IDS #291 - Chicken Worth Lickin'

Okay, we're recording now. Have fun or do you really want to have fun

>> Mike: Okay, we're recording now.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: There.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And then I'm gonna go live. cheer.

>> Darin: Okay. Yeah.

>> Mike: People have been waiting for 30 minutes.

>> Darin: Now they're like, oh, my God, please say they're going to be there. Are they gonna be there? They said they would be there. Well, where are they? Oh, God, please say they're gonna be there. Hey, who wants to.

>> Mike: I do. I do. Now, you just saying you want to.

>> Darin: Have fun or do you really want to have fun?

>> Mike: I really want to have fun.

>> Darin: I'm just saying I want to have some fun.


Mike and Darren have not recorded an episode together in almost three weeks

>> Dave: Time now for Irritable Dad Syndrome, the nighttime sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever so you can rest podcast. Here are your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I am Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 291. Mike and I, we have not recorded an ep. Hi, Mike, how you doing? We have not recorded an episode together in almost three weeks.

>> Mike: Yeah. So all of you out there in podcast land, as far as you know, it's been week to week to week, just business as usual, banging comedy. But which, by the way, you don't get on most shows.

>> Darin: No, you don't.

>> Mike: Most shows take a break.

>> Darin: They take a break.

>> Mike: Not us. No, we kind of did. We took a break from each other. Right. We doubled up.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: going up into it, this is the first time we've been in the same room in the same house in almost three weeks. In almost three weeks.

>> Darin: I'm gonna tell you right now, I don't like doing that.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I don't. Because in, in my world, I usually, something will happen at the house. Yeah. Three or four days will pass and then I will come and I will talk to you about it.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right. So we've been away from each other. We've been apart. You can't do that for like three weeks. Right. And so, for example, my little nephew Ryan. Yeah. he and his, dad, Eddie, and my sister in law, Gina came over after Christmas. So Ryan's at the table and Gina says, ryan, buddy, eat your eggs. And he said, but, mom, I've got a hole in my pants.

>> Mike: Okay, okay.

>> Darin: Hilarious. Right?

>> Mike: Is Ryan the guy that was throwing Jesus in the house?

>> Darin: Yeah, he was throwing Jesus in the house.

>> Mike: Tossing the Lord about the house. Yeah.

>> Darin: So three or four days pass and I'm like talking to people about this story and everyone in the house is like, yeah, dad, we know. We were here.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: There's an old Chris Rock routine about.

>> Darin: I've gotta tell somebody.

>> Mike: There's an old Chris Rock routine about people that have been together for so long, they just keep telling each other the same stories. Eventually one of them cracks. So, like. Did I ever tell you about the thing? Yeah, you told me about the thing.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Hey, once you go out to get kidnapped, have new happen to you. You told me when you get locked in, there's a movie about it. Something about it rhymes with the brining about families that get locked in in the winter. In alone together. Eventually. Eventually. You know, Jack is considering himself to be a dull boy. M. And he needs to get an ax.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And break down doors.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: Go hedge mazing.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: We did. Did you have a nice break?

>> Darin: I had a nice break. I did. I did. I had a good time. We had a nice Christmas. I had covet over Christmas.

>> Mike: That's good.

>> Darin: Outside of that, I was just dandy.

>> Mike: Covid's more of an accessory now. It's just like a thing. Did you. Did you put on your. What color Covid did you wear out today?

>> Darin: I, Luckily I caught it just in time. And I took, what's called Paxlovid. Oh. For Covid.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Paxlovid. My God, you eat Paxlovid?

>> Mike: That's a horse tranquilizer, isn't it?


Dave Lay says he contracted COVID from MAD Magazine exhibit

Yes. They're huge.

>> Darin: And it tastes like you got a mouthful of nickels for five days straight. You'll eat food and the food tastes fine. You'll swallow. But then you wake up in the middle of the night with the nastiest flavor in your mouth. But yeah, ah, it, you know, it takes care of the COVID Right.

>> Mike: Knocks it right out.

>> Darin: And then it's like as soon as my pax lovid wore off, I was done with that. Two days later, I had what's called rebound symptoms. And I. Sniffles and sneezing. I'm surprised you didn't hear me coughing from your, house. But, called my doctor and she gave me some antibiotics because I hate biotics. And some kick ass cough syrup.

>> Mike: Oh, oh, the good stuff with the codeine in it. Grandpappy's medicine.

>> Darin: Yeah, Grandpappy's horseshoe killer medicine. And, and I'm feeling great now. I had. I, had the covered.

>> Mike: So we had some traveling to do over the break. And if I had gone to the place where you went, where you contracted the COVID That's right. It would have just shot a hole, right?

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: It would have ruined.

>> Darin: That's Right.

>> Mike: Our holidays, our year, and at least one of my kids lives. Yeah. So I'm glad I didn't go to the museum.

>> Darin: I know, because I went to the MAD Magazine exhibit with, our announcer, Dave Lay.

>> Dave: Hi, I'm Dave Lay.

>> Darin: And that's where I contracted the COVID Yeah. Yeah. So it was a cool exhibit. Yeah, yeah, it was really, really cool. It was. It was something awesome. I wish they had more, covers, MAD magazine covers. Because I was a big fan of Alfred E. Newman and how he always put himself in the place of, other people. And then they had the thing at the end, you know, remember MAD Magazine? You fold the paper. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so they had all these exhibits on the wall and then over.

>> Mike: So they had a bunch of those.

>> Darin: They had those that you. That you could fold and see what, what it was. And that was a lot of fun.

>> Mike: So what was the guy's. Was it Sergio Aragones? Aragones.

>> Darin: I don't remember.

>> Mike: He had a very distinct style. So it was my fav. He became famous, actually. He started his own comic book, Grew the Wanderer.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah, look that. Have you ever read Grew the Wonder?

>> Darin: I have not.

>> Mike: It's basically, what Airplane is to disaster movies.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Grew the Wanderer is to Conan the Barbarian.

>> Darin: Nice.

>> Mike: Absolutely hilarious. And an amazing imagination. If you see the art style in that, you'll immediately. It's the. It's the art style of MAD Magazine.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I loved those. You know that not the Groove wasn't in Mad Magazine, but that cartoonist was there.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: and then also the little intricate traps and things like Spy versus Spy versus Spy. All that stuff. Dude, MAD Magazine, I mean, you had Cracked. Cracked was okay.

>> Darin: Cracked came out after MAD Magazine. They tried. They tried to give MAD a run for their money. And they just. They came close.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Just.

>> Mike: But it was never, you know, Cracked was the kind of thing like you asked your mom to get you MAD Magazine and she came home with Cracked, and you're like, what the hell, Mom?

