: What was he? Was he.
Reese: What else? There was like a bunch of other stuff.
Yeah. There was some, we listen, we had good games in the eighties, like I think that was like the prime of,
Dave: and games you could definitely choke, uh, that had choking
hazards.
Reese: Oh, everything, all. There was a thousand [00:49:00] pieces in the games. Yeah.
Dave: So a lot of fun. Let us know what games you played, if you agree with any of these games in our list.
I know we have some friends that listen that play some of these games with us, so hopefully you'll agree with some of them.
Reese: Someone's gonna mention Forty Fives or whatever that
Dave: game is that you guys play.
Well, that's a over here.
Reese: Yeah,
Dave: so that's another one that I'm like, I do like it, but. I don't need to get involved in that game again.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Like, you know what I mean? Like
Pass the Trash
was a game growing up.
Reese: is kind of fun. I'll
Dave: play that.
So that's, that's also Asshole, right? Is that another name for Pass the Trash? I remember that being a great game. That was a, that's primarily a drinking game. College
Asshole was a drinking
Reese: game.
Dave: But also just if you play it without the drinking, a very strategic game.
Yeah. A lot of fun to play that.
I was always asshole,
i, I liked like to play that as well. Without a game, without cards, you're an asshole
Reese: Of course. Constantly all
Dave: the time. But I, Hey, I love your asshole.
Reese: Oh,
Dave: wait a minute.
Reese: Bingo. All right. Um,
moving on.
Yes, please.
Dave: I'll say this. Let us know about your games, the things that you like, the things that you don't, if you agree with anything on our list.
And then moving [00:50:00] forward. So we've been doing some work or I've been doing some work, but you've been doing some, I've been conferring with Reese. We're trying to do a few things to find a space here for what the, this Manic Joy Podcast can be. Yeah. And so moving forward,
we're really gonna focus on this really being a, a, a funny couples podcast about marriage and midlife, which is where we are. Mm-hmm. This is an area where I think we can carve a space for ourselves with the, the sea of podcasts that exist out there in the world.
Reese: So, so, so many.
Dave: So you may be seeing us do some specific things to speak to those themes.
I hope you'll have some fun with us and as we move along. But this is essentially where we are in life. We're just kind of get honing it in and being a little bit more specific about what we do. So the. Algorithms and the, and all the crap that's out there these days will actually we're, we're gonna say like, what, what would happen if we actually tried to build this up to something Yeah.
Beyond what it is today.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: So that's what we're gonna be doing moving forward. So I will say all of that to say we appreciate those of you who [00:51:00] listen today,
Reese: all four of you,
Dave: and listen. You know, there are more than four of you listening, and so if you are listening, reach out to us. Let us know.
Well,
Reese: that's how we know that.
That's how I know there's four people listening.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: Because they
Dave: constantly,
honestly though, tell us, honestly, I love to hear from people who tell us that, you know, today I was getting messages from people about Hahaha points and it's funny is sometimes obviously people are behind on an episode and I'm like, they'll tell to be saying things.
I'm like, I don't know what, what the fuck you
Reese: talking about?
I know. Well, even after we do it the next day when they listen to it and they're, they'll be like, garbage truck. Hilarious. I'm like, the
Dave: minute I don't even know what that means, stop on this. I'm like, what? No. Yeah,
I
Reese: have
Dave: no idea.
Yeah, no. So we appreciate you listening of course, and being here along with us for this journey.
But we're in that point in our life where. I'm sure we're gonna have lots of more things to talk about.
Lots more things. More.
We'll be Italian when we
Yeah, that's one.
We'll be Mario Italian.
Be working.
Reese: Oh, it's me.
Dave: It's me, ya, ma. It's a me.
I
Reese: gotta get, I gotta, we gotta,
Dave: we're done. We gotta eat some dinner.
We gotta some food.
Reese: We gotta eat dinner and I gotta get back. You gotta,
okay.
Dave: Calm
Reese: down.
Dave: Drink.
Reese: Drink.
This is the first time. No, I, I don't want it.
Dave: Stop being a [00:52:00] baby.
Reese: I don't like it.
Dave: Anyway, friends,
one thing that will,
I wanna
Reese: speak to the manager.
Dave: Yeah. One thing that will remain the same life is a group project.
Be kind to each other.
Outro Music: We got the right stuff, we put the hammer right down.
We got the right stuff we put the hammer right down.
