IDS #185 - The Sweat Lodge at Al's Lake House

Mike and Darren host Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: Hola. Mi llamo Miguel.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dance Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast.

>> Mike: Entonces me m. Llamo es Miguel. Donde esta la biblioteca?

>> Darin: La leche? muy, muy.

>> Mike: si, si, oui, oui, oui.

>> Darin: M. Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu and I hear.

>> Mike: She'S amazing in it.

>> Dave: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, the podcast with buttery flaky crust. Here are your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I am Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast.

>> Mike: We are here to. Talk about a great many things. But one thing that I want to talk about is Darren is a miserable man.

>> Darin: I am. Some would found that out today.

>> Mike: Some would say, yes, he's a son of a bitch.

>> Darin: Oh, now I don't think they went.

>> Mike: They didn't, they didn't say that, but I said that. So yeah, Darren got ah, attacked online and, and I want to talk about that and other times when I've been attacked.

>> Darin: And I want to talk about a traumatic story involving the elf on the shelf. Welcome to the show. This is gonna be a good one.

>> Mike: Hey, Ben.

>> Darin: I've been doing pretty good. Yeah. Before we get into the thick of things.

I apologize to the fine people who live in West Virginia

Yeah. I, you know what? I should probably apologize to the fine people who live in the state of West Virginia.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I went off on a rant.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Bitching about having to stop three times on a toll road when I was driving through West Virginia and I had to pay. It was like $4 and a quarter each time. you do the math. And I wasn't happy about someone, someone.

>> Mike: Did do the math.

>> Darin: I was not happy at all about it. And I was bitching and I said some things about the, the state of West Virginia that probably shouldn't have. And I just want to apologize to the fine folks who live in West Virginia. So, my apologies. Yeah, yeah, I was, I was in a mood. Daddy hadn't had anything to eat. and I think my blood sugar was low. And there's, I'm sure the sun was in my eyes. There's all kinds of other excuses that I could have, but to everybody in West Virginia, please forgive me and go, to our website and download every episode we have.

>> Mike: They don't have the Internet there.

>> Darin: They just got indoor plumbing last year.

>> Mike: Like a coal fired router.

>> Darin: I would like to apologize for what I just said about West Virginia.

>> Mike: I wouldn't. I have a Long line of family from West Virginia. I currently have people, that I consider that are actually literally family in West Virginia. So I can say these things.

>> Darin: So when I was a kid and we grew up in Belfast, Virginia. Yeah. Which is one of the greatest holes in the world, there were times when we would drive to Bluefield, West Virginia.

>> Mike: I lived in Bluefield when I was 2.

>> Darin: And you'd have to drive through Beckley.

>> Mike: That's where my mom's from.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah. And so.

>> Mike: No, it's not, it's. She's from near there.

>> Darin: Okay. A lot of coal mining towns. Yes. And so, but back when, back in the day, when, you know, when I was a kid, we would drive through there and just. It was just a lot of coal mining towns, a lot of nothing to do. So no matter where we went, there was nothing to do. We'd get to Bluefield and then all of a sudden there's this mall.

>> Mike: There's a mall there.

>> Darin: Well, there used to be.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah, there used to be the Bluefield Mall. I don't know what the hell.

>> Mike: I remember what I remember in Bluefield and I was two.

>> Mike: I remember there was a large tree and a, chain link fence.

>> Darin: Yeah. And that's probably, that's probably the nicest thing you saw.

>> Mike: There was. And there was a staircase that went to a basement that was lit. It wasn't like some kind of weird saw thing. It was a lit. Nice basement. Yeah. and there was a kitchen. those are things I remember.

>> Darin: That's what you remember about West Virginia?

>> Mike: Yeah. Well, about Bluefield.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I would like to say. So my family is. If you, if you heard of the, the movie October Sky.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: The coal mining movie. Yeah, it's a really good movie.

>> Mike: That's where my mom and dad are from. My dad actually worked in that coal mine.

>> Darin: Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: So. And the teacher in the movie, Homer Hickam's teacher or whatever was m. My. My dad. She was my dad's teacher. Like he went to the same school. So. Yeah, when that movie came out, it was like a big deal for him and we, you know, they. I wasn't, I was in college.

>> Darin: You know, all these years I've known you, I never knew your dad was a coal miner.

>> Mike: Yeah, well, for just like, for a couple years while he's going through college.

Full disclosure: I love West Virginia

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: He was the first of his family to go to college and leave the town. And my mom was the first of her family to go to college and leave the town.

>> Darin: Okay. Wow. Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: There you go.

>> Mike: And I'm the first one to blast it on the Internet, so I love. Okay, so full disclosure, I love West Virginia. I do. Yeah. Longtime, listeners and longtime friends of mine know that Tudor's Biscuit World.

>> Darin: I love Tutors Biscuit World.

>> Mike: Absolute reverence.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: If you are in a area where there's a Tutor's Biscuit World, if you are, you're in West Virginia, go there right now.

>> Darin: Well, listen to this podcast. and then go to tutors.

>> Mike: Exactly. and get yourself a Golden Eagle Biscuit. And get yourself the gravy platter. Gravy over one biscuit don't do gravy over. Over two. I mean, you can. I used to, back in the day, but that's how daddy ended up being on the obese side of things. So. Yeah. So I, I have fond, I have a fondness for West Virginia, which is why I on it. Because it's fun. It's like you have your brother and you smack him around every once in a while. It's fun. Right. You know what I mean?

>> Darin: Right. But kind of like why I make fun of Indiana from time to time.