>> Darin: Mom, what are you doing? It's like, mom, I asked for Raisin Bran Crunch. This is Raisin Bran.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: This is Crunch on the bottom or Grape Nuts. It's not that hard.


Mike forgot to wear a belt. Darren, being rather svelte, never wore

You know, Before we get into the, the soup and the nuts of this episode. Cause Mike and I have so much, so much to talk about. we released a video a couple weeks ago on our, on all our social pages where Mike got mad at me about. Mike forgot to wear a belt. And then he got mad at me about it.

>> Mike: Mad at you.

>> Darin: Right. And the video, it took off like wildfire. Oh, my God. Is so popular. Amazing. I think we're going to be putting the podcast hall of fame.

>> Mike: Strange.

>> Darin: Yeah. one of our followers, Nate Whiting. Is it Whiting or Whiting? Whiting.

>> Mike: Whiting.

>> Darin: Is it Whiting? Whiting. Cool Whip. Nate Whiting wrote this poem about Mike forgetting his belt. And it's absolutely brilliant. And I'm going to read it for you right now. You ready?

>> Mike: I'm, ready.

>> Darin: An irritated dad, Mike was feeling rather sad that his trousers needed cinching all the time. Darren, being rather svelte, never wore or owned a belt. His pants just always snug on his waistline. This infuriated Mike. He could feel his BP spike and palpitations. Wiggling his tickler.

>> Mike: Whoa. This went to a.

>> Darin: Sorry.

>> Mike: Weird.

>> Darin: Wiggling his ticker. Okay.

>> Mike: This went to a weird space.

>> Darin: He couldn't understand without belt or elastic band, how Darren easily kept up his knickers. It didn't matter either way. Still, Mike thought three times a day about how the subject gave him such a rankle. Darren's knickers aren't that thicker. There's no such thing as knicker stickers. How do they just not fall around his ankles? How Mike dealt with how he felt regarding Darren's lack of belt is a lesson in obsessive indignation. welp, he dwelt and dwelt and dwelt and kept on tightening up his belt till he suffered double hip asphyxiation. Love this. In conclusion, the illusion Darren's pants would never loosen. Tis a misnomer that Mike will long remember. Darren's secret was tucked in betwixt his Jimmy and his chin, a pair of lacy silk line double stitched suspenders.

>> Mike: Nice.

>> Darin: That.

>> Mike: Yeah, is. That's nice.

>> Darin: Brilliant. Yeah, that was, Nate Whiting, you have earned the title of Irritable dad syndrome listener of the year.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah. Yeah. And that's. That's one hell of a thing to win on January 7th.

>> Darin: So, Nate, thank you for that. I'm guaranteeing right now that's going to make it in best of volumes.

>> Mike: And if you are not Nate Whiting and you are Whiting and m, you would like to be, the best listener of the year.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: well, let's go. Let's.

>> Darin: Come on. Throw your hat in the ring, buddy.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Come on.

>> Mike: Yeah.

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

>> Darin: If that's a joke, I love it.

>> Mike: If not, I cannot wait to unpack that with you.


Mike: I've decided to start contributing more to the podcast

>> Darin: so what's going on, Mike?

>> Mike: So I want to get this out of the way.

>> Darin: At the last minute, Mike says, oh, I've got one more thing to add to the podcast. I'm like, okay, I'm interested.

>> Mike: Yeah. So I sent a text. So here's the thing. I'm not going to call it a resolution because I never follow my resolutions.

>> Darin: I don't either.

>> Mike: but I've decided I'm going to start contributing more to the podcast.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Like, not in the terms of sending you topics.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Because the deal is, I like to do things raw. Now, walk with me down this. come into this with a live mic and let things roll. And some of our best moments come from that. That's true.

>> Darin: That is true.

>> Mike: But we've lost a lot of good moments. I will listen to the episode later, and I think, man, I should have said this, or I forgot this detail, or Dan, Ellward, one of our. One of our listeners, one of my closest friends, will point out, that's not what he said, because he knows my. He knows what I do, and I'm not joking.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: He knows my life better than I do. Right. So I've decided I'm. At least for the standpoint, A, to make Darren's job easier, I've given a preview of what I'm going to talk about.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And B, to try to make the content better for y', all, you use y' all out there in podcast.

>> Darin: All y'.

>> Mike: All. So I, I have a running, rundown on the Google page. I try to update that. I put like, four or five things in there, and then I start texting things to Darren. you know, I'm. I'm pooping. I'm thinking, man, I'm going to go. There's some foreshadowing. Huh? I'm going to. I'm going to go write this down, and I'm going to send it there. I was like, no, I'm going to pull out the phone right now, right now, and send it. Right, Right. And then it's. It's there. So, today, I don't know why I have to look it up. I know it. I think I pulled my back wiping my ass. Now I've had a medical issue, and I really hope that this is what it is.

>> Darin: With your back or with your ass.

>> Mike: Well, I'm not going to give away the finale before we even get out of the gate here.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I hope that this is what this is. I hope that I'm not like unveiling some major medical issue that, that could cause major harm to me.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: In a jovial way. But I, I've noticed I've had a pain kind of like it's a muscular pain kind of towards the, the back here.

>> Darin: Okay. For a while.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah. And I thought, I thought it's because of, our mattress. Now we have a nice mattress.

>> Darin: It's possible.

>> Mike: It's. And it's. I need a hard mattress. I mean, I won't sleep on a block of wood, but damn near close to it. That's what I need for my back. If I fall asleep on the couch or a soft bed, I ain't right for a month. Okay.

>> Darin: I understand exactly what you're talking about.

>> Mike: Okay. So our mattress, though, you're supposed to flip it every three months. It's a king size.

>> Darin: Every three months.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And it's.

>> Mike: Lord, it's heavy.

>> Darin: I just changed ours after eight years.

>> Mike: Yeah. So, yeah, the first two years I was pretty religious. Religious, religious, religious, religious. Cut that down by that.

>> Darin: When you flip it, you go, oh, God.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. But it's a king size mattress and it's not like we have high ceilings. So I've got to maneuver around the ceiling fan. The kids got to hear me cuss. Booba likes to run onto the box springs when I'm trying to flip it around. If this thing falls on her, I ain't lifting it to get her out. She's just a goner. House is going to start smelling. That's a whole thing. So I flipped the mattress and I started feeling better. Okay.


Over the holidays, uh, I got up to my highest weight

I started going back to the gym again because I took a long break from that. Sort of a little bit better. so the pain started to go away. I stopped feeling it as much and I thought that must have been what it is.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Then I went to the bathroom. Now I've gained weight. Okay.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Over the holidays, I got up to my highest weight that I've ever been in my life. And at that point. Point, I had to go number two. Number two.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: All right. I'm going to clean this up for the folks at home.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: When I wretched round. Ah, the right cheek. Cuz I wipe right handed. We've talked about this before.

