IDS #299 - The Solid Gold Water Heater

This is Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast

>> Darin: If you're new to the podcast, you don't have to start at episode one. You absolutely do not. You're not going to be confused. You're not going to wonder, oh, my God, what are they talking about? Who are the characters in this? What's the origin story? This ain't Game of Thrones. That's right. If you're new to the podcast, start with this episode and then just go backwards. Do you have any history of mental illness in your family? I have an uncle who does yoga.

>> Dave: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. We know when to hold them and we know when to fold them. 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. Holy crap. This is episode 299.

>> Mike: You know what that means, kids?

>> Darin: This is the last episode of the 200s.

>> Mike: That's right. And the next episode is 300, where we unveil m how America felt about the iced tea debate that has been raging for weeks. Next week on the 300 episode.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: We'll do it live, right here in the basement.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: We may or may not have some special guests.

>> Darin: Now. I think we need to open that vote up to. Uh-huh. Regular, listeners.

>> Mike: Nope.

>> Darin: Okay. Okay. I love how the date that we're recording this is the day that Mike released the poll.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And he says, oh, by the way, Mike, Charlie and Bess's friend think this. And then on the other side is Bess and Darren, he forgot to mention that Libby, my wife, is involved.

>> Mike: She didn't get in before the poll.

>> Darin: Yes, she did. Yeah, because I told you.

>> Mike: Do you want me to edit it to put Libby, in there?

>> Darin: I'm just saying, you always skew these things.

>> Mike: Should I edit it?

>> Darin: Your opinion?

>> Mike: I put Courtney Aragon Smith in there.

>> Darin: Yeah, sure. Why not?

>> Mike: You've got Jocelyn spell Courtney, right?

>> Darin: Well, how do you spell Jocelyn?

>> Mike: One, with a J.

>> Darin: Okay. Well, okay.

>> Mike: It's like javelin, but, you know, in

>> Darin: high school, Courtney spelled her name K, O, R, T, N, I, but her name is filled with a C and a Y and then. Nice. Clearly a woman when high school was over with, she. When she had to, like, fill out official, like, official official documents to go to college and like that. she was like. I think she was signing her name and realized, oh, crap. Yeah, I've gotta sign it.

>> Mike: I've been forging my life.

>> Darin: That's

>> Mike: so. Yeah.

>> Darin: If you haven't seen the poll, we

>> Mike: just crossed our Arms at exactly the same time. Did you notice that?

>> Darin: Yeah. That's awesome.

>> Mike: Freaking weird, that is. Now I feel self conscious about it. What?

>> Darin: Huh?

>> Dave: Happened.

>> Darin: What happened? So, yeah, if you haven't seen the poll, there's a question going out. Listen to episode 297.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And there's the story about the iced tea. Mike's wife Bess went and got an iced tea and the lady asked the question in a certain way. And Mike thinks that there's only one way to answer. And Mike's always right.


I was impressed with how well you edited this podcast

>> Mike: Let me tell you something. and I'm. I'm going to. Despite how combative and violent you are right now, I'm going to make a compliment to you. Okay. I'm going to be. I'm going to be nice.

>> Darin: I need to sit down for.

>> Mike: I was impressed with how well you edited. I listened to that today. Oh, you did a very good job editing that. And the other story about my decade long lapse into not knowing who someone is. You did excellent.

>> Darin: Thank you.

>> Mike: I thought it was very good.

>> Darin: I appreciate you saying that.

>> Mike: You were fair. I put balanced. And I feel like I made. When I voted. I feel like I made an informed decision.

>> Darin: I feel like I made an informed decision as well. Yeah.

>> Mike: So.

>> Darin: But no, I put a lot of heart and soul into the audio version of this podcast. So thank you for saying that.

>> Mike: I appreciate it.

>> Darin: Yeah.


Are we talking about Nine Inch Nails tonight on the podcast

Are we talking about tonight on the podcast, kids? We are going to talk about Nine Inch Nails.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Mike and I went up to Columbus to see the Rock and Roll hall of Famers. The concert and. Wow, Was that a concert? I'm telling you what, right now.

>> Mike: Yeah, they're. They're, they're a folk band out of Winnipesaki.

>> Darin: No, wait, that. Out of, Okosha, Wisconsin, right?

>> Mike: No, the Nine Inch Nails. If you don't know who the Nine Inch Nails is, that'll make me feel.

>> Darin: Where are they from?

>> Mike: Cleveland.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Trent Reznor is from Cleveland.

>> Darin: I keep wanting to call the lead singer of Nine Inch Nails. I keep wanting to call him Trevor Noah.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: It's Trent.

>> Mike: It's Trent Reznor. And he pisses me. Ah. I was so pissed during the show because.

