IDS #287 - Frank's Deer Urine Black Friday Sale

The signal goes up into space, it hits the satellite, and then bounces

>> Mike: Look, I look like I have an elbow dysmorpha. Look at that thing. I've got elbow going on here. Why does it go up faster than the one, the other. Look at that.

>> Darin: it's something with the satellite. The signal goes up into space, it hits the satellite, and then it bounces off the moon, and then it comes back down to Earth. Okay. World Wide Web has three syllables. WWW has nine. Not short for anything. That's what I'm trying to tell you.


Irritable Dad Syndrome is Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 287

>> Dave: Time now for Irritable Dad Syndrome. One day, this will be the most popular podcast in the world. Give it up for your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I'm Nigel.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 287.

>> Mike: Boy, oh, boy. Oh, plenty. We are excited that you're here. We have so many things to talk with you about.

>> Darin: We do.

>> Mike: we have the first thing and then the second thing and the third thing. But the.

>> Darin: Wait until you hear the fourth thing because.

>> Mike: Yeah, the top story is, how are we sounding right now? Huh?

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: Huh?

>> Darin: yeah.

>> Mike: New system.

>> Darin: Brand new system.

>> Mike: And here's the fun thing about this system. It has fail safes. And we just tested it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's recording itself, and it's like Ultron and. Yes. And other things are recorded as. So when we have situations like, oh, I don't know. Rick Miller, ah, The guitarist of one of one, of the host's favorite bands, calls in to give us some time to do an interview and talks to us for 45 minutes. We'll get more than 10 minutes of that.

>> Darin: That would be awesome. In the future. Yeah.


You got Link Ray to repeat things that were gone because of partner's idiocy

>> Mike: If I may, we've never talked about this on air, and I'd like to address this now because you masterfully managed to get him to repeat some of the things that he had said that you knew were gone because of your partner's idiocy.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: And it was because you would say, hey, Rick, that thing that you said earlier about scorpions, can you. How, how exactly did you phrase it?

>> Darin: That was awesome. Can you tell me that story one more time?

>> Mike: He wasn't like, dude, come on, man, I got. I got, pork chops to fry. He went right in there, just did it and lapped it, up.

>> Darin: It was awesome. Yeah, it was very, very awesome. Can you tell me one more time what Link Ray said when you did the COVID of his song?

>> Mike: He said, me. That should have been a hit. Well, first he said, rick, what was that last song? You played.

>> Darin: I love it.

>> Mike: I love it. Is that one of yours?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I said, no, link, that's one of yours. And that's when he looked at me just, like, befuddled and said, well, me. He said, that should have been a hit. And I said, you're right.


Pastor Gary Lyerly passed away the other day

>> Darin: So before we get into all the fun, I want to mention, a sad, sad day in our family. Pastor Gary Lyerly. This is the man who married Libby and I. He was the father of one of my best friends in high school and in life, Corey. And, he passed away the other day. And. Oh, my goodness, was he a great guy? Absolutely a great guy. And whenever I would go over to Corey's house, his father and mother were both. They could not have been nicer to me. And I love them like I would, you know, my own parents. And he was just great. And, he was a great role model. It's like, if there was a perfect way to describe him, he was just a really good role model. He was the pastor at the Lutheran church in Johnson City. I didn't go to church there.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: And so when Libby and I were getting married, actually, Libby and I, neither of us went to church anywhere.

>> Mike: Getting married.

>> Darin: And. Yes. Yes. We were living a life. Living a life of sin, of decadence, and. Yes. And, Tom foolery. M. So. And I asked him, I was like, would you perform our wedding ceremony? And without even blinking, he said, darren, I'd be honored. And we were thrilled to have him. And it just. Just a great guy. And I remember. So he's a pastor. He was at that Lutheran church for I don't know how many years. When Corey moved off to college, he went to Raleigh, to NC State. And I went over and I was helping them move. And we were packing up the truck, trying to get all of Corey's stuff in there. And his dad was looking at it. It's like we had. Cory was taking everything in the. Under the sun to college. And he's looking at the truck, and he just stops for a second. He goes. I'm like, he's a pastor. He's not supposed to say that. But he was cool. I'm going to miss him. I'm going to miss him a lot. I, think this world was a better place because he was in it. He was one of the good guys. He was a role model. So, Pastor Gary Lyerly, rest in peace, my friend, and hope, to see you again.


My memory has been slipping, Mike says in this week's episode

All right. This week, Mike. I'm dedicating this episode to me no offense to you, this episode is a cry for help. Over the past couple of weeks, the amount of things that I have forgotten, that I have screwed up, that I have done incorrectly, that I have fumbled and bumbled and slipped around, it's uncanny. It's absolutely uncanny. And it's been going on for a while, you know, that I. My memory has been slipping. Right. So like a couple of weeks ago, we were talking about. I had lunch with my son and I was listening to a lot of his new music.

>> Mike: Couldn't remember his name.

>> Darin: I couldn't remember the name of the band.

>> Mike: Oh, I couldn't.

>> Darin: No, I remember Jacob's name.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Although sometimes I do call him Cameron.

>> Mike: I sometimes call Charlie Marbles.

>> Darin: Yeah, that's right.

>> Mike: And I call Marbles Charlie.

>> Darin: Well, my boys, their nicknames are Sticky and Bumpy.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And so Cameron's, ah, Sticky and Jacob's Bumpy. And they still answer that they're 21 and 17.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But anyway, so Jacob and I were talking about music, and I told you that I'm really starting to like some of the music that Jacob listens to. And you're like, well, who's the band? I don't know. I don't know the name of the band. Dexter and the Moon Rocks. Okay. Okay. And their song, Space Invader.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It's one of those songs that you can listen to 20 times and not get tired of it.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And if Dexter and the Moon Rocks comes around, I'm going to buy a ticket and I'm going to go see Dexter and the Moon Rocks. And I may take my son with me. Okay, maybe. All right, I might do that. But here's the thing. And this was where I felt so old. I went to the eye doctor. Libby and I both went to the. We went to the optometrist.

>> Mike: Ophthalmologist.

>> Darin: Two.

>> Mike: Two words for the same damn thing.

>> Darin: Are they the same thing?

>> Mike: as far as anyone that listens to this is concerned.

>> Darin: So I went to the orthodontist and. Wait a minute. That's a different thing.

>> Mike: Yeah, orthopedic.

>> Darin: I went to the foot doctor. That's what I was thinking. Libby and I went to our eye doctor appointments for our annual vision. check to see what's going on. And the guy, said he's going through the thing. The guy.

>> Mike: The guy.

>> Darin: The guy at the front.

>> Mike: The guy whose name was on the building.

>> Darin: Exactly. No, no, no. The first person that you talk to before you talk to the doctor. The opening act.

>> Mike: The pre. Guy.

>> Darin: The pre Guy.

>> Mike: The preamp guy.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Dave: Yeah.