>> Darin: Do you wipe from the side or do you wipe from the middle?

>> Mike: I go from the taint back.

>> Darin: No, but do you go around the side?

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: And do it. Or do you.

>> Mike: How do you do from the middle?

>> Darin: Well, you said you reached around.

>> Mike: I wretch around my right cheek.

>> Darin: Okay. That's what I was like. Who wipes like that?

>> Mike: No, right in the middle. You're, you're. Yeah, that's not sanitary at all.

>> Darin: Well, but that's okay.

>> Mike: Yeah, you have to wipe front. You have to wipe towards the front. And then you're hitting Mr. Jimmy and his jangles. you don't want to do that. Then you got all kinds of problems.

>> Darin: Anyway, I wretched round Jimmy and his.

>> Mike: And in the process of making the longitudinal move through the trench of the Death Star. Right. Okay. You have to go around the bulboicity of the cheek and you have to strain a bit. Now I'm at a point in my weight journey where that hemisphere is at its equinox. Right. The equator is full.

>> Darin: Right? Wait, the equator can't be full.

>> Mike: Well, mine definitely was.

>> Darin: Can't be fill the equator.

>> Mike: And so I felt a twinge in that same spot. And then I was sore there for like about an hour after. And it dawned on me about, 30 seconds before I sent you that text. My God. I pulled my back wiping my ass. And the math checks out because I had lost weight when I had hurt myself before I was large, I had lost about seven pounds. And then started slowly but surely build it back to where I'm. Where I'm at now.

>> Darin: Cookies.

>> Mike: So navigating, that cheek. And I got to tell you, when I now I hear about large people have back problems, I used to think it's because of all the weight they're carrying around. I don't think that's what it is. I think it's from retching around your ass to get to the, to the sweet spot. Yeah. Luke can't get the torpedoes in the, in the, you know, the exhaust port. Millennium Falcon can't get back there. What's the alternative? You just leave the crest? You can't do that.

>> Darin: No, no, you can't.


M. Ross: I threw my back out lifting a gallon of milk

>> Mike: So now I'm on a. I'm on a mission. I'm losing weight. because. Oh my God, I don't want to. I don't want to right now. I am 50, okay? I can handle an ass wiping back injury, okay, without surgery or without a doctor's visit. but I'll be damned if I'm going to be 60 years old and throw my back out and not be able to go anywhere from wiping my ass.

>> Darin: What were you doing, sir? Well, it's like the time the Damnedest thing in my 20s when I threw my back out pouring milk.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And all my. I made the mistake of telling all my friends about it and who comfort zone. That's whole milk, you know, don't pick it up, you know. And that was embarrassing. But yeah, I threw my back out lifting a gallon of milk.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So yeah, you don't. But you definitely. If you promise me that if you do hurt yourself. What I know. You're just going to come on the podcast.

>> Mike: You're going to tell the whole world about it.

>> Darin: Yeah, we had a download in Israel last week, so they're going to hear all about it over there. Malaysia.

>> Mike: Yeah, I got our, I got our, our sprout wrapped. We're in 58 countries now.

>> Darin: Yeah, that's awesome.

>> Mike: That's 103 cities.

>> Darin: okay, fine. I will, I will add to this story.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Before coming over today, I had a gift, ah, card at half price books. And I went by there and I'm looking through the discount albums and through the discount CDs and I found a discount CD of Billy Idol that I've been looking for for a while and I found some others brothers album. I was pretty excited. Tom and Dick's mother. I was very excited that I found that stuff. And then I ran and I grabbed something to eat. And then I'm thinking, you know, I, I think I need to, I think I need to visit the little boys room. And this wasn't something that I wanted to do at your house.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: So.

>> Mike: Thank you.

>> Darin: I was next to the, the Walmart. The Breaking Bad Walmart.

>> Mike: Yeah. And you didn't go in there.

>> Darin: I went in the, in the front one and it was the, the stall was closed in the Walmart, so I went to the very back one which was open. Now wait, wait, wait, wait.

>> Mike: Answer my question.

>> Darin: At the Walmart. At the Walmart.

>> Mike: That's the Walmart I went to myself in. Remember a couple years ago?

>> Darin: I remember that. So I went to the one at the very back of the store. Yeah. And when I went in there, there's two stalls. There's one stall that's occupied and there's a guy and he's standing. Okay.

>> Mike: Is he facing the toilet?

>> Darin: He's standing. He's facing the toilet.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And something's going on because it sounds like he's dropping a can of mixed vegetables into the into the stall.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Like, oh my God. It's absolutely disgusting. My question is, what the hell? I handled that situation before I, Yeah, before I. Because I'm not going to bring that here. No, no, you're welcome.

>> Mike: Are you sorry that I get told that story?

>> Darin: No, it's. No, I'm not.

>> Mike: And here's the thing.

>> Darin: This is. See, this is really our first episode of the year because the. The one that was released last week, we recorded in, like, the middle of December.

>> Mike: One of the things about this podcast that brings me such joy is, I think, a normal human being. If I didn't have a podcast with you, M. Right. The prospect of throwing my back out because I wiped my ass.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: That would be a somewhat depressing story.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: As Andrew and Charlie are. Want to remind me all the time. Doesn't matter if it's good or bad. It's good for the podcast.

>> Darin: It's good for the podcast. Yeah. Jacob and Cameron say the same thing.

>> Mike: Yeah.


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Did you guys watch the Stranger Things? I did, yeah

Now back to you guys in the studio.

>> Mike: Did you watch the Stranger Things? I did, yeah.

>> Darin: I was one of the 58 million people who watched Stranger Things.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: yeah, we enjoyed it.

>> Darin: It took us forever to be able to get to it because as I was saying a week or so ago on the show, you know, Jacob works and Cameron works, and we just couldn't find a time when everybody was home. But then over Christmas break, we're like, holy crap, everybody's here in the house. And we binged and watched almost. We watched four episodes. Yeah. the first four episodes one night. And then what? There's three episodes a week or two later.

>> Mike: So the first four that came out on Thanksgiving.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah, we see. We watched those. We watched those at the Thanksgiving.

>> Darin: We weren't able to do that. We watched them after the boys were home for Christmas break.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: So we watched those and we were all up in that. Having a great time.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then we watched the. The next three. And then. Was it new?

>> Mike: What?

>> Darin: New Year's Day? we watched the finale.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So yeah, we. We watched the first four Thanksgiving. Then we watched one of them. The. The. Was it the last three or whatever. I. We, watched two of them and I got annoyed with the second episode.

