IDS #294 - Find the Sausage

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>> Dave: Irritable dad Syndrome was videotaped before a live studio audience, everybody.

>> Mike: He's not listening.

>> Darin: Isn't he? Yeah, yeah. Work your body. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: I wonder if I can.

>> Darin: Everybody.

>> Mike: I'm gonna m. Message him on, the PlayStation app. We're gonna use technology back streets back.

>> Darin: All right.

>> Mike: It's like a tire fire. Trying to put it out only makes it worse. You just gotta let it. Foreign syndrome.

>> Dave: Brand name comedy at, ah, discount prices. Give it up for 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 294. For people unfamiliar with us, we are a podcast. We are recorded in a basement here in the Midwest by a couple of middle aged men.

>> Mike: We would like to move out of the basement.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And to a proper studio broadcast from a, a, nice big shiny building somewhere.

>> Darin: Yes. Irritable Dad Syndrome incorporated.

>> Mike: I'm not going to wear a suit.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: I'm going to wear my jam. Jam.

>> Darin: No, no, no, no, no. When we go. When we go big. This is what I'm wearing when I come in to record the podcast. When we have our weekly meeting with our writers.

>> Mike: Uh-huh. And.

>> Darin: And we'll probably fire writers. Yeah. Every week.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. Every week I'll wear a different Marvel character as jammies. And that'll become my thing. Somebody like. Oh, and he's here with his freaking Captain, America jammies.

>> Darin: Yep.

>> Mike: It's gonna be one of those episodes.

>> Darin: Yeah. You remember those pajamas that you would wear that had Superman on one leg and Batman on the other?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because this woman, I remember she was giving you. She was giving you the, the stank eye. Stank eye. And you're like, like, what are you looking at me like that for? I bought these pants here.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Like that had anything to do with it.

>> Mike: Anyway, still my favorite.

>> Darin: Jamie P. We are happy you are here. Mike, how are you doing?

>> Mike: M. Thank you for, going to me right when I'm taking a drink. I'm doing okay. I watched a movie. I haven't watched a movie. well, I watched Avatar, Fire and Ass, but I haven't watched a movie at home in a while. And, I watched two.

>> Darin: I'm here in Mike's basement. And if we had recorded the podcast yesterday, I don't know that I would have been able to have gotten here because it took them a while.


We had a major, and I mean major snowstorm last week

We had a major, and I mean major snowstorm last week. I was bitching about everybody complaining about meteorologists and they don't know what they're talking about and freaking out. And we may get 0 inches, we may get 100. Who knows for sure? Because, okay, turns out we got a foot of snow. They said we would get 8 to 12 inches of snow. Some parts of our region got like, close to 13 inches of snow. Okay? They said we would get a lot of snow and we got a lot of snow. So there's that. Okay. It took them a little bit to, get to the roads. Of course it did. Right? They do the interstates first. They get the hospitals and all the major, high frequented, buildings first. Okay? There's priorities. I'm not one of those. I understand that and I'm not complaining about that. But here's what I am going to complain about for all of you people, you out there, you people who are throwing a fit saying that it's the news that freaks people out, that scares people, that makes people run and go crazy. It's not the, it's you people.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It's you people doing it. Okay? It's you people who are like, oh, we've got snow. And then they, you rush out to your local Kroger or your Winn Dixie or your Payless or whatever grocery store you go to. It's you people who are buying four and five and six dozen eggs and four and five and six loaves of bread and 22 gallons of milk and all the canned sardines and all the chocolate chip cookie mix. It's you people who are the problem. You people. excuse me. Yes, this is my beef, okay? I went to the grocery store on Thursday. The snowstorm did not come until Saturday evening. And now here's the. It did come a few hours later than what the meteorologists predicted. They said it would come around two. It came about seven o'. Clock.

>> Mike: It was fashionably late.

>> Darin: It was five hours late. Yeah, big deal. We still got a foot of snow. I went to the grocery store. Mike, and I recorded on Thursday last week because Mike was sick and we couldn't record on Tuesday, which we normally do. I went on Thursday after we record the podcast. They were completely out of eggs. Okay. And that was two days before the, the storm. The storm hit. Thank you, Mike. Okay, why are you, why are you stockpiling eggs? The snowstorm hit on a Saturday night. all day Sunday. Okay? We were inside our house all day Sunday. We didn't drive anywhere on Monday until Monday evening. Right. We were in the house a day. Are you telling me One day. Are you telling me that you can't go a day without having to buy four, five, six dozen eggs? Yeah, I don't think so. You people who are stocking up on everything, it's just, it's sad. It really is sad because I mean, it's like even if there wasn't a storm coming, I needed to go to the store and get a few things. Anyway, I made chili when we had the store. Oh my God. The chili turned out amazing, if I can say so myself, which I just did. I needed to get stuff for chili. And then my son Jacob, who eats upwards to 8, 9, 10 eggs a day, I was going to give him some eggs because that's all he eats lately. And they were sold out of eggs. And we percent milk. And 1% was the only milk left because they had wiped out the milk. There's no excuse for.

>> Mike: See, when I went, they were replete with 2% milk there. You couldn't walk two feet without, running into a 2% milk. But there was nary an egg, nary no bread. No bread. There was, there was a, A, a loaf of bread that had been tossed aside, stepped on like a old rat, and somebody picked it up and was considering putting it in their cart. And the chicken, I get a particular type of chicken breast. Excuse me. And I, it's, I enjoy it.

>> Darin: is it Tyson?

>> Mike: It's. No.

>> Darin: Okay, okay.

>> Mike: It's not, it's one of these.

>> Darin: It's not fancy.

>> Mike: It probably comes off the same line that Tyson does, but the packaging makes it look fancy and it makes it, it's one of those where you can.

>> Darin: Get it and if it looks fancy, you feel fancy.

>> Mike: And if you're getting that and someone else is getting Tyson, you can look at them and. Oh, oh. I guess that's what you choose to put in the mouths of your children.

>> Darin: Some people love their children.

>> Mike: And, and all of that.

>> Darin: I use Whompers chicken breast.


Bob Evans has a plethora of sausage flavorings

>> Mike: Yes. All that chicken was gone. So there was no bread, there were no eggs, there was no sausage. What is, what are you people doing? Yeah, like, okay, I am a sausage aficionado. I love Bob Evans specifically. Not only was there no Bob Evans, there was no Jimmy Dean. My question is, what the hell?