Your video takedown of West Virginia got attacked online

>> Mike: So this whole thing that you did.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Led to one of my favorite things that's ever happened. And I'll tell you why.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: because you were the. But, you got attacked, online. I'm going to read. The post. So get into a little nuts and bolts of how we do things here. Darren edits the audio version.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: And I create the video reels.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: we pick snippets from the show that we think, are particularly engaging or whatever.

>> Darin: Mike gives a little. Little samplings.

>> Mike: Yeah, little samplings. Little miniature shows and throw them out there. And the, your little rant on West Virginia, which I believe starts out with, your state sucks.

>> Darin: Again, my apologies to West Virginia.

>> Mike: So we're on the TikTok, and I would. I would urge all of you to follow us on TikTok, because that's where. That's where people engage with our content the most, I think. And we had a gentleman.

>> Mike: Who wrote, in response to your video takedown of the state.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Quote.

>> Mike: They probably don't have a state tax on their gas.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I fact check this. They have the 10th highest state tax on their gas.

>> Darin: Okay. So he's wrong.

>> Mike: He's wrong there.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: The next.

>> Darin: Well, but even if he was correct, I gassed up long before we got to Virginia or West Virginia.

>> Mike: Yeah. and I know a lot of you have already said, I bet I know what the number one state is. It's California. Let me go off to the. Let me pull this car over and have a chat with you people for a moment.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah. California probably is the number one state. When I was in Death Valley, gas was $9 a gallon.

>> Darin: What? Jesus.

>> Mike: You know why?

>> Darin: Why?

>> Mike: Because you're in Death Valley.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You're in a desert.

>> Darin: Because where are you going to go? Somewhere else.

>> Mike: Yeah. You're not going anywhere else. Water was, like $5 a bottle. What are you going to do? Not buy it and die.

>> Darin: I'm not paying these prices. You.

>> Mike: So you're out. They had to put a pipeline out there. They had to put a tank underground, all this stuff. And pay some poor schlub to sit there and. And watch the thing. Yeah, it's going to cost a bit.

>> Darin: $9 a gallon.

>> Mike: Look at a map. Go look at the Giggle Maps. Some people call it Google Maps. Look at California. Do the little thing where you do the terrain, where you can see the terrain. Zoom out to where you see the whole state in your monitor. You know what you see? You see a lot of brown. You know why? It's a desert. Most of it is a desert. And the part that's not a desert has huge trees with bears that will murder you. Yeah, okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: People complain about the California. How much things cost. It's because you have to pay people that are willing to go out in the desert and willing to fight bears.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: But I digress.

>> Darin: Yeah.

The first negative comment we got was hilarious. The next one was when I started to laugh

back to West Virginia.

>> Mike: Back to West Virginia. And this. This comment, by the way, this comment has three sentences, and they get progressively better. So the first one was they probably don't have a state tax on their gas. We've already. The next one was when I started to laugh.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Giggled. I was giggling out loud. $4 and 25 cents times four equals $17. Which is true. That's. That's true. No, no, no. $4 and 25 cents times four. But did I say three times four?

>> Darin: But I went. But I stopped three times. See my. It was a joke, kids. I said $4.25. I stopped three times. That's like $50.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, I got that. It was a joke. I got that.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's funny that he didn't. And not only did he not, he said, it's this. It's actually $17.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: That led to the part that I laughed out loud. I cackled. Uh-huh, Quote, you're a miserable.

>> Darin: I am. Good times. Oh, so, yeah.

>> Mike: I love that so much.

>> Darin: What's funny is I doubt seriously that that guy is even from West Virginia. No, he's probably some guy like me who jumps on, like, the YouTube, Facebook, page or whatever.

>> Mike: And. Yeah, I love it so much. yeah, on it. I mean, I've been called names on there. I was called the. The P word by someone.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah, Yeah.

>> Mike: I think I know what it was. It was the clip that I had about the. The milk.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: How you have to put it on thing. I go, here's your blamo, here's your blank and milk. Yep, that was the response. The one response we got was a guy calling me the P word.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I will admit. If you look through our catalog of reels. And I highly recommend that everyone do this.

>> Darin: Oh, God.

>> Mike: All of them on Tick Tock one after another.

>> Darin: Just more and more entertaining the deeper you get.

>> Mike: There's a lot of evidence of me being an idiot.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And weakling. and a, idiot. Yes, an idiot.

>> Darin: I wouldn't call you a weakling.

>> Mike: Not a weakling.

>> Darin: Well.

>> Mike: Well, he thought I was. Because he called me that word.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: well, I'm assuming that's what he meant.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I'm going to leave this topic off to the side, but I am going to say I love it when people troll us like that. I get a kick out of it.

>> Darin: Oh, it's good.

>> Mike: I always thought, you know, I went back when we were just like, in the beginnings, the primordial ooze of this. I was like, man, the first negative comment we got is gonna crush me. it's. It's been hilarious. Oh, I love the praise.

Dave Lay: Finally somebody acknowledges something we said on this podcast

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But I enjoy what's.

>> Darin: What's cool is finally somebody acknowledged that they heard something that we said.

>> Mike: That's what it is.

>> Darin: We've all been doing this damn podcast for three years and two months.

>> Mike: This miserable son of. Yeah. Not only came across that reel, he watched it to the end. He then did math, by God.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: And you know what some of you are saying $4.25 times four. You can do that in your head. He, did not. He. He opened the calculator on his phone. On his phone, making sure that he didn't close TikTok and lose the comment. He did the math and he copied and pasted because he was afraid he would make a mistake when he typed it in. That's what he. Oh, and then you're a Miserable man. Not you're not. You're a dumbass. Some thought when you are a miserable man.