>> Darin: Okay, what happened in the second episode? I.

>> Mike: You know, the walls are closing in. some. Something's melting.

>> Darin: Oh, that. That creamy stuff falling from the ceiling.

>> Mike: Yeah, that's. So that's happening. And the. The guy and the chick. Nancy. Nancy Wheeler, they have a 15 minute conversation.

>> Darin: Yes. It's melting and the world's coming to an end.

>> Mike: World's coming to an end and it's melting. Yeah. I was like, okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then Hopper had like a, 15. Now, I liked Hopper's conversation with 11.

>> Darin: Yes, I did, too.

>> Mike: But then you had, Dustin and Steve.

>> Darin: Steve Harrington.

>> Mike: Steve the Hair had a fight in a stairwell. And then they talked about themselves for like 10 or 15 minutes. And I got annoyed and I told the kids and I told you guys.

>> Darin: Recording a podcast they're doing.

>> Mike: It reminded me of the Game of Thrones finale. Like the last couple episodes. They had so much stuff to get through that they just spent a lot of time talking about what happened or just talking too much and not showing what happened.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And my argument, which came about last night, was shows like Breaking Bad do a lot of showing what happened. So my example to the kids and the best last night was, when Gus comes in to kill Spoiler, Hector Salamanca. Right. When he has. And Hector has the bomb, what type of man goes to the police? Hector. So what I explained to him, I was like, the. There's a history there. And if you've watched Breaking Bad from the beginning, you've seen that history pieced in. So you know when Gus walks into that room, why he wants to kill Hector.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: You know why Hector's doing what he's doing?

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: I told them if this were in the Breaking Bad era, if this were in the Stranger Things thing, then you'd have Gus sit there for 10 minutes explaining to Hector why he's going to do what he's doing.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Instead of just doing what he did.

>> Darin: Yeah, right, right.

>> Mike: And so I said, that's, you know, that's really good writing, but I want to pause that for a moment.


Netflix's Stranger Things ended with a major cliffhanger. Spoiler alert

>> Darin: Okay, pause.

>> Mike: So I. I didn't watch the third episode, but I did watch the final movie thing, and I thought it was good. I thought it was an excellent ending. I'm on. You know, we talked about whether a certain character has made it or not. Spoilers.

>> Darin: Spoiler alert. If you haven't found out what happened at the end of Stranger Things.

>> Mike: Yeah, sorry. So in our house, I, said she's dead.

>> Darin: Yeah, she's dead. Or in the Doornell, I think she's alive.

>> Mike: In my mind. That makes it poetic. In, in all of Mike's stuff about her walking through the fjords or whatever is his way.

>> Darin: The waterfalls.

>> Mike: He's a writer, he's. He's creating a story. It's his way of dealing with the grief and saying goodbye to her. Because Hopper had alluded to that earlier. So I thought, wow, that's a really good ending. Boy, the Internet has exploded on this thing. People are, getting, like warring factions. I didn't think the war would hit our house. yesterday I came home. and I walked in and I told you this before we came downstairs.

>> Darin: From what I hear, it was very tense.

>> Mike: Yeah. Bess was facing the door. She saw me come in and we've been married for 23 years. At this point she looked up and she said, we're having a Stranger things fight. Not like she's announcing it. Kind of what you say to someone to prepare them for what they're about to walk into. Right, right. And I said, oh.

>> Darin: And I looked. And drinking.

>> Mike: I look at Andrew and Charlie. Andrew looks very upset.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And Charlie looks very happy. So instantly I knew who's on what side. I knew Andrew's pissed. I know that Charlie's happy that Andrew's pissed. And I know that Bess is concerned that I'm going to escalate the whole situation and make it worse, which I normally do.

>> Darin: Sure.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But, yeah, I explained my reasoning. We started talking. I thought it was good. We, started talking about all kinds of different shows. We talked about Breaking Bad and contrasting that. I told them my view of it was it takes a lot from 80s stuff. There's a lot of 80s nostalgia in Stranger Things. And a lot of 80s movies had the coming of age and saying goodbye to your childhood and entering your adulthood. And I thought that that ending did excellent work in doing that, in paying homage to that. And I brought up the ending of Stand By Me or Stand By Me.

>> Darin: Stand, however you stand by me, however.

>> Mike: You prefer saying it. Or Stand by Me. Yeah, And I thought it was, I thought it was. I thought it was brilliant from that standpoint as well as paying homage. That. Boy, howdy. apparently, Andrew wanted like at least five to 10 people to just eat, Just bite the dust. Eat the dust.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: He was saying, he wanted vecna. To just go through the whole crew.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And be much harder to kill. And I. I understand that. And then Charlie, I thought Vector was.

>> Darin: Pretty hard to kill.

>> Mike: He didn't seem happy.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Well, tiny arms.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I think, you know what, people.

>> Darin: Around, I think Vecna and Groot should get along pretty well if they ever, meet up at a reunion.

>> Mike: But.

>> Darin: But yeah.

>> Mike: Anyway, I thought it was good.


We talked about the show 24 lost. We hated how 24 ended

And I mentioned to Andrew, in the middle of it, I made a meta comment. You'll enjoy this.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: I said, look, regardless of how you feel about Stranger Things, we're having this conversation right now. And we've talked about Breaking Bad. We brought up the Shining, we brought up Better Call Saul. We talked about the show 24 lost. All these different shows.

>> Darin: By the way, I hated. We hated how 24 ended.

>> Mike: Well, I haven't finished it, so.

>> Darin: Okay, don't.

>> Mike: No spoilers. We have it. I just haven't finished it, so stop. we didn't talk about Miami Vice.

>> Darin: But remember how Miami Vice.

>> Mike: Well, it ends with, cricket has longer hair.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Anyway, I said, the point of this is that it was a piece of art that we consumed and we're having a discussion. From at least that standpoint, it was successful. It did what it was supposed to do. You didn't like how it ended. That's okay.


Someone said everyone in Breaking Bad died except for Saul and Jesse

There's other things out there. There's plenty of media where everybody dies. Now, now, this did get my ruffles, my feathers ruffled. because somebody said, well, not everybody had about the same amount of people die as Breaking Bad. And Andrew and I joined forces for a brief moment. I was like, are you. And I'm not going to, I'm not going to say who said that, but I was like, I think everyone in Breaking Bad died except for Saul and Jesse. Spoiler, right?

>> Darin: And you know, Dorothy or whatever his wife's name.

>> Mike: Your mileage may vary on the others. There's rumors about Skyler. I don't know.

>> Darin: The point is Skyler's alive.

>> Mike: The point is it did show. Did what it needed to do.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I thought it did a good job at it. And this is coming from a guy that, they watched the first season and this fifth season.

