IDS #262 - How To Crash A Frat Party

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>> Mike: Oh, it's open.

>> Darin: Okay. Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I am,

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren. Hi, I'm Darren. Hello, I'm Darren. I'm Darren. hey, kids. This is Darren and, my friend Mike here with the.

>> Mike: Don't do crusty or I won't. I quit. I quit. I. I won't.

>> Darin: You're just full of fun today, aren't you? Why don't we go up to the old people's home and wax the step?

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>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I'm Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad's Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 262.

>> Mike: We are thrilled.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: That you're listening to this podcast.

>> Darin: So thrilled.

>> Mike: Don't stop listening.

>> Darin: Don't.

>> Mike: The research says that people stop listening if they're not entertained within the first six seconds. Yeah, just give us a minute. Can you give us a minute? We got all this set up. we got the equipment going. We got the people watching. Darren's got a new shirt. I ate fish tonight. Can you give us a minute to get our stuff together? I got the half calf going.

>> Darin: Yeah. Oh, is it half decaf?

>> Mike: I'm trying a new thing here. Here's the deal is that if I don't drink any caffeine, then I will sleep through the show.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: Right. but I'll get a great night's sleep, if I drink caffeine. I'll be great. Perfect.

>> Darin: Oh, the show is amazing when you're home.

>> Mike: But at what cost, Darren? At what cost? I have. I've got a family to feed.

>> Darin: I don't see a problem.

>> Mike: I've got responsibilities.

>> Darin: I see. I put the.

>> Mike: I gotta keep the lights on.

>> Darin: This podcast is my top priority, Mike, and clearly it's not yours.

>> Mike: So what you do is you go.

>> Darin: Half caf, half calf.

>> Mike: That's how you say it.

>> Darin: Half calf. Half calf.

>> Mike: Half calf. Try to make it as one syllable as you can. There you go. Half cafe. You're the half calf. And now I'm going to. Don't stop this. This is good. Are you just love this.

>> Darin: Hey, hey, listeners, are you going.

>> Mike: We're here.

>> Darin: stay with us.

>> Mike: Darren's got a whole bunch of stuff he wants to talk about.


Darren Criss turned 55 on Friday. I had a fantastic birthday

I've got a story from the vault. one of our, main listeners, our top listeners, my wife, said, have you ever told the story about rushing a fraternity oh, it's like, I don't think I ever have told that story.

>> Darin: I can't wait to hear it.

>> Mike: And she said, you, you must tell that story.

>> Darin: You got to.

>> Mike: So I'm going to. That's why I'll tell that story.

>> Darin: So don't go anywhere. This is going to be a fun episode.

>> Mike: I used all my guests on the intro. I don't got anything.

>> Darin: Sure did. I turned the double nickel. And the fun part, the most fun part about my birthday was when my mother informed me, you know, you're eligible for senior citizen discounts now. And I'm like, no, I'm not. And sure as hell went on the Google on the interweb and yeah, I'm eligible for senior citizen discount.

>> Mike: Yeah. So from now on, drinks are on Darren.

>> Darin: Yeah. When we go see Devo discount, drinks are on Darren.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I doubt seriously Devo are going to honor a senior citizen discount. They'd go broke. Here's every person there is going to be frickin 80 years old.

>> Mike: Here's my promise to our audience. If we ever get big enough to offer drinks, m. We will offer a senior citizen.

>> Darin: Yeah, absolutely.

>> Mike: Because we need to be able to afford the drinks.

>> Darin: That's true. Well, I'd like to think that we're offering our own drinks. We would get a little tip from our. Our,

>> Mike: Boy, that didn't go the way, you.

>> Darin: Know, I thought words were going to come out of my mouth and they didn't.

>> Mike: the old 55.

>> Darin: So, yeah, I turned 55. I had a fantastic. Thanks for asking, by the way. I had a fantastic birthday.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I took the day off so that I wouldn't have to do any thinking. I didn't want to do any writing, any editing. I didn't want to look through any episodes, of this TV project that I'm working on. Gig. And I sat on my butt and watched the history of sitcom documentary series that CNN did a while back. And I was as entertained as it could possibly be.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I loved every second of it. And if you get the opportunity to watch the history of sitcom, I suggest you do it after you listen to this episode. Go. And it was great. It was absolutely great. And then we went to the Texas Roadhouse. Okay. I don't know if you've eaten at Texas Roadhouse.

>> Mike: No, we could never get in.

>> Darin: The waitress brought us. I swear to God, I think she brought us 40 dinner rolls.

>> Mike: Okay. There's spots like, they have like the honey stuff.

>> Darin: no, that's another place.

>> Mike: Okay. You Put a picture on the interwebs of you riding a bull.

>> Darin: Yes. No.

>> Mike: A mechanical.

>> Darin: No, it wasn't a mechanical bull. And I told my family, I said, look, there's no need to tell anybody here that it's my birthday, because they come out screaming, hey, everybody, it's D birthday.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And they. They. They clap and they hoot and they holler and you're deaf. And I said, I don't need that tonight. I mean, thank you, but let's just not do that. Let's celebrate my birthday just the. Amongst the five of us. And they're like, okay. So we're sitting there, we're eating our rolls, and I ordered the country chicken with the cream gravy and green beans. Dear God, was it amazing. And then we hear, clap, clap, clap. Hey, everybody got a birthday.

>> Mike: There we go. Yeah.

>> Darin: And it wasn't for me.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: There was a guy two tables over.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: This biker looking dude.

>> Mike: Whoa.

>> Darin: Black T shirt. He's got the vest, he's got the bandana around his head.


Today is also my brother Darren's 55th birthday

It looks like he could fight everybody in that place successfully.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And they go over and they. They get his name, and I can't remember what his name was, but it was his birthday. How old are you? He says, I'm 55. It's his 55th birthday.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: I was like, how cool is that? Dude two tables over for me is. Has the same birthday on the same year. So we're practically, twins from a different mother. So they sing to him, and they bring in this saddle, and what you do is you get on the saddle, and they hand you a napkin, and you wave it in the air when they yell like you.

>> Mike: Like you just don't care.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: Is that right?

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So he did that, and his family got all these pictures of him stuff. So they did that. And I thought, well, good. That was for him. I'm eating, and I walk over to say hi to the guy, and I'm like, I don't want to make things weird, but today is also my birthday, and I'm 55. And he's like, whoa, hell yeah, brother shakes my hand. I'm pounding fists with everybody at the table, and they're like, glad to know you. And I said, well, you're looking great for 55. Hell, you look better than I do.

