Ep. 00: We're doing what?

Dave Charest  0:07  
I'm going. Hello, hello friends. Thank you for joining us for what is the welcome episode or episode zero of Manic Joy: a podcast about a love...podcast? Why did I say it like that?

Reese Charest  0:21  
I don't know. Do we have to talk like we're British the whole time? 

Dave Charest  0:24  
Yes. We're gonna talk like we're British in this episode. No...a podcast about life, love, and uncertainty. My name is Dave Charest and I am here with the lovely...

Reese Charest  0:35  
Reese Charest.

Dave Charest  0:38  
Anyway, so it's a new year 2020. Just wanted to talk a little bit here about why I guess we're doing this. And I know for me, I was looking for something creative to do. Sometimes I found anyway, and Reese, you can speak to this as well. But I feel like creativity and doing things to creative helped me kind of work through any things I have kind of going on, in in life, how about yourself?

Reese Charest  1:07  
I just do what you told me to do. So you said you wanted to do this podcast, and I said,

Dave Charest  1:13  
What was it? Was it a cod cast?

Reese Charest  1:15  
A cod cast? (Accent) It was a cod cast. I'm just gonna talk like this for the remainder of the...

Dave Charest  1:22  
Cod cast.

Reese Charest  1:23  
Now I sound like lifestyles of the rich and famous. Can we start again, this is awful. 

Dave Charest  1:29  
No, this is great. So we don't exactly know what this is going to be yet,

Reese Charest  1:35  
Which is what it sounds like right now. 

Dave Charest  1:36  
Exactly. But we hope it'll be fun. We hope it'll be something you'll enjoy listening to. And we actually hope that you'll let us know some things you'd like us to talk about. But for today, we're going to talk a little bit about I guess, so I mentioned, yeah, I wanted to do something creative. I came home and I said, here's a great idea. Maybe, maybe not, the jury is still out on that. But I also think it's been a long time since you and I have done something really creative together. 

Reese Charest  1:43  
That's true.

Dave Charest  2:06  
And other than, you know, children and all of that. But, um, so that was just a good opportunity to do something like that and thought it would be fun because I think I think 2019 was a pretty decent year. I feel like 2020 is, you know, I like to kind of narrowed yours down into like, "Okay, what are we going to do for this particular year," and I feel like, this is a year that's going to be a kind of like the change for us, it's going to be the year that kind of pushes us over to another kind of level in our life. If that makes sense.

Reese Charest  2:40  
We're going to be in level 37 love of our marriage.

Dave Charest  2:45  
Level 37 of the marriage. 

Reese Charest  2:47  
We joined a cult a few years ago and we are at level 37, which is why we're doing this sugar detox.

Dave Charest  2:52  
So watch out. So that's one of the things I think we'll talk about in maybe the next episode, right is that Yeah, we're doing this sugar detox right now, which has actually been, I mean, great, I've been enjoying it.

Reese Charest  3:04  
I'm still alive.

Unknown Speaker  3:05  
You're still alive, you're doing well.

Reese Charest  3:06  
I don't know how but... 

Dave Charest  3:07  
I'm surprised you're you haven't been curled up in the corner of begging for like, Nerds or Pixie Sticks. But you've been doing really great. I'm actually very proud of you. So I guess let's just start with the name Manic Joy. So this has been well, actually the Manic Joy and strip out the podcast piece but this idea of life, love, and uncertainty is really kind of an idea that I've been kind of playing with for a long time. A lot of times back when I was writing a lot of music, I was kind of playing with this idea. And I guess Manic Joy comes from this idea of you know, I think I think all of us actually, if we're being honest with ourselves deal with some type of, you know, mental issue or something like that, that we're kind of dealing with, right or, and and you know, not that either of us had been diagnosed with anything. So I don't want to make light of anything or anybody that's going through actual, you know, things, but I think we all have our things to deal with. Yes. And I think the world can be a brutal and messy and shitty place at times. Yes. And I like this idea of think putting the Manic Joy, piece, I'd love to spend more time in that joy area. And that's kind of where that idea kind of came from.

Reese Charest  4:26  
But sometimes the mania is good, too. If you embrace it and try to find the positive.

