Fresh Catch 2.0

Send us Fan Mail It gives us great pleasure whenever we, your frail and flawed FC2.0 co-hosts, can offer some small pearl that will enhance the life of our merry band of loyal listeners. Get your notepads out, kids; once we figured out how to burp our houses we realized that the beauty of a burp is how well it travels beyond a simple expression of an uncooperative digestive system. We hope you agr...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year, everyone! Our entire staff here at FC 2.0 headquarters wish you nothing but the best. That's very much unlike the end-of-life journey the Italians offered their once-admired dictator at the end of WW2. If you didn't know that factoid, strap it in for a 2026 ride. David invested his time during the biggest worldwide party of the year learning such knowledg...

Send us Fan Mail This episode let David pay tribute to favorite actors and singers who crowded into his Christmas experience. We got caught up in the lovely imaginations of the season. How could Snoop, Jimmy, Mel, Chris, Mark and Andrea collaborate? Also, we imagined becoming more like active participants again rather than bewildered but smiling spectators. We may have encouraged one another to be...

Send us Fan Mail In case you've lost track of time for your Christmas shopping, we're in countdown mode. Today is the last Thursday you'll have before December 25 hits you like a spoiled fruitcake. We tried to aim this episode as public service, hoping to be helpful. But we're a bit inclined to chase shiny objects when we're chatting, so … you know. Lots of story telling t...

Send us Fan Mail A thousand apologies. Our podcasts always catch us in the midst of some kind of space and often one of us helps the other from stumbling off into the Ditch of No Return. Not today. We were both wired for venting and, as good friends sometimes do, we fanned a few flames we probably should have tossed water on. Singing and celebrating Christmas is a joy. No matter who's singing...

Send us Fan Mail Like many of our podcasts, this began with a real-life encounter David had with some favorite food. In this case, it was the prodigal six-pack of soda he forgot he'd left in the snow a week ago. As he recalled the reconnection Dr Dave detected a disturbing undertone in what he said to his root beer. It turns out that the voices we hear make a difference in whether we're...

Send us Fan Mail We recorded on Black Friday with LOADS of Thanksgiving stuff to chat about. It feels like adding more to the description would be like adding another piece of pumpkin pie to the post-turkey food coma equation. We noticed a bunch of stuff in our separate family celebrations and confess we were secretly giggling in anticipation of swapping stories while remembering to pass the gravy...

Send us Fan Mail First of all, massive apologies to our 17 loyal listeners who had to navigate their Thursday night workout without the benefit of a new episode to pump you up. David was hobnobbing among sweater-vesters so we had to push our recording back a day. But if you're a fan of hearing Dr Dave topic-hop like he's just snorted some cocaine, this 28 minutes will help you cap off yo...

Send us Fan Mail This episode began by invoking the memory of legendary DJ Wolfman Jack before exploring David's early job as a 3rd shift radio host. Our fascination about how to make the best use of a long-playing song led us to wonder about the possibility of living within a peaceful and powerful flow. That's Tai Chi's Instagram promise. Of course, before actually trying these exe...

Send us Fan Mail We had to open by cathartically dealing with national news. Will the fresh-faced mayor of New York succeed in his socialist experiment? Will Hoosiers eventually be affected? It's already been difficult to keep David's neighbors from feeling entitled to ongoing protection after he invested to halt Japanese beetles from immigrating. Do we also have to endure over-the-top b...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes our Fresh Catch 2.0 episodes drift into therapy sessions. Today we found some comfort in each other's Zoom arms by confessing a sin we had in common: pretending to know or remember while in a conversation that (most often) ambushed us. The formulaic goal we share is pretty simple. Hide out until you can get out. But our well-honed skills of evasion deserved a bit of...

Send us Fan Mail Since we are diehard Cubs & Bears fans it feels like we're dancing near the Cliff of Betrayal to admit we really like the people we know from Wisconsin. Cheese curds sit well in our otherwise messed up digestive systems. For sure they don't provoke us to recoil like hummus does. But the hummus-hosts live in Chicago, and the comfort-foodies come from the Packers &...

