IDS #156 - Drinking Wine with Hobbits

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Darin: [00:00:00] Hey, I'm Mike. I am Darren. Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. This is episode. We are very happy that you're with us. This is gonna be a fantastic episode. Yeah.

Mike: We haven't said anything to each other at all about what we're gonna tease for this episode, so we are as clueless as you are right now. What's gonna come out of our faces?

Let's start this over again. Yeah, yeah.

Darin: When I grow up, I wanna be a principal or a Caterpillar. Welcome to irritable dad syndrome, featured in the Sears catalog. Here are your hosts, Mike and Darren. Hey, I'm Mike. I am Darren. Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. This is episode 1 56. On this episode, I am going to talk about how I single handedly ruined a long-standing family tradition,

Mike: and I'm gonna talk about how bests and I engaged in a remote wine tasting.

Ooh, that's a thing that you can do. Ooh, brag much. Before we do that, this is Cincinnati's Comedy podcast. If [00:01:00] you like what we do, go to irritable dad syndrome.com and you can listen to all of our episodes. You can see video you. This is a good show. There's some good stuff there. Yeah, you can see links to our Patreon pages.

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Mm-hmm. Do you wanna share with your sister Yeah. That you haven't talked to in three years? Right. Share this episode. Yeah.

Darin: We bring families together. Yeah. Right here on irritable Death syndrome. How you doing? I'm doing really good. How you been since the last episode? I'm doing great. Doing really anything.

Weird habit to you since the last episode? No. Yeah. Okay. We started releasing shorter episodes, but we released more episodes per week. So that means when Mike and I get together, we record two, sometimes three episodes [00:02:00] at a time.

Mike: Yeah. Mark Research has shown that most people get tired of our After about 30 minutes.

Yeah. So we said we're still recording for an hour. But we're gonna do it in 30 minute

Darin: chunks. Exactly. It

works

Mike: smart. Win win, win,

Darin: win. Yeah, exactly. So that, yeah. But um, uh, so last week I wasn't here, I was in Chicago. Mm-hmm. And you missed me so bad that you went and recorded an episode without me. I put a clip show together.

And I'm listening to that and I'm like, Mike doesn't need me. This is starting to

Mike: scare me. I haven't listened to, did the clip show work out? Was it okay? It sounded great.

Darin: Yeah. Okay. It sounded really, really good. Yeah. Um, while we were gone, while we were separated, I was, uh, uh, I got back from Chicago. Yeah.

Okay. And I'm at the house. Mm-hmm. I had, uh, unpacked my suitcase. I was doing some laundry and on our neighborhood Facebook page, there was a thing saying that, uh, be on the lookout. Uh, an ice cream truck. A shaved ice truck Okay. Is gonna

Mike: be coming. Shaved ice. Not a shaved ice truck. A shaved

Darin: ice [00:03:00] truck.

Truck, yeah. Is going to be coming through the neighborhood around for something. I like

Mike: my ice. Hairy. Yeah. Yeah. That's that seventies ice.

Darin: Hello. Why did you get it so big?

Mike: Woohoo. Shaved. Wow. That is really

Darin: hard. The truck comes to the neighborhood and it's playing your typical ice cream truck music. Okay. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. You know? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Ice cream truck music. Yeah. And then it, I think it for a second there. It does, I think it does the theme from the sting there for a second.

And it's, it's like doing circus music. Then it breaks into Christmas music. That's not right. It's playing, uh, jingle Bells because I'm in the house, I'm like, Honey, am I, is it just me or did? Yeah. Yeah. And then I poked my head out the door. The damn truck is playing Jingle Bells. Then it plays Frosty the Snowman.

Mike: Okay. So that's [00:04:00] pretty ballsy cuz most people don't eat ice cream. I do. Cuz I'm a freak. But most people don't eat a lot of ice ice cream in the winter. Right. And if they're, if they're putting you in a winter mindset with winter wonderland music. Right. They risk losing customers. You need to play music that's gonna make people want ice cream.

Yeah. Like desert music,

Darin: like ice cream Man by Van Halen. Yeah. Okay.

Mike: Hot for teacher Linda Van Ha.

Darin: Yes. Cruel. Summer by Banana Ram. Yeah. Yeah. Banana split. Yeah.

Mike: Hot in the shade. Yeah. The whole album. The whole album. Yeah. Yeah.