>> Mike: And.

>> Darin: And we bonded.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And I said. And they're like, are they gonna come and do the same thing for you? I said, no. No. I told my family, no. I don't want that. And they're like, okay, well, good to know you. I'm like, good knowing you. And happy birthday. And I went and I sat down, I enjoyed my dinner, and it was just. Oh, my God. It was amazing. It was delicious. And I think it was my oldest son who, told our waitress. He's like, it's dad's birthday. I didn't hear him do it. Anyway, they came and did the same thing. And. What's your name? Darren. How old are you? I'm 55. It's Darren's 55 birthday.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And so, yeah, I'm swinging the towel, sitting on this saddle. Boy, that saddle was having all the fun.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, Libby got a picture of me, and I've got the devil horns, and, there's. My mom is to the right, just having the time of her life. So, yeah, it was a good birthday. I got a Phineas and Ferb T shirt. I got. I got two Phineas and Ferb T shirts for my birthday. I got an Atari that we could. I got an Atari.

>> Mike: What do you mean, you got an Atari?

>> Darin: One of them new Ataris that they sell.

>> Mike: Like, what I showed you up there?

>> Darin: Yeah, the retro one.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Really? Yes.

>> Mike: Whoa.

>> Darin: So I'm gonna start buying me, the cartridges. Yes. I'm gonna get Pitfall.

>> Mike: We're gonna go to Traders World. You want to go to Traders World?

>> Darin: I would love to go to Traders.

>> Mike: That's where I got. That's where I get. Where you go.


Irritable Dad Syndrome got an official from Atari to help him with games

Did you get an official from Atari? Atari?

>> Darin: Yeah, an official from Atari. Atari.

>> Mike: With the little rainbow guy?

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah. It's the 2600. I got the 26.

>> Mike: 2600. Okay. Okay.

>> Darin: And I can't wait to plug it into the. To the TV upstairs.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And play some video games that I know how to use. I was showing my kids, I said, look, it's got one handle. This goes up, down, right, left, and the little red button. That's how you shoot, we. And I cannot wait to hook that mama jam up and, blow me up some Space Invaders.

>> Mike: So I threw the old emulator up on there back in the day, and it had a 2600. I. I got. I let the kids play Frogger. Oh. And it broke them. It broke them. Because, you know, modern games, you respawn, you come back to life. Like, a couple seconds later, Frogger's like, you're dead.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You got squashed by a truck.

>> Darin: Yeah. You start over again.

>> Mike: You can't frog her anymore.

>> Darin: You got three lives. You can earn a bonus life. Right on Frogger.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: You also can't jump in the water, which is. It's, you know, that's.

>> Darin: Now, see, I never understood that I was called it on that. You're a frog. Yeah, Frogs are amphibious. Means that they can live on land now or in water.

>> Mike: Now. Did you ever play the game freeway on the 26?

>> Darin: I'm certain that I did.

>> Mike: That's. You're a chicken.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Okay. And you're crossing a freeway, a 10 lane or 11, however many lanes, it's essential. And it's basically Frogger. But you're dodging traffic and you're a chicken. If a car, a truck, VW bug, suv, motorcycle, semi, very, very intricate. They squash you. And it makes a. I mean, back in the day, you could not emulate a chicken squawk very well. No. Because Atari is ancient hardware.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So we go, but you were dead. And you knew you were dead. And there's just no coming back from that.

>> Darin: But no, I can't wait to buy more cartridges and to play my Atari. Oh, I got the Nate Bargazzi book. Big dumb eyes. Oh, yeah, I got a book.

>> Mike: A pizza party is my nightmare. I have friends over for pizza. So I'll be like, all right, we gotta order a pizza. And she goes, how much? I go order the most. I don't want to run out of pizza in front of my friends. And she goes, just call and ask them. I go, I can't call these 40 year old dudes and just be like, how much pizza do you think you're gonna eat tonight?

>> Darin: And people are like, why did you got a book? Why did you get a book? Holy. Because I know, right? It's a Nate Bargazzi book. It's a comedy book. I can read those. Those aren't hard for me to concentrate. And I think there might be some pictures in it.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: So, yeah, it was a fun day. It was a really fun day and I'm thrilled to be 55 and I can't wait to live another 55 years. So. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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

>> Darin: my buddy Mike needs to do stand up comedy. Mike went to see last week. let me back up. Last week I mentioned that I had a stand up comedy performance coming up that I was very much looking forward to. That.


Darren Cannon says he had a blast at his Friday night show

>> Mike: That Polloc Hermano.

>> Darin: That's Pollos Hermanos. That's right. Gus Fring brought me up on stage.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I'm thrilled to say that I had a blast.

>> Mike: You did well.

>> Darin: And I have. Ah, thank you.

>> Mike: You did. Yeah.

>> Darin: I have done shows and I have walked off stage thinking, boy, did I suck this night. Right. I don't think I sucked. I was very happy with my material, very happy with my delivery. at one point in the middle of the show, I, had real cottonmouth and then I started coughing and I didn't think I was gonna be able to continue because I didn't think my voice was coming back through that.

>> Mike: I was worried about you.

>> Darin: My mom was there. She was afraid I was dying. Like, not like dying as comics. Do you work funny dying. She thought, oh, God, this is gonna be Darren's last moment on earth.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right. yeah, but it was a good show. The opening act, she performed. She was supposed to do like five minutes and I think she did shorter than that, which is fine because then I could go on stage sooner.

>> Mike: So her name was Regina.

>> Darin: Regina. Yeah, Regina was the opening act and then following her was this 10 year old girl named Luna. And they told me that Luna was going to be singing a couple of songs a m. Couple of songs ended up being, I think, five songs.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: So after a couple.

>> Mike: Good.

>> Darin: She was good. She couldn't. That girl can sing. After, a couple songs, I was ready to walk up on stage and then she sang another one.

>> Mike: Yeah, I was gonna play some Skinner.

>> Darin: You gotta not do that. Okay. That joke is like 45 years old. so she sang like five songs and did some jokes in the middle. She was entertaining. And I think this Luna is gonna have. I, I think she's gonna be successful, when she gets older. I really do. I mean, she's gonna be successful now, but I, I see, an entertainment career for her in her future. Now. They told me that there's going to be a surprise.

