IDS #304 - Somebody Dropped an F-Bomb at Easter

There's gonna be a fight this episode between me and society

>> Mike: There's gonna be a fight this episode.

>> Darin: Why not?

>> Mike: Between us, between me and society.

>> Darin: Oh, well, that's every week.

>> Mike: It's gonna be some rage against the machine in this mother.

>> Darin: God need rage against machine now more than ever.

>> Mike: We do. We need rage against the machine. Right Said Fred. You remember, right? Said Fred.

>> Darin: I do. I'm too sexy.

>> Mike: She was too sexy.

>> Darin: So sexy it hurts.

>> Mike: And then he had that one.

>> Darin: That was the only hit.

>> Mike: Too sexy for the. He's sexy for the sweet, sweet cat. He, like, comes in and makes it G rated for radio, but I don't remember. The damage had been done.

>> Darin: I was done with that song about a week after he wrote 264. I know. They played the crap out of that. It was all over VH1. It was all over MTV. It was all over our, regular radio. And I was done with it. I was like, okay. Because then, even when I wasn't hearing it, people were singing it and talking about it.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Hey, how you doing, Tim? I'm too sexy today.

>> Mike: thank you all, for being here. Let's get started.

>> Darin: Wow, Great attitude, Ron.

>> Mike: Sorry, I was talking to these ribs.


Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast

>> Dave: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. If Buddy Hackett was alive, he would totally love this podcast. Please welcome your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I'm Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 304.

>> Mike: Funny M as all get out. dude, let me tell you something about what you have done. You have clicked on. Stop. Don't click off. Stop.

>> Darin: Stay.

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>> Darin: Yes.

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>> Darin: No, don't.

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>> Darin: Oh, so much fun.

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>> Darin: The last episode we did, I had people reach out to me and say, darren, your podcast is fun. Yeah, they had so much fun. By the way, if you haven't listened to episode 303, Uber has a nice. Peter, you should go and do that immediately after listening to this episode.

>> Mike: People have told me it's not bad.

>> Darin: Yeah, it's not. Hey, I'll take it. I will take it.

>> Mike: Did you get paid for that?

>> Darin: Oh, paid in experience.

>> Mike: If you would like to pay us,

>> Darin: if you feel that would be what

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>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Is that a phrase yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

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>> Darin: Ah. Because I know how much people love hanging out with mixed company.

>> Mike: Y. But. But when you're at home alone. M. You dirty bastard. And you want to hear sick pieces, and you want to hear it go way south. You want to hear it with all the brambles on.

>> Darin: Now, that's not exactly what the Patreon is.

>> Mike: That's true. It's all the bonus stuff.

>> Darin: Our Patreon page is full of bonus content that you don't get on the regular episodes. And it is. Sometimes it's uncensored material, sometimes it's stuff that we just ran out of time. And we, put it on. There is all kinds of stuff. And if you're a Patreon member and you're one of our, elite members, you get merch.

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>> Darin: The thing. Yeah. So check it out. Boy, did we sell that.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah. I smell like burnt wieners right now, and I don't like it.

>> Darin: You smell like Burt Wieners, and I smell like cowboy beans. So there you go, man.


On tonight's episode, Libby and I talk about our college visit

On tonight's episode, Libby and I, we have had it with Krispy Kreme Donuts. They are dead to us. And I will explain why. Mike went back to his, Alma material. Ou. The ou. Ohio University.

>> Mike: The. Yeah. Ou. No, the Ohio. Yes.

>> Darin: Hate when I do that. And I do it because you know what? I went to the etsu.

>> Mike: Let me tell you something, okay? We had a visitor, right. Over the weekend. It was an Ann. Wiseman.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And yes. Anne and Day. Dave and Anne. Anne and Dave.

>> Darin: I love Anne.

>> Mike: They visited and they worked bringing us cake, which, you know.

>> Darin: You bought some, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, and nothing but bunt cake, right? Is that.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah. And we were talking about our college visit, and Dave, got all excited, and he thought that we were talking about osu.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: That's the reason we get so upset. People forget that there's a university over in Athens and I. So I'm going to talk about that visit.

>> Darin: It's a great college.

>> Mike: I have a lot to talk about.

>> Darin: yeah, I've got a great stuff to talk, about, too.

>> Mike: Boy, it's got awkward fast.

>> Darin: Well, I'll tell you what's really awkward.

>> Mike: Can you make it not obvious that I forgot Dave's name? When can you do something about that? I knew because I knew I was going to tell this story the whole day, and I'm like, dave and Anne, why? I know David. And then when it. When I'm live, I got huggy watching me, and you're sitting here with your. I forgot his name. I just did.

>> Darin: Well, I'm a little jealous because when, I assume it was they. They came to my house, it m. Was just Ann at the door. Oh, so they go to your house and you get to talk to Ann and Dave.

