IDS #296 - Stop Walking in the Turkey Juice!

People love Voltron for comments. Yeah, the people. People are loving it

>> Darin: People love Voltron for comments. Yeah, the people. People are loving it.

>> Mike: And I've got it. That's one of the things I've got to apologize. As I screwed up the theme, I cringed. I was listening to that in Kroger. I sang the he man song.

>> Darin: Oh, did you? Well, I started singing the theme from Chips. And I knew I was doing it.

>> Mike: Doesn't it have a weird sound that begins like a squirrel? Yeah, getting.

>> Dave: One.

>> Mike: Girl told me, come on over.

>> Dave: There's nobody home.

>> Darin: I went over. There was nobody home.


Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast

>> Dave: It's time for Irritable Dad Syndrome. Please don't use the hand towels in the guest bathroom. Those are for show only. 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 280 and 96. It got warmer today. It's like in the 50s. The snow is melting. And I think that something else that is melting is Mike's cold, dead heart. Because he. He is been cheery and joyful. When I got here, Mike was still eating his dinner. And usually if you have to sit and watch him eat his dinner, he does it, begrudgingly. But he was like, hey, come on in there.

>> Mike: I'm used to it. I accept that now.

>> Darin: You appeared happy that I was here, and I'm excited. I'm looking forward to this episode.

>> Mike: I'm an only child. I generally like to be alone. I don't want anybody near me or around me at any given moment. there are sacred moments where I've refused to have anyone around, and one of those is when I'm eating my dinner. especially when I'm trying to lose weight, as I currently am, and I'm failing miserably.

>> Darin: Oh, you and me.

>> Mike: One of the few moments of enjoyment I have, and then you walk in. But I didn't have a problem with it.

>> Darin: Two minutes early, by the way.

>> Mike: Have a few minutes. Yeah, it's. The whole day has gotten weird. I did want to start off tonight with an apology. Can I do that?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: not really an apology. A correction.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I was walking around the Kroger, as I want to do six out of seven days. I'm at Kroger at any given point. And I was listening to our last episode, episode 295, and we were talking about Voltron.

>> Darin: That was a good one.

>> Mike: By a good one.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And the Voltron click. clip seemed to have taken off for us. And I was excited and I'M listening to it. And during the clip, I start singing a theme song. And it's not the Voltron theme song. And here's the deal is our Voltron clip got some comments, some people. One person was upset that you and you called Voltron Lane.

>> Darin: I, I. And I think that cut or that clip was taken out of context.

>> Mike: It was, but I had that in my mind and I'm like, oh, my gosh, now this guy is going to listen to the whole episode and not only is he going to disagree with our take on Voltron, he's going to hear me singing He Man. M. All of our nerd cred is out.

>> Darin: At least you were singing He Man. I was doing the theme from Chips.

>> Mike: Yeah, so.

>> Darin: So there's nothing to do with Voltron.

>> Mike: So Voltron, Now here, now you'll notice my code, everybody. You'll notice that it loops. And then starts over. The reason it does that is nobody, because even the animators know how long it's going to take this robot to form. Okay? How many times is the short little green guy, Going to say, I'll be the left leg.

>> Darin: I'll be the right leg.

>> Mike: And I don't want to repeat the bit, but I'm just saying, right? And then He Man, I have the power. And then. And it repeats. because that's the song that plays in the beginning. Because everyone knows at the beginning of every he man episode, every 20 minute episode, you're going to have seven minutes of. I was Prince Adam and I was walking along the stream and I realized I had a sword by the power of Grayskull. And when I lifted it, it became.

>> Darin: Like a guy. Seven minutes in a castle. And perhaps when we walked past the haberdashery, of course. And Poopsie Deer. Yes, perhaps a cigar.

>> Mike: But that's what all these cartoons were. Vehicles to sell toys. That's what they were. Yeah. The he man cartoon was there to sell toys. The Voltron cartoon was there to sell snacks because you had to go get food while it was on.

>> Darin: Well, one of the comments on our clip, this guy sent a picture of his Lego Voltron.

>> Mike: That was awesome.

>> Darin: That was very, very cool.


Dave Lay: Apparently people really sincerely love the Voltron cartoon

Yeah, we had some comments, and I want to apologize because, apparently people really sincerely love the Voltron cartoon. And I think I offended somebody by calling it lame. And here's the thing. I've never seen Voltron. so I don't know that it's lame or not, but I apologize if I hurt your feelings.

>> Mike: Yeah. Darren excels at having strong negative opinions about things.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Never experienced.

>> Darin: No, no, no. Once again, you're talking about yourself. You have me confused with you. But I will watch Voltron because I'm fascinated with it.

>> Dave: Now.

>> Darin: I, still stand on the, belief that Thundar the Barbarian was a better cartoon than he man. And the Masters of the Universe.

>> Mike: I never saw.

>> Darin: And I don't know. I don't know why they haven't made a movie about Thundar the Barbarian. Thundar was.

>> Mike: Do you know how they. You know, when they mix different groups of toys together? Like mixed multi universe things? Like, they're bringing back Night Rider. Did you know this? I heard that potentially with the Hoth. Germans love David Hasselhoff.

>> Darin: Don't hassle the ho.

>> Mike: It was pointed out in a blurb that, Knight Rider is in the same universe as Air Wolf.

>> Darin: Yeah. that. I think that makes sense. Yes.

