In this funny couples podcast about midlife marriage, Dave and Reese celebrate 22 years together while discussing alien disclosure, anniversary trends, ear hair, and the everyday realities of long-term relationships. Honest conversation, couple humor, and funny couple stories from two hosts who still enjoy each other.
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Dave: I hate all those misogynistic, like, "Uh, my f*cking wife f*cking bro f*cking idiot shit.
Like, I don't play that.
Reese: Like, in what, in what context?
Dave: Just, like, guys like, oh, being idiots, and like, oh, oh, I forgot about the anniversary. Oh." Oh,
Reese: like that
Dave: thing. "Oh, oh, gotta go home to my wife now." Yeah. "Oh, life sucks." Mm-hmm. Like-
Reese: Yeah ...
Dave: f*ck you then. Yeah. You're a f- you're the f*cking moron.
Reese: Well, 'cause also, to be for real, for real look what you're married to.
Dave: Well-
Reese: Why would you ever have that attitude- ... when you've got all of this? You've got this whole f*cking thing.
Dave: Yeah.
Intro Music: This is Dave. This is Reese, and this is Manic Joy, a podcast about life, love, and, and [00:01:00] uncertainty.
Dave: Five, four, three, two, you're on.
Reese: Hi, David.
Dave: Wow. You did good there. Uh, uh, yeah, okay, cheers.
Reese: Ooh. Ooh,
Dave: I've been waiting all week for that.
Reese: That's got a, a zing. A
Dave: za-ga-dingy?
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: A za-dinga-dingy.
Reese: Got a zing.
Dave: I gotta put this on. There we go. Hey, it's been a couple of weeks I feel like since we've done this.
Reese: I know. I, well, I've been busy.
Dave: You have been busy. I've been very busy. And it's been torturing my soul.
Reese: I know. Who, who would've thought that you would've missed me so much?
Dave: I know.
Reese: Who would've thunk it? I would've been like, "Thank God, she's gone."
Dave: Wow, you, you-
Reese: It's quiet ...
Dave: you, you can't even stand to be with yourself?
Reese: No, I love being with myself. I could be with myself all day long. I love-
Dave: Allow myself-
Reese: To introduce myself
Dave: to introduce myself. Hey ...
Reese: my name's... No, I'm not singing that guy 'cause I don't like him. Anyway, it yeah, like I'm an only child, so I, [00:02:00] I- ... no offense. No. But those times when you would go away for work-
Dave: Sorry I'm here now
Reese: ... I know. You ruined my whole vibe.
Dave: Yeah, yeah.
Reese: I, you know, I could nap as much as I want.
Um-
Dave: You can still
nap as much as you want ...
Reese: no, it, it just, I feel like I have to tell people things. I can just go and do it without announcing what's, what's happening. And then I can, I can make myself girl dinner which consists-
Dave: Oh, yeah ...
Reese: of something that is made of cheese-
Dave: Sorry I'm home to feed you
Reese: some crackers, some candy. I get whiskey, do my whole thing, watch all my crappy ass shows- yeah ... that you're not fully excited about.
Dave: Okay. But let's say this, though.
Reese: And then I can just look super ugly. Like, I don't have to-
Dave: Aw, never. Oh. It couldn't happen. Mm-hmm. It couldn't happen.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: Ree, ree, ree.
Reese: Mm.
Dave: So but you have to admit, it's been nice that now that you are back, we've had a chance to get back into our [00:03:00] regular, regular routine.
Reese: Yeah. Which has been- We do have a routine, for sure ...
Dave: which has been pretty sweet.
Reese: Which is nice.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: I did miss that because we, I like the whole winding down of the day and pajama time and- Sitting on the couch- Yeah
watching our shows. Yeah. I, you know, I d- I did miss that, but that's theater life, babe. That's theater life.
Dave: Uh, you know. I really- Yeah ... like- Okay ...
Reese: it, it was a lot though. It gets intense. Like, I was having rehearsals three times a week- Yeah ... which normally I don't, and then tech Sunday before all day, and then the show, and then everybody goes out for drinks, and it's like stuff.
Dave: Yeah. So we didn't see you much.
Reese: Nope.
Dave: But now we, uh-
Reese: I'm back, baby.
Dave: There it is. I don't know why.
Reese: I'm back, baby.
Dave: Oh, the way you say [00:04:00] it cracks me up. Nice.
Reese: I didn't- Nice ... you know, it, it happened because, uh, it was, like, one of the first nights that we were doing our routine-
Dave: Yeah ...
Reese: and I saunter in- Yeah,
Dave: we finally got a...
Yeah, you saunter in with your, with your whiskey ... with,
Reese: with my whiskey, and I was like, "I'm back, baby." Oh. And for some reason you laughed at that- ... and that's all you have to do is laugh once at a joke that I make.
Dave: Yep, and now for everything.
Reese: For everything.
Dave: Yep.
Reese: For every- She's, she's back ... and that, that's what I actually think it's funny.
Dave: But I still laugh- When I do anything ... it's just harder every time.
Reese: I know.
Dave: Yeah. It's,
Reese: um- Yeah ...
Dave: you
Reese: know?
Dave: Aw. Mm. Aw.
Reese: I'm hilarious.