Darin: Yeah. Anyway. I thought that was great. I have no story there. Yeah, but the ice cream truck was playing Christmas music.

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Mike: So you've seen the new Spider-Man movie? I have the new one. New one? The new one. New one. The new one.

New one. Uh, it's the sequel to the cartoon. It's across the spider verse and the fir the, okay. The first one was into the, into the spider verse. Okay.

Darin: This one's across the spider verse, and I think the next one is beyond the, Spider verse. There's another one coming. A third one's

Mike: coming. Okay. Yeah. So how do these connect to the normal God-fearing Christian

Darin: spider-Man?

Like the, uh, uh, well, they, they don't really, okay. These, this is Miles

Mike: Morales,

Darin: right? Yeah. The animated films stand alone. Okay. In the, in the, uh, Marvel Cinematic universe, there is mention of like, Dr. Strange. Yeah. And, um, uh, [00:06:00] there is Dr. Octopus. There is, yeah. Yeah. Okay. The, the, the typical Spider-Man villains mm-hmm.

Are in

Mike: this The Penguin or

Darin: That's Batman. That's Batman. Okay. Yeah. The penguins not in this. Yeah. Uh, in this movie, the villain was spot. The dog. No spot that hangs around with Dick and Jim? No, it's not spot. Okay. The dog, it's, it's spot. A guy who can put his hand through one port. It's like a portal and then it comes out over here and he, he, he takes a spot, puts it on a wall.

He can reach in through the hole in the wall like quality coyote, and then steal.

Mike: We're still running outta ideas. I didn't write it. I'm just saying a couple of years ago they had a purple guy with a scrotum chin that could snap his fingers and kill half the universe. Yeah, that was. Thanos. Yeah. And now they got a guy called Spot Spot that reaches into a wall and grabs the purse.

Can I say something?

Darin: Yes. Point made. Okay. I thought you were just being bitchy, but I'm like, you're making a lot of sense. Anyway. The new Spider-Man movie is, Badass. Yeah. I mean, you haven't seen the [00:07:00] last one. One I haven't seen, and we own it. It's right up there. It's, it's, yeah. The, for people listening to this audio podcast, he's pointing at his wall.

Yeah. It is amazing. Hmm. It is really, really good. The animation is so, it's so sick. You can watch it with the volume. Is it on fle? It's on Flee. Okay. It is dent. Okay. It is super dent. Does it jump? Does it make you wanna jump the coin? It, it will make you jump your coin. Okay. Yeah, it is. So it's uh, it's totally, uh, awesome.

It's bodacious, it's gnarly, it's bitching. Okay. Name and adjective. It's that. Okay. It's really, really good. Okay. So we went to see it. All right. Took Mom, I'm sold. I'm

Mike: gonna go see it.

Darin: Yeah. Mom loved it. Okay. Mom didn't understand what was going on with

Mike: it. Everybody wants a spot. Nobody can have the spot.

Nobody

Darin: can. Yeah. Okay. So it's, I mean, I'm telling you right now, it's really, really good. Okay. The, the guys who made, uh, the original Lego movie, oh, they're the same animators who did [00:08:00] cloudy with the chance of

Mike: meatballs. Oh, I really, really like cloudy. Is it the same people also?

Darin: Same guy. Phil. Phil, oh Lord.

Age and Chris

Mike: Miller. The names can't hear the voice. Would I recognize any of the voice? People, voice actor. Would you rec?

Darin: Uh, yeah. Oscar Isaac. Oh yeah. Isn't it Poe? That's Poe, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Um, and there's a few others who I, Haley Stanfield is the, uh, the chick with the blonde hair. She's like the female spider-man.

Okay. So I'm just, I can't say enough good things about it. Okay. It's really, really badass. Okay. And the last one that you haven't seen, Has Nick ca in it and he's great. Really? Yeah. Okay. I need to see it. Yeah, you really need to see it, right? If it, if you, I let me know and I'll come over and watch it with you, cuz I wanna see how, how you like it.

Okay. So yeah. But we went to

Mike: see that with Paul. Maybe we could make an irritable dad syndrome event where they watch us stare at a TV together, just like Letterman of you too. Oh, that's pretty good. I like that. Yeah. Did you hear? He said the thing and the stuff.

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Okay. I'm gonna tell you something about our family that I've never told you before. I've never mentioned it on the podcast. Oh, this is breaking news. Very few people know about this. Okay?

