IDS #302 - Hiding The Spam

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>> Mike: We can't, like, your connection settings are incorrect. Why didn't it just say you're not connected to the Internet? You know what I mean? Does it have to be that? Does it have to be that?

>> Darin: Does it has to be that way? Yes.

>> Mike: It's gonna be one of those. We're gonna get into a fight tonight.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I'm scrapping for a fight. You're being nice.

>> Darin: I haven't done anything wrong.

>> Mike: Jack and Joe went up the hill, both with a buck and a quarter. Joe came down with 250.

>> Dave: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. This week we talk about feelings. 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 302. Hi, everybody.

>> Mike: we're excited that you're here.

>> Darin: We are.

>> Mike: We have all kinds of stuff to talk about. So a major, major event in. In my life. The Kia is dead.

>> Darin: Dead.

>> Mike: Deceased.

>> Darin: You're going to save so much money on oil.

>> Mike: I will.

>> Darin: Those kids, they drink the oil.

>> Mike: I have three unopened quarts of oil in the back seat ready to go. I thought it was going to make it another six months, but it's not going to six weeks. Yeah, I want to talk about that. I also am going to ask Darren a question. I'm going to lay this on him. I'm going to him a moment to think about it.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Because I have my answer.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Have you ever seen a sequel to a movie that's so bad, it makes you question whether you really liked the original?

>> Darin: Yes, I am.

>> Mike: You can't. You can't mention Keanu Reeves.

>> Darin: I immediately know the answer to that.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. Are you talking about, like, a sequel

>> Mike: to where the f. You really like the first one and then you see the sequel and you're like, oh, did I really? Did I like the first one?

>> Darin: Yes. I. I instantly know what my answer is going to be, and I'm going to talk about some famous TikTok trends that I don't understand why they are so popular.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: How's it going?


You learned how to do that before you learned to blow your nose

>> Mike: I'm happy and sad with the Kia situation, so I want to jump right into that. I can.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: so I had a miniature trip I had to take with the old Kia. A three hour drive out and a three hour drive back, and it had.

>> Darin: That's six hours Combined, yes.

>> Mike: It had all of its normal things. it would disconnect from my phone. The air conditioning. You had to turn it off and back on every few miles to keep it going. The weird breaky thing it does when I break, even though I have new brakes on it, it grinds.

>> Darin: Oh. Did you have to, like, roll it down a hill to get it to start? No, no, no, no. Okay. Because that's fine.

>> Mike: It doesn't know how to do that. That requires it doing two things at once.

>> Darin: Have you ever done that? Did you ever have a stick shift?

>> Mike: I did. I had to stick shift. I had a Buick. I had to do.

>> Darin: That was like a, rite of passage. If you have a stick shift car, you've got to roll it down a hill, pop the clutch, and start it that way.

>> Mike: We'll see.

>> Darin: And I was so thrilled the time I did it. But I'm getting off track.

>> Mike: My Buick would not start, and I was literally on a hill. I think I was in Cincinnati because one of my friends went to uc. Yeah. And it's like, there's a lot of hills by uc. There are a lot of places. And my car, it's almost like San Francisco and that. I think that was the first place I ever tried it because somebody told me you could do that. And I was like, that's. You can't do that. And, yeah, show enough. You can.

>> Darin: So you learned how to do that before you learned to, blow your nose?

>> Mike: yes. No, no, no, no, no. Wait. Wait a second. I did. Yeah. I learned how to do that before I learned how to blow my nose, and I never learned.

>> Darin: That's a. That's a callback to a previous episode.

>> Mike: Thank you for reopening an old wound, because I want to make a correction. I never learned how to blow my own nose. I taught myself how I discovered it.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Everybody else was going around with clear nasal passages all their lives, and I'm sitting over there, and they're just letting me suffer in silence. So here's what I do to pay it forward. If I see somebody struggling with something.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: That I'm like, surely they know X, Y, Z.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I don't assume they know xyz. I think that could be another mic.

>> Darin: It's totally up to them.

>> Mike: And I say, you know, if you quit blicking, picking at it, it won't bleed or things like that. I know. I thought about. Give them, you know, options and opportunities to learn.

>> Darin: Yeah.


Mike has a new problem with his Kia. This is all my personal experiences

>> Mike: Anyway, the Kia made it on a trip, and if you guys want to Know the entire Kia Saga. We got 300 episodes. You can go through and randomly. I will about it mentioned in a

>> Darin: majority of the episodes.

>> Mike: Go to our website and type in Kia in the search. And I guarantee all the episodes where I. About the new things happening. So it made it on a trip. I came back. I was at work. I went to lunch. Usually I ate lunch at work. I'm trying to be healthier. Right. But on this particular Friday, I'd had enough. I wanted to get out of the office for a bit. I went to the Chick Fil A. I got one of the salads. I had a salad.

>> Darin: Chick Fil A salad yesterday. Yeah, the cob. salad. Right. With avocado ranch.

>> Mike: I, don't get the avocado ranch. I get the light. Light Italian. Because I'm a little m. I'm like that. But as I was sitting in the car and watching the YouTubes and eating my salad, blissfully unaware of what was happening, I smelt a weird acrid scent.

>> Darin: Acrid.

>> Mike: Acrid, Acrid. it was a little pleasing. and then I started. I was like, lunch was over. So I started driving back to work. you know how you look down at the speedometer to see your speed?

>> Darin: Yes. You know, that's the best thing about the speedometer.

>> Mike: And I looked down as I was driving. My speed said zero.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: And then I noticed my gas was completely empty. Like, needle was buried over to empty. I noticed that the entire instrument panel was not working in my car.

>> Darin: That's bad.

>> Mike: So I cut across two lanes of traffic because I thought, this thing. Who knows what's going to happen at this point? Is it going to explode? I mean, this is a Kia we're talking about.

>> Darin: That's going to get sued.

>> Mike: I pulled off to the side. Yeah. This is all my personal experiences. Your experiences may vary. My mileage may vary. I looked up. I knew clearly I'd burned a. Blown a fuse. Blew a fuse. There's two fuse panels on the Kia. not to get out of the weeds here. I checked as many fuses as I felt comfortable checking.

>> Darin: See, I don't know how to check a fuse.

>> Mike: I, was trading them out like crazy. Nothing was helping. So I decided, well, it's drivable. So I drove back to work. I called, our friends at Carx.

>> Darin: Oh, yes.

>> Mike: They know my number when it pops up. They answered the phone.

>> Darin: Hey, Mike.

>> Mike: Literally. And I said, I got a new. I got a new problem with the Kia. Ah. And they. And he just said he you're like

>> Darin: norm when you walk into Cheers.

>> Mike: Yeah, we used to. It used to be a fun thing to be like, hey, Mike, what's going on with the kid? Now it's. It's kind of gotten melancholy. It's like, what's it doing to you now, bud? Yeah, it's literally what he said.