>> Mike: And Dave.

>> Darin: Yeah. So now I'm trying to figure out what's Dave. What. What's the beef Dave has with me?

>> Mike: Yeah, Dave and I talked about Dave

>> Darin: not want to talk to me. I like Dave.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I've been a big fan of Dave. And when, nobody else liked Dave, I'm like, hey, stop being a to Dave. Dave's a good guy. Yeah. And now Dave won't come to my front door and talk to me.

>> Mike: Yeah. Dave and I talked college years. We talked about cars while Bess and Ann stood over there. And they talked about the women folk stuff.

>> Darin: So. So they talked about recipes and ways to get stains out of a shirt.

>> Mike: I think they mostly talked about how stupid I was. That as the kids, that's what they talked about.

>> Darin: Tracks. Yeah. No. So I'm going to talk to Ann and Dave and figure out what Dave's beef is with me. Because I thought this whole time that we were cool, but I think now we're not. Yeah.


Someone dropped the F bomb at our house on Easter Sunday

I'm gonna start out the show with the.

>> Mike: Please do, please do, please start the show.

>> Darin: The show with a bang. I'm gonna tell you a story. And then of a lovely lady. I'm gonna tell you a story. I'm not gonna tell you who did this.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: After the story, I want you to guess me. Who did this? Okay. Somebody dropped the F bomb at our house on Easter.

>> Mike: Okay, now I'm thrown. Libby.

>> Darin: So. So let me tell the story. Okay, let me tell the story. So Easter Sunday rolls around. It's cold.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. It is, like, stupid cold. The day before, it was 81 degrees. Easter Sunday, it's like, 40 or something. All these poor kids out there catching hypothermia trying to find an Easter egg in the yard. Yeah.

>> Mike: It turns out the Easter bunny was a snow bunny.

>> Darin: Nice one.

>> Mike: I'll see my way out. Please do.

>> Darin: So it was cold, and mom came and picked us up, and the five of us went to church. So we went to church for Easter Sunday, and we go to a. I'm, not going to name the church.

>> Mike: I will say Our lady of the Fallen House.

>> Darin: Yes. So at Our lady of the Fallen House, they have always been a very cool church. They're like, I don't know if you'd call it progressive. I don't know. the past.

>> Mike: They're happening that.

>> Darin: Yes. The pastor usually wears jeans. We've got, one guy who comes up and opens his show with, what up? What up, y'?

>> Mike: All?

>> Darin: What up?

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Diggity. And on this particular Easter Sunday, I. They were joking around a lot, which I don't mind joking around. I don't have a problem at all with joking around. But I leaned over to Libby and I'm like. It's like if any new people were coming to this church.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They would think, I don't know, that this church takes this resurrection, seriously. Yeah. I digress.

>> Mike: What you should have done would had been to stand up and say, excuse me, but I'd like a little respect for our Lord. And then sit back down.

>> Darin: Sit back down.

>> Mike: I think that would have been welcome.

>> Darin: I think so. Anywho. So there was that. We got home and we had dinner, and it was a lovely dinner. We had a, chicken casserole.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: Mom brought a ham. We had a lemon meringue pie. And Libby made this blueberry cake. Okay, shut up. The blueberry cake was delicious. And it had, like, a lemon drizzle on it. Okay.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: So anyway, dinner was really, good. And we were having a great time. And afterwards, we were all just full as ticks. And we decided we're going to, park it.

>> Mike: And that's when Libby said, we're gonna

>> Darin: park it and we're gonna watch a movie. Okay, let me finish the story, and then guess who dropped the F. You

>> Mike: saw me make coffee.

>> Darin: Right, I understand.

>> Mike: I need to calm down, but I

>> Darin: don't know how many times I can tell you the rules.

>> Mike: I'm going to rein it in.

>> Darin: I will tell the story. Yes. You guess who dropped the F bomb.

>> Mike: I'm not saying a thing until you tell me. I can talk.


We decided to watch a Movie. And by the way, the last two or three weeks have been great

>> Darin: We're back. We decided to watch a Movie. We get on the Netflix and we're looking. And by the way, the last two or three weeks when I've picked a movie, I'm famous for picking horrible movies. Like the time we watched the documentary about the volcano that burned skin off of 90% of people's bodies. I picked the movie about the guy and his girlfriend who went camping and a bear ate him and she had to. Ate him. The bear.

>> Mike: Grizzly Man?