>> Darin: Hasn't aged a day.

>> Mike: Yeah, it kept showing close ups of him on the, the, the screens there. And dude looks like he looked when I was a kid. Yeah, looking. I had the cassette tape of Pretty Hate Mach. you know, had like a hole down in it. All those classes. Something I can never have down in it. All those, all those Fun little ditties. And, I mean, he had longer hair then. He looked more like, like he was in an anime. But still, his facial structure and all the normal stuff, he looked exactly the same.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And it just, annoyed me and it made me think, come on, David Lee Roth, what the hell? That was my first thought.

>> Darin: Yeah, he looks great. And, so.

>> Mike: And he can scream. He can sing and scream.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So sometimes the. The people that could sing back in

>> Darin: the day, they're not able to sing.

>> Mike: They're not sing now, but they can scream and vice versa. He could do both.

>> Darin: He can still. Yeah.

>> Mike: Kids, I don't know if you know this Nine Inch Nails. Their music, has been. It's somewhat, different.

>> Darin: I like that it can. Their music is.

>> Mike: It can be combative. Uh-huh. It can be challenging.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yes. some of the songs are dirty.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. Closer. That song is dirty. I wanna you like an animal.

>> Mike: Okay. That's boomer speak for offensive back.

>> Darin: No, no, no. I'm not offended by it. But it's dirty because I remember back in the day, I was hanging out at Gatsby's in Johnson City, and whenever the DJ would throw Closer on there, a lot of girls would be out there almost getting pregnant on the dance.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: yeah. Okay.

>> Mike: This took a weird turn.

>> Darin: Dirty.

>> Mike: Hello.

>> Darin: Well, you've heard the lyrics, right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. One of my things that one of my triggers is repetition. I don't do well with repetition. I just don't. And There was a DJ that opened up for the Nine Inch Nails and he was doing like 10, 12, 15 minute versions of like one song. I'm like, oh, my God, I can't stand what I just did. Yeah. And it went on 5 minutes, 6 minutes, 7 minutes, 45 minutes.

>> Mike: And then he came back out in the middle of the concert. Were you excited or upset? He came back out for your favorite song. He came out for Closer.

>> Darin: Yeah, he came out for Closer.


I was fine with that. When I control it, it doesn't bother me

I was fine with that.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: With the, with the lyrics and with like a four minute version of a song. But it was the disco version. It was the 15 minute cut. I actually had to get up. I looked at Mike, I said, I got to get some air and I had to go out. I didn't go outside of the place actually, but I went and milled around a little bit and stretched my legs. but m. He was talented. He's very talented.

>> Mike: So as a kid. As a kid back in the day, I got the. You're done with your repetitive he says he hates repetition and he won't shut them.

>> Speaker D: So.

>> Darin: Okay, so my job is I work for Antenna TV and I make promos and when my kids are home, if they're around when I'm doing stuff, they're like, dad, you have played that music 20 times. How do you do it? When I control it, it doesn't bother me. Okay. If I'm in control, if I'm, I'm. I am James Cameron. I am a power hungry. Just son of a. I have to. Yeah. So if I'm controlling it, it doesn't bother me. When someone else is doing it, I'm like, how many times are you going to play that? My code delivery.

>> Mike: so, when I was in my younger years I had pretty hate machine and I wasn't some kind of hip with it kid. I just happened to have that tape when it came. Like when it came out. Yeah, I did. I bought tapes. How kids normally do back in the day at record ever looks cool. So I wore that thing out. I had like a hole all the way, all the way through. Never have all that other downloads, blah blah, blah, blah.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Then Broken came out around the time everybody had their. Got their CD players. And if you, if you don't know which that's the one that looks like it's on fire.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And it had a nice little warning in the back that said certain systems may be damaged by the noise on. Or the sounds on this album. If you felt a little dangerous putting it on. Oh sure, your thing. And then when I was in college, the Downward Spiral came out. I met Downward Spiral. I was a little cold on that one. I didn't like it as much as the other ones. And I kind of cooled off on Nine Inch Nails for a long time and then I came back with them when the Fragile was released in the 99, I think it was, which is my favorite Nine Inch Nails album of all time. Now I say all that to tell you this. Seeing them live. I looked at the set list of how the tour had been going and it seemed to be mostly the downward spiral.

>> Darin: Mostly.

>> Mike: And I was like M. But then they switched out some of those tunes for surprise. Two tracks from the Fragile and I lost it. I don't. You probably couldn't hear me losing it, but I was, I was right next to. Right next to D. Ron here and I lost it. They did the Wretched and I. I don't remember the name of the track that came before it because I. I just listened to The. The disc as a single. Maggie's Farm.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: But I also noted that hearing the Downward Spiral tracks live, I like them a lot more. And now I like the recorded ver. Have you ever experienced that where you weren't a fan of a song?

