Fresh Catch 2.0

Send us Fan Mail We are officially declaring ourselves to be "platonic pod partners" and are willing to take the social heat. In the meantime, we're muddling through all of the ways we can engage complex issues today with others. It's not easy! David called Dr. Dave a drone and we laughed about how one of his earliest sermons about 50 years ago had 17 points…so "droning&qu...

Send us Fan Mail Lots of confessing going on by two guys who are like David's broken hot water heater: old and leaky. We're getting pretty comfortable baring our true feelings about what has hurt us on our journeys into manhood. Somehow giggling helps (though that word doesn’t feel very manly). Jesus helps most. He's got us right where he wants us, and even the giggles feel like the...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Dave experienced Zoom whiplash. David's sleeveless-ness today contrasted with N.T. Wright's attire yesterday. Fittingly (which is what you do when you cut the sleeves off shirts for summer styling in Indiana), though our little podcast might not be smart-sounding like a webinar from Wycliffe Hall at Oxford University, we did make practical sense of what Jesus meant b...

Send us Fan Mail You don't have to dress up in fancy clothes to hang with real friends. David insisted that sleeves aren't necessary. We pushed into how critical it is to have true blue friends with whom we can be transparent. Unless they sound like Mike Tyson…or at least David's impression of how he sounds.

Send us Fan Mail We celebrated for a moment the rich, lingering benefit we gained from last week's episode with Arthur Wilson and Josh Raines. But, as critical as it is to gain breakthrough insights about what our black friends routinely encounter, this is only a foundation for finding shared solutions. Apparently, David is resistant to the idea that he might become the Reconciling Clown of C...

Send us Fan Mail The country is searching for its soul right now. Typical light banter seemed out of place. So we invited two black friends we both admire and respect to join us for this episode. We were authentic (which meant some laughter) and talked about our tough challenges to overcome racial division and live in love as God's people. Many thanks to Huntington University's Arthur Wi...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast starts and ends abruptly, like lots of arguments. What sets them off? What sets US off? Why, at our mature age, are we still sneaking around the house to avoid upsetting the natural balance of things? Is it because we've become wise or tamed? Finally, would you like to be one of the few who are empowered to declare that David is a donkey, as the proverb goes? Som...

Send us Fan Mail We tried to nip at each other and create entertaining sparks for listeners but we fell short of our goal. Rather than actually argue about something we spent most of this podcast talking about the art of arguing. It was, to be most honest, cowardly. I made fun of David's use of the word "scolded" but that only incited giggling, not verbal fisticuffs. But we experien...

Send us Fan Mail Most often we giggle so much it's like we're cuddling. Much of this podcast took that vibe as we talked about how authentic creativity differs from gimmickry. But something dark arose in David's heart as he seethed quietly, eager to be pugnacious. Perhaps it's because Dr. Dave's new moustache style invoked a memory about some schoolboy report he once had t...

Send us Fan Mail There's something about the way comedians see the world that is a bit tilted, like a picture hanging that's not quite aligned. It's the necessary gift David brings to his craft, but it sometimes leads him to push social boundaries as he did with a couple of innocent grocery store clerks. By the way, when this way of seeing gets unleashed on the gospels, we might act...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever been startled by someone's unusual competence? David was ready to roll for this podcast and his tight execution was almost disruptive. Not quite as unsettling as the pandemic, though there seems to be some good neighbor growth to be celebrated during these homebound days. Remembering God's goodness is a habit worth practicing, even when the memories tag eac...

Send us Fan Mail When you're stuck in the same place for a while it's only natural to start seeing things you can find fault with. We've both noticed how that's hitting us. This was a pretty convenient topic since David can't be trusted to push the right Zoom button. In fact, we instituted a Praise Zoom technique many listeners might find useful. Above all, we are grateful...

Send us Fan Mail Like many people during this COVID shelter-in-place, we have become less attentive to personal grooming routines. Somehow, as is typical in our wandering conversations, we started chatting about toes before David's big reveal of nothing where most of humanity has something. He explained how it came to be that his bellybutton evaporated and, no, magician David Blaine had nothi...

Send us Fan Mail On Easter weekend we talked about the profound life change David has recently experienced…due to a stray cat. This one's a bit edgy as Dr Dave pursues the kind of information that inquiring minds want to know. (Or, more likely, news-weary minds simply want a brief reprieve.) BTW, post on  https://www.facebook.com/daviddeancomedy/  if you want to engage David about our little...

Send us Fan Mail Thank God for technology that allows us to connect during COVID-19. The hug deprivation we are all going through has us dreaming about the day when human touch isn't dangerous. In the meantime, could someone please help David push the buttons that make Zoom work? He confessed how eager he was to re-engage with Dr Dave after a week. He spruced up. Felt his heart racing. Winced...

Send us Fan Mail David misses applause. It's how he make money. And apparently his beloved wife, Saint Betsy, also thinks he might be inclined to neglect some hygiene habits. Though it was unspoken, it felt like we agreed to be accountable to one another during our weekly check-in. Maybe that's why David felt like he wanted to know more about what prompted Dr Dave to post an 'edgy&a...

Send us Fan Mail Like most of America, the two Daves practiced responsible social distancing. This podcast was Zoomed, but it didn't keep us both from laughing until we cried. Mostly about a famous birthday picture Dr Dave posted about 9 years ago and the disturbing "hungry eyes" image seared into many memories on St Patrick's Day. It felt good to laugh together, even if couldn...

Send us Fan Mail The ol' "trailing toilet paper" stunt was an important discovery moment for David as he became "back hallway funny" in high school. Dr Dave remembers things a bit differently, centered around a haunting sound bite from Kook & The Gang. And shared memories of one of our favorite shared friends, Tim Atkins, had us giggling like crazy!

Send us Fan Mail Pood , Pearly , Scrumpy Jack , Bouncer …we daydreamed a bit about having cool nicknames. Then reality set in as David recounted today's quick expression of love to the skilled craftsmen doing chimney repair and Dr. Dave got a bit choked up over the celebration of a pretty amazing life milestone.

Send us Fan Mail It's been 8 years since we did our last podcast. We spent a little time trying to figure out whose fault it is which led us into an excuse-filled dialogue about our very real relationship capacity limitations. Big takeaway? If you talk to David you've got about 42 seconds before he drifts off. Also, we talked about laser love, solar love, and total eclipses.