Dave: You are. But looks aren't everything, Reese. Looks aren't everything. So w- I feel like we've got, like, tons of things to talk about, but I think we need to limit ourselves because we've got...
All right, we're four minutes in. What do you wanna talk about most?
Reese: Okay.
So I've been waiting for this day, but now that it might finally be a thing-
Dave: I know nothing about this by the way ...
Reese: I'm a little scared. [00:05:00] So two years ago, I think it's, like, almost two years ago now, they had hearings about UAPs, disclosure, aliens, and the whole thing. And I remember sitting outside with my computer watching the whole thing, and then when it got hot enough, I brought my computer to the pool.
Dave: Smart.
Reese: Finished watching it there.
Dave: She's back, baby.
Reese: I was back, baby. I could not believe that finally there would be answers to, are there extraterrestrials- Is that what- ... and have we had contact ...
Dave: is that what's happening? They're gonna give it... Where are these answers coming from?
Reese: So we are in the age of disclosure.
This is the time where the government finally is gonna reveal at least... Well, what they did a couple years ago was reveal technology that [00:06:00] they're... They call them Tic Tac ships, and there were some pilots that testified to say, like, "We saw these unidentifi-" They don't call it that. They call it a UAP, which means unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Really annoying.
Dave: Just to make it difficult
Reese: Just call it a UFO. Yeah. Just make it more difficult. So, but they confirmed that there were objects that, that are not made of this earth-
Dave: They're not of this world.
Reese: And whatever. And the whole thing with Area 51- Yeah ... which is like, "Oh, that's a myth, and it's not..."
No it's something. Something went on there, and a lot of the technology that we have is based off of... Like, basically, there's a term for it, like, where they deconstruct the technology and then reconstruct it for us to use it. Fascinating. I just, I find, again, I'm conspiratorial. I don't care what people think about it.
I find that type of critical thinking fascinating. I'd love to [00:07:00] hear, why people believe the things that they do, and just hearing different points of view, 'cause we don't know. I don't care what people say. We don't know everything. Yeah, that's a song. And we will never know everything. And if you think the government is gonna tell you the truth about...
And I don't care what political party. They're just, they're not. But I've always been fascinated with the idea of aliens, and when I watched that thing two years ago, I was like, "There is more, and they're just not saying anything about it." And it's, they were slowly leading up to, yeah, they're gonna release some files.
And I'm like, yeah, it's gonna be like Epstein. Everything's gonna be redacted, whatever. They showed videos. They released videos. It is wild. It's wild, and there's been all these, like, crazy things that have been going on. A few years ago, there was this uproar at the mall [00:08:00] in Miami-
Dave: Mm-hmm ...
Reese: where every single cop car in the state and the surrounding area showed up, and they tried to say they were teenagers having a melee at the mall or something like that.
But there were other people that said creatures showed up, almost like a portal, just showed up and then went away, and people were screaming in terror. How are there no videos? Like, where are the videos? Like, what did, what... but it was a whole thing. Then, uh, um, there were videos of this family. I wanna say it was in Las Vegas.
There was a fucking alien in the backyard, and they had, like... It's always grainy video. Of course. But it's not like the- Right ... flying saucers that they always show you.
Dave: Why, why is it always grainy video?
Reese: Well, why can't I take a goddamn picture of the moon? Why is the moon always-
Dave: Well, that's true
Reese: You know what I mean?
Dave: I guess that's- Like, something's- ... something about the astral bodies that you can't.
Reese: Well, and then, no. But then also, there's been videos of these orbs [00:09:00] showing up all around, and in my head I'm like, all right, those are-
Dave: Nice orbs
Reese: Nice, nice orbs you got there. So I w- I ha- I have a- I'm supposed to be grading my online public speaking presentation videos.
Dave: Do you have to go? Do you have to go?
Reese: And i've been, I've been struggling. Yeah, I should go. I should not be doing anything that I'm doing right now. And I've, I've just been procrastinating and struggling to just sit and concentrate because there's been all this stuff going on. And then today I was like, "All right, I'm gonna get up."
And I forgot, and I actually put it in my calendar that they were gonna be disclosing stuff today so that I remember to go and look for it, but it, it's been everywhere, so I didn't have to, you know-
Dave: You would think that-
Reese: I didn't forget ...
Dave: the algorithms would know that we would be relating to this
Reese: Oh, it found me immediately.
The first thing, the first thing in the morning when I got up, it was like- I'd
Dave: be like, "Something's, something's seriously wrong if they
Reese: don't-
Dave: No ... understand-
Reese: Yeah, no ...
Dave: to get this to you"
Reese: No, immediately, immediately it was the first thing I saw, and also people have been sending me [00:10:00] stuff all day.
Dave: Of course, yeah.
Reese: Ob- obviously.
Dave: I guarantee you fucking octopus they're gonna be part of the story.
Reese: Oh, so there's a whole thing-
Dave: Octopi ...
Reese: there's a whole thing about oc- octopi that they are definitely alien creatures. Everything... There is so much of the bottom of the ocean that we have not even- Yeah, yeah ... begun to understand or comprehend.
Yeah. And, you know-
Dave: That's the place to g- right? That, that feels like the-
Reese: That's the place to go ...
Dave: that feels like the place to go.
Reese: Well, they said-
Dave: If you can figure... Like, if like humans, right, we can't breathe underwater, but if you can, that would, that seems like the place to go.