>> Mike: Then you hear it live.

>> Darin: Oh, absolutely.

>> Mike: Clicks.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Now you go back.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And I want to go back to young Mike in college when I first got it, that was complaining about the downward spiral. And slap him across the face.

>> Darin: What's wrong with him?

>> Mike: A pansy.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: What's wrong with you?

>> Darin: Yeah. Come on.

>> Mike: Maybe it sounds better to me now because it's 2026 and the world seems to be ending every day and the downward spiral kind of feels fits.

>> Darin: It's just where we're at. Yeah.

>> Mike: You know, that might, that might be.

>> Darin: It's just like eating cereal for breakfast.

>> Mike: Yeah.


I remember the first time I heard Hurt by Johnny Cash

>> Darin: No, they're doing Head Like a Hole, which is, the next to last song. And the whole place is absolutely insane.

>> Mike: Ah.

>> Darin: And these two people get up and like, well, we're gonna beat traffic. And I remember because it was so loud, I had earplugs in and you looked at me and you're like, who's leaving a show?

>> Mike: Had like a hole. I couldn't, I couldn't believe it because. Did you know that? And everybody's like screaming. I don't say singing along. Everybody's screaming along. You know, I was, I was, two, seconds away from ripping off my shirt and diving off the balcony there. And then. Did you know that Hurt came after that? That Hurt was the final song.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: I think most people knew that. So these jackasses, they came to a Nine Inch Nails concert. They leave during Head Like a Hole.

>> Darin: What is wrong with you?

>> Mike: Hurt. And let me tell you, her. Oh my Lord.

>> Darin: I know.

>> Mike: I mean, the whole performance of Hurt was amazing. But if there's one moment of the concert that I'll take with me that I'm glad I was there for live. It was seeing it end live.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And he's screaming out the, you know, fine. yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: And. And I went into that song with a different perspective than you because I. I heard the Johnny Cash song version.

>> Mike: Jonathan Cash.

>> Darin: I heard the Jonathan C. Cash version. The John R. Cash. I'm not going to do that with Johnny Cash. John R. Cash. Before I had heard the Nine Inch Nails.

>> Mike: Oh, wow. You heard it. You went backwards.

>> Darin: Yeah. Somebody told me that was a Nine Inch Nail song. And with Johnny Cash at that time, I was like, well, hell, he did Sound garden. Yeah. Rusty, Cage, of course he's going to do a Nine Inch Nails song. Yeah. So. Yeah. And I remember hearing her.

>> Mike: His 2 Live crew cover really didn't take off as much.

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

>> Mike: Nasty as he wants to be.

>> Darin: I remember the first time I heard Hurt by Johnny Cash. It just, tore me apart. It amazed me. I was like, holy crap. How could something be this good? And then I think.

>> Mike: I think it blew away Trent Reznor, too.

>> Darin: Trent Reznor said, this is no longer a Nine Inch Nail song. This is a Johnny Cash song.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: He flat out said, this doesn't belong to me anymore. It's now a Johnny Cash song. And so I respected that. And then I heard it, and it's like, I. I liked it, but I didn't appreciate it as much as I like the Johnny Cash version. I thought Johnny Cash's version was better. And that's. You know what I bet you had. I heard.

>> Mike: I'm the. On the other side. I. I heard it first as Nine Inch Nails. Right. I've always preferred the Nine Inch Nails.

>> Darin: Yeah. And I bet you if I'd heard it differently, then that's how I would have, It would have come to me. Anyway, nine, Inch Nails.


Darren says his water heater is leaking in the basement

Good show. Go see it. Check it out. Bring some earplugs. And my God, you know what bass was?

>> Mike: I ended up taking mine out my chest. I don't know what it was about the plugs I had in, but it was like, when they were in, I couldn't hear a thing. And I took them out, and it was loud, but I was having such a good time. I took them out around the time, when the Fragile song started, and I was like, I'm gonna enjoy this. Yeah, I. I don't mind if I can't hear what the. The nurse went. Like, when I'm 80, she's like, are you done in the pan? I don't care if I hear that or not.

>> Darin: What.

>> Mike: I'll just answer whatever I think is right, and then keep. Whenever I want to. I'm 80.

>> Darin: No, I told you, in my. In my 20s, I saw AC DC and for those about to rock. And, okay, the curtains came up and the cannons came out on either side. And I'm like. I'm looking at my buddy. I'm like, oh, cool, there's cannons. I wonder what they're gonna do with it. That's awesome. For those about to rock. Yeah. And then they shoot the cannons. My ears were ringing for four days. My ears Rang. And I thought, I have done permanent damage to my hearing. So since then, for the past 30 years, I go to a concert, I wear my earplugs. Yeah. Because I don't want to go deaf. Yeah. a few nights ago, I'm in bed, and my son Jacob comes in the room. Dad. Hey, dad. Dad. Dad. And then that.