>> Darin: I can't believe you haven't seen 2, 3 and 4.

>> Mike: No need now. Oh, well, I'll eventually. I'll eventually.

>> Darin: They're so good.

>> Mike: I'll eventually watch.

>> Darin: They're really, really good. Because some of the most. My favorite lines are in. I think it's Season two. Where they're. This, punk ass bully is gonna throw Mike off the cliff.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, Elle shows up and she does her neck like that and breaks a kid's arm. Just, just, just snaps it. And then they're like, oh my God, what's going on? They run off and Dustin's like, yeah, you better run, you sons of. She's our friend.

>> Mike: She's crazy.

>> Darin: And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dustin talking smack. So cool.


Learn how to hold an axe. Yeah. I've got a couple problems with Stranger Things

But here's. Okay. I've got a couple problems with Stranger Things.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: One is, Winon Rider.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Learn how to hold an ax.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: She's holding the ax. This is an audio podcast. She's got at least 2ft of distance between her. Left hand. No.

>> Mike: Right hand, no leverage.

>> Darin: Put your hands together.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And you swing it. And then that is how you kill somebody with an axe. And the same thing was going on with, in the Shining with,

>> Mike: what's her face breaking down a door. No, no, no.

>> Darin: Jenny Shining. The. The. Yeah. What's her name?

>> Mike: Jenny Sh.

>> Darin: Jenny Shining. She's holding a bat with three or four feet of distance and she's trying to swing and hit Jack Nicholson. You put your hands together when you swing a bat.

>> Mike: And a lot of people don't know this. That's why he's so upset in that scene. And he says, give me the bat. Yeah, give me the bat, Jenny. It's like, Or Sally. Is it Sally?

>> Darin: It's, it's, ah.

>> Mike: Wendy. Wendy. It's Wendy. Yeah.

>> Darin: Like, how do you not know how to swing an axe or a bat? You put your hands together.

>> Mike: If you hadn't. If we hadn't seen the Shining so close to stranger, do you think you would have noticed that? I think I would have noticed that.

>> Darin: Oh, no, I absolutely would have noticed that.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. Oh. Because that's not how you hold a bat. That's not how you hold an axe. Yeah. That was, dumb.


I loved the dad. He's my favorite character in the series

And then another problem I have was they created this hero arc for, Mama Wheeler, what's her face. Nancy's mom. The. The kind of slutty one who wanted to get it on. She wanted to get it on with Billy. Oh, right. And that was one of the good things about the. That series because Billy was. That's, Max's older brother.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: He was hitting on her hard at the pool. And, me and you can make all this stuff happen and magic and the moonlight and me, you know, and meet me at the hotel. At this time. And she went home and got all dolled up and. And perfumed and hair perfect, whatever. And she was almost out the door when she sees her husband asleep in the recliner with Holly. They fell asleep together and she's like, can't do it. And I'm like, good for you. Good for you. Because I would have lost a lot of respect for her. But here's the thing. They made Nancy's dad out to be like, he's my Ted.

>> Mike: He's my favorite character in the whole series.

>> Darin: They didn't make him out to be a loser, but they certainly didn't make him out to be anything favorable.

>> Mike: He's my favorite character in the series.

>> Darin: Yeah. Cause I remember it was season one where they're having an argument at the table.

>> Mike: What did I do?

>> Darin: What did I do?

>> Mike: Yeah, just like.

>> Darin: Like, what the hell, right? And so they just make him out to be unfavorable. So Vna. Ah, attacks their house, and the mom tries to fight back with Vecta, and he slashes her across the chest and the throat and other places. And then the dad comes in and he's like, oh, hell no.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, yeah, he tried to fight back. Vecna. He tried to hit him with a golf club. And he got his clock rung.

>> Mike: What's the.

>> Darin: But. So. So the mom is. Spoiler alert. Ends up saving the kids by putting the oxygen tank in the dryer and blew all those, voyeur, dogs, or whatever the hell they're called.

>> Mike: Yeah, the. The flower dogs.

>> Darin: The flower dogs, yeah. Blew, them to smithereens.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But they gave her a hero arc. And they couldn't have did something that. They couldn't have did something. Jesus Christ. They couldn't have done something.

>> Mike: Goes to stub.

>> Darin: They couldn't have done something to make the dad. They couldn't have given him a hero.

>> Mike: I loved the dad.

>> Darin: I love the dad, too. and I was like, yes, he's trying to fight back in Vecna, and I wanted him to get one in. But they. Yeah, it's like, come HM on, you know?

>> Mike: Yeah. So they. They.

>> Darin: What did I do?

>> Mike: What's the lady with the ax's name? Winona Ryder.

>> Darin: Oh,

>> Mike: Persephone. They gave Margaret. Margaret the ax, and she did a Thor, basically what Thor did the thanos. Right in the. In the,

>> Darin: Should have went for the head.

>> Mike: Spoiler.


Another thing that annoyed me about the movie was the ending

but another thing that annoys me.

>> Darin: But her hands were three feet apart on that.

>> Mike: This annoyed me while we were watching it. And Then I've gotten more annoyed, and I think it's a. Okay, I'll just. I'll just say it for what it is. Who's the. The. The girl with the Jerry curls and the square face? Nancy.

>> Darin: Nancy Wheeler.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So there's all these comparisons of her that I've seen in memes looking like Rambo. I didn't get. No, no, I've seen me.

>> Darin: No, but, no, I believe you. But no, she doesn't look like Rambo in my.

>> Mike: Because she had the gun and the thing.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: Mine was they're trying to make her like Ripley. And that's what. I said it while we were watching.

>> Darin: I thought they were making her look.

>> Mike: Like I was waiting for Mike or Stefan or Geraldine, whatever.

>> Darin: Paul.

>> Mike: Paul. Just to say, damn Ripley. You know, we're just like. Because it was in the 80s, that would have been like. They would have known about that. Yeah, I thought it was a missed opportunity because it looked like they were really going for that. Look, they did everything. I. I was waiting for her to yell, get away from her. You.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: That would have been awesome. Yeah.

>> Darin: And speaking of that, James Cameron ripped off that line from himself and put that, in Avatar. Hey, we're in a lot of water.

>> Mike: Really?

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: In a lot of water, but not the fire.

>> Darin: Oh, no, no. In fire and.

>> Mike: Fire and ash. Okay.

>> Darin: Fire and ash.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. He's, Because.

>> Mike: Get away from her.

>> Darin: He said something and they're like, yeah, yeah. I was like, okay, yeah, yeah, good line. Why not recycle it? Yeah, yeah. Get away from her. You.

>> Mike: I mean, if you find yourself getting upset, like. Like I told everyone, well, in my story. I told everyone last night. I'm just now saying it. If you're. If you're having fun, if it's creating conversation, it's done. What it needs to do.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: At least it wasn't mad at it.