>> Mike: It's got my hackles risen, and I thought, wow, I can finally watch Airwolf. And so. But Thundar, to me, seems like it goes with Gobots and. No Voltron.

>> Darin: No. Thunder and GoBots have nothing in common. There were no, any. No, there were no bots whatsoever during Thunder.

>> Dave: Hi, this is your announcer, Dave Lay. I just wanted to mention that last week we totally forgot to wish everyone a happy Valentine's Day. I had nothing to do with this omission, but for some reason, Mike and Darren are blaming me for it. Anyway, I apologize, even though it wasn't my fault.


Jimmy Smith: The Monday after the super bowl should be a holiday

Now back to the show.

>> Darin: I don't know if anybody knows this or not, but we have listeners all over the planet. All over the planet. Here in the United States of America, we had a thing called the Super Bowl. Yeah. It's a football game, and there are two teams that compete all season long. And whoever has the best record in their division, they go on to what's called a playoff round. And if they win the playoff round, then the NFC team goes on to play the afc. Don't ask me what those words stand for. All foreign cars and neutral foreign cars. Yeah. Yeah. And then they play in the super bowl, and it's the biggest event of the year.

>> Mike: It's an excuse. I mean, for non sports people. It's an excuse to eat whatever you want.

>> Darin: Yeah. It's a holiday. It's a national holiday. And people have bitched all for as long as I can remember that you should get Monday off. The Monday after the super bowl should be a holiday. Here's my take on that. Just move the game To Saturday. Yeah. Have the game on a Saturday. Well, then you stay out all you want. Eat all the pie and the bacon wrap smokies and the dip and the guac. Well, here's the pizza and the tater tots and the gravy.

>> Mike: You get a chicken. Chicken nuggets and the green sorbet. You gotta change lime sherbert. You gotta change all the graphics from Super Bowl Sunday to Super Bowl Saturday.

>> Darin: Well, they change the graphics every year anyway. Yeah, they changed it anyway. So, here's my take on the Super Bowl. Both teams were pretty well matched for a long time because the. The defense on both teams, nobody was letting anybody. You couldn't buy a touchdown. Yeah. Nobody was letting anything happen. Except the Seahawks managed to score five field goals. Now, Mike, if you kick a field goal, that's three points.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So the kicker.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: For, the Seattle Seahawks. Mike Kicker. Yeah, I don't know his name. He scored 15 points. They scored 29 overall. Yeah. So he scored more points kicking than the other team, the rest of the team. And I wanted him to be the MVP because for. I actually, I wanted them to not score at all. I didn't want them to score a single touchdown. And I wanted it to be the first super bowl ever. It may have been the first super bowl where only one guy scored. Yeah, right.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So there was that. I've never been a New England Patriots fan, because of, Tom Brady. And the reason why I'm against Tom Brady is he so damn good looking. And he makes me angry. He just really makes me angry. He's got the looks, and he's really good at throwing the football. Have you ever seen him throw a football? He's really good at doing that.

>> Mike: I've seen that happen. Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: I think that he should win some awards and stuff for how. How well he's can throw a football. So Tom Brady's not in that anymore. And Bill Belichick. Don't get me started on that load. Oh, that guy. He's not with the team anymore. So I really have no reason to dislike the New England Patriots. But out of habit, I didn't want them to win. And the main reason why I didn't want them to win is because they are tied with my Pittsburgh Steelers for each winning six Super Bowls. Okay. So if the New England Patriots win, they would have seven. And then as a team, they would have more than my. My Pittsburgh Steelers, which they didn't. So for that I was happy.

>> Mike: Yeah. So we were cheering for the Seattle, Seahawks.

>> Darin: The Seattle Seahawks.

>> Mike: Seahawks. Sounds awesome.

>> Darin: It does, right?

>> Mike: It sounds like it was an 80s show right there with,

>> Darin: That's right. Airwolf, starring Jimmy Smith.

>> Mike: But another fun thing. We were talking about this just.


Michael: I watched the halftime show and my mind was blown

Julia. The halftime show. So I watched.

>> Darin: Oh, the halftime show was a little controversial.

>> Mike: I watched a couple minutes of the super bowl because I was busy doing other thing. I don't. I kept looking at the score and nothing was happening.

>> Darin: Nothing was. That's right. And I. I kept some point shutting. Everybody kept shutting each day.

>> Mike: Did they cancel the Super Bowl?

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: And one of the kids like, no, there's. Nobody scored yet. Okay, all right, then nobody scored yet. But, so I'm doing my thing over there. And I had enough. I came over and I watched the halftime show and my mind was blown. There were people. M. In those grass things dressed as bushes. But what blew my mind was at one point, bad. Bunny. Mr. Bunny. Senor Bunny.

>> Darin: Senor.

>> Mike: Fell through the top of his badness.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: He fell through the top of a house. That. Which the Mandalorian came out later. Did you see him there?

>> Darin: Yeah, I did.

>> Mike: Yeah, he fell through a house. And he's inside the house. Yes. And I thought, they pre recorded this. This is a bunch of crap. And then he walks out and he's outside. There's the Mandalorian and M. There's all these people and someone's getting married.

>> Darin: Lady Gucci.

>> Mike: There's light poles. There's Lady Gaga. Ricky Martin. What the flip. Yeah, he popped up out of nowhere.

>> Darin: Friend of mine's like, I want to know his skincare plan. Because Ricky Martin looks 21 years old. I was just. And he's what, 80 now?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Ricky Martin, he bangs.