Mike: Okay. A lot of people are gonna, at least, at least three people are gonna know about this after you say it.

Darin: We are cheap.

Okay. Okay. That's not the point. Oh, okay. When we go to a movie, yeah. We go to the movie in Hamilton. Yeah. We go to the AMC eight in Hamilton. The tickets. Yeah. And you sneak in food? I sneak in food. Mm-hmm. The tickets are ridiculously less expensive. Okay. Than going to the AMC at Union Center Boulevard.

Yeah. Okay. We don't wanna spend that much money on a movie, especially a movie that in two weeks or three weeks is gonna be on Paramount or Max in Max. Mm was jerks. Mm. Or anything like that. So we go to the AMC eight in Hamilton, and I have my Stubbs card. Okay. And we get into the movies pretty cheap, so when we're driving from our house, we take the Michael A.

Fox Highway to Hamilton on our way before we get to [00:11:00] Hamilton proper. Yeah. There is an underpass. Okay. Okay. This underpass. Has been dedicated. It's named after a gentleman named Jack Kirsch. Okay. Jack Kirsch was a politician way back in the day. Mm-hmm. In Hamilton. He may have been a horrible person. I have no idea.

Mm-hmm. I don't know what his politics were. I don't know what he voted for. I don't know what he voted against. I don't know if, I mean, people obviously liked him enough to name an underpass after him. Yeah. Okay. So stupid me. Okay. Decides one day we drive under, it's like, guys, we should have a moment of silence as we go under the Jack Kisch underpass.

Okay. I like where this is going, and Libby and the boys are like, okay. Yeah. And we did it. Okay. And we do it every time for years, Mike. For years. Yeah. When we drive through it, we turn the radio down. Okay. We don't say a word. We go through it and I say Jack curse everybody. And sometimes we, sometimes we applaud.

We go to our movie. All right, on our way back, okay, [00:12:00] turn the radio down. Okay. Not a word, Jack Kisch, everybody. When mom moved up here, Uhhuh, we took her to the movies. Mom, you can't talk as we go under the Jack K under basket. Yeah. Yeah. Why? Because we don't mom. Yeah. We don't do it. Yeah. We never explained to her why.

Yeah. And so she's on board. She doesn't say a thing. A couple of years ago. We were donating some stuff. Uhhuh to the, uh, I believe it's the Haven of Mercy. Okay. And we went to the office there to don't make our donations. Yeah. It's right next to, we had our picture taken with the Jack Kirsch underpass.

Okay. And we're all pointed like, Hey. Yeah, here we are. Like the guy, like the Grand Canyon. Yeah. Okay. We've done this for years. Okay. Years. Yeah. Sunday we're going to the movie and we're driving and I'm just talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. I don't even see that the Jack Kris underpass is coming.

Oh, no. And I don't hear Jacob go, dad, dad. And we drive through there and I'm talking about, man, we had to get [00:13:00] rid of all this taco stuff at the, at the party. We, we had, we still have a vegetable play

Mike: leftover. Did you know that Mike was walking around telling everyone to look at the move, the chairs and what the hell,

Darin: Libby?

It's like I mentioned to mom, I'm like, yeah, we still have like some vegetables left over from the platter and Libby's like Darren. Stop. And then I look in the rear view mirror, like, what are you yelling at me for? Yeah. I'm just telling mom that we got rid of the vegetables and she's like the

Mike: Jack Gersch underpass.

Yeah. You're being disrespectful. This is

Darin: what's happening. And I, oh my God. Wow. Hmm. And then I, so for the next five times, I'm not allowed to talk from our house to the ho to the movies and the movie's back. Oh, I like this. The whole family has deemed that my punishment, my penance. Yeah. For doing this.

Yeah. And it, I started it. I'm the dumb ass who, who thought it'd be funny. Yeah. And I'm just,

So my apologies to, [00:14:00] uh, Jack Hurst his family to the city of Hamilton. Mm-hmm. Um, to anybody who rides on the Michael A. Fox Highway. Yeah. Who travels that stretch of road on a daily basis. Yeah. I meant no disrespect

Mike: when you were talking and going through it.

Darin: Yeah. I'm losing my mind. Yeah. It's my thing.

Yeah. It's my thing. Uhhuh. Yeah. And I forgot to do my

Mike: thing so. This may surprise you. It may not surprise you. How long have we known each other? At least a few

Darin: months. Oh boy. Uh, how long have we known each other? Eight years

Mike: somewhere? Yeah. No, it's been longer than that. Okay. With Andrew seven? Yeah. We

Darin: Okay.