>> Darin: Yes. No, no, not Grizzly man. It was a different, a different bear movie. And then we watched Becky where a 15 year old girl stabbed a guy in the neck with a ruler. And anyway, so the last two or three weeks have been great. I have picked just fantastic, romantic comedies that were everybody loved, everybody felt good about themselves. And, at one point my mom says, wow, that made my day. I'm like, well, good. Yeah. So we're going through Netflix and I'm trying to pick a movie. And, and the reason I pick a movie is because everyone else is like, oh, whatever you want to watch. What do you do? What do you want to watch? What do you want to watch? Something. I don't know, what do you want to watch? I'll watch whatever you want to watch. Well, what do you. I'm like, I'm picking a movie. So I found this movie starring Liam Neeson. Liam Neeson lives near the border of Mexico. Okay. And he is, often near the border wall. And sometimes he sees people who are trying to cross the wall. Right? Well, he finds this woman and her son, and they are running from the cartel. Now, I don't know what you know about the cartel. The cartel are bad people. Bad people. This woman, her cousin had stolen money, thousands of dollars of money from the cartel. And they killed him. So he warned her and her son to get out and, and save themselves. So they're trying to cross the border. The cartel sees them.

>> Mike: Right?

>> Darin: When the cartel are rolling up, Liam Neeson sees them and he says, what's going on? I'll help you, but you got to get behind the truck. Very good. Liam Neeson than you. Thank you. So the cartel is like, give me the woman, give me the son. And he's like, I'm not gonna do that. And I said, give it to me or we're gonna shoot you. And he goes, I'll shoot you back. And so they start a little too Lucky Charms.

>> Mike: But you're. You just wait a little. You got a little full of yourself. When I said that, I should have not said anything.

>> Darin: I got a Little excited. So they start shooting up the truck. And Liam gets the, the woman and her son in there, and he runs, off, and he finds out who these people are that shooting at him. oh, my God, it's the cartel. And the woman, before she. Spoiler alert, before she dies, she says, please, my son needs to go to our family in Chicago. If you could take him to Chicago, please. And. And she left a bag of money. Yeah. A lot of money. Like, more money than you and I have combined.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay. So he's got this kid and this money, and he's driving and he decides, okay, I'll take the kid to Chicago.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So he's driving, and then the kid warms up to him. How can you not warm up to Liam Neeson? Right, Because Liam Neeson's adorable. And the kid and the. And Liam start having this connection. And, Liam is making stupid mistakes. M. Because he keeps using his credit card everywhere he goes. and they're tracking him. Yeah, they're tracking him on his credit card. And I'm going, what are you doing? Stop using your credit card. You've got a giant bag of cash. Okay, stop. So he's using his credit card. The cartel keep following him everywhere he goes. And they're getting closer and closer to Chicago. And he and the kid have a moment. They're sitting there talking, and they're having this big moment. And. And Liam says, I want you to have all this money. All this money is going to be for you. And the kid says, I don't want the money.


Liam Neeson says, well, what should we do with it

It's cartel money. It's bad money. And so what does Liam Newson say?

>> Mike: He says, can I have it?

>> Darin: That's what I would have said. Liam Neeson says, well, what should we do with it? And the kid looks at the fire. They have a campfire. And then Liam looks at the fire. And then they wad up a hundred dollar bill and throws $100 bill in the fire. The kid throws another hundred dollar bill in the fire. Liam takes the rest of the money and throws it in the fire. And this is when someone yells, are you crazy? Now, it was either me.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: Libby, Jacob.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: Cameron. Or my mother. Who said that? Guess who dropped the F bomb. Your mom. It was my mom.

>> Mike: Wow. Wow.

>> Darin: We turned and looked at mom. Like, mom.

>> Mike: She.

>> Darin: Wow. She was so embarrassed. She has never, never said that.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: In front of the. Well, she, I think she's probably said that before, but she's never said that in front

>> Mike: of the whole family like that.

>> Darin: And Libby was like, mom, how dare you? And we've told her, from now on, anytime she's around the children, it's going to be supervised.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And boy. And before mom went home, she. She apologized like 50 times. Then she says, am I allowed to come back? And we said, yes, of course you're allowed to come back. And then she said, is this gonna be on the podcast?

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

>> Darin: You got that right, Mom.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So, wow. We have forgiven my mother. And mom, in her defense, it was a stupid thing to do. M. She was outraged. I mean, seriously, Liam could have. He was down on his luck anyway, okay? He was behind on his mortgage. He was gonna lose his house. He was going to lose his land. Okay. Like a year before that, Spoiler. His wife had died. so he had nothing. And he was about to lose everything else that he had or didn't have.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And so he could have.

>> Darin: Really? And I've never understood that. That's drug money. That's bad money. You could. It's money. You can turn that around and use it for something good. Yeah.

>> Mike: I mean, you could always give it to charity.

>> Darin: You can take drug money and turn it into something for good. Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You never go to a bank. Can I get change for this 50? Oh, this 50 is drug money, son. It's not good. Here.

>> Dave: Yeah, you're listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome, available in all 50 states, even new Hampshire.

