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Today's episode featured an intermission about halfway through. Pleasant chatting was suddenly disrupted by David's on-air sickness. When we re-engaged a few hours later there seemed to be a dispute about the level of Dr Dave's empathy when his little buddy's head was about to explode while he was easing through a forgettable story. Review the video footage (YouTube) at 12:42 into the show to note the onset of David's fever. The haunting forces of regurgitation began about 13:35 and viewers who could see better than Dr Dave will note this esophagal train wreck continued on-air for 45 seconds. Beware, queasy fans.

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What would YOU do if given a free pass without any accountability? No sneaking around, hiding food wrappers you're ashamed of — simply the liberty of spending your precious two-minute segments of life exactly as you want. Apparently, David is drawn to smelling stuff without getting caught. On behalf of all of us who live in civilized society, can we give a round of applause to St Betsy for offering loving restraints on her potentially reckless but hilarious husband. The Nutella is yours!

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David claims to have a disorder that may or may not be an official psychological category. His cozy relationship with a popular magazine seems to justify his assertion that he is afflicted with "Innocent Stupidity." However uncomfortable it was to hear about the particular experiences he used to describe this disorder (asking a teenage Walmart worker where the Dudewipes can be found??), let's applaud his willingness to submit to scrutiny so science can help him…and us. 

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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 genuine emotional health concern that some people have when they try to assume control over the motherboard of sounds around them. David's best attempts to imitate the offending noises did not incite his pod-partner. But it did lead to new schemes about how to engage in shrewd psychological warfare.

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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 reach out to our long-suffering wives for support. And we humbly invite your prayerful intervention on our behalf…especially if we need an exorcism. But the season ended for us last night and we have officially begun our off-season of mourning. CS Lewis invented the perfect character to describe our woeful life as fans. Just don't ask David to remember its name. 

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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 interaction we have here as we Freshly Catch whatever?), there's an epic story from David's recent comedy gig in Lagrange, KY. Massive shout out to Randy, the guy who saved the show. Lots of hard laughter here and apologies (if necessary) to David's two sisters.

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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 some pablum when we know our Thursday uploads can't be done in a week. But we don't. Fresh. That's who we are. David excused Dr Dave's 24 hour delay for what he thought was a worthy reason. But does David's 12 minute tardiness for our meet up this morning deserve the same pass? We need our blue-collar audience to weigh in. And don't mix your potty time with your favorite game.

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No surprise to loyal listeners that we skipped around a bit. This might explain why, after checking us out for five minutes, YouTubers say, "nope." If it's due to our poor fashion, we're working on it. If it's because we don't deliver enough eye contact to convince you how sincere we are, we took steps today to improve. The vocal wanderings–especially mimicry–we are probably not going to put restraints on David's frequent leaps into bad impressions. Here's hoping Mongols everywhere find us a delightful fit to their music.

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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 headlines we talked about in this episode. Let's be clear: each of us at some point in our story-telling remembrance doesn't look that great. But we sure did re-giggle as we tried our best to paint the picture of our roadtrip for loyal listeners. At the end of the day (literally), Roger earned MVP accolades from everyone except the snoozing Ron Coffey and a passive-aggressive toll booth voice.

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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 to heaven's choir. Our most loyal listeners know that David's filters have largely been shredded. And now there's no hope for this date to be headlined as his birthday, which it is. The Bible's Golden Rule says we should only do to others what we want them to do to us. At least we recorded that what David wants from us when he dies is exactly what he offered as we celebrated Dolly…and forgot a comedian from Huntington who turned 61.