Fresh Catch 2.0

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...

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.