IDS #261 - Hannah The Robot Roofer

Mike and Darren give an update on your digestive and your excretory system

>> Mike: It's like the first time you put chicken nuggets in the microwave. You follow the directions exactly.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And then. But by the time you're in your 50s.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: These really only take about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Yeah.

>> Darin: You do it all willy nilly.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And you're good to go. I think we can agree that all wine tastes the same. And if you spend more than $5 on wine, you are very stupid.

>> Dave: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, home of the million dollar guarantee. Now here are your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I am Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. Since night's comedy podcast, this is episode 261.

>> Mike: Brah, brah, we have got a show for you.

>> Darin: Oh, Shut up. Are you kidding me?

>> Mike: In this past week, old Mikey had a couple of days off. And what did he did with them? Days off?

>> Darin: What did he do?

>> Mike: He went to Cleveland. Cleveland, land of the Cleaves.

>> Darin: America's heart land.

>> Mike: To see the final US show of AC DC Yeah. Unless they tour again. and then later in the week, he went to go see Jonathan Stewart at the Taft Theater. So I'll talk about those.

>> Darin: Okay. Fantastic items. M. And I'm gonna talk about a concert that I went to. My son is in a band called Dream Flood.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: He had his first and. And I'm not making fun of the band, but I'm using quote marks. He had his first quote quote gig.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: All right.

>> Darin: It was a lot of fun.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: How you doing?

>> Mike: I'm all right. I, Yeah, we have one of those dinners tonight where, you know, when you run out of the. The good dinners.

>> Mike: And like, all that's left is I got Mac and cheese and fish sticks. Oh, and peas and corn.

>> Darin: Yeah. You know what? You know, sometimes that's just as good as it can possibly be.

>> Mike: It's good, but it's good. It's got me a little fastidious. Little.

>> Darin: Little.

>> Mike: And penultimately fastidious in my epiglocal region.

>> Darin: You're feeling kind of peckish still.

>> Mike: I have started a regimen of fiber. I think we talked about that before.

>> Darin: We did. And probably doing the fiber.

>> Mike: I've been on the fiber for a good two weeks now. And I've been on the probiotics for about three weeks. I am replete with good bacteria within my gut region. Well, that's awesome, because I saw a cartoon.

>> Darin: I could not possibly be happier.

>> Mike: Describe the need for good gut bacteria. And it very clearly showed smiling, happy bacteria grabbing. it Looked like Juuls. I'm assuming it's meant to represent nutrients and passing them through the colon region and on up into the rest of your body and then taking the bad things, and sending that down the other direction. And then every once in a while, a bad bacteria would come in and they would all look at it, the good bacteria, and they would gang up on it, beat the ever loving piss out of it. Yeah. And then they've gone about their day. So that's been happening in my system.

>> Darin: So this is more like an update on your digestive and your excretory system, Correct.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. And I would not have bought this stuff, but it very clearly showed and stated that if you don't buy this and ingest it, you'll die. You'll die. You m. Won't get those nutrients.

>> Darin: You don't want to die. Not yet, no.

>> Mike: I mean, at some points. At some point I'll be.

>> Darin: I think when we do episode 1000, I'll be like, hi, I'm Darren. You're gonna be like, kill me. Do you think we'll be doing episode 1000?

>> Mike: I'm looking forward to episode 1000. We will.

>> Darin: I have a feeling that we will.


Mike and I will do an episode 1000 15 years from now

Let's see here, right, today is June 3rd, so I'm calling it right now. Mike and I will do an episode 1000, veritable dad, 15 years from now and ask yourself, will you be with us? Will you?

>> Mike: I'll be 65. That'll be my retirement episode.

>> Darin: I'll be 70.

>> Mike: It's going to be a hum. Dinger.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: That is going to be the. I'm going to make you laugh so hard your teeth are going to fly out across the room. I'll myself, because I'll be 15 years on the fiber. At that point, I'll be flowing like.

>> Darin: The river doing the best of, volume 40.

>> Mike: Oh, my Lord.

>> Darin: This episode.

>> Mike: You ever heard of Whompers? By then, Whompers may actually be a real company.

>> Darin: Let's hope it is. Yeah, I hope so.


Mikey and Brian are ready to go on Conan's podcast

Hey, speaking of real companies, we mentioned a couple weeks ago that we are ready to go on Conan o' Brien's podcast, Conan needs a Friend. We're ready. We're packed. I mean, we've got our stuff. We want so much to go on Irritable Dad Syndrome, the tour of Irritable Dad Syndrome. And we want our first stop. And hell, it can be our only stop.

>> Mike: It could be.

>> Darin: Yeah, but we want to go on Conor. Brian needs a friend. I think you and I would get along Great.

>> Mike: With Conan, I have a feeling that I would be starstruck and not say a damn.

>> Darin: Well, that's what I'm hoping for.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I'm hoping that you just go,

>> Mike: But if they have coffee. Yeah, I'll be there. A slurping and a burping.

>> Darin: No. No, you won't. You see, that would be the problem if we went on Conan's show. I wouldn't be nervous about meeting Conan. I've met Conan o' Brien. He doesn't remember meeting me, but I have met Conan o' Brien. But, yeah, I would be worried about what you said. And here's the thing.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Normally, I, wouldn't be worried, but whenever we go on one of these things, like, remember when we went on Chris and Janine's morning show? Yeah.

>> Mike: Christmas.

>> Darin: Their last show.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Mike's like, darren is scared to death of what I'm gonna say. And I'm like, no, I'm. No, I'm not.

>> Mike: You were clearly. But.

>> Darin: But one of the rules of improv should have been. That's true. But one of the rules of improv is when you go off on one of your things. I agree. And then I add to that. It's called yes. And so I would say, that's right, Mike, you son of a. So anyway, that's an example of.

>> Mike: Me being handled at that moment.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: Darren likes to handle me.

>> Darin: That's what she said.

>> Mike: You need to cut that one out. The.

>> Darin: But anyway, Conan o' Brien, Team Coco lets you and I. Let's get back together. You don't remember me, but when I was, at your show, I was actually on your show. Jay Thomas was the guest, and he was talking about Mr. Holland's opus. And then he said that, his only other real successful movie that anybody knew about was Chud. And then my buddy Don and I started he hawing about chud. The cameras turned around, and Conan said, you know, these look like. Or Jay Thomas said, we look like we smoked pot and con. Conan was concerned that the whole show was going to turn into a forum for these two guys.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So here's Jay Thomas saying, these guys look like stoners. And Conan is being as respectful as he can. It's like this whole show is going to turn into a forum for these guys. So, yeah, let's relive that moment, Conan, and, let Mikey and I come on. Conan needs a friend.

>> Dave: You're listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast.

>> Darin: All right, stop what you're doing. Because I'm about to ruin the image and the style that you're used to.


Norm MacDonald is my favorite guest on any show

>> Mike: So let me throw this out.

>> Darin: All right.

>> Mike: Clearly, Norm MacDonald is my favorite guest on any show.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So let's.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Put him off to the side. But other than.

>> Darin: Why did you bring him up if we're putting him off to this?

>> Mike: Because I want it. Because. Because,

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: My favorite guest beside him is Timothy Oliphant. Have you seen him on there?

>> Darin: Oh, he's great.

>> Mike: Oh, my Lord. Because I didn't know he was hilarious. I didn't either until I saw clips of him on there.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Dude could have his own show. He totally got could. Does he have his own show? He's just not a comedy show. Right.