>> Mike: We were going to watch a movie, right? And, I'm letting Andrew pick.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Right. And I was like, what do you. What do you want? Do you want, like, something funny? Do you want, like, an action thing? Do you want something that's going to blow your mind? He's like, something that'll blow my mind. So I come down and I go through the. The movies that'll blow your mind. And one of them there's is Blade Runner.


I remember the beginning and I remember the end of Blade Runner

>> Darin: Oh, okay.

>> Mike: What I remember of Blade Runner is. And I've seen it two or three times now. I've seen it three or four times, Right. I remember the beginning and I remember the end. I'd never remember the middle of it or the entire gist of Blade Runner. Right? But we have Blade Runner and we have the final cut of, Blade Runner, the fancy one. So I talk this up. This is like one of the all time classic movies, right? It's a Harrison Ford joint.

>> Darin: It's a Harrison Ford joint and, is considered a cult classic.

>> Mike: So I talk this movie up, and we start watching It. And of course I remember the beginning. They have the, you know, interview with the guy that's a replicant. And he loses it and shoots the guy. Spoiler. and then runs Daryl Hannah, Rutger, Howard. Yeah. They're all in it. And then the movie just keeps going.

>> Darin: And

>> Mike: about 10 minutes in, I, I feel like I need to point out to the entire family, you know, I haven't seen this in about 15 years.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Or so. And then it keeps going. there's a part with a strip club and. And I have to announce again to the family. I don't. And I'm. I was being honest. I don't remember this at all. I don't remember the lady with the boobies.

>> Darin: Yeah. And Sean Young was at all.

>> Mike: Yeah. And then they meet the guy that makes the toys that talk to him.

>> Mike: And I, I didn't remember that part at all either. Then Rucker Hauer shows up and he's really good.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And here's the thing.

>> Darin: Rucker Howard is a very underappreciated actor.

>> Mike: So Harrison Ford is a good actor.

>> Darin: he's one of the best.

>> Mike: He's one of the best actors.

>> Darin: One of my favorites.

>> Mike: You wouldn't know it from Blade Runner. One of the go to is when people make fun of Arnold. Arnold Schwarzenegger is like whenever he's being tortured or attacked. And the look, like the overblown surprise, look on his face. There's more than twice that happens with Harrison Ford. And I feel like I is sitting here watching this. What is it now, 40 years old at this point, 50.

>> Darin: 60. It's not 60.

>> Mike: It's all. It's an older movie. It's in. That was in the 80s, early 80s.

>> Darin: It's probably 40.

>> Mike: 1982. Yeah. I wanted to yell cut. We need to do this again. Harrison. Come on, dude. You.

>> Darin: You stop.

>> Mike: You look stupid. When you make your face do it that way, it takes all the tension out. And we wonder, whoa, is this a naked Gun? What is this?

>> Darin: It's a Ridley Scott movie.

>> Mike: Yeah, it's a Ridley Scott movie. And then there will be scenes that are three to four minutes long. And I'm not exaggerating, just going back and forth between two characters who are staring at each other.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: With evangelist music going in the background. And more than once I had to be like, okay, what I did, I miss. They're not talking, right? You guys don't hear them talking.

>> Darin: Some point.

>> Mike: I was cons. I was thought maybe I was like Getting selective deafness where I couldn't hear the dialogue that was happening.

>> Darin: Honestly, I hear you.

>> Mike: and it just keeps going. And I'm apologizing and apologizing, and then it gets to the final speech that. That Rutger Hauer gives before he dies. Oh, oh, by the way, spoiler alert. Harrison Ford has a very unsavory scene that I absolutely did not remember, with the. Was it Sean Young?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I, don't want to go too far into it, but it doesn't look like she's having too much fun with what he's doing.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.


There's a theory that Harrison Ford was seeing Bess as an object

>> Mike: It's,

>> Darin: Don't know.

>> Mike: I think back in the day, it was filmed as a love scene, but it. It's anything but.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I. I actually, Harrison Ford went down a couple notches in my mind that. And I was like, I. I had to. I actually had to look up the meaning behind the thing. And I'll just say that, there's a theory that because she. Spoiler. Because she's a replicant. That he was seeing her as an object.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And behaving that way, but still defying her. I don't know that that needed to be in there. Right.

>> Darin: there's also a theory that he's a replica.

>> Mike: Yeah, there's that. And then it gets to the Rucker Hauer speech. And by that point, I'm not even me. And it's just like Bess and Charlie had checked out long ago. Right. I got the look that said, I thought you've seen this movie and you didn't even know about the. Well, it's been a long time.

>> Darin: I remember it's a classic. I remember it being badass.

>> Mike: And then Richter Howe gives the speech where, I've seen things you people wouldn't believe and time to die. All these memories go away like tears in the rain. And that's an amazing moment. Every time Rutger Hauer is on the screen, it's an amazing moment.