The kids went to kindergarten together? Yeah. Okay. The kids went to kindergarten together and they're Now, what grade are they in? It's been like 10 years, I think during, in 10th grade. Yeah. So 10 years. Did we know you when we got this house? I, the first time I met you was in this house. Okay. Yeah. How the hell did you get in?

I knocked on the door. Okay. I'm a vampire. You

Mike: invited me in. Okay. So a long time. [00:15:00] Mm-hmm. Would it surprise you to know that we have done something similar?

Darin: No, nothing that you do that's similar to

Mike: me surprises you. So you know that Bea's family is in Morgantown. Yeah, and we have been, although we haven't lived in Cincinnati the entire time, we did live in Dayton for a while.

We've lived in the western Ohio region. Okay. So to speak. Yeah. Yeah. So we've taken. The same road back and forth. Most of the, all those roads that you can get from Morgantown to here. Mm-hmm. We've been on every rest stop. We've been to multiple times. Yeah. I, I, every one. I know what you mean. We, in the past few years Yep.

We've gone out of our way. We've never stopped here. Yep. And then we get there, it's like, oh yeah, we've been here. That's, that's

Darin: us on from Johnson City to Cincinnati. Yes. Every rest stop, every

Mike: exit. We moved to Dayton in. 2000. Okay. Maybe 2001. When we were driving back from here [00:16:00] to Morgantown, we passed a sign while Bes tends to sleep in the car.

Mm-hmm. And it's like the halfway point. It calls, it said Flushing, Bethesda and I, I punched the, the top of the car go Flushing Bethesda to wake her up in the like the most guy. Good voice that I can. I've done that guy. Good. Yeah. So what is that? 20, 22 years at this point. Uhhuh. I've been doing that every time.

Yeah. And I do it both ways. Yeah. Forever. It doesn't matter what's happening. It doesn't If there's a, if the kids are fighting, yeah. Yeah. If someone's in the middle of talking about something, I flushing, Bethesda and sometimes I honk Uhhuh, you know, I'm gonna wave if there's another motorist right there and I honk, I gotta wave at them.

I've done it for years. In years. In years. Yeah. Uh, And I'm terrified. There was one time I forgot to do it and I got at least a mile down the road. [00:17:00] Uhhuh Best was fast asleep, and I think she, she woke up and I think she woke up. She didn't admit it and I didn't say anything about it. I think she woke up because I didn't say Flushing, Bethesda, and I whispered, flushing Bethesda to myself and tap the, you you got to, I, I, I have to.

Yeah. So when you started saying this, like, people are gonna listen to this show Uhhuh and they're gonna hear your Jack Kerr story and they're gonna think, what a freak. Yeah. The whole time I'm hearing this, I'm thinking I, this is Flushing Bethesda. Yeah, totally understand. Yeah. I

Darin: totally get it. Yeah. And I, I know that families all have like similar things.

All families do things and if you have a similar thing like that that's that's weird or, or wacky or whatever, let us know. Go to irritable center.com. Send us a call to action. Look at that. Yeah. Send us something at our

Mike: Facebook page. Send us a picture of you doing it. Yeah. I mean, within reason with Cinemax.

Darin: Yes. Please send us a picture of you doing it. Hello to hear com.[00:18:00]

Woo.

Mike: Now I'm in charge of all the web stuff

Darin: now, and we got taken off here. Here we go. Boom. Quick, quick, quick.

So Bike hates this gas station that's right down the street from your house, right down the street from my house, and so I had never been inside it. And I thought, well, I'm gonna check the place out to see if it's as bizarre as you make it out to be. Sure enough. Mm-hmm. You walk in there and it's all Casey's gum drop.

Casey. Casey. Casey, Casey, Casey's, butterscotch, Casey's, uh, uh, uh, chewing gum. Casey's Casey's, Casey's, Casey. And you're right, there is a place where the guy makes his own taquitos. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, and so I'm, I'm thinking this is kinda Yeah.

Mike: It's across the street from a place where you get ice cream. Yeah.

What the

Darin: hell are you doing? Yeah. I don't understand how they're gonna compete with, uh, ice cream and taquitos. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe people, it's kind of like, you know, the Hard Rock Cafe is [00:19:00] usually next door to a house of Blues. Yeah, yeah. You go into one place to eat, you go into the other place to get souvenirs or vice versa, maybe.