>> Darin: Listen, okay.

>> Mike: Bob Evans has a, plethora of sausage flavorings. Yes, it does have the standard Bob Evans sausage. they have the mild. They have this sage, which is my particular. You like them say it comes in the blue.

>> Darin: Yeah, I've seen it, but I don't crazy About Savage.

>> Mike: They have the, the spicy one that comes in the red. And the fun one about that is if your wife sees you cutting into that and asks you if it's spicy.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: And you say yes, then everyone's going to complain about how hot this the sausage is. But if you lie and you say no, this is the sausage that they cram tums into to make it significantly not spicy, then everybody's happy.

>> Darin: I think tums burrito.

>> Mike: And then there's the green sausage. And I don't know what goes in there. All of the different flavors.

>> Darin: Is it the green one? More like the vegetarian.

>> Mike: It could be the plant based. It could be.

>> Darin: It might.

>> Mike: Here's, here's the deal.

>> Darin: The deal.

>> Mike: Somebody wanted sausage so badly because I know for a fact the sausage flavored sausage and the sage flavored sausage were gone like that.

>> Mike: Somebody walked in wanting one of those sausages, saw the red sausage, said, well, I guess if I'm going to be snowed in for a day.

>> Darin: A day.

>> Mike: A day.

>> Darin: A, day.

>> Mike: I'll have to deign to get the red sausage.

>> Darin: And they got it. Yeah.

>> Mike: I was going through. I called Bess about 15 times and, she was getting exasperated with me. Look it up. Because she had, she had the, the thing that I normally. She kind of took one of my lines like, well, what do you want me to do about it? You know, like, yeah, like why I'm calling her and saying they're out of, everything. Who's eating the frosted Mini Wheats? And she's like, okay, maybe there's a different type of cereal you can get. Yeah. But I wanted frosted Mini Wheats. It was first world problem central in the Kroger aisle.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But I was mostly pissed. My worst phone call with her, the one where I just went off on a rant in the middle of Kroger's was when my special chicken was gone. M. And then later in the yogurt aisle.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: And they have little cheese displays.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Someone had discarded some of Mike's special chicken into the cheese and yogurt display. Still refrigerated.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: So I wretched in, grasped it, brought it home and made a tasty stir fry.

>> Mike: So, yeah, crisis averted. I don't know where I was going.

>> Darin: Well, my point is, what are these.

>> Mike: People doing with these food items?

>> Darin: You're not going to be snowed in weeks.

>> Mike: A day.

>> Darin: You. We were snowed in a day. Day what? 24 hours.

>> Mike: And they weren't out of Toilet paper? No, you guys are buying all this sausage and eggs and you're not buying toilet paper?

>> Darin: Do you remember back in the day when they would call snow and 2,000 people would be in line at Blockbuster Video to get tango and cash?

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Like, well, hell, we got to watch some movies. Yeah, yeah. Now you can watch anything you want.

>> Mike: Sorry, we're out of that.


Stop hoarding food when it snows, okay? Cut it out

All right, give me under siege.

>> Dave: I guess.

>> Darin: My point is, people, you don't have to wipe the entire store out. You don't have to buy four and five and six dozen eggs. Buy what you normally buy. My just buy what you would normally use in a week's worth of shopping. Because we were snowed in for a day. Yeah, a day.

>> Mike: And you know, people in, in the northern areas, they look at what we're doing with this one foot of snow and they're like, really?

>> Darin: Yeah. You ever see buffalo? Good lord. Buffalo gets like eight feet of snow. They like sissies. Yeah.

>> Mike: I mean, we talked about how regional the weather was last week. I know that because I listened to part of the episode today. Yeah, pretty, good episode.

>> Darin: It was 293. If you need to go back into your, vault and listen to it on Irritable.

>> Mike: One of my stepsisters moved to L. A for a period of time and she was talking about how crazy it was when it rained. People like, slowed to a crawl and freaked out on the highway. Like, oh my God, what are we going to do? It's raining.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: My friend Larry, who, when he lived in Florida, they got flurries one time. Just flurries?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It wasn't even sticking. That brought the place to a standstill. They had no idea what to do with the flurry. Yeah. So, anyway, people, please, the next time it snows, honestly, there are people who need to eat food, okay? If you can afford to buy five and six dozen of eggs, that means that you're doing better off than some, other people that need to go and buy one dozen eggs. Stop hoarding food.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Cut it out, okay? You don't need to get five gallons of milk. I don't care how many refrigerators you have, if you can fill them up. This ain't Y2K. There's not a nuclear bomb going off comedy podcast.

>> Mike: If there is, you're just going to be the person on the block that has the most eggs. So some jackass like me is going to come over and take them from you. That's all that's going to happen.


Libby noticed that our Alexa has got a new voice

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

>> Darin: We're at home and we noticed that our Alexa has got a new voice. Oh yeah, our Alexa sounds like a younger voice. Prettier. Alexa. Okay.

>> Mike: Alexa got a tummy tuck.

>> Darin: Alexa had some work done.

>> Mike: Some work done.

>> Darin: Okay. She has a younger voice.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And Libby said, what's her deal with Alexa? And I said, well, she sounds younger and prettier. She says, yeah. And so I said, ah, Alexa, what's going on? Are you younger and prettier now? What's going on? And Alexa tells me that she's, this is the new Alexa. Do you like your new Alexa? She asks me. Okay. And she was telling me that the old Alexa, they've replaced her because she was giving wonky kind of misguided answers. She used the word wonky?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I talked to our Alexa. She is essentially the red headed stepchild in our family. I ask her a question, if she doesn't give me the right answer, I yell at her to shut up. I was like, alexa, God. Alexa, stand down. Alexa, God, would you. And, and we do we talk to Alexa.

>> Mike: Horribly. Yeah, horribly. I, I abused the Google lady here. I did. The Google lady? Don't know. No, we'll ask. She used to just jump in and we would have family disagreements on, you know, what Arnold Schwarzenegger's first movie was. And you know, I would, I would tell everybody that it was Hercules in New York. And then Alexa would come in with her. Not Alexa, the Google lady.

>> Darin: Google. Hey, Google.

>> Mike: Talking about Terminator or whatever. It's like, no, that's not. And I get angry with it. And then after a while I noticed that she just qu. Answering questions.

>> Mike: She just started saying, I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're asking me. I'm not talking anything to you.