I have a suggestion for Ridley Scott about the original Blade Runner

So I have, I have a suggestion for Ridley Scott. He's still alive.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: I know that this was the final cut, but, dude, this is not what you meant to do. So my suggestion is that they keep the beginning, up through the point where the one replicant loses his mind and shoots the guy. And then just have every scene that has Rutger Hauer in it. And then the weird chase where Harrison Ford decides, I'm not going to run through that door. I'm going to shimmy up this pole and through a hole in the ceiling. Right. While this crazed robot is chasing me. And every time it catches me, it goes in my face instead of killing me. Uh-huh. Cut about 70% of that out and then keep Rucker Hauer's speech at the end and end it. It'll be about 10 minutes long, and it'll be awesome.

>> Darin: There's like, four different versions of the movie, right? There are.

>> Mike: There are.

>> Darin: I mean, they can't.

>> Mike: I. I thought the final cut would be like, the version you're supposed to

>> Darin: watch, but no, they. They just kept changing it and redoing it. And I'm like, this was. I'm pretty sure Ridley Scott started with it. Yeah. Before. Was that. Before Lucas started doing all that with the Star wars movies?

>> Mike: I think it was after. I think Lucas. Lucas was the pioneer.

>> Darin: Was he the pioneer of.

>> Mike: He did that. And then. I think Ridley Scott was really close behind.

>> Darin: Maybe I should.

>> Mike: Blade Runner, And then Alien. They. With Alien and then Aliens. They just started with every. Everything got.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: After. Here's the thing, though, is no one in this family trusts me anymore when it comes to movies because I talked it up so high.

>> Darin: Uh-huh. I remember it was probably 20 years ago. somebody was talking about Blade Runner. And I'm like, okay, yeah, I need to dig that out and watch that again. I watched it again. I'm like, my God, this movie is boring as hell.

>> Mike: It's a lot of people looking at each other.

>> Darin: And I'm such a Die Hard Harrison Ford fan. And anybody says anything negative about any movie, even Sabrina. Don't you talk bad about Sabrina. Yeah. Him and Greg Kinnear were fantastic in that. Harrison Ford was Linus. I'm getting off track. Yeah. I watched the original Blade Runner was bored out of my mind. And I'm like. I remember as a kid, and I guess I was just riding the wave. The excitement of, him being Han Solo and he wasn't Indiana Jones yet, was he?

>> Mike: I think Blade Runner. I don't know. I think Blade Runner came out before Indiana Jones.

>> Darin: I think so. I think you're right.

>> Mike: But I think it was.

>> Darin: I think it was riding that high.

>> Mike: Empire Strikes Back and then, Blade Runner and then Indiana Jones and then m. Return of the Jedi and stuff.

>> Darin: Yes. So I was so excited. And as a kid, I'm. I remember watching it, thinking, this movie looks really cool. Hm. And it wasn't uncommon for me to not understand a movie when I was little because.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. It's like, we'd go, yeah. And it's like, if it was all bright and shiny and. Yeah. Then I'm like, wow, this is awesome.

>> Mike: That's why I liked the original Dune.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Well, I don't even know what that movie. I have it in there. I don't even know what it is in here. The original, Dude, I'm terrified to watch it.

>> Darin: The original Dune is so horrible. It's entertaining. I know it crosses that line. It's so bad that it's enjoyable.

>> Mike: Here's why I'm afraid to watch Dune again. The original Dune, it's so.


When I was a kid, the highlights were the worms and Sting

It's because when I was a kid, the highlights were the, the worms and Sting. The knife fight with the Sting. I thought Sting was so badass.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Like, dude, that dude is awesome. And then recently, I mean, within the past six months, I watched the, the Sting portions on, the YouTube. Yeah. And boy, no.

>> Darin: No, not good. No.

>> Mike: There's a reason Mr. Gordon Sumner was only in that movie.


I think from here, moving forward, I want to talk about Ryan Gosling

>> Darin: But now back to Blade Runner. Yeah. So the. I watched the OG One again. Bored out of my mind. I hear that they're making the sequel Blade Runner 2049 with Ryan Reynolds, not Ryan Gosling. I love Ryan Gosling.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: I think from here, moving forward, I want to talk about Ryan Gosling every episode.

>> Mike: Yeah, I do, too.

>> Darin: I want to have a Brian Gosling segment. Yeah. And maybe after, like, 100. 140 episodes, maybe Ryan Gosling will appear on our show because we won't stop talking about him.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: That's a good goal to have, because I love Ryan Gosling.


So I hear that Ryan Gosling is making Blade Runner 2049

So I hear that Ryan Gosling is making Blade Runner 2049. Harrison Ford is, going to be in a small part. I didn't know his part was going to be so small. Okay.