>> Darin: They just feel. Sorry.

>> Mike: I'm like, it's something with the electrical. I don't know what happened. I can't see my instruments. I think it's a fuse. And bring it on in. Leave it with us. We'll take a look at it over the weekend.

>> Darin: Squeeze it in.

>> Mike: Yeah, brought it in. I, you know, for all of you concerned about my safety, I use the GPS on my phone. You can see how fast you're going using that. So that's.


The Kia had several problems. It just had stupid problems

That was my speedometer because I had no other instruments.

>> Darin: I never thought about that.

>> Mike: And I've just decided, like, tomorrow morning I'm gonna fill up with gas. I don't know how much gas I have. So I'll just top off the tank.

>> Darin: Just top it off.

>> Mike: It ain't got no gas in it. Yeah, I dropped it off and then I. I just knew that it was the end of the line for the Kia. I mean, it's been ending for a while, let's be honest.

>> Darin: It has.

>> Mike: So I went ahead and started looking for a new car online.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: found one. The first time in my life I've ever found a car completely online. Called the dealership, put down the deposit, and got a date at which I can pick it up all in the span of a day, all over the phone.

>> Darin: Wow. Yeah, I've never done that.

>> Mike: I've been watching a, YouTuber. I recommend him, Tommy Mikola.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: he's got an awesome channel because that's what he does. He negotiates car deals. And I didn't know how much of this stuff you could just do all online. So I, I'm not saying I did a masterful car deal, because I didn't.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But I did, you know, say all the things that you say so that you can do it online and just not have to worry about it.

>> Darin: So did you knock it down, lower than the price that they were originally asking?

>> Mike: So you got, I got some money

>> Darin: off and I'll tell you what, they, you know, they install that true code at the factory, so you can't get that.

>> Mike: I did the dealer options. I had. There were a couple and I said, if it's not built Yet I don't want those on there. One of them was the edge guard. M. And then I started to think, maybe I don't. Maybe I need the edge guard. And I noticed we have the edge guards on Bess's Highlander, because it was already. It's. I'll show you when we go out there.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I noticed a lot of cars in the parking lots don't have it, and mine's not going to have it. It's literally just like, a little piece of metal that's painted like the rest of your car. It's like a little lip on the edge, and it's there in case you hit your edge of your car on something.

>> Darin: Gotcha.

>> Mike: But I'm not going to do that. Yeah. And I'm. And I already told the kids, if they. If they mess up daddy's car, they're disowned.

>> Darin: Yeah, that's right.

>> Mike: So the car is actually in Chicag. We don't live in Chicago.

>> Darin: No, we don't.

>> Mike: so I've got to work out how to get it, and I can't get it till April 10. So from now until then, I have to drive the Kia in this. In this weird state.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: I do want to say a few words, for the key. I feel it's. It's worth it. The Kia came to me at a time when I needed a cheap car.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: there was a period of time, a very brief period of time when it was the best car that we had.

>> Darin: You needed a car really bad. Well, we've got a really bad car.

>> Mike: It was the first month that I had it. It was really nice. And then just weird things started happening. Weird things. The electrical system would just randomly disconnect.

>> Darin: Hey, what happened?

>> Mike: The rear door handle. that's a story on this podcast where Bess just ripped it off with her inhuman strength. The Kia problem. The Kia never really had major engine problems. It just had stupid problems like its current problem. The instruments don't work. Like, I didn't even think that that was a possible thing to happen with the car. I thought that would be, like, right up there with the.


Jacob's Mitsubishi was past warranty by about three months

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: The last thing to go would be.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: The ability to see how fast you're going. But apparently, in this story, it's not. So, yeah. New car is on the way. I'm excited.

>> Darin: Well, that happened with my son Jacob, with his Mitsubishi. He was, I drove it one night. I was taking it for something, and I was trying to, Trying to do something. Trying to Turn on this, the stereo or something. And none of the controls on the touch panel. And then I came home and I'm like, jacob, I can't get any of the touch metal. Oh, yeah, that doesn't work. I said, how long has that not worked? And he said, a couple of weeks. And I said, okay, you really need to tell me as soon as something stops working on it, because you probably still have warranty. It was past warranty by about three months.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: So even if he had told me the second, if he had called me right then and there, it was past warranty because I called the dealer and they're like, yeah, you. Did you get an extended warranty? No, we don't have an extended warranty. And, he says, okay. I'm like, so you're saying you can't fix it? Oh, we can fix it. It's just not under warranty. So it was going to be like three or $4,000. And, you know, unlike you, Jacob could still see how fast he was going. Yeah. So we're like, well, let's play it by ear for a little bit. And about two months during our play by ear stage, we got a letter from Kia saying, or from Mitsubishi saying that there was a recall notice because of that. So had we said, well, crap, and then went and paid to fix it, we would have been out like, I think three or $4,000. Instead, we waited. So normally I always say, guys, don't procrastinate, don't put things off. This time it paid off for us. But yeah, Mitsubishi did good and they, you know, brought the car in, they fixed it, lickety split.

>> Mike: I will say I. I do.


Mike's car was broken into on Saturday, and he didn't respond

This has kind of put me into another story, but I want to tell this story well.

>> Darin: There's something I want to say about your. Your new car. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So Mike doesn't text me and Mike doesn't call me. So on the rundown, okay, I sent Mike the new episode and he didn't respond. And then I sent Mike a text saying, the new episode is in the thing. There's a stacked bonus clip. It's in the thing. Let me know. Whatever. He doesn't say anything. And then I sent him a funny, TikTok, link thing. Yeah, he didn't respond. I'm almost at church. And I thought m. I sent Mike an inappropriate text. Hold me close and never let me go. Sin boy. He replied to that. Anyway, so later on that day, I'm in Kroger. I'm doing my, grocery shopping, and I get the phone rings and it's Mike. And I thought, well, we got a problem. Yeah, I thought, because, you know, I thought, I'm hoping that there's, the feds

>> Mike: have kicked down the door and taken the podcast away from.

>> Darin: I'm hoping that there's not anything wrong. He tells me, boy, do I got a story for tomorrow. he told me that the car died and that, he's got to go to Chicago to get. I heard this whole thing. And by the way, I deserve an Academy Award for acting so surprised at hearing this story a second time. Here's my favorite part about the story. This new car that he's going to get in Chicago is black. His last car was black. The car before that was black. And he was talking to his mom and she says, you just can't get anything besides a black car. And what did I say? Well, Mike, once you go black, you don't go back. And as soon as I said that, I turned around and there is a Kroger employee.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: This five foot tall girl who looks like she's 17 years old. And she looks at me like, excuse me. How you doing?

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, there you go.