Dave Charest  4:33  
Right. And I think that's where this comes from that that creation piece, right. That like it's this idea of creating and doing something that brings you joy of a certain, on a certain level. And so I think some things that we have talked about, as we're starting to narrow this stuff and figure this stuff out is that our first episode will talk a little bit about life in general and kind of how we maybe we'll talk a little bit about how we got to each other where our life path had taken us to that point where we came together. Second episode, maybe talk a little bit about the love portion of that...

Reese Charest  5:11  
Wait, what? What is love?

Dave Charest  5:15  
 Love...What is...what is love? 

Reese Charest  5:17  
Baby don't hurt me. 

Dave Charest  5:18  
Baby don't hurt... 

Reese Charest  5:19  
Dave was just raising the roof. 

Dave Charest  5:21  
I was...

Reese Charest  5:21  
You're so very lucky that there's no visuals.

Dave Charest  5:25  
Very, very excited.

Reese Charest  5:26  
Except for the fact that you have to listen to my voice which that I apologize for.

Dave Charest  5:30  
You're doing great. It's a lovely voice. 

Reese Charest  5:32  
It's horrible. 

Dave Charest  5:32  
It's lovely. You're not singing. That's good.

Reese Charest  5:37  
Wow. We need to have a karaoke portion of our podcast.

Dave Charest  5:40  
So and then and then. And then after that, we're going to talk a little bit about the uncertainty. And I think that's probably a lot of, you know, the whole, having kids and children and all of that.

Reese Charest  5:52  
We have kids? 

Dave Charest  5:53  
Yeah. Luckily, they're not bursting into the room right now. No, but I think like just talking about some of those things. I think we have some fun stories to share. We hope that you will let us know some things you might be interested in us talking about. And we'll start to figure those things out. But next time we'll have some more structure to this.

Reese Charest  6:14  
What is structure? 

Dave Charest  6:15  
What is structure? Exactly. But I think getting this off and starting this right away is kind of what's that saying? You like to say? I'm playing your game now. "What's that? What's that saying? You'd like to say all the time?"

Reese Charest  6:25  
Teamwork makes the dream work? 

Dave Charest  6:27  
Well, that's one... 

Reese Charest  6:28  
Put your pants back on, Dave?

Dave Charest  6:32  
All right, don't think...

Reese Charest  6:33  
Don't think just do. Say it with us. 

Dave Charest  6:36  
There we go. So Reese, maybe before we say goodbye? What's something that you hope this will do for us?

Reese Charest  6:45  
What this podcast?

Dave Charest  6:47  
 Well, just this? Yes.

Reese Charest  6:50  
Um, maybe inspire other couples to do fun things with their mates? Because I don't think that there's enough of that going around these days. 

Dave Charest  7:06  
That's sweet. 

Reese Charest  7:07  
Isn't it? Now you can go fuck yourself.

Dave Charest  7:11  
Now I have to mark this as explicit.

Reese Charest  7:15  
Can you put a "barmp" noise in there? I already said it.

Dave Charest  7:19  
No, I'm not editing this. This is going live to the masses.

Reese Charest  7:24  
This is going live? People are hearing this right now?  

Dave Charest  7:25  
No, not right now. But when I hit stop, it's gonna go up live. 

Reese Charest  7:28  
I'm like an 80 year old grandmother. "Is this thing going live?"

Dave Charest  7:33  
As we're both sipping on our tea. 

Reese Charest  7:35  
"Oh, is this live my tea is burning my crotch."

Dave Charest  7:38  
Anyway. So we could probably wrap up with that. Thank you to everyone who has already subscribed to the email list to find out when this when this whatever this is going to happen. We appreciate you and we're looking forward to chatting with you over the we're going to do 10 episodes, I should say we're gonna do 10 episodes. We have an idea for the first three so far more will come to us but they will come to us as you engage, interact with us and and talk to us and let us know things that we can do to or talk about or just have questions for us because, you know, we'd like to gab so. I'm gonna I'm gonna we're gonna close it off with this. Life is a group project. Be kind to each other. We'll talk to you next time.

Reese Charest  8:27  
Cheerio mate!