Fresh Catch 2.0

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...

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...