D.B. Nyce Podcast

Remember when calling someone on your cellphone before 7 PM could cost you a fortune? Or when AOL Instant Messenger was cutting-edge technology? D.B. has a theory: Generation X might be the best generation at adapting to change. From VHS tapes and CDs to smartphones and artificial intelligence, Gen X has lived through one technological revolution after another. But does that really make us better...

Some foods apparently have rules. Turkey belongs in November. Eggnog belongs at Christmas. Pumpkin belongs in the fall. And according to D.B., violating these rules may potentially rip a hole in the space-time continuum. Today, D.B. and Ted attempt to understand why certain foods just feel wrong at certain times of year—and stumble onto a much more important question: Why doesn't Christmas have it...

D.B. and Sherry thought they knew exactly how their wedding ceremony was supposed to go. Then the music started. And Sherry immediately realized: That's not my song. What happened next looked completely different depending on where you were standing—and for the first time, D.B., Sherry and best man Ted compare notes about what each of them thought was happening during those few chaotic minutes. Tu...

D.B. just wants some chicken nuggets. Sherry wants the points. Unfortunately, getting both of those things at the same time turns out to be considerably more complicated than it should be. With Ted caught somewhere in the middle, a simple fast-food run turns into a debate over saving money, promo codes, warehouse clubs, buying things you don't actually need... and exactly how much ketchup is too m...

D.B. and Sherry have a problem in the bedroom. And naturally... Ted has thoughts. Something isn't working the way D.B. and Sherry expected, they've tried just about everything to fix it, and somehow D.B. may have accidentally discovered that he's part of the solution. Unfortunately, explaining how he discovered that makes the situation sound considerably worse than it actually is. Probably. 🎙️ Epi...

For the first time, D.B., Sherry and Ted are all behind the microphones together. What could possibly go wrong? Apparently... quite a bit. Before long, D.B. is in danger of being kicked off his own podcast, Sherry is discovering her devilish side, Ted is coordinating his socks with his social calendar, and somehow the three of them stumble onto what may be their greatest business idea yet. Welcome...

D.B. and Ted pull back the curtain on what happens after they record an episode: they read the transcript, ask ChatGPT for a report card, and use the results to help name the show. This time, they read Episode 070’s review live. That turns into a show-within-a-show, a debate over whether feeding the results back to ChatGPT could break it, and an attempt to predict the future. Then Ted’s connection...

It’s Sunday! D.B. and Ted reach Episode 70 with no plan—and within minutes, Ted’s audio sounds like his house is on fire. Once the technical chaos settles, they wander through a half-remembered comet movie, compare AI-generated pictures of their podcast universe, and accidentally invent Baby Critic and Ted’s “sexy robot.” Nobody’s house exploded. The conversation did. Listen to this episode and ca...

Every time Ted comes on the podcast, D.B. learns a little more about his friend. Today, he learns that Ted apparently has the ability to find the perfect T-shirt for absolutely any situation. That probably doesn't sound particularly dangerous. But somehow it leads D.B. and Ted down a rabbit hole involving trivia, old characters, questionable intellectual property and the realization that they've a...

Ted is back. And somehow a conversation about growing up in the '80s turns into old movies, childhood memories, artificial intelligence, candy, questionable business opportunities... and D.B. discovering that Ted may have found a way to make money from the podcast. Which would be great. Except apparently D.B. isn't getting any of it. This seems like something the legal department should probably l...

One video game. That's all it took. Years ago, D.B. started working on a little YouTube project built around the classic arcade games he loved as a kid. He had no idea where it would go. He definitely didn't realize that choosing one particular game to review would start a chain of events that would still be affecting his life years later. Today, D.B. looks back at D.B.'s Arcade, the childhood dre...

What if the action figures you played with as a kid were suddenly standing six feet tall? D.B. talks with vintage toy dealer and creator Dallas Poague about turning childhood favorites into giant displays. Dallas shares how he got his start selling collectibles, why he still hunts through antique stores, and how a request for three-foot Star Wars figures led to life-size creations. They also talk...

