Fresh Catch 2.0

Send us Fan Mail For our many podheads who count on our 30 minute conversations to time your workout or ease you into sleepy-town, we apologize. Today's episode was first delayed (yesterday) and then cut short (today) due to yet another encounter with David's sewage repair team. They're a riot!! Though we resolved to NOT dwell on (or in) the muck we described last week, we stepped i...

Send us Fan Mail Some delays are due to natural causes. Planes don't fly on time when storms and fog are everywhere. In a similar way, your FC2.0 podcast is 24 hours late because David had "one of those days" …the kind we've all experienced. Please feel his pain as you listen in. And please hide your fantasy-inducing garden rakes. Most of all, don't use Dude Wipes.

Send us Fan Mail Some people have a glow about them. After connecting with them, you can FEEL the warmth of life being transferred your way. That's glow. And if you're married long enough, you accumulate stories about conflict. So, the FC2.0 question we explored is: "How can we glow when we argue?" Lots of name dropping as we hunted for answers. Meanwhile, we truly hope our wiv...

Send us Fan Mail Don't you just love it when you discover how some things, when smushed together, make for a great tasting treat? As we zig-zagged through today's unscripted podcast we told a couple of stories and David tested out an idea for a comedy bit that makes for a sandwich worthy of its own name on the menu. That's how we came up with this title. Your assignment, loyal FC2.0...

Send us Fan Mail Our first podcast of 2024 had a bit of holiday residue in it. Forgive us for being a bit distracted by news of who's on the Epstein list. And forgive us for disrespecting one of the great physicists of our time. Also, please forgive us for embarrassingly poor imitations of people we truly admire. One more thing: could you forgive us for spending even a smidge of time talking...

Send us Fan Mail If you prefer an orderly conversation that leads to a clearly defined end in mind you are likely frustrated by our affection for improvisation. But we respect the craft enough to delight in bringing our often-wobbly plane to a soft landing after our 30 minute flights. Today's technical interference was challenging. Since we don't understand Internetting, we declare Year...

Send us Fan Mail Comedians have keenly trained ears;  it's not fair to ask them to hear what's going on in the world like us common folks do. "Blessing and curse" is how David framed his audible-ity. So when Dr Dave was simply recounting a story by naming a favorite Campus Life kid from 40 years ago, Mr Funny couldn't stop giggling at the sound. It's OK that he acted...

Send us Fan Mail Most times we title an episode based on what we actually discussed. But in this case, we have to apologize for not smashing together the two topics we DID talk about: 1) Norman Rockwell art, and 2) the Idaho-cy of spending 8 hours in line for an In-n-Out burger. We often collude together to imagine funnier-than-life situations and it feels like we were just a tad off our game. As...

Send us Fan Mail Your FC2.0 hosts are here to serve, and we are keen to be helpful during the chaos of Christmas season. We worked really hard to not camp too long on the giggling detours of story-telling about one of our favorite rock 'n rollers impersonating a bear in the north woods of Michigan. In fact, we're pretty proud of ourselves for leveraging the remembrance to land on a princ...

Send us Fan Mail It's a weird juxtaposition. A day that's intended to set aside our normal patterns of self-absorbed living in order to aim every spotlight at God in gratitude has been fogged over by our entitlement culture.  Unfortunately, we who are prime targets for AARP membership are chief culprits. David wondered why it's only the most elderly among us that receive compassiona...

Send us Fan Mail It's Thanksgiving Eve and both of the Ds are ramping up for family time in the days ahead. In order to be at our best we thought it wise to probe some of the ways we might be at our worst. You know: what ditches should we avoid stumbling into? As it turns out, we've got a lot in common and neither of us are likely to be MVFM (Most Valuable Family Member) at the festive g...

Send us Fan Mail If you're a loyal FC2.0 podhead and you're frankly tired about our health-related discussions lately, we hear you. Frankly, we're tired of talking about our maladies. So our tactic in this episode is to accelerate from COVID concerns or pinkeye social isolation to the Big Endgame facing us all. Musing about the music we'd want played at our funerals gave us gre...

