IDS #297 - Iced Tea and Cottage Cheese

You know, I enjoy doing what I do best: talking. Remember back in the day when you would drink wine, coffee

>> Mike: You know, I enjoy doing.

>> Darin: Remember back in the day when you would drink wine, coffee, and a monster at the same time?

>> Dave: Yeah.

>> Mike: I need to get back. Those were the salad days.

>> Darin: Why was it the salad days? What does that mean?

>> Mike: I. I don't know. It's. That's a. They said it in Raising Arizona. If it's good.

>> Darin: Well, then if we're nicknames, Cage, it's

>> Mike: good enough for me.

>> Darin: Joel and Ethan Cohen. Yeah, I can't feel my tongue, but

>> Mike: I know it's there because I'm talking.


Irritable Dad Syndrome is Cincinnati's comedy podcast featuring Mike and Darren

>> Dave: It's time for Irritable dad syndrome. Do you like boiled eggs? We do, too. 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 297.

>> Mike: An alternative title is, what Our Friends Say, which is, my God, they're still doing this.

>> Darin: Still doing it.

>> Mike: 290 still.

>> Darin: And no signs of stopping. No, none. No. Although you'd think when I got here, Mike was about to lose his mind. Tonight on the show, or today on the show, depending on, what time you. Listen. Mike's gonna tell a story.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I think one thing, and he thinks another, and I.

>> Mike: And yeah, I want to try.

>> Darin: Just as soon as somebody agrees with him, Mike loses his mind. And see, he becomes 11 years old again because somebody agrees with him, and apparently that makes it him. Right.

>> Mike: When Darren shows up at the house, it becomes a very combative atmosphere, and I excus. Excuse me. I have to fight for every inch of ground that I get. And I did. I stood my ground.

>> Darin: Your poor wife. I was talking to her because Mike was still in the shower when I got here, and I said, bess, when you married Mike, did you have any idea that eventually one seventh of your life would involve me being here? I'm here once a week, folks, and Bess didn't ask for that when she said, I do. So my apologies to Bess, Andrew, and Charlie.

>> Mike: You're like our foster kid. Yeah, that we. That we have over that, like, we have custody of you. One night.

>> Darin: One night a week.

>> Mike: And we gotta figure out something to do with all the. The Darren kids coming over, so here we are. But no, I. I have some ideas. I want to have some fun with the story.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I mean, you. You took it to a dark place.

>> Darin: I don't think I did.

>> Mike: Because you disagreed with me. Okay. So I think we can have some fun with that. Okay. With the patrons.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: All right, so we. We'll get to that in a minute. we gotta.


There was an incident with last week's episode

We gotta talk about the, the elephant in the room.

>> Darin: There was an incident. Yeah, there was an incident with last week's episode.

>> Dave: Oh, boy.

>> Darin: When it dropped about 19, 20 seconds in. M. There was a, what the kids call an F bomb.

>> Mike: If I may. Bad word, if I may.

>> Darin: Slip past the sensors.

>> Mike: So we're getting a lot of new listeners these days. A lot of new people that are so many discovering the show. And I typically don't listen to the show, like, right away.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But I've started doing that, and I was excited. I got into my car, I'm driving to work. I push play on the old Spotify. That's where I get my.

>> Darin: My jam available wherever you.

>> Mike: That's. That's where my Riz is. Look it up. And then, about 19 seconds in, I hear Florin. Florin Filth.

>> Darin: Florin Florida Foreign.

>> Mike: And it came from me.

>> Darin: That's right. And you mumbled it.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And here's the thing. I edit the audio version of the podcast, and I listened to that I don't know how many times. Yeah. More than one. Less than a dozen somewhere around there. And I did not catch it. And so, unfortunately, we had to fire Nathan. Nathan is the. The kid. He's. How old was Nathan, who is. How. He's still the same age. He's at 23, 24. Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Quality control. And Nathan's job is to listen to every episode, and if there's a problem, then he's supposed to call it out, and then one of our editors will fix it. And then, not only did he miss that, but two weeks ago, on our. One of our episodes, we have a blaring, just an outrageous mistake on the graphic for the one about the eaten banana pudding. There's two Ds on the box of banana pudding. Nathan didn't catch that either. Now that episode's. It's out there, folks. It's already out there. You can't bring that cow into. Back into the barn.

>> Mike: No. So I have many things to say. First of all, I'm glad he's gone. we have. We get donuts.

>> Darin: He was starting to get a little bit of an attitude.

>> Mike: Every week, we get donuts for everybody on staff, and Nathan's one of these.

>> Darin: He's always first.

>> Mike: What's a jelly donut?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Who eats a jelly donut in the year of our Lord 2026?

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: We've got normal American donuts, and then this jackass get. And it's not even the Normal, good jelly donuts. It's the weird, like blueberry. It's like. Because the problem is, is that sometimes he gets on a diet and he won't eat his donut, right? And then I come into the break room and I want a donut and that's the last one left and I bite into it. And then I got to go to the hospital and get my stomach bumped. It's. It's just, it's. It's a pain.

>> Darin: Well, here's my. The last three or four weeks, what I've noticed is, is what he'll do is he grabs one and puts it in his mouth and then already gets his second one. So here's the rule, okay, Kids, when you're at the office, if somebody brings in a box of donuts, you go and you get one, okay? Then you leave and you come back if everybody has already had one. And then there's extras. I'm talking to you, Nathan. Then, then you get a second. You don't just go and get two right off the top. What a.

>> Mike: Well, I mean, we don't have to put up with.

>> Darin: We let him go.

>> Mike: And so here's the deal is.

>> Darin: And the thing, the great thing is, since we didn't pay him, we don't have to offer unemployment. No.


Someone accidentally drops an S bomb on the podcast over the holidays

>> Mike: So every once in a while, our longtime listeners will know that every once in a while, some filth floor and florin. Filth seeps through.

>> Darin: It happens.