>> Darin: Yep, yep. That's like my. I'm 53, so that's my first old codger. You miserable old. Yeah, I love it. and thank you for your comment. Yes, sir.

>> Dave: Beautiful landscapes, magnificent rivers and streams, exotic and awe inspiring skies that fill your heart with joy. It's these images that trick your eyes into believing that you're traveling inside an actual Bob Ross painting. Hi, I'm Dave Lay and I'm talking about. That's right, West Virginia. The only thing more amazing than the scenery is the fine folks that call West Virginia their home.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Dave: So take those vacation plans you have scheduled and throw them out the damn window. Schedule your next trip right now to West Virginia. Bask in the glow of luxury and charming Southern hospitality. Learn more@ah, wvtourism.com.

There is a scene in the Star Wars Holiday special where Art Carney does VR

>> Darin: I know this episode drops past the holidays, but sometime next year.

>> Mike: I don't know when the hell.

>> Darin: I have been fascinated with the Star Wars Holiday Special. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah, you've wanted to talk about it last week.

>> Darin: I keep watching it a few minutes at a time. It's. It's all you can take? Yeah, it's like five minutes here, ten minutes there. there is a scene in the Star Wars Holiday special where Art Carney, okay. Oscar winning actor Art Carney, I believe he won an Academy Award.

>> Mike: You see the Grandpa Chewbacca.

>> Darin: No, no, no, no. The Grandpa Chewbacca, the Grandpa Wookie is Itchy. And Chewbacca's son is Lumpy. Chewbacca's wife is Mala. And the first 10 minutes of the specials. Wow.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Lumpy is like this little kid, right? He's like annoying his grandfather and then he pisses off his mom. She's wearing an apron, okay. She's cooking.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: And she keeps, you know. Hey, hey. It is mind blowing how bad it is. Okay. Finally, I don't know how far into it. Art Carney, who is a trader. T R A D E R. Oh, he trades things.

>> Mike: It's got interesting.

>> Darin: Right, Right. he shows up at their house to bring them some gifts to check in on them because it's Life Day, right? It's not Christmas.

>> Mike: It's not Christmas.

>> Darin: Life Day. November. I think it's November 17th that the Star wars community celebrate Life Day. So this is the part that really super uper duper schmooper creeped me out. He gives Mala a Christmas present. He gives Lumpy a Christmas present. And then he walks over to Itchy, which is Chewbacca's dad, and he goes, yeah, I know what you want. And he pats him on the shoulder, and he puts this helmet, like a VR thing. Okay? This is VR. Virtual reality helmet. Long before we had virtual reality. Okay. And he turns it on, and Itchy leans back a little bit and starts watching this trippy light show. Everything starts, okay, you know, and it's weird. And it's like, dude, you know, pass me some of that. I don't know what you're smoking. Right? Then this woman, kind of scantily clad, she has shoulders exposed, and she goes, I like you, and I know you like me. He says, okay. And. And then she starts dancing around, and it's all trippy and. And all freaky, and I'm like, what.

>> Mike: The hell did you imagine parents, back when this was originally, like, what. What's happening here?

>> Darin: What's going. God, yeah. And it's just trippy as hell.

>> Mike: Be like me and Oppenheimer when the boob came out. Like, oh, watch out.

>> Darin: wow.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: It's just. It's just really, really, really, really weird. And then. So we think. And spoiler alert, we think Chewbacca and Han Solo make it home because Han Solo is trying to get Chewbacca home for Life Day. I'm going to. That's the spirit. You'll be celebrating Life Day before you know it. That's the premise.

The Star Wars holiday special was released today on Blu Ray

Okay.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: So Princess Leia's in it.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: actually.

>> Mike: Or is it some lady?

>> Darin: Okay. Yeah, Princess Leia's in it. Carrie Fisher in the credits. Carrie Fisher is Princess Leia. Anthony Daniels says C3PO. R2D2 as R2D2. R2D2.

>> Mike: Because. What's Anthony.

>> Darin: R2D2.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I don't know if he's ever had another credit. It.

>> Mike: Yeah, there was. There was backstage video, and, the one of the other actors complained about him just being an ass. And there's Backstage. Or off. Off the. Whatever video.

>> Darin: Kenny Baker did not get along.

>> Mike: Yeah. But there's. There's, like, video of him just being a jerk.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I'm sitting there thinking, dude, what do you. What do you got to fall back on? You know? Like, what do you. What? You are thin enough to be put in that. In that thing. Yeah. And you speak. That's. That's what you do.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But I need to check because I don't know if he's had any other credits besides C3.

>> Mike: Let's just go ahead and say.

>> Darin: Okay. That's the only thing.

>> Mike: Nobody, Nobody listens to this for facts. Anthony Daniels has never done a different another thing in his life. No, never.

>> Darin: He is a miserable man. Yeah. He owes me 17.

>> Mike: And yes, I was going to say incense, but it's. There's no sense.

>> Darin: But I got past the trippy soft porn part of the, Star wars holiday special, and then I get to this cartoon that features Boba Fett for the first time. Oh, okay. And the cartoon is really, really weird and the characters are all bendy.

>> Mike: That's. I don't like that.

>> Darin: Yeah, I. I don't like it either, but I can't stop watching it. And I have found out that they have made a documentary, A Disturbance in the Force.

>> Mike: Okay, today, about the Christmas.