Reese: Well, there's a whole thing-
Dave: People leave you fucking alone- There-
for the most part ...
Reese: there's a whole thing about the ice wall in Antarctica where, that we're not, people are not allowed to travel to. It's secretive. Oh. So they're saying that there might be something there.
Dave: The winter is coming.
Reese: And then they say there's, that there is the white walkers.
Dave: Ice walkers. Right? Yeah, the white walkers.
So- Let's call them the ice walkers.
Reese: I know. Well, same.
Dave: I mean now, yeah.
Reese: Same, yeah, but-
Dave: It makes sense for this now ...
Reese: right, and then they said that there are, [00:11:00] there might be alien life in the ocean as well. Okay. They're just laying dormant. There's definitely something that happened at Area 51 and all these things.
So I t- I did do some grading, I did do some work. I was like, "All right, let me do some of it." But then intermittently I would go and, like, look at stuff, so I didn't get to read a lot of it. I skimmed through to see what was there, but I went straight to, there's videos.
Bruh.
Dave: Oh, boy.
Reese: Some of them are the usual things. Like, I've already seen a lot of these things, the orbs and the things and the saucers and all the hullabaloo. There's just one where it looks like a star. It's a star shape- Yeah ... floating around. And a l- so some of the There's so much. Okay. Also, like last week-
I [00:12:00] guess some people from government gathered some pastors in Texas and said to them, like, "Hey, you better prepare your congregation for the fact that if we discl- there's gonna be a disclosure, and we may say that there's alien life, and what that's going to do is contradict religion." Mm. And they were afraid that this didn't come out sooner, 'cause they were afraid, like, people would f- not only freak out-
Dave: Whoa
Reese: about aliens-
Dave: That would be crazy ...
Reese: but then it would negate religion. Although I heard some commentary where it's like, no, it makes a direct correlation that these things were created by God. But then there's also people that say that these are not aliens, that it's spiritual. Ooh. Because if, if you learn anything about...
There's a part of the Bible-
Dave: Then there's gonna be people that make it com- about something completely different that goes with their s- narrative.
Reese: Obviously. Obviously. So- And the, and then it's whatever they-
Dave: And so we'll never know the truth ...
Reese: No, that's s- what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. The [00:13:00] truth is out there.
We're just never gonna- Well ... know about it. But-
Dave: The truth is what we want it to be ... I- Should be the real phrase ...
Reese: I guess so. Well, that's also the problem, because then people dive into that, that belief system, and then they have they don't have desertion. Like, they can't-
Dave: No, it's, it's, uh, yeah ...
Reese: they can't hear other theories or other things
Dave: It's, it's the echo chamber thing.
It's the-
Reese: Exactly ... yeah. So i- another thing is on the religious aspect of it, which I also find fascinating, there are parts of the Bible that were taken out. Um, there's something called the Book of Enoch, and it talks about the angels that were cast out-
Dave: Mm ...
Reese: from heaven, brought down to Earth, became problematic, started breeding with humans, and it was like this whole thing which explained, like, the building of the pyramids and, like, all these different structures, where you're like, how did man create this when they didn't have the tools that we have today?
Again, fascinating. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I'm not saying I believe any of it, but I just, I love the prospect of [00:14:00] it. And when I saw this star-shaped thing... So when you think of an angel, what do you think of? What comes to mind when you think of an angel?
Dave: Uh, the guy that sells tacos down the street.
Reese: Seriously?
Be so for real with me and answer the GD question properly. This is no time for jokes,
Dave: Dave. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Uh, angel.
Reese: I'm trying to prep you.
Dave: Angel. Yeah. What do I think of? I think of, uh, angel wings.
Reese: What does it look like? Tell me in your brain-
Dave: Oh, what does it look like? ...
Reese: when you see it. It looks like a
Dave: I picture the Led Zeppelin thing, the, the guy with the-
Reese: Explain it.
Yep.
Dave: Yeah, the, the guy with-
Reese: But it's a human form.
Dave: Human form with wings.
Reese: And it's a- almost pleasant to look like, right? Heavenly-
Dave: To look at? Yeah ...
Reese: right? Like, if you look up what- angels actually look like
Dave: They're scary
Reese: It's horrifying.
Dave: Oh, okay. Yeah.
Reese: It's horrifying. It's like-
Dave: Are th- but are those dark angels?
Reese: No. No,
Dave: they're just angels.
Reese: It's just like this is what the angel looks like, and it almost looks like-
Dave: The [00:15:00] guy selling tacos down the street.
Reese: God, there's not enough fucking alcohol. Jesus, I'm so happy, so happy to be back home.
Dave: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Reese: Are you gonna stop it?
Dave: The, the drinks are good at least.
Reese: Thank God.
So it looks like almost like that star shape thing with a wheel, and the wheels spin around it, oop, in opposite directions. And it almost looks like a, like an eye in the middle. It's h- horrifying.
Dave: Okay.
Reese: And when I saw that star shape thing and then someone showed a video where they zoom in on it, it looks like the GD wheels and the whole thing, and that one scared me.
So am I excited about disclosure? I'm excited to find out that, you know, we're not alone, and there's alien beings, and, the technology that we have today is because it came from that. That thing [00:16:00] scared me because that, I don't know what the ... That is that remind me of the biblical Book of Enoch angel things.