>> Darin: Libby decided to have some fun with new Alexa. And she said, alexa, do you like Libby or Darren better? And Alexa says, I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with the name Liver or dare. Okay. is this a drinking game?

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And wow. It is. Now she thought Libby said Liverpool or dare.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I'm like, that has got to be the most brutal drinking game of, all time. So. And this was right after she said that she is the new Alexa because the old Alexa was giving wonky, misguided answers.

>> Mike: Well, I mean, have you tried playing. Did you ask her what the rules of liver or dare are?


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Robert Evans makes breakfast casserole with Italian breakfast sausage

>> Darin: So you were saying you couldn't find the sausage. Ah, the sausage that you. Oh, hello. Find the sausage. You couldn't find the sausage you wanted.

>> Mike: You just start peeing, and then I just aim m after it. Shh.

>> Darin: Stop. I'm sorry. Libby went out one night, and she, I wanted to stuff to make a breakfast casserole. We talked about this last week.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And she's like, what do we need? I said, we have everything except for breakfast sausage. So she was looking for sausage, and the only thing she could find was, Jimmy Dean. No, no, no, no, no. Bob Evans.

>> Mike: Robert Evans.

>> Darin: Italian sausage. And she brought it home. And she was extremely skeptical. She's like, I don't know if we can put Italian sausage in a breakfast casserole. I'm like, well, let's try it. We. We were very, very skeptical, and we knew that this is probably going to be the one time we make it.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And she had bought seasoned tater tots.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: And I was like, well, that's going to be just fine. She's just, well, maybe there. It's the wrong type of seasoning or something.

>> Mike: I said, there is any seasoning that's on a tater tot, it becomes the right seasoning.

>> Darin: So I made this breakfast casserole with Italian breakfast sausage. What's just Italian sausage? Holy crap.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You talk about good.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And this is. This is my dad. When he pays a compliment, he says, now, buddy, that was breakfast sausage. When my dad would compliment something, he would just say what it is. Now, buddy. That man, he can sing. Yeah. Okay. Wow, dad. Wow.

>> Mike: That's.

>> Darin: That was a breakfast sausage, and it was, tater tots. A lot. I go overboard on the cheese.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And we use.

>> Mike: What kind of cheese are you using?

>> Darin: I use the Mexican, blend. the shredded.

>> Mike: Okay. The shredded Mexican. I did not expect that.

>> Darin: Yeah. So we used Mexican cheese, Italian sausage, German tater tots.

>> Mike: United Nations.

>> Darin: United nations breakfast casserole. But yeah, threw it in the oven at, 400 for like 45 minutes. Holy crap. We devoured it. It was so good. And that was one of the fun things about, you know, being stuck in the house during a, winter snowstorm. I made chili. And it was amazing. It turned. When I worked at my last TV station, we had a chili cook off every year. And I entered that son of a. Every year. And I won four years in a row. And the last year that I worked there, they didn't do the cook off because the woman who ran it, had left the building and they couldn't get anybody else to sit in the lobby and count money. Oh, yeah, here's the thing. I made chili. I gave some to my neighbor Chris, and Mary, you know, called them up. Do you want some chili? Absolutely. So I ran some. Well, we, we got it over to them. They loved it. And this is. They're nice people, but there's a dark secret. I made them chili. Okay. So I looked out the window and I was actually, I was out in my driveway. after we had shoveled the driveway, I saw Mary in the backyard with her girls and their dog Sadie. They're playing in the snow. I walked over in the snow to say hi, and Mary said, I made chocolate chip pumpkin bread. Would you guys like some? And I said, would I?


You feel badly about what you're giving them, so you stop giving them anything

Yeah, I would. Yeah. And so she says, I will bring you some over. She brought me an entire loaf, an entire loaf of pumpkin bread. So now the next time we bring them something, we've got to give them something that's more than a loaf of pumpkin bread. I gave them like, two, hefty servings of chili. Okay. She gives me an entire loaf of bread. What am I supposed to do now? It's, this is, you know, that's it. I'm gonna make her an entire cake, and then she's gonna make me a lasagna.

>> Mike: This is how it is with Chris Michael. This is a heat.

>> Darin: And then I give her like an entire country ham.

>> Mike: This is what he does with everything he touches or is involved with. It's gotta be a big one up thing, right?

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: You can't just be, have a piece of fudge, say, oh, no, I'm gonna bring you the full fudge platter. And this one over here is from China. And you can. They only make it once every thousand years. It's called Dynasty fudge. No, one in my lineage has ever tasted it, but I'm going to give it to you.

>> Darin: My neighbor, like, solid Gold flakes. And then so what, they just had to one up us?

>> Mike: What happens is that you begin to get. You feel badly about what it is that you're giving them. So you just stop giving them anything. And it builds resentment.

>> Darin: Well, no. And then they go, we won. They.

>> Mike: They won. Yeah.

>> Darin: Either.

>> Mike: Either. Well, Chris has a dark, dark heart. So he. Part of him says we won. But internally he's like that son of a. I know. After all the dynasty fudge I've given him.

>> Darin: And I expected that from Chris. I was very surprised that Mary had.

>> Mike: That they been together a while and she can only resist his dark impulses for so long.

>> Darin: But they gave us an entire loaf of chocolate chip pumpkin bread.

>> Mike: You know, there was a period of time I could. Felt bad about punching him. I'm gonna. You have never once, briefly the last month. I felt bad for about five minutes. Christmas memories came up. And then it came up and I felt giddy seeing the picture of just decking him right in his punchable face.

>> Darin: Right. He does have a. Now I'm kind of wanting to punch him.

>> Mike: It's a little cushiony.

>> Darin: It's like. It's like a.

>> Mike: And he's not. It's. He's. No, he's normal. It's all that pupp chicken bread. You hit it and it has a little bit of give and it size a little bit. You punch goes right. You know, it's terrible.

>> Darin: Pissed off retired papa Mary.

>> Mike: We. We are sociopaths. We attack the nicest.

>> Dave: Chris.

>> Mike: Michael's one of the nicest people you've ever met.

>> Darin: His wife.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Makes him look like, Hitler.

>> Mike: And I've. I've accused him.

>> Darin: His wife is the nicest person I've ever known.

>> Mike: I've accused him of having a pumpkin bread was delicious. Yeah. I've confused.

>> Darin: It was so sweet of her and I'm sorry.

>> Mike: I made him participate in a picture of me assaulting him. He loved talking about his dark, decaying, horrifying heart. Yep. What have we done?