>> Mike: So I am continually blown up. That was good.

>> Darin: Yeah. Thank you.

>> Mike: Michael. Laugh at that. Two weeks from now. Point is, I was blown away. I'm always blown away by the technical.

>> Mike: What they do.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Technically, yes. In the super bowl. And a couple of years ago, they had these floating platforms.

>> Darin: Yeah, I remember that.

>> Mike: And then when Eminem, M and Dre, they did theirs. They had like an actual freaking house.

>> Darin: California.

>> Mike: Now this one they built. They built a bush farm.

>> Darin: I think the.

>> Mike: I'm not a. I'm not a agricultural.

>> Darin: I think they had on the field. I know Puerto Rico is small. I think Puerto Rico was to scale the size of the.

>> Mike: Right there. Here's the deal. Now, see, a lot of people were complaining that they didn't understand what Mr. Bunny was talking about.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I took four, years of Spanish in high school and two years in college.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I went hardcore, on the Spanish.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I recognized a word. Tom. Tommy, in Tommy. And fun fact. I can't remember what that means. I think it means as, but I'm.

>> Darin: Not sure I remember there were many times where Bad Bunny went,

>> Mike: Yeah, he did that a few times.

>> Darin: I thought I was.


People have complained so much about La Bamba, apparently

>> Mike: I was doing that all. I was bugging the hell. I walked around the house. you can't get rid of it.

>> Darin: Okay? So not to get political. We don't do politics on this show.

>> Mike: We're about to.

>> Darin: People have complained so much. And the. The one argument, and this was. I wish I had written this joke. My friend Heather, and she posted it. She had stolen it from somewhere. People, were complaining that the. That it was in Spanish. And she says, well, I didn't hear anybody complaining in 96 when they did the Macarena. I was like, that's true. And then, yeah, there was La Bamba. La Bamba went number one. Nobody could understand what, Richie Valens was saying during labomba. It was a hit. Yeah, it's a good song.

>> Mike: My favorite meme slash joke, whatever y' all call it these days. Yeah. You've had Eddie Vedder out there singing for 30 years, and now you're complaining.

>> Darin: That's right. That's right. That is right.


Bob Rock: I'm not down with Kid Rock during the Super Bowl halftime

>> Mike: But so. So the other. So the. The controversy, the big, you know, we're not going political, but damn, we're going to get close to that edge. Is, Mr. Rock. kittiest Rock.

>> Darin: Yes. Kidney.

>> Mike: Also known as Robert Richie.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Richie, which. That was a name he just.

>> Darin: Well, he had to go by Kid Rock because Bob Rock.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Is a, producer.

>> Mike: Yeah, we're. Okay. All right. So he had his. He had his thing. And I know there were, like, other people there. I couldn't not look, you know, at the. I didn't watch it live, but later I went and looked at the clips, right? And because I started to see all the memes about the lip syncing. And I'm telling you, Bob, with the ball, the bang, the bang. Diggy, Diggy, bang. Diggy is not. He's not in the mic. He goes ba. With the bar, and then it's out. And it's just as. I mean, it's. It's lip synced to hell and gone.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: And then he did the country thing. Here's the deal.

>> Darin: Did he do Cowboy?

>> Mike: Yeah, he did.

>> Darin: I still like this.

>> Mike: I love Cowboy back with the top.

>> Darin: Laid M. Shine M. I had the.

>> Mike: The so Devil Without a Cause is the second Kid Rock album.

>> Darin: I only got that one.

>> Mike: I played that until the CD wore out, and I actually bought the first album, which is, highly not recommended. Yeah.

>> Mike: he was trying to do a Run DMC Jam Master Jazz, Master Flash. Yeah. Thing. Yeah, it was new.

>> Darin: He is heavily influenced by many, many different types of music. He's having drugs.

>> Mike: He's heavily influenced by what he thinks is popular at that given moment. I have a problem with that. I have a problem, like, getting behind that. It's not that I. I don't get pissed off. I'm not going to wear a T shirt. I'm not going to be, like, down with Kid Rock.

>> Darin: Here's the thing. There's always somebody outraged over the halftime show.

>> Mike: One of my favorite super. And I know what you guys are thinking. Oh, yeah, Mike's favorite Super bowl halftime performance is YouTube. And they did the thing with an A.

>> Darin: The American. It is.

>> Mike: That's my favorite one. But that's not the reason. the reason it's my favorite one is for that moment and for the next two or three days, three days later, nobody bitched about YouTube giving them a free album.

>> Darin: Yeah, you could mention.

>> Mike: You could mention Bono or the edge or YouTube to somebody, and they would be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, they're the real ones.

>> Darin: So Bruno Mars comes on there, and so many people my age or older were asking the question, who. Who's Bruno Mars? And how do I not know, you know? Who is that? I don't even know. I don't even know any of these songs. Okay, well, look, if you're watching the most popular game in the world and they have a current recording artist on there that's on you, that you don't know who Bruno Mars is. Okay, then if they bring out the who or the Rolling Stones or Tom Paying the Heartbreakers or Bruce Springsteen, there's people like, oh, God, they got these old fogies on there. These people out there with their crutches and their walkers and they're. It's. It's like three hours past their bedtime, they're going to go eat some pudding before they go to bed. So they get the. The guys that are in the Rock and Roll hall of Fame and the badass and the people who've been out there 30, 40 years and they're out there trying to kill it, but nobody. They're bitching about them because of how old they are. So you Got the young people come on there, and nobody knows who they are. And you got the old people in their old fogies. So let's say you bring in Garth Brooks. You put Garth Brooks on stage. Let's say he comes out there with Ain't going down to the Sun, Comes up and closes with friends in low places and tears the place apart. They're going to be half the country saying a bunch of hillbillies out there with their banjos and their he haw and their straw, their teeth and their. Their cowboy britches or whatever. So that's probably what's going to happen the next time they get a country artist on there. If they do, then God forbid they bring another rap artist on there. Going to get into what they complain about with that.