Now they're saying that it could also be interdimensional beings that they were beings from the fut- they call them, like, P-
Dave: Future man ...
Reese: P52-
Dave: Woman ...
Reese: and Pf-43, something like that. But they're from the future. Something catastrophic happens, and so they're able to return here to try to help us avoid that calamity, whatever that-
Dave: That's Michael J. Fox ...
Reese: thing is gonna be. I'm just gonna keep talking, and I, and I, uh-
Dave: I love the... What? Back to the Future. That's exactly what it was.
Reese: And so-
Dave: That's what it is ...
Reese: also, the movie that's coming out that Spielberg did- Mm-hmm ... called Disclosure Day.
Dave: Yeah, it is.
Reese: He's hinting that some of the material-
Dave: Is real ...
Reese: is from things that he has-
Dave: All right.
Well ...
Reese: [00:17:00] learned. So-
So ...
Dave: lots to discover
Reese: I don't know. We'll see.
Dave: Keep, stay tuned.
Reese: I know. I mean-
Dave: Follow Reese for more disclosure t- tips.
I was like, well, you could just say disclosure I guess, but anyhow.
Reese: I mean, well, yeah. And I feel like things are gonna get interesting. Also, just a quick side note that it's hard to tell right now-
Dave: You can tell me
Reese: with the stuff with AI-
Dave: Yeah, well, yeah ...
Reese: what is real, what is not, pla- Project- blue beam, that they have this technology that they could, with the drones or whatever, create something and a v- a spectacular event, black swan event, and everybody freaks out because we think we see something, but it's-
Dave: But we don't
Reese: but we don't. 'Cause it's not real. It's not real.
Dave: Wow.
Reese: Giddy up.
Dave: All right. All right, so look-
Reese: Giddy up ...
Dave: here's what we're gonna talk about today. And then I, I wanna m- I'm gonna take a, a, I'm g- I'm gonna take a interlude to a midlife moment.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: And then we'll, we'll get into the thing, but-
Reese: Sure ... [00:18:00]
Dave: you and I, Reese, have just recently celebrated 22 years of marriage.
Reese: I know. That's a very long time.
Dave: Woo.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Holy shit, right? It's wild when you think about it. I know. And I thought about it a little, and I was like, "Wow, that's wild."
Reese: It's just crazy to me how time r- you know, when they use the, "Time flies," it- Yeah ... fucking does.
Dave: It really flies.
Reese: Miranda sent me a picture today, a screenshot, of 10 years ago today, we got our matching tattoos- Mm
on our toes. On our feet.
Dave: On your, on your toes .
Reese: On our feet. On our feet. On our feet.
Dave: Hey, can I see your toe tattoo?
Reese: On our feet.
Dave: Let us, let us see your matching toe tattoos.
Reese: On our feet. And so let some of them go. And so-
Dave: No, that's funny ...
Reese: a- and the funniest part of it, my favorite part of the whole thing, we, we thought we were so clever.
We got an infinity arrow. We're like, "This is so cute," and at the time when my mom was still alive, I told her, "Oh, I'm gonna get [00:19:00] matching
tattoos with Miranda," and my mother's "Oh, what are you gonna get?" And I'm like, "Oh, we're gonna get an infinity arrow." "
What are you gonna get an arrow for? It kills animals."
Dave: Nice.
Reese: Ruined it. Ruined it. Mm. Still got it. Mm. Uh, and two idiots, when you get an arrow, it's supposed to be facing out.
Dave: You got them facing you.
Reese: We got them where it, it faces towards us and when we put our feet together, they almost point to each other , so two idiots.
Dave: Kinda like, "Yeah, I'm with stupid."
Reese: Yeah, exactly.
Dave: You can have the stupid arrows.
Reese: Actually, that's, that's, that... Well, we were saying we, we wanna get another- Trying to infinity, yeah ... we wanna get another tattoo, and I feel like that's what we need. "I'm with stupid," and it, both of it, b- both of them should say, "I'm with stupid," and the arrows point to each other.
Mm-hmm. It doesn't even say, "Stupid." Mm-hmm. It's just, "I'm with stupid," and it's just- ... that actually would be really funny.
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: All right. So 10 years in a blink of an eye, and then 20-
Dave: 2 ...
Reese: two years.
Dave: 22. [00:20:00] So-
Reese: Crazy ...
Dave: here, here, I'll get into what we're gonna talk about, but it's this whole, apparently there's this thing going around called the minus one year anniversary, so we'll, we'll, I'll give you a little bit more insight in, in, in just a second.
Reese: I heard about that. I don't get it.
Dave: I don't get it either, but we'll talk about it.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: But I wanna take a moment because sometime between last time you've heard from us and today, you came in to the bathroom just as I had finished- plucking the hairs from my ears. And I was like, "Why are these hairs..."
They're not even like gray hairs. They're like thick, luxurious, like I would want this hair on my head hairs. Right. Why are they coming out of my ears?
Reese: Right. This is- Because what happens with- ... crazy. What happens as you get older, w- your hair recedes inwards and then start to come out outwards-
Dave: I guess so.
It's this, well, it was funny- ...
Reese: in the poorest areas ...