>> Mike: They all do that. That was like a chip that was implanted in kids that were born around the same time.

>> Darin: Well, I mean, you know, he could have just came in and turned on the light. Dad. Yeah. But he. And I'm like, what? Who? I kill you. What.

>> Mike: What's going on?

>> Darin: You know, get the bat. because. Because when I woke up, there's this, you know, this figure, this silhouette standing there. I don't rec. I don't know who it was or what. He says, there's a leak in the basement. I'm like, oh, great. And so I'm thinking, it's like, seven in the morning.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Let's go handle it. It's 12:40. What. Like, what are you doing up? So we go down there and. Son of a. The water heater is leaking. Our water heater is leaking. I don't know how long it's been, but I think we caught it in, a good amount of time because it was leaking in our room that has, the concrete floor. It's unfinished part of the basement. Yeah.

>> Mike: So that's how you want it.

>> Darin: Absolutely.

>> Mike: Ours is right there in the Unfinished. And it's good right next to the drain.

>> Darin: I mean, ours is near a drain, but not close enough. So it had got. We've got a rug down there that got wet. I put a bucket underneath there and put some fans down there to dry the rug. And I'm like, well, I've got to call somebody. So the next day, I'm doing some of my own research, and I'm. Because I'm always like, you know what, Darren? You never try to fix this yourself. Yeah.


Mike says his water heater is around 8 years old

So I go on the YouTubes and I'm looking, and they're saying, you know, it could be this. It could be this. It could be something like this. And what they said was. What it was doing was the. There's a pipe that runs down the side.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: The right side, which is your pressure, relief. Your pressure relief valve, filter thingy. Dinghy. And that guy said, and if it's this, this is usually a pretty easy fix. I'm like, thank God. I've got a pretty easy fix.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So I. I went down there. And I looked at it and I looked at it hard, Mike. And, And after about five minutes of looking at it really hard, I'm like, I don't know what I'm doing here. Don't know. Gonna try. I'm gonna.

>> Mike: You know, it's like, honey, why are you looking at the vacuum? Like, oh, I thought that was.

>> Darin: I thought that was our water.

>> Mike: The water heater.

>> Darin: We've had a, handyman service come to the house a few times. So I thought, I'm gonna call a handyman. And since this I don't think is going to be something that's, you know, that hard to fix. Just call a handyman. Pay the hourly rate.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then call it a day. And the handyman goes, ooh, if it's a water heater, you're gonna want to call a plumber. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So I called a plumber. And the last time we had any plumbing problems. Yeah, boy, did we have some plumbing problems. I called them and they said they were able to come out the next day lickety splity split, no problem. They come and they look and he says, your, your heat regulator isn't regulating the heat.

>> Mike: It's. I would, I would call. I would say it's not called a heat regulator.

>> Darin: Well, it's.

>> Mike: It sounds like something. That sounds like something I would call it if I didn't know what I was saying, which I don't.

>> Darin: Well, I don't.

>> Mike: I'm not disagreeing with you.

>> Darin: Okay. No, there is a thing. Heat regulator regulates how hot the water.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Because if it gets too hot, too much steam builds up in it. Yeah, right.

>> Mike: Yeah. Then you gotta Cause your.

>> Darin: Which causes your evaporation tank doohickey mother scratcher to, stop. Which is what happened. The heat regulator wasn't regulating the heat. The water was getting too hot inside the tank, which caused my expansion thing.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You overpriced, which tripped it. And then, you know. Yeah. So he's looking at the, doohickey. No, the code. The sticker on there. And my water heaters either like 21 years old or 8 years old. He says, I'm gonna. I'm gonna say that it's, 8 because it doesn't look 21 years old. And he says that the average lifespan of a water heaters between 8 and 12 years old. He gives me the old. I can fix it. Oh, I can fix it. But you're probably going to be, you know, more than. If you're looking at this in like another two Years. At our old house, we did the same thing. Our water heater at the top started going. It's not to make that noise. Yeah. Why is it making that noise? So I'm like, okay.

>> Mike: My heart sank because that's about how old our water heater is.

>> Darin: Yeah. And so I, I was, I went up real quick, I talked to Libby, I said, it's, it's between, it's around 8 years old and something. So she goes, let's just get another one. So I said, okay. Told the guy, we're gonna, get a water heater and just, you know, what's it run you? He goes, let me run up some prices for you. Something, something, something. He goes out in his van. Ten minutes later he comes in and he said that the water heater. Are you sitting down?