>> Darin: kept walking.

>> Mike: I, I, okay, you, you just reminded me, there's a major part of the story that I left out. So I brought the car to car X that we use.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And they told me they just can't do anything with it. Well, they can, but it's going to be a huge, ungodly sum of money.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Is, do I, at what point, at this point, do you just not take Old Yeller behind the barn and finish the job and go on with your

>> Darin: cost of a bullet? Yeah.

>> Mike: And so he said, I tell you what, you just pick it up whenever you want. We'll leave the key on the floorboard.

>> Darin: Right. Like, okay.

>> Mike: Right. So Bess and I, we left it. That was Saturday. We didn't pick it up Sunday. Monday night was like, we should probably go get my car. Not because I wanted my car back, but because I was afraid they were going to tow it and then charge me for towing or something like that. Right. He's abandoned his car.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And I went, and now, kids, I've had my cars broken into before. I know the telltale signs of what a car looks like that has been rifled through. Right.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: now I will not, I'm not going to fool anybody by saying that I kept my Kia nice. I did not. I, I treated it like it deserved to be trash. That's a Terrible. I treated it poorly.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: We called it the Bromobile. Anytime me and Andrew are going to work out or whatever. Sweaty. Nothing. It doesn't care. It's just the kids. Spill a, Frosty. Multiple times. Whatever. Just leave it. Don't waste paper towels. The seat will soak it up. That's been the Kia, even in that state. There were receipts and everything thrown up onto the dashboard and in the window, like someone had gotten the car. When I opened the door, they had not hidden the key under the. The floor mat. It was laying. Right. The first thing I saw when I opened the door was the shiny key fob laying right there. And I looked, and I noticed that it clearly had been gone through. I looked in the console. It was a little lighter, but because it was, Everything was thrown out.


Mike Cameron wanted to watch a scary movie the other night

And then I sat in that car and I laughed until I cried. They wouldn't even steal the car. They wouldn't even steal it. All they had to do was put the key in the ignition and drive away. And there's a very good chance we would have never looked for it at all.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I've gone back through it. The only thing of value in there is a blue tie that I forgot that I even had in the glove compartment. And the only reason I know it's in there is because they went through the glove compartment. The tie was laying on top. Now, I barely was laying at some. Some other place.

>> Darin: Yeah, that's just.

>> Mike: They didn't even want the car, you

>> Darin: know, when I used to, back when I had a car. I don't own a car now, but when I would go to Car X to drop my car off for an oil change or repair, or something like that, one time I left a Motorhead CD right next to an Air Supply CD side by side on the front seat.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Hoping that somebody would say, boy, you got a diverse taste of music, don't you? They didn't say anything.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: but I'm betting you whoever drove that car into the garage went home and told his wife about it.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Dave: You're listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome. Just like going to the tractor pole without all the mud yelling. And of course, tractors.

>> Darin: The other night, Mike Cameron wanted to watch a scary movie. Okay. He wanted to watch a horror movie, and he was wanting to watch what's the. There's a new one out where Freddy?

>> Mike: Krueger.

>> Darin: No. A woman. She's about to get married, but before she can get married, the husband says, yeah, but my family, they want to play a game first and then Fat Greek Wedding. No, no, that. That was actually a very good movie. Not as scary as I thought it

>> Mike: was going to be. Yeah.

>> Darin: Ready or Not. I think it's called Ready or Not. Okay. All right. And it's like a hiding.

>> Mike: I don't know anything about it.

>> Darin: And everyone's trying to kill one another. And we watched the trailer, and I was just, like, told everybody a couple weeks ago, we watched Becky, which is very gory, and I wasn't in the mood for that again.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So Cameron's like, well, I mean, I. I'd like to watch, a scary movie, but it's okay. You guys don't want to watch one. Let's watch something else. I'm going through and I find Misery. I'm your number one fan.

>> Mike: Oh. With Kathy Bates.

>> Darin: Kathy Bates and James Khan. And I said, cameron.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I've got a scary movie for you. He's like, okay. And he looked at it, and he initially, you know, you could tell, he's like, Because it doesn't look like it would be that scary.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Oh, my God. This was like watching the Fugitive with him. He was on the edge of. Of his seat.

>> Mike: That might be a good one to watch.

>> Darin: Just absolutely enthralled with this and everything she said, everything she did.

>> Mike: Dirty birdie.

>> Darin: You dirty birdie.

>> Speaker D: This isn't what happened last week. Have you all got amnesia? They just cheated us. this isn't fair. He didn't get out of the cockadoody car.

>> Darin: And Libby and I are just dying laughing because we forgot a lot of her. Great, great lines. Yeah. And I'm telling you, that movie holds up.

>> Speaker D: I know that, Mr. Man. They also call them cereals. I'm not stupid, you know.

>> Darin: Does it. Okay, yes. Yes. It is still just as good as it was in the 90s when it came out.

>> Mike: Now, see, I read the book, and I'll tell you, right? Both the book and the movie are good.

>> Darin: Okay?

>> Mike: I'm not gonna be one of those jerks. Like, the book was better.


What was different about the book than in the movie

>> Darin: What was different about the book than in the movie?

>> Mike: I. There was a. What did she use to hobble him in the book or in the movie?

>> Darin: Put the big,

>> Mike: Was it a hammer or an axe?

>> Darin: A sledgehammer. Okay.

>> Mike: I think she used an ax in the.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: In the book, like the back end of an ax?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: If I remember right. Yeah. I read it in, like, high school or college.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So it's been a long time.

>> Darin: But, I mean, it's like, I Knew that was coming. And I'm sitting there curled up in the fetal position, covering my eyes, and Cameron's like, mom, what's wrong with dad? You'll find out.

>> Mike: I will.


You may enjoy reading Misery because of. Spoiler. So you know Stephen King wrote the Shawshank Redemption

So you know Stephen King wrote the Shawshank Redemption.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: So I will say, I know you're not inclined to. To read, you know, the books. You just, you know, watch the movie, which is fine.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: but you may enjoy reading Misery because of. Huge amount of misery is taking place in his head as he's trying to think of ways to assume escape and things that he can do.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: So it's like, going on. I mean, if you have.

>> Darin: It's like watching the bonus content.

>> Mike: Yeah. It's like. So you see in the movie, he has to, like, act out, well, should I do this or that? But he's thinking of everything. I got to the point where, when I was most the way through the book, I remember thinking, oh, Stephen King spent a lot of time thinking about this. There are stories of him that. That he's told. Gerald's Game. You've read Gerald's.

>> Darin: I did read. I've read the Gerald's, game and the Stand. There's two Stephen King books.

