In the latest episode of Dana Says/Tana Says, the couple debate on who should pay for dates. While walking around the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. to get some exercise, Dana Dane and his wife, Tana, go back and forth on the topic.
Tana says that “absolutely” men should pay, but Dana says that’s not the set-in-stone rule.
Especially because women are supposedly equally paid as men now, there are few excuses in Dana’s mind for why women can’t contribute to the relationship. When Tana points out that women are technically paid 70 cents for every man’s dollar, Dana says that women should pay 30 percent.
Tana then brings in the 90 day rule, usually held for how long a woman should make a man wait for sex. Dana quickly points out that his wife did not wait 90 days before paying for a date.
“You were special,” Tana says.
“If you don’t wanna pay for 90 days, put that special on ’em,” Dana tells his fellow men, explaining how he wined and dined Tana to woo her.
Later, Dana further expels the 90 day rule, saying to the ladies, “If you wanna keep the man around, don’t wait 90 days, especially if you ain’t trying to give him no nookie. If you ain’t giving up no nookie, don’t wait for no 90 days if you wanna keep him around.”
Tana chimes in, “If you give up nookie before then, yeah, you probably should go in your pocket a little sooner.”
Dana stops her and declares, “No, if you give up the nookie before 90 days, you should never go in your pocket.”
The couple then further breaks down the dating timeline, with Tana asking if men should pay for the first date. Dana says, “of course.”
Things get a little blurry for the second date as the rap legend says men should “maybe” pay for the follow-up meeting, but it “depends on how the vibe is.”
“If the vibe is like they’re feeling each other, they feel like they have something going on, the man should pay,” he explains, “but the woman should be open in her mind to saying, ‘You know what, he’s a cool guy, I can see myself hanging out with him a few more times.’ And if she feel like she can hang out with him a few more times, then that means she can pay for something.”
But how does a man tell the woman she should pay? Dana suggests sweet talking her and then dropping the straightforward, “You should pay.”
“If we’re monogamous, that means that you care about me, you wanna be with me, you can pay,” he expounds.
While Tana says that would not fly with most women, her husband declares, “I say what I mean, I mean what I say,” before reminding her she stuck with him.
“You were so sweet and tender when we first met. You wasn’t like that,” she reflects.
No matter how a couple decides who should pay, both Dana and Tana agree that people who are dating need to stick to the habits that they will continue throughout the relationship.
“Don’t start no shit you can’t finish,” Dana says. “Don’t be opening up doors and pulling out chairs if that’s ain’t what you gonna be later. Ladies, don’t be giving it all up each way, every way, then you get them under your wraps and you say, ‘Uh-uh, you only get it on birthdays and holidays.'”