>> Mike: I'm here.

>> Darin: The water heater, was, would be $11,000.


A brand new water heater with the water softener costs $11,000

>> Mike: Excuse me.

>> Darin: $11,000.

>> Mike: I'm sorry.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: So that's the water heater and the car. The car to bring it a brand

>> Darin: new water heater with this. Because he asked if we had hard water and we do have hard water. Not. Not really. Not horrible.

>> Mike: You don't have a water softener?

>> Darin: No, we don't have a water softener.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So a brand new water heater with the water softener involved is $11,000, but with softener.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But listen, Mike. we don't have to pay that amount.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: If we get the care plan. If you get the care plan, which is blank. Blank amount of dollars a month or something a year. That'll take 15% off the price. Oh, 15% off the overall price.

>> Mike: 5, 0 or 1 5, 50. 15.

>> Darin: 1 5.

>> Mike: Oh, wow.

>> Darin: Yeah, that's 15. So that price wasn't even worth the

>> Mike: time he spent telling you about it

>> Darin: is now like 8,000 something.

>> Mike: That's far more reasonable.

>> Darin: Which I'm still like, you've got to be kidding me.

>> Mike: It's about 5,000 more than it should be.

>> Darin: That's that.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: And so, I'm like, how are we going to get out of this? Let's get this guy out here, Whatever. And so we're like, well, how much is it if we don't do with the, with the stuff with the water softener installed in or whatever. That was like 4005 something. And we said, can we talk about it? Yeah, yeah. So give us like, 10 minutes. He goes, tell you what, I'm gonna go out to my truck. You, you guys discuss it, and then and then open the door and I'll come back into the house. I said, okay. He got, he left the door. Yeah, hi, we've got a guy here from Blank Blank. And by the way, the dude from the, the plumber was super awesome. Yeah, A very, very cool guy. And it's not his fault his company is charging $11,000.

>> Mike: The first clue should have been when they. The number was 1-800-GOT cash. That does not. It's not a good number for a plumber.

>> Darin: So, we called this, other a very reputable, well known company that I've known of for, for years. And we said, we've got a guy here and he's trying to sell us a water heater for $8,000. And he, he says, quote, are you serious? We said, yeah, we're serious. It says, it's this much. We told him, I said, it's 11. but with the care plan, it's, it's eight something. And then if we don't do the water filtration thing, the softener, it's four and some. He says, hey, take a picture of your water heater. And then he sends us a link. I took a picture of the water heater, sent it to him, and he quoted us a price like two and a half under, under three. he says, I can do it for you if at this price. Does that sound better? We said, yes. And he says, I can have it out to you Monday. Yes.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: So I went out and I told the guy, thanks, bye, bye. And we paid like the 80 some dollar service for him to come out. Oh, my God. Let me put this in layman's terms. If you were on a desert island by yourself, you would pay $11,000 for that water heater. What? 11,000? My question is, what the hell? That's a lot of money.

>> Mike: Yes, it is. Yeah. for a water heater. I don't even like hot water that much.

>> Darin: I mean, I love taking a hot shower.

>> Dave: You are listening to Irritable dad syndrome. It's like painting your living room with all the windows closed.

>> Mike: So Friday night, we had a night. It was me, Bess and Andrew. We're gonna watch a movie. Okay.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And we chose stir crazy. Okay.

>> Darin: We bad.

>> Mike: We bad.


Chico says he enjoyed watching "Stir Crazy" with Andrew

>> Darin: We bad.

>> Mike: We own it. We have it. I have it on DVD back there. Right. but I realized while we were watching it, especially during one very specific scene, I must have just been watching it on TV all those years back in the day and never really watched the actual movie. Because there's a pretty extended strip club scene in the middle of the movie, like a long one. It's. It was borderline Game of Thrones, because every time two characters are talking, they found a way to put a boob somewhere in the shot in the background. So it was at that point I was like, well, I'm glad Charlie's not here. It's kind of uncomfortable, you know, but we're. We're. We're. We'll make it through. But, yes, I will. I'm here to tell you that outside of that little surprise, stir crazy absolutely holds up in 2020. I was. Bess was in tears. She's always been. We both have always loved the duo of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, aren't they? They are perfect.

>> Darin: Phenomenal together. And they. They completely balanced each other out.

