IDS #286 - I'm Not Afraid of Bacon

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>> Mike: Hey there, little buddies. I want to be your podcast friend.

>> Darin: That's right. We're happy that you're with us.

>> Mike: Like to live in your ear for the next hour or so and caress your cerebellum. With our seductive pod fingers. We're engaged in magic right now, Darren. Magic right now. We are speaking to kind of persons in the future, correct. Your celebrity cerebellum or.

>> Darin: Or cerebellum.

>> Mike: Easy for you to say.

>> Darin: She was huge back in the 90s. Cerebellum.

>> Mike: Yeah. And then she changed her name to a symbol.

>> Darin: Oh, she was gorgeous, too. She had that one hit. Hey, look at my daughter. Hey. Hey.

>> Mike: We're the cerebellums, Mrs. Bellum.

>> Darin: If you're nasty.

>> Mike: I'm quakey.

>> Darin: I'm tired.

>> Mike: I worked.

>> Dave: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, the podcast with Zing. Here are your hosts, Cricket and Tabs.

>> Mike: Hey, I'm Cricket.

>> Darin: And I'm Tabs. Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 286. And last week, we were apologizing because we didn't wish people a happy Thanksgiving. And now we're telling people about, what our Thanksgiving was like. And that's the joy of. Of having a podcast that you record, like, a week or so in advance, because now it's like people have forgotten that they even had Thanksgiving. And we're saying, hey, I had a lot of turkey and I ate some banana pudding, and I saw my cousins and all.

>> Mike: Yeah, you may be thinking to yourself right now, two weeks in a row, and these guys won't shut up about Thanksgiving. It's the middle of December, for the love of God, what are they going to do for Christmas? A full month of shows. We might.

>> Darin: We might.

>> Mike: We might.

>> Darin: We totally might.

>> Mike: We might. That might be all of January.

>> Darin: Actually, you know what? We already have Christmas and New Year's Eve episodes planned. Mike and I are going to be taking a couple weeks off, and we have recorded episodes in advance. Dave Lay is going to pitch in and. And, more than likely host one or two of those episodes. But we've already got New Year's episode and our Christmas episode recorded. Locked and Loaded.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And it's. They're both going to be bangers. Absolute bangers. Banging bangers.

>> Mike: Banger.

>> Darin: So, look forward to that. Hey, put that in your calendar, buddy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: And this, Mark this, date down.

>> Darin: Write it down. Write it down.


The podcast has been through multiple changes over the years

>> Mike: The podcast has been through multiple changes over the years. You guys may not notice, but we sure as hell do.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: And one of the biggest changes we went through, oh, probably about 220 or so episodes ago, we bought a fancy, mixing board. It has lights, it has dials, it.

>> Darin: Has plugs, it's got, as the kids say, may.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: It has all the bells and whistles.

>> Mike: It's got Riz and it's got.

>> Darin: It will. It's. It will rizz you up so hard your sister will get pregnant, man.

>> Mike: And it. I tell you what, it's been a massive pain in the ass. It has led to more wailing and gnashing of teeth. So we sound velvety smooth. Oh, yeah, we sound beautiful. we used to record with a yeti microphone inside what was commonly referred to as a cave. Or at least that's what it sounded like.

>> Darin: Yeah. We used to sound like Tom Waits.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And now we sound like Tom Jones there.

>> Mike: Yeah. So we have invested in the show and tomorrow, which, by the time you hear this six, days ago, we are having delivered a, nice brand new system with which to record. Now, sound quality wise, I would say the one we're currently on probably has more, abilities than the one we're getting.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: But the cool thing about the one we're getting is that an idiot can.

>> Darin: Use it, which is exactly what we need.

>> Mike: This is a podcast ran by two absolute complete idiots. And one of the features on this damn thing is it has a recording feature where it will record by its lonesome even if you're not connected to a computer. So interesting situations like we had once before when a certain guitarist from a band, was talking to those kids and not, a thing was recorded for the first half hour. Shan't happen again.

>> Darin: Nope, it will not.

>> Mike: Major upgrades coming to the podcast. But the point of me bringing all that up is A, to fill time, but B, for long time listeners to mark this episode 286 as the last episode on the old equipment.

>> Darin: And we want you guys to know that we're doing this, we're upgrading the equipment because we care and be. Because we're in this for the long haul.

>> Mike: Long haul.

>> Darin: Oh, long haul.

>> Mike: we're like, long. Yeah.

>> Darin: Haul.

>> Mike: Yeah, it's.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.


I think everybody's supposed to be depressed from October

>> Darin: How you doing?

>> Mike: Can't, remember. I'm trying to think about how I'm. I think I'm doing okay. I think I'm okay. I don't like this time of year at all. I get. What's that? I get the Seasonal Effective Disorder. Disorder. M. and I don't think it's a Disorder. I think it's how you're supposed to be. I think everybody's supposed to be depressed from October. October starts with a bunch of monsters and chasing you around. every. All these weirdos come out of the woodwork with their Michael Myers hoodies. Like, where do you even get a Michael Myers hoodie? And what's wrong with you? And then you go right into November. It's a bunch of turkeys running around.

>> Darin: Gourds.

>> Mike: There's spice. There's, cinnamon. M all. And then, there's people complaining.

>> Darin: Women got their pants tucked into Christmas decorations.

>> Mike: and other people aren't falling from the sky. And then you go right into the working. And the whole time, if you're, if you're a working person, then you're waking up and it's dark. You go to work, it's dark. You get out of work, it's dark.

>> Darin: It's like, who are you?

>> Mike: Dark all the time dark.

>> Darin: It's all the old.

>> Mike: You're slipping. You're slushy everywhere with the black oil from the road.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah, the black death.

>> Mike: And then every once in a while, you got to get out there and break your back at five in the morning, shoveling yourself.

>> Darin: That's what I did today.

>> Mike: Our kids do it now. But anyway, the point is. The point is.

>> Darin: The point.

>> Mike: The point is I like it. And I like it even worse in January and February because then you don't have to look forward to. At least now we got Christmas. Yeah. And Sandy Balls to, look forward to. But. But in. I'm sorry, Santa Claus, but Sandy Balls. Sandy Balls. You never heard it.