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

>> Darin: okay. Ryan Gosling has the lead part in it, and then Harrison Ford has the. The supporting actor role.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I'm like, Okay. I don't mean to ruin it for you. Harrison Ford doesn't show up until like, 2 hours and 12 minutes.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And I'm like, finally.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And after he shows up, and it's kind of like a. Hey, how's it going?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Are you, the new Blade Runner?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You're,

>> Mike: I left a backpack over there.

>> Darin: Oh. Oh, okay.

>> Mike: What?

>> Darin: And, Blade Runner 2049. Boring.

>> Mike: Really?

>> Darin: Yes, I was. And don't send us hate mail. I'm sorry.

>> Mike: We like a lot of good movies.

>> Darin: I. I do. There's so many movies that I like, and it's interested.

>> Mike: This man at least three times a week. But then I remember there's so many things we do. We do like.

>> Darin: No, I've got friends, Shannon and Chad, and every time there's a sci fi move that I don't like. Oh, you don't understand science. I understand science fiction, yeah.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: But there's science fiction movies that I don't enjoy. I understand western. There are westerns out there that are boring as hell.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I like a good rom com. There's. Some are great, some aren't.

>> Mike: Yeah. Anywho, sorry I had to bring that up because I was heartbroken. I was like, I was really excited to show this movie and now I. Because I did that before with the thing. John Carpenter's the thing.

>> Darin: I haven't told.

>> Mike: Holds up.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Holds up really, really well.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: So I was like, I will get a twofer.

>> Darin: How scary is it? Because Cameron's been wanting to watch a scary movie.

>> Mike: I wouldn't. It's not that scary.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I mean, it terrified me as a kid.

>> Darin: Kurt Russell's in it, right? Yeah. Okay.

>> Mike: And, I gotta watch it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A, diabetes is in it.

>> Darin: Wilford.

>> Mike: Wilford Brimley. I forget that A young Wilford Brimley. I think he's like 28, but he still has, like a gray mustache and. And whatever.

>> Darin: I'm Wilford Brimley and I'd like to

>> Mike: talk to you for a few minutes about diabetes.

>> Darin: there's a great movie with him in it. He was in the Firm with Tom Cruise. Have you seen the Firm?

>> Mike: Yeah. That's a good movie.

>> Darin: It was a great movie.

>> Mike: Very good.

>> Darin: And Wilford Brimley was an ass in it.

>> Mike: Keith David is in the Thing. That's. That's who I was trying to remember.

>> Darin: Keith David.

>> Mike: Keith David.

>> Darin: The glasses on.

>> Mike: Keith David is one of those actors. If I see that he's in a movie, I'm gonna watch that movie. I don't care.

>> Darin: Yeah.


One of our favorite places to go is now dead to us

>> Dave: This portion of our show is brought to you by Zipper Lube. Nobody handles sticky zippers better than Zipper Lube.

>> Darin: At the beginning of the podcast, I mentioned that one of our favorite places to go is now dead to us. I'm talking about Krispy Kreme. The Krispy Kreme Donuts in our neighborhood, which is on Tylersville Road. Libby, my beautiful, lovely, entertaining wife. She is hilarious, by the way. This last week, Mike, almost every single day, Libby had me almost crying laughing about something.

>> Mike: Okay?

>> Darin: And, she is funnier now than she's ever been. And she's Always been funny. So she decided, I'm going to surprise my family with donuts from Krispy Kreme.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: So she pulls into. She rolls up, as the kids say, she rolls up to the Krispy Kreme and she was going to get, a dozen, and she was going to get some that, Jacob wanted, Cameron wanted some that I wanted, and some that she wanted. So she said, I'm going to get four birthday cakes. We don't have those anymore. And she says, I'm sorry, excuse me, we don't have those anymore. She says, are you out? And like, no, we've discontinued those. And then she's like, okay, yeah. And then she said, do you have any of the blueberry cake donuts? We have also discontinued those.

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

>> Darin: They discontinued blueberry cake. That's not, that's not good.

>> Mike: That's un American.

>> Darin: And here. And I. You're going to agree with him on this because we've talked about this before. You don't like these, but Libby and I love these. Lemon filled. What? They, not only were out of the lemon filled, they discontinued lemon filled.

>> Mike: That's good.

>> Darin: So the only donut in there that she would have ordered was the chocolate covered custard filled. And that's what I love. Yeah. And she looked at the guy and she said, you did what?

>> Darin: And he says, we discontinued them. And she says, are you serious? He says, yeah. And what, she drove off? She left him in the dust? Yeah, they were eating her dust.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then she says, we're not going back to Krispy Kreme. Yeah. So Krispy Kreme. What the hell? What happened?

>> Mike: It just annoys me when it.

>> Darin: So whether you like the lemon filled or not, lemon filled donuts are a staple at Krispy Kreme. They have had lemon filled donuts since. I think there was, a Krispy Kreme in Bethlehem.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And Jesus ate Krispy Kreme donuts. All right. Okay. And they've discontinued them. Yeah. That's like Burger King getting rid of the Whopper. You bring up Krispy Kreme can suck it.