>> Mike: The most recent one that got through was, yours truly uttered the word. And, Darren texted me and said, one, of your videos, you. You drop an S bomb, right? And I think it was over the holidays. I think I had a piece of pumpkin pie in my mouth. I was half conscious, you had said. And I looked at it.

>> Darin: Something was the.

>> Mike: Yeah. And it was right. But I looked at that and I was like, ah, at this point, five years in, I'm willing to let an S word go through, right? So we left that, we left that one in. But when an F bomb drops in our family friendly portion of the show, the patrons, they can have at it, right? In the, the filthy, filthy version of Andrew Dagg's class that's on the Patron. I'm not, I'm not changing the audio on that. You're welcome. But for the standard audience, right? The standard podcasting audience, right? And you know, Apple podcasts and Spotify and all them, they go through with a fine tooth comb. I had to look at the transcript. I mumbled it so lowly that the transcript didn't even know what I said?

>> Darin: I didn't hear it.

>> Mike: I could. I could hear it. And, so we went through. And in the process of getting that out, we had to unpublish and. And then republish. And that knocked Spotify out of whack. So our Spotify fans were without an episode for a day and a half. And, Bess is a Spotify fan.

>> Darin: Well, thanks.

>> Mike: So I was getting constant text, it's not there. It's not there. And then she had to drive us somewhere, and she was listening to past episodes, which is always an option. That's true. interns come and interns go. Sometimes there'll be issues. You can always listen to a previous episode, or you.

>> Darin: You could just go to irritable dad syndrome.com and then play it from there. That's a possibility. So, anywho, we apologize for the mistake. This is something that we can't blame on Dave Lay because it was Nathan's fault. What we did blame on Dave Lay. We, forgot to mention Valentine's Day and President's Day.

>> Mike: That's 100%.

>> Darin: One of Dave's responsibilities, outside of being the best announcer that any podcast could possibly have, is when holidays come up, he needs to, record, hey, it's Valentine's, day, and it's President's Day, and it's, What's that? We plant a tree. Arbor Day. Arbor Day, yeah. Dave is supposed to come to us with that. So we've talked to Dave. Now we're not firing Dave. No, we have talked. We had a talk with Dave. I mean, and I. I felt kind of bad reprimanding him because he. He just got kind of sad and. And is pathetic.

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

>> Mike: That's because I was staring him down behind you when you were talking to him, so I don't put up with that.

>> Darin: I know you. Last week, we were talking about the lead singer of 3 Doors down had passed away, and right after, the episode had been sent out, it was already published. I had reached out to Joe Chambers, who is on, TikTok. Okay. Joe Chambers is the guy who does the Johnny Cash versions of, rock songs. Okay, so he did Johnny Cash doing the Ace of Spades and Johnny Cash doing, Holy Diver. Okay. And then he did see, you on the Other side by Ozzy Osborne. And we've played all these on our podcast. He gave us permission at the end of this episode. Keep listening, and you will hear him do his version of Johnny Cash doing Kryptonite. By three doors down. It is fantastic and it's worth the wait. So check that out.

>> Dave: Check 1, 2, 3. Check 1, 2, 3.


YouTube dropped an EP with six songs on it today

>> Mike: You two did a thing. So typically.

>> Darin: Now, wait, who are you two? You know that little band from Ireland?

>> Mike: Yeah. So, typically we. These on the Tuesdays, and we couldn't do it this week because I had a school event to go to.

>> Darin: Right. Mike is a responsible parent. Yeah, at times.

>> Mike: At times. So I went to the school event and then we scheduled the. The podcast for tonight. And today, I started seeing social media abuzz with the, YouTube dropped an EP. Just dropped it right there. Boom. art. And they have six. There's six songs on it. Brand new song, six videos with the lyrics. The YouTubes, they've released a new issue of their propaganda magazine, which they. They made popular in the 80s for a while. If you were a fan by mail in the 80s, they would send you a propaganda magazine. And they ended that somewhere between Zoo tv, around Zoo TV time. They like, okay, we've done enough of this. they brought back with a special episode or a special edition of that, a digital edition. And the thing that surprised me most about this is that I hadn't heard of it.

>> Darin: you didn't know?

>> Mike: I've been a YouTube fan for exactly 35 years at this point.

>> Darin: Are you on their newsletter?

>> Mike: I'm on everything. And, YouTube fans that are out there listening to this, you guys know how it is. Bono cannot keep his mouth shot.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: YouTube fans that pay attention to what he's saying are hardly ever surprised because he can't not talk about what's happening. And there has been nothing from him for months, which is probably a sign. I think they had him chained in the basement somewhere.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Ah. And so then this just dropped out of nowhere. And it's like, holy crap, here it is. Now they're talking. Now they're doing things. so if it goes like it normally does, probably next year Larry will start talking about this episode. Edge is going to be all over documentaries, talking about what he did with the guitar sound. And Adam's going to be talking about a completely unrelated documentary that he's doing at the same time. That's their normal cadence. But I was shocked. So I have listened to it. I would recommend that any fans watch the YouTube videos that go along so you can see the words and get context. I was. I was not that excited about it the first time I listened. Second time, it's growing on me. I'm digging it. I'M digging it. It's a different, different kind of sound for him. But I, I, I, like it. I like it.

>> Darin: I have a lot of albums, A lot of them. A lot of. A lot of CDs. And some of them, the first time you listen to, you're like, holy crap, this is amazing. And then there are some. You listen to it like, okay, all right. And then it takes a while. I love those that you listen to the second or third time. And then you're like, what was I thinking of?

>> Mike: This is.

>> Darin: This is really great. And sometimes I think that the ones that grow on you might be better than the ones that you instantly, just, just like, holy crap.

>> Mike: My favorite albums of all time have all been growers. Octane Baby. I've talked about that enough. That was a grower for me. It didn't take long to grow, but it did grow.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: and a lot of. I mean, the entire band of Pink Floyd grew on me. Rush.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You talk about a grower.