>> Mike: Ah.

>> Darin: Starts asking me anything. Any problems going on? No, not really. Yeah. He says, have you had any, changes in your medical history? And I got excited because forever. Nope, Never. I never have any changes in my medical history. And I got kind of excited because this time I do. And I said, oh, I take blood pressure medication. I'm on high. I have high blood pressure. He goes, oh, okay. What type of blood pressure medication do you take? Could not remember my blood pressure medication.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: So I'm thinking. And I said, hang on, hang on. it's, it's Fluvoxamine. Fluvoxamine. And the guy starts typing in it.


You were prepared to talk about your medication, but you had no details

I said, no, hold on. So I go on my Google, I had my phone with me.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I get on the Google. Fluvoxamine is a medicine for, anxiety and for ocd.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Which my kids used to take. It's like, okay, scratch that. So then I get, I'm still on my Google on my. On my phone. The phone has a computer in it, and I'm on there. And then I'm looking up blood pressure medications, and it's giving me all these different ones, and none of them are what I wanted. And then I said, prescription blood pressure medication. And then I find Valsartan. And I'm like, of course I take Volsartan. And the reason.

>> Mike: The reason chased Frodo when they went to the.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But the reason I should have known Valsartan is because in the morning when I take it, I say volsartan. Whoa, Vo Lara. You know, like. And it's always funny. Always funny at the house. But then, yeah.

>> Darin: And so I thought, dear God, please don't ask me what the, amount. How much I take of it.

>> Mike: How much you take.

>> Darin: Because I don't know. And I was getting ready to just walk out of there because I didn't.

>> Mike: Know you were so happy to talk about your medication.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: But you had no details. You were in no way ready and prepared to talk about your medication.

>> Darin: But. So I was about to go over and find Libby and my honey, how much medication I take in the morning. And then she would have rolled her eyes so hard you could have heard of there. So there was that.


I'm trying to teach my son how to get to Northern Kentucky University

Now, where were we? Oh, yeah, I've been getting lost. Cameron and I went and did another tour at Northern Kentucky University.

>> Mike: Okay. That's in Northern Kentucky.

>> Darin: That's in Northern Kentucky. Yes. And so he's going to have to drive to, college. So I'm finding the Easiest way to do it. And the easiest way to drive down there is to get on to 75, which is the interstate that goes all around. It's the Cincinnati. It's a bypass.

>> Mike: It's also known as a beltway.

>> Darin: It's. Yes, yes. And so I look and I'm like, okay, so if we get on 275, all, we got to do is take 76. Exit 76. Yeah, we can do that. Yeah. So we're driving, driving, driving, driving, driving. We hit exit 74. I'm like, okay, it should be coming up next. Before you know it, we're at exit 77. Hey, what happened? Like, how the hell did I miss exit 76?

>> Mike: Is it like a Harry Potter thing? You have to turn off onto a. I don't know, a tree.

>> Darin: But. But I'm like. I thought I was paying, attention. I really thought I was paying really close attention because I'm trying to teach my son how to get here if he does, in fact, go to school there. So we took exit 77, turned around and went back, and then there was exit 76. But we get to the college, and then I have no idea where I'm going. This campus is unfamiliar, to me. So I pull in, and I just pull into this, and I park the car. And then I'm on my computer again. The phone has a computer in it?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I look, and it says, you can park in one of these three garages. And I'm looking for the arena garage. And I put it into my, Geo space. My. Yeah. thing.

>> Mike: River Cities.

>> Darin: My. Yes, yes. And it takes me to this garage, and I pull in, and I'm the only car in the garage.

>> Mike: That's not a good sign.

>> Darin: That doesn't make any sense. I'm like, is this about to be demolished? Is this. Is this contaminated? Did they.

>> Mike: Is this a ruse?

>> Darin: Are they spraying for, roaches? Or. What's going on?

>> Mike: Are the Mafioso gonna come out from around the. The, The pillar there?

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: Take you out.

>> Darin: Exactly. You're not supposed to be here, buddy. Yeah, so I call the lady and I tell her. I'm like, I'm in a parking garage. I think this is. It says event parking, but there's no other cars. And she said, quote H. Hm. she didn't say it that many times. That was something that you and I did. But she says, okay, that. That is kind of odd, but, what do you. Where are you? And I said, I. I don't know where I am. That's why I get out of the car. It's freezing. Yeah. And I take pictures of the two buildings, the landmarks that are closest to me, and I text them to her. There's the back of this building that's glass. It has, like, a round, bubbly side. And then here's the green thing with, like, a kind of orange curvy top.

>> Mike: You just described the skyline of the Jetsons. It just literally did.

>> Darin: I'm behind George Jetson's house. He and Astro are walking, on the treadmill right now. And so she says, okay, I think I know where you are, and I've got to move the car. I've got to find a better place to park. Yeah.

>> Mike: So,

>> Darin: And I'm turned. Do I go right? Dog a left. And anyway, I find where the other place to park. And then you go in where you put the ticket in it.


If you get lost in Cincinnati, all you have to do is find Interstate 71

>> Mike: Whoops.

>> Darin: And the thing goes up, and you park and you. You have your ticket. And now I'm trying to find the building where this. This night. God, she could not have possibly been nicer.

>> Mike: She probably could have been nicer.

>> Darin: No, she was super, super duper smooper. Nice. And we're walking, and finally I see this other student there, and I said, can you tell me where the Fine Arts center is? He says, I'm actually going there. You can follow me. Thank God. So I followed him, and that's where we got to the Fine Arts Center. But I'm like, I don't know that I ever would have, That I ever would have made it. Because, Mike, I'm looking at this map of the school, and normally I'm, Libby's always like, I don't understand how. You always know how to. You always know directions. The thing is, in Cincinnati. Yeah. If you get lost in Cincinnati, all you have to do is find Interstate 71 or Interstate 75, and you can get home. Okay, because. And that's what I learned when I first moved here. And In October of 99, my friend Jody Disner taught me that. There's, the Norwood Lateral, the Ronald Reagan expressway, and then 275. All those things can take you from 71 over to 75, and that can get you there. So we live in. In Westchester. So you got to get on 75. That's what I know. But, I mean, I don't know that at nku. I'm lost as hell. I couldn't figure out what was going on, where I was, who I was. It, was just,

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Anyway, but, but the lesson is we got there way early, which I always get places early in case daddy screws up.

>> Mike: So I went on a road trip recently and I learned something about someone. So when Bess and I travel to, my hometown, we had always gone a certain route. And then we got these Global positioning.

>> Darin: System program, a gps.

>> Mike: The gps. And it decided to take us through these weird back roads, which, if you know where I'm from, it's almost all weird back roads. So weird back roads compared to that is. I mean, we were out there in the Upside Down. Okay. And it's always taken us through this town called, I don't want to give away the town.

>> Darin: Why?

>> Mike: Because I don't want to dock something.