>> Darin: Today is December 5th. It was released today on Blu Ray. Okay. You can watch it somewhere.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I'm going to buy it. It's on my Christmas list. Yeah. I'm going to own it. And I can't wait to watch it. Gilbert Gottfried, Weird Al, Seth Green, a bunch of, yeah. People talking about the reason they made the documentary is to explain why they made it. And I'm fascinated with it.

>> Mike: To sell stuff, right? To sell Star Wars. Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. Yeah.

>> Dave: you are listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast.

Charlie is wanting to watch war movies that are PG13

>> Mike: Speaking of watching things.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: we talked a little bit last week. Charlie is wanting to watch war movies.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And Andrew and I and Bess are doing our best to explain to him. Buddy A. There's not that many.

>> Darin: How old is he? 10.

>> Mike: He's 10.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: There's not that many war movies that are appropriate for a 10 year old.

>> Darin: There aren't.

>> Mike: There aren't any.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: But he made the argument. I've seen all the Avengers movies and they're all PG13. There have to be war movies that are PG13. So we counteracted with yes, but buddy, I'm not going to show you a movie that glorifies war. I'm just, I'm not going to like. Yeah, we're just getting them, like Starship Troopers or. I mean, that's kind of. I mean, it's. It's tongue in cheek. But you're not going to get that when you're 10 years old. Part of the gist of just about any war movie is how war is hell and war is disturbing and you shouldn't do war.

>> Darin: Yeah. All right.

>> Mike: I mean, they can make it look cool, but at the end of the day, it's not a good thing. Even the Rambo movies by Rambo4. He's like, Dude, I'm, get. Okay. Really?

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Don't go down that river if you don't have a gun. You're not changing anything.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Sylvester Stallone. I'm sorry, Rambo says that, right? Yeah, yeah. And then in the fifth one, there's, there's a scene where he's like, oh my gosh, really? I had to, I had to go kill like 50,000 people again. Yeah, he's tired of it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So we're looking for something. So I look at the PG13. Guess what's PG13? Dunkirk. Okay, now you and I went to go see Dunkirk.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: It was. Dunkirk is a 2 hour and 10 minute heart attack.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: It starts out, you're like, oh, this guy is walking down. And I can say this because we just saw it literally a couple days ago walking down the street. And then a gunshot fires out from that point forward. It's like when you go over on a roller coaster. Breakneck all the way down.

>> Darin: Yeah. Well, it's three stories.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: One that takes place in a week, one that takes place in an hour.

>> Mike: A day.

>> Darin: Ah, A day. And one that takes place in an hour.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Right. And they all intersect. Yeah. At one point. And it's also Christopher Nolan.

>> Mike: Well, there's a couple points and again, I just, literally just saw it. But there's parts where they see each other in different, you know, and you're like, oh, so this is happening at that point.

>> Darin: Well, my point is I don't know that a 10 year old is going to be able to follow that.

>> Mike: He got that. He's watched, he's seen Tenet a few times. He likes Tenet.

>> Darin: I couldn't get through Tenant.

>> Mike: I can't.

>> Darin: And I love Christopher Nolan.

>> Mike: I have to watch it with him so he can explain it to me.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: But he, he, I was like, I don't want to watch, you know, so he, we watched that. He thought it was good. Andrew really, really liked it. Andrew's like that. And he's a huge Christopher Nolan fans. He was like, that was really, really good. And the cool thing about Andrew is that, his opinion on movies simmers for a bit and then he comes back and he gives you a revised opinion. So his immediate thing will be like, that's pretty good. And then we'll go upstairs and I'll get a water or whatever. And then like a few minutes later he'll walk by, be like, that was a really good Movie. And then the next day, I'm taking him to work. Dunkirk was awesome.

Every time it changed characters, Charlie got annoyed

You know, he just, like, keeps building. so Charlie wanted to watch another one. I'm like, dude, I mean, come on. You watched Dunkirk with Charlie?

>> Darin: And what did he think?

>> Mike: He liked it.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: He thought he. He got annoyed because I made the mistake. I thought this would help matters. To tell them that one story is over a week, one story is over a day, and one story is over an hour.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And that ended up being a mistake. I should have just pushed play and kept my mouth shut, because every time it changed characters.

>> Darin: Hey, what happened?

>> Mike: Is this the week Hours is the day. And, sure.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: The first few times of that. Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But after, it's like the fifth time, the guy with the thing and it's like, that's the guy with the thing on the day story. It's like, dude, this is the day story.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Okay, but where's the other guy? There's no other guy. This is the guy with the day story. Where's it? And then it switches to the hour. So there he is. You said he wasn't it. It's switched story. They're in the plane now. That's the hour story, right? Yeah, but I saw that. That guy's on the boat. That guy's not on the boat. Yeah. And then Andrew kicks in. Yeah. That's the guy on the butt. Like, that's not. That's.

>> Darin: Oh, my God.

>> Mike: That's. Pause the movie. The guy on the boat is Cillian Murphy. That's the guy you pick up. Neither one of these guys is Cillian Murphy. How do you know that? I know this. I just know it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: That is, Tom Hardy. Bane.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: From. Oh, that's Bay. Yes. Because Christopher Nolan uses all the same actors. That's why he uses Cillian Murphy, too. He's Sandman. Yep. From the.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: He's same man from the baby. Yes, yes, yes. And the other guy has great hair.

>> Darin: And then the dude from Bridge of Spies who drove the boat was, What's his face?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Academy Award winner.

>> Mike: Yeah. And then the guy that's standing on the pier in the Weak story. The Commander is in the Commander in, like, every war movie from World War II. Because we watched Valkyrie last night's, And he's. That he's in there. I was like, you've seen him? Yeah, a bunch. And finally, the guy in Lord of the Rings in the Two Towers, that. The king that's like. And then gets turned into like, the spell gets taken away from.

