Fresh Catch 2.0

Send us Fan Mail Our FC2.0 questionable artistry is based on a weekly commitment to start recording  without having or sharing any plan for our 30 minutes together. Whatever else is true, we are determined to catch a fresh and frolicky dialogue that we hope is entertaining. Today's bounce-about included a painful admission about sharing our ailments with others, a breakthrough idea for class...

Send us Fan Mail The evidence about what tickles our fancy is indicting (to borrow a word from the week's headlines). We fessed up about lots of things that make us giggle and that endear us to personalities from bygone years who could not possibly survive today's cancel culture. Even David's mid-recording rant against the annoying presence of an EMT truck at his neighbor's hom...

Send us Fan Mail We sometimes wonder if listeners experience our 30 minute episodes flying by as quickly as we do when we laugh practically non-stop through our conversation. Today, even as Dr Dave was fishing for a little empathy about his stumble-bum injury, it was clear that David had a listener's gift to share. Dr Ron Coffey asked Artificial Intelligence to generate a poem about FC2.0. Ap...

Send us Fan Mail David's stories about his aging father, affectionally known to Freshies as "Pappy", often make us giggle and squirm at the same time. We love the raw inhibition. We expect his unpredictability. We can't wait to hear about where David finds the mess, not IF there's a mess to clean up. As it turns out, some of these endearing qualities are attractive to both...

Send us Fan Mail This phrase popped up early in our conversation as we poked around the dumpster fire of David's livestream efforts in last week's podcast. It may be a bit insensitive. But we took a few moments to unpack it anyway since…well…it seemed like a pathway we could enjoy giggle-skipping along in the company of Jesus. After all, as Irish poet Nick Laird wrote, "Time is how...

Send us Fan Mail Adventures. Risk-taking. Living on the edge. No one wants to settle into comfort zone habitats as a way of life. Our buddy is currently touring through Wisconsin on a devil-may-care biker ride. Another friend engaged an unusual vertical challenge at Lowe's recently by adding a little socially demanding twist. No strangers to dangers, we live-streamed this episode through Davi...

Send us Fan Mail Comedy is art. Much of life, though we'd prefer scientific certainty and control, is also art. We make decisions every day based on intuitions or hunches or the undigested food giving us grief. Since poking others to reveal something true about themselves that we might enjoy seeing is a shared value for us David-types, we decided to poke around and see what we could stir up. 

Send us Fan Mail WARNING: If you fancy yourself to be a bit delicate, this FC2.0 episode might be one to avoid. We migrated back to proper decorum by the time we concluded our conversational frolic, but before we put this recording in the can we spent a bit too much time talking about being in the can. As brave listeners will soon discover, we will not take kindly to requests to clean up our act…o...

Send us Fan Mail We have so much fun in the unplanned conversations we record for FC2.0 and the joy of including others is pure bonus. You can try this at home . Pick a topic, any topic. Chase the crumbs. Pick up speed when you feel giggly. Never hesitate to include Jesus in the mix; inviting him into a party is an epic move, not a laugh killer. So when Dr Dave summed a thought with a word retriev...

Send us Fan Mail Giddy. Twitchy. Probably a bit too "inner circle" for great entertainment. But – true to form – our FC2.0 brand is to give listeners a front row seat at the joy of an unlikely friendship between a guy who makes his living being funny and a guy who lives on Social Security paychecks (and is relieved by the debt ceiling negotiations - isn't it great that government wo...

Send us Fan Mail Is there efficacy to venting? (Sorry. That reads like the title of an article in the Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences …pretty sure that's not our audience.) We're simply two clowns who started off whining in this episode , giving the Vent Dog within us too long a leash. Eventually we asked how such tasty complaining actually helps us enjoy living with Jesus and repre...

Send us Fan Mail Our staggered start for recording today was not that unusual. We often slide Zoom times around to accommodate our other important activities. And, as we explored during this episode, what rises to the level of a priority can, at times, be puzzling . (You'll enjoy this cryptic clue once inside this FC2.0 conversation.) But you will also hear the quaver in David's voice as...