>> Darin: I'm calling the North Pole right now. Okay, you are on Sandy's naughty list.

>> Mike: You don't have anything to look forward to until you get to my personal favorite holiday, St. Patrick's Day. Patrick's. You don't owe anybody anything. Stuff is turning green. Things are coming back. spring.

>> Darin: Spring is. Wait until spring. Yeah. Today I was up like at 6 o' clock and I got both boys out of bed and we were shoveling the drive and, we shoveled the sidewalk so we could get to our porch. God forbid the Amazon person can't get to, our front door to deliver something that my wife ordered. Although lately she's been ordering things for me, so I'm gonna drop that line of, upsetness. then we drove over to my mom's house and we shoveled her back porch so her dog could get out and go potty. Pot and we shoveled her driveway in case she needed to go anywhere, and I was just, like, beat down, dead, exhausted, tired before I even went to work.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. And so it's like, thanks a lot, winner. You. I'm not a winter fan. I'm not. And then I'm very much looking forward to Christmas. and I'm with you. It's like, once Christmas is over with and you put away the decorations, and then it's just a lot of.

>> Mike: Oh, that's another thing. We got to get all the decorations.

>> Darin: Got to put all that stuff. Yeah.

>> Mike: And put it back and just.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, I know, I know, I know. And for me, taking down the decorations, it's like, at first, it's like I get really depressed, but after I have taken down, because I have two big trees and two little trees. Once I've taken down one tree, I'm kind of done with it, and I'm really looking forward to. Then I just get excited at the prospect of having the stuff put away, and then I get kind of like a. A little kick in my step, little jump in my kaboom.


Darren: We just had Thanksgiving with Jeff Brown and his wife Joy

Whatever you want to talk about. So we just had Thanksgiving last week. I had two Thanksgivings. My buddy Jeff Brown, who did the design, the logo for our podcast, he and his lovely wife Joy, who. Libby and I have been friends with her, I'm thinking 24 years. 23. 24 years. Yeah. We've been friends longer than we have, each had children. Okay, so longer than we've been parents.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And we.

>> Mike: That's what that means.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah. It's another way to say that.

>> Darin: Well, I. It's the way I say it. It sounds like Jeff and I had.

>> Mike: Children together, which we didn't. Yeah.

>> Darin: But his kids call me Uncle Darren, and my kids call him. My kids call him Uncle Jeff. So it's kind of like we've raised each other's children. Anyway, we had a Thanksgiving dinner with them. It was fantastic. We had a great time. Joy's aunt and uncle were there, and it was delightful. It was just delightful. The food was yummy. The dessert was yummy. Joy's Aunt Connie made this blueberry whip. Dandy Surprise. Something.

>> Mike: Something dandy.

>> Darin: I can't remember what it's called, but I had.

>> Mike: I don't like the sound of that.

>> Darin: I had more than one serving of it. Okay, let's just. Let's just say more than one. I was supposed to bring, we had, agreed to make the mashed potatoes and gravy. I was going to Bring, deviled eggs, which I did.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And I made my homemade punch, which is, it's Sprite and lime sherbet. That's, you know, if you go to an adult party that I host, I will put some, adult juice in it. Vodka. And So yeah, that was good.


Mike went to Costco four days before Thanksgiving looking for a pumpkin pie

I was supposed to bring a pumpkin pie now. Libby and I were at the Costco. Have you been to Costco?

>> Mike: I, I, on occasion we were at Costco. I'd never buy a pumpkin pie at Costco.

>> Darin: Well, we were at Costco like a week before.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Or eight days or something like that. Before Thanksgiving, they had these ginormous pumpkin pies that would feed like 30 people or something. Right. For $5. $5 for the biggest pumpkin pie you've ever seen in your life.

>> Mike: Lord.

>> Darin: I was gonna buy one that day.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Then it said, you know, best if served or purchased by whatever, the date was. It was three or four days before Thanksgiving. So living. I were like, this pie is probably going to dry up. It may, it may turn flat. Somebody's pie got flat. And, so it may spoil. I don't know. We were, were we overthinking it maybe? Probably overthinking it. So I said, you know what, I will come back to Costco a few days closer to the holiday. Which is what I did. I went on Tuesday night.

>> Mike: Oh, Okay. Did you have a.

>> Darin: Because if you go on Wednesday night, that is technically last minute. I went Tuesday night thinking, no way I'm doing.

>> Mike: You still need to have like a life alert bracelet or something. Somebody. You need to let someone know that you're going in. Like tie a roper on your ankle so they can pull you out if they need to.

>> Darin: I walked in and I looked at this woman. I said, whose dumbass idea was it to come to Costco tonight? She says, you're telling me I went back there to get a pumpkin pie, Mike, and there were no pumpkin pies in the, in the chest back there? Yeah. And there was a line about 35 people deep waiting at the bakery to get a fresh pumpkin pie. To which I said, and to myself, and I quote this, yeah. And I walked out of Costco. Actually, I bought something for Libby. I'm the only person I believe to ever buy one thing at Costco. The person at the register said, is, is that all you're getting? I said, yeah. Really? I said, yep. And they said one thing. I said, yeah. How long are we gonna do wait.

>> Mike: For streamers and everything to fall down from the sky.

>> Darin: The only customer.

>> Mike: You win a million dollars.

>> Darin: Ever buy one thing at Costco? Do you want a bag for that?

>> Mike: Which.

>> Darin: Which. They don't bag anything. But they were confused.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Anyway, so I got that one thing, and then I, left and I went to Kroger, and they had one pumpkin pie left. I'm like, my God, the hell? So I bought the pumpkin pie, I took it to Jeff and Joy's house, and you know what? Nobody likes pumpkin pie. I went through all this to get a pumpkin pie, thinking that somebody would eat it. But Cameron and my mom were the only two people who ate pieces of pumpkin pie.

>> Mike: Did you bring Cool Whip?

>> Darin: I did buy Cool Whip. And that brings me up to my next story, because when we were packing our stuff to go to Joy's and Jeff's house, Libby said, you bought Cool Whip? I said, yeah. And she said, why did you buy Cool Whip? I said, to put on the pie. And I swear she said, people do that.