Maybe you get your taquitos. I'm craving some ice cream now. Then you go next door. Well, then you got

Mike: Dunking Donuts is right there too. That's true. That's true. And then China House. Yeah,

Darin: China House is, could smiles. It's right. No, no, it's right there. It's right by Eli. Oh. Oh. That's right there. Okay.

Mike: You're right, you're right.

Yeah. I love China House. Love them. I

Darin: go into Casey's. Yeah. And I'm walking around and sure enough, what do they have? They got the little lemon pies. Okay. And I love lemon pies. Is this the little hostess? No, they're Casey's lemon pies. Oh. And I thought, all right, I'm gonna try something. I'm in here. Lemon pie.

Yeah. And uh, and I bought it. And uh, and the lady at the registers says, is that all for you, hun? And I thought, well, she's calling me hun. The store's

Mike: too new to have somebody calling you, hun. Uh. Right.

Darin: And I'm not, we're not far enough south for her to call me. Hun. No, that's something Kentucky and Blow did you say,

Mike: excuse me?

I am a married man. Are you assuming

Darin: my gender? Yeah. [00:20:00] I was like, I am married. I am a taken man. So I bought my lemon pie and then I went out to the car and I devoured it because it was. It was absolutely yummy. And then I'm like, well, well, I, I, I'm, I can't complain about Casey's cuz I'm probably gonna go back after

Mike: this and get a living bite.

You did the, I got my treat and I'm gonna sit here in my car and, and car

Darin: and I'm gonna knock the, the crumbs off my, uh, off my pants. Yeah. Into the floorboard.

Mike: Yeah. I got one of those big ass donuts. You're just in the car. I did. I didn't even get to the light, the light's right next to it. I didn't even get to that.

It was gone.

Darin: Yeah. Mm. So I mean, I, she called me Hun, and I like the lemon pie, so I, all right,

Mike: so you're Casey's fan though? I, yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Darin: You and I, we've talked about TikTok before we have, or the TikTok? The TikTok. Yeah. T i c. That's what the kids, the kids call it T O C K. The TikTok. The TikTok, yeah.

Yeah. I'm on the TikTok Uhhuh, and I don't know [00:21:00] how this came up, but there's a guy on there. It's at. Clogging at it. Okay. And, and at first I'm kind of like, I, I don't want to keep watching this because I know that more things are gonna come up on my thing, Uhhuh, but he, he unclogs storm drains. Okay. It's like you won't believe how much stuff was in this storm drain Uhhuh.

And Yeah. And there's a lot of stuff in it and yeah. It's, it's like kind of satisfying, watching all the water go down once you unclog it. Sure. Uhhuh. But I'm like, okay. So he unclogged storm drains? Yeah. I, I looked on his thing. Mm-hmm. On his, on his homepage, he's followed by like 19, or I don't know how many millions of people follow him.

Yeah. He doesn't follow anybody. Like, really? Yeah. Really? Yeah. What are you, Keith Richards? Are you, what's, what makes you so damn special that you're not gonna follow me? I'm the clogging addict. I don't follow nobody. You know that dude who was in Harry [00:22:00] Potter? Not Harry Potter. His, uh, buddy. What's his name?

Rufuss

Mike: Ru? Uh,

Darin: no, Rupert. Rupert Grunt. What's his name? The Nerdy Johnson. The, yeah. Rupert Grant Johnson.

Mike: The nerdy red, oh. Uh,

Darin: log bottom. No. Um, That was his name. Rip Rick. I don't know his name. Anyway, a long time ago, WEAs ago Weasley. Ron Weasley. Ron Weasley. Jesus, a long time ago, you and I had talked about him on Twitter.

Yeah. He doesn't follow anybody. And we were going to see if we could get him to follow us. Yeah. And then we forgot about that. Oh. And 38 episodes passed and now we're

Mike: bringing it up again. I'll do it tomorrow. Yeah. So now that you're bringing up TikTok, I gotta bring up somebody that I'm. The one of my favorite talkers of all time.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. His name is Harry Hare. Okay. At Harry Hare has risen, h a r, uh, h a i r y, Uhhuh, h a r e h a s r i s E n. Ding

Darin: ding. Yeah. Harry Hare [00:23:00] has risen. Harry Hare has

Mike: risen. Okay, now. Tell me if this has ever happened to you. Okay. You see something that makes you cackle yourself silly, and then you show it to someone else and they kinda look at it and say, oh, okay.