>> Mike: Hm.

>> Darin: I was like, okay. So after Luna was done, the Nina, the woman who was hosting the event, went up and sang Happy Birthday to her. Played a song for her on her flute.

>> Mike: Yeah. And then the guy came out and played with his balls.

>> Darin: Yeah. That's a magician. Oh, he was. That's. Yeah. You really gotta not describe him that way.

>> Mike: That's what he did.

>> Darin: He did. He had a lot of.

>> Mike: He had a lot of.

>> Darin: A lot of. He had a lot of balls going.

>> Mike: Up there doing that. Yeah. Hello.

>> Darin: He brings up this volunteer. This woman I think is, I think. Was it Luna's mom? Yeah, I think it was some lady Related to Luna Lunesta. This, this woman, this female.

>> Mike: Cut that out.

>> Darin: Yeah, you started doing it last week. Anywho, he reaches and puts his hand on her hand and when he opens it up, she's got this, ball in her hand.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Then he does again. Now she's got a few balls. Next thing you know, she's got like 45 balls.

>> Mike: Now you got a Friday night.

>> Darin: I have no idea where they came from, but he was really entertaining.

>> Mike: He was dropping balls all over that.

>> Darin: Yes, he was.

>> Mike: It was, he was impressive.

>> Darin: So, yeah, I mean, Nina played a song that he came and performed for her for Luna's birthday. And I walked up there and my opening line was, look, you guys are gonna hate me. I got nothing prepared for this girl on her birthday. That got a laugh.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: But you know, I didn't forget I.

>> Mike: Was one of those laughers.


Conor: I studied in the comedy school of Norm MacDonald

>> Darin: Thank you.

>> Mike: I contributed.

>> Darin: Yeah. But I, I mean, I had my notes with me and I always keep my notes with me because that's my biggest fear when I do stand up comedy now. I used to wonder, is, is this material going to work? And I stopped caring if it works because I studied in the comedy school of Norm MacDonald.

>> Darin: I used to watch Norm MacDonald and I loved, loved when he would tell a joke that, that just bombed. And he would stare down the camera.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And the more he stared at the camera, the more you laughed at that joke that wasn't funny. And then it ended up being. And did I do that? I mean, I tried to do a joke like Norm MacDonald. Right, Norm. Yeah, I think Norm would have been proud of me.

>> Mike: Yeah, Norm. Norm was out there to entertain himself.

>> Darin: That's, that's right.

>> Mike: At all times he was performing for himself.

>> Darin: And we were just, they talked about that on Conan's podcast. by the way, Conan o' Brien. we're ready to go on. Conor needs a friend whenever you are. We're just, just waiting on your call. So. But no, they said that M. Norm would like writers would tell him these jokes aren't funny. He would throw them in because he liked them.

>> Mike: Have you seen, you know who Anthony? Is it Jesel Neck Anthony?

>> Darin: Just, the name sounds somehow he.

>> Mike: He'S, for some reason he's popped up on my tick tock and he has one of my favorite Norm MacDonald stories. He's saying, I guess they had a rivalry or something. They didn't get along. They were in a movie or a show together.

>> Darin: How could you not get along with normal?

>> Mike: And right before they were going on. I think it was Jay Leno.

>> Mike: Or it might have been. What's the other guy? The guy that used to be in Saturday Night Live. That's on.

>> Darin: Seth Meyers?

>> Mike: No, the other guy.

>> Darin: John Oliver?

>> Mike: No, the other guy. Not. I was Jimmy. Jimmy Fallon.

>> Darin: Fallon, yeah, one of those.

>> Mike: One of them, yeah.

>> Darin: He was on Saturday.

>> Mike: Anyway, they behind stage. Norm, came up to him and said, look, I know we haven't really gotten along, but I have an idea. And I think it would really, you know, it'd be a really awesome idea. And so Anthony, it's like, oh, yeah, sure. What is it? You know. So Anthony was a huge Norm MacDonald fan. Loved him. And Norm said, you know, we're supposed to be here promoting this movie and saying great things about the movie. He's like, don't do that. I think it'd be hilarious. We both come out and just tear into each other. Don't hold back. You won't hurt my feelings. Go as hard as you can, and then I'll come out and do the same thing. And he's like, great, I'll do it. And then when he was being interviewed, Anthony Jesnik, he said, he said, how was it like working with Norm McDonald? He said something like, he's the worst. He's a piece of. He just tore into him. And then, he said when he went backstage, he heard Norm back there just howling with laughter. And then Norm came out, and I said, what's it like working with Anthony Jesnick? He said, now he's going to be one of the greats. And just sung his praises the entire.

>> Darin: That's awesome.

>> Mike: Norm. If you haven't. If some. If for some reason you're listening to this show and you have not listened to the Norm MacDonald podcast or seen it, you need to go on there. In any episode where he has Super Dave Osborne and he. They tell the jokes. Norm writes jokes that are, like, just deplorable. They're racist.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: They're sexist. They're the worst.

>> Darin: They're the worst.

>> Mike: He'll write them and he'll make the guest read them, and he gets a kick out of it. And there was one with, Super Dave Osborne. He's like, you can't make people say that. You can't. That's not funny.


Norm MacDonald inspired joke about how people compare me to Walter White

He's like, yeah. Norm's like, I didn't say it right. He said it. I agree with you. It's a terrible joke. He shouldn't say that. Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Do you want to guess which joke of mine was my Norm MacDonald inspired joke.

>> Mike: I don't remember.

>> Darin: Okay. So I was talking about how people compare me to Walter White. They say I look like Walter White. And some of the jokes that I get are they say, hey, Heisenberg, you got a method. I know, I'm fresh out.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Or they say, hey, hey, Walter, say hi to Jesse for me. I'm like, I'll do that next time I see him.

>> Mike: Sure.

>> Darin: And some people say, hey, Walter, what type of gas mileage did you get on that 2004 Pontiac Aztec? The lull across the room, was exactly what I wanted. I said. And I, I agree with you guys.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: That was a very odd, very obscure, and very unfunny comment to make.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: About Walter White.

>> Mike: What I need is for you to climb down out of my ass. Will you do that for me, honey?

>> Darin: I'd appreciate it.