>> Darin: You're not running for mayor.

>> Mike: I, I know, but you'll see where this is going.

>> Darin: Okay. And we'll call it Cleveland.

>> Mike: Yeah. And Cleveland. Okay. And we've always, we, we always got a chuckle the first few years that we took this road because this town is so backwoods.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: I mean, music, cross eyed kids where, where they stopped, in, in Deliverance to get there to rent their thing and have the guy take the truck down.

>> Darin: Yeah. That was New York City.

>> Mike: That was like New York City compared to this place. And we got a kick out of. There was a house on the edge of town. Called Frank. And it had a big sign out that said Frank's Deer Urine.

>> Darin: Frank's Deer Urine.

>> Mike: Frank's Deer Urine.

>> Darin: By the way, if you're getting deer urine, get it from Frank's.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because if the name Frank's not on it, it ain't good.


For years I voted for Frank's deer urine. Why? Why?

>> Mike: Yeah. So. And I should have prefaced the story. This is not a political story. We don't go political. No, we don't. We don't. It's because, you know, we don't want to. Whatever.

>> Darin: Why?

>> Mike: Why? so it's not a political story.

>> Darin: However, for years I voted for Frank's deer urine.

>> Mike: And see, Frank's deer urine. When you drive by this place as often as we have, you start to, you know, there's not much to see in this town other than Frank's deer urine. And you see clearly his house is right next to the deer urine factory.

>> Darin: Factory.

>> Mike: Which is a barn. And it has a trough. And I, you know, I'm sure there was a bottling operation at some point. I don't know. One of the years we went through there.

>> Darin: Sorry. But it does make you wonder, just how do they get all the year?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Oh, it looks like he's ready.

>> Mike: And I know I've mentioned it on the podcast before, but it worth m. It's worth mentioning again. One of the years we drove by was around Thanksgiving, and there was a sign for the Frank's Deer Urine Black Friday sale. We were on our way to Thanksgiving.

>> Darin: Was it, buy one gallon, get one gallon free?

>> Mike: I tried to, I told Bess. I was like, we have to come back for the Frank's Deer Urine Black Friday Sale. But, you know, we're visiting family and friends, and it's really hard to say, look, you guys are all fun, but I really want to catch the Black Friday sale of Frank's Deer.

>> Darin: It's the perfect stocking stuffer, really. You can buy it and freeze it. How long does that urine last?

>> Mike: Well, the deal is you really don't browse urine. And this is not a town that people.

>> Darin: You don't want to get cloudy urine.

>> Mike: Yeah. So, a, this is not a town that people would go to unless they live there or they're legally obligated to go there. And B, when you're there and you walk into Frank's Deer Urine, I'm pretty sure that Frank expects you to leave with urine. Right? Right. You don't just go in and say, ah, it's not the right timber. No, you know, I don't. It's not the right hue.

>> Darin: No, it's not what I was looking for.

>> Mike: Urine's a little amber. Little. I'm looking for a.

>> Darin: Something a little more pure, a little more golden. little.

>> Mike: Yeah, Blue urine for the. The biker cook. Oh, yeah. You know, anyway, no, I put chili powder in mine. So we didn't go to the Frank's Deer Urine Black Friday Sale over the years. I mean, this has been going on for more than 25 years. We've been taking this route. And, I noticed several years ago, the Frank's Deer Urine signs came down, and I got a little sad.

>> Darin: Did they go out of business?

>> Mike: The house is still there. Ah, the barn where I presume the deer were pissing was still there. It looks like parts of the trough were still there, but clearly, Frank's Deer Urine had ceased operations or gone underground.

>> Darin: but they're on the black market.

>> Mike: On the fringe. On the fringe of deer urine production. You don't want to know about it.

>> Darin: It's on, right?

>> Mike: Don't look it up. The point is, and what this is leading to is I noticed that over the past few years, they've have a new sign up. They took down Frank's deer urine. And they put up Trump. Again, we don't get political. It's up to you to decide.

>> Darin: Right, right.

>> Mike: what that means.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: But it's just, you know, it's like falling down and getting kicked in the nuts. You know, it's bad enough you're on the ground, and then here's, you know, I, I really. There was something that was very, welcoming and warm about a sign that was hand painted, by the way. Oh, yeah, he didn't stencil.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Frank clearly went out there with a 1 inch brush on a white sign with blue paint and wrote frank's dear. You're spelled all the words correctly. Oh, it's including urine. E at the end doesn't start with a Y. Put a period I always thought was cute. And then at the bottom sentence at the bottom, it had the town's name. Like. Like, we don't know where you are.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: You're in the one.


Crowder's Vac and Gun Shop sold vacuum cleaners and guns

>> Darin: Which branch is this? It was the central headquarters because I heard the manager there got promoted to the Bristol store. Yeah, no, that reminds me, because when I lived in Johnson City, my mom, she had a house in Jonesboro, and when I would drive to her house from Johnson City to Jonesboro on the right, we would always pass this store, Crowder's Vac and Gun Shop. Uh-huh. Sold vacuum cleaners and guns. And I always pass Crowder's Vac and Gun Shop. And I always. What it was like inside. it's like, I'm just browsing. Are you looking for a muzzleloader? No, I'm looking for a Hoover, you know, and my mom one year went in there and bought me a hat, a Crowder's Vac and Gun Shop hat. And it was. I'm like, this is the most redneck thing ever. I can't wait to wear it. I just. And over the years, I lost it. And then they closed down, so it just broke my heart.

>> Mike: Bess used to live in a town, and I cannot remember the name of the town. It was in West Virginia.

>> Darin: Cleveland.

>> Mike: Cleveland. West Virginia. One of the times I was visiting her, and she, it was another one of these way out in the middle of nowhere. And she said, we decided we're going to rent a movie. You know, back when you rented movies, you go to a place and you. You rent the movie.

>> Darin: I used to love doing it.

>> Mike: And she took me to the furniture store, and we walk, and I'm like, are we going to buy a table on the way to the. No, we got. You rent movies.

>> Darin: We've got to put the TV on top of something. Yeah.

>> Mike: And sure enough, once we walked through, past all the chairs and lazy boys and tables, there was a shelf with movies you could rent. Rudy, Rambo 3, Robocop.

>> Darin: you know, A River Runs through it, which is, you know, Dragnet. They had eight copies of Dragnet. All eight of them were taken as.

>> Mike: Spider Flash with Italian subtitles. the Great Outdoors spelled incorrectly. Misprint. Probably worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

>> Darin: The Deer Hunter.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: If you rent the Deer Hunter, you get a free gallon of deer urine.

>> Mike: Tape two of Titanic. The first one was missing. You know, the second one. If you ever start the second tape, it's. It starts with everybody going, we're sinking.

>> Darin: Tape one ended with, sketch.

>> Mike: If you. Yeah.

>> Darin: That's why that one never made it back to the store.