Dave: la- last time I got my hair cut, they were [00:21:00] like, "You don't," she's like, "You don't have a gray hair in that head." And I'm like, "I know." I'm like, "That's why I have the beard. It's all, it's all f- sagging down to my chin."
Reese: Exactly. It's, it's gravity.
Dave: So I can't get rid of this- It's gravity
or else I'm gonna get the gray hair on top.
Reese: Yeah, it's gravity.
Dave: Anyway, so that was my first midlife thing. Yeah. And then the second thing is, I keep ta- I... There's no way you'll be able to hear it. So the new thing now-
Reese: Your kn- your thumbs are cracking?
Dave: The, this top knuckle, this one in particular- ... constant-
Reese: Yeah
Dave: Crack- Crack ... and kind of a, a pain, like if I press it. I'm like, "Oh- Mm ... I, I got the, I'm, I'm hanging out with arthritis, I guess."
Reese: Yeah. I know Arthur.
Dave: Like, what the hell?
Reese: I know Arthur very, very well, unfortunately.
Dave: So anyway, that's what happens 22 years into a marriage. Yeah. You get to this point where all this other crazy shit is.
But again-
Reese: So far ...
Dave: not too much to complain about-
Reese: No. Cannot ...
Dave: if that's where we're at.
Reese: No, you're correct.
Dave: All right. So, so like I said, there's this trend going around, right? That, a- again, I, I, I'm not one to talk about trends, but where people are celebrating-
Reese: I know. I'm, I'm, I'm impressed that you even-
Dave: Listen
Reese: know that ...
Dave: this is just, you know, the help of, [00:22:00] uh, of, o- of AI and these things that make some recommendations of things that are going on that maybe we should talk about. Mm-hmm. And so I figured, all right, let's give it a shot. Let's just see what happens if we let AI guide us.
Reese: We're in the age of disclosure.
Dave: Which, which, which it's a-
Reese: Why not? ...
Dave: which is a whole other, uh, can of worms. Right. But people are essentially, what this means is that people are celebrating their wedding anniversary a year before they're married.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: So that's like, so like one year from today we'll be husband and wife.
Reese: Okay.
Dave: You get it?
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: And so it's that idea of like, you know, oh, look what we were doing then. But I guess they're actually celebrating it. Like, it's like an actual thing to have an anniversary about. So like, I don't know.
Reese: Sounds pretty fucking dumb.
Dave: I mean, I guess part of me gets it. You're excited. I don't know that you're, you're, you're-
Reese: I know.
You're doing
things- ...
Dave: you're counting down ...
Reese: you keep trying to, like-
Dave: It's a big life moment, I guess. But-
Reese: You keep trying to do [00:23:00] things with math with me. And I want no part of it.
Dave: When did we do the math the other day?
Reese: You made me do the thing where- Oh, where they,
Dave: the gray elephant in Denmark.
Reese: Yes.
Dave: If you know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about.
But- Yeah. The other part of me is like, and this is usually the side I'm on, I'm like, "What? We're celebrating things that like haven't even happened now?"
Reese: Right.
Dave: I, I don't know. Anyway, so and if you think about it, right, like it's hard-
Reese: That's al- that's too hopeful for me ...
Dave: it's, it's hard enough to keep track of actual-
Reese: Right
Dave: anniversaries. Like now we're supposed to pre-game? Right.
Pre-game anniversaries, right?
Reese: And what, what is the point of it?
Dave: A full year in advance.
Reese: But what is the point of it? I don't- So what are we celebrating our tw- we're celebrating the 23rd anniversary before we have the anniversary?
Dave: I feel like what it is is that it's just an- another opportunity to the dog and pony show shit- on social media, right?
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Like, that's what it is.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: I, I, I, I feel as though. And so, I don't know, so we're gonna be talking about some things, right? So let's talk about maybe like milestones that actually we feel are like are important [00:24:00] now, or what are we actually doing with those milestones now. Are we better at celebrating things?
Or are we just stretching it so that- Hmm ... we have more chances to post about 'em, which is kinda what that thing is, right? Mm-hmm. And then, I mean, what a- a- what anniversaries actually feel like once we've, you know, we've been married for a while like we have. So that's what I got for us today.
Reese: Okay. All right.
'Cause I was gonna say, I think we definitely got better.
Dave: So, well let's, let's start with this. Okay. I mean, we've already been kinda poo-pooing on this, but I mean, it I kinda feel like we'll see w- with this question, but like what would we have done if this trend existed when we were engaged?
I actually think we would've been on board with this, 'cause if you think back to what that timeline was- Mm ... and it wasn't social media as it is now, but there was still stuff. Like you had your MySpace and Facebook. Yeah. Was the Facebook a thing at that point? I don't know. Um,
Reese: you wanna know what?
It was MySpace and... [00:25:00] It wasn't Facebook, it was another one.
Dave: Friendster.
Reese: Friendster.
Dave: Yeah. So here's what I think, though. In our situation, I actually think we probably would've been on board. You definitely would've been on board with this.
Reese: Yeah, probably.
Dave: I would've been more like, "Meh." But I actually think I would've been on board because I still talk about it now.
But if you think about when we were engaged, what happened the year before that just happened to be we were at the same place at a time where we weren't together- Mm ... but we wanted to be together. Mm-hmm. Right? So it was like part of our story. Mm-hmm. So in that case, so in that case I feel like, all right, well we're, we're not making shit up, like just to jump on a trend.
