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Send us Fan Mail David claims to have a disorder that may or may not be an official psychological category. His cozy relationship with a popular magazine seems to justify his assertion that he is afflicted with "Innocent Stupidity." However uncomfortable it was to hear about the particular experiences he used to describe this disorder (asking a teenage Walmart worker where the Dudewipes...

Send us Fan Mail Every once in a while, David tosses a bone of professional courtesy to Dr Dave. It's largely disingenuous. But today's episode dove into a genuine emotional health concern that some people have when they try to assume control over the motherboard of sounds around them. David's best attempts to imitate the offending noises did not incite his pod-partner. But it did l...

Send us Fan Mail Apologies to any listeners who simply don't understand why baseball—Cubs baseball, to be exact—has such a grip on our hearts. Feel free to reach out to our long-suffering wives for support. And we humbly invite your prayerful intervention on our behalf…especially if we need an exorcism. But the season ended for us last night and we have officially begun our off-season of mour...

Send us Fan Mail Once you survive the scat storm we enjoyed at the beginning of this episode (was there ever a genre of music more fitting to describe the interaction we have here as we Freshly Catch whatever?), there's an epic story from David's recent comedy gig in Lagrange, KY. Massive shout out to Randy, the guy who saved the show. Lots of hard laughter here and apologies (if necessa...

Send us Fan Mail Loyal listeners, we promise you nothing but fresh material. It's the very core of our podcast, baked into our name. So we could pre-record some pablum when we know our Thursday uploads can't be done in a week. But we don't. Fresh. That's who we are. David excused Dr Dave's 24 hour delay for what he thought was a worthy reason. But does David's 12 minu...

Send us Fan Mail No surprise to loyal listeners that we skipped around a bit. This might explain why, after checking us out for five minutes, YouTubers say,  "nope."  If it's due to our poor fashion, we're working on it. If it's because we don't deliver enough eye contact to convince you how sincere we are, we took steps today to improve. The vocal wanderings–especial...

Send us Fan Mail Last Friday, five of us crammed into Roger's car and drove up and back to Wrigley Field. The Reds beat the Cubs. But that's not one of the headlines we talked about in this episode. Let's be clear: each of us at some point in our story-telling remembrance doesn't look that great. But we sure did re-giggle as we tried our best to paint the picture of our roadtri...

Send us Fan Mail Dolly died on Tuesday. August 25 will be remembered for years to come as the day a beloved and iconic entertainer added her incomparable voice to heaven's choir. Our most loyal listeners know that David's filters have largely been shredded. And now there's no hope for this date to be headlined as his birthday, which it is. The Bible's Golden Rule says we should...

Send us Fan Mail The visuals in our Zoom recorded experience were so exceptional today that we may explore how to deliver FC 2.0 on YouTube. Picture David moisturizing before his sultry, throaty whisper to his lady while imagining he's taking a long draw on a cigarette (a prop pen in his hand taking the place of the genuine tobacco stick). His exposure to neighbor scrutiny is self-inflicted....

Send us Fan Mail We tiptoed dangerously close to the precipice where old men grouse about all that has changed (for the worst) from their good old days. The target catching most of our ire seemed to be centered around the technological creep we are all experiencing. David may be getting sucked in. His inaugural voyage in a Phoenix Waymo was downright pleasant and his 14-yr old grandson is trying t...

Send us Fan Mail As much as we enjoy delivering weekly podcasts of distinction (emphasize the "stink" sound), one of us actually has to work for a living. So this week's episode featured The Comedian in conversation with Dr Dave while awaiting his flight to Phoenix. He gets to be funny in front of some strangers. It's been a really rough recent few weeks for David. Upcoming per...

Send us Fan Mail This title deserves an asterisk. David was generally not happy with the surgeon's response when he asked why his belly-button no longer exists. A med specialist, for sure, but he drove outside his lane by deflecting with a biblical reference that was intended to cower our beloved comedian into silence. But years later—thanks to the bravery of FC 2.0—he's found his voice....