>> Darin: It's no wonder this podcast isn't national syndicated. We can't get picked up.

>> Mike: I don't think we would have gotten to that place if we hadn't gotten to this place.

>> Darin: And I put that back. Mean. Yeah.


Now it's time for the Walmart story of the week

>> Dave: Now it's time for the Walmart story of the week.

>> Darin: I went to Walmart. This is where you say the Breaking Bad.

>> Mike: Walmart.

>> Darin: Yes, The Breaking Bad.

>> Mike: Walmart.

>> Darin: Because I drove Cameron to work. I had some time to kill. Had to run into like taking your.

>> Mike: Life into your own hands.

>> Darin: Went Into Walmart to grab a couple of things. And this was well before the. The snowstorm happened. And I'm walking down and I'm trying to find. Libby wants this. it doesn't matter what Libby wants. I can't find it. So I find an employee who works there. He says, he sees. He says, hey, how you doing? I said, I'm good. How are you? And he says, good, how you doing?

>> Mike: I said, oh, I'm good. It's a glitch in the Matrix.

>> Darin: Can I just. How long can we do this? Yeah, And I said, I'm good. I'm looking for this thing. And he says, yeah, it's over on, aisle eight. And then he says, you know, I've worked here for six years. I did not know that.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then. And then it's just like, I.

>> Mike: Would explain why he knew it was on Ila.

>> Darin: Yeah. I said, do. Do you like working here? Yeah, except when people are mean to me. Oh, okay. I said, I,

>> Mike: Okay, see, if this were a. If this were a horror movie, that's where you'd hear that sound go.

>> Darin: Yeah, exactly.

>> Mike: And it would, like, zoom in on his eyes. And I.

>> Darin: And I think you're being very mean to me right now. Yeah. Yeah. It was just weird. Hey, how you doing? Good. How are you? Good, how are you? I'm good. How are you? Good. You? I'm great. How are you? Good. How are you?

>> Mike: Starting to do a little worse right now. Not gonna lie. Was good now. Not.

>> Darin: So now it's, it's now I'm. Now I'm good, but awkward.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. Watchful. Looking for a shank. Coming by.

>> Darin: Anyway, I'm hoping that I see him there when he's on his, seventh year anniversary at the Walmart.

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

>> Mike: So, there was a period of time when, Andrew grew into an age where he could watch more movies. And he started going down the. The. All the. The cool movies.

>> Darin: Yeah, we've.

>> Mike: We've reached a similar age with Charlie.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: So, this same as with me.

>> Darin: And the boys, Jacob and Cameron.

>> Mike: This weekend we watched the Matrix. He came in. I, was on the. Okay, let's. Let's back up a little bit. I was playing the cod. Right.

>> Darin: Call of Duty. It's not a game about fish.

>> Mike: Right. I've grinded all the camos or ground.


Charlie: I loved the Matrix when I first saw it

>> Darin: Grounded. Grounded.

>> Mike: And I just. I'm kind of lost. I don't know what to do.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So he walked in right at that moment. And he said, let's watch a movie.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I said, okay. And he's like, stop. Not just any movie. He's like, I want top tier. I want.

>> Darin: Oh, who Charlie said this?

>> Mike: He said, I want a Charlie.

>> Darin: There's top tier.

>> Mike: He said, I want top tier. S class movie.

>> Darin: Oh, okay.

>> Mike: Oh, wow.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: But you like, like actiony stuff. Okay, I do. so we started going through titles back and forth, blah, blah, blah, and we hit the Matrix. I said, the Matrix. The first one is pretty. Pretty universally loved. I know you don't.

>> Darin: No, I like the Matrix, but it's.

>> Mike: Pretty like people don't like the second and third one, but the first one. And it's been on my brain because I've been watching a bunch of Matrix videos on the.

>> Darin: On the.

>> Mike: The thing.

>> Darin: Anyway, let me. Let me. I loved the Matrix when I first saw it. upon second viewing, it didn't hold up for me. It wasn't as cool the second time around. But the thing about the Matrix that I love the most was that it won the Academy Award for special effects over Star Wars, Episode one, Phantom Menace. And I was clapping.

>> Mike: They invented.

>> Darin: And when.

>> Mike: Bullet time.

>> Darin: Yeah. And when. Yes. When Libby and I were watching the Matrix in the theater and Keanu Reeves was doing all that kung fu. Yeah. We were laughing so hard. We were almost about. Everyone else is on the edge of their seat with excitement. And Libby and I had tears in our eyes at Keanu Reeves. And, those are endlessly entertaining.

>> Mike: Those are. Those are non, threatening, non judgmental sounds you were making. Yes, those were this Keanu Reeves sounds.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: M. So we sat down and we started watching. And something dawned on me. The first time you see the bullet time in the movies, when Trinity jumps up and the kick, it zooms around. You know, after watching 23 Marvel movies with this kid, seeing somebody jump up and then the camera go around and then them kiss.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Is not as impressive as it was back in 1999. No. So I resisted a extreme dad urge. I've been alerted to the fact that I tend to interrupt movies to explain things, and I'm trying to not do that. Right.

>> Darin: I do that too.

>> Mike: So I wanted to, My hand was going for the button to say, look, I know that that doesn't look that awesome right now, but back in the day.

>> Darin: Well, he probably thought it looked awesome.

>> Mike: He did. He didn't even. It didn't even like, yeah, that's how you kick. I've seen Black Widow. That's how she kicks. Clearly. That's how Trinity should kick.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: That's how kicking is done.

>> Darin: Duh. yeah.

>> Mike: yeah, so. But yeah, I wanted to push the pause and say you. That they had like a bunch of little cameras and a circle.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And it was a big. This was a big deal. But he asked as we were coming down the steps, he was like, is this the one where you go.


Tommy Jones rewatches one of his favorite movies with his son

And this is an audio podcast. So you had to edit around this, where he goes and then the bullets and the.

>> Darin: His, his long coat flows around. Yeah.

>> Mike: For the audio people, I'm doing like the, the little flappy guy out in front of the used car lot, you know, thing.

>> Darin: Yeah. It's like he's standing in front of a wind turbine and his coat blows back.

>> Mike: And I, said, yes, this is the movie where that happens. And he said, and I quote, bet we're watching this. Bet. But he was. Yeah, he started to fall asleep. There's, there's, there's some wordy parts, right? There's a part.