>> Darin: He was also in Titanic.

>> Mike: And. Yes, he was. He was the captain on Titanic. Yeah, he was also in Valkyrie.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: He popped up. I'm like, you know that. That guy. Ah, yeah, I digressed.

Charlie loved Dunkirk. He loved it. I want to watch another one. So we watched Dunkirk

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So we watched Dunkirk. He loved it.

>> Darin: Okay, good.

>> Mike: I want to watch another one.

>> Darin: Yeah, okay.

>> Mike: U571. Well, let's watch a trailer as soon. The trailer doesn't even start. The little Paramount Mountain, and it's kind of grainy. Oh, this is an old movie. I don't want it. Okay. It's from the 90s. Yeah, but that's Matthew McConaughey. He's still alive and he's still making awesome movies.

>> Darin: Do we hold it? Charlie said, oh, this is an old movie.

>> Mike: I'm like, buddy. And then we watched a few. We watched a few trailers of newer movies, but they're set in World War II. And he's like, this is old. Like, Buddy, World War II happened in the 40s. 30s and 40s, yeah. Everything that is purporting to be a World War II movie is going to look like it was done in the 30s and 40s. Yeah, but the graphics are bad. Don't say graphics to me. This is cgi. Yeah, we got that.

>> Darin: Oh, boy. Yeah, the graphics, okay. The graphics, okay. They're still computer generated.

>> Mike: And I'm digressing too much. Let me get to the point. The point is we. I was like, Valkyrie is PG13. What's that about? That's about the plot to kill Hitler. And it's got Tom Cruise. Oh, that sounds good. Yes. Yes, it does. So we start watching it and it has an action scene in the beginning, and then it's a lot of talking about how are we going to kill Hitler. You've seen Valkyrie. No, it's really.

>> Darin: I have not. but isn't it the one that they made the M meme out of, where they kept translating what Hitler said into.

>> Mike: Oh, no, no, no, that's a different movie.

>> Darin: Oh, okay. Okay.

>> Mike: That's a different movie.

This one has probably one of the coolest transitions of language

This one has probably one of the meme. I remember the reading or review of this one. This one has probably one of the coolest transitions of language.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Because it starts out and it's all subtitled in German. And it's Tom Cruise speaking German. And you're sitting. I can imagine people in the theater when you saw it in the theater, like, oh, my God, I'm gonna have to read this movie. he's writing a letter. And as he's. As Tom Cruise is Talking in German. You hear English. Tom Cruise talk over him until the German fades away and it's English now. All the Germans are speaking English, but, you know, they're really speaking German. But we're not gonna make you read this movie. We want your, we want your eyes up here.

>> Darin: Because that's why I couldn't stand in Glorious Bastion.

>> Mike: Okay. Yeah, there was a lot of. Yeah, there's a lot of reading. Point is, we didn't get very far in, Valkyrie. Valkyrie, because it has a lot of talking. And I'm like, dude, I mean, I want to get to the action. I was like, buddy, there's not, there's not going to be a war movie that I'm going to show you.

>> Darin: You've got to, you've got to see what, what leads up to the action.

>> Mike: But it's, it's, You know, what I want to say is these are made for older people who don't need to see the action all the time.

>> Darin: Yeah, right.

>> Mike: You want to see something that's made for a younger audience, primarily you. You want to go back to the Marvel things.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You know, maybe there's a Winter Soldier series, another season that's going to come out. That's a lot of fighting with guns.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And stuff. M M. I don't know. Did that go anywhere? Didn't go anywhere. The point. Yeah.

>> Darin: M. No, it reminds me because Jacob came downstairs last night and we were getting ready to try to find and watch something and we're searching through our TV and he goes, oh, oh, can I watch Game of Thrones? Like, yeah, yeah, you're like, you're 19. Yeah, you can watch Game of Thrones.

>> Mike: Oh, there was Jacob.

>> Darin: Jacob.

>> Mike: Okay, I was thinking. You said Jacob, but I thinking Cameron.

>> Darin: I was like, okay, yeah, okay, he's 19. Oh, game of Thrones. Boy, we forgot how rapey and new. Just like five minutes into it, like full.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah, oh yeah, they have, they have full blown. Just stuff going on in the background.

>> Darin: Orgy and.

>> Mike: Yeah, I remember. I'm sorry, let me, let me.

>> Darin: And Lannister with nine naked ladies all.

>> Mike: On top of them, all over the.

>> Darin: Place, going to town.

>> Mike: And I, it cracked me up because I read, I read the first book.

>> Mike: And in the first season there's multiple scenes where two characters are talking and there's two other ones just banging away in the background. For no reason. No, for no reason. And they're a little bit blurred and you're like, okay, at least it's blurred. And then one of them walks up, says, hello, you gotta. You got a rubber? Yeah, well, they don't.

>> Darin: They need to wear rubbers then, Mike.

>> Mike: You know what I'm saying?

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: And I. I told Bess is like, I can show you. In the book, there's not two people banging in the background in this scene.

>> Darin: It's not supposed to be there, but.

>> Mike: It'S an awesome series.

>> Darin: Well, yeah, but we were watching it with Jacob, and we five times was like, oh, boy. Jacob. We didn't real. We forgot.

>> Mike: Yeah, I can't do a boob.

>> Darin: I was like, I can't watch this with you, buddy. And I told him, I said, there's a rule here. You're not allowed to ask any questions because there are characters in season one who don't pop up again till season four. And sometimes there's this character in season three who's the brother of the woman who was raped, pillaged, burned to death in season two.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And you're like, I don't know.