>> Mike: And Gerald's Game, he, the wife gets, handcuffed to the bed, and then the husband dies. Spoiler. And she can't get away.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And he had his wife handcuff him and left him there so he could try to figure a way out. So he tried a lot of the stuff that's in the book and eventually came up with the idea. Major. Spoiler. She. She cuts her wrist and uses the blood as a lubricant.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: He didn't cut it. I mean, he's. He suffers for his art, but not that far. I think he had her put, like, butter or something, and he was able to get out. But I thought that was interesting. But it made me wonder how much of the misery he had to put his family through. Honey, M. Come in here and hit my ankle with an ax. I want to see how hard it. How much it hurts.

>> Darin: Do you remember when Stephen King was on Letterman and he holds up, the book I wrote in the green room while waiting to guess. Anyway, we absolutely loved Misery. And I go back and watch that again, and Kathy Bates, her performance was.

>> Mike: Oh, she nailed that character.

>> Darin: Absolutely perfect.

>> Mike: and she nailed that character as well as, Morgan Freeman nailed the character of Red.

>> Darin: Yeah. I mean, awesome. Well, you know, and so many people rave about how great she was in the movie. And she was great. James Caan.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Was perfect.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Absolutely perfect in that movie. My three favorite James Caan movies are the Godfather, Misery and Elf.

>> Mike: Yeah,

>> Darin: I love him in all three. Those of his three completely different characters. Although Cameron noticed that he works in the book industry in two of those three movies.

>> Mike: That's true.

>> Darin: Yeah.


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One movie that I'd watched before by myself is called Nobody

Now back to you guys in the studio.

>> Mike: So one movie that I'd watched before by myself because I didn't think anybody would want to watch it is called Nobody with Bob Odenkirk.

>> Darin: Bob Odenkirk. Better Call Saul.

>> Mike: I loved that. I've heard.

>> Darin: I haven't seen it. I've heard.

>> Mike: I thought it was amazing. And I. It ends on a note that tells you there's going to be more or there could potentially be more. They leave it open ended, nobody will return. And then nobody too was announced.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I'm like, well, eventually I'll watch that. Well, the kid falls asleep. Charlie and I start looking around for a different movie. He goes up to go to official bed. Nobody too is sitting right there. And I start watching it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I'm having a good time. And then I got to a point where I think you and Liberala got. And maybe just you with Jonathan, Wick, the John Wick and maybe the Matrix where it's like, okay, how many times can you write? How many times can you walk into a test?

>> Darin: Can you get kicked?

>> Mike: There's a, there's a point where he, he walks back into a warehouse that, you know, there's at least six or seven bad guys with machine guns in there, right. And he walks in and you hear, you see gun. And it's, it's well shot. It's, it's, you know, you can tell the director was really proud of himself because Bob Odenkirk and I Don't. I can't remember his name in the movie, so I'm just gonna call him. Bob pulls up in his suv, Bo. He hears stuff going down. He's like, screw this. And then he comes back and he gets out and he walks in and the camera never follows him. So it's just the outside shot with his suv and you hear all the commotion. You hear guns fire, you see ruckus, you see bullet, like holes in the. Coming out of the building. And you can tell through the sound design that he's working his way through all these guys. And the whole time I'm thinking, okay, it's kind of cool that he's taken on seven guys with machine guns barehanded, because he walked in bare handed, right? But on the other hand, how many times is he going to do this? He gets into a fight with guys on a boat. They're all armed. He's not armed. He spoiler. He takes them all out.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: it gets crazier and crazier until the end.


Sharon Stone plays the main villain in this movie

And by the way, Colin Hanks is in this movie, which blew my mind. Tommy Hanks and Sharon Stone. So Sharon Stone in a movie, she plays the lead villain because she's like.

>> Darin: She's like 97.

>> Mike: I know. She plays the. The main villain.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And she's trying to be like a Gus, huh? Like the head, whatever.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But she's also kind of crazy. Huh? And I'm sorry. Sharon Stone. I mean, I don't. I like, I don't. I don't dislike Sharon Stone.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: you know, when she popped up in the first few scenes, I'm like, oh, that's Sharon Stone.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: After I looked up on IMDb to make sure she's still alive and actually is her, he's like, yeah, that's her. Okay, this is going to be kind of cool. And then it got to the point where every time she was on the screen, I'm like, did anybody. When you read that line, did anybody.

>> Darin: Was it net. I'm going available.

>> Mike: I'm going to get you now. I'm like, okay. I was like, are you like, I don't. If I didn't know if I was only watching her performance, I would think they're going for a B movie feel. But then Bob Odenkirk is knocking it out of the park, and the other Christopher Lloyd, is knocking it out of the park. Christopher Lloyd's. Yeah, he's the grandpa. Yeah, he's. Yeah, he's awesome. And he hasn't. He has some awesome scenes, if I remember right, in the first one.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: But it got so weird, and I'll just say it bad that I started to question whether I really liked the first nobody.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Like, I stepped away from the first nobody thinking, that's awesome. I'm going to tell Darren about it. He's going to love this. It's basically John Wick, but it's Bob Odenkirk, and he's throwing some humor in there.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: but then, I mean, it was like, at the 1/3 to 1/2 mark, and nobody too. I'm like, I don't know if I really. Now I want to watch the first one again to see if I really liked it.

>> Darin: Yes.


So my sequel that was so horrible, it made me question why I watched original

So my sequel that was so horrible, it made me question why I watched the original is the Croods. It's an animated motion picture, with.

>> Mike: There was a sequel.

>> Darin: Yes. Okay. Yes. Nicolas Cage. And I'm going to say it right now. I think it's Nicolas Cage's best movie. He is the father in the Croods. They have to live in darkness. They're only allowed a little bit of time to go outside of the cave to find food. and his job is to keep his family safe. And he is amazing in this. Emma Stone is Eep, the daughter, and she is just endlessly entertaining. We watch the Croods God knows how many times over. And this is when, you know, when

>> Mike: the kids were little, kids will latch onto a movie that, ah, you watch.

>> Darin: And we would buy it on dvd and every Friday night, and we watched it. We've watched it a dozen.

>> Mike: Maybe that was Cars for us with Andrew was all over the Cars.

>> Darin: This is, Covid Happens. Okay. And then we got a break with COVID and we were able to go to the movie theater again. The movie theater opened back up.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And so we're like, oh, Crudes 2 comes out. We went to see Croods 2. Despised it. Hated it. It was.

>> Mike: Did we go with you?

>> Darin: No, you. We went to see Angry Birds, too.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: That one almost killed me.

>> Darin: I know, I know. But the Croods, too, had none of the heart. It had. It was just ridiculous. It was stupid. Stupid. It. It was so bad. And we all walked out of that theater going, what the hell is wrong with that?

>> Mike: My question is, what the hell?

>> Darin: It's almost like a completely different set of people.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: People put the movie together with the people of the thing.

>> Mike: God, what is.

