Richard Reeves

Like when my friends and I go away for the weekend, it's like a, quote, hiking weekend.

We drink and we eat and hike and chat and we just talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.

You know, it's, I'll share this story at once.

On one of these, we're on a night out and I accidentally butt-dialed my wife while I'm out with my male friends.

And so she got this long voicemail.

From me out with my, I think it was like five or six of us or whatever, and we're out having quite a rowdy night.

So she gets a really long voicemail and she's like, I knew I shouldn't have listened, but I just couldn't stop myself just listening to a little bit of it because she could hear the conversation.

And then I got 10 minutes into the argument about whether Star Wars was better than Star Trek.

Oh, wow.

And decided it was safe to stop listening.

Yeah.

And I'm like, yeah, that is kind of the stuff we talk about.

I don't know what you're afraid.

And it's not, of course, that's not all we talk about.

We will talk about our wives and our relationships and stuff that maybe is more personal to those spaces.

So I'm glad she stopped listening at that point.

I can't remember what we went on to.

But look, that's part of the point, isn't it?

And I suspect that women listening, you might say the same thing too.

Like when you hang out with your female friends.