>> Darin: He's been on several shows.

>> Mike: Justified and, the man, the Mandalorian.

>> Darin: M. He was great on Mandalorian.

>> Mike: I don't remember him. M in Mandalorian.

>> Darin: I don't think you watched all of Mandalorian. I think you gave up on it before I got.

>> Mike: I ditched out of Star Wars.

>> Darin: I gotta get caught back. You don't really need to. I. I keep saying I'm going to because I hear that Andor season two is amazeballs.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But I could not get into Andor season one, and I loved Rogue One so much.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So you would think that I would get into Andor, but I, Whatever.

>> Mike: It gets to a point, it's like. I get it. I get it. The rebellion. They shot at the Empire and. Yeah, yeah, whatever. I get it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Chill. But Stranger Things. Let me throw this out here.

>> Darin: Season 5M and the Final season.

>> Mike: Yeah. And from what I've heard, each episode is going to be movie length.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: So you need to get your stamina up. Oh, I ditched out in the middle. Or probably the first or second episode of season two. I haven't seen anything since then.

>> Darin: Are you ser.

>> Mike: Dead serious. So I've made a pact with Bess on Facebook. So now it's official.

>> Darin: I. I was there. I saw that.

>> Mike: Yeah. That I'm going to catch up. And then she hearted. I think she hearted.

>> Darin: She did.

>> Mike: And she doesn't hurt things very often.

>> Darin: That is essentially, blood.

>> Mike: Yeah. So I'm, gonna start working on that.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Maybe while I'm grinding my camos.

>> Darin: Yeah. Well, no. No.

>> Mike: What?

>> Darin: You can't watch Stranger Things and do something else. You need to give Stranger Things or unabided whole attention. You really do.

>> Mike: I think I can do it while I'm grinding.

>> Darin: I Don't. I don't think you can walk and chew gum at the same time.

>> Mike: Not well.

>> Darin: I mean, you get by. You'll get a C. I'm really trying hard tonight to get through this podcast because I am nervous.


Tomorrow I have my first comedy show in a while

>> Mike: You got to be on stage.

>> Darin: Very nervous. Tomorrow I have my first comedy show. A gig.

>> Mike: I.

>> Darin: Right. A comedy. A stand up comedy performance. And this is my first one in a while. I haven't done one in a long time.

>> Mike: how did this come about? Did somebody ask you to do it? Did you apply? Did you win a prize?

>> Darin: I won a prize.

>> Mike: Okay. Cracker Jack's box. You pulled out the little prize. That said up here on this show.

>> Darin: I made a comment on Facebook and I said that if you guess what I have for breakfast, I will perform in your backyard. That's how I ended up doing standup in your backyard. And that was a pretty good show.

>> Mike: That was good.

>> Darin: I was proud of myself for how that show turned out. No, there is a woman, her name is Nina, and she posted something on the Cincinnati comedy page that I'm a member of, and she said that she was looking for clean comics. So I reached out to her last year and I said, hey, I'm really interested in doing clean comedy because I am a huge fan of. Of Brian Regan and Nate Bargazzi and Steven Wright and Jim Gaffigan. Jim Gaffigan. I am just a huge fan of these guys, and my mind is blown because I think it's harder to do clean comedy than to go up on stage and talk about how you got your junk caught in a mousetrap. Hi. So anyway, I reached out to her and I said, hey, I would love to do one of your clean comedy shows if you have a, spot for me. And she didn't have anything at the time, and she says, but you know what? I've got more things coming up throughout the year, and I'll keep in touch with you. And I really thought that that was going to be it. I, you know, because usually when somebody says, oh, yeah, I'll keep you in mind, they don't keep you.

>> Mike: No. you didn't get you before they even hang up the phone at that point.

>> Darin: But, you know, we were, you know, I became Facebook friends with her, and I kept up with her and stuff, and we reconnected, and sure enough, I'm going to be doing a show with her and a couple other, ladies. I'm gonna be the only guy on stage, and I'm nervous and I'm not so much nervous for going on stage. I'm, I'm fine talking in front of people. Here's why I'm nervous. It's like, okay, A, I want my material to go well. I hope it does. I really do. I believe in my material. And if, if there's stuff that doesn't go well, I have written in what I call parachutes to save me if a, if a joke doesn't land like I hope it would. So I've got a backup plan.

>> Mike: You got like a choose your own adventure set up there?

>> Darin: Kinda. But no, I want it to go well. But the biggest thing is my stupid memory. And I've got my notes with me. I'm gonna have, everything my, my set list planned out. And if I freeze and I've done that before, it's like I go up on stage and I'll start talking and then I'm like, what was I supposed to say next?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I have rehearsed and rehearsed and I haven't rehearsed so much to where it sounds robotic or to where it sounds memorized. but anyway, I don't want to forget anything. So I've got my, And I've got friends. You and Bess are coming and Dave are coming.

>> Mike: And I promise not to heckle.


Has a comic ever brought an assistant with them for a stand up set

But let me ask you this.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I don't know this has ever been done. This, you. And you are a student and a lover of comedy.

>> Darin: Okay?

>> Mike: In that order.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And so you tell me if this has ever been done. Has a comic ever brought an assistant with them? Someone to help jog the memory? So you're up there, you're. You're saying the thing. Why did the chicken cross the. Cross the road? Well, not even that. Just like more professional. Just be like leaning the microphone. Road.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: Thank you. And then continue the set. Has that ever.

>> Darin: I don't think so.

>> Mike: Other than like ventriloquist. I think they do that.

>> Darin: How do you like school closed? Yeah.

>> Mike: But I, I would, I would offer. Not this show because I need time to prepare, but I would offer to be your assistant, your comedy assistant, if you needed that. Just, you know, off in the corner. I'll wear a suit.

>> Mike: I'll have to buy one. And then, you know, just. I'll wait till you're saying something and I'll just chime in every once in a while.

>> Darin: I am wearing a jacket.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. I'm wearing a nice jacket.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But no, I, I'm sure that somebody has.

>> Mike: I know. Yeah. I have a foam raptor head if you want to wear it.

>> Darin: No, I don't.

>> Mike: You're not a prop.

>> Darin: I'm good, thank you. No, I don't do any props. so, yeah, I'm excited. And I remember years and years ago, when we had the HBO and Richard Lewis had a stand up comedy special, and not only did he have his notes, but he was just like, almost uncomfortably reading his notes verbatim off the page.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I'm like, I don't remember Richard Lewis ever relying so hard on his notes.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I was, a little disappointed. But now that I'm at the age that I am and I'm forgetting people's names and, that type of thing, it's like, I kind of get it.

>> Mike: I learned about George Carlin. I did not know this. but he rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Every word.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Had to be every right inflection, the right volume.

>> Darin: This came before this and came before that. Yeah.

>> Mike: And if he got thrown off track when he tore in the hecklers.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: He was really pissed. Oh. He was really like, you're going to mess up this whole jam here.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then you got Robin Williams M. Who thrived on going crazy. Please. Yeah. That was his whole thing.

>> Darin: Yeah. I remember somebody was heckling Billy Crystal at Comic Relief.

>> Mike: Yes. Yes. Yeah.

>> Darin: At Comic Relief. And they're like, what's the name of the cow from City Slickers?

>> Mike: Norman House Norman. I'm like, okay.

>> Darin: really?