>> Darin: What is wrong with you? Right. We just hated ourselves because we were speaking so ill, Lee.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So Poorly of this movie that we, the, the, the original we cherished. Uh-huh.

>> Mike: It tainted the original for you a little bit.

>> Darin: A little bit. Yeah, it did.

>> Dave: It did.

>> Darin: And so recently with, over the past five or six months, we have started, going back and reminiscing and watching some of the classics that we used to watch over and over again. Finding Nemo Cars, the original Shrek, Megamind. Oh, my God. We've watched Megamind more times than I, I can possibly fathom. But we went back and watched the Croods again. The original Crudes is still a fantastic movie. but I can't watch it now without thinking of how bad they screwed it up with the sequel. Yeah, it left a taste in my mouth.

>> Mike: You got to be careful with your sequels.

>> Darin: I know, right? I mean, don't just make one all willy nilly. Right. If you're going to make a sequel. Because Toy Story 2, okay, they, when they made Toy Story 2, this was when Disney was famous for slapping out sequels that would go straight to video, straight to home video. And parents would buy them and they would make a lot of money and they made Toy Story 2 and it was going to be that straight, to video. They're looking at this going, this movie is pretty good.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Like, are we really going to waste this great, movie on a straight to home video?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So they released it in theaters and. And the rest is history. Yeah.

>> Mike: Part of. Because I'm really struggling to understand this myself.


Part of what makes the first Nobody really good is that Bob Odenkirk is a badass

Part of the allure of what makes the first Nobody really good is that Bob Odenkirk is a badass. And you don't really know why.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: You don't really know what's going on. You just know that every once in a while something happens and he goes, Jason Bourne, Wasn't he just like a

>> Darin: regular guy and then decided to stop being bullied around and went and like,

>> Mike: like, no, no, no. He's. Oh, he's like a professional.

>> Darin: I thought he had, like. I'm tired of getting my ass kicked and I'm going to.

>> Mike: Are you thinking of falling down?

>> Darin: No, Michael, but I do like fall.

>> Mike: I do need to re. Watch it because I may be misremembering some things.

>> Darin: Robert Duvall is in that movie.

>> Mike: My, Michael Douglas. Yeah. My memory is that you're like, he. You slowly find out that he's a member of some elite group. Kind of like John Wick is with the, you know, the Assassins. But the thing that the John Wick movies do well, that nobody didn't really? Do they ratchet things up? Like, you know, like the first one, he's going after the people that killed his dog.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And stole his car.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And then the second one, he gets drugged. It's. It's a little bit on the nose. He gets drugged back into it, but now he kills somebody on sacred grounds. So you get more into the secret society thing. The third one, the world wants to kill him. And the fourth one, everybody, Thor wants to kill him with Nobody too.

>> Darin: Even Ryan Gosling wants to kill him.

>> Mike: By the end of Nobody, you're like, oh, this is really, this is really cool thing they got going on. Nobody too, is like, okay, okay. You guys know everything about Bob, right?

>> Darin: Because he went on vacation, right?

>> Mike: Yeah, he goes on vacation. So we're just gonna find situations that we can put a guy like that in and just keep ratcheting them further and further up. Make the fireballs and explosions bigger and bigger and bigger.

>> Darin: Right. Well, I'm gonna watch Nobody, cuz Jacob

>> Mike: wants to watch Nobody. It is. You will enjoy it.

>> Darin: Okay, we'll. We'll definitely do that,

>> Mike: Darren.


There are three trends on TikTok that I don't understand how they are so popular

>> Darin: All right. At the beginning of the show, I mentioned that I want to talk about some tick tock trends that I do not understand how they are so popular. Everyone who knows me knows I love tick tock. I'm always ticking and talking, or as my doctor calls it, stroking out tick tock. I don't begin to understand it. I mean, I know that if you watch a video of people putting bananas in a blender, then that will fall into your algorithm. I also understand that you don't have to do anything. And eventually a, video about pandas falling out of trees, because I famously talked about it on this podcast. I wasn't searching for pandas falling out of trees. And that video just showed up on my TikTok one day. There are three trends on TikTok that I don't understand how they are so popular. And the first one is shoop. The shoop trend. Yes, yes, yes. So the shoop trend is there's a girl, like a high school girl.

>> Mike: M. Right.

>> Darin: She's young and her mom is in the background lip syncing the lyrics to shoot. Okay? And if I've seen this once, I've probably seen it a dozen times. And there's the mom going, you're packed and you're stacked, especially in the back, brother. Want to thank your mother for a butt like that? Can I get some fries with that? Shake, shake, booty. You know, whatever. The daughter is acting embarrassed and like, oh, my God, I can't believe my mom's doing this. And the mom's shaking her butt and acting all street or whatever. And so I, want to know one who is the first person to do this? Because it takes. All it takes is one and then it spreads like wildfire. And I think people on TikTok should get like a. There should be like a stamp, a bug, something that they put in the lower right hand corner of the thing. This was the first. Yeah, this is the OG this is the original.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Right. Okay. So there's shoop. Then there is the jumping into vacation. There are the people, and it's usually girls and they're wearing sweatpants, like 5.5x size sweatpants. They're in the. In the airport. They run and they jump over the camera. The next thing you know, they've landed at the beach and they're in their bikini. Right. And it's always to Elvis. Burning love. Okay, Okay. I don't know how many times this is. This keeps popping up on my, algorithm. My favorite one was there was the parents and the kids. And the mom jumps over the camera and then she's in her bikini. The father runs and jumps over the camera and he's in his swim trunks. And then they wave goodbye at the kids because the kids are staying at grandma. Grandpa's house.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And they're like, screw you, you're not going to the beach with me. So they did it originally, but yes, again. I want to see, like, the little bug.

>> Mike: The little.

>> Darin: We did it first stamp in the lower right hand corner. M. The weirdest one that has no right to be successful is, Devo. Whip it Now. I sent this to you and Jim Boyce. Steve Devo, the keyboard player. Yeah. For Devo was talking about how he's so excited that, what, 50 years after the song was released, it's become a viral sensation on the Tick Tock. But it's M. So it's two girls and they're standing and they're both facing, the left and it's. And then a girl acts like she's smacking her friend on the butt. And then they turn around and then the other girl acts like she's smacking the other girl on the butt. And then it stops M. Somebody started it. And hundreds of people have duplicated it. Okay. I don't know why somebody did that to begin with.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I have no idea why. Hundreds who were like, oh, that's. I'm doing that. Hell, honey, get the camera. We're gonna do that whipping thing, right?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It doesn't make any sense. Yeah.

>> Mike: I keep getting the people that fart in public. And peanut. I've discovered peanut peanuts.

