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Fresh Catch 2.0
Professional funny guy David Dean and ancient youth ministry thought leader Dr. Dave Rahn giggle-chat about anything & everything, mindful to include Jesus (it's the best joy upgrade we can offer). Casual eavesdroppers are welcome. Our fantasy is for loyal Freshies to rival the Deadheads. Jump in with us for ~30 minutes weekly!
Episodes
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Unwatchable. Unless…
Send us Fan Mail Today's episode featured an intermission about halfway through. Pleasant chatting was suddenly disrupted by David's on-air sickness. When we…
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Left Alone to Smell What You Want
Send us Fan Mail What would YOU do if given a free pass without any accountability? No sneaking around, hiding food wrappers you're ashamed of — simply the…
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Innocent Stupidity
Send us Fan Mail David claims to have a disorder that may or may not be an official psychological category. His cozy relationship with a popular magazine seems…
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Sounds that Enrage Us (Some of Us)
Send us Fan Mail Every once in a while, David tosses a bone of professional courtesy to Dr Dave. It's largely disingenuous. But today's episode dove into a…
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Cub Fans are Marsh-wiggles
Send us Fan Mail Apologies to any listeners who simply don't understand why baseball—Cubs baseball, to be exact—has such a grip on our hearts. Feel free to…
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The Belt Angel from Kentucky
Send us Fan Mail Once you survive the scat storm we enjoyed at the beginning of this episode (was there ever a genre of music more fitting to describe the…
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No Fault Tardiness
Send us Fan Mail Loyal listeners, we promise you nothing but fresh material. It's the very core of our podcast, baked into our name. So we could pre-record…
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Eyes, Voice Tones, & Mongols
Send us Fan Mail No surprise to loyal listeners that we skipped around a bit. This might explain why, after checking us out for five minutes, YouTubers say…
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Roger, Our Champion
Send us Fan Mail Last Friday, five of us crammed into Roger's car and drove up and back to Wrigley Field. The Reds beat the Cubs. But that's not one of the…
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Crashing David's Birthday Party
Send us Fan Mail Dolly died on Tuesday. August 25 will be remembered for years to come as the day a beloved and iconic entertainer added her incomparable voice…
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"Snuggle up, Mother… let me peek at your tramp stamp…"
Send us Fan Mail The visuals in our Zoom recorded experience were so exceptional today that we may explore how to deliver FC 2.0 on YouTube. Picture David…
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This Is Who I Want You To Think I Am
Send us Fan Mail We tiptoed dangerously close to the precipice where old men grouse about all that has changed (for the worst) from their good old days. The…
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Words: Do They Really Matter So Much?
Send us Fan Mail As much as we enjoy delivering weekly podcasts of distinction (emphasize the "stink" sound), one of us actually has to work for a living. So…
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How David Looks Like Adam (Eden's Original)
Send us Fan Mail This title deserves an asterisk. David was generally not happy with the surgeon's response when he asked why his belly-button no longer…
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Smug Brits & Siren Songs
Send us Fan Mail Give us a listen and then a rating. We're inspired to use 1-star reviews in marketing. No longer will we be held hostage by the British voices…
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"Nope!" David digs in.
Send us Fan Mail Ahhh! If only we had contracted with some Psychology Today expert to give us feedback based on listening to the podcast today; maybe then…
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Vintage Stink
Send us Fan Mail eBay sellers know this strategy: take some old useless stuff, tag it as "vintage", and mark up the sale price accordingly. Who pioneered this…
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David Red Cards the World
Send us Fan Mail Dr Dave tried to convince David of the beauty in watching Team USA win their World Cup soccer match last night. In the exchange, we all…
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"Stella!! Buy more snacks!!"
Send us Fan Mail Listeners were treated to some real-time engagement with today's episode. First, Dr Dave had to scurry off to google who yelled "Stella!!" in…
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Feeling Amish Disdain
Send us Fan Mail As a result of recent storms and even tornado touchdowns, Dr Dave was without electrical power for 90 hours. It's the kind of crisis that…
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Push Broom Truth? "Mmm-hm."
Send us Fan Mail It's not exactly a lie. But we're not wrapping up the whole truth for a meal, either. Why do we insist on sparing loved ones—or strangers—from…
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Inner Rage? Me-Centric.
Send us Fan Mail We did some genuine psycho-therapy work on this podcast. It so happens our recent life experiences converged about how we can't seem to find…
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King Pappy & Amish Grads
Send us Fan Mail Too many big moments to do justice to a single conversational thread on this episode. Dr Dave's eldest grandson is graduating 8th grade today…
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"Where's that #&@! French fry?"