>> Mike: Yeah. Do you really want to know?

>> Darin: He's trying to raise money for the homeless.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And you're trying to be funny to Billy. It's like. And knock on Formica. I've never been heckled.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I have never had a heckler.


You've never had a heckler, so I don't know what to do

And I don't think tomorrow is going to be a show that's going to have hecklers. People ask me, what do you do if you get a heckler? And I, I don't know.

>> Mike: We'll find out tomorrow because I'm going to heckle.

>> Darin: No, no, you're not. You are not. So. But yeah, I've never had a heckler, so I don't know what to do in the event with them. I mean, I think I, I can probably work my way out of it. I've got a smart mouth. I'm sarcastic as hell. I have, grew up with an older brother, and so I, I learned how to make a comeback thanks to him.

>> Mike: Yeah. So the problem with being good with hecklers is that could turn into your whole. There are comics. That's their whole thing. Oh, they, they like, We're going to see one in July. Steve Hofstadter. Have you heard of him?

>> Darin: I. I think so.

>> Mike: You'll come on YouTube, there's like tons and tons of heckling videos and he's made them himself. Right to the point where, I mean, I've been following him for 10 years at this point, which seems really. It is a long time.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But his most popular videos are the heckling videos. And, people know that. So he's gotten so comfortable with it. He'll be in the middle of somebody heckling, oh, yeah, this is going to be a video. Make sure you get this.

>> Darin: But no, every time I would go and do stand up in Daytona at Wiley's, and I loved doing standup at Wiley's and it's not a club anymore. They closed. And every time I only did shows there, I think I did four shows at Wiley's. And every time the crowd was good, they enjoyed me. I felt like I did well. And. But their policy is you will not heckle. And if you do heckle, you will be asked to leave the building. Yeah. So. And I am all for that because I didn't come to hear a heckler. I came to see the person on the marquee.

>> Mike: One of my favorite comedy stories is when we went to see you at the Funny Bone.

>> Mike: And you were telling me that there were rules when you went in. Don't say the F bomb. Don't say this. Keep it kind of clean. And like the first guy comes out, it goes full blue, like hardcore. And there was another guy that came out. I don't think he said anything but the F bomb.

>> Darin: No. And.

>> Mike: And then you come up and you're like. So I was.

>> Darin: I bought a vacuum cleaner.

>> Mike: I found some soap yesterday. Yeah.

>> Darin: I mean, yeah, I was trying so hard. And Jeff Foxworthy has talked about how a clean comic can do really well in a room full of dirty comics. And I. That hasn't happened to me yet. It has not. Because usually on the nights that I have just bombed.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It was a night where. And, And I'm. Listen, it was on me. I'm not blaming the crowd. I hate when someone says, oh, it was a horrible crowd. I'm not blaming the crowd. I'm not blaming the other comics. I'm blaming me because I did not possess the ability to win these people over. And, that's on me. So, yeah, the nights I've bombed were all on me.

>> Mike: In your defense, it's like somebody have I bombed somebody going blue in a room full of clean comics. It's like a fart. I mean, it's. You're like, oh, come on. But you. You can't not laugh at a fart.

>> Darin: Right? But no farts are fun. That particular night, the. The host, the mc, called everybody backstage and he says, okay, this is the deal. Everybody gets five minutes and please. he said, no F bombs. And the guy says, I can't say.

>> Mike: That'S what that means.

>> Darin: He goes, well, what the Am I supposed to say?

>> Mike: Ah. yeah, seriously. He was like, serious.

>> Darin: He was taken out at the knees. He had no clue what he was going to do if he couldn't say the F word.


Bill Burr is one of my favorite comedians of all time

Yeah, right. And so I think about Bill Burr. Now, Bill Burr works. He can work really dirty, but Bill.

>> Mike: He can also clean it up.

>> Darin: He can take out the words. And he still has an act. He still has a routine.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: you know the muffins talking about going and pounding the muffins.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You know, he can say, I'm out there pounding these effing muffins, or he can just say, I'm out there pounding these muffins. Yeah, he can put the word in.

>> Mike: Or.

>> Darin: Or he could take it out, but he still has a routine.

>> Mike: Yeah. One of my favorite lines. I love Bill Burr. He's one of my favorite comedians of all time.

>> Darin: Bill Burr's awesome.

>> Mike: And one of my favorite lines. Huh? Is not dirty at all.

>> Darin: Is that pesto? Is that pesto in your omelet? Oh, it's asparagus. It's asparagus. I thought it was pesto.

>> Mike: There's nothing dirty about that. But it takes me out every time. Every time I hear it. Yeah, I'm done.

>> Darin: Yeah, I know.


I have a show tomorrow and I hope it goes well. I really think it will, though. It will. So anyway, I've got

So anyway, I've got a show tomorrow. We will talk about it next week on irritable dad syndrome. again, I hope it goes well. I think it will. I really think it will, though.

>> Mike: You'll be fine.

>> Darin: I don't know the other performers. I know one person on the bill is 10 years old.

>> Mike: Okay, I'll heckle her. Yeah, yeah, Go play with your duplos or whatever that. Whatever.

>> Darin: Once you go home and watch Sesame Street. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that'll be fun. Yeah, let make her cry. I go on right after her. I have to follow the. I'm following a 10 year old.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah. Okay, so what's the order of people? Are you the third or you.

>> Darin: It will. Nina, is hosting the show. So she comes out and introduces, says hi to everybody. Then she brings on Regina. and Regina is going to do like five to seven minutes. And then Luna is the 10 year old and I think she's singing songs. Luna's gonna come out and sing a couple of songs.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then I come out and here's the thing, I get 15 to 20 minutes. So this is the most stand up.

>> Mike: I've done come out. Say hickory dickory dock. No, no, I'm not. If you want to knock me out laughing, that's what you do.

>> Darin: No, it's not going to happen. It's like, and m here and, and my mom is coming. Mom hasn't been there. And that's why I signed up for this gig, for this clean show. Because the last three or four times that I have done standup, it was usually in a room full of really, really blue comics. And, you know, I just, I didn't feel comfortable with my mom sitting there with a room of really, really, really blue comics. And it's like, you know, it's like you don't mind the language so much as the contents, the topics. Oh, my God. There's things that they've talked about that I can't even repeat.


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Mike calls Blank Blank Roofing Company to get free roof inspection

Now back to you guys in the studio.

>> Darin: The other day I was in my driveway and phone rings. I answer and it's this woman, Mike. And she says, hi, I was just calling to see if you knew how old your roof is.

>> Mike: Well, we just had a birthday for it last last week.

>> Darin: And I said, I'm not exactly sure. And she says, well, let me ask you, is this, is it more than seven years old? And I said, yeah, it's more than seven years old. We've lived here for seven years, but I can't remember how old our roof is. I'm, sorry, who is this? Oh, I'm sorry. This is Hannah from Blank Blank Roofing Company. Yeah, we're gonna be in your neighborhood.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: For the next week, and we are doing absolutely free roof inspection.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: And if you would like a roof inspection, we can come by, check out everything again. There's no obligation. And we can let you know if you have anything that needs to find out.

>> Mike: You need a new roof. Yeah, exactly what they're going to do.

>> Darin: Exactly. And I said, well, I'm actually outside now and I'm looking, and every time I'm outside, I. To see if we have any towels missing. And I haven't noticed anything. Also, I think we're good. And that's when, she says, hi, this is Hannah with Blank Blank Roofing. We're going to be in your neighborhood the following week doing free roof inspections. And I realized I'm talking to a robot.