>> Mike: Okay.


Burger King changed their fries and they made a big deal about it

All right. So what, this happened while Bess and I were in college. you may remember, this, is the happening. Burger King changed their fries and they made a big deal about it.

>> Darin: When was this?

>> Mike: This was in. It had to have been between 95 and 96. 94 to 96.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I was visiting. I remember that I was visiting Bess's mom's house. We went to go get Burger King. And we were going to try the new fries, right? Yeah. And we came back to the house and we're eating them, and Bess ate a fry. And she said, and I quote, I.

>> Darin: That's not a front page review.

>> Mike: I.

>> Darin: Wasn't that the ones that they made with olestra or something?

>> Mike: They made them, like, super crunchy. That was the big thing. They were crunchy.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I thought they were okay. M. But I have always been a McDonald's fry.

>> Darin: I agree.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: I concur.

>> Mike: You know, if McDonald's ever changes their fries, we're going to have a problem. But Burger, King changed their fries. And Bess was so upset about it that she wanted me to call them.

>> Darin: What are they going to do?

>> Mike: And tell them that we didn't like their fries?

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And there was a number. There was. There was. On their commercials, they had a 1, 800 number to call and tell them what you thought about. About their fries. Yeah, Somehow we had that number. I think it was actually on the fry. Somehow we had it maybe. And we. I was like. It was one of our first, very first arguments. It was very early in our relationship. And I said, I don't think they really care what we think of their fries. And she said, if they didn't care, they wouldn't give out a number. And have you called to tell them what you think about the fries?

>> Darin: That is true.

>> Mike: And then I said, I don't care that much about the fries to call. And she said, well, I do, and I want you to call.

>> Darin: Why don't you get.

>> Mike: It was a tense moment. I'm just gonna leave it there. It was a tense moment.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I said, okay, I'll call.

>> Darin: Well, I do now.

>> Mike: This is back in the 90s, kids. This is before the robo calls and the AI talking to you. This was a real person.

>> Darin: I cared about French fries back in the 90s.

>> Mike: I called in, a person. Thank you for calling Burger King. It was some corporate whatever.

>> Darin: An actual person.

>> Mike: Person answered.

>> Darin: Damn. What was that like?

>> Mike: It was very uncomfortable because I said, hi, this is Mike. I'm calling.

>> Darin: Oh, hi, Mike.

>> Mike: Calling. my girlfriend and I just got some of your fries at the Burger King. And they said, how do you like the fries? And I said, they're not. They're not good. They're not doing a. We don't like them. they're not doing, like, the original fries better. And they said, I was very sorry to hear that. Is there a particular reason? And we hadn't Discussed it at that point. Right. I'm just trying to get out of this.

>> Darin: Like, what's the reason? Why don't we like these fries?

>> Mike: And I just said, and I look, you know, I mean, now me and Bess can have entire conversations just with a glance. But this is back when we were first dating before you could read your body language. And I'm like, I just said, I. My girlfriend just. I can tell she really doesn't like them. And I'm calling on her behalf. I think they're okay. But.


Bess wanted me to call Burger King and voice displeasure with fries

And I do remember saying that. I know I didn't say that. I do remember saying I preferred the old style. But she wanted me to call and voice displeasure with the fry.

>> Mike: And they said, well, we're very. Thank you for calling. We're very sorry to hear that. Hopefully as time goes on, you'll grow to like the fries and love them as we have. And I said, maybe so. Maybe so. And they said, thanks for calling Burger King. And I. Yeah. And hung up.

>> Darin: Sorry you don't like it. Maybe someday.

>> Mike: Maybe someday you will.

>> Darin: That's a kind way of saying we don't care.

>> Mike: Right into the continuation of our first argument, which is like they see they don't care and they still have the same fries that they had back then.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: They didn't change anything. But she was happy that we called. We voiced, Arthur.

>> Darin: And you know, you, by God, you tried.

>> Mike: And I respect her for that's one of the reasons I love her so much, is that she felt strongly enough Right. About the fries that she made me call.

>> Mike: And tell them that she didn't like them.

>> Darin: There was one time where we were outraged over something and we got positive results. we were making Pillsbury cinnamon rolls for breakfast one morning. Now there's me. yeah.

>> Mike: There's Libby. Yeah.

