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Home  Groom's Wedding Planning Exclusive Interview with Teresa Strasser co-host of “The Adam Carolla Show"
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Exclusive Interview with Teresa Strasser co-host of “The Adam Carolla Show" |
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Written by NF Mendoza
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But Strasser was convinced Wachinski was “too cute not to have a girlfriend. In my head, I created this whole imaginary girlfriend and in my little scenario, it ended with me hating her.”
Eventually fate conspired. It turned out that friend of friend’s was sitting at Wachinski’s table and encouraged him to meet Strasser. They spoke for about a half hour, he asked for her number and she handed him her business card.
“I thought she was gorgeous, smart and funny and down-to-earth and sweet, and I’ve got to play it as cool as I could,” Wachinski says, “I had this very uncool job [he works in finance for IBM] but I do play guitar so I wanted to play that up.”
“My cell phone number was on it,” she says, but Wachinski interpreted it as “kind of cold,” assuming that Strasser “wasn’t that into me.”
Wachinski waited what he felt was the requisite proper time (three days) and finally called Strasser who was on her way, an hour across town, to do Greg Gutfeld’s show “Red Eye.” “I know this sounds counterintuitive,” she explains, “but we had a really great conversation about math. I love physics and science.”
She accepted a date and Wachinski took her to the Moroccan restaurant, Tangiers.
Once Strasser ordered her drink of choice, Jameson’s Neat, Wachinski was hooked. So was Strasser, who describes him as “so polite in his demeanor, so serene, smart and lighthearted.”
Despite the fact that she was comfortable being “open and honest” about her personal life, once she met Wachinski, she begged him not to listen to the radio show. “I wanted him to get to know me, not the me that’s on the radio.” Despite the temptation, Wachinski managed to follow her edict.
A month after meeting, Strasser was at Wachinski’s house, and the couple were watching a “Deliver Us From Evil, “ a documentary about a molesting priest. “We were making all kinds of completely inappropriate jokes, “ about Catholic Wachinski’s family, says the Jewish Strasser, when he suddenly asked her "to go steady." This was a relief to Strasser who says, “I wasn’t sure if he was in as I was.”
A week later, he says, they professed “the L-word.”
Theirs was a near-nstant love match. “Two or three months into it,” says Strasser, “We knew. We said if we ever got married, we’d be like Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio and get married at City Hall.” Four months later, they moved in together. “Not that I’d recommend that for everyone,” she says. “But it worked for us.”
Then, it was Valentines, 2008. “Everyone kept saying he was going to propose,” says Strasser, but by mid-day she was convinced he wasn’t. She even made a bet with her mother. “I got up that morning and there were balloons and flowers in every room, the bedroom, the bathroom, my closet, the living room, the kitchen, every room I go in.” So she assumed that was her VD present.
He took her to Little Dom’s in Los Feliz, an off-shoot of the restaurant where they first met. This one was in their neighborhood. “It was an early dinner,” she says, since “I have this schedule [she wakes up at 4 a.m., is at the radio show until 11 a.m. and Watercooler I the afternoons; she’s in bed by 8 or 8:30 p.m.].
But when they got home, more presents were wrapped. A fan of rubber duckies, she opened her first rush-wrapped (“it was totally wrapped by a guy”) rubber duck. Strassers everyday jewelry includes two Helen Ficalora discs, with her initials, T. and S. Around the neck was Ficalora disc with the initial W. The next gift revealed two rubber ducks, each with rings around their neck, a man’s and a woman’s wedding ring.
“I blacked out,” Strasser says, recalling only that Air Supply was on the radio (Wachinski had put on the “heart” station on their XM satellite radio).
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