>> Mike: And I tend to laugh more when Richard Pryor is going off, and she tends to laugh more when Gene Wilder. So every time there was some argument or something, he's like, let's go. Let's go talk to them and learn about their feelings. I want to make, you know, she's cackling.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then I'm, The part. And it's. It's a famous scene. I've seen it on a bunch of tiktoks and all this stuff, in these compilations of when actors, you know, they break and they can't stop laughing and they just left. The scene as it was, is when Gene Wilder has been put in the hole forever. And he comes back and they have put Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in the cell with the gigantic serial killer mass murderer guy. And he is pressed, Richard Pryor up against the bunks. Richard Pryor is like, hello. Hello. And Gene Wilders wanted to, like, you know, pat the master. No, don't hide. And he's sliding down. I'm gonna,

>> Darin: Help.

>> Mike: Help me.

>> Darin: Which one.

>> Mike: Gene Wilder cannot stop laughing.

>> Darin: Yeah. Which one of them took the vice grip and. And grabbed that prisoner by the nuts?

>> Mike: That was Chico. He was a taxi driver.

>> Darin: Yeah. Ah.

>> Mike: The guy that had driven him was refusing to tip him, so he grabbed the guy by the nuts right when Gene Wilder was going over. Let's just talk to these two gentlemen.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Chico, I'd like to present to you.

>> Darin: I thought they were in the yard when.

>> Mike: That's in a bar in the beginning.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: But anyway, so we watched the movie. Andrew loved it. You know, we all enjoyed it. We went to bed relatively early, had been in bed for about two hours, and Then I heard someone come to the doorway and have a conversation with Bess. It woke me up, but I didn't sure. I wasn't sure exactly what happened. And the best told me the next day that two hours after we'd gone to bed, Andrew came in and said at 11:30.

>> Mike: What was the name of that movie we watched?

>> Darin: He woke you up to ask you this?

>> Mike: Yes, yes, he did.

>> Darin: That's, that's awesome. You're like, I kill you. Yeah, but yeah.

>> Mike: So now, but yeah, now that we're, we're ecstatic that he enjoyed that movie because next, on the list, Hear no. You know, Hear no evil, See no evil.

>> Darin: Hear no evil.

>> Mike: Oh my gosh.


They were supposed to have worked together in Blazing Saddles

>> Darin: Okay, so they did Bustin Loose.

>> Mike: I don't remember Busting Loose. What was that one about?

>> Darin: I. I don't remember. It's been forever since I've seen it. Okay. And then I saw See no Evil, Hear no Evil. I think that was the last one that they did together.

>> Mike: Yeah, I'm blind. What are you.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yes, I'm deaf.

>> Darin: Which. How did he hear him at? Oh, he read.

>> Mike: You know what I'm saying?

>> Darin: They were so good together. I'll tell you what they were like.

>> Mike: We bad.

>> Darin: Oh yeah, we bad. That's right.

>> Mike: That's right.

>> Darin: We bad, huh? That's right. They were supposed to have worked together in Blazing Saddles. M. But because Richard Pryor co. Wrote that movie with Mel Brooks. Oh yeah. And then he, he was, he had some, issues that he was dealing with and he was not showing up for the set. And then they recast. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So. And, and don't quote me on this. I don't remember exactly how. I think, think that Gene Wilder had some concerns, about possibly working with him later on. and then they did. And then they, you know, they just got along swimmingly and it was. God, they were just mad.

>> Mike: There's something about Gene Wilder. He, he's. He's passed, hasn't he?

>> Darin: He has passed away. Yes. Yes.

>> Mike: But there is something about.

>> Darin: He was in Willy Wonka.

>> Mike: Yes, he was. He was, he was. He played Willie.

>> Darin: He did. Mr. Wonka.

>> Mike: Mr. Wonka.

>> Darin: Good day, sir. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: but yeah, I have never, I don't think I've ever seen a movie that he's been in that I didn't just absolutely love. He just something about just him on the screen and then, and then Richard Pryor is just the perfect, Yeah, I miss him.

>> Darin: Yeah, they were great.


Kyle Slingo reached out to our fans today about Elvis

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>> Darin: I reached out to our fans today. I said because I was looking, I had three things on my, on my list and I'm like, does anybody have anything you guys want to talk about? Jason Durbin wants to know if we know what's inside hot dogs without looking at the ingredients.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I know that if it's a Whoppers, I'll be footlong hot dog. Those are all beef. There's no additives, no preservatives. they're packed full of flavor. Yeah. And they're perfect for any cookout.

>> Mike: And everything else is lips.

>> Dave: Nothing tastes better at a cookout than a whompers.

>> Mike: All beef foot long hot dog.

>> Darin: Ed Jones wants to know if he wants us to talk about the rain in Spain. And all I know is that it falls mainly in the plains.

>> Mike: Yeah. And he was trying to be cute and you played right into that.

>> Darin: Trying to be cute. And then, Kyle Slingo said that Bono made some type of speech and Elvis movie.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: No idea what he's saying.