>> Mike: The only question you're allowed to ask in Game of Thrones is in the last scene of the last season. You're allowed to look at everybody in the room, say, wait, what? He's king?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: What the hell was that? And the answer is spoiler.

Jacob says he feels manipulated in Game of Thrones, and he stopped watching

Yeah, I guess it's a he.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Well, if it was a she. Been a queen, but, yeah. So, yeah, I don't think we're going to watch any more of Game of Thrones with Jacob. It was very uncomfortable.

>> Mike: I want to watch, What's the thing? The new one. The.

>> Darin: The, oh, the, daughter something. King of Dragons.

>> Mike: Land of Dragons.

>> Darin: Something. Yeah.

>> Mike: Of dragons.

>> Darin: I started watching that, and it was pretty good. And then. Then I just. I was like, I can't do it anymore. There's some characters that were so great. Great. Across your skin. Annoying. Yeah, that. I was just like, nip. And I stopped watching.

>> Mike: I tell you what.

>> Darin: The House of the Dragon.

>> Mike: House of the Dragon. Boy, I'm a sucker for a good villain. And, that dude, George R.R. martin, can write some great. Like Joffrey. You wanna. You wanna, like, reach through the screen and strangle him.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: That's one thing, but the other thing is that he will. Like, I hated Jaime Lannister in the beginning of the series.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And then by the end of it, he's like, the hero. He's like, yeah, this guy's awesome.

>> Darin: How. Yeah.

>> Mike: I feel manipulated. Like somewhere, someone cast a spell on me. Something happened, some narrative, trick was used. And I've been manipulated.

>> Darin: Yeah.

Dave Lay Heating and Cooling specializes in home heating and cooling

>> Dave: This portion of our show is brought to you by Dave Lay Heating and Cooling. Hi, I'm Dave Lay, and I've been the announcer for irritable dad syndrome for a couple of years now. And let's face it, the podcast money ain't rolling in like we had hoped. So I opened up my own heating and cooling company to make ends meet. Now you might ask, Dave, what do you know about heating and cooling? Well, here's the thing. I know when a room is too hot and when a room is too cold and somebody has to do something about it. Schedule an appointment today, and I'll give you a free estimate plus a new filter. Limited time only. Offer may vary. See website for details. Dave Lay Heating and cooling for people who want their home to feel just right.

Jacob put an elf on the shelf in Cameron's shower when he was little

Now, back to the show.

>> Darin: Somebody was posting on their Facebook page, story about the elf on the shelf.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And they're running out of things to do with their elf on the shelf. We can't figure out where to put it. And something else. And. And it reminded me this. My oldest son is the reason why my youngest son needs trauma therapy. Because Cameron, when he was little. I can't remember how old he was little, like 5. 6.

>> Mike: 6.

>> Darin: Was taking a shower. Jacob went into the bathroom and put the elf on the shelf in the shower. Okay. On the sink. Okay. So Cameron gets out of the shower. Looks, there's the elf at the shelf staring at him. Yeah. He screamed so loud. You probably heard him here at this house. Our friends in West Virginia probably heard Cameron screaming.

>> Mike: That's borderline paranormal activity.

>> Darin: Yes. Yeah, he screamed. And then I heard screaming, and I was like, what the hell's going on? And then Libby had to go calm, him down.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then we found out what Jacob did, and. Oh, God, we. He was in such trouble. But for weeks, for months after that, Cameron would not take a shower upstairs. Okay. He had to take a shower in our bathroom, and he would not take a shower unless someone was watching the, bathroom on guard. Okay. to make sure that the elf on the shelf didn't get out of the bathroom.

>> Mike: Those things are creepy as hell.

>> Darin: Yeah. Just.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Like, I want this elf on the shelf to die a slow, slow, painful death.

>> Mike: Speaking of dying a slow and painful death.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Marbles.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: And. Or booba.

One of our dogs ate one of Charlie's Christmas ornaments

So we. Have you noticed when you came in, our Christmas tree is up?

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: like morons, we put ornaments down near the bottom of the tree.

>> Darin: Right. And you have dogs.

>> Mike: You can't do dogs are idits. And they. One of them ate one of Charlie's ornaments. And by Charlie's ornaments, I mean an ornament that is for Charlie and has his name and the day.

>> Darin: Was it one that he made?

>> Mike: no. Okay. Thankfully, it was not one that he made. It was made for him.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And then, this one happened maybe 10 minutes before you came up the door. The driveway into our house.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: there was a loud. Oh, my God. The kind of that. That means either someone's found a infant that we didn't know was in the.

>> Darin: House, Marbles was humping the Christmas tree.

>> Mike: Something. Yeah, no. Marbles ate our barizona ornament. Ornament that we got from bearizona at the. We're never going to be Arizona again.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's literally. It's in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, it's. You don't need go there if you're doing a thing like we did. And that really pissed us. That's where this. That's actually. This came from Arizona.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: For our.

>> Darin: For our viewers, this is an audio podcast.

>> Mike: Yeah, Audio podcast, but, yeah, you can. You guys can see that. Anyway, so they're on our. Let me tell you. Something happened last night.

>> Darin: I used to have a refrigerator magnet was a turtle that I got from Hawaii. Okay. It's like a, is made out of seashells, but it was a magnet and it looked like a turtle. I had it on a refrigerator, and Conrad ate that. And I was like, when am I gonna go back to Hawaii? Conrad? Yeah, you dumbass.

>> Mike: He didn't answer you.