>> Darin: That's what I noticed upon second viewing. I don't remember it being this boring.

>> Mike: Morpheus takes, Neo to school. there are parts that are scenes from the next two, which I didn't anticipate I did until I watched these other YouTube movies explaining everything. I was like, oh, that's cool. This is actually in Reloaded. But you don't know. Anyway, the point is, right? The point is the point. It was in one of those wordy sections. And I had to tell Charlie, I said, you need to wake up or not go to sleep. He's like, I'm not going to sleep. I was like, you're asleep. The next, scene. The next scene five Seconds from now is one of the most talked about ultimate action scene movies of that time. And people still talk about it to this day. And of course, I'm talking about the lobby. Yeah, right. And then, and then, and then the wishy thing happens on the roof. Yes. So I told him that. And when he saw them walking into the lobby with all their gear, he immediately back up.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: He was like, they go in the elevator, the fire comes down. He's like, like. And then the whooshy happens and he's locked in the entire time. he did ask what just happened when Neo dove into Agent Smith. And I said, well, that just looked cool.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So that's what happened.

>> Darin: We had the same moment when we watched the Fugitive. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And the name of this podcast is Irritable Dad Syndrome. But when you're a father. And one of the great joys of being a dad for me, and I think I speak for you as well, is rewatching one of my favorite movies with my son. Okay. One of the. The Fugitive.

>> Mike: Ah.

>> Darin: The Matrix. And when we watch Star wars for the first time. We watch ET for the first time. Raiders Lost Ark for the first time. Lord of the Rings. That, you know, it's like the kids, you know, we watched the Avenger movies together.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But the Fugitive was one that I saw when I was in college, and God knows how many times I watched it before the kids were even born.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But when Jacob was of age, we sat him down, said, son, we're watching the Fugitive. And it was like watching the movie all over again.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Experiencing it. And that's one of the joys. One of the true, pure joys of being a dad is experiencing something that you experience with them for the first time. And Jacob was on the edge of his seat and like that scene when.

>> Mike: That's the best. When they don't know what's coming.

>> Darin: No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah. Because it's like you didn't know how he was going to get away when the train was about to hit the bus. You didn't know how he's going to get away when he was in the sewer and then he had to jump off into the room.

>> Mike: And that's particular scene. I want to interrupt you real quick. One of my favorite parts of the whole movie.

>> Darin: I didn't kill my wife.

>> Mike: I don't care. Yeah, that line hit hard. I was. I remember seeing it in the theaters, and I thought that was one of the best lines of all time.

>> Darin: Yes, absolutely.

>> Mike: I looked over and the kids loved it. Yeah.

>> Darin: And it wasn't just the line.

>> Mike: It's the delivery. Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: It's absolutely Tommy Lee Jones at his best. Harrison Ford at his best. It's my favorite Harrison Ford movie. It's my favorite over all the Star wars, all the Indiana Jones, everything.


Dad's new obsession is wood porn on TikTok

That is my favorite Harrison Ford movie. But when Jacob lost his absolute mind was when Harrison Ford the Fugitive, goes to the prison to visit the guy, and he's in the elevator, and all the police officers line up in the elevator. He's like, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad. I'm like, what's what?

>> Mike: Why is he gonna tell?

>> Darin: I'm like, you gotta watch the movie, buddy.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And by the way, when I saw that in college, the guy in front of me in the movie theater, snoring, I just Wanted, like, what is wrong with you?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You're watching the damn Fugitive.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: So anyway. But anyway, so we did that with Jacob, and then three or four years later, we did it again when Cameron was,

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: Because Cameron went through a long time where the only thing he. If it wasn't animated, he didn't want to watch it. Yeah. And we would watch all. And we love the animated movies that we watch with Cameron. Then he got out of that. And, we had that experience with the Shawshank Redemption. We had that experience with the Fugitive and especially with the Lord of the Rings. Kids loved watching Lord of the Rings.

>> Mike: Oh, good lord.

>> Darin: Yeah. Good times. Good times. To be a dad, you are listening.

>> Dave: To Irritable Dad Syndrome with two scoops of raisins in every box.

>> Darin: That's right. While back, I was on TikTok, and I started watching these lathe videos where they put the log on the lathe and they spin it around and. And every episode, every video that you watch, the guy makes a bowl or a vase. It's a bowl or a vase. Very rarely do they make, hey, it's a cane. No, it's a bowl or a vase. And I got to where it became a problem.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I. It's like I'm. We're sitting there watching a movie, and I'm on my phone, Dad's watching wood porn. And I'm like, he's making this cool.

>> Mike: There's.

>> Darin: I mean, there's worse things, than watching people put, stuff on the lathe.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: There's worse things. Now, my new obsession. And I don't know how I got into it. I didn't actively search this. I certainly don't know why it came up on my phone, but it came up on my phone one day. the camera is facing this corner of a wall, and there's one block of wood that goes up on the left.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And there's a block of wood that goes on the right. But they can't go at the same time. Oh, God. So they need to be measured, and cut and so that they both hit the corner at an angle. My God, I can watch that stuff all day. And I'm like, what is wrong with me?

>> Mike: No, those are wrong with me. The woody things. At least there's a point.

>> Darin: Right.


Tiktok is becoming increasingly popular for home improvement projects

>> Mike: I've gone down a different rabbit hole in the Tiktoks, where now I'm seeing, home improvement projects.

>> Mike: I saw one yesterday. They took a key.

>> Mike: They heated it Up. They took a bottle, cap, like a water bottle cap, and they stuck the hot key into the bottle cap. Ah. So it melted through. And then they filled that up with glue. They let it sit. And then they showed how they could pick that up and now use it as a key. And all the comments were like, oh, great. Now the key has a, handle that it already had. You've covered up the hole, so you can't hang it anywhere. You can't put it on the keychain, and it's too bulky to put in your pocket. Congratulations.

>> Darin: I don't think so.

>> Mike: So I've been seeing videos like that, like, crazy. And I've been. I've somehow ended up on this. Have you. Have you been on the epoxy floor? There's AI video. They're all AI. They're not real. Nobody's really doing that.

>> Darin: Yes. They fill the floor up with bottle caps. They fill the floor up with dead.

>> Mike: Rats or whatever, tennis balls.

>> Darin: Then they pour it, and it's always sausages. Yeah. It's always the same person.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: on the left and the right.

>> Mike: Yeah. Like, it's like it's pouring all out.