>> Darin: Oh, Rush.

>> Mike: Totally. First time on me. The first time you hear Rush, you're like, is there something wrong with this thing?

>> Darin: Someone is scratching piece of chalk across the board. Yeah.

>> Mike: And it's weird because I will talk to somebody now that has that opinion, and I'll. I'll almost come to blows. Yeah, you gotta hold me back. That is right. My first sentence will be, clearly, you know nothing about music. That's right. Or sound. Bob, Bub.

>> Darin: Yeah.


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Gerard Mulligan used to write for David Letterman

Now back to you guys in the studio.

>> Darin: So I want to throw a shout out to a, gentleman named Gerard Mulligan. Who's Gerard Mulligan? You may ask. Gerard Mulligan used to write for David Letterman. And by the way, speaking of David Letterman, I am seething with jealousy because friend of our show, Mike Chisholm, met, David Letterman today. And I am, M. I'm happy for Mike. I'm really, really, really happy for Mike Chisholm. He hosts the Letterman podcast. He's a good dude. And so, yeah, he's a great guy. He and I have become fantastic friends. I'm Thrilled for him that he got to meet David, Letterman. So Gerard Mulligan used to write for David Letterman. Okay, I have a friend and, going through some stuff. Okay, I'm not going to go through all the stuff that my friend is going through. Another friend of ours reached out to me and said, darren, I want to make a funny video to cheer our friend up. Can you help me out? And I thought, well, hell, I haven't been funny since 2007, but I'll try. Let me see what I can do and, let me think about whatever. And then I'm thinking, hey, I got an idea. I reached out to Mike Chisholm, and I said, could you reach out to Gerard Mulligan? Do you think he would record something for our friend who needs this video to kind of get, cheered up? What does Gerard Mulligan do? Gerard Mulligan says, absolutely. I'd be thrilled to. And he recorded a top ten list.

>> Speaker D: All right, these are the top ten signs. You've chosen a bad hospital. Number ten, all surgical procedures are, do it yourself. Number nine, in the lobby, there's a giant mural of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Number eight, there's a sign in all the bathrooms. Hand washing optional. Number seven, the nurses station has a tip jar. Number six, instead of wearing rubber gloves, your surgeon is wearing woolen mittens. As you're going under, you hear the surgeon ask a nurse, where exactly is the pancreas again? Number four, in the waiting room, there's a crew from 60 Minutes. Number three, on every floor, there's a cigarette vending machine. Number two, all patient meals are, ah, from McDonald's. Number one, you enter for a knee replacement, you leave with a boob job.

>> Darin: This is awesome. Gerard Mulligan still has it. I mean, he's still got the comedy writing chops. This was a perfectly well written list, and I was thrilled that he did it. So, Gerard, thank you so much. And to my friend who's feeling, a little down in the dumps, I hope you feel better. Yeah.


Mike's mental issues stem from an incident from more than 10 years ago

>> Mike: Can I talk about my mental issues?

>> Dave: Oh, your.

>> Darin: Oh, oh, now we're going to talk about the mental issues.

>> Mike: Okay, so here's the deal.

>> Darin: Mike's mental issues.

>> Mike: this is a long. Not a long story. It's relatively short story, but it's a long timeline. So, this is going to be me documenting for people in the future when they're figuring out what care I need. Okay. All right.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Okay. So earmark this episode.

>> Darin: You got it.

>> Mike: More than 10 years ago. I'm gonna say this was 2015, 2014.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Around that time.

>> Darin: That would be 12 years ago.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: which is more than I've been

>> Mike: going to the same. I've been going to the same gym, the Y down the street here.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: forever. And there was a guy that came in. Huge, I mean, massive chest, this dude. And he had. The day that he came in, I was going in the mornings. Right.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And he had like two other guys with him that were also huge. And it was like the gym had a record player and it went. Everybody stopped what they were doing and watched these guys go over to the bench.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: The, the bench press, right?

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And he sat down on the bench while his two entourage, members started putting plates. And they just kept putting plates on the bar.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Until it seemed, there was an

>> Darin: obscene amount of, sir, we've run out of weights.

>> Mike: Right. And then he did a breathing thing that I can't, you know, whatever. And he laid down and he proceeded to bench that weight. I don't remember how much weight it was, but I remember seeing the bar bend. Okay. It was bending. Oh. As he was going up.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Now, I, at the time, believe it or not, I had a small, a slight sense of humor. There was a, another guy that always happened to be in the gym at the same time that I was there. he was in bad shape as I was. So we had that kind of, you know, nod like, you, you woke up today and decided to come here instead of just down in another box of Reese's cups. Yes, I did. So you know that kind of look. And I knew that he typically, you get to know other people's routines. I knew that this was typically his bench day. Everybody has stopped what they're doing and they're watching this guy lift a large amount of weight. And I just leaned over to the guy and I said, why don't you go over there and tell him to get the. Off your bench? And he laughed so hard.

>> Mike: That I got embarrassed that somebody was going to ask him what was so funny because then he would have to tell what I said. And I don't want to explain to do now. weeks pass, months pass. Okay. This is important to the story. And I'm at the gym. The guy that lifted all that weight is walking through. He looks at me and nods up and says, how's it going? And I said, and I quote, and I tried to nod back. I'm not sure if I actually moved.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: And I mentioned it the best when I came home, I was like this. I mentioned. Because I told her about the previous story. I said, that huge guy now says, what's up to me? What should I do? And she said, just keep saying what's up? Back to him. You don't want to, you know. Do you know him? Have you met him? I don't know who this is. Right. Okay.

>> Darin: I'm not.

>> Mike: So I am. I'm not a very. I'm not very good at meeting people.

>> Darin: No, you're not.

>> Mike: And so I just go on with life. And, every once in a while I see this guy. He always nods and says, hey, what's up? I say, hey, what's up to him?