>> Mike: Oh, my God. Have you been liberallla. What in the actual hell?

>> Darin: Have you been living under a rock? I'm like, yes, people put. And I. I took her.

>> Mike: I think that's grounds. I think that's grounds. If you're done with her, then this is a perfect opportunity. I'm just saying,

>> Darin: I'm just saying I'll never be done with her. Yeah, I will never, ever be done with her. But I checked to see if she had a fever. Yeah, I. I like.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah, that's another option.

>> Darin: How many fingers am I holding?

>> Mike: She could have the Ebola.

>> Darin: Are you lucid?

>> Mike: I mean, it's like.


I can't eat pumpkin pie without Cool Whip. It's not right. You bring Cool Whip and you put it on the pie

>> Darin: Are you having a fever?

>> Mike: Has she been bitten by a possum?

>> Darin: did you fall and hit your.

>> Mike: Head or an opossum?

>> Darin: Yeah, that's right. Do you have. So do you have the mumps? I mean, I don't wanna. Sorry. My apologies if anybody has mumps. I'm not being disrespectful to. To people who have mumps.

>> Mike: Yeah, we're talking about the sexually transmitted bumps. We're not talking about the other.

>> Darin: Those. Those are the humps.

>> Mike: Are you.

>> Darin: Oh, Cool Whip. You put Cool Whip on pie? Pie tastes better with Cool Whip. Yes. You bring Cool Whip and you put it on the pie. It ain't pumpkin pie without.

>> Mike: Did you. Did you get normal American Cool Whip or did you get that communist lowfat stuff?

>> Darin: Oh, God, no. You don't get the low fat Cool Whip.

>> Mike: Yeah, you.

>> Darin: You have to get the extra fat.

>> Mike: That was.

>> Darin: That they actually. If you wink And I said, guy, can you give me some of the Cool Whip? They will bring you extra fat Cool Whip. They keep it in the back room.

>> Mike: We had a scene here, a few years ago. I can't remember all the details. I've blocked it from my memory, but it was almost like out of a horror movie. Bess went to the store. We realized we had no Cool Whip. And we get. We had pumpkin pie, or as we call it, punku pie. And so she went to go get the Cool Whip. She came back. I saw it as she was getting. I could see through the Kroger bag from inside the house as she was pulling out the car. She got the low fat stuff.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: And she brought it in. She brought it in. I'm like. I just. I said, what? What did you do? She said, what? My question is, what the hell? What? And she is low fat. And it wasn't like she said, oh, this will be good. She said, and I quote, oh, my God.

>> Darin: What?

>> Mike: And I mean, it was like, cue the music. Like the Halloween music. I'm like, well, what do we. I m mean, do we. Do we actually have to eat this? I can't eat pumpkin pie without the Cool Whip. And I. This is not Cool Whip.

>> Darin: No, it's. It's.

>> Mike: It's half whip.

>> Darin: It's.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: It's not right.

>> Darin: And that ain't Thanksgiving.

>> Mike: Here's the deal.

>> Darin: Yeah, I have.

>> Mike: I, am. Boy, I am hard to be around when you're talking about pumpkin pie. I love pumpkin pie.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Only pumpkin pie that I make, I should have.

>> Darin: Oh, oh, someone else makes it.

>> Mike: I can't enjoy it. I judge it. I get super judgy.

>> Darin: Can you eat a store bought pumpkin pie?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: If I'm at a fancy place and they say, would you like some punku pie?

>> Darin: I will like Panera bread fancy.

>> Mike: No, no, no.

>> Darin: Who can afford that?

>> Mike: I'm talking like McDonald's.


Some good pumpkin pie. I have never had warm pumpkin. Well, I've also never made a punku pie

Ah. When they have the pumpkin pie wrap thing. No, I'm talking like, like a fancy, fancy restaurant.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Like Red Lobster. And they come out with the punku pie. I can enjoy it, but the entire time I'm judging it. This is not the right consistency. They didn't use enough, cinnamon. there's not enough, cloves.

>> Darin: Pumpkin.

>> Mike: There's no cumin. Ah.

>> Darin: Wait, you put cumin in your.

>> Mike: I put cumin in my pumpkin pie.

>> Darin: No, you don't. I do cumin.

>> Mike: Cumin. Just a smidge of cumin.

>> Darin: Hey, what happened? Do you any paprika or Maybe some, I don't know, hot chili sauce.

>> Mike: I mean, I don't want to. Yeah, chili, Chili pepper. It's kind of my signature. You know, I throw a little splash in there.

>> Darin: Some good pumpkin pie. Oh, damn.

>> Mike: Tight, tight, tight, tight.

>> Darin: It'll make you sweat pumpkins.

>> Mike: I don't know what happened.

>> Darin: I don't either.

>> Mike: But anyway. And I get a massive. I'm talking. Somebody get the spoon from grandpa. massive dollop of Cool Whip. I try to get as much of the container onto the single piece of pie as I can.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then I. By the time I. My brain understands that I'm eating pumpkin pie, I'm already through the first piece. So I leave the pie. I have to get another piece.

>> Darin: Yeah, right then. Because you didn't eat the first piece like you and.

>> Mike: No, the first one was to calm the demons. The second one is for me to enjoy.

>> Darin: It's a trial run.

>> Mike: Yeah. do you eat it warm or cold?

>> Darin: Cold.

>> Mike: I go both ways.

>> Darin: I have never had warm pumpkin.

>> Mike: You've never had warm pumpkin?

>> Darin: That's what I literally.

>> Mike: Well, usually the. For the first slice, because I can't wait for it to be in the fridge. I. I let it cool in the oven.

>> Darin: Well, I've also never made a punku pie.

>> Mike: Oh, they're fun.

>> Darin: I bet.

>> Mike: Yeah, it's like a thing.


David Rogers: We had a great Thanksgiving in North Carolina

>> Darin: Anyway, now, have you ever, like, taken an actual pumpkin and got all the slop out of it and made a pumpkin pie like the, like our settlers did? No, like the, our. Our pilgrim friends?

>> Mike: No, the. The pilgrims. Yeah. Once they got their ship off that rock on their own and they got finished with the maze.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I'm listening to the episode today, but.

>> Darin: Not bad. It was pretty good. I liked it.