>> Mike: Oh, my gosh.

>> Darin: I had. And I was fooled because I really did not think I was talking to this robot. And so I said, who is this again? This is Hannah with Blank Blank Roofing, and we're going to have a truck in your neighborhood. I said, oh, a truck? Is it going to have ice cream? And Hannah says, I don't see how that's relevant. And I said, oh, I think it's very relevant because it's getting warmer and I'm craving ice cream. The robot laughed at me. Okay, well, let's talk more about getting you booked for inspection. And I said, I like to know why you think it's funny that you're laughing at me. You're really gonna laugh at me right now. You called me and now you're mocking me.

>> Mike: Okay. Yeah.

>> Darin: Is this how you talk to all your customers? And then she says, I'm sorry if I've offended you. Oh, you've offended me, Hannah. You have offended me to my very core. Right? And it finally hung up on me. But I was like, that was awesome. So I wonder who is. Because you remember what was the, there was a website. Oh, crap. I can't remember the name of the website. But they had all these phone banks where you could do prank calls. With this phone bank, like you could call do from Carl from Sling Blade. You can call, Walmart. Hello, this is Walmart. I want to be baptized. You know, you got a biscuits for sale in there and that type of thing, and you can just push all these things. So I wonder if Hannah. If somebody was pushing Hannah's buttons and getting her to do these responses, they had to have been. And my thing is, like, if you can do that, then why not just make the damn phone call?

>> Dave: M. Please stand by. We're experiencing technical difficulties.

>> Darin: Thank you.

>> Mike: I gotta go check on the meatballs. And I said, no. That's what I'm talking about.

>> Darin: I'm like, if you try to put.

>> Mike: That in there one more time, I mean, it's ridiculous.

>> Darin: Beat you to death with this tire iron.

>> Mike: Can I say something?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: We have more viewers than we've ever.

>> Darin: I know.

>> Mike: We keep going, like, dead silent, not saying anything.

>> Darin: And they're just.

>> Mike: And we start talking, people like, drop. I'm done with these people.

>> Darin: Thralled. They can't wait to see if we do something.

>> Mike: Oh, my Lord.

>> Darin: Yeah.


Dave Lay went to see ACDC in Cleveland this past week

>> Mike: so this past week, I get my story out before I get hornswoggled again. This past week, I hate getting. I saw the AC DCs. Have you heard of them?

>> Darin: I have heard of them. I've seen them twice back in the 90s.

>> Mike: Yeah, that's when I wish I would have seen them. they've been on my bucket list forever in a day.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Well, they came to the land of the Cleaves, Cleveland, home of the Cleveland Steamers, and they were playing at the stadium whose name I don't care about looking up. But it's right next to the Rock and Roll hall of Fame.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: So when we were planning this trip, I went with, Fancher and Coburn. Dave.

>> Darin: Dave.

>> Mike: Dave. Dave, went in replacement for somebody else that was unable to go. our friend Kevin. Kevin couldn't go. So Dave suck in not Dave Lay a different day.

>> Darin: Oh, okay.

>> Mike: So Fancher, it was getting closer and closer to the event, and he was like, we got to make plans. We got to figure this out. Unbeknownst to us at the time, he had the wrong phone number for Coburn in there. So really, I was the only person he was talking to. Ah, sounds like finally, a few days before I said, here's. Here's. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to go to the Rock and Roll hall of Fame at this time. Yeah, we're going to get. We're all going to meet at the hotel. Yeah. We're going to Uber over to the Rock and Roll hall of Fame. Spend most, Whatever, however much time we want to spend there.

>> Darin: O.

>> Mike: And then we'll go to the actual stadium when we feel like it. there's going to be food trucks. There's going to be parties, all kinds of stuff going down.

>> Darin: Did you have seats or were you general admission?

>> Mike: Seats. Okay, so it didn't matter.

>> Darin: Get in there anytime you want.

>> Mike: Who cares?

>> Darin: You can scroll in seconds before it starts.

>> Mike: Exactly. So, cares is right. I. I set the stage. This is what we're doing. And then I didn't go to the hall of Fame. I didn't get there until, like, maybe a couple hours before ACDC went on. Man, life got in the way.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And it got down to the point where I was going to have to set an alarm, get, like, five or six hours of sleep, and then drive to Cleveland. I'm like, I'm not trying to make AC DC a, job. I want to go enjoy myself, you.

>> Darin: Know, As I say, if you hadn't have already been. How many times you've been to the hall of Fame?

>> Mike: Twice. Like, four. Three or four times.

>> Darin: Oh, I didn't know you've been that many times.

>> Mike: I just went, like, with you like a couple years ago when we went to see you.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Gojira, at the Agora Theater.

>> Darin: Dave. Gojira.

>> Mike: Yeah. And so anyway, I was fine with not making it there. I met them at a brewery just down the street, just a ways askance from the stadium.

>> Darin: There's a lot of cool little breweries in Cleveland.

>> Mike: And then we went to the stadium. Now, you know me.

>> Darin: I do.

>> Mike: There are. We're going to get a shirt. A T shirt. An AC DC shirt.

>> Darin: Yep.

>> Mike: And I had already taken a look. Me and Fanchard already taken a look at all the different designs.

>> Darin: I like the one you're wearing.

>> Mike: Yeah. Thank you. That's. This is the one I chose.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Hence, I'm wearing. It's black. Back in black, Brian. It's got Angus. I mean, the way they're photographed here, it doesn't look like they're in their 70s, which they.

>> Darin: No, that picture was from 40 years ago.

>> Mike: I got lucky. This shirt, which I'd already decided I was going to get, was in the outside merch tent.

>> Darin: Okay.


Were you hugging people at ACDC's last concert

>> Mike: So I popped this puppy in my, hoodie.

>> Darin: Was that.

>> Mike: And I'm good to roll.

>> Darin: Was that cheaper than the shirts inside the venue?

>> Mike: The same price.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: But you didn't have to stand in. The lines weren't that long. Outside. Yeah, just like, one or two people in line outside. and then we. We go into the show. I enjoyed it immensely.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I was singing, I was dancing. I was.

>> Darin: Were you hugging people?

>> Mike: I, I did hug. I did hug Fancher a couple Times.

>> Darin: Mike gets a few beers in him, he gets really huggy.

>> Mike: I was really hugging the last concert.

>> Darin: I saw, the last birthday party of yours I went to. You molested me. You hugged me so many times. it got, it got, it got uncomfortable.

>> Mike: The people in, in my friend group that get, get it. The worst is Box. Box gets it the worst. Yes. I'm surprised he's even. He doesn't have a restraining order on me yet because Box is just so fun to just grab and just, yeah. Just, ah, you know, hug him.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: He's very huggable person. He is. He is very huggable.

>> Darin: I, I even, I hugged him.

>> Mike: Everybody wants to hug Box.

>> Darin: Gotta hug Box.

>> Mike: Anyway, we go through the whole show. Sounded great. angus dude is 70 years old.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Still doing that. The thing I looked at, I had to look up what it's called. It's called the Duck Wall. The one. You know what I'm talking about?

>> Darin: I do.