I thought the halftime show this year was incredible. I would have liked it if they had translated

I don't remember when I was younger and when I was in my 20s and a halftime show would come on and would. People would just be outraged by this. The first time they offered any alternative. Remember when TV had the Butt Bowl?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: And you could watch Budweiser. No. You could watch Beavis and Butthead during halftime.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: That was. That was like the first time M I.

>> Mike: That's done in fun. See, what this. This year, it seemed like it was done.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: With, I. I don't know. I didn't like it. People are always bitching about old music. I mean, back in the. In the 1300s, people would go like, well, Beethoven's open. And, this. He's football.

>> Darin: He's just.

>> Mike: Remember when Bach did it last year?

>> Darin: He's just a Tchaikovsky. The argument about it being in Spanish. I would have liked it if they had translated at the bottom.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because. Yeah. I didn't understand the song. I went back and looked, but found out what the song was about. I found out afterward. But they could have translated at the bottom, and I would have followed along a little bit better. I thought it was incredible. It was beautiful. I thought it was incredible. The lighting was insane. And they had, like, all 500,000 people come out dressed as bushes. I didn't know that until afterwards. I'm like, let me. These people are bushes.

>> Mike: It's still. Every. Every year, it blows my mind that they set something like that up and tear it down.

>> Darin: They tear it down, and it's just.

>> Mike: The normal football field again.

>> Darin: I think they use more than. More than five or six people to do that. They've got to. They've got to. So, I don't know who's going to be the artist next year. But I can guarantee you this, people are going to about it.

>> Mike: Yeah. And people do yourself. I mean, this is not, you know, like talking about one artist or another just in general to enjoy life. It's. You check out some new artists these days with streaming. It is so freaking easy. Get your Spotify or your whatever, you can talk to them now. AI Your robot overlords are going to destroy you.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Until then, have some fun with them. You can go, you can say Spotify, hit the little microphone thing and say, find music that I would like.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: It'll look, it'll say, oh, this been listening to Ted Nugent and Earl, haggard for 50 years. He may want Merle Haggard. People don't know about his younger brother. And it'll, it'll. It'll. Out of 20. Out of 20 songs.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You know, maybe three or four of them you'll really dig and you'll find a new artist. I found new artists that way. And it's. It's some of them I listen to regularly now that people that I've discovered in the past, two or three years.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah. That's what, you know, keeps you young, having kids and they come home and you're like, what are you guys listening to? And I've been trying very hard to listen to music that Jacob and Cameron like. So I can. Because I remember when I was in high school and my dad had no interest whatsoever and any of the music that I liked, he didn't like Prince, he didn't like Michael Jackson, he didn't like Billy Idol or Van Halen or Devo or any of the things that I listened to. The only thing. yes, exactly. The only thing my dad listened to was old timey bluegrass music.


I'm trying to meet my kids halfway on some of my music

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And my God, it's like. And yeah, you know, bluegrass music is awesome and I, I like it. I will listen to it. And I adapted and listen to that my dad liked and I tried to find common ground with him. M. Did dad say, darren, put on Rebel Yell and let's listen to that together? No, dad didn't try to meet me halfway on my music. So I'm trying to meet my kids halfway. Yeah, I like some of the things they like. Some of the things I don't like. Some of the music I have they don't like. But like what I was saying a couple weeks ago with the Grammys, you know, they mentioned this. Whoever won album of the year and guarantee you there's comments. I don't even know who he is. I'VE never even heard of him. That's not my fault. Yeah, go just like, okay, this person won album. I remember when Daft Punk won album of the year. I had no idea who Daft Punk is. I went out and bought the album. I liked it. That was pretty good.

>> Mike: And sometimes you'll find an artist and you won't like one album and another album you'll dig like crazy. Yes. Fun fact, Beck. I love Beck. Beck is not too crazy about the first album.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: I like Loser a lot, but not too happy with it. Beck has an album called the Information. I wore that out.

>> Darin: I remember when Beck won album of the year and somebody was complaining that Beyonce should have won. And one of the comments was, oh, sure, Beck only wrote, produced, sang lead vocals and background vocals, played every musical instrument, and also put the plastic wrapping on it. But sure, give album of the year to Beyonce.


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Kevin James in Solo Mio is my favorite of his movies

Now back to the show.

>> Darin: In attendance at the super bowl was Kevin James. Okay, Kevin James was sitting by himself with a bouquet of flowers, and he looked very sad. And people were like, oh, my God, what's wrong with Kevin James? I'm like, do you guys. Do you never watch television? Do not have a tv. And I'm telling you right now, Kevin James is in a brand new movie called Solo Mio. Okay, okay. Libby and I went to see it. We went out on a date. And I loved every minute of Solo Mio.

>> Mike: Is it a rom com?