Sometimes you don't realize how much life you've packed into a short amount of time until something makes you stop and look around. For D.B., that happened several times this weekend. Watching Sherry in her element. Sitting at a family wedding exactly three months after their own. Celebrating another family birthday. And thinking about those old VHS tapes he talked about yesterday. It all led D.B....

started with something completely ordinary: school picture day. But while D.B. was ordering his son's latest pictures, he realized there aren't many of these left. Then, over the weekend, his mom handed him a box filled with old VHS tapes from the '80s and '90s. What D.B. found on those tapes wasn't just old birthday parties, family vacations and some very questionable teenage performances. He not...

D.B. needs to clear something up. Because for months, people around Delmarva have been approaching him with essentially the same question: “Wait... is that YOU?” Yes. It is. But there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for what you're seeing on television. Well... Reasonable might be pushing it. Today, D.B. finally tells the story behind one of the strangest television appearances of his career—...

For most of his adult life, D.B. knew exactly what he wanted. Radio. Every new station, every new city and every opportunity was another step toward the career he'd imagined for himself. But somewhere along the way, something changed. After spending the last several weeks telling the Radio Journey—and looking back at more than 20 years behind a microphone—D.B. has started asking himself a differen...

Things were going incredibly well in Monroe. D.B. & Jenni had taken the new Star 101.9 morning show to the top of the ratings, the station was connecting with the community, and D.B. had rediscovered everything he'd once loved about radio. Then the changes started. One D.B. had always suspected might eventually happen. Another he absolutely didn't see coming. And suddenly, for the first time i...

After losing his dad, D.B. came dangerously close to walking away from radio altogether. Then came Monroe, Louisiana. A brand-new station. A brand-new morning show. A new co-host named Jenni—and a market that had absolutely no idea what D.B. was about to bring to morning radio. For the first time in months, something started coming back. The excitement. The ridiculous ideas. The connection with li...

After everything that happened in Alabama, D.B. knew it was time to leave. This time, he wanted to go home. A promising opportunity appeared at a radio station he'd listened to his entire life, and for a while, it looked like everything was falling perfectly into place. Until it wasn't. Then D.B. answered a mysterious radio job posting that didn't identify the station—or even tell him where the jo...

After losing his dad, D.B. was angry. Angry that radio had taken him hundreds of miles from home. Angry about the moments he'd missed. And convinced that chasing his dream had cost him something he could never get back. He was ready to quit. But over the next several weeks, a series of moments began to change the way D.B. looked at everything that had happened. Was it coincidence? Was it exactly w...

What starts as a conversation about a viral pickle dip quickly turns into a deep dive into forgotten insults, old-school detective voices, and one of the worst business ideas D.B. has ever come up with. On this episode: Ted shares his new obsession with homemade pickle dip. Why "dill weed" might be the most underrated insult of the 1990s. The return of "dweeb" and other words that disappeared. Two...

There are certain dates you never forget. For D.B., one of them is July 16, 2007. He was sitting at his desk at the radio station in Alabama when his phone rang. It was his mom calling in the middle of the day—something she almost never did. Then she said the words that changed everything. In today's Radio Journey, D.B. remembers losing his father, the coworkers who surrounded him when he was hund...

After mistaking his coworker for a ghost in the last episode, D.B. has another creepy Alabama story—this time involving a beautiful park, a late-night walk home and a statue that looked very different after dark. But the real story today is about the people D.B. met while living hundreds of miles from home. There's Diesel, a Detroit radio guy who somehow knew people from D.B.'s Philadelphia radio...

D.B. was working nights inside an old Victorian house in Alabama that, according to local history, had once been used as a hospital during the Civil War. Most nights, everyone else was gone before his show ended at midnight. The lights were off. The hallways were dark. And one night, something kept catching the corner of D.B.'s eye. Then he turned around and saw an elderly man standing inside a da...

Sometimes a few words from the right person arrive exactly when you need them. Before continuing his Radio Journey, D.B. wants to thank a VMB player named Michael, who recently discovered the podcast through Video Music Bingo and unknowingly gave D.B. some much-needed encouragement to keep going. Then it's back to Alabama. Within days of moving to the Muscle Shoals area and starting nights at Star...