Yes. Okay. Yes. I haven't found anyone that finds him as funny as I have. I, I've forwarded him to you guys. I showed him to Best and she's like, okay. He has multiple shtick that he does. Okay. But the one that he does most often is he has a cowboy hat. He has this huge stash. He's got long hair. He's got like a beard thing.

He's got hi like a seventies shirt with his chest hair sticking out. A beard thing, A beard thing, and he's a beard kinda. He's kind of leaning back and he does reaction videos. He'll watch something where something screwed up happens and he'll be, he'll be watching it and he's sitting there going, Makes sense.

Makes sense. And then something will happen and I'll be like, what the fuck? And it'll, it'll stop, right? Yeah. Before the whole [00:24:00] word comes out. Yeah. And I laugh myself to tears. Mm-hmm. On every single one. And I'll go to the next one. It's the last time I had this reaction was the Andrew Dice Clay. Um, Instagram uhhuh.

I love the Andrew dLAN Instagram. It's one of my favorite things that ever existed. You one, the picture. You do. Did you want the picture? Yeah. With the, do you With the guy with me. I'm

Darin: approachable. People think I'm not approachable, but I'll take a picture with you.

Mike: I've watched all of this guy's videos and I've laughed myself.

Silly. And the Just go to him. Okay. Hairy hair has risen. Okay. And it's so stupid. It'll make you giggle. Yeah.

Darin: Well, I think I'm going to reach out to clogging Attic. Yeah. And ask him what makes him think he's so special. Yeah. And why can't he? I, I want him to follow us. Yeah. Yeah. I want irritable dad syndrome on his list list to be the one person

Mike: that he follows.

Yeah. And I'm gonna reach out to Rurik, uh, Weasley. Yeah. Ron Wesley. Yeah. Follow, have him

Darin: follow us. See? Yeah. Yeah. This portion of our show is brought to you by Circuit City.[00:25:00]

So you guys went to hobnob with the, uh, with the, and went to a wine tasting? We did a remote

Mike: wine

Darin: tasting. What does that mean? It means you did well over team on Zoom? No. Oh,

Mike: we didn't talk to anybody. You did it remotely. That's his sister Uhhuh and her husband sent us a remote wine tasting. Mm-hmm. Box.

It's a box that has nine, they look like huge blood vials of wine. Okay. And you drink it and then you think about whether you like that wine or not. Okay. So best said, when are, when are we gonna do this? And I'm like, well, you wanna do one here at at dinner? She's like, we're now, we're not gonna drink the whole box, but okay.

We can, we can try one or two. Mm-hmm. Ended up trying about three [00:26:00] of them. Okay. Um, they were all. Wine normally has like a 10% alcohol. Okay. Content, I think. Yeah. Yeah. These were like 14% and 12. I mean, one of them tasted like lighter fluid. Yeah. I, I hate wine. I like, I like the Cabernet s non. Hmm. Um, okay. A lot of people think it's pronounced Cabernet Simonon.

Well, they're, it's not, they're wrong. It's Cabernet Savon. Yeah. They are uneducated. It's a red with a voluptuous, uh, pedals of penultimate ru ru ity with a penultimate floral poer. It's got a scent of oak, it's got a scent and a. Like a, it's got a Horry texture.

Darin: It's got kind of a nickel, it's a flavor.

Mike: It's a nickel flavor with a, with a hoish bottom.

This wine,

Darin: what tastes like, it was poured over a lot of pencils before I

Mike: drinky flavor. It's very, I'll show [00:27:00] it to you before you get, oh, I can't wait. But it was, it's really well done. I really enjoy it. Cause I've tried to get into wine over the past couple years. Yeah. And so I've gotta the point where I do have my favorite, like I said, the Cabernet Savon.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I, I go that right, you said better than Blue nun. Blue

Darin: Blue nun. It's, it's only wine I could think of. Right? Is that the one you put the

Mike: orange slice on The blue Nun? That's it's Blue Moon. Blue Moon. It's a beer. Okay. Yeah.

Darin: Okay. Um, I've had Mad Dog 2020. Is that the same?

Mike: Yeah, it is about you got.