>> Darin: At least it wasn't like the Sopranos.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Where it just goes to black and you're like, hey, what happened?

>> Mike: See, I love the Sopranos.

>> Darin: I know, but so many people hated that ending. Because, Mike, people need to know exactly what happened. They can't. Nobody likes having up to interpretation.

>> Mike: They need, Laurence Fishburne to come out with the shades and the white screen and say, here's exactly what I take the red pill. We're gonna explain to you exactly what happened. What happened.

>> Darin: Yeah, which.

>> Mike: That's not a bad idea. Instead of doing the Marvel, like, where they show Thor playing, cornhole, or whatever. At the end of a movie, they could just have one of the actors. They could have.

>> Darin: I bet you Thor would be great at Cornhole.

>> Mike: They could have. They could have Loki or something. Come out.


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Now back to you guys in the studio. I would love to hear about your revelation

Now back to you guys in the studio.

>> Mike: I. I came into Revelation. Okay, can I talk about my revelation? I'm jumping.

>> Darin: I would love to hear about your revelation. Are you going off script?

>> Mike: I'm going off script. No, this is on there, but it's, it's. It's that one right there. Or do you want to do that?

>> Darin: It doesn't matter.


We went on a trip. And during our trip, where did you go

>> Mike: We went on a trip. All right. And during our trip, where did you go? Mike, it doesn't matter. Okay, we went to Cleveland, but we're going to talk about that separately. well, let's talk about it all right. Now we, as part of our, Christmas present to the kids, we got them, tickets to a Cavaliers game.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Cleveland Cavaliers. Cleveland Cabs, Cavalanche. And so we went there to that on New Year's Eve.

>> Darin: Is it the Cavalier?

>> Mike: That's what. Yeah, we got.

>> Darin: Joking.

>> Mike: No, we got little knit caps, little beat like south park beanies. I say Cavalanche.

>> Darin: I don't follow softball.

>> Mike: Yeah, it's okay. So. And the day before we went to the Football hall of Fame in Akron. Did you know that the NFL Football.

>> Darin: Hall of Fame is Canton, Ohio? Canton, not Akron.

>> Mike: Same same town.

>> Darin: If you're in Canton, you might as well be in Akron.

>> Mike: Exactly.

>> Darin: Welcome to Denton.

>> Mike: So the things that are in Canton are the NFL Football hall of Fame and a. We found Fatheads Brewery and at least one gas station because I know we got gas and that it's weird.

>> Darin: So the offside here,

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Mike, in the three weeks we were off, he didn't talk to me, text me anything. Nothing. Not at all. He does not talk to me when we're on a break.

>> Mike: We're on break.

>> Darin: Except for, hey, I need your help.

>> Mike: Yes, that's true.

>> Darin: So he texts me and so I could have said we're on break. We were talking. So Mike. Yeah, Mike needed me to do him a fave a flavor. So I.

>> Mike: You did some overtime.

>> Darin: I called him up, and I said, what do you need? And, you said, we're in Canton. And then you went to the Football hall of Fame.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And so afterwards, you guys went to the hotel, and you were kind of bored, and so you went online to see things to do in Canton. And the only thing that came up was the Football hall of Fame. So you guys, I could imagine the four of you just sitting in a hotel, twiddling your thumbs, wondering, when can we go to the Waffle House?

>> Mike: We watched about two, three episodes of Andor. And then we went to Fathead Brewery, which is an awesome place to eat.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then we went to bed relatively early and went to Cleveland the next day. back to civilization, and we had an awesome time at the Cavs game. I'm changing my view on Cleveland. I've always looked at Cleveland as an annoying place, and I was annoyed that the Rock and Roll hall of Fame is there, because I don't. I don't. I've never previously liked that city. I'm warming up to it.

>> Darin: It's always under construction.

>> Mike: It is.

>> Darin: Every time I've been there, almost the entire city is under construction.

>> Mike: The Cavs game was amazing. There were lasers. There were fire.

>> Mike: There was a guy yelling from a bar.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: And he was part of the show. It was amazing. Wow. and then we. Like I said, we got the little beanies.


Hill's Department Store was where you went to get new toys

But anyway, part a lot of this trip, I was doing the driving, and I think a lot when I drive, and I was thinking about Hill's Department Store.

>> Darin: Hills is where the toys are.

>> Mike: Because if you think about it, you look at Hills, Hills had a lot of red. Right. The logo was red. And I think we've talked about this on this show before. They had popcorn in the slushies. Target has the little pizza thing and all that stuff. But Target is not as cool as Hills. Hills was like, you really think so? I think so. Were you a Kmart guy? because I could go Kmart, too, but I think Hills was the.

>> Darin: No, I was never a Kmart guy. I mean, I have been in many Kmart.

>> Mike: Hear me out. Hear me out before we get there.

>> Darin: I'm hearing you.

>> Mike: Back in the day.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Back in the 80s, okay. Right.

>> Darin: Yep.

>> Mike: When a new toy was being released, a GI Joe or Star wars or Transformers, what have you. Or in my case, a new Vidi game. when the Nintendo Entertainment System system, the nes, the original, was released, I saw it in Hills. It Came out in Hills.

>> Darin: In Hills.

>> Mike: It was the only place it was.

>> Darin: Hills is where the toys are.

>> Mike: And they had a huge display. If you, if a new game was coming out, a new toy was coming out. It was at Hills. It was put on the shelf at the same time that we don't have that anymore. It's. It's all in Amazon. Walmart gets this, Sam's Walmart or Sam's, Transformer. It was like the. Excuse me. It was like the.

>> Darin: You can still buy toys at Target but now Walmart.

>> Mike: Not like it was back in the day. No, it was like I put in my own notes. It's like the blockbuster. Of back in the day. When a new Star wars movie or a new Indiana Jones movie was coming out. It was like an event.

>> Darin: It was Right.

>> Mike: And I was, I would see commercials. I remember when the new, Decepticons or the new, There was a Decepticon guy that was made out of all kinds of different little Decepticons and Hills had them all and they were released on a certain day. There were commercials and I went, my, I got my mom to take me there and there were all these other kids and we're like trying to get all the Decepticons. That doesn't happen anymore.

>> Darin: No, no, it's you. You know what I mean? You are exactly right.

>> Mike: So there's that. It's the same thing of how movies are now versus how movies were in the 80s and 90s. If you wanted to see the new, Avatar, Ash and Fire, you had to go to the theater then to see it.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And if it was early in the 80s, the videotapes and all that didn't exist yet.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: You didn't know when you were going to ever see it again?

