Fresh Catch 2.0

Send us Fan Mail So much to celebrate in this episode! This remote hook-up at one of our favorite restaurants as a live podcast—simultaneously being shown on Instagram—was a blast. But what was truly epic was to hear how the manager-owner of Los Amigos has indulged David's mis-naming him for YEARS because he is too kind to offend him. Hear Romero's story as you listen to us giggle in the...

Send us Fan Mail If you like the zig-zag pacing of improv conversation, this episode is for you. In an act of brave vulnerability David disclosed his pain from being kicked out of Sunday school while paying a great deal of respect to the teacher who did it. Being the gigglers we are, we found it hard to ignore how well the SS teacher's name fit. And as the boys who caught a glimpse of shirtle...

Send us Fan Mail For all of our loyal listeners, enjoy celebrating America's birthday! Please stay safe. We learned something about the names used by professional comedians in today's podcast. Feel free to test this "conventional wisdom" while you're telling stories and brat-munching this holiday weekend. And be sensitive to the kind of story you think appropriate to share...

Send us Fan Mail If you listen a bit to our podcasts, it comes as no surprise to hear us confess how biased we are about most things. It's actually quite amazing that either of us have been married for a long time, given how clueless we are with our patient and loving spouses. Our journey into self-justification and undeserved righteousness was on display in this episode that begins with Davi...

Send us Fan Mail Add this episode to your Helpful file. Have you been in rooms like David uncomfortably endured in a recent Great Clips  experience? His skilled hair-stylist lacked read-the-room-awareness or a voice that didn't make his skin crawl. Intervention was needed. So we unpacked it. And we probed how new grandpa David's son gently corrected his clumsy baby-holding skills. Interv...

Send us Fan Mail In only three days Father's Day will arrive, ready or not. If therapists listened to this episode they might detect our insecurity. We are, after all, two aging dads. Both of us are grandpas. And we seemed to meander our way toward comforting one another by lowering expectations for what we'll experience on Sunday. It helped that we could make fun of Pappy when he dialed...

Send us Fan Mail Even though David launched immediately into a campy mimicry bit, this episode may actually be worth submitting to those who are spiritual coaches. We somehow got talking about our impulsive responses when flailing limbs fail to keep us from making messes. The growth techniques we exchanged can help us guard our hearts. Even when the lyrics we put to music are raunchy.

Send us Fan Mail We explore the unvarnished grist of life in our podcast. Loyal listeners have heard much about St Betsy, David's wife. She's a long-suffering woman who embraced the calling to be a moral compass. Too often she's been pressed into the thankless role of reminding Comedy Boy about where true north is. If you're at all sympathetic to her burden, you may wince a bit...

Send us Fan Mail True confession. While we take strange pride in never preparing for our podcasts (an unwritten recording value is to avoid serving up anything that isn't totally "fresh"), we agreed in the minute before we began to chase what we both thought would be entertaining. But somehow the words "fact check" slipped into the intro banter and thus, O Fair Listener, w...

Send us Fan Mail Are you annoyed by the 24 hour delay in delivering this podcast? Perhaps you have a preference for listening on Thursdays and we disrupted your routine. Before we rush to apologize we want you to consider a quote from Donald Miller that we dissected today: "Don't moralize your preferences." Is this good marriage advice? Felt like a speed trap to us. But then David o...

Send us Fan Mail This title is literally true about this podcast episode. It was also the only time the word was used…but it sure seems like we chatted about how many ways life's sugary sweets don't exactly nourish. Within the first 60 seconds David set the tone by failing to indulge Dr Dave's transparent request for affirmation. We're all so needy.

Send us Fan Mail We meandered a lot during this episode. After sharing our old age affections for plush, thick, green lawns we explored other attachments we've bequeathed with a near holy status. Are you a sports fan? So are we. Love blues and jazz music? That's cool. Like good movies? Us, too. Do you like to drop rare facts on your neighbor while watching the movie? One of us loves to d...

Send us Fan Mail If you listen regularly to our podcast you know that it's not uncommon for Dr Dave to serve as David's therapist or host his confessions. It seems like a good thing to do. We all should look for low hanging fruit where at least one person is helped. In today's episode we explored David's recent confrontation while parking in a location familiar to the lowlife u...