>> Mike: It's basically the rock, like Chuck Berry. Yeah, yeah, that thing.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And,

>> Darin: And he does it pretty much the whole show. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: He wouldn't stop. And he has that, that thing he does. He's like. And I thought that was age.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I'm sorry. But it, I just thought he was having an old man episode. But I watched an old video of like back in the Bon Scott days. Dude was doing it then. The same face, the same where am I? Look in his eye. So that's. He's been rocking that for 40, 40 years. 50 years.

>> Darin: Here's something that I really like about Angus Young one. I've always liked ACDC. Okay. I think the first time I caught wind of these guys was. You shook me all night long.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Come on.

>> Mike: Back in Black.

>> Darin: Okay. Yes. Back in Black was the first thing I heard from them. And then I dipped back and heard some of their other stuff. And I was a fan of that too. But what I like about Angus is that he just let his hair go completely snow white.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And because whatever. Okay. I've told you, I love Billy Idol, Steve Stevens. Dude, his hair is so jet black. Like, dude, you are. You're not fooling anybody.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: and then. And, the Metallicas did that and so did the Bon Jovi's. They just let their hair go completely silver.

>> Mike: Yeah.


Bon Jovi looks freaking. He looks like a badass with his silver hair

>> Darin: Bon Jovi looks freaking. He looks like a badass with his silver hair.

>> Mike: the Roland's. Ed Roland collective soul.

>> Darin: Yes. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: And the, the show made me feel a little bit self conscious.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Because I started getting Tired of dancing around.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And I'm like, oh, my God, this dude is in his 70s up there.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: Moving around a whole lot more than I am. And he doesn't look like he wants to stop. No, he actually looked like. I bet backstage they had him running around in circles. He. He was not stopping.

>> Darin: Well, it's kind of like Mick Jagger of the Stones. I mean, he comes out there, makes me look like, dude, when bass. And I was just going insane on stage.

>> Mike: When Bess and I saw the rolling stones in 2015 in Columbus, they took, what's his name? Keith Richards.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And just leaned him up against the post. Leaned him up against the post. Meanwhile, Mick Jagger's out there doing everything but the moonwalk. And I think he may have done the moonwalk times.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I just didn' recognize it. But, yeah, the. The show was amazing. But I want to talk about the concession.

>> Darin: Do you know the comedian? Comedian Leanne Morgan?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: She's the blonde, and she's got the really, really, really thick Southern accent. No, she is one of the funniest comedians out right now. She's talking about going to see Journey and Def Leppard, and she was talking about how the lead singer, Journey was so cute with that thin little hair of his. And anyway, so they were good. And then Def Leppard comes on, and they did, and I quote, put some sugar on it. My husband stood up and threw his hand in the air for, like, 10 seconds, and then he sat back down because his hips were hurting.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: and then when it was over with, everyone was walking out of the show slow like turtles, because we all have plantar fasciitis.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: And I'm like, oh, my God, she's right. Because, when I go to concerts, oh, my God, it was like the death of me. When we went to see the U2s in Louisville, because we stood almost 10 hours.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: And last year, when I saw Sammy Hagar, me and my buddy Dan went. And that's the same thing. I stood, on the lawn for, like, three or four hours to see Sammy. And I mean, by the end of it, I'm like, my God, my feet are just cursing my name.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And it used to be I would sit in the show. I'm m. Like, no, I leave until the lights come on, and there are some concerts. No matter how much I'm loving it, I'm like, how many more songs?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I mean, it's like, I love you guys. I'm so Thrilled to come. We went to see Hootie, and the Blowfish. They must have played 45 songs. Like, M. How many more songs?

>> Mike: They were just playing other people's song. They were just playing whatever they did.

>> Darin: They played, like, 10 covers, but, yeah.

>> Mike: ACDC concessions.

>> Darin: Mike Odel, everybody.

>> Mike: Hi.

>> Darin: Hi.

>> Mike: I. This was a concert, and I know exactly what you're saying. Sometimes there's concerts, you love it, you're having a great time, you're excited, but you have to look down your phone. How many more?

>> Darin: I've got to go to work tomorrow.

>> Mike: I got to do something. Was not like that at all. Like, I was. When they were getting to, For those about the rock was their final song, I was like. I was actually sad.

>> Darin: Did the cannons come out?

>> Mike: I didn't see cannons. It wasn't that loud. But they did do that. It had a. You know, they were shooting off fireworks.

>> Darin: They may have just done fireworks.

>> Mike: Oh, somebody's running water smell Toast.

>> Darin: What the hell was that?

>> Mike: Hey, I'm 50. Anything could happen.


The concessions had these mats that were about yay big

At this point. I'm in my. As Bill Burr calls them, drop dead years.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: So the concessions, Okay. I go out there, and Mikey, wants drinky. And I wanted a hot dog because I was hungry. I hadn't eaten anything.

>> Darin: Seven dollar hot dog.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And was it.

>> Mike: I don't know what it was.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And you just put it on the card. They had these mats that were about yay big. I'd say 18 inches by 18 inches square. And they were plastic, and they were a little bit wavy.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: and then there was a monitor right next to it, and a light was coming down on the mat, and there was a person. There were five or six of those in a line. The beer was in coolers, so you take out what you want. The hot dogs are just sitting there like you're at a gas station.

>> Darin: Okay. And I go, were they rolling on the thing?

>> Mike: No, no, they're already in bags. And then pretty bad. I go up to it, and the lady who was standing there, her job, she had two jobs. One was to say, no, put it on the mat.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Put everything on the mat and get your hands out of the way. And then her other was to open whatever beer you had on there, but you literally put them on the mat. And then this grid of light went around it. It sensed what was there. It didn't matter what position you put it in.

>> Darin: Beam your food.

>> Mike: It was like. It was. It was, AI gone wild. And then it told me what it saw. And it didn't ask me if that was right. It just said, this is what's on the mat and this is what you owe. Yes, science. And it was right. And I was like, how the hell did. It didn't scan a barcode. It just looked at it. I hate this. And the, the hot dog.

>> Darin: I hate this.

>> Mike: The hot dog had no discernible features. That's the title of the show, isn't it? There was nothing about the hot dog. There was no logo. Uh-huh. There was no barcode.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: No qr, no gang affiliation, Nothing. Nothing on the hot dog.

>> Darin: No black font hot dog.

>> Mike: No nothing.

>> Darin: No discernible.

>> Mike: No discernible features. And it just knew that there was a hot dog there. It knew it wasn't a hoagie. Uh-huh. It knew it wasn't a, open face roast beef sandwich. It just, I mean, I assume they told it. No, no, no, no. They had only hot dogs. So I assume, okay, I assume that.

>> Darin: They told it they have only hot dogs.

>> Mike: But then I look back at the coolers. Now I'm talking. Darren, there were 10 to 15 coolers, okay? That's a lot of coolers. Every non alcoholic drink you can think of. Cans of Coke, cans of Diet Coke, cans of Sprite, Diet Sprite, Coke Beer, Coke Zero, Coke Zero, Gatorade blue, the different colors of Gatorade, the different beers. All of a lot of the beers had the same size and shape and everything. And this mother scratcher, this electronic demon.

>> Darin: Did they have Snapple?

>> Mike: They did have Snapple.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: How could they not?

>> Darin: Okay, okay.

>> Mike: This is the2025.

>> Darin: Okay?

>> Mike: Yeah. And it just knew what you had. There's some millennial out there right now saying, well, duh, just scanned it, just looked at it. Look, we grew up when computers.