Like it actually is part of the story. So I feel like we would've been involved in that. And we would've been like, "Fuck you, bitches, this is the truth."
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: But in, at that point I think I don't, I was not involved in social media at all. No. So I would not have been like, "Oh, we're gonna do a thing."
Reese: When did you actually- I, I don't know ... what was it? You never did [00:26:00] MySpace, right?
Dave: No. I think, the, I th- I, I, I seem to always remember, I feel like... Remember Reg from USATC? Yeah, yeah. I feel like she sent us something, and she was like, "Oh, I sent it to you on Facebook," or something like that. And then, like, there was some reason that we had to f- to create a Facebook account, and then we did.
Reese: I remember setting up my Facebook because my Kingsborough students were egging me on to do that. Mm. I've been on Facebook for a very long time, since 2008 or 2009. Like, I've been on there a while, and that was because my, the little group of theater students that I had at that time- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm ... we were all, like, super close, and I did that.
But I was on MySpace. I was legit, when we were in Queens, was, I was on the Q- rarely, but [00:27:00] enough- Yeah ... so that when the girls were occupied, like if they were playing nicely with each other, they never napped, but if they were playing nicely or watching a show, I would hop on the internet. I would do a little tooling around in, in MySpace and making it sparkly and playing music, and that was the fun thing you can do with that.
And then I would play Neopets.
Dave: Remember Neopets? That,
Reese: that was my addiction- Wow ... was Neopets.
Dave: I wonder what would happen if you logged into your Neopet account right now.
Reese: They're all dead.
Dave: It would just be like a-
Reese: They're bringing it back ...
Dave: dun, dun, like a funeral type thing. Mm. They'd be like a,
Reese: they're bringing it back. I have to try to stay away from it, but I loved it. I was very passionate about the Neopets. But then Facebook came around, and then I appreciated it because then it allowed me to connect with my cousins that live far away, with friends from previous college. Sure, yeah, yeah. And then once everybody was on it, it [00:28:00] became a hazard zone because then it was an influx of everybody's stupid fucking opinions about shit.
And-
Dave: Yeah ...
Reese: then I, you know, but it was back in the day when you can still kind of debate without- ... craziness going on, 'cause you can't do that now. And I post, I stay away from any topic that will cause any- Right ... any type of debate. I stay far away from it. I don't... And if anybody tries to do that on a post that I make, I'm like, "We don't do that here.
I'm deleting your comment because I don't want that." Right, right. You don't need that. I, it's so negative and toxic. Yeah. I don't like it. So now I, all I do is post pictures of the cats, the girls-
Dave: Yeah ...
Reese: and any other- ... event that people need to know about.
Dave: Yeah. So I, I think today, right, this feels very, all of this feels performative to me, them being-
Reese: Everything is performative
Dave: for real. And I, I-
Reese: Everything is ...
Dave: w- We have never been, and I have never been, I mean, you do post something, but I'm [00:29:00] never, I'm not like declaring my love or-
Reese: To my beautiful wife on our-
Dave: Yeah. Oh my God, love is a diamond bow ...
Reese: 22nd anniversary. I couldn't live without you. You make my life worth living.
Dave: Yeah. No, I'm just saying that to you face to face. You say it to... Yes. I'm like-
Reese: We say these things to each other all the time ... just like in that voice, too.
Reese and Dave: Like, "Oh my god." Oh my God. Good morning, babe. I can't- Just like that ... I just want you to know-
Reese: Just like Michael Jackson. Tito, get me a tissue.
Dave: Speaking of, we'll talk about that in a minute.
Mm. But so, so here's the re- so, right? So this leads me to this question, right? So like what do we ani- anniversaries feel like now versus what we thought we'd, what they'd feel like?
Reese: Well, they're realistic.
Dave: So w-
Reese: Number one, we don't forget. Yeah.
Dave: Well, I was gonna say-
Reese: I don't think we've ever forgotten that-
Dave: We don't, we, we don't forget our anniversary, for sure
Reese: that was like an old marriage trope on like TV shows. Yeah. Like, "Oh my God, I forgot." Mm, mm, mm. "He forgot."
Dave: No, we know when it is.
Reese: We never forget. Even-
Dave: We forget the, we forget how many. We always- That might happen ... but we have a, we have a marker-
Reese: I know ...
Dave: because of the girls.
Reese: It's a fucked up marker.
Dave: We're like, "How old are the girls?"
Yeah. Okay, we're ahead of them. Yeah. So we get one, we get plus one. Yeah. We should do, it's our plus one anniversary.
Plus, yep. [00:30:00]
So that's how we know how many years it is.
Reese: But we're very like-
Dave: So I love that we have that trick ...
Reese: and we like to do things that we like to do, and we discuss it.
Dave: Well, right. I actually-
Reese: Like, what do you wanna do?
And then-
Dave: Remind me after this, I wanna talk you through an idea that I had. So, So here's typically what happens. The last few years of this, or many years of this really, I've y- I'm typically traveling on our anniversary, and we don't get upset about it.
Reese: No.
Dave: We say, "Happy anniversary," and we're gonna do something-
Reese: It's part of life
Dave: when we get together.
Reese: Right. Right, of course.
Dave: This year we're gonna think we were, something was happening on our anniversary this year. I don't remember what.