>> Mike: So there's a poem and so yeah, I, I looked it up. It's basically you, two wrote a song called Elvis ate America. M. It's on the passenger. So you two. Okay. Thank you Kyle, first of all for giving me an opportunity to talk about you too. So back in like we didn't talk about him enough. Last week back in the day they made a soundtrack for movies that didn't exist. And fun fact, one of those songs was actually used in a real soundtrack heat. Michael Mann. Yeah, there's a U2 song in there, but it's not called U2. It's. They're called the Passengers. Anyway, one of the songs there is Elvis 8America, which is first of all, you two love Elvis. So I posted they did.

>> Darin: I think we're a huge Elvis fan.

>> Mike: 2 comments on There. One was the original Elvis in America track and the other is the scene from Ratlin Humm. It's about three minutes where they visit Graceland and, and Larry in particular, the drummer loved Elvis and he was a huge fan and that's the whole reason, one of the reasons they visited there and he actually gets choked up after seeing the eternal flame and the. In the resting Place.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And all that stuff. But yeah. So thank you, Kyle, for giving me an opportunity.

>> Darin: Are you an Elvis fan?

>> Mike: I wouldn't say that I'm a fan in the same way. So I know I get on your nerves because I say I'm not a fan of the Beatles. And it's not that I don't like

>> Darin: that you hate the Beatles.

>> Mike: Did I say I hated them? That's pretty standard, pretty strong.

>> Mike: Wow. I've grown since. It's. It's just I've never. It's not like a group that I put on, you know, that I.

>> Darin: But we're not talking about the Beatles. We're talking about Elvis. Do you like Elvis?

>> Mike: The reason I brought them up is it's the same thing. Like, I respect them, I understand their contribution. I like a lot of covers of their songs, which I know is tantamount to the sacrilege because one of the comments, way back in the day, before things went viral, in the early days of the Interwebs, there was a cover of, Rolling Stones song by Britney Spears.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And there was, comments online, people

>> Darin: complaining Britney Spears covered the Rolling Stones classic I Can't get no Satisfaction.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: On her Oops I Did It Again album.

>> Mike: Yeah. So there were comments on that. Complaining. there were. Not on that, but there were. The Rolling Stones had a tour. I don't know if you know this, they're like 800, 000 years old. They're still touring.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: They're still doing stuff.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: They had a tour after that. And they played Satisfaction and there were people complaining that they stole that song.

>> Darin: God's sake.

>> Mike: And yeah, some of that is trolling because that's right up my alley. That's the kind of stuff that I would do.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But some of them were serious.

>> Darin: Yeah. Like, I mean, we talked about Nine Inch Nails earlier. I knew that the song that they did wasn't the Johnny Cash song.

>> Darin: Like, come on.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I like Elvis.


You know what's awesome is we've been doing this podcast for so long

I think Elvis is awesome. I've always liked Elvis. I think my favorite song is probably Burning Love.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then I love. Because, Was it the 90s, early 2000s, he released like a double CD of the number one hit hits. And on that was a bonus. A, Little Less Conversation. Oh my God. Is there a better jamming, danceable, more fun song than Littlest Conversation?

>> Mike: What was.

>> Darin: I don't think so. It's great.

>> Mike: What was the movie I went to see when it came out? It was. It had the. The flying elvises or 100 jumping elvises. Oh, was it, was it Nicholas Cage?

>> Darin: Nicholas Cage and Sarah Jessica Parker and

>> Mike: it was Kurt Russell was one of the Elvises, I think. You can't give them something every. You keep giving them stuff and they're

>> Darin: generally start to expect you keep giving it, they're going to keep wanting more

>> Mike: as it want more and more and more. this is episode 299.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Which means there's 298 episodes before this.

>> Darin: Yes, that's right.

>> Mike: Go do that. Have you called your kids? The hell's wrong with you?

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: Listen to two old farts. Yeah, I know. And we're not, we don't even know what we're talking about.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Half the time I'm listening to older episodes. And I disagree with myself. Like that's not what happened. You didn't do that.

>> Darin: You know what's awesome is we've been doing this podcast for so long to where if I listen to an episode, like in the 1000s or something, I don't remember us talking about it.

>> Mike: Oh, that's the best.

>> Darin: And I'm like, this is, it's a good podcast. Hey, come check this out. We're talking about, we're Talking about a Dr. Pepper bicycle and some guy dressed up as Yoda.

>> Mike: So I'll tell you something. If I listen to something within the past 50 episodes.

>> Mike: I will hear myself talking about something and you'll say something and I'll think to myself, oh, I should say this. And then I say that and it's weird, but if I go back, it's

>> Darin: like I'm getting in this guy's head.