Send us Fan Mail David is under the weather, but he's learned that the show must go on. Inspired by his heroic efforts to overcome the funky infectious germs keeping him from doing an honorable gig later this afternoon at Lincoln Elementary, Dr. Dave attempted to connect to the moment by describing an upcoming encounter he will have at Huntington University. We shared awkward moments when a p...

Send us Fan Mail The Bible urges us to tame our tongues but warns us that this is no small challenge. On this episode, we spent a few minutes as fellow strugglers squeezed into a confessional, swapping stories about some untamed moments and wondering aloud why the intoxicating appeal of another big laugh can shred our filters. As you reach the painful end of our transparent exchange, we hope you c...

Send us Fan Mail To be fair, we didn't actually and openly explore this question during our podcast. But it was in Dr Dave's heart as he sidled up to his funny friend and invited a deeper consideration of how, if, when, where, and why anyone who loves Jesus and makes a living doing comedy might dance in the Blue Zone. There would, of course, be hang-ups to reckon with. Not the least of t...

Send us Fan Mail Please don't become gruff with us, loyal Freshies. We know we're a day late in posting this episode. But, as David explains in hushed tones from the sanctity of his basement, his house has been invaded, er, swarmed upon, no… ENRICHED by eight brothers who have massive drywalling skills. The whispers were due to David's desire not to say anything disrespectful about...

Send us Fan Mail Social media is a force to be reckoned with. When someone does a dirty deed, mobile phone cameras catch it and post it for the world to heckle. As we discussed David's near victimization yesterday (and near loyalty betrayal) we realize how healing it can be to embrace snarkiness. And, as a public service for those who secretly hope to be noticed by famous podcasters, we'...

Send us Fan Mail It was Dr Dave's turn on the therapy couch this morning, a few days before he will withstand the annual St Paddy's Day picture indignities he brought upon himself. Dave was exceptionally skillful at coaxing the good doctor into telling a couple of stories from his early days in youth ministry. The landing point of all this reminiscing was and is to reckon with how – not...

Send us Fan Mail If you're new to the Freshie Fellowship you may not have caught on to what our seasoned loyal listeners already know. David is a bit of a narcissist. Dr. Dave may also suffer from S.A.S. (self-absorption syndrome), but he tends to mask it well. This episode caught the funny guy in an exceedingly whiny state. He needed a friend to unload on. Since St. Betsy's spatula refe...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, David and Dr. Dave indulged in some old movie reminiscing. That led us to be vulnerable about what it was like to lag behind other teenage boys in our pubescent development. If you have monkey toes, you know. Listen closely, and you might pick up on the pain that still lingers. But we're here for you, loyal Freshies, so we pushed through our wounds to offer u...

Send us Fan Mail The episode began with a quick nod to the 50-year anniversary show of SNL, some time travel about old TV, and airing grievances about changes that make us crotchety old men. But David had something sticking in his craw…or he would soon. Left with an instructional mailer for his upcoming medical visit, David required a bit of reassurance. With Ed Sullivan's constipational post...

Send us Fan Mail Patience is a virtue. The Bible references this about 25 times. And David was a bit late to our scheduled recording time today because of an encounter at his local Tractor Supply store. Against the backdrop of this fresh experience (we deliver on the brand of our podcast name) — still breathless from the hustling irritation he was feeling — David invited Dr. Dave's moral crit...

Send us Fan Mail Our episode today was fraught with distractions. We apologize. Dr. Dave's chair made sounds David imagined were from a human source. But the elephant in the room was David's appointment 15 minutes after our recording. To his credit, our brave little funny guy confessed his vulnerability and invited Dr. Dave to try and counsel him out of the state of dread David had as he...

Send us Fan Mail Our podcast was sailing along with a familiar cadence. We wondered aloud why and whether we might ever do a social media fast. We riffed on how RFK might be a good pin-up poster for good health in America but as a spokesman, we're getting mixed messages. Then David's wife sent him a text and we became 7th grade boys, giggling with glee about the messages David would send...