>> Mike: What happened?

>> Darin: Hey, I'm, David. Pumpkins. That was Thanksgiving at Jeff and Joy's house. Our second Thanksgiving. We drove down to Charlotte, North Carolina to see my brother in law, that's Libby's brother Eddie, and his wife Gina.

>> Mike: For the geographically challenged, North Carolina is the one on top.

>> Darin: That's right to the north of South Carolina. And if you listen to our episode last year, I talked about all the people that were at Thanksgiving dinner. They were all there, with the exception of my aunt Nancy. So there was Eddie, Gina, Gina's sister, and Gina's four daughters. And then Gina's husband, Josh, who I love referring to as my brother in law's brother in law. And we were talking, Eddie and I were like, there's got to be a name for that. And so he was like, what if I call him my bxl? That's at the top so far. But I haven't. I haven't decided to officially keep that. But I was hanging out with my brother in law's brother in law and their kids. And then there was Gina's, dad and her stepmom and Gina's mom. My God, so many people there. But we had a blast. And there were conversations at the table, as is supposed to happen. Oh, and my, my sister in law, Peggy, was there. So we're sitting there talking at the table, and I'm not going to name the person who said it. Somebody had mentioned at the table that he likes to walk around the house naked. M. So we were trying to enjoy our dessert, and everyone was talking about that. Gina, my, my sister in law, she had said, and. Are you sitting down?

>> Mike: I am.

>> Darin: She had said. It'S hard for me to breathe these words that she. I don't. She said, I don't like bacon. What? She says, I actually hate bacon. I don't like the smell of bacon. I. It's like if Eddie makes bacon, we have to put a fan in the kitchen to get the bacon smell out of the kitchen.

>> Mike: And I'm gonna call the police.

>> Darin: Jacob and Cameron and I were in the kitchen when she said that, and we all just looked at her with, with tears in our eyes.

>> Mike: What does she like?

>> Darin: Apparently nothing. Yeah, because if you don't like bacon, what's the point?

>> Mike: She doesn't like joy.

>> Darin: So. So that was like the first morning we were there. The second morning we were there, Gina's mom, who is awesome, had made breakfast for everybody. She made a breakfast casserole, some biscuits, and she made bacon.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And when Gina came down, Jacob's like, ooh, ooh. She was like, I'm not afraid of bacon. I just don't like it. And every time he's like, he would, he would wave bacon in her face. I'm not afraid of bacon.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: anyway, we had a fun Thanksgiving. We played Super Fight. Have you ever played Super Fight? Oh, my God. Super Fight is the ultimate party game where you get to draw a character with two attributes, and then someone else draws a character and two other attributes.

>> Mike: They draw like a card.

>> Darin: Yeah, there's. There's a whole, box full of white cards and black cards, and you draw a character and then you draw, two attributes. And sometimes, sometimes it's like Chuck Norris and I've got a missile on one hand and I shoot barbed wire fence out of the other. And, like, duh, of course you're going to win a fight. All right? And then occasionally you'll get. I'm Mr. Rogers, I'm a pacifist, and I cry every time I think about falling asleep.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: It's like the weird things, and M. It's a perfect little party game. We played blank slate, like, we played over at Anne and Dave's house, and, that was fun. So it was a good time.

>> Mike: That's good.

>> Darin: Yeah, that's good. We had a really good Thanksgiving. What about you?

>> Mike: Yeah, we, Let me take a station break here for a moment.

>> Darin: M. Okay,

>> Mike: Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have.

>> Darin: Wait, wait.

>> Mike: I worry what you just heard was, give me a lot of bacon and eggs. What I said was, give me all the bacon and eggs you have.


Mike: We had a good Thanksgiving. What did we do? We played all. We watched all of the Stranger Things. Uh, we haven

Do you understand?

>> Dave: You're listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome now with more bacon.

>> Darin: While Mike adjusts his camera, I'm gonna take this moment to enjoy a lovely beverage. there isn't a man, woman, or child alive who doesn't enjoy a lovely beverage. And believe me, it's not lost on us that we could have adjusted the camera before the podcast started. What we're gonna do is, the podcast, the stage, the commercials, the podcast that I thought was going well. Yeah, we're totally going to interrupt the flow. We're going to just stop it dead in its tracks. Just like the record scratch at a party when the unwelcome person walks in and it's a. Hang on a second. I'm gonna. With the camera for five minutes. No, up. down.

>> Mike: Is that right? How is it?

>> Dave: Lift.

>> Darin: Oh, there it is.

>> Mike: There it is.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: See that?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I'm back.

>> Darin: Hold it. A. quick review. I found out that a family member of mine listens to the podcast. Oh, my family member was not at Thanksgiving dinner.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: She had passed along this message to somebody. She said, I listened to Darren's podcast. As a matter of fact, I've listened to several of Darren's podcasts, and I can't understand a thing they're talking about. It's like, yeah. Thanks for that review.

>> Mike: So, yeah, we had a good Thanksgiving. We went to Bess's Sisters. and we. We had the foods. We, went. What did we do? We played all. We watched all of the Stranger Things. Oh, the whole season five thing.

>> Darin: we haven't watched one yet. My son, My oldest son, who has studying to do. Yeah. And has final exams. To prepare for and a presentation to prepare for. Isn't able to sit with us and watch something because he has college stuff. I'm like, screw it, you know? And now I'm. I'm. I'm starting to get very upset with him, even though he loaned me his car. Tonight, I want to watch Stranger Things.

>> Mike: I came at it, from the standpoint of somebody who hasn't watched Stranger Things since the first episode of season two. Because I saw that episode, I'm like, I'm. I don't need. I don't need this in my life.

>> Darin: You missed all of 2, 3, and 4.

>> Mike: Yeah, that's how that works.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah. but they had a, They had a Previously on Stranger Things. These people look like kids thing.

>> Darin: They used to be cute.

>> Mike: They used to be kids.

>> Darin: And then.

>> Mike: So I'm.

>> Darin: They're all kind of sexy.