>> Darin: No. And that's what we talked about a couple of weeks ago. That it's like if you really loved a movie and your parents were cool with it, you could go see it again at the theater again. Because that's the only way you saw a movie more than once.

>> Mike: Exactly.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And when you go to Hills to get the new. They had like the little arcade games there. You passed by those. Those are the new things. That's where you play the really cool games you pass by the Hills. Popcorn. Shut your mouth. Oh, I see. With the polar bear.

>> Darin: Oh yeah, I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, come on. You know what? I'm gonna wax nostalgic with you because before Christmas, Libby and I, we had a night where Cameron was Working. Jacob was out. And we're like, let's, let's do some hair. Let's go out and do some. Let's do a. Do a speed.

>> Mike: Take a little bum. Let's drop some. Let's drop some acid and watch.

>> Darin: See what happens.


Alf is stuck on Earth and doing the alien shuffle

Well, my name is Alf, and I'm stuck on Earth. I can't get back to my place of birth. Making, the best of a bad situation. Think of it as an extended vacation. Yeah. No, I didn't come here looking for trouble. I'm just here doing the alien shuffle.

>> Mike: That's not where you were going with that.

>> Darin: no, no, no, no.


Do people still go Christmas shopping? I thought there's hope

Let me said, do you want to go Christmas shop?

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: And I thought, do people still go Christmas shopping? Exactly. I'm like, you know what? I would love to go Christmas shopping. And we went to JCPenney. Whoa. We walked around JCPenney. And I am proud to say that there were a lot of people milling around, in JCPenney. They were looking at the jewelry that's on sale. They're looking at the, at the selection of women's hats and scarves and gloves. And they were holding up things. And I overheard a woman say, do you think, Roger would like this? And. And they were.

>> Mike: They were actually.

>> Darin: And I'm like, I loved it.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I thought, yes. Out actually shopping. Because I love doing that. Right. I would love getting in the car, going to a store, and picking out something with my hands.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Like, I like looking at it. Yes, you're looking at it. You're holding it and whatever. And it's like, okay, do I like shopping on Amazon also? Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But I hate the fact that Amazon has put the mall, Almost every mall out of business.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because that was something. Stranger Things, season two.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I think when Max, first came on the show.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And they went to the mall, and you saw all the kids just jamming at the food court. Because you go to the mall. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You go to Spencer Gifts. You look at all the posters. You look at the rubber dog poop. And then you go back when sign up for Spectrum. Exactly.

>> Mike: No, they didn't have a Scientologist give you meter reading.

>> Darin: And you go home, you go by Hickory Farms and get a sample and get a cheese log.

>> Mike: Or get a sad pretzel from Auntie Ann's.

>> Darin: Oh, God, I love Auntie Anne's pretzels. But no, you go to the mall and you go to Spencer's. You go to a movie, you go to the food court, and you get a hot dog at, at, at, Dirt Dog House. Exactly.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And you make a day out of it. Yeah. And the mall was so much fun.

>> Mike: You walk into the arcade with your change.

>> Darin: Oh my God. We, the arcade we had was the gold mine. That' the gold mine. You could go in there.

>> Mike: That's what we had.

>> Darin: 10 bucks worth of quarters.

>> Mike: Oh, shut your mouth.

>> Darin: Tron, Centipede, Ms. Pac Man, Donkey Kong.

>> Mike: Yeah. Back there playing Dragon's Lair.

>> Darin: Won't get off of it because somebody.

>> Mike: Puked in the afterburner. It's like, it's like this is a good time.

>> Darin: Hey buddy, can I have a turn here? You must be high and lowest because you make me laugh. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: You remember like the Street Fighter, the fighting game. So you'd put the quarter up on the screen because, I'm next. I'm next.

>> Darin: Yeah, I'm next. Because you can't dispute that. No, you can, you know, you put a quarter on there, you are next.

>> Mike: Right. And the 300 pound meth dealer who's been there all day beating everybody, you're gonna take your shot at him.

>> Darin: Yeah, right. Yeah. But I miss them all. I miss doing my shopping at the mall. So we had a good time to, JCPenney. We went to TJ Maxx and there was a lot of people shopping at TJ Maxx too. There's a line. We went to Kohl's. There was a line of people at Kohl's to check out. And I thought there's hope. There's the, you know, people actually getting out and thoughtfully shopping and maybe they just want to get out of the house, which I understand that,


You can do all your Black Friday shopping online now. And I don't mean that they don't have Black Friday

>> Mike: Did you ever do the Black Friday thing?

>> Darin: I have never once went to a store on Black Friday.

>> Mike: Okay, so now you've missed out on, on, on something that's not coming back. And I don't mean that they don't have Black Friday, but it's different now. There was a brief.

>> Darin: You can do all your Black Friday shopping online now.

>> Mike: There was a one or two year brief period, before Black Friday became like you. You had to, you were like in the war room, planning your route through the Walmart. They would put everything online the night before. So there was a period just before that when Black Friday shopping meant you went there and you weren't sure what you were going to see. There's a 50 inch screen for two bucks and there's like three Karens cutting each other over it.

>> Darin: Right, right.

>> Mike: Them were the glory days.

>> Darin: Oh yeah.

>> Mike: Or there'd just be a bin. A bin of movies. Uh-huh. That just the day before were$20 each. Now they're 3.50 cents a piece. They got gum on them. Some kid with snot running down his face got the last copy of Halloween. You know, his mom's not gonna let him get it anyway. Like, give me that thing.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Back then you could rip the movie away from the kid. I digress. My point is.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Black Friday used to have some magic.

>> Darin: Well, we used to see, you would intentionally watch the news that night to see some 60 year old lady get clocked.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: In the face with an elbow over a 12 VCR.

>> Mike: Yeah. Black Friday.

>> Darin: The doors are just when they start to open, to break open. like the running of the Bulls in Pamploma.

>> Mike: So that's when the Internet hit Black Friday. Then you had, laugh your ass off Saturday watching all the videos that people took on YouTube. Ah. From, Black Friday.

>> Darin: But no, my philosophy has always been, and I tell all my friends and family, look, if the thing you want for Christmas can only be bought on Black Friday, he ain't getting it. Yeah, not for me.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Because Libby was talking, she says, but there's such a good deal on it. I don't care. I don't care. My dad. Oh, my God. One of my favorite Black Friday stories. My dad was going to buy a recliner for my uncle, okay? And Walmart was having a Black Friday sale, a ridiculous sale on recliners. So dad went into Walmart and he's walking around the place, and the lady says, excuse me, sir, can I help you? He goes, yeah, I'm looking for the recliners that are on sale today. She goes, oh, we're sold out of them. He goes, you are. And he got there relatively early. He didn't get there 4:00am yeah, but he was there in the morning. And she says, yeah, we had three of them. He said, three? Whoa. How did you control the inventory on that? Dad's like, what kind of is that? It's a Black Friday sale. And they had three of them.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bess and I went shopping a little and I mean, we took Char. I think Charlie was with us. We went, to the new Barnes and Noble. Did you know we have a new Barnes and Noble? No, it's. It's where staples used to be.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Because people don't use paper anymore.