Get it out of a tub though. That's jungle juice. Well, yes. The, the white. I don't, I've never liked white wine. Okay. And I tried to, I was excited that there was a white wine in this mix. Right. That's the one that tasted like moonshine or turpentine. They okay. They just, they's like, they said, Hey, we need to put double the amount of alcohol, uh, in this.

And it just didn't work. Uh, but they're, they're, they're

Darin: pretty good. Did, did you swirl it around? Oh yeah. Did you? Yeah. Did you, did you hold it over [00:28:00] your, under your nose for

Mike: a minute? I did. I, I got the Okie, the Okie, the Okie barnacles came up and, and massaged my, um, vestiges

Darin: You remember in the Muppet Show where Steve Martin was the waiter looking for a Kermit the Frog?

Are you Kermit the Frog? Yeah. Yeah. And he. Opens the, would you like to smell the cap?

Mike: Yes.

Darin: It's very good to hear. That's

Mike: how we did it. That's how we did it. But it was weird because normally, I guess I don't, I've never been to a wine tasting that I know of. They have '

Darin: em in the Kroger all the time. That's not a, a wine tasting.

I they, you don't go to a grocery store where like on one aisle there's Pop-Tarts on another aisle, there's raisins, there's some, then you can get your. Feminine hygiene products. Yeah. Toilet

Mike: paper, charcoal. And there's a lady over here and there's a wine test. Yeah. And there lady over here, hoking cheese with view.

You don't Well now

Darin: can do the cheese. Yeah. And the wine in, in the same place. But I'm sorry, but you don't sell charcoal and, uh, chicken and a biscuit crackers in the same place where you [00:29:00] have a wine tasting. I was

Mike: at Kroger, this was years ago. Years ago, not too long ago, because this was relatively new, Kroger, but there was a guy walking, he had wine in like a martini glass.

No. As he was shopping, I.

He was looking at Ziploc bags

Darin: with his

Mike: pinky out drinking room. A martini glass dude, what are you doing? You know, he thinks he's better than us. Oh yeah. He's not better than us. And the guy, they, they had, that was the night they had the, the guy with his acoustic guitar. Yeah. Uhhuh plain, uh, white zombie.

Yeah. More

Darin: human than human. Hey. Everybody. Just the women. Yeah. Okay.

Mike: Anyway, it, it's a, it's a remote wine. I thought it was good. It's the Vine box. The vine box is what it's called. Okay. It's,

Darin: no, I, I, I like it because when you said you went to a remote

Mike: wine contest, you thought I went off into the woods with a bunch of Yeah.

Hobbits. No,

Darin: no. Hobbits

Mike: would be doing a beer tasting

Darin: [00:30:00] done with hobbits. See here. I am joking. Who did you do it over? Teams. You did a testing remotely

Mike: From home. From home, yeah. So yeah, it's up there. It part of the way

Darin: through the tasting. I've heard her Waka. Waka. I'm trying to be all cornball. Yeah. And eh,

Mike: side note. Okay. I'm trying to lose weight. Uhhuh still one of the Yeah, me too. One of the things is, uh, dark chocolate is, can give you that fix. I hate dark chocolate though. I do too. I like it now. Uh, I. Started having a little bit of wine with the dark chocolate and be thought that was dumb. Well, not dumb, but just like that's a weird pairing.

I've heard that People love that. I looked at the, the Cuz the dark chocolate bars are all hoity toity and Hootie snooty. Yeah. They've got like little gold foil. Yeah. Right into Oh, the Lind. Yeah. With like a picture of a Yes indeed. With. Picture of an oak barrel with a coca bean on it and a hairy guy in the [00:31:00] back holding a goof on, you know, just whatever.

It's important from Great Britain, you know? Do you remember, um, of course you remember the, uh, breaking bad when, uh, Jesse had the dream that he was. Doing woodworking. Yeah. They all look like that. Like woodworking with a bean uhhuh. And then I, I read the

Darin: what? The coco bean. Oh, a coco.

Mike: Cocoa bean. Cocoa bean.

Yeah. We're talking about chocolate. As I'm looking at, I'm, I'm, IM, Breaking off a piece cuz I can only take so much. That stuff makes me, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it said it had tasting notes on the back of a oh damn chocolate bar and, and it recommended, it said, recommended wine pairing. The Cabernet. Seven, nine.