>> Mike: I didn't laugh at all.

>> Darin: So before I went on, I'm like, walking around and I'm standing, there in the middle of the. The floor where I'll be doing my set, and Mike walks over to me, starts talking to me. And Mike has, like, two absolutely brilliant ideas of something that I should do when I do my set. And I'm not going to tell people what they are, because when you do stand up comedy, you need to do those two things.

>> Mike: It told Bess one of them, and she didn't think it was funny. She said that would piss me off. I'm like, well, that's the point why.

>> Darin: You should do it.

>> Mike: That's the point exactly why you've got to do it. The idea of someone having a five minute set and then spending two and a half minutes dealing with this completely inconsequential thing is, to me, funny.


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Bess asked me if I've ever told a story about frat rushing

>> Mike: So, speaking of Bess, she asked me if I've ever told a story. We were talking about this weekend, of the fraternity, my fraternity to rushing. And I was like, I. I don't think I have. I mean, so in the interest of, a, complete documentary of my idiot life. Documentary documentation. M. This is one of the penultimate stories you keep using the Horde.

>> Darin: I don't think it means what you think it means.

>> Mike: I'm not a frat guy. I'm not a frat person.

>> Darin: Nope. I never was.

>> Mike: Neither is Box. So a little bit of history. I went to ou. met Tay.

>> Darin: V. Ou.

>> Mike: The ou. No, not the ou. Just ou. Damn it. You hate what I do. And. And so the first people I met.

>> Darin: And I hate when you go, I.

>> Mike: Met Tay and Dan, like, right off the bat, right. Immediately. and then the second year that I was there, you know, Box, he moved in. He's a year younger. And then Stape, and then we had our crew at that point. You've never met State?

>> Darin: I have not met State.

>> Mike: I'd love to see Stape again. I haven't seen him since college.

>> Darin: But anyway, we should call him up.

>> Mike: I don't. I don't know how to get. I think he's in the wilderness somewhere.

>> Darin: Go to state.com.

>> Mike: It doesn't. Yeah, I don't. Yeah. Box. So we were friends, right? And. And there was a. There were a couple of people that were in frats or rushing frats in our dorm.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And they were. And I don't want to be crude here.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: For the most part. I mean, not really. Not really. They were. They were nice guys, but it just wasn't my cup of tea.

>> Darin: Was it your scene?

>> Mike: Box just came up to us, me and Tay and Race. That he was rushing the frat or something. I didn't forget how this came about. Somehow I ended up rushing with him. Don't ask me which frat. I don't remember what it is for.

>> Darin: People who don't know what. Rushing a frat.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Please describe.

>> Mike: So rushing. You pledge to be in a fraternity.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You say, I want to be in this fraternity, and then now think of the Boy Scouts, right? You got these things you got to do to be in this frat.

>> Darin: You got to earn your back.

>> Mike: You got to earn your keep, as it were. So you got to do things. And some frats are, you got to do crazy things. Some are you just got to come to their meetings.

>> Darin: You got to run naked down the street.

>> Mike: Yeah. In other words, eat a jar of mayonnaise. The other ones, it's just, like, come over to their place and eat a cookie or something. Stupid. It's all over the place. Right?

>> Darin: That's a popular frat.

>> Mike: So one of Box's friends was in a frat and it wasn't like, I mean, there's different types. There's like nerd frats. There's the ones that you see in all the 80s movies that are like, nerds that. Those revenge. So this, this was one of the Animal House. It wasn't a 100% party frat, but it was not a dorky frat. It was like your standard all American. You're somebody's gonna do something stupid. Somebody may run naked down the street at some point.

>> Darin: It wasn't Lambda Lambda Lamb.


Tay: Box and I decided we didn't want to be in frat

>> Mike: Right. So, Box decides he's gonna do this, and I'm like, I'll go with you.

>> Darin: I can't believe this.

>> Mike: But I can't either.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And best couldn't either.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So we go, and it's his friend. We go. Basically, they have like a get together for the people that are going to rush. So we had to wear khakis, which means I had to buy khakis and like a button up shirt, which means I had owning a pair of buy a button up shirt. And we went and we, you know, fraternized, with the frat and met all the people and did all the things. And then there was a point where you had to say, yeah, I'd like to be in the frat. And then you would get, like, people would show up at the dorm and give you letters for the next thing you had to do. I don't remember any of the things that I had to do. I truly don't.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I remember me and Box were talking about their, experiences. We were going through it. We made it. We got to the point where they offer you a place in the frat.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: The initiation or whatever, the brotherhood. And at that point, we had both realized we don't want to be in a fraternity.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: So people had been.

>> Darin: So you go through.

>> Mike: All of people had been weeded out. Everything. We were made to feel like we were the select few.

>> Darin: Oh, okay.

>> Mike: And they, they. They took us to, I think it was in Baker center, which is one of the main buildings at ou, the main social buildings. And there was. When it was like, it was like an 80s movie. There was a small room. It was kind of dark. A bunch of them were standing in a circle. they were all clothed. I made sure of that before I walked in. And I didn't hear any goats. And they had, they had drinks and there was. I think I may be making this up, but there was. Every friend had, like, a sorority that was kind of like their pals or.

>> Darin: Whatever, their, sister.

>> Mike: So I think Station. There was a bunch of them, too. And then it was like, okay, pledges, it's. It's the big. It's time for the big moment. And me and Box were like, what are you going to do? Are you going to go in? And we go in there, and, Box went in, I think. I think we went in in groups. I think Box went in first, and he came out, and he just, walked by me as I was going in, and I couldn't tell from him what happened. And I walked in, and I'm side by side with all these people that are excited to get into this frat, and they go down the line. You've got to say these stuff, like, I pledge to be the whatever, whatever.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And it gets to me, and I'm like, you know, I don't.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I don't know that this is for me. And they said, what? My question is, what the hell? And everyone at that point in the little semicircle, is looking at me, and I'm like, I'm just. I don't think I'm a. I don't think I'm frat material. I don't. I didn't want to be rude, right, because these were all. Guys have been nice to me. And he said, are you serious? I said, yeah, I think I'm, I think I'm done. Do I just go out this door? Yeah, you just got that door. And I went out, and apparently the. The guy that. That Box had known was out there, Apparently, Box had also decided not to. So the guy was just glaring at me, and I'm like, I'm sorry, dude, I can't. And we get back to the dorm, and Tay. Uh-huh. My memory gets foggy, but I could have sworn that I think Tay was the first person we saw, and he thought it was hilarious that we went through all this stuff. We went to the big ceremony, we wore our khakis and all this stuff, and it was like, nah, no, thanks. It's like, if you're not going to do a thing, you would bow out before the actual awards ceremony.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: It's like winning the Oscar. And then as you're going up saying, I don't really want to be an actor, you know?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Now, I may be playing it up a bit, but I. I swear, I felt bad. I felt Terrible. the good news is, is that I don't run in frat circles, so I really didn't see any of those guys ever again.

