The D.B. Nyce Podcast

One video game.

That's all it took.

Years ago, D.B. started working on a little YouTube project built around the classic arcade games he loved as a kid.

He had no idea where it would go.

He definitely didn't realize that choosing one particular game to review would start a chain of events that would still be affecting his life years later.

Today, D.B. looks back at D.B.'s Arcade, the childhood dream hiding behind it, and the seemingly insignificant decision that changed much more than he ever expected.

And it has him wondering:

What's the next box on the list?

🎙️ Episode 067 | It All Started With Contra

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What if the action figures you played with as a kid were suddenly standing six feet tall?

D.B. talks with vintage toy dealer and creator Dallas Poague about turning childhood favorites into giant displays. Dallas shares how he got his start selling collectibles, why he still hunts through antique stores, and how a request for three-foot Star Wars figures led to life-size creations. They also talk Boba Fett, Cobra Commander, Raphael, a motion-activated Godzilla, and Fisher-Price Little People.

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Sometimes you don't realize how much life you've packed into a short amount of time until something makes you stop and look around.

For D.B., that happened several times this weekend.

Watching Sherry in her element. Sitting at a family wedding exactly three months after their own. Celebrating another family birthday. And thinking about those old VHS tapes he talked about yesterday.

It all led D.B. to realize something about the moments we're constantly capturing on our phones.

Maybe they don't all need to be shared with everybody.

Maybe they're meant for somebody else.

🎙️ Episode 065 | Just Share It With Your World

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started with something completely ordinary: school picture day.

But while D.B. was ordering his son's latest pictures, he realized there aren't many of these left.

Then, over the weekend, his mom handed him a box filled with old VHS tapes from the '80s and '90s.

What D.B. found on those tapes wasn't just old birthday parties, family vacations and some very questionable teenage performances.

He noticed something he'd never seen before.

And suddenly, those old home movies meant a whole lot more.

🎙️ Episode 064 | Wow, Dad... I Look Like You

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D.B. needs to clear something up.

Because for months, people around Delmarva have been approaching him with essentially the same question:

“Wait... is that YOU?”

Yes.

It is.

But there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for what you're seeing on television.

Well...

Reasonable might be pushing it.

Today, D.B. finally tells the story behind one of the strangest television appearances of his career—and why it took him nearly a year to actually see it himself.

🎙️ Episode 063 | Yes, That's Me in the Shower

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For most of his adult life, D.B. knew exactly what he wanted.

Radio.

Every new station, every new city and every opportunity was another step toward the career he'd imagined for himself.

But somewhere along the way, something changed.

After spending the last several weeks telling the Radio Journey—and looking back at more than 20 years behind a microphone—D.B. has started asking himself a different question:

What does he actually want now?

The answer might explain why this podcast exists in the first place.

🎙️ Episode 062 | I Don't Want to Be Radio Famous Anymore

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Things were going incredibly well in Monroe.

D.B. & Jenni had taken the new Star 101.9 morning show to the top of the ratings, the station was connecting with the community, and D.B. had rediscovered everything he'd once loved about radio.

Then the changes started.

One D.B. had always suspected might eventually happen.

Another he absolutely didn't see coming.

And suddenly, for the first time in his Radio Journey, the next decision wasn't only about his career anymore.

🎙️ Episode 061 | It Was Time to Go Home

Today, D.B. closes this chapter of the Radio Journey—and explains why the audio journal is about to change direction.

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That's enough. Don't mention pregnancy, Christopher, Ace & TJ, quitting, moving home or Duck Dynasty in the description. Let people discover all of it.

After losing his dad, D.B. came dangerously close to walking away from radio altogether.

Then came Monroe, Louisiana.

A brand-new station. A brand-new morning show. A new co-host named Jenni—and a market that had absolutely no idea what D.B. was about to bring to morning radio.

For the first time in months, something started coming back.

The excitement.

The ridiculous ideas.

The connection with listeners.

And most importantly, the reason D.B. fell in love with radio in the first place.

But just as things were starting to feel right again, more changes were coming.

🎙️ Episode 060 | I Remembered Why I Loved Radio

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After everything that happened in Alabama, D.B. knew it was time to leave.

This time, he wanted to go home.

A promising opportunity appeared at a radio station he'd listened to his entire life, and for a while, it looked like everything was falling perfectly into place.

Until it wasn't.

Then D.B. answered a mysterious radio job posting that didn't identify the station—or even tell him where the job was.

What followed sent the Radio Journey somewhere he absolutely wasn't expecting.

And when D.B. arrived, an entire city was already asking the same question:

What does “KNOE IS DEAD” mean?

🎙️ Episode 059 | KNOE Is Dead

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After losing his dad, D.B. was angry.

Angry that radio had taken him hundreds of miles from home. Angry about the moments he'd missed. And convinced that chasing his dream had cost him something he could never get back.

He was ready to quit.

But over the next several weeks, a series of moments began to change the way D.B. looked at everything that had happened.

Was it coincidence? Was it exactly what he needed at exactly the right time? Or was someone trying to tell him something?

Nearly 20 years later, D.B. still remembers what happened next.

This is Part Two of the most personal chapter of the Radio Journey so far.

If you haven't heard Episode 057, The Call I'll Never Forget, start there first.

Then listen to Episode 058 | You Know I'm Okay Now, Right? at dbnycepodcast.com.