De(a)f Dialogue

Week 164! As one year ends and another begins, we're talking about more than just resolutions.

We kick things off by sharing the habits, fears, and mindsets we're leaving behind in 2025—from seeking approval and waiting for the "perfect time" to pretending everything is okay. Then the conversation takes a hilarious turn as we challenge each other with increasingly outrageous money dilemmas.

Would you live in Walmart for 24 hours? Trade phones with a stranger? Give up sugar for a decade? Or live in a tiny house with ten random roommates for millions?

Equal parts thoughtful, ridiculous, and unexpectedly revealing, this episode is the perfect way to wrap up the year and start the next one with a fresh perspective.

🎙️ Leave behind what no longer serves you... and find out what price it would take to make us question everything. Enjoy!

Week 163! A rude YouTube comment unexpectedly sends us down one of the deepest conversations we've had yet.

What starts as a discussion about online negativity turns into an honest look at something many of us carry without realizing it: the fear of being judged. We explore why it's so difficult to dance, be goofy, celebrate freely, or simply let ourselves be seen.

Along the way, we talk about childhood experiences, parenting, emotional suppression, masculinity in the '90s and early 2000s, therapy, and the invisible moments that shape who we become as adults.

If you've ever felt embarrassed for being yourself, this episode might hit closer to home than you expect.

🎙️ Sometimes the smallest comment reveals the biggest truths. Enjoy!

Week 162! We’re back from Thanksgiving break and catching up on everything that went down over the holiday weekend.

This episode includes:

• The right (and wrong) way to cook a turkey
• Why 500 degrees might feel like arson
• The Macy’s Parade becoming one giant fever dream
• Lip-syncing disasters and questionable float decisions
• Thanksgiving food rankings and family chaos
• Clara becoming an actual human overnight
• Dog food theft prevention strategies

Plus, we debate whether post-dinner naps are inevitable and why a Thanksgiving walk might secretly be elite.

Family, food, nostalgia, and complete nonsense — the holidays are officially back. Enjoy!

Week 161! Thanksgiving is around the corner, which means road trips, hometown nostalgia… and a lot of disc golf.

In this episode, we talk about heading back to Virginia, squeezing in early morning rounds, and the intense need to beat your friends at their own course.

Also:

• Losing a brand new disc in a canal (and making it worse)

• The emotional damage of watching it disappear forever

• Disc retriever failures

• “I’m done buying discs” (he was not done buying discs)

• Building the perfect bag before tournament season

It’s part travel episode, part disc golf therapy, and part competitive delusion. Enjoy!

Week 160! Tonight’s episode is one of the most powerful conversations we’ve had.

Becky joins us to share what it was like being the surrogate for Jess and James — and carrying the only embryo they had after Jessica’s cancer diagnosis.

That embryo was frozen for seven years.

There was one chance.

We talk about:

• Volunteering for surrogacy without hesitation

• IVF and the emotional weight of “one shot”

• Hematomas that mimicked miscarriage

• Hearing the heartbeat on the scariest day

• Managing POTS during pregnancy

• Waiting seven years for the right timing

It’s raw. It’s vulnerable. And it’s a reminder that sometimes the long wait has a purpose. Enjoy!

Week 158! This week on Deaf Dialogue:

• Dave becomes legally ordained in Florida in under 10 seconds.

• An Australian Shepherd absolutely loses his mind.

• LASIK turns out to be 20 seconds per eye and way more expensive than expected.

• And somehow we end up debating Amazon, marriage licenses, and vibrating dog collars.

We talk:

• Training collars vs chaos

• The surprisingly simple process of getting ordained

• Performing a wedding in Spain (but legally in Florida)

• LASIK jealousy and adult eyesight decline

• Whether Prime shipping is even worth it anymore

From barking dogs to “Father Dave,” it’s another completely normal week. Enjoy!

Week 157! Kyle went to two concerts in one weekend.

Now he’s congested, on antibiotics, and questioning a mysterious spider-bite-looking finger situation.

Worth it? Absolutely.

In this episode we break down:

• Lucy Dacus’ hometown show (and on-stage weddings)

• Tyler Childers and one of the most intentional stage productions we’ve ever seen

• Yellowcard absolutely crushing a redemption set

• Solo concert experiences

• Getting older but still refusing to sit down at shows

• And the universal post-concert illness

Plus: Minnesota trips, disc golf, mysterious finger cultures, and why naps hit different when you’re actually sick. Enjoy!

Week 156! In this episode of Deaf Dialogue, Dave unpacks the emotional rollercoaster of receiving a massive surprise from Kyle — excitement, guilt, pressure, shoulder injuries, and the terrifying feeling of “now I have to be good at this.”

We talk disc golf obsession, sports injuries, favorite discs, lost legends (RIP to the EMAC Truth stuck 100 feet up in a tree), and why receiving generosity can sometimes feel heavier than giving it.

Plus:

• The psychology of big gifts

• Shoulder anxiety and playing through pain

• Disc golf nerd-out (Latitude 64 Pure, Felons, Trespasses & more)

• The one that got away

It’s funny. It’s honest. It’s aggressively disc golf. Enjoy!

Week 155! We are joined by special guest Luke. Hear all that he has to say this week. Enjoy!

Week 154! This week we are challenging you to a game of Tip of My Tongue. I give a description and you have to guess the word. Let's test those vocabularies! Enjoy!