>> Darin: What were they going to make you do?

>> Mike: Say? Yes, I would. I would be in the fraternity. I had the option to move into the house, the frat house, and be a frat guy.


Darren: Yeah. So when I went to East Tennessee State University, frat parties were fun

You would pay dues. you have your instant friends that you've just. You pay the dues now. You have all your fraternity brothers that you've only known for, like.

>> Darin: Well, usually you think. And I know this is stereo. This story's in stereo. I know this is stereotypical, but you'd think that the final thing that you would have to do would be, I don't know, get the. Get boarded. You know, where they. You bend over and they spec. Oh, smack you with the board.

>> Mike: I don't know where you.

>> Darin: And all this. It's all from watching this stuff on television and the wise world of cinema.

>> Mike: So other people, they make you.

>> Darin: They spank you. You have to run down the street.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Naked.

>> Mike: Sometimes.

>> Mike: There was a guy. There was a guy in our dorms. There was a guy in our dorm named Bill. Bill was awesome. We called him Little Willow. He rushed a frat. He got in. It was. It was hilarious. They drove him out into the middle of the woods in Athens, blindfolded in the middle of the night, and he had to make it home.

>> Darin: Yeah, that's what I was. That's what I was hoping.

>> Mike: And Tay saw him because Tay. Was going to class the next day, and he said he saw Willa coming across the courtyard screaming, I'm Magellan. Yeah, that whole thing. Great. So it's a boring story. Edit out whatever you feel needs to be edited out, but it's now been documented. Whoa.

>> Darin: What a twist at the end. What a curveball finish. I could have sworn that was all going somewhere. Could have sworn it. But you flipped the tables. You managed to follow nothing with less. So when I went to East Tennessee State University, my buddy Steve was big in a fraternity, and he used to invite me to his frat parties all the time. And I don't know how many frat parties I went to. And I essentially, in this frat because I went to all the parties.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I was at the mall one time, and I ran into one of his frat brothers, this guy, affectionately, nicknamed Scooter. And I didn't know what Scooter's real name was.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: For 40 years. But he was in the mall with his girlfriend. He Goes, oh, hey, Linda, this is Darren. He's in my frat. And I said, I'm not in your frat. He goes, yeah, you are. No, I'm not. I'm not in your friend. He's like, yeah, you're at all the parties. I'm like, I'm not in your friend.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: And this was the funnier part about the story, was that he was on the down escalator and I'm on the, up. So he recognizes me. Before we, made it halfway, I'm doing a hand visual on an audio podcast.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And by the end, I'm like, I'm not your friend.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I'm at the top of the elevator. He's escalated. He's at the bottom. But I remember, and there's one time these. They were fun. These parties got out of control.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I was at this one frat party, and this girl, she's cute, and, she's talking to me. And girls normally didn't talk to me.

>> Mike: Unless they're saying, get out of my way or.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Can you give me a drink?

>> Darin: Exactly. Can you move your car? You got me blocked in.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And so she's talking to me, and, you know, we're having what I think was pretty good conversation. She's laughing and smiling, things that girls didn't do when they spoke to me. And, the conversation is going great, and I don't know where it's going. And then finally, there's this ruckus on the other side of the room, and she turns, she's like, oh, damn it. I said, what? She goes, my boyfriend's starting another fight with this guy who was talking to me earlier.


Ted was in a heavy metal band during his sophomore year at Tennessee

I was like, got the hell out of her. Yeah. Ah, I don't need this.

>> Mike: Speaking of going to frat party. So one of the people that moved into our dorm my sophomore year and this. This happened during my sophomore year, was in a heavy metal band, Right. And they got constantly asked to play at different frats, so we would. They would get us invited.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So we'd go in to see the band, and it was hilarious, because I didn't think so at the time, but looking at over pictures, I looked like a frat.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: I didn't realize it, but I did. Yeah. And people would come up to me and be like, you know, how long you been in? I'm like, I'm with the band. And it was. It was like, I'm in engineering. I was an engineering major.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I would tell people all the Time I would go out to the bars or whatever, and it was like, that's a conversation killer. It was then. I don't know how it is now, but somebody would, you know, start talking to somebody and be like, so, what's your major? Like, engineering. To be like, oh, I need to go put my eyes on My house is on fire.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And it was the same thing. It was like, I'm with the. The guy up there that's spitting blood and screaming. I'm. I'm with them. And they'd be like, okay. And they just walk away. It was great.

>> Darin: Years ago, my buddy Adam and I were, in Knoxville, okay. And we're tooling around Knoxville. We're walking around where the University of Tennessee is, okay. And we're walking up and down these back streets, and we heard a party going on at one of these frat parties. And I said, hey, let's go in. And he says, we're not going to be able to go in, Darren. We're not in their frat. I'm like, trust me, we're going to go in.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So he's okay. We walk in, and the dude guarding the door said, is your name on the list? I said, no, I'm not on the list. I'm not a member of your fraternity. But my buddy Steve goes here, and. Steve Universal name. There's. There's a Steve.

>> Mike: There's a Steve everywhere.

>> Darin: Everywhere. My buddy Steve is the member of your fraternity. He told me I should come by and check out the band because they've got a killer drummer. He's like, you're in the band? No, I'm not in the band, but Steve is a member of fraternity. Told me to check them out because I'm a drummer. Their drummers really cool. He wanted me to see their drummer. He wanted me to come by and see the band. You're with the band. I'm not with the band. I'm not with the fraternity. And I started getting like, oh, my God. What are you not understanding about this? Finally, the guy just got like, okay, yeah, just warm down. And we went in, and my buddy Adam's like, how did you do that? I'm like, I just wore down. And I didn't drink at the time, and so I walked over. What I did was I walked over and I grabbed an empty beer bottle and just stood there and was holding it to make it. Oh, yeah. Make it appear that I've been at this party for quite some time. It turns out I did know a guy in the band. I went to high school with him. And so here we are just having, you know, just hanging around at this party, wondering when they're gonna kick us out. These three guys are posing for a picture. I walk over and get in on the picture.

