Fresh Catch 2.0

Send us Fan Mail One of the things we pride ourselves in delivering through our FC2.0 podcasts is a willingness to dive into our conversational walk-abouts without holding back. We fancy ourselves as comfortably authentic. No spin that's not exposed. That's why we might need to apologize for today's episode. As it turns out, David's desire to chat about "fibby-fibs" m...

Send us Fan Mail Loyal FC2.0 listeners have come to expect scattershot ramblings from the Davidic duo. Today's episode was a transfixation. It's like we were swept away, caught up in irresistible conversation that — if we were all in a room together — would have made total sense. If seeing is believing then you'd better believe that David's nose repair job was worth talking abo...

Send us Fan Mail We're hoping one of the two topics we danced with during this day late episode makes the wait worthwhile. First, if there's wisdom in waiting, why does it annoy us so much? Second, if there's wisdom in weight control why is fair food so scrumptious? Moreover, how should we respond when the voice in our head sounds like the robot from a 60's science fiction TV s...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Fourth of July, podheads! We lit so many fuses that the fireworks from this episode had us scurrying for cover. Our civic duty obliged us to contemplate the state of our country by trash talking the Brits while lamenting about last week's presidential debate. We fondly remembered bigger-than-life heroes from the past, e.g., Jack Palance's push-up on the Oscar stage...

Send us Fan Mail We don't actually know who our loyal listeners are, but we suspect 16-year-old boys are not our demographic. But COULD they be? This episode features an on-air, lively exchange between two tame-named old dudes. Don your favorite comfy shirt. Grab a cup of Joe. Listen to the fun as we talk about names. Guaranteed to be the most entertaining debate of the day.

Send us Fan Mail We started this episode with plenty of self-congratulations. It needed to be done and, frankly, we're not sure we'll get it from anyone else. But David came to our cackle-fest with a troubled heart. He needed to unburden himself. So, he told a story, inviting Dr Dave (first of all) and Freshies (next) to render judgement about whether he should be condemned or appreciate...

Send us Fan Mail The term "micro-aggression" is in our popular culture nowadays. It's a reference to the little ways things are said or done that actually hurt people. We didn't actually use that word during our podcast (it's a bit too uppity for our taste…wait…that MIGHT be a micro-aggression…it's confusing, right?). But if you want to archive this episode, it's...

Send us Fan Mail When loyal FC2.0 listeners have built their week around the expectation of our podcast being delivered by Thursday midday and it shows up on Saturday morning, confidence is shaken. Justifiably so. Having fun is one thing. Chilling with friends is OK, but there are times we simply need to get the right things done on time. Is that so hard to ask? Can we just agree it's OK to m...

Send us Fan Mail Raise your hand if you've got a really good friend who's a comedian. If you know, you know. Most of the world thinks of entertainers as their own personal vending machines. "I paid money for this treat, so you'd better come through!" But for those of us, say, who share podcast time weekly talking about anything and everything, we realize our funny and tale...

Send us Fan Mail To our most loyal listeners…will you PLEASE let us know if you think we're trending towards being crotchety old men too much for your taste? Today's podcast started slipping that direction, where complaints get the headlines. That's what led one of us (no sense rubbing in the shame, right DD?) to utter the phrase that is this episode's title. And if you think t...

Send us Fan Mail "Whatever." "If you say so." There are more of these poor inauthentic ways we avoid transparency. Lots of them are favorite weapons of those skilled in passive-aggressive relational warfare. But we chose to camp on something that presents another sort of problem: it so happens that "it's all good" can be understood as one of the deepest, most por...

Send us Fan Mail Therapy is intended to help you get in touch with your feelings and act in a way that respects their power without letting them carry you where you'd prefer not to go. Dr Dave experienced this episode like a therapy session done for the entertainment of others. When the microphone is turned off, he realized he just survived being ravaged. Wondering "what just happened?&q...

Send us Fan Mail We don't actually do our podcast in the same room, so if one of us has been working out and smells like it…or more likely, has been eating garlic-soaked braunschweiger, we simply don't have the benefit of enjoying a distinctively pungent olfactory connection. But our imaginations carried us there during this episode. We also remembered one of the best movies of our lifet...