>> Mike: If I go back a hundred or more episodes, that goes away and I'm actually entertained by the show. It becomes entertaining. So right now for me, I can listen to episode about 150 and up and it's, it's like a brand new show.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's, I mean they're talking about from three years ago, but still it's, it's, it's fun.


The Irritable Dad Syndrome podcast is five years old now

>> Darin: Well, you know, one of the reasons why we do this podcast is it's like a journal of our lives.

>> Mike: It is.

>> Darin: You know, we keep a verbal diary. Yeah. Of your life and my life and the stories that happened with our kids and our friends. And I love. One of my favorite reasons. Yeah. One of my favorite things about this podcast is when something happens and it reminds me of something that happened in the 90s and then it brings back old, old, old, old. Like Jesse Jackson's fork that we talked about last week. I love when stuff like that happens and pops up.

>> Mike: I love the fact that five years in we still remember that we haven't talked about on. Our goal every week is to talk about something that we think is hilarious.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And sometimes, we prepare and sometimes

>> Darin: we do, we don't.

>> Mike: But even on nights where we don't, we've managed to fill the time.

>> Mike: But then there's still nuggets left.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Five years in. I know there have been episodes in the past five years where I've just. You've asked me, do you have anything else? Is there anything. We only have 30 minutes. Do you have anything else you can talk about? I'm like, no, no, no. And that whole time there's this story of me not knowing I met somebody 10 years ago and the guy's saying hi to me every time I see him. And me not knowing what the hell's going on with that guy. Just been sitting there like a little undiscovered nugget.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: We're going to be in our 80s doing this thing and I'm going to say, back when I was five, you know, or something. Stupid story.

>> Darin: I hope we're doing this when we're 80. I doubt seriously that when we're 80 people will be listening.

>> Mike: Yeah, well, certainly nobody that's living right now.

>> Darin: I have a feeling when we're 80, the, the whole podcast thing will have done its thing. Do you think podcasts will still be around?

>> Mike: Here's the thing. Whatever is the thing. That's what we'll be doing.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: We'll move with the times.

>> Darin: We will, we will convert this podcast to that thing that just, it's like you holograms, you think of it and holograms, it teleports out of your brain and then projects onto a wall.

>> Mike: You think this sucks. Wait till you're in VR with two fat old telling stories.

>> Darin: I remember when I was 35.

>> Mike: Yeah. Here's a picture.

>> Darin: David tell you about the time I lost my license and went into Walmart? No. Where were we?

>> Mike: Okay, we do have the right.

>> Darin: We're gonna go. Go to irritable deathsndrum.com, check out all our episodes.

>> Mike: Everyone of them.

>> Darin: Yeah, they're fantastic. Each and every one of them is. Is that worth listening to again? Yeah. And again. Yeah. And again.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And next week is going to be our 300th episode. Hopefully we have special visitors coming in and, it's going to be a celebration and we would love it, absolutely love it if you joined us. So come back next week on Irritable Dad Syndrome.

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

>> Darin: A little less conversation, a little more action. And I'm sitting there watching the show thinking, you know, the next time somebody says, name four concerts you've seen that have nothing to do with, you know, because they're using, like, Rage Against Machine.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Ah, Willie Nelson. Indigo Girls.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, Digital, Underground. Yeah, and Digital Underground with, Willie Nelson usually. But now I got Nine Inch Nails to throw in there in that next.

>> Mike: So some of that early stuff is gold. It's gold.

>> Darin: Oxnard, Mama. Oxnard. That's a city in California. Am I right? I enjoyed the Divo show more than I like Nine Inch Nails. M. But I like Nine. I like, I liked it. I did, I did. I enjoyed Devo more.


Most podcast, podcast don't make it past episode 299

>> Mike: Is this 299? You know, most podcasts.

>> Darin: This is 2.99.

>> Mike: Most podcast, podcast don't make it past episode 299. I've read.

>> Darin: I, I, you know, Mike Nesmith from the Monkeys, he always wore that hat. And they called him Wool Hat for a long time, after he had joined the band. So, so that's fascinating. Cut that out.

>> Mike: He's there to like, he's the soundtrack for the drugs taking hold. That's what it is. And they had different projections live of Trent doing things, and they were off. The timing was. Yeah, I thought that was really cool.

>> Darin: I thought I had walked into some space time continuum. Yeah. Screw up.

>> Speaker D: we had our water heater, something, I don't know.

>> Mike: But

>> Speaker D: I walked by at the wrong time. Now I'm in a water heater conversation. And I'm like, yeah, well, tough time for water heaters, you know, like, just. Well, finally, you know, he's like, where's the water heater at? And I was like, m. I don't know. I don't think we have one, to be honest. And we would like to buy one from you today.