>> Mike: You, you, you people, you people. Like we would walk into doors that were supposed to open because it sensed a human walking. And we go. Because it didn't open.


I don't like ordering on the kiosk. I don't. I'm not a fan of it

And we would just say, okay, well that's just. I didn't expect it. If you, if you see a Gen Xer or a boomer walking up to an automatic door, I don't care, they're going to hesitate because we think it's just not going to open. Because we've seen janky technology and we've seen, the Terminator movies, we know at some point that going to turn on you.

>> Darin: So don't come at me chopping mall. And we know that this, this technology is going to turn on us. And Kill us.

>> Mike: Yeah. Or run away with Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons.

>> Darin: Or it's going to try to try to sleep with your wife. So this.

>> Mike: But this was just a white pad place here, and it says this is what you bought. Give me your money. Uh-huh. The lady will open your beer. Enjoy the show. I was just.

>> Darin: I was amazed somebody opened your beer for you.

>> Mike: Yeah, they have a thing where they. You can't take a sealed beer. So now I got. I was literally double fisting it with a hot dog.

>> Darin: Is that like a Hootie and the Blowfish thing? Because Darius Rucker wouldn't allow bottle caps.

>> Mike: I think that's a. That's a beer at the venue. I've never. Every sporting. Everywhere I've always been. They. They open it for you.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: They can't have you walking around with a unopened beer.

>> Darin: Okay. I'm not a fan. Are you a fan of this? Because I'm not a fan.

>> Mike: I'm not a fan of it because I wasn't expecting to drink both of them right then and there. I wanted to enjoy one later. I wanted to have one at highway to Hell.

>> Darin: No, I mean, are you a fan of going in and I don't like ordering on the kiosk. I just.

>> Mike: Oh, I like that. I don't. Because I don't want to talk to anybody.

>> Darin: I don't. You do like that?

>> Mike: I do like.

>> Darin: Because I don't like that the best. Here's the thing.

>> Darin: Okay. I don't like that because whenever there's a kiosk.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And you're ordering stuff on the kiosk, there's still human being. You know what humans are, Right?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: People.

>> Mike: Persons.

>> Darin: Persons.

>> Mike: Places or things. These are persons.

>> Darin: There are people back there right there who still. They're. They're right there.

>> Mike: Well, I went to the McDonald's on the way, on the way back in, and there was a person standing 10ft away from me while I'm ordering on the kiosk.

>> Darin: Yes. Because on my way back from Indianapolis, I hadn't had Taco Bell in forever, and I was jonesing for it, and I went in. There's one person in the Taco Bell. Okay. This lady, this woman, this. This, female. She is there. Okay. She's there. There's no. There's no other customers.

>> Mike: She's present.

>> Darin: Let me. There are no other customers in the store. There are no customers pulling in through the drive through.

>> Darin: I'm the only one there. It's me and Rhonda or whatever her name is. And yet she would not walk over and take my order. It's a kiosk order only, and I'm the only customer there. And I left. I left.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I got my ass in my car and I drove over to the McDonald's where there were people who. And, God, do I sound old? I sound so old. But I went to a place where there was a person who would take my order.

>> Mike: Now, where were we? Oh, yeah.


You can order at Dunkin Donuts on the app

>> Darin: And when you go to the University of Cincinnati, when you go to their football games, if you go to the Chick Fil A there, you have to order on the kiosk.

>> Mike: I love that.

>> Darin: But there's a person.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Who hands you the food.

>> Mike: Uh-huh. Okay, okay, okay. I don't like that.

>> Darin: So if there's a person behind the counter.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Why doesn't that person. How hard is it to. To take? I don't understand how. If this is making life easier, how is it making life easier?

>> Mike: Because you don't have to talk to anybody.

>> Darin: But I like talking to people. If I didn't like talking to people, I wouldn't be sitting here with your.

>> Mike: I'm on the, Okay.

>> Darin: I wouldn't be doing stand up comedy tomorrow.

>> Mike: So the guy at the Dunkin Donuts down the street here knows me.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Because I ordered the same thing. He knows me. And he told me, you know, you could order on the app. And he said, and I quote, know we've got a lady who barrels through here and doesn't even stop until she gets to this window. And I just hand her out her drink because she gets the same thing every morning.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And he said that in such a way that I knew that he knew that I knew that he was saying, hey, you. You knew he knew that I knew that he knew that I knew.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I get the same thing every morning. And that, this lady that he was talking about, this lady. Female. Female. This woman, this broad comes through and gets this. That, hey, you also can get this. So I signed up for the app, and when I wake up, when I'm all bleary eyed in the morning, I touch the Dunkin Donuts on the phone and then I order. You go recent. I just tap. Because what I get is an extra, extra large coffee, with two creams, two sugars. And an espresso shot.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: See how much time I wasted saying that?

>> Darin: Espresso shot.

>> Mike: And then. And then sometimes you're like, you got the lady that's like, would you go to espresso what? And then you have the manager who knows me who comes over and says, I got it. Come around, you know, and it's just. It makes it awkward. So now. Yeah, get over here.

>> Darin: So now I just got your coffee right here.

>> Mike: I just tap it, and I love it because I just barrel through everything. And they've got a system. You go, go the right car and then the left car. The right car.

>> Darin: Still order the bottle of water with your.

>> Mike: No, no, I've given that up. I've given up water. Right car, left car. Right car, left car. And I just shoot past. And I love the look that people give me, like, you can't do that. What are you doing? I'm like, I'm vip. I'm getting my drink now. And I pull up and I got my hand out. Bro's right there hands it out to me. Have a wonderful day, sir. It's like, I will.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Gone. But I digress.


Friday night, Bess and I went to see Jonathan Stewart at ACDC

Anyway, the AC DC concert was amazing. Good. we ended up eating at a gas station after, which was a terrible mistake.

>> Darin: Oh, did you get a, egg salad sandwich?

>> Mike: I got a wrap. And then I also polished, that off with some Doritos. I got some kind of candy at some point. I don't know what. I got two donuts.

>> Darin: It went.

>> Mike: It went bad. Wow. Went really bad. And then drove home the next day. And then that's when I stopped at said McDonald's, ordering from a kiosk while the lady. The female.

>> Darin: Yeah, the.

>> Mike: The woman.

>> Darin: See, now you're stealing.

>> Mike: My broad. Was standing right over there. And I just ordered right from the kiosk and I went over. I didn't have to talk to her at all.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Just order 659. Remember? I still remember my number as order 659. Yeah, I took it.

>> Darin: Glad you remember.

>> Mike: Friday night, Bess and I went to go see Jonathan Stewart. Jon Stewart, famous for the Daily show, half baked. And then something else.

>> Darin: Got like 35 Emmy awards.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Or some ridiculous.

>> Mike: We were excited. And I sent Bess the instructions, which. Talk about the cell phone pouch. They had a. It was a cell phone less thing. So they. They have a pouch that you put it in. It was called a Hammer Jammer. I forget what it was called. But you put it in there, and it has some kind of magnetic lock. If they see you futzing around with your phone, they kick you out.

>> Darin: They're like, put it in the Hammer Jammer.

>> Mike: They're being all, like, mannered and tools. I've been there. I'VE been. I've done this. So I put it in a slip slide and we go in there and it was an amazing show. We told you about a little bit before we came down. I talked a lot about going, getting old. There was some political stuff. The second half was like the. You know, what you would expect from the Daily Show.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But, the thing that stuck out to me was the crowd work. He did really good crowd work.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: He was able to roll with whatever was being said at any given moment. There were a couple of people that yelled things out. He had a nice gracious way of putting the hecklers out of their misery quickly. As you would expect.