Libby says sometimes she forgets names of people she knows

And we go on. This goes on for more than a decade.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: We go to a school event.

>> Darin: Please tell me that's not where it stops.

>> Mike: No, no, that's not where it stops. We go to a school event and I see him in the stands, okay? And I was like, ah, there's that guy. There's the guy, the guy that lifts

>> Darin: all the weight, the what's up guy.

>> Mike: And Bess wanted to talk to the athletic guy for the, the junior high that Charlie's about to go to. And we're over there talking and Bess and I look over and said, guy is standing up and he's waving now I think he's waving at someone else.

>> Darin: Okay?

>> Mike: So I'm just staring at him. And the. And in my defense, the woman in front of him waves. And then Bess says, that guy over there is waving. And I said, I think, think that's the guy. And then he waves again. And then Bess waved and then I felt like an. So I waved. And then he nodded and then he made his way out and Bess said, oh, that's so. And so's dad. And I said, wait, we know him? And she said, yes, his name. You know his name? And she reminded me that, yes, I met him more than a decade ago. He's been saying hi to me for

>> Darin: years, at the gym.

>> Mike: At the gym. And I just didn't realize that I've met him before. I'm very concerned. And, the whole drive back after that, I was telling Bess, how many people out there have I met that I don't know unless you're with me or Darren's with me to point out, you know them, right? I was like, that's not a normal thing to have to do for a 50 year old person. You shouldn't have to walk around with your right with your 50 year old friend and say you know them, their names. wave, wave, smile. Did you know them from church?

>> Darin: Did you ever watch Veep?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Okay. Julia Louise Dreyfus when she was vice, president. And then, spoiler alert, she becomes president. She's got, her guy with her who follows her all the time when she's in a group. He will lean over and goes, that's, that's Mike Johnson.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: His, his son plays football with your son. Okay, Mike, nice to see you. Whatever.

>> Mike: Nice to see you.

>> Darin: And then, because on what episode? She's at this thing and the guy goes, that's the bass player for Rage against the Machine. And she goes, are you seriously? Yeah.

>> Speaker E: So.

>> Darin: But I want one of those guys.

>> Mike: Yeah, I. I need one of those guys.

>> Darin: I desperately need one of those guys.

>> Mike: So.

>> Darin: Yeah, go ahead. No, you.

>> Mike: You've been with me a long time on. On the show. You know me.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: the people who have been with us all these years know me and how stupid and crazy I am.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: So I want to put out there if this is among the first episodes, and if you are the person, if you're like, I remember waving at Mike and I remember meeting Mike.

>> Darin: It's.

>> Mike: Something's wrong with my brain.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's not you, it's me. and I need to figure this out. I don't want to forget people.

>> Darin: No, dude, I mean, I've said this a thousand times. If I am out with you and somebody comes up and starts talking, if I don't introduce you, I've forgotten their name or I've forgotten your name. And that happens more often than I care to admit. I've. I've got two, instances just this week. Okay. But like a year or two ago, I'm at Kroger, and a woman comes by and, hey, how's it going? I'm doing great.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I kind of recognize her face. And she says, how's Libby? I said, man, Libby's doing great. And how's everything going with you right now? My brother would always go, I don't know you.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: because he has no skills whatsoever. But I would be like, I said, she's great. And how are things going with you? And then she says, good. The girls are. Girls are growing up and everything. I'm like, okay, so she's. She's.


Biff: I feel like we need to make a file with pictures

>> Mike: She's got girls.

>> Darin: okay. And I have. I went home. I'm like, do we know a woman who has girls? Yeah.

>> Mike: I feel like we need to make A file.

>> Darin: Does that narrow it down? Right?

>> Mike: I mean, would it be weird to make a Google document with pictures? Like, if I meet someone, can I take a picture of them and put them in a file so that I have it so I know who people are?

>> Darin: No, we either need. We either need the guy who comes with us, or we need, like, that, option when you watch a movie on Hulu, you pause it, and then all the actors who are in the movie come up with their name. And then you can Google, Trent Reznor. Oh, that's the guy from Nine Inch Nails. Okay, whatever. Yeah. So, yeah, I desperately need that. So on Valentine's Day, Libby and I went to see Shucked at the Air and off center. Holy crap. What a funny and fun and entertaining and just uplifting, delightful play. So we're at intermission and went, to the bathroom, and I'm coming back and I'm just stretching out my legs. A guy walks up to me, says, darren, how are you? And I said, good. He had to introduce himself. He said, don gilbert and. Oh, Dr. Gilbert.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Libby worked for him.

>> Mike: Okay, okay.

>> Darin: 15 years ago.

>> Mike: That's.

>> Darin: Yeah, 15 years ago. And if he's. If he's listening to this episode, which I don't think is. I'm sorry, but I. Buddy, I haven't seen you in 15 or 16 years. But as soon as you said Gilbert, then. But it was like five seconds of looking, and I hope I didn't just look aimlessly like a deer in headlights. But then I remembered him. And then we were talking about. Yeah, it'd been 15 or 16 years since I've seen this guy. When Libby used to work for him. Yeah. And then she came out, and then they were talking and stuff, and. But if I had walked past him, I don't know that I would have remembered him.

>> Mike: Yeah. It's terrifying. And here's the thing. If you could look inside my mind, it's a psychopath's dream in there. I am thinking of the weirdest all day. It's not like I'm sitting here not knowing your name, and there's just, like, blanket spiderwebs. I'm thinking, you know, I'm literally thinking to myself, when Marty McFly went back in the first movie, did he have problems? did he would have to explain to them what new Coke was? Or did they have Coke yet? And I think about that. Or Pepsi Free, you want to pay for it? What would have happened if he brought a crystal Pepsi back and just left it there? Is that how it happened. Did Biff get it right? I'm thinking of that as you're walking by and you're thinking, hey, I met this guy at a thing a year ago. He doesn't even know who I am. No, I'm thinking about Marty McFly and Crystal Pepsi. It's not you, it's me.