>> Mike: Yeah. That didn't go where you thought it was gonna go, did it?


Keith: One more example of how I'm just losing my mind

>> Darin: No.

>> Dave: Time now for you. Just had to be there.

>> Darin: One more example of how I'm just losing my mind.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Is Libby decided to try a new recipe. And she was. She's like, I want to eat something new. We had chicken breast, and we wanted to cook something new with it. And she's going through her. We've got all these recipes.

>> Mike: I love a good new chicken recipe.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: Creamy crack chicken. Oh, okay.

>> Mike: So I think I rented that in college.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I didn't like it.

>> Darin: I was totally fine. Yeah. Until Libby said, creamy crack chicken, and I don't care.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And then that's Ground Mike for the rest of the day.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: I am singing Creamy crack chicken and I don't care Creamy crack chicken and I don't care. It got to the point where I could not stand, with the. I had to hold on to the countertops, and I had tears. Literal tears. I had to take off my glasses, and the kids were looking at me like, mom, this is it, right?

>> Mike: Yeah, this is it. yeah. Start the car. Get it warmed up. We're taking dad to the pack.

>> Darin: Dad's bag. Get his blood pressure medication. Slippers. Yeah. His copy of Dragnet. Because he's going to the home. Uh-huh. I couldn't stop laughing. If you had, you could have shot me in the face. And I'd try to tell people about it now. And they go, oh, yeah, like you. It's not funny.

>> Mike: No, no, that's the worst.

>> Darin: It's not funny because that makes it funnier to you. I can't stand. Stop laughing at Creamy crack chicken. And I don't care. Yeah, this has been.

>> Dave: You just had to be there.

>> Darin: I'm at the house the other day and I'm downstairs working. I work from home. Yeah. And Cameron comes to the top of the steps. Dad, there's somebody here at the door.

>> Mike: I'll tell him to go away.

>> Darin: That's, that's what I'm going to start doing. Just not answer the door because it's never, it's never good. People never pop in. It's never anybody that I want to see.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: So I open the door and there's a guy standing out there on my sidewalk. Hi, how are you? I'm Keith with Keith's sighting or whatever. And he says, we are in your.

>> Mike: Neighborhood because 15 of your other neighbors are getting the sighting. And we figured, hey, we can cut the normal price of a hundred thousand down to $3 if you sign up now.

>> Darin: Well, he told me, he said, we're giving free estimates. How long, how long have you lived in this house? I'm like, God, Jesus, eight years. And he says, oh, and how old is the house? I'm like, I don't. I think it's like three. I think it's like 20 years old. I don't know. I wasn't here. We're the second homeowner. But I think it's like 20 years old. I mean, you're siding. It's like everyone else. You see where it's getting brown at the top and thing because of the weather and the, ah. And the sighting. And I'm like, I'm. I'm not interested. Yeah, I wish you well. Hope you have a great day. I'm not interested. Well, sir, Sir, sir, we're giving free estimates. And so, I mean, seriously, there's no obligation. All we have to do is walk the house, and we'll check and see what if there are any issues. And then what we'll do is we'll schedule an appointment, come in and talk to you about. I said, no, no, no, I, I don't want to schedule appointment.


Two door to door salesmen tried to sell me lawn care products

I don't want to, to do that. And he said, are you sitting down?

>> Mike: I'm here.

>> Darin: He said, sir, this isn't a sales pitch. To which I said, and I was absolutely is. I was so proud of myself because Cameron was on the porch with me. I said, yeah, it is. Yeah, it's absolutely a sales pitch. Huh? I mean, you're not just out here checking out people's siding for fun. Yeah. You don't just love doing this. Right. And I'm sure you want me to buy new siding, which involves me giving you money as part of a sale. So this is a sales pitch.

>> Mike: And I'm sure he's just going to go, come back after walking around the house and say, well, everything's perfect. You don't need our services. We'll talk to you later, shake hands, and job's done here.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: Well done with your sighting.

>> Darin: Exactly. On your way out, get a free bag of deer urine. But I was like, it's a sales pitch. Don't tell me it's not a sales pitch.

>> Mike: We did, there was one summer, I don't know what it is. I had wild, hair straight directly up the center of my. And I said yes to two door to door salesmen in a row, like within the same weekend.

>> Darin: What is wrong with that?

>> Mike: The first one that came up and said I did it to get them away from me. I figured if I said yes, then they would leave me alone.

>> Darin: Well, of course he's not gonna go away from you. You give him 350, he's gonna want more. He said, he tricked me. I gave him a dollar, she gives him a dollar. I thought he'd go away if I gave him a dollar. Well, of course it's not gonna go away, nerdy. You give him a dollar, he's gonna assume you got more.

>> Mike: He said, I noticed you got a bee over there. Over there? Yeah. Are you selling things to get rid of bees? He's like, well, yeah, yeah. We do pests and all this stuff. He's like, can you get rid of the wasp nest up there? Oh, yeah, I get rid of the wasp nest. What about these ants we see everywhere? Yeah. All right, go ahead. Well, do you want to try our package? Yeah, whatever package gets rid of those things. We'll do that. Signed up. It was a little thing. You just check a box in his little iPad. I scribbled mine. I think I wrote Barney 5 and said, okay. And they started coming around. They did a thing where they said, you know, we're going to spray death sauce around your house because we have dogs.

>> Darin: I was in a band called Death.

>> Mike: Sauce, but they would text me at like 11:30 at night, hey, we're going to be there at 6am tomorrow spreading death sauce. I'm m like, okay, whatever, whatever. And. But it was like the next day I go open the door, hey, it looks like your lawn's in bad shape. And I said, it is in bad shape. We need to spray something on It. Do you have things that you spray on it? Oh yeah. We. We would do this. It'll get rid of the weeds. It'll make your lawn lush. Lush and green like the neighbor's lawn. Oh yeah. I bet you're doing other neighbors around here. And you. You can just give me a hell of a deal. I did his sales pitch for it.

>> Darin: Yeah. Because we're going to be in town. We're going to be. We're going to be here. Signed up normally $7,000 this week. 55.

>> Mike: Part of the reason I signed up for it is I got tired. I think. I think there are people around us that spray their lawns.

>> Mike: And I got tired of our lawn always looking like crap. And I was like this. I don't have to spray anything. They just do it. Well, Booba. I started getting a little. The old hickey paw. Probably about two years into it, right?


One company had a cancellation policy that required you to write a letter

>> Darin: The what?

>> Mike: That's the Hickey paw.

>> Darin: Hickey paw.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I remember in the 80s that was the big dance craze.

>> Mike: So. And. And they had just.

>> Darin: Kids are up doing the Hickey paw.

>> Mike: They had just sprayed. Not like, okay, I'm gonna cancel this. So I looked up these places a. They come door to door and you sign off on an iPad to, you know, Chet Courtney and. And Lance Rexner. And you don't know anything.

