SHOW NOTES

Five Easter services, a new blue dress, backstage Chick-fil-A, and four grease stains before the second service even started. EP 71 is the post-Easter debrief and Melissa has a lot to report.

Melissa found the most beautiful high-waisted blue Easter dress, wore it to the Good Friday service, ate a Chick-fil-A sandwich backstage, dropped a piece of chicken, and watched a friend’s attempt to retrieve it make everything worse. By the time it was over there were four grease stains and a few orange barbecue specks that no one knows where they came from. She finished out Easter weekend in last year’s dress from TikTok Shop. After five services, dress rehearsals, and hosting 35 people for Easter lunch, David and Melissa took a matinee break to see Project Hail Mary — four people in the entire theater, popcorn layered with butter, and both giddy about it. The episode also covers garage crying as a legitimate reset strategy, Melissa’s Dad having pre-planned his entire funeral including pallbearers who may need to be replaced, and a sketch segment where each of them sells an ordinary adult outing like a late-night infomercial.

QUOTES WORTH HIGHLIGHTING

“You flick the garage light off, you sit in your car, you pick up your favorite ice cream, and you cry about anything. Your marriage, your children, your parents. That is Garage Crying and it is for sale today.”

Melissa, presenting her revolutionary reset product

“My dad picked out the casket, the room, the songs, and six pallbearers. I asked him about it recently and he said, well, I may need to go back up there because everybody might drop dead before I do.”

Melissa, on Gene’s funeral pre-planning

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