>> Mike: I'm pretty much all caught up, you know? I get it. Yeah, we did that. Bess's sister has a massage chair. And when I say Bess's sister has a massage chair, I don't mean it's one of these little teemu things that you buy. It's like inflatable with a thing that goes on your, back. I'm talking this thing. This thing grabs you. It literally. It has air pillows, pulls you. It grabs your shoulders. It goes like this. And it goes. He goes, sit down. And you're. It literally does up in your back. It massages your calves. It grabs your feet. It grabs your feet, Darren. Oh. And pushes them down. And then there's like these things that come up and go.

>> Darin: Someone'S being dominant with me.

>> Mike: It attacks you.


The only complaint that I have about Thanksgiving is the food. The only complaint

It attacks you to a degree.

>> Darin: And you pay extra for that.

>> Mike: No, I spent, the majority of the time that we were there in that chair and, enjoyed myself implicitly being muscled around. We played a game called Coup. Have you played Coo Coo Coo?

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: It's a game of lion.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: To your family and friends.

>> Darin: okay.

>> Mike: Andrew is very, very good at it. Him and his friends play.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: A ton. we played that, we went out to. We were going to go to an arcade, but once we got there, it was 9pm and the arcade became a 21 and over bar. And me and, Jim Boyce, a fellow Gen Xer.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Kind of mused on the hilarity.

>> Darin: He's a good friend of the show.

>> Mike: Yeah. We mused on the hilarity of an arcade that back when we were growing up, it was all them, just for kids. Is now Closed. And they won't let the kids in. Only adults, right?

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: We thought about leaving the kids outside in the cold while we went in, because it was. It was rocking.

>> Darin: It wouldn't be the first time you've.

>> Mike: Done it, but, you know, so we did it. But we. Instead we had a burrito. And. Damn, that thing was good.

>> Darin: I love burritos.

>> Mike: And probably the best coconut cream pie I've ever had in my life. I can't stand coconut cream pie cake. and then,

>> Darin: Coconut cream pie cake.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yes. And then we came home.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: It was. It was a good, fancy thing. The only complaint. The only complaint that I have is. And I'm not one to complain really, but it's Thanksgiving. So you've got turkey, you've got the gravy. of course, you've got your rolls. M. all these. All the mashed potatoes and all this stuff. The thing that they did not have.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And I'm saying I'm not complaining because I'm not the one that cooked this. I'm just saying the sweet potato casserole with the. With the marshmallows and the pecans. Not there. That's the only thing I like. That's m. The only thing I look forward to besides the turkey and the punku pie. And it wasn't there. And I was told it's because, Maria was not there, who is their oldest daughter. She couldn't come in.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And she had demanded it. But since she wasn't there and Jim wasn't going to make it, and I, being me was like, that's not an excuse.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: We drove five hours for this. Get me some. I want to beat the table, but I don't have a beater towel.

>> Darin: No, but I. I have a beat towel.

>> Mike: We also went to the Lucky Duck.

>> Darin: Okay, okay. Okay.

>> Mike: It's a room.

>> Darin: Is there a picture of Quacker the duck?

>> Mike: No, no, no. They have tables of. It's basically not. But tables of things that have been returned into stuff to Amazon.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: But somehow ended up in the possession by possessed by Lucky Duck. I don't know how that happens.

>> Darin: They were possessed.

>> Mike: I don't know. Possessed by the duck. If you go in on a Friday, everything in the bins is $10. It doesn't matter what you pull out. You could pull out a deck of cards. $10.

>> Darin: Wait a minute.


This place was insane. They had things that were, um, heavily discounted

>> Mike: Pull out a carburetor, which I did. There was a carburetor. A new carburetor. I didn't know what it was. I thought it was a artificial heart, but Jim told me it was a carburetor. There were Diet doctor Pepper cans scattered throughout the bins and we don't know why. Books for $2. It doesn't matter what the book is. I'm talking literally anything in there. We found an awesome backpack, $10. And then on Saturday it goes down to $9. And then $8. It goes all the way down to $2 on the final day. Jim said, On $2 day, you got.

>> Darin: Just stuff nobody wants old bags and people's finger.

>> Mike: On top of that, they had a shoe section. They had things that were, heavily discounted. I found a keyboard. Right. A keyboard. And they were selling it for $80. Right, right. I looked it up on Amazon. You want this?

>> Darin: This keyword retails for $7,000.

>> Mike: $340. Wow.

>> Darin: And I thought, that's a lot less than 7,000.

>> Mike: Less than 7,000. And I was going to buy it, but it had no spacebar. that was the only problem. And you need a spacebar when you're typing. But my point is, that's true. This place was insane. We spent about $50 in there and filled up the back of the SUV.

>> Darin: You got everybody's stocking stuffers.

>> Mike: We did, we got some of the Christmas presents. And Bess is, she doesn't care. She's like, she found a push up thing that the kids had been wanting and she said, look, this is 10 bucks. And Andrew and Charlie saw it and they were like, what is that a Christmas present for us?

>> Darin: Like doing push ups?

>> Mike: Like, yeah, for doing. They want to, they want to do push ups. And she got it for 10 bucks and she was going to spend, I don't know, 70, $70,000 for it on. On the Amazon. Right, The Amazon, as it were. And got it for 10 bucks.

>> Mike: So.

>> Darin: Yeah. Wow.

>> Mike: Lots of milking supplies.

>> Darin: For milking cow milking?

>> Mike: No, for like, breastfeeding. and.

>> Darin: Ah, that's different.

>> Mike: Yeah. A.

>> Darin: You don't, you don't call them milk and cheese.

>> Mike: That woman's breast pumps. I saw a few breast pump things there. There was a box of rubber chickens that Charlie. Charlie wanted it, but he only wanted one chicken. I'm like, buddy, you have to buy all the chickens together.

>> Darin: Right? It's a set.


Darren Cox got pulled over in Tennessee for not moving over

>> Dave: This portion of Irritable Dad Syndrome is brought to you by Mr. Bubble, the bath time soap that makes getting clean as much fun as getting dirty. Now back to the show.