>> Darin: It's a rom com. And Kevin James has not been this entertaining, this charming, this funny since he was on the King of Queens. Okay, okay. I rank it the best of his movies. Now, careful when I say that I'm not, like, including all the movies he did with Adam Sandler as part of the ranking. I'm talking Kevin James by himself.

>> Mike: Kevin James joint.

>> Darin: Kevin James joint. So Solo Mio is at the top. And then next to that at number two is here, comes the boom, which is fantastic. I really enjoyed Paul Blart, Mall Cop.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I never saw.

>> Darin: He was. It was a really good movie. It's a family friendly movie. The kids dig it. And it's. It's funny. He's charming and silly and it was well made and I enjoy it. But Solo meal, I'm telling you, you have got to go see Solo. Me. If you don't see in the theater, rent it when it comes out on. On one of your streamers or go to Blockbuster and check it out. It was so good.

>> Mike: Charlie and I watched another new movie. New movie to Charlie.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: this weekend we watched the Revenant.

>> Darin: Oh. With, with Leo, Leonardo and the bear. Yeah.

>> Mike: It's basically, it's. Yeah. Oh. Which is only about five minutes of the movie, but it's a long five minute. It's brutal. Brutal.

>> Darin: Yeah. And, I think that was a well earned Academy Award for him.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Because the movie nuts off.

>> Mike: The movie is two and a half hours long. He speaks for maybe five minutes of the movie. the other two hours and 25 minutes is him shivering. Shivering. It's cold. Dying.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Crying.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Breathing.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Running. Screaming.

>> Darin: Aching.

>> Mike: Aching, Burning. He reminded me like a, castaway. I remember Castaway.

>> Darin: Castaway.

>> Mike: But.

>> Darin: But very, very cold.

>> Mike: Yeah.


Charlie says the movie has great graphics and the cinematography is amazing

So, the bear scene, Char remarked, and, you know, this says something about the age or the age we live in. He says it's got great graphics, which Andrew used to say that about movies, which, you know. But, you know, what he's saying is the cinematography was amazing. And it is, I was shocked. And they use breath like so when the bear is attacking him. I didn't notice this in the theater. Best. And I saw it in the theater and I was too busy, with my face nestled in Bess's shoulder, crying, make the bear go away. Make the bear go away. So I didn' it in the theater, but when we were watching it here, they went so far, you know, it's not a real bear. Okay, spoiler alert for everyone here.

>> Darin: Wait, what?

>> Mike: They didn't let a, grizzly damn near kill Leonardo DiCaprio. I mean, he. I think he method acts every once in a while, but not that hard.

>> Darin: This whole time I thought they did.

>> Mike: And it's like stepping on his head and it's like it goes away. It comes back.

>> Darin: Well, the. And the bear did some other things to him.

>> Mike: Yeah, I mean, that's.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You know, there's different versions out there. Yeah. But anyway, when the bear is close to where the camera should be, its breath is misting up the camera.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Which doesn't sound like a big deal, but when you're watching the movie, it makes it feel like that bear is like, really?

>> Darin: Really?

>> Mike: Yeah. And you know, there were a number of scenes that I had completely forgotten about as I'm watching it with Charlie. Spoiler for I think it's like a 70 year old movie at this point. He's freezing, he has to get warm. He does a. He does a Luke Skywalker into a horse.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And, it does the breath thing again.

>> Darin: Completely naked. And got into a horse carcass.

>> Mike: Which if you're going to get into a horse carcass, you don't want to get your clothes. Horsey. No, that never comes out.

>> Darin: You know, that's where Arby's gets their horsey sauce. That's a true story. I'm sorry, continue. I didn't mean to get you off track.

>> Mike: No, no.

>> Darin: Brought to you by Arby's.

>> Mike: But we, we get. So I. It's like two and a half hour movie now. I am a 50 year old man, Right?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Daddy needs sleep. Every once in a while, Charlie decides he wants to watch this movie at 10:30 at night.

>> Darin: Oh, nope.

>> Mike: But we started it. We did.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I was like, I was excited. Let's watch a movie. it's the last half hour and I'm dozing off and he's like, dad, dad. Waking me up. Get up. And, I was, I was a. I was shocked that he made it all the way through because Charlie's usually the guy if somebody's gonna fall asleep, he's out first. Best is out first. Best goes first.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Then Charlie usually falls right after. He was wide awake the entire movie. And at the end he just looked over and he said, that is the best movie I've ever seen in my life.

>> Darin: Oh, cool.

>> Mike: Like, wow.

>> Darin: Yeah.


Mercy starring Chris Pratt is a great movie

While we're on movies, movies. Last week I meant to recommend a great movie and it's called Mercy, starring Chris Pratt. Now I'm going to just be.

>> Mike: He was in Parks and Rec.

>> Darin: He was in Parks and Rec. He was, Star Lord in the Guardians of the Galaxy. And he's a funny guy. He's an action star. So I saw the initial trailer for this movie and I thought, this looks a lot like Minority Report. Okay. With Tommy Cruise and Stevie Spielberg. Okay. Which, hey, if you're going to compare a movie to another movie, that's Not a bad movie to be compared to good movie. Minority Report was badass.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: And it still looks as good as it did when we watched it the first time. We own it. So anyway, so we went and it turns out that the premise kinda is the same, but it's a hundred percent different movie. Chris Pratt was amazing in it. Me and we took my mom and we took, the kids and Libby. We're all on the edge of our seat waiting to see what happens in this movie. And it was really, really well made. Great movie.

>> Mike: Mercy.