>> Darin: That the guy's like, oh, oh, I'm touching cotton. I love the guy who. Oh. This is what we trained. People at. Tick tock. If you're listening, if you're the first person to release that video, you need to have a little stamp on the video.

>> Mike: I have a complaint.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I know Best listens. So she knew that this story was going to be on the podcast.


Every once in a while we have a, uh, every man for themselves

So.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I was making a pizza for me.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I can eat a full pizza myself.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: I have experience doing that. I. Right.

>> Darin: I know exactly what you're talking.

>> Mike: Especially one of those digiornos with the cheese in the crust. You better watch out. It's not delivery, so it's right. So we had one of those, every once in a while we have a, every man for themselves. Dinner night.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Dad's not cooking. Mom's not cooking.

>> Darin: We've done that before. Cereal waffles.

>> Mike: Andrew's got a car and a bank account and Chipotle's right down the road. I mean, we do have to make something for Charlie. We don't want to get arrested. But for the most part, it's. Everybody does their own thing. So I announced that I'm making a pizza, and I say, for me. And I put it in the oven, and it's got to be in there for about 18 minutes. Andrew comes home. he says, what's for dinner? And I said, nothing. And then Bess says, dad's making a pizza. You can have some of that. And I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Excuse me. That's my pizza. From a number of different vantage points. A. I drove to the store and purchased that pizza. I ran it through the scanner, I carried it to the car, I drove it home, I carried it from the car, put it into the freezer, and then I took it from the freezer, put it in the oven, and I announced my intention to eat that pizza. That is my pizza. To which the response was.

>> Darin: They called dibs.

>> Mike: The response was, well, you're not going to eat a whole pizza, are you? And I said, I might. I might. I might eat a whole pizza. I might eat half the pizza and throw the other half away. I might eat half the pizza and save the other half for tomorrow. What I'm not planning on doing is giving my half or any half of this Pizza. to anyone else, it is my pizza that I made. You can't give away my pizza. And she said, that's groceries for the whole family. I was like, no, no, no, no.

>> Darin: God, please, no, no.

>> Mike: That's my pizza.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I'm not gonna sit around on the couch and wait for you to start making something and then call down Charlie and say, hey, you can have some of whatever mom's making over there. And then the whole family looked at me like I'm the bad guy.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: Like, just because one of the adults is cooking, that means the kids can have some.

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

>> Mike: This is 20, 26 up in here. These kids are practically. Actually, Andrew is literally an adult. and Charlie might as well be. He's 12 going on 20.

>> Darin: He runs the house.

>> Mike: He runs the house.

>> Darin: So am I wrong? No, it was my pizza.


Jacob and I have been fighting over Spam for 21 years

Okay? And I'm so glad you brought this up, because for the past two weeks, I've wanted to talk about this, but I haven't, because I don't want to

>> Mike: embarrass Jacob because you have some self respect. let me tear into it.

>> Darin: Well, I've mentioned that, you know, we have to have the equal pop tart rule and the, equal waffle rule

>> Mike: and the equal leftover pizza protected by the Geneva Convention.

>> Darin: Yes. If we make biscuits, there's four of us. Yeah, that's two each. Okay. because there's eight in a pack. So we've been fighting over the Spam. I will. I will buy a can of Spam. For the longest time, I was the only person in the house who liked Spam. And I was thrilled with that because I could buy a can of Spam, I could cut it, and then I could have make little, fried Spam sandwiches. As much as you want, three or four days out of the week. That was my food, rationing or whatever you call meal planning. That was my meal prep.

>> Mike: That's how I got on the Peeps. Nobody else wanted the Peeps. They're mine. They come in the house. They're mine.

>> Darin: So Jacob started. He tried it one day and liked it and started eating the Spam. So I would cut open the Spam, and you could usually cut into nine or ten slices. I would eat three on a sandwich. Next thing I know, the rest of it's gone. Yeah, the rest of it is gone. And I said, jacob, dude, you ate the rest of the Spam. That's. It's like, I will share it with you, but you have to have these it with Me. And so we kept going back and forth and back and forth with that. And I was at Costco, and I finally just bought a big, big ass 8. Is it 10 cans?

>> Mike: You can get Spam at Costco?

>> Darin: Yeah, you can get eight cans of spam in one case. Okay. Eight individual cans wrapped up in one big container of spam. And I thought, okay, here we go. And now I won't run out because. Because when I'm craving it and then Jacob's eating all of it. Starting to sound like Lewis Black. So I came in one day, and I noticed that we had. Were missing three cans of Spam. He. And how many pieces did I have? Three slices. So I had a little bit out of one can, and he had eaten two and a half plus cans of Spam. So what did I do? I hid the Spam.

>> Mike: I.

>> Darin: As is your right, I hid it in the bedroom.

>> Mike: Okay?

>> Darin: I hid it from him. And then Jacob will get up in the morning and do his own thing, and then meander m back on into his room. Then I heard mom, dad, and then Libby's like, darren. I'm like, what? What? She's like, did you hide the Spam? Yes, I did.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I hid the Spam.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Because I want some. yeah, because it's.

>> Mike: You're a grown man in your own house hiding spam.

>> Darin: Mine? Yeah.

>> Mike: You should be able to put the spam out in the middle of the island in the kitchen with a sign on it that says, I dare a.

>> Darin: right.

>> Mike: Yeah, you should.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Maybe a little note that says, go ahead. Take. I would dare you to take it.

>> Darin: For Jake was 21 years old. For 21 years. For 21 years, I have fed him.

>> Mike: Yeah. The pizza that I got. I'm sorry to go back to my.

>> Darin: No, no, no, no, no. I bought a supreme selfish port.

>> Mike: I brought a supreme pizza because everybody bitches about supreme pizzas. I like. Nobody's going to want this.

>> Darin: Yeah.


We order the same pizza every Friday night at Marcos. We've done it for years

Yeah.

>> Mike: So I made that. And I did buy another pizza. A decoy pizza. If they really wanted pizza. I do. Everything I buy is that I buy a decoy of it. If I. If I want a pizza, I buy three pizzas.

>> Darin: You and I share the same brain.

>> Mike: You have to.

>> Darin: Because when on Friday nights, we would always order our pizza from Marcos.

>> Mike: Okay?

>> Darin: We order the same pizza every Friday night. We've done it for years. We have ordered so many pizzas at Marcos that three of the adults there have putting their kids through college because of us. Yeah. And now on Friday night, mom comes over so there's eight pieces of pizza and there's five of us. You can't split that evenly. So I've ordered a large of what we always get and then a small Hawaiian chicken. And for the longest time, I was the only person who liked Hawaiian chicken. Well, now Jacob and Cameron want to eat the Hawaiian chicken too. I'm like, can't I have anything that just. Just me likes?

>> Mike: Yeah, I got a whole laundry list of stuff that everybody in this family hates that I get to buy for myself.