>> Darin: He's from New Jersey.

>> Mike: Yeah. He may just come down there and just pummel somebody. Maybe going back to. Before we went to the show, we went to the moor lines, the loggerhouse.

>> Darin: More line the house. Yeah.

>> Mike: One of my favorite places.

>> Darin: It's a great restaurant here. And if you're ever in Cincinnati.

>> Mike: So the.

>> Darin: Go to the Moore Line House.

>> Mike: The last time that Elizabeth and I went to a show, in the downtowns areas, they took forever. And then, more time on top of that to where we barely got to the show on time.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: So I booked this way in advance with shows that. 7:30. We got reservations. I think it was for like six or something.

>> Darin: Long enough that's still cutting. Sure.

>> Mike: So I think we get in there and it's like. It's like they were running stuff out to us. Like we were done eating within a half hour. It was like, amazing.

>> Darin: Wow.


Will: We're going to see John Stewart at the Taft Theater

>> Mike: So we leisurely walk through Cincinnati. We're doing what any couple would do on our date night. Reasonable couple, Will. We're talking about our hopes, our dreams, our aspirations. how wonderful the food was, my what the weather is here. Finally, they actually had AI buying getting your beer. Yeah. They actually got AI for the beard. Acdc, blah, blah, blah. We get up to it, and then this guy runs out of the Taft Theater. Out of nowhere. He has a blue Taft Theater shirt. And he looks at Bess's purse and he's like, that's not going to be able to make it in there. And she said, and I quote, And he said, it's got to be a clear bag or smaller than that. And then Bess, without missing a beat, said, well, I'm not walking back. And then we had one of those weird moments where everyone looks at me. I don't know why he looked at me as long with Bess.

>> Darin: Because you're the man.

>> Mike: But it Became clear that I'm the person that needs to run, run this back to the parking lot under more lines. Now those of you who are not familiar with the Cincinnati layout, the Taft Theater is about half a mile from more lines.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And we're getting in there about a half hour before John Stewart is supposed to. I'm sorry, the opener is supposed to walk on stage.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I began running back.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Went all the way back. Now I'm sweaty and nasty. I get the purse back there, put it in the car, run all the way back just in time. We get there, we buy our drinks, we sit down. And now where I was supposed to be leisurely awaiting the opener to come out, I'm like, people are looking at me like they think I'm gonna have a medical emergency. Other than that, it was a wonderful show. But seriously, purses.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Are we gonna, Are we really expecting a terrorist attack on Jonathan Stewart? I know, with a purse.

>> Darin: Well, it's that old analogy. The one bad apple spoils a whole bunch. Right. We have to now we have to take it seriously because there's too many things.

>> Mike: Well.

>> Darin: And I don't want this podcast to go this direction.

>> Mike: No, no, no.

>> Darin: But there's too many bad things like that that happen. And unfortunately we have to take that seriously now.

>> Mike: Well, here's the direction I will take it is because from the moment that I returned.

>> Mike: I started looking at everybody's bag.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I saw at least two purses.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Of similar size.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: To Besses. And they weren't saying in a diddly to these ladies. One of them was slung around their back and across the middle like, like Chewbacca. And it had a bag hanging, dividing the. The goods. Yeah. It was betwixt.

>> Darin: Ah.

>> Mike: yeah, yeah. And I thought I told Bess, I was like, well, that person's bigger than yours. And Beth said, nah, it's a little bit smaller. And I'm like, whose side are you on?

>> Darin: I thought we were married.

>> Mike: I thought we were, you know.

>> Darin: Well, Libby and I went to, uc, to watch a marching band, tournament. No, no, we went to UC to watch a game and Jacob was marching in marching band. And Libby has a clear backpack that she bought a couple of years ago to take to said events like this. And we get up to the thing and this guy has a nerve to tell me that I can't bring my granola bars in there. So what do I do? I walk over to where the trash can is, I open the clear backpack And I stuff the granola bars in my pockets. And then I walk up and it's like. And you know, I did it very inconspicuously when no one was looking, put them in my pockets, walk up, I'm like, okay, you happy?

>> Mike: I didn't say that I wanted to.

>> Darin: Okay. I threw away my two dollar granola bar, because God forbid you go in there and it's like, whatever. But I digress.


My son Jacob had a quote gig in an abandoned warehouse

>> Mike: That reminds me of a meme I saw today that made me laugh out loud. it basically said, keep this up and I'm gonna open a Nature Valley granola bar in your bed.

>> Darin: Crumbs everywhere.

>> Dave: You're listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Part of this nutritious breakfast.

>> Darin: How can you trust an animal with a head that's that bald and tiny?

>> Mike: I mean, we trust dad.

>> Darin: Dad truth. I mentioned at the beginning of the podcast that my son Jacob had a quote gig, unquote. So he tells me, he says, dad, my band, his band is Dream Flood. They're a trio. It's him on drums, there's Dan on guitar and lead vocal, and then there's Mo, who plays bass. And he occasionally sings background and he occasionally sings lead vocal. So he says, we've got this gig. And I said, oh, really? Where is the gig? Unquote. And he says, well, it's kind of in, How do I say it? It's in this room. I'm like, oh, it's in a room. Oh, so it's indoors? He says, yes, it's, There's a building downtown that's kind of, I think he said, it's kind of abandoned. Kind of. Kind of abandoned.

>> Mike: The story's getting better. It's getting better and better. This is the beginning of a horror movie.

>> Darin: He was nervous about in, you know, having me come, because there's not only is there no seats, there's nothing inside this building. And I don't know who owns the building, who runs the place, but he had some people come, and I think there were two or three bands. Jacob's band, Dream Flood, was one of them. There's a rapper and a couple other things. And basically, just in this abandoned old warehouse, does it have power? That there was power? Okay, yes.

>> Mike: Okay, so somebody's paying a bill somewhere.

>> Darin: Yes, there was electricity. I don't know where they plugged their stuff up.

>> Mike: I think.

>> Darin: I think Jacob said he had to run a power cord down two flights of stairs.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So I get there and I'm instantly. What's the word? Concerned I don't know that my son should be here. Right.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because there's some broken windows and there's clearly some construction going on, and there's, like, boards and hammers laying around. I'm walking down.

>> Mike: Random hobo.

>> Darin: Yeah. Well, I was like, am I gonna find someone who's, like, I don't know, strung out?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You know, Anyway, I get up, and I'm the only parent there. Every person there is 20 or younger. And here I am, 55 years old.

>> Mike: You are now the chaperone.

>> Darin: And I. I didn't want to be the chaperone. And I was. And I didn't. I definitely did not want to embarrass Jacob. Yeah. But I wanted to see the show. I wanted to see how they sounded. And if I. If I may, against my. Oh, go ahead.

>> Mike: you're the person where, if something did go down, you would be on the news and people would be saying, how could you let this happen?

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: That's. That's what you were at that point.

>> Darin: Yes. absolutely. I didn't want to be the voice of reason, so. But I got there, and I got there right when the rapper was performing, and there was maybe 10 people in the room digging this rapper, and they were really enjoying him. And I talked to the guy after the show, and he was really super cool. But then. So Jacob Spann goes on, and like I said, there's about 10 people in this room, a quarter of the size of the room we're in now. And I'm gonna tell you right now, Dream Flood sounded amazing.