>> Darin: On our way down to North Carolina. Darren got in trouble with Johnny Law.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: I got pulled over for the first time, and I can't remember how long. Yeah, we're, The boys are asleep in the back seat. And I had just taken over driving. Livy drove the first half, and I'm driving for 20 minutes, a half hour. And I'm driving, and I pass. There are two state troopers. This is in Tennessee, okay? The Volunteer State. There's two state troopers on the road. I pass them, and then one whoo. With his lights on. And I pulled over. I'm like, I. What? What happened? What's going on? I got my license out, and the boys woke up, and they're like, is daddy going to prison? And Mom m says, he might. You might. Possible Shawshank. I, might get Shawshanked right there. Yeah, dude. I rolled down the window, and the state trooper comes up to my window and he says, sir, the reason I'm pulling you over. Usually they asked, you know why I pulled you over.

>> Mike: Yeah. And you. You're supposed to say, no, I've been doing everything perfectly.

>> Darin: I have no idea.

>> Mike: Right. To give me an award for safe driving.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: That's why you pulled me over?

>> Darin: Because you wanted to wish m. Me a happy Thanksgiving? Yeah. He said, the reason I'm pulling you over is because in Tennessee, we have a move over law. When there is an emergency vehicle or police vehicle with their lights on, as ours were on, you need to move over.

>> Darin: And you pass two police cars. Yeah, our lights were on. And you did not move over. Do you realize that he wasn't having it, okay? He was not in a good mood. And I said,

>> Mike: Did you say you might be. Ah, just a smidge up your own ass at this point? Sir, get in the. Sir, it's okay. You know, can you climb down out.

>> Darin: Of my ass a little bit? You know? And, by the way, if there are any police officers listening today, just disregard what Mike said, because the opinions expressed by Mike Odle do not necessarily represent those.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Of Darren Cox.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Thank you. I felt so stupid. It's like, you know, did you see us there? Yes, I did. Did I blow right past thinking? Screw them. Say I'm not moving over.

>> Mike: I didn't study my Tennessee law book before I got on the road here. You son of a. There was so many different.

>> Darin: The opinions expressed by Mike, so. And I was thinking, okay, this is what I'm thinking in my head.

>> Darin: The last time I was driving and I saw a police officer who had pulled somebody over, the police officer. And by the way, thank you. If you're a police officer, you do very hard work and I appreciate all that you do. Thank you.


One time a police officer pulled me over and asked why I was speeding

The police officer was standing at the side of the car issuing a ticket or a warning. I moved over. There was nobody standing outside of their vehicles. Yeah, there were no people standing next to the car, so I didn't move over. But it's like I wasn't speeding. I also wasn't hugging the side.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You know, I didn't, Anyway, I said. Basically just acted as stupid as I could, which is how I sounded because I didn't want to say I wasn't thinking. Because then it's like, so you're operating a vehicle while you're not thinking? Because I learned a long time ago.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: That anything you say to a police officer, they have a comeback. Why are you driving so fast?

>> Mike: I'm running late for work, officer. I don't know if it's the alcohol or the acid.

>> Darin: These mushrooms got me jittery.

>> Mike: I really didn't see you there, but.

>> Darin: No, one time a police officer pulled me over and asked why I was speeding. I said I was late for work. Do they pay you enough money to afford speeding tickets all the time? no, sir, they don't.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: No. So I told him, I said, I didn't realize that that was, we're driving, that we're from Ohio. And then he said, yeah, I'm pretty sure there's a move over law in Ohio too. Did you know that? Oh, I am a cop and you will respect my authority. Okay. And then he takes my license and he goes back to the car. To which Libby looks at me, goes, what is he, 11? He looks like he's 11 years old.

>> Mike: He sounds like it too.

>> Darin: He was. He just was not in a good mood. And you know, the last time I got a speeding ticket, the female police officer who pulled me over, she could not have been nicer. She was just in a great mood. And she says, you know, I'm sorry to pull you over. You were speeding. And you, you know, you need to watch your speed limit and I'm gonna have to give you ticket. And I was like, okay, yeah. And, you know, that's the deal. And he comes back and anyway, he, gives me back my license. And he said, all right, I'm gonna give you a warning. You need to do better.

>> Mike: Okay?

>> Darin: And he. Before I could say sorry again, thank you. And he was gone. Yeah, you need to do better. And he was out of there.

>> Mike: So was it a state trooper?

>> Darin: It was a state trooper.

>> Mike: Oh, they don't mess around.

>> Darin: It was a state trooper. Yeah. Yeah. So. And I'm not gonna. Afterwards, while we were, legally, parked and out of our vehicle, while we were having lunch, we had a lot of, a big discussion, family wise, of things you do not say to a state trooper. And I'm not going to repeat them.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: You know what? I might record it and then issue that to our patrons.

>> Mike: Yeah, but did he have the hat?

>> Darin: He.

>> Mike: Did he flat brim.

>> Darin: He. Did he have the, The, What did, The ranger on Yogi Bear? That type of hat? Yeah, he was wearing one of those hats.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: He wasn't having it. He was not in a good mood. and again, I apologize. And if there are any state troopers or police officers or rescue workers or any type of people out there, I will do better. And the next time I'm driving, if I see an emergency vehicle on the side of the road, I will move over. And I'm sorry that I did not. I understand what he's talking about. Yeah, I completely understand.

>> Mike: Yeah, I get it.

>> Darin: What he meant and why he was so, forceful and adamant about it. I get it.

>> Mike: And,

>> Darin: Boy, he wasn't having it. He was not a fan of me. The guy I wanted to say. Hey, is it okay if I talk about this on your irritable dad?

>> Mike: The guy that pulled me over near Athens, was it last year? Maybe a year ago? I forget when it was.


A female cop pulled me over for speeding and gave me a warning

He seemed kind of surprised and happy like, that I pulled over. He didn't. He wasn't upset. he just.

>> Darin: I can't believe you actually pulled over.

>> Mike: It's. It's almost like you pulled me over. And he's like, coming up is like, just how fast you were going back there. I'm like, no, dude, how fast was I going?

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: About 70 and a, 35 or whatever it was, and. Oh, wow, that's pretty fast.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: You can't do that. Yeah, I'm gonna give you a ticket. And then our relationship went downhill.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah. No, that female police officer who pulled me over, I was. And I was. I was speeding. I was on my way to Dayton. And she did. She asked me, do you know how fast you were going? And I said, I assume I was going too fast. Yep, you were going too fast. Yeah. And she says, I'm going to need to see your license. I showed it to her. She says, all right, hang on. I'll be back. And she comes back and she says, yeah, you were going too fast, but it's kind of cold. I don't feel like writing no tickets today. I don't feel like writing no tickets day. But hang on. I'm going to give you a warning. I'm going to write you up a warning. I said, okay. And she went back to her car, comes back again. I don't have any warning tickets. Okay.