>> Darin: There's no bubbles, nothing smooth.

>> Mike: It's like they do a flamethrower and then the guy comes through with a mop. It makes it clear. And then they put all the fancy furniture. You're like, look at my new floor with all the sausages in it.

>> Darin: What's the point?

>> Mike: I don't.

>> Darin: It just doesn't make any sense. And the thing is, it's like somebody did it once and then everybody jumps on the bandwagon. The new thing I've seen on TikTok is people doing the impression of the owl saying, who? Here's my impression of Bob Dylan saying as an owl saying who? You know, look it up, owl. Look up owl saying who? Because one jackass did it and 50 other people had said, oh, I can be funnier than that. And then they jump on there. And here's my impression of. Here's my impression of Cookie Monster saying who?

>> Mike: So, okay. Oh, oh, who Eat cookie. Oh, God.

>> Darin: Okay. Yeah, there you go. Tick tock.


You run all of our social media, including Facebook and YouTube

>> Mike: I will say you have just one, like, account. Like, right, You.

>> Darin: You. Yeah. Thank God. Yes.

>> Mike: Okay. So I have this weird privilege since I run all of our social media. I have, especially on Facebook, but also on YouTube and different things. I have the irritable dad syndrome account and then I have the MIC accounts. Right. So the MIC accounts are the stuff that I've been using for decades at this point. They know me, right? They know.

>> Darin: They know Mike odle me.

>> Mike: But every once in a while, I will forget that. I'll switch over to the irritable dead syndrome account, which is a vanilla account. All it does is post. Never really looks at anything. So I see the videos and things that it throws at people. Sorry, you're right.

>> Darin: Good.

>> Mike: I see the videos of things. That's why your head fell off.

>> Darin: Nope, just my headphones.

>> Mike: See the videos and things that it throws at normal, quote, unquote, normal people. because I'll be looking. I was like, there are no old video game, movie. It's on here. There's no, third, 3,000th explanation of the Matrix. There's no acrylic floor videos. This is, this is like normal news and normal videos. I don't understand what's going on.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And I don't know where the story is going.

>> Darin: Hello.


Some people are upset about the new he man trailer

>> Mike: But I want to talk about the he man trailer. Did you ever watch the he man trailer?

>> Darin: I did not watch the he man trailer. We were supposed to talk about it last week, but we didn't.

>> Mike: We didn't talk about it. Good. Because I want to talk about, the new he man trailer is awesome. Little, 11, 12 year old Mike lost his Shy's night. And I showed it. I showed the trailer to Andrew, who wouldn't know a he man from and. But Bess was excited about seeing he man trailer.

>> Darin: Who was he man in the movie? In the 80s. Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah. And then Frank Langella was skeleton.

>> Darin: Frank Langella. Yes.

>> Mike: And they couldn't. I mean, they didn't have a special. They just had a bass they wore. They went and got one of those Halloween skeleton masks. He walked around and they had some lady with hairspray as, she ra or whatever she was.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But this one looks really Skeletor. Looks awesome.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Like his. And it's, Jared Leto. Lido Leto. People hate him. And I don't know. I don't know why he, he was.

>> Darin: I know why. Joker.

>> Mike: He was a joker in, in one of the movies.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: and they didn't like it.

>> Darin: Yeah, he was, Harley Quinn. Yeah, he was a joker in the Harley Quinn movie. Yeah, yeah. He's a good actor.

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

>> Darin: I even liked him in what's, the Marvel movie.

>> Mike: He was in, Morbius.

>> Darin: Morbius.

>> Mike: I haven't seen it. We haven't seen.

>> Darin: Oh my God. People have been all over that Morbius movie. And we Watched it to see what the big woo was. It's a good movie.

>> Mike: So some people have been pooping on the he man trailer for a couple reasons. One is, and I think this is hilarious, serious. They may make a little joke. I, I don't know this for a fact. I haven't cared enough to look it up. I think it's by the same people that did Barbie. So it's got some like, jokey stuff in it. Right.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Okay. And he's in the real world. He's in our world. You know, he man takes place in Eternia. right. I did not know the cartoon and all that characters. But he's just Adam so. And so in the real world, before he goes to become he Man.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And it. He's sitting.

>> Darin: Does he run like in a phone booth? And then. No, no, no, no. Okay.

>> Mike: he has one of those name plates. No, it says Adam whatever. He slash him. It's his pronouns.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: But you know, it's like a little.

>> Darin: It's a little slash him man.

>> Mike: So a certain group, of people are upset. Well, this is that one of them woke movies and goes nuts over that. And, man at arms is played by Idris Elba.

>> Darin: Idris.

>> Mike: And is it Idris? Idris. Idris.

>> Darin: That's.

>> Mike: Yeah, I'm agreeing with Idris Elba.

>> Darin: Idris Elba.

>> Mike: And you know, he looks awesome. And they all look, it looks like they looked at the 80s cartoon and they're saying, we're going to make that.

>> Darin: But real.


You can tell from the trailer he has to find the sword

>> Mike: Real. But it's fun. Like he has to. You can tell from the trailer he has to find the sword. The one that he holds up and says, I have the power.

>> Darin: That's Excalibur.

>> Mike: Yeah. it's called something else.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: But it's held by like a life size action figure in the real world. And he's in a toy store and he's trying to pull the sword out and the clerk is like, sir. And he's like, it's, it's fine. It's my sword. It just, it looks like they're having fun with it. so I'm, I'm really excited for it. Like, really, really, really well done.


Another complaint that people have about Beastmaster is that he doesn't have enough muscles

Another complaint that people have that annoys the out of me is they're saying that the guy that plays he man doesn't have enough muscles.

>> Darin: Darren.

>> Mike: Mike, if this person walked down these steps and came into this basement, the first thing we would say is, have.

>> Darin: Take all my money.

>> Mike: Please don't hurt me.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Right. He's Got some muscles.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: But people are pointing at his legs and like, well, his legs don't look that big.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And then other people are showing the cartoon and saying, well, he man in the cartoon seemed to have skipped leg day too. And I'm like, I'm looking at his legs and I'm thinking those are two or three times bigger than my legs will ever be. Yeah, well, muscular wise.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I think I got it beat on size at this point, but I don't have that much muscle. Like he's, you know that the people that are complaining about people who haven't even. Can't even spell. Jim. Yeah, right.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I'm like, just calm down.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: But it looks, it looks like a really, really fun movie. It looks like the, you know, Barbie was, you know, for girls back in the day.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: They made he man because they wanted to make a Barbie for boys. That's.

