Fresh Catch 2.0

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...

Send us Fan Mail Every once in a while we flirt with highbrow culture, just to prove (to ourselves) how versatile we are. So when David introduced a lovely tidbit about William Shakespeare early in this episode, we started connecting dots between Pappy's love for the Bard and Dr Dave's honeymoon in Stratford. Along the way, what David turned a future guest  "teaser"  into the s...

Send us Fan Mail On the way to discovering solutions that work we often have to wallow in excremental floodwaters. So we decided to sprinkle instrumental song lyrics throughout this episode with Eeyore . Indignation surfaced a bit. After all, we feel entitled to indulge in whatever we need when bobbing through the waters of sorrow. We chatted about how competitive our troubles can be and now lay a...

Send us Fan Mail isteners know that David's beloved Pappy is in a nursing home and dealing with dementia. Too many of us have walked in the grief of caring for our parents when they've lost a bit of themselves. So David was right to pause the start of our episode to listen to the message a nurse just left him. Thirty minutes later—after collecting himself from tear-inducing laughter (rel...

Send us Fan Mail Our good friend Tim Atkins set the direction for this episode when we enjoyed a lunch with him last Friday. He insistently told us about some incomplete memory in his head that we should know. We didn't. But it was so much fun to poke at him for claiming to be King of Mindfulness that it carried over into this Maundy Thursday podcast, where we celebrated the sort of Easter mu...

Send us Fan Mail We've all known about triggers that launch someone down a rabbit hole they can't escape from. Trump Derangement Syndrome is defined by such an idea. There was something about the early moments of this podcast when we began to celebrate Michelle's guest appearance last week that sucked Dr Dave into Nerdland. During the remainder of the episode we tried to recover fro...

Send us Fan Mail If you've listened much to our Fresh Catch ramble-fest you've probably heard David gush with admiration about his comedian tour partner for Marriage Date Night: Michelle Miller. Today's episode was a special treat as Dr Dave learned for himself what all the hubbub was about. Michelle is a hoot…especially when she's chippy. And us two boys giggled all the way th...

Send us Fan Mail Very seldom do we introduce a topic and chew on it for the entirety of our podcast. But today's conversation seemed to grow two new legs every time we gnawed and digested one. Tucked around the mysterious attraction church gossipers know all too well, we described an incident where David remembered all the details (including the name of the person who smugly scolded us) and D...

Send us Fan Mail You've likely got history with us. You're not surprised by our conversational wanderings. We pride ourselves on being unscripted. Some might observe that this brand justifies our laziness in podcasting. We think it secures the giggles most important to us. About anything…like today's episode where David throws beloved Saint Betsy under a bus and will not accept any...

Send us Fan Mail As we're likely to do when we record an episode, we wandered quite a bit. Maybe (not declaring this, in case we're being monitored) we felt freedom because the President's State of the Union was such a free-flowing ride. But we quickly settled in on offering some useful advice to loyal listeners who, like us, have experienced too much hovering from restaurant staff....

Send us Fan Mail As editor-in-chief of the title and description for each podcast, I (Dr Dave) try my best to be objective. But in these post-production minutes before upload  I still feel the sting of being exposed for my poor Valentine's Day efforts last week. David, like Pappy, chases the laugh first. Today, in my emotionally fragile state as a love buffoon, I needed more compassion than I...

Send us Fan Mail Many apologies to our listeners for failing to record a podcast last week. Dr Dave's cross country drive simply didn't square with David's comedy touring schedule. We are opening a search for a manager. It's a great gig. Non-paid. Meanwhile, it was only fitting that we were blessed by David's Pacino-like interpretation of his favorite verse as spoken by Mo...

Send us Fan Mail Mistakes happen when the risky thing we intended to do does not receive the careful attention it needs. So when Dr Dave—already experimenting with his facial hair—accidentally shaved a bunch of his trademark goatee, it now sits as a mustache deserving of the Old West. Or, as DrDR's wife warns, "Mr Monopoly is coming." Meanwhile, as David cackled and leaned in for cl...

Send us Fan Mail Loyal listeners know that Dr Dave handles post-production details like titling episodes and writing descriptions to help those who want to weigh whether eavesdropping on our free wheeling conversation is going to be worth their time. Not gonna lie. It's been a few hours since we recorded but there's still a freeze in this relationship. Comedian David P Dean felt OK makin...

Send us Fan Mail Weather reports set the tone for our day. Blue sky? Even if it's cold and snowy, that helps. Rainy and warm? Maybe that's OK. But David is preparing for frigid conditions as he prepares to see the Bears v Rams at Soldier Field and the new hand warmer St Betsy bought him has far too many buttons. We talked about which Patrick Swayze movie character might be helpful. It wa...