>> Mike: You should have told her to do better.

>> Darin: She says, but I'm still giving you a warning. I said, okay. She goes, you be safe. I'm like, you. Thank you. Yeah, she's all right. Have a great day. Thank you, too.

>> Mike: So a perfect. A perfect response. When he told you to do better, you should have said, okay, do better. They love that. They get a kick out of that.

>> Darin: I really want to say what me and the kids were saying. after this podcast, I think I'm going to record something just for our patrons.

>> Dave: This portion of our show is brought to you by Blockbuster Video.


I really want to watch season five of Stranger Things

Now, back to the show.

>> Darin: Can we jump back on Stranger Things, please? Okay. Because I really want to watch season five. And here's the thing. Like, if you've watched Stranger Things, it's about a, monster that lives in the Upside down, okay? And they were able to access the Upside down via Christmas lights.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I, I. For anybody who hasn't seen it, it's impossible to describe it because season one is not as intense as two, which was not as intense as three or four. And so I can't wait to see how intense five is. But here's my problem with Stranger Things.

>> Mike: Some of the reactions of all the people in the room that I was watching, Bess and the kids going, whoa. I would say it was pretty intense, but if you don't know what's going on, like, I didn't. It just, you know.


Millie Bobby Brown falls in love with the character Mike Wheeler on Stranger Things

>> Darin: So my problem with the show is that Millie Bobby Brown plays a character, eleven. Okay. Okay. And she was just cute as a damn button when she was, when she played 11 in season one, even with her shaved head. And she was just so cute. And she fell in love with the character Mike Wheeler. Okay.

>> Mike: Spoiler.

>> Darin: As the show progresses, she continues to stay in a relationship with Mike Wheeler, who. He may be a super nice guy. He may be the. It's like you go out to dinner with him. I got this. Like, no, no, Mike, I'm going to pay. No, no, no. I insist. I got this. He may always treat. He may always, like, whenever you go to a Party. Mike brings all the beer. Right? Whatever. He may be a great guy. Ain't no way Millie Bobby Brown is going to date the Mike Wheeler. Okay, I don't see it.

>> Mike: Yeah, I don't. I don't. Yeah, I don't have a problem.

>> Darin: Well, you didn't see season four.

>> Mike: Season one.

>> Darin: You didn't see season four.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: when he was wearing the dorkiest clothes you could possibly dork out in. Okay, yeah. Okay. No offense to Finn Wolfhard, which is named. Okay, yeah, no offense. Okay. No offense. I'm. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.


I remember watching the first season when they were like little kids

>> Mike: All right.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I will say it was weird because everyone's kind of grown up with this show now. And seeing the kids growing up, it just looked like a bunch of 30 year olds running around from a monster pretending like they're kids to me. Oh, it was really weird. Like, it was weird. I remember watching the first season when they were like little kids. and then to go from there to season five, I'm like, this is. Boy, this is stretching it. Well, yeah, you know, it's kind of.

>> Darin: Like if you jumped over 2, 3 and 4, of course that's going to look.

>> Mike: It's kind of like Harold Potter when he was a little dude running around in the first movie. And same thing. I, I saw like parts of the last movie.

>> Mike: He's like holding his, he's got a, like his back cinched up a bit. I think he had a. You had to take a break. He took a smoke break and fighting Voldharn Von Dehar.

>> Darin: Voldemort. He's like, I got Planners. Weekly carrying this one. Gives me such a cricket.

>> Mike: And Hermione with all your. Just calm down. I mean, it was like a whole different thing.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah. But no, the 11 and, Mike Wheeler getting together.

>> Darin: Is more unrealistic than Hermione M. And what's, his face?

>> Mike: Redheaded, kid Weasley.

>> Darin: Weasley. Ron Weasley.

>> Mike: Spoiler. Yeah.

>> Darin: It just. I'm watching it. I'm like, no, that would, that would never happen.


Time now for the Gumby episode review of the week

>> Dave: Time now for the Gumby episode review of the week.

>> Darin: Do you want to hear about an episode of Gumby. Or not? If not, we'll wrap the episode up.

>> Mike: Is it worth it?

>> Darin: I think so. Okay, well, I'll tell you the story and then you tell me if it's worth it. Okay. We haven't reviewed an episode of Gumby in a, ah, month or so.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I found one that makes me believe that they were on something when they made this. Okay, so there's Gumby, and it's the hair raising adventure. Okay. That's the episode of Gumby. Gumby is friends with this scientist. And I can't remember the guy's name, but he looks like a potato. He looks like this red potato. So this potato looking scientist created this invention that helps you grow hair. Right?

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And he was going to share it and tell Gumby all about it. And it's Gumby, and then there's goo, and we've talked about goo. I don't like goo because she's a flirt and she's a tease and she's like, oh, hey, everybody, look at me. And I'm all special. And. And she just plays both sides. And she really makes characters hate each other because she's such a slutty little tease. So, okay, the professor designed this hair growth formula. And Gumby says, here, I'll try it. And he getting ready to throw back the bottle. And right before the potato scientist says, whoa, whoa. Just take a drop and go be drinks, like a lot of.

>> Mike: Because he's. Ah, yeah.

>> Darin: Next thing you know, Gumby looks like a Rastafarian.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay. He has got black dreadlocks down, like, over his shoulders. He says, wow, this hair stuff does work.

>> Mike: Yeah, right?

>> Darin: Yeah. So Prickle and I don't like Prickle either. Prickle comes in, hey, I'm gonna steal that hair formula from Gumby because I've always wanted hair. So Prickle steals it from Gumby. And it wasn't Gumby's hair, formula to steal. It belonged to potato scientists.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So Prickle steals the hair formula and then he drinks it because he wants long, flowing locks of hair. And you know what happens? He grows a horn out of his nose.

>> Mike: Okay, well, you know, your mileage may vary. My question is, what the hell?