Send us Fan Mail Give us a listen and then a rating. We're inspired to use 1-star reviews in marketing.  No longer will we be held hostage by the British voices in our head who squash our dreams with their critiques under the guise of genteel respect. Sure, we may be  dazed…even deluded. SIREN spells (trans? Charlize? does it matter?) are powerful. But we are really trying. In fact, under dar...

Send us Fan Mail Ahhh! If only we had contracted with some Psychology Today expert to give us feedback based on listening to the podcast today; maybe then David might hear enough to open his heart to the world's beauty. On the surface, of course, this is a soccer reference. But it also shows up in his unwillingness to concede his window seat on a long flight. And—in ways that only a trained t...

Send us Fan Mail eBay sellers know this strategy: take some old useless stuff, tag it as "vintage", and mark up the sale price accordingly. Who pioneered this money-making savvy? Did it emerge from some give-and-take between spouses as an observant wife tried to shield her caveman hubby from publicly embarrassing the family name? Our own exchange today was authentic, even if the shirts w...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Dave tried to convince David of the beauty in watching Team USA win their World Cup soccer match last night. In the exchange, we all learned how our funny co-host has grown over the years. Whereas he once held disdain, he now simply positions himself as aloof . Warnings about the slippery slope into referee-level narcissism seemed to fall on David's thick-skinned, comedy-c...

Send us Fan Mail Listeners were treated to some real-time engagement with today's episode. First, Dr Dave had to scurry off to google who yelled "Stella!!" in an iconic movie. (It was NOT Rocky.) Having failed to lock up the "desire" we discovered (supplying your movie hint), we moved into the confessional booth once again, protesting why we must be shamed for our snack ad...

Send us Fan Mail As a result of recent storms and even tornado touchdowns, Dr Dave was without electrical power for 90 hours. It's the kind of crisis that mustn't be wasted, so the funny guy of our FC team poked endlessly and elicited plenty of whine-soaked stories from his recently showered partner. David seemed most surprised about atmospheric shunning felt from some of the good doctor...

Send us Fan Mail It's not exactly a lie. But we're not wrapping up the whole truth for a meal, either. Why do we insist on sparing loved ones—or strangers—from the unvarnished truth? When St Betsy delayed telling David about the wild silver vine growing from his nostril's soil bed, was it the truth we need from our most dependable monitors? Sometimes we push broom. But if we do, som...

Send us Fan Mail We did some genuine psycho-therapy work on this podcast. It so happens our recent life experiences converged about how we can't seem to find the Gentle Button when we naturally express ourselves and say what we, er, believe. Our tongues have not yet been tamed. Saying,  "I don't care"  does not absolve us of the hurt mudslide we cause…no matter how the Greek go...

Send us Fan Mail Too many big moments to do justice to a single conversational thread on this episode. Dr Dave's eldest grandson is graduating 8th grade today, which is a huge deal for some of his buddies who are Amish. They're done with formal education. Meanwhile, an update on David's Pappy and his ascendancy to nursing home royalty challenges any assumption that we might ever, tr...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever been around someone whose tone felt like they were cussing but the words were never actually uttered? We kind of had that vibe today…and we deeply regret it if we dropped a stumbling block in front of any loyal listeners who are struggling to tame their tongues. But, once the two D's found how they shared Liam Neeson-like intensity about retrieving a dropped Fre...

Send us Fan Mail Social dilemmas are far too common for us. We cherish authenticity from our friends, so conversations should welcome truth-telling, right? But what if you're promoting a band with Genghis Khan roots to your family and they diss you? Brutal honesty doesn't feel so good. And what about those times when two thoughts get married right before they slide down into a spoken wor...

Send us Fan Mail We talked about the probing experience too much to not give it a prime spot in this episode's title. But this conversation was not about a health procedure; it was about David's day in court. More specifically, the funny guy smuggled info into the Podcast-o-sphere about interactions he witnessed while being (not) chosen for a jury pool. Apologies to all men who remember...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features David broadcasting from a Florida getaway with St Betsy. We celebrated the (spoiled) fruit of his unplugged status, as confirmed by the 7-11 clerk who mistakenly identified him as a local who, like her, was glad to see the tourists head back north. Apparently all it took for her to conclude he was a resident was being unshaven and wearing a cut-off t-shirt th...