>> Mike: They.

>> Darin: The dude on the end puts his arm around me. We all hold up our bottles and gives a thumbs up, and they snap a picture of me. So somewhere in the world, in the ether, there is this photo of me with these three guys from this fraternity. It may be in a fraternity album when this guy retires. It may be one of the pictures that comes up.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And so, like, there's, there's Stinky Ted and there's Billy.

>> Mike: Stinky Ted.

>> Darin: And who is who? I thought he was with you.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: And it thrills me to no end that somewhere is this picture of me with these guys in this fraternity. And honestly, when they have their 40th, fraternity reunion, that picture is probably going to come up in a slideshow.

>> Mike: We. In our.


There would be house parties. Everyone knew somebody at a party at some point

In our slide. Do people stop slides in our dorm? We, like, we were all friends, and we. Everyone knew somebody that was at a party at some point.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So we would always end up at random house parties, like, constantly. And we just decided a few times just to walk into. Because at. Oh, you. There would be house parties. There's no way in hell anyone knows who's at these parties. You got, like, a sea of people in the yard. The first floor, whatever house is covered. There's people upstairs doing, you know, what the upstairs people do.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And we would just walk in. As long as you had a red solo cup. You look like you belong. We would leave the dorm with red cups. M. Or if we were particularly ballsy, we would just walk in and make a beeline to the red cups and grab one. You're in the party now.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah. You've paid your dues. Doesn't matter.

>> Darin: In the mid-90s, when I had my first apartment, I threw a Christmas party. I had three parties when I lived at that apartment. And they each got progressively more, amazing. My first one was killer. The second one, we didn't think we were going to top the first one. We did that. We topped it with the second one. And then the Christmas party, the third one, my buddy Ashley, he told me, says, darren, we're retiring your apartment. We're taking your door number, and we're gonna raise it and hang it on the rafters. We. We are retiring your party because you're. We're retiring Your apartment. You're not going to have a better party than we had there.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: There's. I think in that apartment. I think there were 50 some people there in an apartment.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I had to.

>> Darin: I had to shampoo the carpets, and I had to wash, scrub, and wax the kitchen floor. Oh, my God, it was so. I remember this apartment was going crazy with my Buddy Shannon was DJing, and there were people out in the yard again doing God knows, other.

>> Mike: Other things.

>> Darin: Other things. My buddy.

>> Mike: Gardening.

>> Darin: Yeah, My. My buddy Tim passed out on the steps, and we had to carry him up and put him in my guest bedroom. My buddy Chad had karaoke going in the guest bedroom upstairs. He brought his karaoke machine. It was, as the kids say today, it was sick. So I remember I'm, walking upstairs in my apartment, and this guy who was a friend of a friend was walking down, and he looked at me and said, who the hell are you?

>> Mike: That sounds like me.

>> Darin: This is.

>> Mike: Was it me?

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: That's my apartment. This is my apartment.


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Mike: The new season of Phineas and Ferb is fantastic

Back to you, Buck and Dusty.

>> Darin: Do you watch Phineas and Ferb, Mike?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Okay?

>> Mike: I never have.

>> Darin: They brought it back for 40 more episodes, and I'm telling you right now, my God, they came out the door swinging. The first episode, the first brand new episode of Phineas and Ferb is better than all four seasons that they previously had combined. And I cannot recommend the show enough. My buddy, Andrew Jackson Gibbons, who is our attorney, he is a giant fan of Phineas and Ferb. We've been talking about this, and you've got to. After this podcast is over with, and we're not making any money off of this, okay? Go on Disney plus and binge watch Phineas and Ferb. If you haven't watched the original series, watch it all and then watch the new series and you will thank me. You're like, Darren, where has this show been all my life? Now I have Phineas and Ferb ranked in my top 10 favorite TV shows of all time. Not favorite cartoons, not children's shows, favorite TV shows, period. You got Breaking Bad, you got the David Letterman, you got Homicide, Life on the street, you got Pressure, Luck, and then you got, you got Phineas and Ferb in there with Everybody Loves Raymond and the first seven seasons of the Office. And it's, it's so good and you have to watch it.


Todd: I've watched through the series again and I watched El Camino

>> Mike: So you just, you mentioned Breaking Bad, which is dangerous on this podcast.

>> Darin: I know.

>> Mike: Because we go down a little.

>> Darin: We, honest to God, we could do the Breaking Bad podcast.

>> Mike: But I've just, I've, I've watched through the series again and I watched El, Camino again recently.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And my lord, Aaron Paul. Oh, is amazing. I mean everybody, you know, Bryan Cranston gets the credit that he deserves everything. But just in El Camino alone. And if you haven't watched the show, spoilers for a 50 year old show at this point. But what blew me away if they were. They filmed new scenes from various points of Jesse's character arc.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: In El Camino. And he does the early Jesse, the early airhead Jesse, the middle disturbed Jesse, the tortured Jesse and then the badass. I don't give a. Jesse.

>> Darin: Yeah. Come at me, bro.

>> Mike: It just blew me away. I'm watching it and it gets to a point where he is badass Jesse and then he has a flashback to airhead Jesse and it's like how you. Wow.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: That it was proof at that point that it wasn't just they were throwing Aaron Paul in front of the camera. Just do whatever you do and we'll go on with it. It was, this is your character that this is who you are. This is what you need to be. And now you're a badass. Now you got to be this over here and this one. Now you've got to be a tortured or whatever. Yeah, it just blew me away.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah. Same thing with Anna Gunn.

>> Darin: Oh yeah. No, I see. I'm one of the, apparently I'm one of the rare people who liked Anna Gunn's character.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because every time I'm on the TikTok and every time I see like top 10 worst characters of all time, Skyler White makes it on that list.

>> Mike: It's for people who don't understand that Walt's the villain.

>> Darin: I don't. Yeah. I mean, it's like, dude, your husband, is out there selling and making meth while you're pregnant. He missed the birth of your daughter, and he's murdering people, putting the whole entire family at risk. They came into her house, masked, at gunpoint, and with,

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Now we're not gonna have a problem, are we? Oh, my God, Todd.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: God, Todd. scary as hell in that episode.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And you're. You're gonna tell me that you hate Skyler White?