>> Mike: And then they get a taste for it.

>> Darin: Damn you kids.

>> Dave: Time now for the end to a story that we can't tell. And then she was like, not salmon. I said, semen. This has been the end to a story that we can't tell.


Libby and I celebrated our 24th wedding anniversary last month

Back to you guys in the studio.

>> Darin: I meant to tell the story. A few weeks ago, Libby and, I went on our 24th wedding anniversary.

>> Mike: Oh, happy anniversary.

>> Darin: Thank you. Thank you very much. We 24 wonderful years together. We went to Hocking Hills. We got a little, bungalow vacation rental by owner of Vrbove. Nice place. It's really nice.

>> Mike: It's like a little cabin thing.

>> Darin: It's sort of, but it, it's with the hot tub. We did have a hot tub, I think. Oh my God. We loved going out into the. It's like, it's cold and then you're sitting in the hot ass. Hot tub.

>> Mike: Oh man.

>> Darin: So it was great. And we're having a good time. And when we got there, we stopped at this little restaurant and ate. And inside the restaurant there was a gift shop. And so we're looking around the gift shop and this is one of those. You probably would have done the same thing to Bess. I found this candle and I, I texted you a picture of the candle. It said, smell my nuts. And I said, hey, honey, do we need a smell my nuts candle? Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, I thought I was going to embarrass her, but she's like, no, no, I don't really want to smell your nuts right now. I'm like, okay. Okay, so. But we had that. And the weather was perfect for, for hiking. We went on two hikes. And, we had a little picnic. So we're going on this beautiful hike and we packed sandwiches and some drinks and some cookies, and we're sitting there on this log and we're, just talking. We're seriously, we're having a really good time, having a great time, enjoying our picnic. And I'm drinking this sprite and the sprite snuck up on me. And next thing you know, I let out this gigantic belch.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: People are always saying nothing burps like Dr. Pepper. This Sprite was laced with Dr. Pepper, potency. And the next thing you know, I mean, I let this belch, this burp of inhumane power go. And we prefer off the deer. We were completely alone before I burped.

>> Mike: As soon as I brought the woodland creatures, in.

>> Darin: No, I laugh. And this dog walks past me. And then the owner of the dog. Yeah. And he was not amused.

>> Mike: The dog looks at you, says, how dare you, sir?

>> Darin: Well, the dog looks at me like, what the.

>> Mike: And the owner, he let out a mating call.

>> Darin: The owner, I think was, his feelings got hurt. He looked at me like, how dare you? Like one of those women in the 1950s. Well, I've never.

>> Mike: If, If a whale can. In the ocean, you can burp in the woods. I know.

>> Darin: You know that's what I'm saying. And I mean, I didn't mean to, but it snuck up on me and Man. But yeah, a guy. I thought that was the universal rule that guys love to burp and they love to fart.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Am I wrong?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: See, I. I thought that he would have, like that was worthy of a stranger giving you a fist bump.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Or a chest bump.


Somebo had put together the perfect recipe for a tincture that gives farts

>> Mike: So you mentioned tick tock earlier. I found a tick tock and I saved the. The video and told Bess I saved it. In which she was concerned about somebo had put together the perfect recipe for a tincture, or a, potion that you drink and it gives you multiple long lasting, loud and smelly farts. Oh, for hours.

>> Darin: Just called chili.

>> Mike: Well, it had bean juice. It had all this stuff. It was absolutely disgusting. Like hot sauce, all these stuff. I mean, the guy mixed it and then his grandma came by and just drank it and she started just letting. Letting fly.

>> Darin: I don't do that.

>> Mike: I really don't do that. But I, I told Bess, one of these days I'm gonna get all those ingredients. if you see an empty can of beans, hot sauce, all these things, I'm just gonna. And I'm just gonna be all dad about it. I'll. I'll mix it up, drink it early on Saturday and wake up the neighborhood.


Libby and I were watching a show last night and it comes on

>> Darin: Hey, kids, Time to get up.

>> Dave: You are listening to Irritable Dead Syndrome, the podcast with Zink.

>> Darin: I don't know how this happened. Libby and I were watching a show last night, and it comes on. There was, a narrator right and this is the show that we've watched before that henceforth or heretofore had never had a narrator. and he says, 20th Century Fox. And then it says, a man walks across the water. He picks up a hammer. He looks to the right, he looks to the left. I'm like, why is he saying there's

>> Mike: something like Nick Offerman?

>> Darin: Is it.

>> Mike: Was it Nick Offerman?

>> Darin: Sounded like Nick Offerman.

>> Mike: After I've had too much whiskey, I cook myself a large flank steak, pan fried and salted butter. I eat that, put on a pair of wet socks, and go to sleep.

>> Darin: But he was describing what the person was doing. And I'm like, it's kind of like,

>> Mike: like a nature.

>> Darin: Like, like closed captioning.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: But for the blind. Okay. He's describing. I'm like, why is he. I can see what's going on. I can see. There's the. The 20th Century Fox logo. I'm trying to. I'm on my Google and I'm going through. It's like, okay, you go under settings and you find. Okay, click. Yeah. Okay, you turn that off. That's already off.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Why is that? How. Okay, I can't turn something off that's already off. Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah. Right?

>> Darin: Yeah. So I start jacking and monkeying with it some more. And I turned on another voice. The second voice is this weird lady and she's this video. Audio settings, volume, color. I'm like, no, no. And he's like, what are you doing? I'm like, I don't know. And every time I push this weird chick. And then the TV started making sounds like there's.

>> Mike: Oh, my God, this is Poltergeist.

>> Darin: Yeah, like there's crickets inside the tv. I turned it off. I turned it back on. I unplugged the Roku box and plugged that in. None of that's working.

>> Mike: Just walk towards the light. At that point, there's nothing more you can do.

>> Darin: Just. Just throw the TV away. No. Finally, what Google was telling me to do was, to turn off audio description. But what, we needed to turn off was called Screen Read.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: So. And Libby, who's the smart one? Libby's the smart one. She's the funny one. She's the. The pretty one. Okay. She's the one who knows how to get done. Libby's like, here, let me here. And so she starts monkeying with it. And we turned off Screen Read. And then we were able to watch our TV show because that's all we want to do at the End of the night. I've worked hard all day. Libby works harder than I do. But still, we're tired. We've done the dishes. We want to watch a show. We don't want some guy describing. Boy, no idea how it got turned on. And look, if it's. If it's this freaking impossible to turn it off, how did it get turned on?

>> Mike: And you, you tech nerd keyboard warriors. Calm down. Hold on.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: Hold up.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: Me, I. I like to consider myself a relative tech nerd.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Right. I won't have a computer in my house if I haven't built it.