Send us Fan Mail This episode involved some reminiscing that school age listeners could probably cite as a primary source in their next term paper. We also kicked around how we use cooler-than-normal music to connect with God. That led us into a very brief sharing of a really deep way to pray. That's Fresh Catch for you. If we go really deep you can count on us being very brief. Like the old...

Send us Fan Mail When this day began, minutes after midnight, our beloved Cubs had lost and now the season is all but finished. It makes sense that one of us (the old one) was in a foul mood. A travel demand disrupted our normal recording schedule and the funny one bounced into the Zoom room freshly jubilant after hanging with other comedic friends. David tried to bring his joy juice to the moment...

Send us Fan Mail It's the rare empathetic young person who might listen to our podcast today and aim to be helpful. We whined. Hard and long. Our aging bodies are failing us so we indulged in swapping stories about our health problems and the way we perceive doctors and nurses fail us. Before they actually experience such degrading, it's understandable that those who still have the abili...

Send us Fan Mail In some cultures, old people are venerated. Cherished. Honored. Deeply respected. But in 2025 America we (remember, David turned 60 recently) are routinely ridiculed. The 10-item list of identifying foibles that comes with being in the AARP crowd might be funny to youngsters who prefer mockery to empathy, but it was far too familiar for those of us whose sphincter's beg for r...

Send us Fan Mail Thinking his invisible age cohort might escape ridicule, David merrily poked at Dr Dave's Boomer-isms. He skillfully refuted every attempt by his aged co-host to parry, scoring points while exposing his unmet needs to belong somehow…somewhere. Neither was anxious to revisit 7th grade lunchroom traumas, so we settled on sideline snobbery, critiquing an Emmy crowd that would ne...

Send us Fan Mail This day has become America's national lament of remembrance. And the cloud only thickened with the news of Charlie Kirk's murder yesterday. Tucked in the folds of what most of the world is thinking about is a personal story David coaxed out of Dr Dave: he got married on 9/11/76. We remembered – and giggled, of course – in a different direction on today's podcast. H...

Send us Fan Mail This episode exposed a lot about each of the Davids that actually justifies the loss of followers we were whining about so much. But even as we sit in our unattractive pool of disdain far removed from smug (ya, we're jealous) social media influencers, we can't keep from giggling about the WAY we are shallow people. Just ask our wives…or, if you really want an earful, Dav...

Send us Fan Mail If you are searching for some "how-to" advice you might be excited by where this episode began. Question-asking is a skill we know something about. Just ask us. But if someone answers with more than you bargained for—even when their answer is dripping with sincerity and love for Jesus—the timer in your head that says "move on" can make us feel like bad people....

Send us Fan Mail A bunch of us gathered at a restaurant Saturday night to surprise and celebrate a milestone birthday for David. Meanwhile, local appliance salesmen and home repair specialists were celebrating how his advanced age lends itself to making purchases without understanding all the details. And there may be collateral trauma from the birthday dance we all experienced with the waitstaff...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes an old man will tuck $6 into your shirt pocket so you'll listen to his good joke. Or a pre-gig massage to prepare you backfires…like the team chapel you were invited to speak at. But often times it's in the simplest of routines where we say something unplanned (and regrettable) in order to feel like we fit in. David offered such detail today — it provoked an aw...

Send us Fan Mail A bit too common these days, David hunted for cover from Dr Dave around a shady judgement call he recently made. You know… we do something that makes us conscience-queasy so we seek to be reassured by close friends. When Dr Dave instead challenged David about his lying, an inventive concept was thrown into the mix: PRE-TRUTH. While listeners weigh whether this novel defense is leg...

Send us Fan Mail We seldom, if ever, beg for immediate feedback. It's not our vibe here in the Fresh Catch 2.0 Chill Zone. But David is about to jump on a plane and head to Texas to do a men's comedy event and when he described the outfit he was planning to wear, Dr Dave—without benefit of any Psychology Today app—quickly tossed up a caution flag. It's unknown at this moment of publ...

Send us Fan Mail David got bumped aside during his recent Kroger shopping experience by the cute little robot doing price checks. Apparently it was annoyed by the need to nudge David away from carefully considering which Oreos to buy. At least that's how the squeaky sounds it emitted sounded to the nearby employee who lobbed sideways shaming at David. As we decried the Machine Kingdom we now...