>> Darin: So. Mercy.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And so. And I will say that it's one of those movies that I think should be watched in the movie theater.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yes. Because the big screen advantage in the sound and, kind of, you know, fooled us, is like, we think it's this person. Oh, no, no, no. It can't be that person. It's got to be this person. It turns out we were all wrong.

>> Mike: Yeah.


Darren: The freezer probably died. The compressor was shot, probably

I gotta tell the turkey story.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: We had about three to four turkeys in our freezer. I'm not taking questions on why we had that many turkeys in our freezer. So don't. I see you getting ready to ask it. Not taking questions. not taking questions on it. My question is, what the hell? I'm at work one day and.

>> Darin: Excuse me.

>> Mike: No question. None. Three to four, maybe five turkeys in our freezer. It's been there a couple of months. it ends there. Darren, we're not talking about why.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I have four to five turkeys.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: In the freezer. Okay, we're not okay. But anyway, best text me at work. It says, I think the freezer died. Everything in there is thawing.

>> Darin: All the turkeys, it's.

>> Mike: They're. They're getting wet. So now, now, now. What would a normal person do? What I did.

>> Darin: What would a normal person do? Never applies to anything that goes on in your house.

>> Mike: So I came home and I lifted the freezer door and I noticed it's a chest freezer. I noticed that the light came on. It's clearly getting power. So the compressor probably died.

>> Darin: It's the freezer. That's what I was going to say. Probably.

>> Mike: The compressor. The compressor was shot, as it were.

>> Darin: Oh, okay.

>> Mike: So the freezer's dead. It ain't got no gas in it. So a normal human being at that instant, knowing that they have four to five turkeys, some fish, a couple of pizzas, and some other things that we're not going to talk about. Ice cream, that freezer, ice cream. no, that's all gone.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Would take it all out to the trash because it's going to start to melt and get stinky. Right.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Bess, she does her counseling, Right. She's doing her work right. On the. Like, the zooms.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And she notices that it smells like we have a dead body in our house. And she goes back to where the freezer is, and, boy, howdy, some things have happened. And she tells me it's starting to smell. We should probably do something. This is on a Friday.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I don't look at it. Friday night, Saturday morning.

>> Darin: Friday's the night off.

>> Mike: That's. I'm grinding camos. Yeah. Saturday morning, I come down and I look at the freezer. Not only does it smell like a dead body, there's now a trail of juice from the freezer.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: Coming across the floor and just touching the carpet right in. In there.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: This is downstairs.

>> Mike: This is. Explains why the YouTube collection was in your seat.

>> Darin: Mike's. All his albums were on, my. The chair where I sit.

>> Mike: Yeah. they were about five feet away from the turkey freezer. So the first thing I did was take all of them in here. They don't have any turkey on them. They're clean, they're good. I checked multiple times. Joshua, trees out at the lab for testing, but I'm sure it'll come back. Okay. We got all the turkeys. We wrapped them in plastic bags. We took them outside. Now, what the neighbors saw was Mike.

>> Darin: Carrying out, plastic bags.


Mike and Bess have a leaking chest freezer in their basement

>> Mike: plastic bags with. With stuff that smells like a dead body. And putting it.

>> Darin: If you cut it up right.

>> Mike: It could have been different plastic bags into a trash can out front. It was like 9 degrees. So I was good.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then Bess and I was like, we got to get this freezer out of here. And she's like, do you want to wait till Andrew wakes up? Like, no, we've got to get it out today. Yeah, it has to leave today because.

>> Darin: Andrew's probably going to wake up tomorrow.

>> Mike: So we got as many paper towels as we could. We soaked up as many juices as we could. Dry heaving the whole time, yelling, at marbles. Get away from the turkey.

>> Darin: Juice.

>> Mike: Juice. And then Charlie kept coming over. Charlie, stop talk. Stop walking. Stop walking. Stop walking. Stop.

>> Darin: You're walking.

>> Mike: The turkey juice. We get it cleaned up. I get multiple trash bags. We duct tape duct tape them to the bottom of the freezer because it's going to. It's going to leak out. And I don't want Dead body juice going up the steps. No. So Bess and I are in there and she says, I don't, I don't know if I can lift this. And I said, here's what's going to happen. We're going to lift this. Oh, and we can't stop. From the moment we leave this room in the unfinished portion, we have to go through the finished portion of our basement, up the stairs. It's like the first place we're allowed to stop is in the kitchen. Because at least there hardwood floor, we can clean that. Yeah, but we're not replacing carpet between here and there.

>> Darin: We're not doing it right.

>> Mike: And I was like, do whatever you need to do. Do your squats, do your, your stretches.

>> Darin: Eat a power bar.

>> Mike: But we, once we lift this, you're in it.

>> Darin: Drink a monster.

>> Mike: You drink a monster, you're in it until we get to the top. She said, okay. So we took a couple of deep breaths. We lifted this.

>> Darin: I'm surprised that you didn't call me.