The TV we have upstairs has Auto Motion. The one in our living room is a Samsung

Damn it. It's not going to be in here, by God. I do. I do all kinds of technical, fun stuff, but I. I will tell you that the TV we have upstairs is a Samsung. The one in our living room is a Samsung.

>> Darin: Yeah. My. Ours is too.

>> Mike: The one right back here is a Samsung. Samsung make the best monitors and TVs. I don't care who you are. They do, right? Yeah, but they're both Samsung. The one upstairs has, you know the Auto Motion. The soap opera.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Thing.

>> Darin: Oh, I hate when that's turned on. It looks like you're watching home video when it's shot on film.

>> Mike: If I can.

>> Darin: I still don't.

>> Mike: If I could turn that off before I ever plug in a TV for the first time, I would do it. I had that feature off of this bad boy back here within 20 seconds of opening it from the box.

>> Darin: Right? Yeah.

>> Mike: The one upstairs. It took me multiple. Multiple years.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: To figure. Because I would. I would get to the point where I would turn it off and, the next time we turn on the tv, it would be back on.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And I couldn't figure it out. And I finally just said, the hell with it. We're just going to watch all our movies down here. Because Dad's not watching a movie. Like, I can't watch a soap. A movie with that soap opera.

>> Darin: I can't. It drives me insane.

>> Mike: We've had that tv, I think still do it seven or eight years. No, I figured it out about two months ago.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: There was another setting hidden like three or four menus deep. And I remembered this. I thought of this when you mentioned. When you mentioned Screen read.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Versus some other thing. because I was Accessibility or whatever. They'll change the name.

>> Darin: Accessibility.

>> Mike: Yeah, it was. It was like that. It wasn't the, It was called Auto Motion. This TV back behind us, it calls it Auto Motion. That TV up there has an Auto Motion setting. But that's not what it calls that thing.

>> Speaker D: Yeah.

>> Mike: It was something else in another menu, like, under the Sound or Gremlins menu or whatever the hell. I was just bored sitting up there around with it, and I was like, oh, it looks like a normal TV now, huh?

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: Here's my point. Here's my point. Yeah. I see people because I've talked about the Reddit. I've seen people, like, ask technical questions, and they'll be like, okay, Boomer, just do this thing over here.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Here's the deal. There comes a point even a tech nerd like me, you just don't have time for it.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I got two kids, I got two dogs. One of the dogs is. Is, differently abled. Got a job. I've got this damn podcast. Fries, you know, at the. At the end of the. At the end of the night when the podcast is over, I got, like, maybe a half hour of time to myself before I go to bed. Yeah, I don't want to spend 20 minutes of that researching how to fix an auto motion thing on the tv.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: You get to a point where it's just like, ah, I guess everything's gonna look like Days of Our Lives on this TV for the end of time, because I don't have time to mess with it.

>> Darin: We were at Mom's house watching a movie over there, and it was, I don't remember the name of the movie, but Chris Evans or. No, no, no, Chris Hemsworth and, Tom Holland were both in it, which I'm like. And I think this is before they were in Marvel movies, Okay? A Ron Howard movie. And it's based on the story of the, people on the boat who were looking for Moby Dick. Okay, okay. The movie is green, okay? And I am sitting there the whole time, and nobody else is noticing or complaining or if they're noticing, they're not saying anything about it. but I'm like, mom's got to get a new TV because this movie is green. Yeah.


I'm trying to fix the auto, uh, motion and the excess

And I got her remote, and I'm going in there. I'm jacking with everything. I'm trying to fix the auto, motion and the excess. And I'm looking at the tint and

>> Mike: everything, the Grinch setting.

>> Darin: Yeah. I'm trying to de Hulk the tv. And I went on Google and I. And after, like, 20 minutes of screwing around with this, I'm like, is this movie green? And Google says, yes, it was shot green. And people have complained about why. I'm like, why would the Movie Be green.

>> Mike: At least back in the day, Walter Cronkite would come on there and tell us not to adjust our television sets. Right? You remember that?

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: It was a. Don't adjust your television. The red tent.

>> Darin: That's the way it is.

>> Mike: That's what we need. It could be Conan.

>> Darin: Oh, we need Conan more than ever. Yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: Listen, don't mess with your tv.


Mike and Darren discuss Irritable Dad Syndrome on Dementia hour

Welcome to Dementia hour with Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Yeah, this is.

>> Mike: This is what's gonna. This is what happened to this show. As we get further and further along, it's gonna be. We're gonna revert back to the first episode where we're like, what the hell are we talking about? Who are you, Bass? Who is this old man in the basement?

>> Darin: Well, I don't remember what I was gonna say. So let's, wrap this up. We appreciate you listening. We want you to go to irritable dad syndrome dot com. And by the way, if you downloaded Leonardo DiCaprio's mustache last week, thank you so much that the critics are raving about that episode. And I've heard. I can't prove that this is true, but I have heard that Leonardo DiCaprio himself downloaded that episode. And I don't know that he's listened to it. but if he does, he's gonna like it.

>> Mike: Yeah. So sick. The lawyers on us.

>> Darin: We hope to see you guys next week on Irritable Dad Syndrome.

>> Dave: Irritable dad Syndrome is a Rankin bass production copyright 1977.


Michael Keaton is Batman. He doesn't get second billing in his own movie

>> Mike: Good morning, good afternoon, and good night. Did you see the SNL of Ryan Gosling asking them to kiss the pz?

>> Darin: No. No.

>> Mike: Darren really hasn't done anything.

>> Darin: I haven't done anything. I've been on my perfect, absolute best behavior since I got.

>> Mike: But I'm just ready to go.

>> Darin: Michael Keaton is Batman. He doesn't get second billing in his own movie.

>> Mike: So I,

>> Darin: I'll stop bitching.

>> Mike: I was heading somewhere else. I lost it. I lost the fly.

>> Darin: I'm sorry.

>> Mike: You're gonna have to cut that down.

>> Darin: I'm sorry. I. I screwed you up. do you want me to cut out all the Batman stuff? Mike, I'm thinking. Okay, no, just.

>> Mike: Let's put this end cap on it.

>> Darin: He wasn't in the duty car.

>> Mike: If I remember right now, somebody's gonna fact check me. This is just coming off the. Off the fousey here. He looks nothing like Colin Fell. I didn't even start the conversation.

>> Darin: The guy who likes to keep his donkey in the house.

>> Mike: And ain't nobody watch a movie with me. Ain't nobody.

>> Darin: And that's the way it is. Good night.

>> Speaker D: What do you think I say when I go to the feed store in town? Oh, now, Wally, give me a bag of that effing pig feed and 10 pounds that bitchly cow corn. And the bag. Do I tell Mrs. Bollinger? Oh, here's one big bastard of a check. Give me some of your Christing money. There. Look there. See what you made me do?

>> Mike: Recording stopped.