>> Darin: No, they don't.

>> Mike: So staples left and Barnes and Noble is there. And it's a really cool Barnes and Noble. It's very compact.

>> Darin: So a place that sells paper is replaced by a store that sells things made out of paper.

>> Mike: Correct? Yeah. They took the paper, put on it and made a new store.

>> Darin: Exactly. And for a guy who doesn't enjoy reading. I love going into bookstores.

>> Mike: Yeah.


I got one last thing I want to talk about really quick before we leave

I got one last thing I want to talk about really quick.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: All right. Canes. We stopped at Canes.

>> Darin: And I have one thing I want to talk about too before we leave. Okay. So this is your one thing.

>> Mike: Okay. So, what's the kid's name? Charlie. Charlie was. I keep calling him Marbles. That happened all break. Hey, Marbles. And then they look a lot. Hear the door open.

>> Darin: They're right around the same size.

>> Mike: I would say I'm letting Charlie out. It was. It was. I had a lot of problems over break.

>> Darin: Okay, okay, okay.

>> Mike: I forgot my story. Oh, no. He's obsessed with Canes. He loves canes. So we were stopping at Cane's to get him some Cane's. Okay.

>> Darin: Chicken fingers.

>> Mike: Now these drive thru places. I hate this new thing where you pull up and an automated voice says, hey, thanks for stopping by Cane's. Would you like to use your mobile thing? I boomer, think that's a person. And I'm like, no, that's what McDonald's and places do. Cane's does this little rhyme like, I don't.

>> Darin: Welcome to Cane's.

>> Mike: We got some.

>> Darin: We've got food when it rains.

>> Mike: We got some chicken for you to be licking and. Or something. And I did what you're doing right now. That hit right when we pulled up and I started cackling.

>> Darin: We've got chicken for you to be.

>> Mike: I didn't know. I didn't know that. It was a pre recorded thing. I thought the person was trying to be funny. And I cackled. And then. Then the voice came on and said, you need to hurry up with your order. I am not in the mood.

>> Darin: He said that?

>> Mike: Yeah, she.

>> Darin: She said.

>> Mike: She said that. She said. She said she's not in the mood.

>> Darin: I said, her.

>> Mike: She said something, something, something. I'm not in the mood for this. So I just. Bess looked at me. I looked at best. God. And then I made my order and I came around. And I thought they were going to be laughing when. When I pulled up, she was not in the mood.

>> Darin: Oh, my God.

>> Mike: Have it going.


Kimmy says automated ordering at Chick Fil a made him miss going

So two things.

>> Darin: One, made you miss going to Chick Fil a?

>> Mike: Here's the deal. Yeah, I'd love for Chick Fil a to do that.

>> Darin: Kimmy I'm not in the mood here.

>> Mike: It's a call out to all your franchise, fast food people.

>> Darin: Don't do that.

>> Mike: One, can you get the automated thing off? Because when you do that.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It sounds like there's a person there to take your order immediately. And they're just. There's just not. Harold's talking to the other car, not me. And then I sound like a dip because I'm talking to dead air. And two, if you're at Canes and you got a hilarious message, but then you got Captain Karen coming on right after that, who ain't in the mood for it, boy? Nothing. I mean, I didn't want anything from Gaines. I finished the order because Charlie wanted it. But if it had been me, I'd have been like, you know what? I'm done. I said, I wouldn't have been buying anything.

>> Darin: I would have just kept going through. Yeah, well, if you're not in the mood for it, then.

>> Mike: Then bye.

>> Darin: Bye.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: How many times on this podcast, as I mentioned that, that, one of these days the kids are going to come home and I'm gonna be standing in the yard in my room, waving at cars, Right?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. So I had almost a perfect moment like that Libby was driving to work, and it is stupid cold outside.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And she calls me within a minute or two after she left, and she says, hey, it's windy. And one of our trash cans is blowing down the street.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I was like, oh, crap. So I go out there. I'm in pajama shorts and a T shirt.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And a pair of flip flops. And I'm running down the street chasing a trash can. all right, I get it. And then I bring it up. Okay. So that was the trash can, the recycle bin. I was like, well, I'm going to bring it in, too. While I'm here. I thought, what, have the recycle people come yet? I can't open it because the lid was frozen shut from where it had rained.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So I go into the garage to get a hammer because I'm gonna just bonk just one right up underneath.

>> Mike: Good whack.

>> Darin: Just one uppercut. And I'm gonna raise the lid and see if they have come and gotten. You know what I'm thinking now? I could have just felt the weight. Felt the weight.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Three weeks later, I realized I could have just felt to see if it was full. So I go in the garage. I'm looking for a hammer. the closest thing I find is this hatchet.

>> Mike: Oh, God.

>> Darin: So I grab the hatchet. I'm walking down the driveway. Nothing wrong with shorts, T shirt and a hatchet. Yeah. To open up my recycle bin. One of my neighbors, who I've known for years, comes by waving at me, and I'm like, hi.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Just. And I know she had to have gone home.

>> Mike: Hi, Carol.

>> Darin: I saw. I saw Mr. Cox out there with the hatchet and his flip flops, in 12 degree weather. Just sit there.

>> Dave: Hi.

>> Mike: Yeah. Somebody call check on Libby and the kids.

>> Darin: Ah, God.


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>> Mike: Oh, easy. I need a countdown.

>> Darin: Okay. Three, One, two. Like, I've never done a countdown before in my life.

>> Mike: Racking up the followers with this stream. Yeah, it's Diet Mountain Dew.

>> Darin: Drinking that stuff ain't Christian. Yeah, there you go.

>> Mike: Yeah, we're gonna do. I will do my dancing photo.

>> Darin: you should be dancing. Yeah, you should be dancing now.

>> Mike: Twitch. Twitch Television.

>> Darin: Hey, Willie, where you going? I'm gonna go see a musical.

>> Mike: Musicals are dumb. Out of the blue, people burst into song.

>> Darin: Hence the term musical. Yeah, but wouldn't it get on your nerves if all of a sudden I started singing?

>> Mike: Hey, Kate, ain't it great? Hey, Willy, you look silly.

>> Darin: Getting on my nerves.

>> Mike: What's this stinker called? Cats.

>> Darin: Take me, please. Afterwards, we'll go backstage and eat the actors.

>> Mike: Recording stopped.