Peter and Dave have known each other since their swimming days at Kenyon College. They were both distance swimmers and became fast friends. Smartphones were not available to document their early friendship. The following is a reconstruction from Dave's memory of 2005:
Peter and Dave bonded over the misery and pain that is distance swimming training. Peter would go on to make the Nationals team and win glory for his ancestors (who were all about glory, and tulips), while Dave would suffer the ignominy of being known as the Fastest Man Never To Make Nationals. But Dave was never bitter about it. Not bitter at all.
Although it pained them, Peter and Dave separated for a couple years after college. Their wilderness years are lost to the mists of time. Peter eventually moved back to the Midwest to personally help fund a struggling university. Reunited, Peter and Dave have been inseparable. Dave works as a super interesting attorney that is not working for The Man and has not sold out. Dave looks forward to the bleak, not-so-distant future when government breaks down and he can fulfill his intended role as judge, jury and executioner.