>> Mike: What he man was. So it makes sense if it's the same group, but it seems to have that same mentality.

>> Darin: You know, when I was a kid, there were several years where we had one channel on our tv. We used to have an antenna on top of the house and a rotary dial. And you would turn it to the north. north to get the CBS affiliate. Ah. And out of Johnson City. And then south to get the NBC affiliate out of Bristol. And when the rotary dial broke, my father would climb to the top of the house and he would change the direction of the antenna by hand. After mom and dad divorced, she wasn't going to let the kids climb up on the house to change the freaking TV channel.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So we had one channel. Anyway, my point. In that time, I watched a lot of episodes of Thunder the Barbarian.

>> Mike: I. I never watched them.

>> Darin: I was, I was such a fan of Thunder Barbarian. I knew who Thunder the Barbarian was before I had ever hear he man and the Masters of the Universe.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I thought he man and the Masters of the Universe was a knockoff of Thunder the Barbarian. This is how stupid I am. Now that being said, was Thunder a knockoff of he man and the Masters of the Universe? I don't know. I don't know which one came out first.

>> Mike: It's like GoBots and Transformers. Well, GoBots was right. Take off. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're saying.

>> Darin: But Thundar the Barbarian, I keep waiting for somebody to make a movie out of that with Ookla, who is essentially a Wookie.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then, and then, what's Her Face? The chick and the scantily clad.

>> Mike: for.

>> Darin: Especially for a cartoon. But, yeah, I'm waiting for a Thunder the Barbarian movie. And then. Do you remember the Beastmaster?

>> Mike: I do.

>> Darin: Mark Singer.

>> Mike: It was one movie.

>> Darin: I can't wait. I want somebody to reboot the Beast.

>> Mike: They've been talking about doing that forever. That. Yes, but I mean, when I say forever. For the past 15 years, I keep seeing Beastmaster reboot coming.

>> Darin: Yeah, it's one of those.

>> Mike: It was on the USA Network. Every other movie was the Beast.

>> Darin: M. Mark Singer was in the Beastmaster.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then I have a friend, Lisa, who, is an animal trainer. She's an expert. She went to zoo school. She worked with the animals on the Beastmaster.

>> Mike: That's awesome.

>> Darin: Yeah, I. I'm like, what's the six degrees of separation? I'm one degree of separation from Mark Singer.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Fun fact.


The ferrets were oyo and pogo. What was the lion's name? I don't remember

>> Mike: The ferrets were oyo and pogo.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What was the lion's name? The tiger. It was a tiger.

>> Mike: I don't remember.

>> Darin: Okay. I don't remember that either.


Speaking of reboots, did you go see Anaconda? No. No. We went to see the new one

Speaking of reboots, did you go see Anaconda?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: We went to see Anaconda.

>> Mike: I want to see Anaconda.

>> Darin: And I will tell you right now that Anaconda was just as stupid and entertaining as you would hope it would be.

>> Mike: I picture Thunder without Top Cruise.

>> Darin: Yeah. We went with my mom, and mom is laughing out loud at Anaconda, and. And at one point, Mom's like, this is the stupidest movie I've ever seen. And she's just laughing. Yeah, we had a blast. And it's just. You noticed, if you follow the Academy Awards, it wasn't nominated for any Academy Awards. They did not get a single nomination. No. Best Supporting Actor for Jack Black. But if you're a fan of the. You don't even need to be a fan of the original Anaconda to watch the new one. The new one's so good.

>> Mike: I.

>> Darin: It's. And it's not. It's definitely not a great movie, but.

>> Mike: We loved it, you know, so what. And I'm kind of putting you on the spot now because I know my answer. Do you have any.


Think of the movie that made you laugh the hardest in the theater

Let me think about this while I'm talking.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Think of the movie that you went to the theater to and you laughed the hardest.

>> Darin: Right? I got it right in my head right now.

>> Mike: Mine was the Naked Gun two and a Half.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I was in tears. I thought I was going to. I. I literally thought I was going to vomit when, he. One of the plot lines of the movie was this. This guy that was in a wheelchair had done a murder or something like that. And Leslie, Nielsen says he has a birthmark on his butt and he's, like, using the sander.

>> Darin: Yes, yes, yes, I was.

>> Mike: I thought I was going to throw up.

>> Darin: Yeah. No. The funniest movie I've ever seen. Still, the hardest I've laughed in the theater was the original Airplane. And, you know, people say, you know, they fell out of their seat laughing. I did. I. I fell out of my seat laughing so hard. and it was the scene where they said, if he does something, that gonna hit the fan.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I laughed so hard at that. We went to see it. I remember where we would see it. We went to see it at the twin theaters at the Richlands Mall in Richlands, Virginia. And, laughed until I was almost sick. And then one of my best memories, one of my absolute greatest memories. My grandfather. The greatest man you'll ever possibly.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: And when I grow up, I want to be half as good a person as my grandpa Bill. He took us to the drive in.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And we went to see Star Trek to the Wrath of Khan. Right? And the drive in. Grandpa, Bill, he. All the root beer we wanted, all the popcorn we wanted, anything. Candy. Yeah. He. We loaded up. Oh, my God, we drank so much root beer.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And Star Trek 2. The Wrath of Con was over with, and we were getting ready to leave, and Bill says, whoa, oh, wait, there's an. I forgot there's another movie coming on. And he didn't know what the other movie was. And it was Airplane. And me and my brother Greg and my grandpa Bill watched Airplane at the drive in. And the car was shaking from my grandpa. When my grandpa would laugh, his shoulders would go up and down. That's how he would laugh. Right. And if he had his hand on the steering wheel, the whole car was going. Right. It was one of the greatest memories I have. And we just. I haven't laughed that hard at a movie in the theater, at home since. Yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: The only modern movies that have come close to that. Well, I can think of three, but not. Not anywhere near Naked Gun 2 and F, where I'm about to puke. But modern, movies. I'm sorry. Angry Birds, Part two, when they're. When they're dressed. I. I thought I was gonna. I thought you guys were gonna have to take me out there. I thought I was having a heart attack. Tropic Thunder.

>> Darin: Huh?