>> Mike: My question is, what the hell?

>> Darin: You need to reevaluate your priorities.

>> Mike: I feel a little back. I feel a little bit like an idiot because. Okay, now, the first time we watched the series, we got the season five. I'm like, they're never gonna be able to talk Gus as a villain.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: And then I never liked Jack. Not. Not just because you're not supposed to like him, but I was like, he is nowhere near Gus. He's not. It wasn't until the second or third time that I make it through the whole series. I'm m. Like, no, the villain of season five is Walt. Walt is the next villain. Walt is the villain from Gus. And then watching it this past time, there's so many things that happened to Gus that also happened to Walt, including one that I just noticed this time is he falls down on his side when Hank gets shot and is seeing Hank sideways the same way that Gus fell down in front of the pool to see his partner, get killed. I mean, it's. What a parallelogram. Yeah. Parallelogram.

>> Darin: Yeah. So what a rhombus.

>> Mike: What. What a rhombus you just discovered.

>> Darin: These are.

>> Mike: Geometry is the title.

>> Darin: Yeah. What a. Okay. It's brilliant television.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It's absolutely amazing.

>> Mike: I never. I. Jesse was always one of my favorite char. But it wasn't until watching El Camino again that I was like, wow, this dude can actually really, really act.


The finale of Breaking Bad is not the best series finale of all time

>> Darin: You know, one of the things I love so much about Breaking Bad is watching the final episode. Spoiler alert. If you haven't seen it, there's a scene in the finale of Breaking Bad where he's standing in the kitchen. Walter White is standing in the kitchen talking to Skyler. I did it for me. Yeah. On the director's cut, you can hear Vince Gilligan doing commentary. and he said that somebody commented at how much they loved that shot because you can see Walter's reflection in the microwave.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, And there was so Amazed that he did that. He goes, yeah, that was totally an accident. He could have just taken the credit for. Well, you know, I do take cinematography seriously.

>> Mike: That was total action complete.

>> Darin: But no, I mean, Breaking Bad is. Oh, my God. It's like Walter is supposed to be the hero, but he's not. And then Hank is supposed to be, Oh, my God. Everyone's like, you.

>> Mike: You watch the. It turns you. It turns on you. Because you're watching the show, you're expected to believe that Walt is the hero.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And you naturally look at, Skyler and Hank. Yeah.

>> Darin: Ah.

>> Mike: In a negative light because they're. They could potentially get in the way.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Of what Walt's doing.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: If you make it through season five and you're still thinking that way, you're associated.

>> Darin: There's something wrong.

>> Mike: You need to go talk to someone.

>> Darin: Seriously wrong. But no, somebody had told me that they thought Breaking Bad was the greatest series finale of all time. I disagree, because that goes to Six Feet Under. If you haven't seen Six Feet under, watch it. And then you'll understand. You'll call me and you'll thank me. but the finale of Breaking Bad is not the best finale of all time. Because you ask yourself, well, what happened? What about Jesse?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It's like all he did was escape. He can't go anywhere. He ain't got no money.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: He's got no future, no prospects, anything. And thank God that they made El Camino, because then that tied everything up. Yeah. This is Cincinnati's comedy. I realized, Mike, that I need to get help.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I'm addicted to yacht rock. I'm going to see Devo next week. and I love heavy metal music. So much. Considered yacht. No, no. Devo are considered, new wave music.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I was going through, shows on my television or tv, as the kids say, and I found this documentary on how yacht rock came about. And I'm glued to the screen. I can't watch it. I can't take the information in fast enough. And I'm loving every single thing about it. And I'm wanting to go. And it's like. And I'm wanting to buy all of this music, even though you can listen to it on the Spotify. You can go on your, Alexa. Hey, Alexa, play yacht rock, and then she'll play yacht rock for you. Sirius XM has channel 15 yacht rock radio. My God, When I'm driving or when I'm in my son's car that has satellite right now, I'm thinking Of keeping satellite radio in that car just for the yacht rock station. It's bad.

>> Mike: You actually use satellite radio?

>> Darin: I, mean, it comes with the car.

>> Mike: Okay, but you got to pay for it.

>> Darin: Well, eventually, if you don't renew it.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And I'm thinking of renewing it and paying for it just because I want.

>> Mike: Just do Spotify.

>> Darin: You got to pay for Spotify too.

>> Mike: Yeah, but. But at least you get to choose what you listen to.

>> Darin: I like it popping up. It's like, oh, I forgot about Player Baby come back. I forgot about that. Yeah, because if I pick them, there's gonna be songs.

>> Mike: They have stations like, you find a song that you like.


Christopher Cross was high on acid when he wrote Ride like the Wind

>> Mike: I'm too sexy for my shirt. Right Said Fred, not yacht rock. Then they have Right Said Fred radio. And it finds music out there that.

>> Darin: I ain't listening to. Right Said Fred radio. Ah, yeah. But no, I'm, And then this summer, this August, I'm going to see Christopher Cross. Okay. And I'm going to Crisscross.

>> Mike: They're popular. They're famous because they had the pants backwards. Yeah.

>> Darin: Crisscross will make you jump, jump.

>> Mike: Everybody make you jump, jump I'm going to.

>> Darin: Be screaming my head off when Biggie.

>> Mike: Gonna make you jump, jump. Tupac gonna make you jump, jump Keep the heads ringing.

>> Darin: Jump, jump. I'm gonna be screaming my head off when Christopher Cross does Ride like the Wind.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I'm gonna be that guy. And I'm probably gonna be one of a couple hundred guys screaming at Christopher Cross. I found out watching this, this yacht rock documentary that Christopher Cross was high on acid when he wrote Ride like the Wind.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I didn't know Christopher Cross did that.

>> Mike: Did Christopher Cross do the Arthur?

>> Darin: yes. When you get caught between the moon and New York City.

>> Mike: I have that album.

>> Darin: Jump Jump.

>> Mike: Bought it. Jump. Yeah, I bought it at Traders World. Yeah, you know, jump, jump.

>> Darin: We've lost all control. But yeah, it's like. I didn't know he did acid. I figured he might.

>> Mike: Everybody did acid.