Reese: I probably had I had rehearsal.
Dave: I think you had rehearsal.
Reese: Yep.
Dave: You know, again, we do a little thing in the morning. We're happy to see each other.
And then-
Reese: Yeah, we spent the whole day together. Yeah. It was very nice.
Dave: And so what I'd like to do though is what our favorite place, I'll mention them, uh, 80 Thoreau- ... in Concord, Mass. Is they're having their local asparagus tasting menu. I'll read the menu to you. It sounds fucking delicious.
So I feel like we should find a day-
Reese: Ooh, the pee pee smell for days.
Dave: Yeah, right?
Reese: [00:31:00] But all right. Worth it.
Dave: Right? But once we, uh, once we get past all this, we've got a lot of things with- Yeah ... Jonnie's commencement is this weekend. Yeah. We've got a big brunch. We, we're going out after that. We've got concerts coming out of our assholes.
Reese: Oh my God, so many.
Dave: So if we can budget this to make it work, I'd love to go do that.
Reese: I'm in.
Dave: That'd be a fun day to spend together. I would love that. And we love this place for food. Anyway, so yeah. So I feel like so for us, it's not about the, you know, the pomp and circumstance- Mm ... of saying the thing on social media to make it- Yeah ... look better than it is. Yeah.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: It's to, it's just to, like, yeah, like, let's take a moment. Like, I appreciate you every day, and sometimes maybe I don't say something, or maybe you don't say something, whatever the case may be, but I think we're pretty good at appreciating each other.
And, stepping in where we need to step in and doing what we need to do.
The anniversary, I don't know. Like, I [00:32:00] wonder, like... It just feels like a thing to do, right? Like, like if-
Reese: Well, I love a good positive celebration that is not- Yeah ... uh, thrusted upon you because of consumerism, like Valentine's Day. Yeah. We don't make a big deal about Valentine's Day or-
Dave: Yeah, that's true. That feels like a, like it's a unique moment that is, and, and it's nice to go do something together.
Reese: And it, and it should be. It's like a birthday-
Dave: But- ...
Reese: where it should be celebrated, but we don't get-
Dave: That thing to do is not a- ... crazy ... this, it could be anything. It could be like, "You know what? For our anniversary, we're gonna stay in bed all day and eat f*cking popcorn."
Reese: Yes.
Dave: I- I don't know.
Reese: Well-
Dave: Like, and that's great.
Reese: Yes.
Dave: Right? Like-
Reese: Yes, because we do the things that we wanna do, and we don't put the pressure.
Dave: Yeah, so what did we do? So I got, uh, what, I went, I think I went to yoga. Did I go to yoga that day?
Reese: All I know is that we spent the day together, and it was very
nice.
Dave: I think I didn't, I didn't go to yoga, but I got up early to go get you flowers because my plan was to- Yes
go to yoga.
Reese: Yes.
Dave: But I didn't because I've been, I think, I don't, there might've been a day I was struggling with sleep. I don't know. So it's like, so some days I usually will go to the yoga [00:33:00] early in the morning. Yeah. But if it's a night that I didn't get a good night's sleep, I always opt for the sleep.
I'm at that age where I opt for the sleep. I need it.
Reese: It's a fair, it's a fair-
Dave: Which, can we take a moment- ...
Reese: exchange ...
Dave: to, again, talking about things happening in lives, this whole week I ha- I had to take a couple days off of work 'cause I wasn't feeling great, but for whatever reason, I've been struggling to sleep, but I also have been in a pool of sweat.
Reese: Oh my God.
Dave: And it only happens when I'm going to bed.
Reese: It's 'cause you stole my menopause.
Dave: Last night was a little better.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: So I'm glad for that. I'm hoping tonight will be good 'cause we have a long we have a long f*cking day tomorrow.
Reese: Yeah, we do.
Dave: Uh, all good stuff tomorrow.
Reese: No, it's all good stuff.
Dave: It's gonna be fun.
Reese: But we're too old-
Dave: But it's just a long day ...
Reese: for like a long day like that.
Dave: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, especially you need a nap.
Reese: I need a freaking nap, and I'm not
Dave: gonna be able to have one. Maybe we'll find a place to go take a nap. Actually could be fun.
Reese: On a park bench? What the f*ck.
Dave: Maybe. Maybe we'll find a ca-
Reese: Excuse me, hobo Joe.
Move over.
Dave: I'll bring a, I'll, I'll bring a cardboard box, and we'll find a place to hole up-
Reese: I would fit in there. That'd be fine ...
Dave: for about a half an hour. Uh, so [00:34:00] anyway, all i'm gonna move on to the next question.
Reese: Sure.
Dave: If no one else knew our anniversary existed, would you still celebrate it the same way?
Reese: Sure
Dave: Yeah, absolutely
Reese: Because we don't make a big to-do about it
Dave: Because we don't do it for the-
Reese: Yeah, the showmanship of it ...
Dave: accolades of it
Reese: Right. It's-
Dave: We do it for, yeah, we're celebrating us Yeah it's between you and me.
Reese: Yeah
Dave: Right?
Reese: Yeah
Dave: I don't know
Reese: I, y- well, the only thing I do that it's not performative, it actually, I enjoy doing it and I enjoy thinking about it- Yeah
is I will, my picture for that whole day is us getting married by Elvis
Dave: Right
Reese: That is my- Yeah.