>> Darin: this happens way more often than I care.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: I'm in Kroger one time, and I saw a woman. And I'm looking at her, I'm like, I know her. I know her. But now.

>> Mike: Was it Libby?

>> Darin: No. As an adult. As an adult male, you can't just follow a woman around until you realize where you remember her from, because that's stalky.

>> Mike: Or look up your database of pictures and compare to her face. It's not.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: It's generally appropriate.

>> Darin: So, I'm just like, I passed her, and then she was on another aisle and another aisle. And then I realized, I know where I saw her.

>> Mike: At Kroger. She works at Kroger? Yeah.

>> Darin: I mean, yeah. And then I felt so stupid. But now, this weekend, I went grocery shopping. I met Kroger. And usually when this happens, at least I recognize the person's face. Okay? There are so many times. 99 of the time, I recognize the person's face, and I can't figure out where because, I mean, Mike and I, we've got to high, school or how old is Charlie? What grade is he in? It doesn't matter.

>> Mike: Mike and I, marbles.

>> Darin: Sometimes we have two kids, a piece.


A lot of people we know are parents of kids who know our kids

And these kids have friends, and these. Their friends have parents. So a lot of the people we know, are parents of kids who know our kids. Yeah. And then there's marching band. Okay? There was people that we met when they were in scouts or people we met when they were in soccer. okay, Then there's people that I know from, Either from when I worked at this TV station or this TV station, or, I worked at three TV stations here in Cincinnati and Dayton. All right? And then there's people that we know from church. Yeah. And then there's people who Libby knows. And so many times, God, one woman came up and was asking me all these questions about Libby, and I. I didn't know her. I didn't know her from anybody from Adam.

>> Mike: But.

>> Darin: Yeah. Anyway, I'm at Kroger, and a guy walks up to me. He goes, hey, how you doing, boy? I'm good. How are you?

>> Mike: Nightmare.

>> Darin: And he said. He says, I'm great. And he says, well, it's really good seeing you. And I was like, it's good seeing you too.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Not a clue.

>> Mike: No, it's awful.

>> Darin: Not a clue. I don't know anybody who has a beard that looks like that. I don't know anybody who is that height. I don't know anybody who's that personable and likable and just. Hey, it's the worst.

>> Mike: It's the worst. When they're nice.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: They initiate it. Because you're like, I have no idea.

>> Darin: And I'm like, God, please don't ask me any questions because. Because you know, I'm not gonna have a follow up. And I have no idea who, no clue who that person was.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And if I saw you in Kroger, I mean, hey, I was nice, so go. You know what? I could win an Academy Award for being excited to see somebody. Hey, you know, hey, you little son of a.

>> Mike: If this were back.

>> Darin: Did you lose all that weight? I don't know.

>> Mike: The guy. The guy, the leader of Rohan and Lord of the Rings had it down because he would look at somebody and he would say, I know your face.

>> Mike: That's what he said when he was coming out of the funk.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: When they brought him back.

>> Darin: Oh, yes.

>> Mike: He would say, I know your face. and I'm like, man, that's what I could say. If somebody comes up to me at Kroger or wherever. Hey, Mike, how you doing? I could say, I know your face. I don't know who you are or. And I don't remember ever talking to you before. I don't know anything about your children, your occupation, your wants, your dreams, your desires, anything. But I've seen your face before and I know we've interacted. What is your name? Is that rude?

>> Darin: I know a guy in high school and I ran into him at one of our reunions and he was walking up to almost every woman there and

>> Mike: he was going, did we ever,

>> Darin: I'm like, does that work for you? And he said, nope, absolutely not.

>> Mike: It's probably not the best strategy.

>> Darin: Not a good one at all. Not for him. Did we ever, you know. But yeah, it drives me nuts.

>> Dave: You're listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome, the podcast that stays fresh longer.

>> Mike: Should we get into the controversy that you walked into?

>> Darin: Yeah, let's get into the controversy.


Darren and Bess had a fight that led to a large fight

>> Mike: Okay. So, we've been thinking about ways to relay this story. It led to a large fight. Darren and I had a fight, and

>> Darin: it didn't need to become. But you lost your mind.

>> Mike: So I came home. I had a few minutes to be at home before going to the gym and then coming back to record this damn thing. And. And when I walked in the door, Charlie is yelling, dude, listen to this. Come here. And Bess says, we have something to tell you. And so I don't know what is happening.

>> Darin: We're losing the house.

>> Mike: Yeah. So Bess, this is the way she presents this to me.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: She said, we went to Skyline. We're in the drive through. So her and Charlie are in the drive through at Skyline. They order their food, and they order an iced tea. Bess always gets an iced tea.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Okay. She pulls around, and they, you know, money changes hands. They give her the food. And then the. I need to frame this correctly or I'm going to get in trouble. The lady walked away from the window, and there was a span of time.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And then the lady came, came back, and she said, did you get and iced tea? And Bess said, what would you say to that, to me? I said, yes. Charlie jumped for joy. Boom.

>> Darin: I knew it.

>> Mike: He freaks out. And Bess just doubled over in embarrassment and a little bit of anger, let's be honest, at my answer. And she laughed. And Charlie was like, exactly. He's doing. Exactly. And clearly, I had said something that made Charlie happy and upset Bess.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Right. So what I said to Bess was. She said, did you get an iced tea? She didn't say, did you get your iced tea? And Charlie pointed and said, yes. There's the distinction. So I go. And I'm excited. I've won something. I don't know what I've won at this point. I've won Charlie's respect. Right?

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: I go to get a, take a shower. I come back down. And then that's where you enter into the story.

>> Darin: Yeah. So they tell me this story, and we get to the point where the lady at Skyline says, did you get an iced tea? And I said, no, because I was like, bess does not have one in her hand. She paid for one, but she does not have one. So she didn't get her iced tea. And Mike seems.

>> Mike: So you just did it. You just said she didn't get her iced tea.