>> Darin: I don't know where you get.

>> Mike: So all I did was I looked.

>> Darin: At the Turd McLaura.

>> Mike: But they would. One of them would like, tie the bill to a rock and throw it at our door once some. I'm serious.

>> Darin: Serious.

>> Mike: I'm, not kidding.

>> Darin: They tied the bill to a rock.

>> Mike: And threw it at our house. And it would hit our door. We would hear it bang and then fall down. And I went out and I picked it up.

>> Darin: There's better ways to hand you the bill.

>> Mike: I mean, you know, I actually thought it was funny. And then I can't. The other. The other jackasses would try to slide it in the door. So then we got the thing of where, Marbles or Booba thinks somebody's trying to break in. We hear all this barking and scratching.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: As they get the thing in the door. Oh. And I open it and it falls down.

>> Darin: That's the sound.

>> Mike: And I want to get. I wanted to yell at him. Can't you just tie it to a rock and throw it like the other people do? Anyway.

>> Darin: Did you ever see the Far side cartoon where the dude had the. A rock with the paper was thrown through his window. It's a broken window. Call Al's Glass. I was in college at the time, taking an advertising class as part of my, broadcast communications things. And I brought that to my teacher and he loved it. That's what you call, direct. Yeah, Direct advertising.

>> Mike: Yeah, direct. Average.

>> Darin: Broken window. Call Al's Glass.

>> Mike: So I got on the interwebs and I found these places and they had this, this cancellation policy. I'm not kidding. One of them, the cancellation policy was you have to cancel in writing. You have to state the exact reason. Your address, your phone number, your full name. the reason needs to include why you want services stopped. Then it needs to be received to them within a week of the last pay. Like all this stuff that's. You can tell is structured.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: To prevent you from ever being able to cancel.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: the other one was the same way.

>> Darin: Screwed by that before too.

>> Mike: So I, I made the. I wrote the letters on the Word on the computer. You can do that. I, opened Word and that computer was like, you want to do something other than shoot people on this thing? You're not playing cod. It's like, no, I'm actually going to do something. And I sent those letters off and I also emailed. And then it was like, a month later, they're asking us if we can, if they can spray and, and put the doohickeys around our house. And I respond, no, I canceled. And then they just didn't text back. And then we had little flag where they had sprayed. I'm like, so I wrote this big ass email requesting they do not do this. I will be like retaining attorney service. Like, I got, right up to the point of, oh, damn. Right up to the point of, I'll sue you if you put any more of this stuff on my lawn. I said, my dog had a reaction. I don't want it anymore.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: All of a sudden, everything stopped. All the billing stopped. They never responded. Even though I asked both of them to send me something that it was canceled.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Fast forward about three, four months after that last one.


You can't say yes to these people to get rid of them

That's my knock. Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: And.

>> Mike: And, Rod Corduroy.

>> Darin: It's like I'm at the door. It's like I'm sitting next to that guy from the Police Academy movies. The sound effects are insane.

>> Mike: So I open the door and he's like, have you thought about spraying your lawn for critters? and I said, I've done that. I've been there.

>> Darin: We've got buffalo. I can. We Spray for buffalo.

>> Mike: I don't want it. It was like, have you tried. Have you thought about that? We have the green chemise. I don't care what chemical. I know. No. And I learned my lesson. You can't say yes to these people to get rid of them.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: You got to tell them no.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And you got to shut the door in their face. In their face.

>> Darin: Yeah, you do. Because they just won't go away. Yeah. But no. Jacob used to take private lessons with this guy, and, we weren't able to do them anymore. So I called the company that. And I said, Jacob's no longer going to be able to do these lessons. And, thank you. And our. Our last week will was. Was whatever.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then at the end of the month, we got the bill. They were still billing us, and called her up, and I said, why are we still getting a bill? We didn't cancel in writing, huh? I'm like, can't you just stop being. Stop being a. And let somebody cancel, okay? And don't bill someone for two weeks that they weren't there. Just. You know what? Just don't be a.

>> Mike: Don't be. That's. That's what they should teach in business school. Don't be a.

>> Darin: Rule number one.


Dave: Kroger is encouraging its baggers to take people's groceries home

>> Dave: It's time now for the Kroger story of the week.

>> Darin: Thanks, Dave. I went to Kroger, and you're not going to believe what they're doing at Kroger. They are taking people's groceries to the car. I thought. I went back. I. I went to the grocery store, and I'm, getting all my things. Yeah. And they always. Did you find everything okay? Yeah, I did. And. And how's everything going? Things are good. And do you have any. The lady asked me, do you have any coupons? And I said, I do. And she goes, well, let me check and see if we have any digital coupons, because, yeah, she checked on digital coupons in case I didn't have them, which I thought, well, that's cool. Got m. Everything bagged up. And then she said, would you like these taken out to your car?

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: And I thought, what year is this?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I said, no, I got it. And she says, oh, no, no, no. I mean, that's okay, but we're encouraging our baggers to, to take people's groceries out to their car for them. And I said, okay. Because what have I been saying for the past five years on this podcast is that customer service has gone in the. It's. It's Totally. Yeah. And so the girl who bagged my groceries, she was just so nice. And she's walking my groceries up to the car, and how was your day? And good and this and that. And open up the trunk, and she puts the drinks all the way in the back and the milk to the side.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And all the stuff in there. And she saved the eggs and the milk and put them on top. Okay. And I'm like, what's going on here? Yeah, this was amazing. because they just don't do that anymore.

>> Mike: Can you take the person home with you? And they put the groceries away in your house? Because that's the part I don't like.

>> Darin: When. Now. When I worked at Winn Dixie. Yeah. you know, Wilcox always told us, don't ask people. Can I take these out to your car, sir? Here, let me take these out for you. And if they say it's okay, then you. You absolutely have a fantastic day. So, here, let me take these out for you. And the people would say, sure. And I'd pack them up with the car. There were a few times I get a good feeling for my customers. That's like, okay, do, you want me to ride in the back seat? And then I'll put these in your cabinets for you. Always got a laugh.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Until you get that one person that.

>> Darin: Says, we had one woman. Oh, Lord, she was pissed. She calls up the, grocery store one day that she bought onions, and we did not bag her onions. And she is making a stew, and it needs onions. And she was hot. I mean, livid. She was just.

>> Mike: Wait, you didn't. So she didn't. Her onions didn't make it home.

>> Darin: Her onions did not make it home.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Somehow. And that happens all the time. They didn't. And so Wilcox comes down, and he says, darren, I need you to do a favor for me. And I said, what? He goes, there's this lady who, We forgot her onions. I need you to run them out to her house. And we never do that.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I said, I. I don't have my car here. And he goes, here, take my car, and here's the address. I said, okay. And I drive to the woman's house. You talk about a rundown. This house was a step above a wooden shack, and it had the slamming screen door.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah, yeah. With a BB hole through y.