Seven, nine. Yeah. And I was like, wow, Uhhuh, these do. And I showed vest uhhuh. It's just like they really go together and she just kinda looked at it was like, okay. Yeah. All right. So that's what I do now. And I also [00:32:00] get a, a, a little thing of nuts. Uhhuh and some nerds, nerds, gummies,

Darin: the, can I take a moment here?

Yeah. It's your podcast.

Mike: Get yourself the next time you're in a store. Uhhuh or in a place where you can buy things for service goods.

Darin: Yeah. Goods trade. I nerds trade a

Mike: Pel Nerds clusters. What they did, Uhhuh, is they took a, an okay gummy and then they wrapped it in nerds like you know the nerds candy?

Yeah. I like nerds. Oh my Lord. Uhhuh. Holy god. This So you got a gummy best. It's a gummy that's wrapped, wrapped, wrapped in nerds. Okay. All kinds of nerds. It looks like a, it looks like a disease actually. That's what I was, looks like something from the last of us. It does. It does. It literally does. Or the rest of us Looks like a piece of a clicker fell off and they put it in the bag.

They are amazing. And the only reason I know about 'em is because Charlie wanted some when we went to a movie. Yeah. He's like, I want this. I was like, really? [00:33:00] You don't want Reese's or No, I want these. And he, I was like, let me have one of them. I needed to see what this tastes like. Yeah. And I, I ate half the bag.

I kept asking for 'em, and finally he just gave me the bag. I, I buy them in bulk now. I buy the huge bags I bought. Do you have any, do you have any at the house? I buy? Yeah, I'll give you, there's, can I try one?

Darin: There's multiple bags up there. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I just wanna try one, one. That's, that's all I

Mike: want, that's all I'm asking.

Mike One. We have two versions. There's a red and a blue. Oh, red. The reds are better. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Reds always better. Yeah. Yeah. But the blues not anything to shake a stick at.

Darin: What? And what does that mean? The blue. The blue. You're outside shaking a stick at something. What the hell does that mean? And

Mike: I will tell you this, the red pairs very well with a Cabernet 7, 9 0 79 and the dark chocolate with a 70% cacao or whatever, like they think we care.

We know what that means, right?

Darin: Be before we go cuz we're, we're desperately, oh God, we're God. We should have stopped this 15 minutes ago. But you mentioned Jesse and having the dream about woodworking. Yeah, yeah. Also on the TikTok Uhhuh, I've [00:34:00] followed, or I've started watching people who are doing lathe.

Where, okay. They got the log and then they got the Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. It, it's mesmerizing people built and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. It's like they take a log and they turn it into a lamp post uhhuh, and I'm just sucked in. I can't stop watching

Mike: and you start thinking, I don't know how much a lathe costs.

Darin: Yeah.

That's what I said. Yeah. I was at the house before I came over to your house and I'm talking to Libby and I'm afraid I'm gonna get a lathe for my birthday next week. Yeah. Yeah. And I told her, I said, don't buy me a lathe. Yeah. But I'm fascinated with the lathe now. One, now I've got a buddy Arnold Uhhuh and he does woodworking.

Yeah. And he told me I can go and I can play with his lathe. Whoa. That's what she said. And I'm going to, okay. By God I am going to put a log on the lathe. Okay. And I'm going,

Mike: can you let me know when you do that? Cuz I may wanna. Put a log on the, yeah,

Darin: on the

Mike: old lathe. I'm gonna bring my log over to your buddy's lathe and size it up.

Yeah,

Darin: smooth it out. But I'm fascinated with, yeah, with the woodworking. Yeah. And I'm just like, damn, [00:35:00] you TikTok.

Mike: Damn you. Have you seen the thing where they have like the natural wood and then there's like a hole and then they put that epoxy or whatever it is? Yeah. And then they buff it and they put lights in there and they have like this table that looks like it came out of Yes.

Like Lord of the Rings or Star Trek or something. Yes. Did they pour that clear shit over? Oh yeah. The clear with the blue. Oh

Darin: yeah. Yes. And there's like a, a tie fighter in the middle of

Mike: it. Have you seen that one? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Nerd, we need to end this

Darin: show. We do. We're gonna go. We want to thank you for listening and we hope that you come back next week and listen to us again on irritable dad syndrome.

So see ya. Talk to you later. Bye-bye. We hope you enjoyed this appi. The irritable dad syndrome is a mic and Darren Joint.

You already did me. That's what she said.

Mike: I'm not starting over again. We're just gonna have to edit this out. Stitch it together.[00:36:00]