>> Darin: I know.

>> Mike: She didn't get an.

>> Darin: I know. But I'm. I'm speaking at a different part of. I'm speaking after the thing was supposed to have been.

>> Mike: I'm just saying. Your honor, let the record show.

>> Darin: Oh, my God. And here's the thing.

>> Mike: Guys, guys.

>> Darin: Mike is losing his with this little thing because he feels like I won an argument. Wonderful.

>> Mike: I won an argument.

>> Darin: He feels like he's won gold at the Olympics because, you know, he and Charlie agree on something. And Bess was so excited that I agreed with her.

>> Mike: Yeah, she, she, she did what Charlie did.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: It was in your face. And then, and then. Hold on. And then one of Bess's best friends called.

>> Mike: And is talking to Bess got her involved. She agreed with me and Charlie.

>> Darin: Which makes you think that you're right.

>> Mike: I am right.


Mike thinks Bess didn't get an iced tea

>> Darin: You. It's like, oh my God, somebody agrees with you. And you think, well, that solves it.

>> Mike: Well, it, it, well, it's solved when I make my declaration and then I build my posse from there.

>> Darin: But my argument is agree with me. You know, Bess ordered an iced tea. They did not give her an iced tea.

>> Mike: I see.

>> Darin: So when they said, did you get an iced tea? No, because she doesn't have it. But Mike seems to think the difference between did you get an iced tea? And did you get your iced tea?

>> Mike: Because money had changed hands is the thing. And I'm just like, that's the way I see it. That's the way America sees it.

>> Darin: That's not the way America.

>> Mike: So here's the thing. Here's what's going to happen.

>> Darin: That's how, that's how God intended it.

>> Mike: Ten Commandments, the Founding Fathers. Agree with me. Here's what's going to happen is me, me and d. Ron here are going to see the Nine Inch Nails.

>> Mike: All right. On Friday.

>> Darin: Yeah. We're going to talk about this. The whole.

>> Mike: We're going on it. And see, this is what he thinks. We're, we're going on a trip. I'm not going to say a word about this the entire time. You're going to think I forgot about it. But what I am going to do is watch every move you make and listen to every word you say whenever you order something. And I'm going to pounce. I'm going to pounce when you screw up the conversation and accidentally agree with me because I think you're full of. And that you secretly agree with me. And the reason I think that is because both you and Bess, when retelling this story upstairs, slipped a little and said I didn't get my iced tea. And you didn't say I didn't get an iced tea. There's a, well, there's a difference here.

>> Darin: You know what the difference Is. Is because of possession of the, Of the term. Of course I'm not going to say I didn't get your iced tea. I didn't get my iced tea.

>> Mike: Okay?

>> Darin: I didn't get. And iced tea. So listen, I'm not going to say your. Because that would be mine.

>> Mike: All right?


Mike: Have you ever won an argument with your family

Okay, so here's the deal. Let's rewind this back because I want to tell the full.

>> Darin: Here's. Now, here's the thing. I don't know why you're making such a big flipping deal.

>> Mike: Have you ever won an argument with your family? Have you ever won.

>> Darin: When you're married, technically, you never win an argument because even if you win an argument, you lose.

>> Mike: I won. I won.

>> Darin: You didn't.

>> Mike: It's documented.

>> Darin: You found someone who agrees with you.

>> Mike: Multiple people.

>> Darin: That's.

>> Mike: I got her friend to agree with me.

>> Darin: It's a matter of opinion.

>> Mike: Have you ever won an argument and then gotten your wife's friend to agree with you? Huh?

>> Darin: Well, my wife and I, we don't bring our arguments into public like this when Libby and I are having an argument. Like, if you and your dumb ass came over to the house, I wouldn't say, hey, Mike, sit here. Libby, tell him the stupid that you were saying. And then I'm going to see if I can humiliate you in front of him. I don't do that. I don't do that. And you are dragging Bess's name through the mud.

>> Mike: dragging it through the mud. I'm excited that I won an argument.

>> Darin: You didn't. You found someone who agrees with you.

>> Mike: Multiple people. The thing is, multiple third parties who agreed with me.

>> Darin: The thing is that neither of us are right. Here's the thing. And neither of us are wrong.

>> Mike: We're gonna do a poll.

>> Darin: You can say, okay, we're doing a poll.

>> Mike: Okay. On Patreon.

>> Darin: Should you say. Should you get. And I. If you're.

>> Mike: If you're a Patreon member, you can vote in the poll. I was going to make it to where if you agreed with me and Charlie, you would be put in a drawing for a piece of merch. But I'm going to open up to anyone who votes. Any patrons who vote, will tally it up, and we will draw a name on, the 300th episode.

>> Darin: Huh?

>> Mike: And you will get a unique, piece of merch. Of merch from your favorite buddies. Now, let me close the story out.

>> Darin: Okay?

>> Mike: Okay. There's more to it.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Right. So after this, she. She pulled up. They said, did you get your iced tea? And Bess said, no.

>> Darin: She said, did you get an iced tea?

>> Mike: I'm sorry. You're right.

>> Darin: See? No, you're. You're slipping. No, you don't know what you're talking about.

>> Mike: Okay? Now don't throw this out. 15 hours to tell the story.

>> Darin: Doing the same thing you did.

>> Mike: So they said, did you get an iced tea? And Bess said, no. And then they went away from the window for multiple minutes. Bess sat there. And then the lady came back and said, are you waiting on something? And Bess said, I'm just waiting on my iced tea.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: At which point they brought the iced tea. They gave it to her. And Charlie is losing his mind in much the same way as his dad would lose his mind an hour later when he hears about this story. I think it's awesome.

>> Darin: I just.

>> Mike: Patrons. Good. The poll will be up.

>> Speaker D: Okay?

>> Mike: This week, patrons go up.

>> Darin: And. And this is how we play make something out of nothing.