Dave: I like when you post that picture
Reese: Yes, I love it. It makes me happy I always give it a
Dave: little aw.
Reese: Yeah. Because, you know, it was super cute what we did It was My mom didn't think so. But then again-
Dave: Well, she's dead, so
Reese: She's
I know. I know. So I guess it doesn't matter. But yeah. It's like- Um ... it's like [00:35:00] that's the only little tiny thing I do and maybe I'll, you know, I, I think I wrote like, "This is 22." Yeah.
Dave: 22 years. We did it
Reese: You know what I mean? Like, that's it. We don't need to, I don't need to write a whole shebang. It's fine Yeah
Dave: And so it's, it's, it's, it's- Yeah
it's, it's for us Right All right. You ready? Yeah I got a, I got a question for you here. Yeah Ready? What's the most ridiculous anniversary you think we could start celebrating that I'd be forced to take seriously? I know you've got something good for this
Reese: Peppah's birthday in February
Dave: Aw, Peppah's birthday in February.
I actually don't mind that because my birthday's in February and I feel like, aw.
Reese: You'll share it with Peppa
Dave: Me and Peppa have a, we have our moment
Reese: Yeah
Dave: That's our time to bond
Reese: you know what we haven't celebrated in a while?
Dave: Oh
Reese: Is U2 Day
Dave: So we always mention it
Reese: We mention it, but we don't-
Dave: But there's always too much stuff going on- Yeah
that we never get a chance to really enjoy it
Reese: Yeah, true
Dave: And so, yeah. You know what we should start doing with that? U2 Day should always be, I make that soup. [00:36:00] Yes That kale and white bean soup.
Reese: Yes
Dave: And then we listen to some U2
Reese: And then in- include the girls so they could be-
Dave: No ...
Reese: included in the lore
Dave: No
Reese: No, okay.
Then fuck them. Fuck them kids.
Dave: Yeah, no, they're definitely included in it, for sure
Reese: Uh, what would be yours? What would you force me into?
Dave: What ridiculous thing? Oh, what would I do?
Reese: It would be, I would hate it
Dave: I don't know
Reese: Whatever it's gonna be
Dave: No, I don't know. Whoa. Man, okay. What would I force us to do?
Reese: Nothing 'cause you don't like to do shit
Dave: Oh, harsh
Reese: So it would be like we're not gonna do shit day. And I can do that 'cause I don't shit. Womp, Womp, TMI
Dave: Wow.
Reese: Wow Reese fun fact
Dave: Wow. I don't know. I can't really think of anything like-
Reese: You'd be like- ... ridiculous ... "Oh, we should do a no drinking alcohol day," and I'd be like- Yeah
"F*ck you, Dave."
Dave: Yeah.
Reese: And I'd double fist it all day. [00:37:00]
Dave: Yeah, except I'd, I'd, I'd be, I'd be p- positioning like, "You know, maybe what we should do is, uh, s- not drink alcohol today?" Yeah. Maybe. Please, can we have a day where you-
Reese: And I would not participate in that ...
Dave: And I'd call it the day Reese doesn't drink alcohol.
It's not a we, it's a, it's a Reese doesn't drink alcohol day.
Reese: It would be called the day that Reese leaves Dave to go to the bar day.
Dave: It's, uh... Oh, like that day doesn't exist.
Reese: Every day.
Dave: Every day, oh. All right, next one. All right. That's all I got for you. You got anything? You got anything for me?
Reese: Oh, am I supposed to read something?
Dave: I don't know. There's this, there's
Reese: a,
Dave: there's a- Ah. There's a surprise question for you down there.
Reese: Okay. I'll do the surprise question. Be honest. What's an anniversary or milestone you've completely forgotten that you definitely should not have?
Dave: I mean, you keep me honest. I don't think I have. Yeah. I'm into this shit.
Reese: Yeah.
Dave: Like, meaning I'm into you.
Reese: Well, we're-
Dave: And I'm into [00:38:00] us ...
Reese: we're very a celeb- we're, we're a celebratory family.
Dave: I do not... Okay, I'll just say this.
Reese: Oh.
Dave: I do not... I hate all those misogynistic, like, "Uh, my f*cking wife f*cking bro f*cking idiot shit.
Like, I don't play that.
Reese: Like, in what, in what context?
Dave: Just, like, guys like, oh, being idiots, and like, oh, oh, I forgot about the anniversary. Oh." Oh,
Reese: like that
Dave: thing. "Oh, oh, gotta go home to my wife now." Yeah. "Oh, life sucks." Mm-hmm. Like-
Reese: Yeah ...
Dave: f*ck you then. Yeah. You're a f- you're the f*cking moron.
Reese: Well, '
cause also, to be for real, for real look what you're married to.
Dave: Well-
Reese: Why would you ever have that attitude- ... when you've got all of this? You've got this whole f*cking thing.
Dave: Yeah. Well, we should probably end on that note.
Reese: I'm back, baby.
Dave: There it is. [00:39:00] Friends-
Reese: that's the last one for tonight ...
Dave: remember this: life is a group project. Be kind to each other, and fade to black
Outro Music: We got the right stuff, we put the hammer right down.
We got the right stuff we put the hammer right down.