>> Mike: And on re. Watch. It's not as funny as I thought it was. But when Bess and I went to go see 21 Jump street in the theater, I was in tears. It's not that. It's not that funny because we watched it again. I'm like, I don't know why I thought this was so funny. Yeah, it is funny, but it's. It's, Tropic Thunder for me. Keeps getting funnier. It's turning into, like, the big Lebowski for me, where I can.

>> Darin: I'm ready to watch it again. I'm ready. Totally ready to watch again. I went to see Despicable. Me, too. With the kids and my buddy Jeff Brown and his kids in the theater. And I laughed so hard, I went into a coughing fit. Okay. I thought I was going to stop breathing.


I was laughing so hard at Despicable that my face turned red

My face was blood red. I had tears coming out of my eyes. After the movie was over with. I apologize to the people in front of me. I'm not kidding. I apologize to the people sitting behind me.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I said I'm sorry. I had no idea those minions were going to be that funny. I could not control myself. I was laughing so hard at Despicable. Me too.


Would you rather have food stuck in your teeth or song stuck in head

Hey, my oldest son loves playing. Would you rather. Okay. And he makes up a lot of stuff in his head. And the question came up one day, and we were stumped. We could not come up with an answer to this. And the question is, would you rather have food stuck in your teeth or a song stuck in your head for the rest of your life?

>> Mike: I have both of those already.

>> Darin: And the thing is, it's like. And, you know, Jacob was like, well, I'll just get floss. No, floss doesn't take the food out of your teeth. It's stuck in there for the rest of your life. You will constantly be licking it. You will have the white spot on the end of your tongue. It will be sore from trying to get. You'll be picking out. Your gums will start bleeding because you're trying to pick the food out of your mouth. And then Libby's like, well, you know, I'll just play the radio and put another song on my head.

>> Mike: Nope.

>> Darin: The song would never leave. You'd be on 24, 7, 365 the.

>> Mike: Rest of your life.

>> Darin: So food stuck in your teeth or a song stuck in your head for the rest of your life? Would you rather.

>> Mike: I think I gotta go with song stuck in my head. And I say this because I'm a kid of the 80s, and I think anybody around our age still has. You can call me Al. Stuck in our head. So we're already living that. Okay, if I see Chevy Chase or Paul Simon.

>> Darin: Mr. Paul Simon.

>> Mike: That and the video. Specifically the part where he's, Chevy Chase has the trouble.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: And he's going. And then he messed up.

>> Darin: Simon does the bass solo.

>> Mike: Yeah, right.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're assuming that the song Stuck in your head would be a song that you like. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

>> Mike: Is it possible to get a song you don't like stuck in your head?

>> Darin: Oh, happens all the time. I'm starting.

>> Mike: It's got to be something about a song that you like to get stuck.

>> Darin: Look, last week I couldn't get, Pink Pony Club.

>> Mike: Whoa.

>> Darin: I couldn't get that out of my head.

>> Mike: We just got a mature.

>> Darin: Ready. Keep on dancing at the Pink Pony Club. Those kids. Those damn.

>> Mike: I don't know where. What is that from?

>> Darin: it's, what's her face? The redheaded, chicken. what's her. She the girl who inducted Cyndi Lauper into the Rock hall of Fame. Yeah. Jacob's like, hey, dad, have you heard Pink Pony Club? Like, no. And so Alexa, play Pink Pony Club. I'm gonna keep on dancing at the Pink Pony Club.

>> Mike: I will tell you. I will tell you.

>> Darin: It didn't. It was in my head for, weeks.

>> Mike: Now I don't have this problem anymore. But I used to as a kid and a teenager, this would drive me nuts because you couldn't just immediately play the song. So try this. At some point when you don't have access to your phone or something, try to do the Star wars theme and then go right to Superman and then go back to the Star wars and see if you can do those effectively.

>> Mike: I couldn't do it as a kid. It drove me nuts because now I can. As long as you is Superman. yeah, as long as you start there. now do Star Wars.

>> Darin: okay.


Can you start from the true beginning of Star Wars

>> Mike: All right, all right. Can you start from the true beginning of Star Wars? Probably.

>> Darin: Oh, and then you gotta jump into Jaws.

>> Mike: Jaws is easy.

>> Darin: but yeah, you.

>> Mike: You like to go right in. Right into the. The money shot. I'm Indiana Jones. I'm back.

>> Darin: So many people have left already. I hope you know nobody, if anybody is listening to this part of the podcast. This is. This is all I'm tempted to say. Let us know when you win.

>> Mike: Like a friend. Prime Grade A podcast here. The best that used to make my brain. I would actually feel pain in my brain because I Would get the Star wars song stuck in my head and I would say, now, let's do this. The Superman.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I couldn't do it. I'd run around and it would. Yeah, it was skill issue.

>> Darin: Well, it's. It's all John Williams.

>> Mike: I know.

>> Darin: So.

>> Mike: Which makes it harder.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I don't even know if he could do it. I got.

>> Darin: John Williams could do anything, by the way. Yeah.

>> Mike: Have you seen the, the viral video of the kids taking their horns.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Out in front of John William's and.

>> Darin: He comes out and, Yeah, yeah, Great job. And congratulated them on. On how it sounded. And he. I like the vibrato. yeah, whatever. Music terms. Yeah. John Williams is just an absolute national treasure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's the best. Absolute best for anybody still with us. We're.


This is where we say goodbye to the few people who are still with us

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>> Mike: I'm going in raw tonight, so strap in, Strap up.

>> Darin: So business as usual.

>> Mike: What up, Huggy Dog?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Is that inappropriate?

>> Darin: No. I think he would like that. Huggy Dog.

>> Mike: So we'll have less and less peaks and more of a smooth that goes up.

>> Darin: Oh, you.

>> Mike: You were right. You said something funny. I listened to the. About half of the episode today. you said something funny that I barreled right past.

>> Darin: What was it this time?

>> Mike: I don't remember. It was funny.

>> Darin: Okay, thank you.

>> Mike: There you go. It's probably the most empty compliment you've ever gotten in your life.

>> Darin: It was really funny. Had no idea what it was. It must have had. It must have an impact on you.

>> Mike: It did. All that comedy gold that was happening.

>> Darin: Before says so much comedy.

>> Mike: So every.

>> Dave: When I.

>> Mike: When I said, I'm gonna talk about this thing, just cut all that out.

>> Darin: You gotta wash your ass.

>> Mike: I need to prepare for these things.

>> Dave: You are the nugget of my love, the one I'm always thinking of. You are the nugget of my heart, the nugget of my soul, the nugget of my love.