Send us Fan Mail It's gotta be fresh for us to catch it in our giggle net. (Brilliant podcast branding, right?) Today's topic was unavoidable. And if you looked too closely it was scary. Dr Dave's conjunctivitis (commonly called "pink eye") was an irresistible fascination to Dave, who may have scribbled notes while we chatted. If you're attending one of his comedy sho...

Send us Fan Mail We didn't giggle as much in this episode. Take that into account if you're looking for a podcast to enjoy while you nibble on your comfort food. Blame Dr Dave. He came away from a professional conference after hearing about research that was too disturbing to ignore. We imagined life in a delivery truck, in part because we know and admire how our friend Margo Whitfield h...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever been humbled by someone who doesn't care about your otherwise impressive credentials? In the world of youth ministry the rules of engagement are, er… irregular . For instance, what possesses two young boys to press their bare bottoms against the picture window of an elderly woman? Dr Dave failed to probe this with David - probably because he was still feeling st...

Send us Fan Mail It may be that you had not reckoned with the risk involved in professional dart throwing. Well, on the heels of tough news for dart-ists around the world, we decided to dive into a headline that we know very little about. Honestly, this may be what distinguishes FC2.0 from other run-of-the-mill podcasts - we fearlessly engage topics without feeling the slightest need to conceal ou...

Send us Fan Mail First of all, shout out to sometime-listener Seth Baker for enlarging our vocabulary. Our podcasts often assert what we think we know for sure. But we especially enjoy offering theories to explain something that arouses our curiosity. Some might call that swapping ignorance . We call it entertainment. If you are adept at seeing what's giggle-worthy,  old guys dancing and neig...

Send us Fan Mail People who are devoted to being as productive as possible will likely dismiss the hidden value in our podcasts. We talked today a lot about what we talk about. That's the familiarity that makes hanging with DaveX2 so fun. But don't miss the gem tucked inside our Cracker Jack conversation: life together is in trouble. If we misdiagnose we may do more harm than good. Loyal...

Send us Fan Mail Two themes dominated our conversation in this episode. The first was to consider how, why, when, and where we might be inclined to feel like an exchange with someone is actually wasting our time. (Ironic, given what we actually talk about in our podcast, right?) The second was to wonder what price might buy official FC2.0 endorsements …and whether Howie Long actually wears Skecher...

Send us Fan Mail The ancient Greeks cherished the sort of virtue dissection we enjoyed on this episode. Maybe. Some of it. We politely described the plentiful girth to work around while we discussed the moral responsibility of a sleeping seat-neighbor on David's recent flight to Arizona. There's a lot at stake in getting this right. Being genuinely accountable for everything we actually...

Send us Fan Mail The implicit covenant we two Davidic hosts have with our loyal listeners is that we will be honest. Today's episode should be reassuring to FC2.0 podheads; even when our conversation sparks painful memories we bravely engage. Somewhere in the midst of whining about whatever happened to the art of loving correction (even when expressed by Pappy's perforated board of educa...

Send us Fan Mail In clear violation of FC2.0 protocols, David brought a pre-meditated agenda to this podcast episode. But — as is common — the cultural norms we've established were able to triumph over the Funny Guy's wily attempts to manipulate the program. Longtime listeners will note the familiar pattern. One of us says something… anything …to grab the other's attention. We launc...

Send us Fan Mail Apologies to loyal pod-heads for the clunky sound. The host hotel for our Philly-based remote recording will NOT receive a good review from us. (You'll hear a few reasons during Dr Dave's whiny section in this episode.) But we pivoted, and hope we overcame self-pity so listeners could weigh the risk/reward of taking our challenge. For some, the stretch we're invitin...

Send us Fan Mail An episode's title seldom captures the wide-range of frolic loyal pod-heads can enjoy. We only hope we don't bury the lead. In the truest sense of "Fresh" and "Catch", we hear David breathlessly share a 9 hour-old story of a bat-in-his-bedroom encounter. As if in trauma aftershock, he was openly processing what happened and a bit shaken up by St. Bets...

Send us Fan Mail Loyal listeners might have noticed the 24 hour delay in our FC2.0 podcast this week. We apologize for any disruption to your workout routines or white noise induced sleep. Our zig zag life patterns don't always land us at a shared intersection with the precision timetable of German commuter trains. Ours is more like a wagon train. But, hey, if you've got any helpful know...