Fresh Catch 2.0 David Dean & Dr. Dave Rahn

Therapy is intended to help you get in touch with your feelings and act in a way that respects their power without letting them carry you where you'd prefer not to go.

Dr Dave experienced this episode like a therapy session done for the entertainment of others. When the microphone is turned off, he realized he just survived being ravaged. Wondering "what just happened?" he appreciates that his emotional resiliency is thin.

Enjoy, if you must.

We don't actually do our podcast in the same room, so if one of us has been working out and smells like it…or more likely, has been eating garlic-soaked braunschweiger, we simply don't have the benefit of enjoying a distinctively pungent olfactory connection. But our imaginations carried us there during this episode. We also remembered one of the best movies of our lifetime, one that is hauntingly marked by an epic BANJO tune. Please forgive us if you need delivered from the weird, stinky river we drifted down. 

As is more common than not for a free-wheeling Fresh Catch frolic, we bounced around with butterfly nets trying to catch the giggles this morning. Dr Dave's brash on-air snacking  led us to explore eating etiquette. We then meandered down the winding Wabash River, giving David the chance to boldly insert himself as our Huntington tour guide. He dropped pearls of dubious, colorful local knowledge into the mix, hoping to lure vacationers to consider visiting his hometown. Just don't Google-check him; we hubbies prefer to not have our word questioned.

Too many Yelp food reviews don't address our basic eating patterns - not ours. David opened the door for today's Glutton Support Group with his confession about the lingering effects of yesterday's White Castle drive through. And since confession is good for the soul (not "sole"…which is an absolutely delicious fish to feast on), Dr Dave hopped on, fighting the immediate temptation to munch a bunch of chips while turning into a human pod. BONUS: We celebrated how words, like waistlines, can be stretched.

Though 90 minutes apart we shared a moment with each other (and much of the nation) when Mother Earth's one true moon moved to block Father Sun's warm, full light. Our peace and harmony experience of wonder was short-lived. Our hearts – like the moon – tend to hoard the spotlight. "How dare the moon interfere with the tanning practice I'm entitled to?" And, "How dare Brian Regan claim some of Dr Dave's laughter devotion?" We did our best to keep the jealousy solar flare in David from becoming a total eclipse of the heart.

It became apparent during the course of this unrehearsed episode that David deserved recognition for his unusually advanced empathy. It revealed itself in the time he made available on Easter Sunday evening to his trans neighbor. And though he's not one to toot his own horn (he'll happily toot yours!), the level of care he's offered St Betsy while she recovers from surgery has been so imaginative it's hard to categorize. Nonetheless, Dr Dave sought to commend the unusual gift he is to those around him…no matter how it makes them feel.