>> Darin: No, he didn't. No, no. He's just.

Casey's lemon pies are dead to me

>> Dave: Time now for the Casey's story of the week.

>> Darin: Speaking of dead, Casey's is dead to me.

>> Mike: What do Casey's.

>> Darin: The last four times. Four times I've went in there, they don't sell lemon pies anymore. the main reason why I went into Casey's. The only reason why I went into Casey's was to get lemon pies and occasionally maybe a story for this podcast. Yeah, they've stopped selling the lemon pies. Yeah, they're dead to me. They cases. You are no longer a sponsor of this podcast.

>> Dave: This has been the Casey's story of the week.

>> Mike: Kroger's can suck it, too.

>> Darin: What did they do this time?

>> Mike: I'm just done. I'm over them.

>> Darin: Yeah. Okay. Good story. I walked into the house yesterday.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And Jacob looks at me, says, dad, did you know that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: And I said. I said, I'm sorry, what? He was mitochondria.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I said, mitochondria. He goes, yeah, mitochondria. It's the powerhouse of the cell. And I'm like, well, yeah, because I told him, I said, mitochondria sounds like a monster that would be in one of those Godzilla movies.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It was mitochondria.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: When all of a sudden a huge creature, this giant crustacean from the Paleolithic era comes out of the water. We was so scared.

>> Mike: Lord.

>> Darin: I remember I jumped up in the boat and I said, thomas, what on earth is that creature? It stood above us looking down with these big red eyes. Oh, it was so scary. And I yelled, I said, what do you want from us, monster? And the monster bent down and said, I need about 350. He goes, no, no, it's that. And Cameron walks in and I said, he's like, what are you guys talking about? I said, mitochondria. Oh, the powerhouse of the cell. Like, yeah. The powerhouse of the. Of the. Why does everybody know?

>> Mike: For those of you in West Virginia, mitochondria is the coal fired plant of the cell. The. The tutors enters the cell. The mitochondria cranks up the coal plant.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And digests the tutors so that the cell can yodel.

>> Darin: Cameron just looked at me like, duh, of course. It's the powerhouse of the cell.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I don't even know what it means.

>> Mike: Yeah. But yeah, the mitochondria are weird. Ladies and gentlemen, if any of you are in school or going to take a test or even going to try to quote this at a party, don't. Because we're idiots. Just. We're idiots. But mitochondria, I believe, is like a symbiotic little thing. Like it's just there.

>> Darin: Sure.

>> Mike: And it does stuff.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And it's. It's like kind of does its own thing. And there was a theory that I read, it could have been God knows where I got it. That the mitochondria may someday be like, yeah, I'm tired of that.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I'm tired of being the coal fire plant for this cell. I'm going to be my own cell.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then at that point we just go. I don't think that's going to happen.

>> Darin: I don't think so either.

>> Mike: Yeah. Mainly because I don't trust my own knowledge.

A few weeks ago, Libby and I went to a party

>> Darin: Right. You mentioned party.

>> Mike: I did, did I?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: A few weeks ago, Libby and I went to a party.

>> Mike: Really?

>> Darin: We were invited To a party.

>> Mike: How was it?

>> Darin: Yeah, it was great.

>> Mike: Did you get. Did you get schnackered?

>> Darin: I did not get schnackered. I did. I had a couple of beers, Maybe drove me home.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Mike: Put a lampshade on your head.

>> Darin: I did not. Okay. Did not. I went downstairs. They said, downstairs is where a lot of the drinks are. And there's some vinyl down there. And they're listening to vinyl. And there's, a pool table.

>> Mike: A bunch of guys with beanies down there.

>> Darin: Yes. Beret. And they're all. Yeah, they're all their fingers.

>> Mike: Black and white striped shirts. Like a mime.

>> Darin: Like a poetry slam. Yeah. So I went down and. And got, a beer, and I'm looking through the vinyls, and I find that they had Rolling Stones tattoo you.

>> Mike: I'm like, okay, that's the one you want. That's the one you want. And start me up.

>> Darin: And. And they said, yeah, you can. You know. And they're like, you're. You're next. You can listen to what you want. So I'm like, I choose tattoo you. Put it on. This guy comes over. Hey, hey, hey. Are you the one who picked the Rolling Stones? I said, yeah. He goes, I saw them in 1989 on the steel Wheels tour.

>> Dave: Okay.

>> Darin: I said, I. I did, too.

>> Mike: Wow.

>> Darin: Yeah. And he's just talking, talking, talking, talking about the Rolling Stones and how great this is and something else and.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And a nice guy. I don't know his name. Okay. And he's just a really cool guy, and we're having a good time. He goes upstairs, and I'm getting some more snacks. Something that you people need to know about me is if you have a Rubik's Cube that's unsolved in your house, I will solve it. Yeah. And I'm down there, and I. They had one in their entertainment center. Okay. And I put it back together, and then. And so if they're wondering who did that, it was me. Yeah. I go upstairs and I'm talking to some more people, and I'm, Libby and I are socializing.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And this guy who was talking to me about the Rolling Stones is in the living room, and he's gotten a bunch of his buddies together, and he's decided that they're going to open a sweat lodge at Al's lake house. Okay.

>> Mike: Sweat lodge. A sweat lodge is where people are trafficked.

>> Darin: No, no, no. It's just we're. We're a bunch of kind of like a sauna where a Bunch of guys go hang out and just sweat out all their stress, all, their, all their toxins. yeah. And he's like, ow. There's a guy at the party named. Yeah. Al. Ah, we're gonna build a sweat lodge up at your lake house. Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I was like, okay. and I don't think Al's ever taken any improv classes because he doesn't know what to do with this.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Also, Al doesn't have a lake house. He could have shut the whole thing down.

