Personal Stories Episodes

Nostalgia has a way of rewriting history, especially when it comes to the stores everyone claims to remember perfectly. In this episode of Irritable Dad Syndrome, Mike and Darin revisit Hills Department Store and unpack what people consistently get wrong about it. The conversation explores child…

Few phrases trigger immediate regret quite like “smell my finger.” In this episode of Irritable Dad Syndrome, Mike and Darin discuss why this sentence is always a terrible idea and how some phrases should never be spoken out loud. The conversation explores social instincts, childhood behavior, a…

What starts as a normal restaurant visit turns into a story so upsetting it permanently changed one man’s dining habits. In this episode of Irritable Dad Syndrome, Darin explains a restaurant experience that went spectacularly wrong, while Mike admits to showering in the middle of the night and apo…