Send us Fan Mail David surrendered graciously because Dr Dave hits the buttons for our podcast. When it comes to the TV remote control our wives concede that we might possess the better skills, but the exchange might get a little testy. This, of course, illustrates a life truism: We are strangely comforted when we think we have control . Whether someone can actually handle the responsibility of co...

Send us Fan Mail Being on vacation or in the DR usually means near-the-beach conditions for David's Zoom connection. Today's Florida location was no exception. Under the pretense of needing to "steady his camera" – David peeled off his shirt at the outset. Well…(dramatic, Chant Thompson-like pause)…when we can hear one another (wives dispute this) we enjoy a conversational podc...

Send us Fan Mail In a rare single-focus thread this episode lingered in the category of how to handle road trips to max the fun and make the journey feel shorter. File this under a public service offering from your two frolicky friends. We know many of our listeners take us on jogging trails, treadmill runs and longer drives. We feel the connection. In a fit of generosity we wonder aloud whether y...

Send us Fan Mail One of the challenges erstwhile podcasters are familiar with is how to title an episode so that it accurately represents the discussion and is, at least, somewhat attractive. Loyal listeners of FC2.0 know that the wild ride we enjoy for about 30 minutes weekly  is seldom a single-topic focus. Today was no exception. But, on behalf of everyone who tilts toward weight gain and have...

Send us Fan Mail As it turns out, both members of the FC2.0 podcast team have reasons to love those moments that feel awkward. David pounces on the comedic opportunity like an eagle swooping in on an innocent barnyard chick. Dr Dave is equally eager to capitalize on an occasion that has vulnerability and growth possibilities. Since most of us can at least swap stories of times when awkwardness hin...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes our podcast is recorded from remote locations that are cool. David has been on a beach in the Dominican Republic and Dr Dave has been gazing at Pikes Peak while we Zoom. If this episode feels like listeners are an afterthought because David is in a truck stop parking lot on the way to something really important…well…we're sorry. And maybe - just maybe - we repent. A...

Send us Fan Mail We tried on this episode. Really, we did. But the technology gremlins dragged us through three reboots while we were Zoom-casting. Sort of ruined our flow. We think that's one of the hidden qualities of Easter weekend, one that we were loathe to talk about before we got waylaid. Something as epic as life transformation for billions (including us) because of the death and resu...

Send us Fan Mail This episode had a grunginess to it. Sorry. Our visual connection while recording was a bit unsettling, though we celebrated the shared casual space we enjoy in an audio-only podcast. But David's long road trip has him taking liberties with his hotel room accommodations that Dr Dave felt led to rebuke. He might have been too judge-y. To come full circle, if the "Buddy Aw...

Send us Fan Mail We can't help it when a spoken word triggers a rogue thought. Some of us deal with this as a temptation to guard against. David has learned to pounce on such opportunities like a cat, playfully pawing at them to see if they might produce giggles. (On our podcasts they typically do.) Apologies for the disturbing visual images exchanged in this episode. But we scampered quickly...

Send us Fan Mail Our FC2.0 banter is never pre-arranged and generally we enjoy politely deferring to one another as we grope toward the agenda of the day. This episode betrayed those unspoken guidelines as David pounced immediately, hijacking the conversation so we could talk about Dr Dave's St Paddy's Day birthday. More specifically, he wanted to press in to the question of judgement th...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Dave insists that Jesus' words are public domain but that didn't keep David from praying for his forgiveness. At the very least, citation is needed. We would like to issue the same invitation that Grateful Dead offered their early audiences: feel free to use our stuff any way you want. When everything you say is absolutely fresh, you have no need to keep it in a vault...

Send us Fan Mail This episode featured a debate about whether Dr Dave had actually done something that can only accurately be labeled as stupid . David tried to console a bit, explaining that the good Dr just made an honest mistake. But since the comedic core at the center of his personality is always whispering, "Pay attention…this could be funny…" his efforts didn't seem to offer...

Send us Fan Mail One of the fascinating ways we all learn is to pay attention to the instruction others receive. You deserve college credit for listening to this episode. For 30 minutes Dr Dave became an eager student, insistently quizzing his street-wise pod-partner about gaslighting . While unaware of the term's meaning, he was well-acquainted with its practice. David's tutorial brough...