>> Mike: Do you agree with Mike, Charlie and Bess's friend, or do you agree with Darren and Best?

>> Darin: Okay. When I get home, I'm going to tell this story to Libby.

>> Mike: You're gonna taint it.

>> Darin: You're gonna make it. You're gonna make it.


Anything I say makes you sound like a moron Einstein

>> Mike: So I sound like a,

>> Darin: Well, Mike, that's not impossible. Anything I say makes you sound like a moron Einstein. All you have to do is sit up straight and you sound like a moron.

>> Mike: I can sound like an idiot laying down.

>> Darin: Oh, my God. I can do that anytime. Watch.


Dave Lay loves Lotus Biscoff Cookies when traveling

>> Dave: This portion of Irritable Dad Syndrome is brought to you by Lotus Biscoff Cookies. Hi, I'm Dave Lay, and I love traveling. It seems like every couple of months, I get the urge to visit people and places anywhere on this great planet. And that's why I'm a big fan of Lotus Biscoff Cookies. Whenever I'm flying and the stewardess asks if I want a snack, I say, hell, yeah, I want a snack. And make that snack a pack of Lotus Biscoff cookies. Since 1932, Lotus Biscoff cookies have been made with all natural ingredients. They're crunchy, and that caramelized flavor has made them the preferred choice of every major airline that serves snacks. Lotus Biscoff Cookies.

>> Speaker D: Mmm.

>> Dave: M. Now those are some good cookies.


Libby says Alexa is getting more annoying. Alexa's getting an attitude

Back to you guys in the studio.

>> Darin: Alexa's getting an attitude. I told you a couple weeks ago that Alexa has changed. She's, She sounds younger and. And prettier, and, just. She's just more vibrant and a little bit More annoying.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And so Libby asked Alexa something, and Alexa just wouldn't shut up because we, you know, we want, like, Alexa, what's the capital of Nevada? The capital of Nevada is Carson City. Well, Alexa's like, did you know that Carson City's population is blank, blank, blank. And more people come to Carson City every year for this. And then they have a population who grows potatoes and something else and something. And I'm like, alexa, shut up. Like, just be quiet. And I lost my mind. And I yelled at her. And Alexa said, and I quote, wow. I'm gonna sit over here while you calm down, and I'm gonna think of a witty retort to which I said, well, good luck with that. And then five minutes later, hey, Alexa, have you thought of a witty retort yet?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. But she said, wow.

>> Mike: Yeah, that's awesome.

>> Darin: I could just see Alexis just like, I'm going to my room, slamming the door. You're not, my real dad, you know.

>> Mike: That's awesome.

>> Darin: I made her. Loser.


You can make something that tastes similar to Reese's Cups when frozen

>> Mike: I want to talk about my cottage cheese Reese's cup.

>> Darin: This sounds disgusting.

>> Mike: This is amazing. You can make something that tastes similar enough to Reese's Cups and have exactly the same aftertaste. And you make it out of cottage cheese, oats, maple syrup, vanilla extract, and natural peanut butter, and, melted dark chocolate.

>> Darin: Why do you have to use the dark chocolate?

>> Mike: Because it tastes like.

>> Darin: Otherwise, I hate dark chocolate. Well, if you use milk chocolate, I

>> Mike: will tell you that it tastes good. If you. I use the Ghirardelli, baking wafers.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: And when I bit a thing of this, it tasted like a Reese's cup. Okay, so you mix the, cottage cheese, and I know this sounds disgusting. The maple syrup, the peanut butter, and the vanilla extract and the oats, you mix those in a blender, it makes a paste. You spread that paste out. Paste, Paste. A peanut buttery paste. You spread it out on a piece, of parchment paper, which is also on a metal pan. On top of metal pan.

>> Mike: And then you melt the dark chocolate. You spread it evenly over the peanut buttery paste. And then you get some. You get some sea salt flakes, and you sea salt the top of it.

>> Darin: Oh, I like a little bit of salt with my sugar.

>> Mike: Now here's the, here's the thing. I'm going to post this. I'm going to post this recipe because I love this recipe, okay? So, you know, everybody's like, well, how much you use. Shut up. You'll just follow us and you'll See, now here's where I screwed up. I froze it overnight and then tried to cut it the next day. And cutting that, you need, like an ax to cut it if you wait that long. Right. The recipe says. And I ignored this. Freeze it for an hour, then cut it into squares, then freeze it further. If you don't do that, if you freeze it overnight. But, what happens? Well, the chocolate doesn't stick when you cut. You go. And the chocolate just flies off of it.

>> Darin: Gotcha. And somebody loses an eye.

>> Mike: Yeah. But here's the thing. When you eat it, the cottage cheese is the base thing. It freezes, and it. It has the consistency of ice, cream. Like a harder version of ice cream. Now, if you let it cool or, I'm sorry, warm up to, like, room temperature, it's going to taste like straight opossum ass. You don't want that. You don't want it to warm up. You want to keep this stuff frozen. But if you eat it when it's frozen, I'll tell you what it tastes like. You know the Snickers ice cream bars?

>> Darin: They're delicious.

>> Mike: Very similar to those.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Very similar.

>> Darin: Yep.

>> Mike: So it's. It's good.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I cannot stress enough. Do not let it get anywhere near room temperature. It tastes like opossum crotch if you do that.

>> Darin: So it's. It's good when it's frozen.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: When. When it warms up. It's not.

>> Mike: Yeah. You can taste things better when they're.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Less cold. The colder something is, the less you can taste it.

>> Darin: Okay, so you can taste the colder it is or the less cold it is.

>> Mike: The more cold it is, the less you taste it.

>> Darin: Okay, so you want to freeze it or you don't.

>> Mike: You do want to freeze it. You want to taste less of it. It's cottage cheese.

>> Darin: You're. You're saying less cold, and then you're saying freeze it. So, I don't know, you taste.