>> Mike: And I didn't even think about it. We got to the top of the steps and she stopped. And then I'm like, what are you doing? What? You can't stop? And she's like, I got, I can't, I can't lift. I was like, you. You have to lift. I became like, what's the Mickey in Rocky? You gotta lift it. Get to put your back into it. Get it up. Chicken.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So we got it. We set it down on the kitchen floor for a second and then we took it out front. So what the neighbors saw again, recap. They saw Mike come out in his jammies, with cadaver smelling trash bags, putting them in the thing. And then they saw him and his wife come out with a leaking chest freezer.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And stick it out. Which is what you walked by when you came in here to the house tonight. We brought all the cleaning products we had downstairs. I took care of the floor. You can't smell a thing now. Oh, yeah, it's all good. It's pleasant. And I, you know best. And I said, should we look up online what we should clean with? I was like, that's. That's a good idea. Let's get on Google and let's type in. How do you get rid of dead carcass smell from a freezer in your basement? Right. I was like, I've seen enough true crime. I've watched enough Netflix documentaries. That's how the FBI gets you. That's how they get you. So I don't need that.

>> Darin: Go to Home Depot. You buy a sauce, some lye. So lots of garbage bags.

>> Mike: Then we're like, what the hell do we do?


Someone posted on Facebook that their freezer died, and they need help

How do we get the freezer? Go. Nobody's going to take a broken freezer that smells like dead bodies. and I don't know if you notice, it's getting warmer out there today.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: So I mentioned top of the show just to wrap this story up with a bow. I called Rumpke. I said, I have a freezer that needs to go away from us. And they said, well, we can't do that because it is Freon, but we'll. We'll connect you with a guy that has a truck.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: They have a guy that has the truck, like, on. Like, they could switch you over to him on the same call. Ah. And they pick up, and they're like, what do you need getting rid of a, freezer. Where is it? It'll be in the front yard when you come. When are you coming? Thursday. Okay. It's 200.

>> Darin: Harvey Keitel shows up.

>> Mike: It's the wolf. It's. He said, It's $209. I'm like, okay. He's like, payment at the time of disposal. Oh, okay. I was like, do I need to be here? He's like, no, just answer the phone when I call. It's like, okay. Okay. It's a 200 freezer. We got to spend $209 to get rid of it. And the five turkeys are toast. They're out there in one of those trash cans.

>> Darin: okay. So, crazy thing is, in my neighborhood, I. We have a neighborhood Facebook page, and, somebody posted today that their freezer died, and they need to know if anybody can take the Freon out of the freezer.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: That was today. Yeah.

>> Mike: That's why it costs 209. It would be, like, 50 bucks without the Freon. Yeah. You can't just take the Freon out. It's like plutonium.

>> Darin: My dad died 10 years ago. A little over 10 years ago, and.

>> Mike: He still has his Freon.

>> Darin: Well, I know, but I went to his house.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I was cleaning out everything. I go out on Dad's, back porch to get some fresh air, and I noticed dad has a freezer. I opened it up. So 10 years ago was 2016. Dad had stuff in his freezer marked 1998 in 99. And I'm yelling at my dead father, like, dad, you can't keep things frozen. No. for over 15 years, you just can't. And I am throwing, like you throwing away, just bag. Just garbage. And you can't put that many. And he had a lot of chicken breasts. He had a lot of meat, a lot of hamburger. and. Oh, my God. And did it look like we were hauling off carcasses?


Tron Long shares his Kroger story of the week

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

>> Darin: My wife has an addiction and she now she's brought me into it. My wife found. And I really shouldn't tell this story because, people in the area are going to rush out and buy these products. She has found a potato chip called Grippo's Sweet Maui Onion Potato chips. They're the best potato chips I've ever had in my life. I'm surprised that she actually told me that she has them.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Because now we both want them. Anyway, we ran out and so Libby asked me when I go to, to the store, would I get some sweet Maliani potato chips? I go to Kroger and there were no chips. And I came home and she got visibly frustrated and angry with me. And I'm like, it's not my fault that they're sold out of the sweet Maliani potato chips. She's like, well, okay. I was like, do you want me to go to another store? And she says, no, just come home. Because she had went to Walmart's website.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And they weren't on Walmart's website.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: So. And we all know Walmart's got everything, right? They, ah, did not, apparently they do not carry those. So I came home, and then the next time I went to the store, they were out of them again. Which, sparked fear in our, in our minds because the last time she really liked some, there were some. They used to have sweet and sassy flavored potato chips that she liked.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They ended up discontinuing those. And she's like. She was like, almost on her knees. Why me, God? Why are you doing this to me? Why are you giving me these potato chips and then taking them away? Why are you allowing me to have such joy in my life only to take it from my hands?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So she wanted me to go and I'm like, libby, they're sold out. She says, let's call Kroger and see if they have them. Have you ever tried to call Kroger?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: I called it rings and rings and rings and rings and rings. And then it gets to a thing. Would you like to speak to our pharmacy? Would you like to talk to the Front desk. What is the reason for your call? And I said, grocery. And then they. It rings and it rings and it rings, and then someone finally picks up. Yeah, may I help you? And I said, I'm looking for the. I said, we've got a situation here. We have a situation here. We're looking for these potato chips. Every time I'm there, they're sold out. I don't want to drive down there if you don't have them. Can you check and see if you have the sweet Maui onion potato chips, the Grippos? And she says, hang on. So she puts me on hold, and the. The music plays and plays and plays, and then it hangs up on me.

>> Mike: There you go.

>> Darin: And, ten minutes of my life.

>> Mike: Yeah, it's gone.