>> Darin: Yes. So I pull up, and I've got the onions.


One time I delivered food to somebody's house and she was upset

And she comes out of the house. She says, are, you got my onions? I said, yes, ma'.

>> Mike: Am. I Thought you were gonna say. She said, hey, you're that with my onions.

>> Darin: No, she said, my onions. I said, yes, ma'. Am. And I walked over Henry. She said, well, come in. I said, no, that's okay. I've got to get back to work. And, she was. I mean, she was nice to me, but, man, she was upset. That was the one time I ever delivered food to somebody's house.

>> Dave: This has been the Kroger story of the week.


When the hell's Doomsday coming out? I don't know, but Star Wars. Avengers Endgame is coming out next month

>> Mike: When the hell's Doomsday coming out?

>> Darin: I don't know, but Star Wars.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Oh, Lord of the Rings, huh? And Avengers Endgame are all coming back to theaters now.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Star Wars.

>> Mike: Avengers is End game.

>> Darin: In game. Yeah. Because I've heard that Doomsday is. Somebody told me it's a direct sequel to End Game. I'm like, that can't be, because Spider man, Turn out the Lights, or whatever, was the direct sequel to Avengers Endgame.

>> Mike: I can't turn out the Spider Man.

>> Darin: Turn out the lights. Well, it'll.

>> Mike: It'll. When Tony flashes and dies, it'll flip over to the parallel universe where he becomes Dr. Doom.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Probably.

>> Darin: That's what I'm wanting to know. Yeah, that's what I'm hoping happens.

>> Mike: Yeah. There's a lot of fake stuff out.

>> Darin: There right now, though. Yeah.

>> Mike: And I. Yeah, there was a thing saying that, Netflix is making a Superman TV show with Henry Cavill, as Superman. And I looked at that and I thought, well, that's weird. That's really weird that DC would. They made this huge push.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: by the way, Henry Cavill and Netflix. Not on the best of terms.

>> Darin: No, they're not.

>> Mike: If you. If you follow.


What happened with him in the Witcher. This is before he was fired as Superman

What happened with him in the Witcher.

>> Darin: Oh, what happened with him in the Witcher?

>> Mike: They just, He was going to be in the new Superman, so he was still. This is before he was fired as Superman.

>> Darin: Right. And then they brought in Octavius McClunker, what's his name, who plays Superman.

>> Mike: Yeah. The Witcher said, you can't do Superman if you're doing the Witcher. And. And Caval. And I. I know I'm butchering this. And the. The, The keyboard warriors are correcting me.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But it was basically a pissing match between him being Superman and him being the Witcher. And they said, well, you can't be the Witcher if you're going to be Superman. I'm going to be Superman. He goes over to be Superman, and they fire him because they're going A different direction. Which ended up being Superman with David Corn Sweat. So then he goes back to the Witcher. Like, no, we've already got a new Witcher. So he lost both gigs in the span. It was like in the span of a month.

>> Darin: He was like that, that esop, fable. The dog with the bone in his mouth that sees his reflection in the water.

>> Mike: Yeah, but no, see, it wasn't.

>> Darin: He wants, he wants both bones.

>> Mike: No, no, no. This wasn't his fault though. He was.

>> Darin: He wanted the bone.

>> Mike: He was trixied.

>> Darin: Wait.

>> Mike: Oh, here's the deal though. He was tricky. Exactly.

>> Darin: That stupid hobbit.

>> Mike: Exactly.

>> Darin: Tricks his emotions.

>> Mike: But now he's currently, as rumor has it, and as rumor has been going on for a couple years, is working on the Warhammer 40K, which I'm here to tell you, and I'm going to put it on this podcast right now, is you think, what's the next thing we got? We had the Star wars, we had the Lord of the Rings, we had the Avengers, and everything. Warhammer 40K is the next big thing where you're like, that was really. I want to see the next one. Okay. Okay. Especially because Cavill, and this is true, is secretly. Well, he's not secretly. He's. He's kind of open about it. He's a, He's a nerd. He plays the video games. Yeah. He plays the stuff. He just happens to be Superman also. Yeah, but he's. He's a nerds nerd. Like he knows like deep lore about all these nerdy, nerdy things.

>> Darin: Nerd lore.

>> Mike: So it would be like, it would be like you making the Southern Culture on the Skids documentary. Documentary.

>> Darin: Oh yeah, I would love to do.

>> Mike: A documentary on that. And you'd probably do a pretty good job.

>> Darin: I think so.

>> Mike: I would think of all the people I know, you'd be the best at that.

>> Darin: I would kill it.

>> Mike: So, I'm really excited for whenever the first trailer.

>> Darin: And the reason I would do a good job with that is because I would pay close, close attention to detail.

>> Mike: Yeah. Like turning on the camera and pressing record when they're in the room with you.

>> Darin: Well, although you know what, that Paul Rubens documentary, there was like 40 hours of interview that they, that they knocked down into like a three hour documentary. But that's what you got to do with the documentary.

>> Mike: Yeah.


Originally the Hobbit was supposed to be a two parter

But yeah, there's. There's fake stuff all over the place. So I know the Gollum thing is true.

>> Mike: They're making a Trilogy based on Gollum.

>> Darin: Is it a trilogy or a. A two parter. A two banger, I heard, is a two parter.

>> Mike: Originally the Hobbit was supposed to be a two parter. And then Peter Jackson said, I wish.

>> Darin: With the Hobbit they had made it into one movie just like the book.

>> Mike: I dug it.

>> Darin: I dug the book.

>> Mike: The book is dense. There's a lot in that book. Go read that book again.

>> Darin: Ain't gonna happen.

>> Mike: Yeah, they didn't.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: Here.


There are rumors that they're remaking Star Wars Episode 7

Anyway, and then there's also rumors that they're remaking, Star Wars Episode 7.

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

>> Mike: And they're changing the story and people 7. Yeah, that's the one with the, with the Han Solos. Oh, Leia's. Oh. And they're like, how are you. How are you gonna do that?

>> Darin: The Force Awakens.

>> Mike: Leia is deceased.

>> Darin: She's no longer with us.

>> Mike: And Han has famously said, for the love of God, quit putting me in Star wars movies. Yeah, right.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Ah, he's done.

>> Darin: I've got all the money.

>> Mike: I'm over it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Walking around with this cowling carpet. It was. It was a post. It was a post on the Facebooks and then there's like this huge back and forth.

>> Darin: Well, if it was on Facebook, it's true.

>> Mike: All these people going back and forth. It was right next to the Superman thing, so I don't know what the hell's true anymore.

>> Darin: Well, if you saw it on, on the Internet, it's got to be true.

>> Mike: I do know they are.

>> Darin: They are re releasing Star wars the 1977. And it ain't Star Wars a New Hope. And ain't Star Wars a New Hope? It's Star Wars.

>> Mike: And he shoots Greo.

>> Darin: Han shoots Greo.

