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Ep. 125: Baby, You Can Drive My Car!

In this milestone episode, Dave and Reese celebrate their daughters getting their first cars and take a joyride down memory lane. From champagne-colored LeBarons to minivans with TVs, they share the highs, lows, and laugh-out...

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April 20, 2025

Ep. 125: Baby, You Can Drive My Car!

In this milestone episode, Dave and Reese celebrate their daughters getting their first cars and take a joyride down memory lane. From champagne-colored LeBarons to minivans with TVs, they share the highs, lows, and laugh-out...

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April 13, 2025

Ep. 124: Hope Grows in a Dump: Our Garbage Pail Kids Deep Dive

What started as a chocolate martini and a trip to the auto shop turns into a full-on nostalgia spiral. Reese unearths her original Garbage Pail Kids collection—gum long gone, value still intact—and Dave dives into the bizarre...

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March 30, 2025

Ep. 123: Every Body Hurts

Reese turns a year older and declares: Every. Body. Hurts. From elbows to egos, nothing is safe in this birthday episode. She and Dave sip coffee, dissect Vesper martinis, recount sticker club lore, and dive deep into the mag...

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March 23, 2025

Ep. 122: A Show About the Show

In this meta-episode of Manic Joy , Dave and Reese take a break from their usual theme to turn the lens on the podcast itself. Over a delicious El Diablo cocktail, they dive into how AI (aka “Cathy”) helped them reflect on th...

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March 16, 2025

Ep. 121: Stoopid Kids

Dave and Reese kick off a hilarious episode of Manic Joy by diving into the quirks and pains of modern life before heading into their most absurd childhood beliefs. Dave shares his traumatic prank call experience and magic va...

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March 9, 2025

Ep. 120: Delving

Dave and Reese kick things off discussing their week, including a windy disaster that took down a tree in their yard. They sip on Bailey's chocolate martinis, debate the horrors of natural disasters, and their newfound obsess...

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April 20, 2025

Featured Cocktail: El Camino

El Camino Cocktail As featured in Episode 125: “Baby, You Can Drive My Car!” This one’s for the car lovers, the deal negotiators, the dashboard DJs—and anyone who’s ever named their vehicle like a pet. The El Camino i…

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April 13, 2025

Featured Cocktail: Chocolate Martini

The drink that helped us dive headfirst into the weird, wild world of Garbage Pail Kids! If you listened to Episode 124: Hope Grows in a Dump, you know we kicked off the Garbage Pail Kids nostalgia dive with a little something indulgent in our glas…

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March 23, 2025

Featured Cocktail: El Diablo

A Show About the Show (and a Damn Good Drink) In Episode 122 of Manic Joy, we did something a little different. Instead of diving into a theme like love or uncertainty, we turned the spotlight on the show itself. Over a couple of El Diablos (more …

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Reese Charest

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Dave Charest

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Director, Small Business Success @constantcontact. Keynote Speaker. Host of Be a Marketer with Dave Charest, Makeshift Brilliance with Dave Charest, and Manic Joy: A podcast about life, love, and uncertainty.