No sweat lodge is, uh, again, Mike, pay attention

>> Mike: Right. So there's is a sweat lodge. Like in the Flintstones when they wore those hats with the horns. The grand poobah.

>> Darin: No, that's kind of like joining the Moose Lodge.

>> Mike: That's not. What a slip. Okay.

>> Darin: No sweat lodge is, again, Mike, pay attention.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: It's kind of like a big song.

>> Mike: Go into a room with a bunch of men. Yeah. And someone puts steam in there.

>> Darin: And you sweat out your stress and your toxins and the. All the males, I think, bond. I think women can go to a sweat lodge too.

>> Mike: In Europe. They can.

>> Darin: Yeah. Okay. So anyway, this guy had decided. It's like, Tim, you're coming. Dave, you're coming. Kenny, we're all going to Al's. And I'm standing there like, am I allowed? Can I. Can I come to the sweat lodge? He goes, yeah, sure. Hell, yeah. And he told me all the rules. Yeah, I have to bring, my own pole. I don't know what you do with the pole. And I said, what do I do with the pole? And he goes, I don't know. Okay. And you have to bring a 15 foot buckskin. Square foot buckskin.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay. Yeah, Yeah. I don't know if I mentioned it or not. We were this guy faced.

>> Mike: Sounds like the beginning of saw8.

>> Darin: This guy was hammered.

>> Mike: Okay. Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Okay. Where do you find a 15 foot buckskin?

>> Darin: I don't know.

>> Mike: 15 square foot square?

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: You just find those on the side of the road all over the.

>> Darin: And I said, what do I need that for? Is that what I'm wearing? You'll figure it out when you got. Anyway, Al, we're gonna have this up at your lake house. That was like. Okay. So. Yeah. Wow. And I was like, we should go to more parties.

>> Mike: No,

>> Darin: It was a fun time. I don't think we're gonna do, any better.

>> Mike: I don't. I think we. I think, yeah. If we want to keep doing this, we need to stop.

We have gotten a ridiculous amount of downloads this year, Mike says

>> Darin: So let's, let's recap Okay. I apologize to our friends in West Virginia.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Mike's dogs ate all their Christmas ornaments, and I'm invited to a sweat lodge at Al Steakhouse.

>> Mike: Yeah, I think that's a good one. That's a good one. Good one. To kick the year off.

>> Darin: Not Al Steady Steakhouse. Lake house.

>> Mike: Oh, by the way, happy New Year, everybody.

>> Darin: Yeah. This is the first thing after episode of the new year. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: Sheers off to a hell of a start.

>> Darin: It is. It is. It's a real banger. We want you to go to irritable dad syndrome dot com. You know what, Mike?

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: We have gotten a ridiculous. A stupid amount of downloads.

>> Mike: I don't know. We. We've entered a new age. We've entered, like, a tier. We got a message that we're on a thing.

>> Darin: Yeah. guys, we are on a thing.

>> Mike: Yeah. Just like us. share us. Follow, us. Share us with your friends. That. That kind of stuff apparently matters. We got a notification from the. Yeah, the place that said you've gone up a thing.

>> Darin: Yeah, I don't.

>> Mike: I don't know how to say what. I don't know what it is. We've gone up a thing. But it's clear we've gone up a thing.

>> Darin: No, we have gotten just a stupid, ridiculous amount of downloads. We're not used to getting this many. And I'm not complaining. I'm thanking you, all of our new listeners, all of our, steady, tried and true listeners who have been with us since the beginning, thank you for downloading this podcast.

>> Mike: All of our.

>> Darin: We sincerely appreciate it, and everybody who thinks I'm a miserable man, thank you.

>> Mike: For calling Darren a miserable man.

>> Darin: Thank you. Yeah.

>> Mike: That is the best Christmas present anyone could have given me.

>> Darin: You were so happy that it was at me.

>> Mike: Well, because I had already been called the P word. The P word. Now you're a miserable man.

>> Darin: Miserable man.

>> Mike: That's what we should be. Hey, it's a miserable man in the.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Oh, no.

>> Darin: What?

>> Mike: I'm coming at you live.

>> Darin: So, yeah, go to herbaldancecenter.com you can download every episode we have, and you can go to Patreon, and if you want to donate money, this.

>> Mike: There's cool stuff up there.

>> Darin: Okay, listen now, this is, like, the best time ever to become a patron of our podcast because we have literally hours of footage, bonus audio, that normal list and video. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: Hours. Yeah.

>> Darin: Hours of bonus clips.

>> Mike: A lot of stuff that most people.

>> Darin: Don'T get to see or hear. Yeah. Yeah. So.

Irritable dad syndrome is a Mike odle Darren Cox production

All right. guys, take care. We hope to see you next week on irritable dad syndrome.

>> Dave: Irritable dad syndrome is a Mike odle Darren Cox production.

>> Mike: If any of you are following us on Facebook and you're here to complain, take it down the street. Yeah, I'm all about trying new things, Darren. Okay.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: You know what? I actually.

>> Darin: Do you want to slam some of the things on the table while you're at it?

>> Mike: Share. Oh.

>> Darin: Hey, you want to sing it with me? Almost heaven? West Virginia? Blue Ridge Mountain? Shenandoah River? In German? Just leaving? Ist altogether? Take me home, country road? To the place I belong? West Virginia? Mountain Mama? Take me home, country road? Pick it in there.

>> Mike: I.

>> Darin: M. You have to stop.