>> Darin: Was gone. Trying to call to see if they have these patriot. We called another Kroger. They answered quickly, and they said, they let me check. And they checked, and then they didn't. So that was night one. The second night, we called again to see if Kroger. If we called the first one. When the voice machine said, what's the reason of your call? Libby had asked me a question. Then I said, libby, hang on a second. I'm on the phone. The voice message said, do you want the pharmacy M. Yes or no? this was the voice message, yes or no? And I'm like, hey, don't get pissy with me, Tron.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I want to see if you have potato chips. So it's a reason for my call. Potato chips. They finally got me through to somebody, and they didn't have them. Yeah, yeah. Long story short, Sunday, I went by the grocery store, and, I bought every bag of chips that they had.

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

>> Mike: Here's a life hack. Let, you and Libyan on. Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I'm gonna be very careful. You can order anything from Amazon, including food items.

>> Darin: I know, but it's so much more expensive. You know? How much. How much food is more expensive?


Bess and I had a problem with potato chips a few years ago

>> Mike: How much do you want it? I had a. I had an issue with the dill pickle goldfish. I hate goldfish. I love dill pickle goldfish. And I found some on Amazon for a pretty, pretty penny. Yeah. And Bess and I with potato chips. I've never had the Maui Grippos. Hawaiian. Oh, Lula.

>> Dave: Oh, my God.

>> Darin: The Maui sweet onion.

>> Mike: But the, lay's dill pickle. Yeah, Bess and I had a problem with that, like, a few years ago. We had a rough Patch there for a while.

>> Darin: Were you, too, fighting over the chips?

>> Mike: It got first. We were. No, it starts.

>> Darin: I said, will you hand me the chips? She opened up and gave me two chips. I'm like, no, hand me the bag.

>> Mike: Is. When it first starts, it's beautiful. You. You discover the chip together. Uh-huh. You have these huge bags of chips.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You're sitting there watching a movie, eating from the chips, and everybody's happy. There's bountiful, plentiful chips. and then something happens along the way. It's like, though, those are my chips.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: If you want your one in the store, go to. Go get your own chips. These are my chips. And then it gets to the point where one of us tried to quit. It's like, why do you keep bringing these chips in?

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I am not quitting the chips.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I'm doubling down on the chips. I want to live the dill pickle chip lifestyle. That's, what I know about you.

>> Darin: Both have to quit together.

>> Mike: If you want to live the dill pickle lifestyle, then you're going to live the dill pickle lifestyle in the basement or in the garage. Because I'm not going to have someone in my house.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Living the dill pickle lifestyle.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It just. And then the kids got involved. It was. It was ugly. We gave them up 100 and move to ruffles. And then, you know, which is a bland, you know, reset.

>> Darin: Ruffles aren't addictive.

>> Mike: No, they're not. They're good. They're there.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then every once in a while, one of us will buy the dill pickle chips, and it's.

>> Darin: It's.

>> Mike: We're okay now.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: We can handle it.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: It's like, we're far enough away from. The addiction has lost its hold.


Lead singer of Three Doors Down passed away 47 years old from cancer

>> Darin: We're gonna do one more story here before we wrap this up. I don't know if you guys knew this, but the lead singer of Three Doors down passed away 47 years old, and I heard he was 47. And then I went and I looked. I did my own research. I looked, and I'm like. Was this, like, the second singer? Did they hire a younger singer? He's always been the singer Three Doors Down. M. Right. So he had to have been in his early 20s when they recorded Kryptonite when they first came out with a bang. Okay. Kryptonite was amazing. Okay. And then you go and listen to their other stuff. And their other stuff was really good, too. And he had Cancer. And he passed away. And it's. It's a shame. It's a real shame because he was a really good singer, and they were a very good band. But it reminds me of this story when I used to work in Dayton. This is back when I used to have to, dress up for work. And I would wear khakis and a blue shirt. And I drove to work, and I got there about 30 minutes early, and so I had time to kill. And I went by Best Buy, and I'm walking through Best Buy, and I'm looking through the CDs, and this woman walks up to me and she said, excuse me? I said, yes? She says. She says, I'm looking for titanium. And I said, you mean kryptonite? She says, yeah, kryptonite. I said, yes. Okay, that's Three Doors Down. And then I went over and found that for. And she says, well, thank you very much. You're a really good employee. I said, I don't work here. When this happened, it just reminded me of that story. And I wonder if that lady ever thinks about me. Probably not. I looked really handsome when I went to work that day. But anyway, it's a shame. And, Three Doors Down. Listen to all their music. They were a great band. All right, we're going to wrap this up. We want to thank you for listening. We want you to go to irritable dad syndrome.com, and you can go there and listen to every episode. We want you to tell all your friends. We tell you every week to tell your friends. Friends. And we keep telling you that because you're not telling your friends.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So if you guys tell your friends about the show, we'll stop telling you to tell people about it.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Deal? Yeah. Okay, cool. I hope to see you next week, we both hope to see you next week as well on Irritable Dad Syndrome.

>> Dave: Irritable dad Syndrome is a Mark Goodson, Bill Todman production.


Some Power Rangers of Voltron beef. Let me tell you something. Voltron wins every freaking day

>> Darin: Well, listen, did you want to wrap this up?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I'm terrible at that. This is me talking to editor Darren. Okay, Future, right after the Knight Rider and Airwolf stuff, just cut me out, put Dave Lay, put a fish fart in, whatever you need to do.

>> Darin: Go, go, Power Rangers.

>> Mike: Some Power Rangers of Voltron beef. Let me tell you something. Power Rangers versus Voltron. Voltron wins every freaking day. Five lions.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: the bar, the bang. The bang. Diggy Diggy.

>> Darin: Yes, indeed.

>> Mike: Germans love David Hasselhoff.