>> Mike: Dead kisser.

>> Darin: Shoots him right in the craw. Yeah. And yes, and it's exactly like the theatrical release in 1977, the one that.

>> Mike: I in theory saw when I was two. I'm told I was there when I was two.

>> Darin: I don't remember. Oh, I was. I remember I saw it several times in the theater. Yeah.

>> Mike: Ah.

>> Darin: And I'm thinking maybe mom was just like, yes, you can go to the movie for two hours. Get. You know, she would send my brother and I out so she could get a moment of peace and quiet. Maybe so.

>> Mike: Maybe so. Did you go see movies multiple times when you were a kid? Yeah, that's the only way.

>> Darin: It's the only way you could see movies.

>> Mike: I was not allowed. I mean, that was like the, the first Movie that I saw more than once was ET okay, but like all the other. All the other movies. No, it was like one you've seen that. and like, I wanted to go back and see him. And it was like, you want to what? Yeah, you've already seen it.

>> Darin: Oh, back in the day. Remember? They're like, coming soon or coming back to theaters, and you're like, get so excited because they would re release. Because that was before videotape. That was before the DVDs. It was before Netflix. It was before TiVo.

>> Mike: I don't know.

>> Darin: It was before all of that. So the only way you could see a movie again was to go see it at the theater. Because once it left the theater, it was gone. Now I did now, occasionally, they would have the. The CBS movie of the week.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And they would show it in prime time.

>> Mike: I did go to see Return of the King three times.

>> Darin: Oh, I don't know how many times we saw Return of the King.

>> Mike: And. And I think it was the extended version. And I will. I'm here to tell you as much.

>> Darin: As I didn't do. You saw.

>> Mike: Wait, I think it was in the theater. No, it couldn't have been the extended because they weren't in the theater.

>> Darin: They did do a thing where they, for like one weekend, released all three extended versions.

>> Mike: I didn't do that because I have.

>> Darin: A job 22 hours. But your catheter.

>> Mike: You saw the theatrical version, which is still 73 hours.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And, I will tell you, the first time I saw it, my mind was blown. I was, I thought Best was going to take me to the hospital to have me resuscitated after the first one. And the second time I saw it, I'm all like, giddy, giddy, giddy, but giddy pants. And then it was like two or three weeks later, we visit, Bess's sister and the. The Jim Boyces, and we all went to go see Return of the King.

>> Darin: Cool.


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We will watch all three Lord of the Rings movies at the house this winter

Now back to you guys in the studio.

>> Darin: Once a year Usually, well, actually, we'll probably do it in a few weeks. We will watch all three Lord of the Rings movies at the house.

>> Mike: Yeah. It's a winter thing.

>> Darin: Yes. I don't know why we do it in the winter.

>> Mike: It's because of the damn snow in the mountains in the first one. And because all of the movies came out at Christmas, if you remember.

>> Darin: That's.

>> Mike: They were all released. They were all Christmas movies.

>> Darin: That's right. So we watched the extended version, part one of the extended version on, like a Friday. And then on Saturday or Sunday we watch the second half of it and then a following weekend we will do that. But now I don't know if we're going to be able to do it because Cameron has a job and Jacob has a job.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I've been so pissed at my kids here lately.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because too many jobs. They've got jobs. They have homework. My oldest son, he would not come down and watch the Stranger Things with us because he has to study for his finals. Yeah, I haven't watched Stranger Things. I haven't watched Elf this year. Why don't you just say it? The worst toy maker in the world. I'm a cotton headed ninny muggins. and I am pissed because every year we watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles on Thanksgiving and then on Friday night we watch Elf. And Elf is how we kick off Christmas. And we haven't officially. In my mind, we haven't officially kicked off Christmas yet because I haven't seen Elf. And I was throwing a fit. Also a cry for help. I was at the house, like, you know what, all you losers, I'll watch Elf by myself. I don't need you to watch. I know how to turn on.

>> Mike: Did you do that? Did you do that?

>> Darin: Yeah. I said, I don't need you. I know how to turn on the DVD player. I'll watch it by myself. And they're like, dad, calm down. Take your blood pressure medication. I'm like, you take your blood pressure medication. I don't like it. I. I want to watch my movie. So I'm sorry. So, excuse me. We started watching this TV show on Netflix called. I was calling it the C word. It's the. It's the big C. Okay? Laura Linney, okay? She has cancer.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: And, she finds out that she has cancer. And then she just. Her whole making meth, her whole. Her whole outlook on life changes. And she does a lot of other questionable things. That show is dirty. Okay? That show. And so we were watching It. And ah, Libby and I were watching the show and it comes to a dirty scene and then Cameron comes home from work. Oh, it's like you're almost caught watching because it just, it literally just got to a dirty scene and then the door started opening. Cameron coming up from work, and we're like, turn, turn, turn the tv. He's gonna think we're watching dirty stuff.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Anyway, it's a good show.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Laura Linney is fantastic in the show.

>> Mike: For the millennials and Gen, Z out there. When Darren says dirty, he means boobies and stuff.

>> Darin: It's it. Yeah.

>> Mike: That's what we used to call it back in.

>> Darin: Yeah, it's dirty.

>> Mike: The days it is dirty. I, will say.

>> Darin: Yeah, we.

>> Mike: We were talking about that with, Yes. Andrew is always working or doing a game. He's doing a game tonight, I think calling a game, or other things like constantly. And Charlie is always busy and just getting everybody together to watch something is insane.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: the Shining is in theaters this weekend. This coming weekend.

>> Darin: Oh, okay. The Jack, Nick and I got tickets. Okay.

>> Mike: Because Andrew is currently reading the Shining.


Facebook says the Shining in IMAX for the first time ever

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: It's my favorite Stephen King book. So. And he's like, big into Stephen King. So he wanted to read it. And we agreed to go see the movie when he's finished reading it. And then I get this thing on the Facebook. Facebook tells me what to do and I obey. and it said the Shining in IMAX for the first time ever. Yeah, for. It was supposed to be one night. One time.

>> Darin: Red.

>> Mike: 7Pm on the 12th. I was like, we're going to do it. We're going. And so I went ahead and purchased the tickets and now he has to work.

>> Darin: He has to work.

>> Mike: Yeah. And, then they've opened it, I guess the first.

>> Darin: So I guess I'm going to the.

>> Mike: Maybe that showing sold out like that, like lickety split. Now they're showing it on Saturday and Sunday for multiple times each day. But, originally it was just that one time.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: So then I tell, you know, Bess and the kids. I'm like, well, I could cancel the tickets and buy, you know, whenever you're not working. And now it seems like all the days. He's got to work all the days. And I was telling best night. I think I'm gonna go see the Shining. I think I'm gonna. I mean, I would love to go with.

>> Darin: Yeah, but the kid. But here's the thing.

>> Mike: That's a good movie.