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever been around someone whose tone felt like they were cussing but the words were never actually uttered? We kind of had that vibe…
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We TRY to Say Good Things…
Send us Fan Mail Social dilemmas are far too common for us. We cherish authenticity from our friends, so conversations should welcome truth-telling, right? But…
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Citizenry as Colonoscopy
Send us Fan Mail We talked about the probing experience too much to not give it a prime spot in this episode's title. But this conversation was not about a…
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Ripe & Welcome
Send us Fan Mail This episode features David broadcasting from a Florida getaway with St Betsy. We celebrated the (spoiled) fruit of his unplugged status, as…
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The Bard: "Bing Bada Boom"
Send us Fan Mail Every once in a while we flirt with highbrow culture, just to prove (to ourselves) how versatile we are. So when David introduced a lovely…
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How Our Pain Uglies Us
Send us Fan Mail On the way to discovering solutions that work we often have to wallow in excremental floodwaters. So we decided to sprinkle instrumental song…
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PDA - An Urgent Care Request?
Send us Fan Mail isteners know that David's beloved Pappy is in a nursing home and dealing with dementia. Too many of us have walked in the grief of caring for…
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"Fanny…??…You know!!…"
Send us Fan Mail Our good friend Tim Atkins set the direction for this episode when we enjoyed a lunch with him last Friday. He insistently told us about some…
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The Dyadic Vacuum
Send us Fan Mail We've all known about triggers that launch someone down a rabbit hole they can't escape from. Trump Derangement Syndrome is defined by such an…
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Michelle! Encore!!
Send us Fan Mail If you've listened much to our Fresh Catch ramble-fest you've probably heard David gush with admiration about his comedian tour partner for…
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Finessing Others: Good Fruit or Shrewd Management?
Send us Fan Mail Very seldom do we introduce a topic and chew on it for the entirety of our podcast. But today's conversation seemed to grow two new legs every…
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God Needs Better Billboards
Send us Fan Mail You've likely got history with us. You're not surprised by our conversational wanderings. We pride ourselves on being unscripted. Some might…
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The One Finger Hush
Send us Fan Mail As we're likely to do when we record an episode, we wandered quite a bit. Maybe (not declaring this, in case we're being monitored) we felt…
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Shaming Weak Love
Send us Fan Mail As editor-in-chief of the title and description for each podcast, I (Dr Dave) try my best to be objective. But in these post-production…
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David Quotes Scripture. Sorta.
Send us Fan Mail Many apologies to our listeners for failing to record a podcast last week. Dr Dave's cross country drive simply didn't square with David's…
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The Molten Cheese Cowboy
Send us Fan Mail Mistakes happen when the risky thing we intended to do does not receive the careful attention it needs. So when Dr Dave—already experimenting…
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CPAP Shaming From the One-Gloved Funny Man
Send us Fan Mail Loyal listeners know that Dr Dave handles post-production details like titling episodes and writing descriptions to help those who want to…
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PS: Do You Need "Roadhouse" or "Ghost"?
Send us Fan Mail Weather reports set the tone for our day. Blue sky? Even if it's cold and snowy, that helps. Rainy and warm? Maybe that's OK. But David is…
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Swedish Burping: Pro Tips
Send us Fan Mail It gives us great pleasure whenever we, your frail and flawed FC2.0 co-hosts, can offer some small pearl that will enhance the life of our…
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A New Year with Benito
Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year, everyone! Our entire staff here at FC 2.0 headquarters wish you nothing but the best. That's very much unlike the end-of-life…
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Christmas Star Struck
Send us Fan Mail This episode let David pay tribute to favorite actors and singers who crowded into his Christmas experience. We got caught up in the lovely…
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Happy Birthday, Jesus!
Send us Fan Mail In case you've lost track of time for your Christmas shopping, we're in countdown mode. Today is the last Thursday you'll have before December…
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We Ruined a Xmas Song
Send us Fan Mail A thousand apologies. Our podcasts always catch us in the midst of some kind of space and often one of us helps the other from stumbling off…
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The Diet Whisper
Send us Fan Mail Like many of our podcasts, this began with a real-life encounter David had with some favorite food. In this case, it was the prodigal six-pack…
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Cam's Ear Pit & Other Holiday Treats
Send us Fan Mail We recorded on Black Friday with LOADS of Thanksgiving stuff to chat about. It feels like adding more to the description would be like adding…
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Winning (Joy) Ugly
Send us Fan Mail First of all, massive apologies to our 17 loyal listeners who had to navigate their Thursday night workout without the benefit of a new…
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We Are Ineligible for Rhythmic Flow
Send us Fan Mail This episode began by invoking the memory of legendary DJ Wolfman Jack before exploring David's early job as a 3rd shift radio host. Our…
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David's Leg-Dragging Lie
Send us Fan Mail We had to open by cathartically dealing with national news. Will the fresh-faced mayor of New York succeed in his socialist experiment? Will…
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"I just love to lie."
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes our Fresh Catch 2.0 episodes drift into therapy sessions. Today we found some comfort in each other's Zoom arms by confessing a sin…
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The Good People of Wisconsin
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…
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Kids Today Need a Blizzard Like '78
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…
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The Bad Day Blues
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…
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It hurts. All of it.
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…
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The Shame of Aging
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)…
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Boomer Blindspots
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…
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Her Bridge Too Far
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…
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Let Your Niece Mentor You??
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…