>> Darin: I didn't know Christopher Cross did acid.

>> Mike: You had them.

>> Darin: I thought he may have. I thought he may have done mushrooms and gotten really, really mellow. And then he wrote Sailing and everybody who thought he's talking about this. Everybody who thought sailing had some grandiose beating about life goes. No, man, I just really liked sailing. That's what the song's about. It's about sailing. I love no deeper meaning.

>> Mike: I love finding out that there's nothing behind songs that people. I've watched a few Read a few interviews with Maynard and Tool is held up with Tool. Jump. Jump. By the Tool fans. As you have to. You have to have a PhD in music to even understand what they're saying. And then you listen to Maynard talking about. He's like. I was singing about an orange peel I saw on the ground and I thought it looked kind of cool. You know, those have no meaning. But then you look at bands like Chumbawamba. I got into Chumbawamba a couple of months ago.

>> Darin: That's a great song. But I think you defined like the. The greatest song of the 90s.

>> Mike: Well, that song. But then they're an anarchist band. Like, if you actually look at the lyrics of all the rest of their.

>> Darin: Stuff, they're pissing the night away.

>> Mike: You. You got to have a PhD in. In funk to understand what they're talking about.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Anyway.

>> Darin: Ow.

>> Mike: Did I hurt you? Did I use the force on you?

>> Darin: Yeah, you force. I bought an album the other day. You'll be thrilled to know that I bought an album.

>> Mike: A vinyl.

>> Darin: A vinyl. A vinyl, as you call it.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I was in half price books, and I'm going through and, Okay, here's the thing. I'm not gonna spend $30.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: On a vinyl. No, I'm really not going to. And if there's something that I really like. Ah, Something new, I'm gonna buy it on CD because it's.


Jonathan Cash has an album by Johnny Cash called look at Them Beans

I can listen to it, portably. But I'm going through the albums at half price books, and I found an album by Johnny Cash. You've heard of him. He's the man in Black.

>> Mike: Jonathan Cash.

>> Darin: Jonathan. John R. Cash. He's in the Rock and Roll hall of Fame. He's in the Country Music hall of Fame. He's in the Songwriters hall of Fame. And there's an album by him called look at Them Beans. And I'm thinking, this has got to be the stupidest album title I've ever heard. And the album was two bucks. God. Best two dollars I've ever spent. Yeah, I bought it, I brought it home, and I'm listening to the title track, look at Them Beans. And I was fully prepared to give. And as much as I love Johnny Cash, and I love Johnny Cash with all my heart and all my soul, I was wanting to give Johnny Cash about this song. but by God, look at Them Beans comes from the heart, and I couldn't do it. The song is about how his father died before he could produce a big crop, a big crop that he always wanted to but after his daddy died, and his daddy toiled and fought and he worked hard and he gave everything he had to this land. And my mama was right there beside him.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And they toiled and worked and whatever. And look what we got there. And look at them beans, man, look.

>> Mike: At them beans and look at that horn. And I met them watermelons must be three feet long man, look at them tomatoes and just look at them be. Yes, I know if papa was here right now, he'd sure be pleased.

>> Darin: And it comes from the heart. And I can't recommend the song enough. And now it's. It's. Ah, I can't stop singing look at them Beans. After this podcast, after you watch Phineas and Ferb, after you watch the yacht rock documentary, and, look up. Look at them Beans. And, you can listen to it. And I. Yeah, that's my.


If you were a patron of this page podcast, that would help financially

That's Darren's top three recommendations for the week. Mike, what are your recommendations for this week? Probably that we shut up and wrap up this podcast.

>> Mike: I recommend we end this show. I also recommend that y' all. If you're not following us on the YouTubes, Instagram. The Instagrams on the X. We're back on X. Follow us on there. Can you share? Would it hurt you to share? We would love you. If you're following us on Instagram, please share on Instagram.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: If you're following us on the Facebook, please comment and share. If you're following us on the. The YouTube, please comment and share. That really does help us out.

>> Darin: As I say, we used to ask people to go to, irritable dadcenter.com and you could be a patron. And if you were a patron of this page podcast, if you contributed financially to this podcast, that would help the success of this podcast. But we stopped doing that because ain't nobody wanting to sling money out to us. So if you're cheap, if you have a heart of stone and you want to help this podcast, you can like our videos. You can share them, you can comment on them, and then that jacks up our algorithm and, which was invented by Al Gore, and then you can help us that way. Would it kill you? I don't think so.

>> Mike: Look at them beans.

>> Darin: Look at them beans.

>> Mike: Look at them before they destroy you.

>> Darin: That's right. We're gonna go. We hope to see you next week on Irritable Dad Syndrome.

>> Dave: Irritable dad Syndrome is a Rankin bass production, copyright 1970.

>> Mike: Well, thanks for coming. This is a.

>> Darin: This is our podcast. Yeah. Hi. I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I am Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 262.

>> Mike: We are marginally excited that you're here. We have an amazing show. It's a balmy Wednesday night.

>> Darin: Yes, it is. Yeah. Normally we record on Tuesday and nobody cares.

>> Mike: Hey, I'm Mike.

>> Darin: I'm Darren.

>> Mike: You are listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome. We are Cincinnati's comedy podcast.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: If you're in Cincinnati and you want comedy, this we. God.

>> Darin: We're only available on the Internet in Cincinnati.

>> Darin: You know, that would explain a lot.

>> Mike: Yeah. Tip your servers, everyone.

>> Darin: Explain our numbers. Every week, we start out the show with we are excited.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So I'm trying to think of a.

>> Mike: Different way to open up the show. Okay.

>> Darin: God forbid we do the same thing.

>> Mike: Over and over again. Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: There's a satellite radio. Say. Okay.

>> Mike: So serious.

>> Darin: I went over and I said hi to the guy. I said, I don't want to make this weird.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But my birthday is also today, and I'm also 50.

>> Mike: Sorry.

>> Darin: Damn it. You know, I'm talking.

>> Mike: I. I can't. You know I'm talking. I. I just. I. I dissociate.

>> Darin: Where was I?

>> Mike: You don't want to take away the man's glory.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: You see the size of that chicken? Anyway, he's the one that says that, it just came out that they are making.

>> Darin: Who names a kid Dermot Young? Damn it, Dermot, get in here.

>> Mike: And, Papa, if you can hear me, look at them beings.