>> Mike: Awesome.

>> Darin: They sounded so good. And yes, there were 10 people there watching. I cannot make a joke about the small crowd, because I have performed comedy to a crowd of two people before. Two people were there watching us, and that was the night where the two ladies just sat there and stared at me. Me.

>> Mike: We've performed this podcast to two people before.

>> Darin: Yes.


Dream Flood's first show was awesome. And for a first show, Even though it's 10 people, they were great

Yes, we have.

>> Mike: You and me.

>> Darin: Yes. So. But they were great. They sounded great. Dan was. Dan, was killing it on lead guitar and killing it with vocals. Mo was killing it when he was singing the songs. And Jacob's back there just going. Just going absolutely crazy.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: On, cymbals, tearing it up. And their last song, Lash out, that's going to be their single. And when it's available on Spotify, I'm going to send you. Actually, you know what? At the end of this podcast, I'm going to play Lash out, which is going to be their. Their next song that they're going to put out. On Spotify. They closed with Lash out. And they tore the room apart.

>> Mike: That's badass.

>> Darin: They. Yeah. And they went all Kiss Jacob stood up and just tearing it up.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And Mo drops down, has the. The bass pointed right up in the ceiling.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: You know?

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: They were like, rock star in the hell out of it.

>> Mike: That's. That's awesome. That's awesome.

>> Darin: And I. This is something that I hated because I got there and I'm trying to record this with my phone. My stupid phone runs out of storage. M. Two minutes into their first song. So I'm relying on other people who were there to share videos, of the event. But here's the thing. I was like, I don't want to embarrass Dream Flood being the old man who was there. But they were thrilled that I was there. They were like, dude, your dad came to the show.

>> Mike: They were.

>> Darin: They were thrilled that I was there. I wore my Offspring T shirt.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Right. And I'm trying to look street. I'm trying to look badass.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: I was like, should I wear a polo and khakis?

>> Mike: Flip flops?

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: I wore my reading glasses.

>> Darin: I was thinking, you know, it's like, if something goes down, I do need to be the voice of reason and help, these kids out. But nothing went down. It was a good time. And these. These, these guys are really going to do. They're going to do great things. So look out for Dream Flood. And again, listen to the end of the episode. And I'm going to play their song, lash Out. So, yeah, way to go, guys. I'm very proud of you. And they come over almost every Saturday and practice in our basement. It's cool hearing them down there working on songs. Yeah, yeah. It's like, it's really wild. They come in and they try this, and, yeah, of course, it doesn't sound great when they start, but it gets better and better and better and better. And for a first show, Even though it's 10 people, they were great.

>> Mike: Awesome.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah.


Darren: Thank you for listening to Irritable dad syndrome podcast

Did you have anything else?

>> Mike: I don't have. I don't have any. I'm ready to wrap this puppy up. Like a Christmas, present.

>> Darin: Exactly. Yeah. We're gonna go. We want you to go to Instagram, Tick tock. go to our Facebook page, Reels. Anytime you see one of our videos. If you would like it, if you would share it, that would help us out a lot. If you go to Irritable dad syndrome dot com, you can listen to any episode that we have. Oh, they're all there. All of them. For the, for a long time there. We, our first 24, we did like Disney did and we put them in the vault. Right. They're out of the vault.

>> Mike: So everything's out there hanging around.

>> Darin: Oh, man, are these great episodes.

>> Mike: They actually, actually are. You know what?

>> Darin: They're not. The. One of the reasons why we put these episodes in the vault was because when we first started this podcast, we had one microphone and we sat it in the middle of the room. Audio quality is not that great.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: But we still had pretty good stories. Yeah. And if you listen to the best of season one. Yeah.

>> Mike: The audio quality. Yeah.

>> Darin: Ah, yeah. So we had good stories. So those are back out and available again. And if you want to, you can listen to, them at your irritable dadcenter.com.

>> Mike: Yeah. Follow us on all of our stuff, the TikToks and the Whatevers, and please share it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: That really helps us out.

>> Darin: Yeah. And again, thank you so much. We, we thank all of our fans. We really appreciate everything that you do to help us make this podcast successful. We hope to see you next week on Irritable Dancing.

>> Dave: Irritable dad syndrome was videotaped before a live studio audience.

>> Mike: You're good at closing this out.

>> Darin: Thank you.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, there was a weirdest.

>> Darin: You used to try to close and you're like. And we have a thing called buy a coffee. If you want to buy a coffee for somebody, you can send $0.05 or $0.10 or, or $0.15 or $0.12 or $0.20.

>> Mike: Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. I was the equivalent of somebody in junior high saying, my mom said, you know, we could ride in your car to get ice cream if you want to later. I don't know. Or you just want to go home.

>> Darin: We need all the performance enhancing help.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: We can get.

>> Mike: Yeah, it's, yeah. Huggies. I like Huggies.

>> Darin: Mr. Huggies.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I like Stump.

>> Mike: Like, George Platitude or whoever that guy is.

>> Darin: George Platitude.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah, I love him.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Hail is torch Platitude. I don't know.

>> Mike: Trolling David Lee Roth fans. That's your most popular one. 2K.

>> Darin: Really?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I didn't know that went over the. Into the K's.

>> Mike: It went into the K's.

>> Darin: Dude, I'm flattered.

>> Mike: And you got a comment and it's my favorite. I remember. Yeah. If you don't like or at least acknowledge them and smile. Then you know absolutely nothing about music, music, about music, about rock music. And I. I liked that.

>> Darin: I do, too. Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I am Mike.


Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 261.

>> Mike: We are going to try to sound excited that we are here. We are here. We were both here and excited and. Yeah, we gotta redo this. Okay, I'm sorry. I came in the wrong energy. Let me get it. Let me, let me.

>> Darin: Don't slurp.

>> Mike: Yeah, I can't. If I don't slurp, I can't.

>> Darin: Yes, you can.

>> Mike: Trust me, it doesn't work if I don't slurp.

>> Darin: For the love of. I'm gonna send you back to elementary school and teach you how to drink.

>> Mike: You know what the best part of that is?

>> Darin: What?

>> Mike: Is that there's at least one person that listens to the audio of the live thing and thinks, m, I'm hitting a bong. Because they can't. They either don't have a monitor or they. They're blind and they can't see a coffee mug. They think old Mikey's hitting it right now.

>> Darin: Huh?

>> Mike: That's, that's Dunkin Donuts.

>> Darin: Gold bong water right there, my friend.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Speaker D: Watch out. Bye.

>> Darin: Bye.


Irritable dad syndrome is a Mike Odle Darren Cox production

>> Speaker D: 6Am Another sleepless night Check my bank account Money inside, yeah, dead and job got some bills to pay Last thing I need is someone today it hurts to watch a bear gonna lash out everywhere Dirty clothes, messy air Gonna lash out every 4pm 10 minutes till break Sick and tired of being away yeah, good escape Even if I try not going anywhere Just another fish to.

>> Darin: Fry.

>> Speaker D: It hurts why the fan gonna lash out everywhere? Dirty clothes, messy hair Gonna lash out every.

>> Speaker D: Dirty clothes, messy hair gonna lash out everywhere.

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

>> Darin: M.

>> Mike: Recording stopped.