Send us Fan Mail As is more common than not for a free-wheeling Fresh Catch frolic, we bounced around with butterfly nets trying to catch the giggles this morning. Dr Dave's brash on-air snacking  led us to explore eating etiquette. We then meandered down the winding Wabash River, giving David the chance to boldly insert himself as our Huntington tour guide. He dropped pearls of dubious, colo...

Send us Fan Mail Too many Yelp food reviews don't address our basic eating patterns - not ours. David opened the door for today's Glutton Support Group with his confession about the lingering effects of yesterday's White Castle drive through. And since confession is good for the soul (not "sole"…which is an absolutely delicious fish to feast on), Dr Dave hopped on, fightin...

Send us Fan Mail Though 90 minutes apart we shared a moment with each other (and much of the nation) when Mother Earth's one true moon moved to block Father Sun's warm, full light. Our peace and harmony experience of wonder was short-lived. Our hearts – like the moon – tend to hoard the spotlight. "How dare the moon interfere with the tanning practice I'm entitled to?" And...

Send us Fan Mail It became apparent during the course of this unrehearsed episode that David deserved recognition for his unusually advanced empathy. It revealed itself in the time he made available on Easter Sunday evening to his trans neighbor. And though he's not one to toot his own horn (he'll happily toot yours!), the level of care he's offered St Betsy while she recovers from...

Send us Fan Mail Sorry about the clickbait title. In this episode  Dr Dave's blood pressure rose in recalling how Donald Trump hawked Bibles that he "personally" endorses during Holy Week. It's probably hypocritical for us to decry the cynical mockery of someone who will make $$ from the loyal church region of MAGA Nation and then turn around and name drop to entice new listene...

Send us Fan Mail It's tourney time - have you placed your bets? Entered your office pool? Filled out your brackets? As countless men recover from their planned vasectomies so they can watch non-stop NCAA tourney action, David will be entertaining in the Great Northwest. Not sure if his bitterness is in anticipation of this misaligned schedule planning or a result of the tax counsel he receive...

Send us Fan Mail "X" marks the spot. In today's episode, it led to an ego-bruising delay of our scheduled recording. One feature of FC2.0 is that we Davids process our conflicts in real time, hoping we might bring benefit to listeners regardless of the personal pain. Or the giggles. We're ambidextrous that way…though David fancies himself a joy-eater. Maybe that's why he f...

Send us Fan Mail Many of us live in privacy and no space is more sacred than our bedrooms. It may not surprise loyal FC2.0 pod-heads to learn that David not only saw his neighbor through his 2nd story bedroom window, he responded to a beckoning wave. His cross-the-street encounter offers an apt and weighty metaphor for today's confusing social landscape; the unsettling wave came from a hulkin...

Send us Fan Mail Unfortunately for loyal Florida listener, Paul Coy, we confounded his well-deserved shout out (a 3 hour drive to hear David entertain!) by loving the sound of our own voices. Dr Dave had trouble NOT impersonating Steve from "Love on the Spectrum" and David was trapped in his Fargo dialect. At least we didn't drop the F-bomb. Yet.

Send us Fan Mail We're hoping our loyal FC2.0 listeners appreciate the therapeutic breakthrough that took place on this episode. It's possible that our growth is a less entertaining podcast than we can usually deliver. If so, we apologize and pledge to do better next time. But somewhere in the middle of our haughty critique of elites and their snooty ways we realized that we are they. Ou...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode David was kind enough to articulate the difference between apologies that are sincere and those that are perfunctory. (To reassure listeners, that particular word - "perfunctory" - was never uttered during our podcast. But since Dr. Dave confessed his love for wordiness it seems fair to illustrate such verbosity in this description.) And even though our 3...

Send us Fan Mail If we were submitting an episode of FC2.0 for Grammy consideration (is that possible?), this might be the one. The giggles threaded their way through guffaws and groans as we talked about how surveilling Pappy might lead to disturbing discoveries about his cozy relationship with a wooden spoon. David's Saturday laughter gig in a Catholic church left enough residue to celebrat...