>> Mike: You. The cold. Listen to me, okay? The more cold it is, the less you can taste it, okay? So you want to freeze the. Out of it, okay? It's still chewable. The way the cottage cheese freeze.


Freezes. You taste things less when they're cold, right

Freezes. It's still chewy. You get the Reese's cup taste while it's really cold, and you get the aftertaste. I'm saying if you let that stuff get to room temperature, okay. You're gonna have a different experience.

>> Darin: Okay? Now, you see, whenever my mom would make fudge, I would freeze it, and I think the fudge tastes better frozen I think it accentuates the flavor, so I think I'm agreeing with you.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: But also, if I eat it warm, that doesn't bother me.

>> Mike: Okay. Some things are like that. But in general, you taste things less when they're cold.

>> Darin: Right. Okay.

>> Mike: The colder they are, the less you can taste them.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: It's awesome. It's about. It's. I mean, when you compare it to a Reese's cup, because I did this. I did the math on the calories and everything. It's about half the calories. I mean, there's. There's some calories in this puppy.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But you get more protein. You get a whole lot more fiber. You can eat a large amount of this stuff, before it really starts to affect you. It's really good.

>> Darin: Okay. I was proud of myself last week. I wrote something that I thought was very funny on Facebook. Okay. I wrote, sometimes I think I've got everything together. And then there's days like today where I have to use tweezers, Scissors, and a YouTube tutorial to open up a cheese stick. I bought some cheese sticks. The true story. Okay, I bought some cheese sticks, and there were two in the package that I swear to God, I could not open. They were either sealed or glued or magically. There was, like, a spell cast upon the cheese stick.

>> Mike: A warding spell.

>> Darin: There was.

>> Dave: Yeah.

>> Darin: I could not. I couldn't get my fingernail, and I have fingernails. I couldn't get it to. Thing. And then I couldn't get it to. So I thought, I've got it upside down. So I turned it the other way, and I tried to open it for the other end. And two minutes pass. Three minutes pass. And we're almost at five minutes, and I'm like, my God, I would have

>> Mike: already just bitten into it.

>> Darin: I could have eaten the entire bag of cheese sticks in the time. And then I'm, like, getting so frustrated. I'm like, do not give up. It's a cheese stick.


Mike Odle couldn't open a cheese stick. It was impossible. And eventually, I just got the scissors

You can do this.

>> Mike: Were you shaking like you had the shakes like you needed. You needed cheese. You needed a cheese fix.

>> Darin: No, I wasn't. But I was laughing because I'm like, this Chevy Chase. I can't open it. I can't open the cheesesteak. And eventually, I just got the scissors and I cut it at the top, and I still couldn't open it. So then I had to run the scissors down and, like, perform a C section on this cheese stick. Yeah, I finally got it out. I'm like, this is crazy. And two Days later, I got another one that was exactly the same. It was impossible. And it had to been a problem that, like, in, packaging, when it came off the thing at the plant.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: That they either forgot to put the adhesive, things on it to where it open, but I'm m. Like, how hard is it to open a cheese stick? My question is, what the hell? But it resulted in what I thought was a really good, funny, post. And that's what my friends on Facebook depend on, is me to make them laugh every day. So thanks, cheese stick, guys. We're gonna go. I think Mike and I have pissed off each other enough tonight. We hope to see you next time. While we're gone, listen to, every episode we have at Irritable Dads and go to Patreon if you want to become a member and vote in the poll.

>> Mike: Vote to agree with Mike and Charlie. That's or bestest friend.

>> Darin: Or Darren and Bess and, possibly my wife and my entire family.

>> Mike: So do that.

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

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

>> Mike: manager, channel. I am on my channel right now. I can't manage it. This thing, you know, it's never enough with these people.

>> Darin: Never enough.

>> Mike: It's never enough enough.

>> Darin: Never, never, never.

>> Mike: okay, so you got always something. That's what she said.

>> Darin: Oh, man.

>> Mike: We went off the road here. We gotta start the engine back. We're in a pit stop.

>> Darin: Yes, we are.

>> Mike: I need to get more cottage cheese. This is not for the podcast, but I also made a cottage cheese ice cream recipe.

>> Darin: No, I used to be able to eat cottage cheese.

>> Mike: I love it. Cottage cheese and regular cottage cheese.

>> Darin: And then there was one day. It's like I could just eat it and eat it. Then one day I took a bite of it. I'm like, it's just. Just like that. And then I couldn't do it anymore.

>> Mike: I think it's good, and I don't want to throw people off too far, but when it was saying when it gets to room temperature, it tastes like a pasta mass. it tastes like cottage cheese with peanut butter in it. I want cottage cheese to taste like cottage cheese.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I want peanut butter cups to taste like peanut butter cups. And never the twain shall mix.

>> Darin: Okay. Can I get you some more stuff? What do you mean? Okay, I'll just let you tell me.

>> Mike: What do I mean? Delicious. I mean.

>> Darin: What do you mean? You made cottage.

>> Mike: I produced them. I cooked I made them. I, I, they were not. And then I made and they were.

>> Darin: Well, guys, I think Mike and I have pissed each other off enough for this week. We're going to wrap this one up. We hope to see you, soon.


I took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind

>> Speaker E: I took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind? I left my body lying somewhere in the sands of time? But I watch the world flow to the dark, side, of the moon I feel there's nothing I can do. I watch the world float to the dark side of the moon? And after all I knew had be something to do with you. I really don't mind what happens m now and then as long as you be my friend at the end. If I, go crazy then would you still call me Superman? If I'm alive, and well will you be there a whole lot in my, hand? I'll keep you by my side? With my superhuman, my kryptonite? You called me strong, you called me weak? But still your secrets I will keep you took for granted all the times I, never let you down? You stumbled in and bumped your head not for me? Then you'd be dead? Picked you up, put you back on solid ground? If I, go crazy, will you still call me Superman? If I'm, alive and well? Will you be there holding my hand? Keep you by, my side with my superhuman might crypto 19.