>> Darin: I'm allowed to live my life.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Why am I waiting on my kid?

>> Mike: Originally see what, what we got into a discussion. He's like, well, we've got a. We've got a decent sized TV downstairs. We own it. We can just watch it whenever we want. Yes, but this is in, the big screen in imax. I mean, if you remember, you've seen the Shining.

>> Darin: It's been so long since I've seen the Shining, so that if I went to see it.

>> Mike: Yeah. It would almost be like a new movie.

>> Darin: Be a brand new movie to me.

>> Mike: Okay, if they won't go, you're going with me then. But yeah, the big opening, like 10 minutes, is them driving to the hotel and it's this huge wide shot.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And it's got that wood and you know. Stanley. Stanley, the sounds. Stanley Kubrick was a, psychopath in terms of details. So much so that when he had.

>> Darin: Scatman Crothers in tears.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Because he made him do a scene.

>> Mike: Like 70 something takes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so the, The. There's a whole documentary.

>> Darin: That's a problem.

>> Mike: Yeah, there's a whole documentary on the making of the Shining because they go through all the little, What are those things called? Where characters wearing a hat in one scene.

>> Darin: Continuation. Continuity expert.

>> Mike: And there's. They've said that Stanley, Kubrick was so obsessed with detail that he just did not make continuity errors. It just didn't happen. The dude took like 50 takes. He dated. I think it was 200 and something takes of the ball that rolls towards Danny. Because it wasn't rolling exactly right. And it was. They were driving everybody crazy.

>> Darin: Okay. For perspective, years ago I made a furniture commercial with Pete Rose. Okay. Pete Rose was about to lose his. With me because I did a take four times. Four times. And three of them was because he said Munchkins Furniture.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Or he said Munchkins instead of Munchkins Furniture. So I'm like, Pete, I'm happy to get off this scene if you get the name right. For over 50 years, Munchkins has guaranteed the lowest prices on home furnishings.

>> Dave: And ah.

>> Darin: We invite you to see why so many people choose Munchkins. That was good. We said Munchkins.


Darren Dbag: I think 75 takes of a movie are irresponsible

Munchins. I have a hard time with that name.

>> Mike: Munchkins.

>> Darin: Munchkins Furniture in Shandon and across from Jungle Gyms and Eastgate. Go to munchkinsfurniture.com Again, we said Munchkins. I did Munching. Can you change your damn name?

>> Dave: For pre approved, no hassle financing.

>> Mike: Go to Munchkins.

>> Darin: Munchkin.

>> Mike: Every.

>> Darin: There's.

>> Mike: There's a whole documentary, which I highly recommend. The room. 227 or 272. Whatever it is.

>> Darin: 227. No place like.

>> Mike: Anyway, they go through all these. All these continuity. Continuity errors aren't really errors that maybe Stanley Kubrick was trying to say other things with the movie. Right. And one of the things that he did was with sound. They. They took sounds of, like, tigers growling and things. There's a certain tone that creates a sense of dread and mortal fear in humans. They distilled that down. And it's throughout the music, and it's, like, heavy in the opening scene. And in the. The documentary I was watching about it said that watching it in theaters back in the day, they could reproduce that sound. You felt already scared and in fear, but you didn't know why. And that sound would come at various points throughout the movie and subconsciously make you terrified, which is part of the reason why the Shining is such a, Intrinsic. My new word.

>> Darin: spooky.

>> Mike: Supposed to be a scary movie. So I was like, I see that. It's going to be cool.

>> Darin: yeah. I don't know.

>> Mike: Watch it with old Darren Dbag here. Don't know why you had to go there.

>> Darin: Got call me that D bag Darren, but. No, I mean. Okay, I'm not a director. I have never made a movie.

>> Mike: Not at all.

>> Darin: Okay. But that being said, I still think doing 75 takes of something, I think it's irresponsible. I do. And in. This is where, the keyboard warriors are going to start. Right?


Stanley Kubrick's work bored me to tears. I haven't seen the Clockwork Orange

Yeah. I'm not that big a fan of a lot of Stanley Kubrick's work.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: 2001 A Space Odyssey.

>> Mike: There go the keyboard.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I love that movie.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah. That one bored me to tears.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And then I appreciated.

>> Mike: It's almost meant like a companion to the book. So you kind of got to read the book.

>> Darin: Oh, well, then, yeah.

>> Mike: But no, I haven't seen the Clockwork Orange.

>> Darin: No. 77 takes. It's just irresponsible. It's your. Your burning film. Seems like a waste of time.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. And then what you're doing is you're putting unnecessary wear and tear and stress on your actors.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: On your. On your grips. On. It's like if you. If you got a dolly shot and these people got to walk in with a dolly shot and you got to do it 77 times, it's like, okay, here's a.

>> Mike: Here's a fun fact.

>> Darin: Okay, good. Adolescence, which I was, it was on Netflix. They did that show in, one solid take. Okay. An hour long episode was one take. The camera didn't break at all. It never edited, never cut to anything. And they rehearsed that five times before they did the entire hour.

>> Mike: They.

>> Darin: That's an entire hour.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right. Yeah. They didn't do it 77 times.

>> Mike: I don't think Stan would have. Would have stood for that.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Another fun fact that everyone on the planet knows. you know about the door that he breaks through.

>> Darin: Yes. With the axe. Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: Here's Johnny.

>> Mike: You know, originally they use a breakaway door, but Jack Nicholson used to be a firefighter, Right. And he was demolishing the door. He got in too quickly, so they replaced it with an actual real, real door.

>> Darin: He's like the cooling man.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: It just didn't have the same effect.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: You know? Right. Nothing scary about that. So, yeah.


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>> Darin: What'd you guys think of our new, our new episode with our fantastic new audio equipment? I think this is gonna be. I'm looking forward to doing more episodes. Look how cool the lights, right? Very, very cool. Cool, cool. We're gonna wrap this episode up. We want you to go to. Yeah, we want you to go to Irritable Dads and dot com and listen to all our other episodes. And if you, you know what, it's still time. Christmas is coming up. You can go to Patron and you can become a patron and you can financially support this podcast and you can help us pay for this new, this new audio board thing with Jigger Not.

>> Mike: Yep.

>> Darin: That we got. If you want. No obligation. Just saying if you really loved us, you'd go to Patron.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: Any who, we hope to see you next week on Irritable Dad Syndrome.

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

>> Darin: Whippity woo, dink, dank bonk.

>> Mike: We sounded sexy.

>> Darin: We did sound sexy.

>> Mike: We sounded like we're ready to bones something.

>> Dave: Finally, bathroom humor the word urine. Oh, we can go so much farther, gentlemen, but, yes, this is a fun one.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I am Crickety tippity tab. Hold on, I'm not ready yet. Hey, now, Hank, was it? Hank Azaria.

>> Darin: Hank Kingsley.

>> Mike: Hank Kingsley.

>> Darin: Hank Kingsley.