>> Darin: I mean, I'm watching it. I watch it, like, because we were. Honestly, we were struggling for content one week. God knows you don't bring anything to the show.

>> Mike: Thank you.

>> Darin: So I'm like, we'll review another episode of Gumby.

>> Mike: Huh?

>> Darin: And now I'm like, I think this might be the last episode of Gumby.

>> Mike: Yeah. It's just,

>> Darin: And then the writer's like, okay, the end, you know?

>> Mike: Wait, that's it.

>> Darin: That was it. And they're like, prickle, you wacky son of a bitch, what's wrong with you?

>> Mike: Wow.

>> Darin: And then it was like, okay.

>> Mike: Wow.

>> Darin: Okay. A horn grows out of his nose.

>> Mike: Like a, rhinoceros horn. Yeah, well, you know, those are. Those Are hair.

>> Darin: Those are made of hair.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: So factual. Sure.

>> Mike: But who cares?

>> Darin: But nobody cares.


M. Stern: There's a lot of work that goes into this show

>> Dave: This has been the Gumby episode review of the week.

>> Darin: So. I left you speechless.

>> Mike: I mean, here's the deal. We do this show, right? We do this show.

>> Darin: That's right. We do this show.

>> Mike: And there's a lot of work that goes into this show.

>> Darin: But I would say there is.

>> Mike: Yes, but compared to how much work would go into it if we did it back in the 50s or 60s, we've got a pretty easy gig here. Right. We don't have to hire a camera person. We can afford a camera. M. Right. we have computers, which. I know they had computer, but it wasn't like that. I mean, they had, like, you put a punch card in, it was like.

>> Darin: The size of a house. Yeah.

>> Mike: It tells you the capital of Florida after three years of thinking about it.

>> Darin: So you're saying none of that needs.

>> Mike: To be in this.

>> Darin: So you're saying we just need to wrap this up?

>> Mike: I think we just need to wrap it up.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: We'll do better next week.

>> Darin: Do better. We'll do. Do better.

>> Mike: That's a. This guy's got to be a Joey Swole fan. Is he a Joey? You didn't talk to him? M. I don't know who Joey Swole is. This gym guy, he's Swole. He's got muscles all over the place. So, what he does is people will make videos of themselves working out in the gym, but they'll be about it. Like, they'll get mad at other people walking in front of the camera, or he. There. He has a lot of videos where, you know, these. These girls will take women, will take the. The phones in, and then they'll make videos of guys. And they're saying the guys are watching them, and they look at the video. Like, they look at the camera like, oh, look at the scrape over here. And the guy is not even looking at him. Right, right. And they post it to shame people and just do stuff like that. So Joey Swole is kind of like the. The white knight of everybody. He gets on and he just rails against people that make those kind of videos. Like, what are you doing going into a gym making fun of this guy? Like, they have a lot of videos, you know, the gym rat people, where they're making fun of somebody because they're only lifting 10 pounds. And Joey swole says, hey, that dude is going to the gym to get stronger. He's lifting the weight. He decided, you don't know what kind of exercise he's doing. No. You don't know what he's working through in his life. He may be recovering from an injury, possible. All these different things you need to. Blah, blah, blah. He just reams them. And then the last thing he does is he always says, mind your own business. You need to do better.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I like Joey Swole's, videos, right? They're like a minute or two minutes long, and it's basically. It's usually the person's video that he's responding to, and then he puts in, like, 30 seconds of, what the hell's wrong with you? You need to do better. Mind your own business. Sometimes he changes it up and changes the order, but he does it so much, I've gotten to the point where I skipped the last five seconds because I get tired of seeing him say, you need to do better. Because he says it the same way every time. Yeah. So when you said, Dudley, do, right here. So what you called him said, you know, tipped his hat.

>> Darin: Oh, no.

>> Mike: And said, hey, hey, little buddy. You need to do better. I was like, he's a Joey Swole guy. He just sits in his car. He was probably watching one of the videos when you zoomed by. He's like, I'm gonna go throw, my weight around. And just.

>> Darin: I wasn't. By the way, I wasn't speeding when I passed him either. Yeah, because it's usually then you slam m on the bridge. And then they're like, yeah, I wonder why his brakes are on.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Guys, we're gonna go. If you like this episode, tell all your friends. If you don't like this episode, tell all your friends about irritable dancing.

>> Mike: We'll take Hate Watchers. Oh, right. Along with everybody else.

>> Darin: Just like Howard Stern will take the Hate Watchers.


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>> Mike: Yes.

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>> Darin: Oh, where's the towel? Hang on. I need to. I need my bang towel. You know what I'm saying?

>> Mike: I think I demand that you explain to the viewers what your bang tile is.

>> Darin: Well, sometimes you bang so much and you need a towel.

>> Mike: I'd say cut out just before the breast pumping. On that one. That's my recommendation.

>> Darin: I'm leaving in the breast pump. I have not built the pool yet. that podcast money hasn't rolled in yet.

>> Mike: No, no, no.

>> Darin: I'm new. Won't be retiring on the last week's episode.

>> Mike: No. Ah, here we go.

>> Darin: Copy, link, copy, link to you until.

>> Mike: I'm gonna raise you up a little bit.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Lift me up, to the sun. There you are.

>> Darin: Look at that.

>> Mike: Look at that. It's Lift me up to the sun by Irritable dad syndrome.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: Okay. All rights reserved.

>> Darin: Available anywhere you get your podcasts. You being married is way more shocking than me being married.

>> Mike: You look like you're in a normal recording studio. I look like I am in a flood zone in a house that's askance. And I don't know why, because we're literally right next to each other.

>> Darin: Yeah, I don't know why your camera's crooked.

>> Mike: I don't get it, but I don't care. It's good. It's fine. I mean, the image is fine.

>> Darin: It's fine.

>> Mike: It's fine.

>> Darin: Nobody cares.

>> Mike: Nobody's watching this thing anyway. Welcome to the show, guys.

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Here we go. I'm a cop, and you will respect my authority

>> Darin: Here we go. Hello.

>> Mike: Hello. Hey.

>> Darin: I'm a cop, and you will respect my authority. Any questions. It'S all right here after Q13 news.