>> Darin: Jacob. And there's Cameron. That's four people. Yeah. Inside the cinnamon roll package is supposed to be eight cinnamon rolls. That means you pop them up, you put them in the, in the, old oven there and everybody gets two. Yeah. Well, I opened up this particular tube of cinnamon rolls and there were seven. Oh. And the look we gave each other like, oh yeah. Because nobody wanted one cinnamon roll. And I'm telling you. And so Libby and I knew that neither of the boys were going to stand up and say, I'll take one. Yeah. So Libby looked at me like, you're only going to have one cinnamon roll.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: Because I was looking at her thinking, you know, you don't even really like cinnamon Rolls. That's true. And she was looking at me like, hell, yes, I like cinnamon rolls. And we weren't ever saying anything, but we were both hoping that the other person would say, yeah, I'll only have one. But we were also hoping that they wouldn't, because then we knew we would hear about that later. Yeah. It's like, I'll take one. Okay. Did everybody enjoy their two cinnamon rolls?

>> Mike: So here's what you do.

>> Darin: Libby and I split one. Libby and I decided that we would have one and a half. And there was an email, thing on the. There was a website.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: On the tube. Why do I keep saying tube? On the tube of cinnamon rolls was at a, website. I went there and I made a complaint. And what did they do? Yeah, they. Because I said we had a problem on Saturday. Yeah. Said my family were outraged.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: All caps. Because one of us had to have one cinnamon roll. And you can imagine how hard that was for us. They replied back. They were so cool. They're like, oh, my goodness, we are so sorry we caused so much problems on your Saturday. And here's what we're going to do. They sent me a, thing with a free coupon. A free coupon for another package of cinnamon rolls. So, Pillsbury.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Thank you for taking it seriously and giving us a new tube.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Of cinnamon rolls.

>> Mike: Part of the reason that you had that outcome versus the outcome that we had is that you were voicing displeasure at not getting enough of their food.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Whereas Bess and I were voicing our displeasure with their food.

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

>> Mike: We went on a road trip.


Rem and Beth met at OU Ohio University in Athens, Ohio

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: we went to the OU's, the Ohio universities. Because Andrew is. Well, now he's officially going to be going there.

>> Darin: And he is a badger. What's the Ohio.

>> Mike: The. The Bobcat.

>> Darin: The Bobcat.

>> Mike: The Bobcat.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I, got a bone to pick with him. So Beth and I met at OU Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. It's not the Ohio State University.

>> Darin: That's where, Rem, got together. Right.

>> Mike: In Athens, Georgia.

>> Darin: Georgia.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I always get this confused.

>> Mike: Athens, Greece, is where Zeus pals around with the Acropolis. The Acropolis. The crop. A crowd, as they call them. But we went to the OU's. And, I did not expect so many memories to come flooding back as we were going around and exploring and doing the. The little tours. Yeah. But I got progressively, like, Bess and I were in shock at how much better some of the stuff is there. Right.

>> Darin: So when it's encouraging, isn't it?

>> Mike: Baker center, when we went there. When we were there, I think Baker center was like a, building.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: It was a building.

>> Darin: I'm pretty sure I'm sensing a visual here. I could just see it.

>> Mike: I'm pretty sure that there was a bowling alley in the basement, but I'm not sure there was one, so I can't claim that. But there was a coffee shop called the Front Room. And then there were other rooms in this building that no one ever went in. Right, Right. Seemed, like a big waste of space. But anyway, they moved it, and the new Baker center has three escalators. And they told us a number of times it's the only place in Athens county that has an escalator. So they were very proud of that.

>> Darin: Bring the kids.

>> Mike: Bring the kids.

>> Darin: But you.

>> Mike: You've been to the. This is a local thing.

>> Darin: I have ridden an escalator.

>> Mike: You've been on an escalator?

>> Darin: Oh, many times.

>> Mike: You've seen. Seen the inside of the Kenwood Mall?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: The new student center looks like the inside of the Kenwood Mall. Like, wow. It looks like. Like the different sections, like the coffee shops and the little muffin places and the. I want to owe you. I want a bobcat.

>> Darin: I want to owe you money.

>> Mike: I want to owe you. I want a mug that looks like a little shop in. In the Kenwood. It looks like. It's like, wow, are we fancy enough to be in here? And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We didn't have this.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: When we were here.

>> Darin: So you're jealous now of Andrew?

>> Mike: I'm a little jealous, yeah.

>> Darin: And we went to college. We had to play with sticks.

>> Mike: We go into the Alden Library. They have these little pods that the students can sit in that are. There's sound that your ears don't hear as much. Just. They had all this stuff, and they had the room that I remember going, and they had the microfiche. I don't even know if they have.

>> Darin: Hello.

>> Mike: Almost passed up.

>> Darin: And I thought I said, too.

>> Mike: You're familiar with the micro fish, right?

>> Darin: yes. Oh, you try and stop it.

>> Mike: You put. It's like the viewfinder, and you look for the fish.

>> Darin: I know.

>> Mike: Yeah. They revamped that whole area. It's got all kinds of new stuff in there.


Darren Cox: Maybe when the kids are out of college

>> Darin: And,

>> Mike: I don't know.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: All these fancy, modernized things. And I did. I got a little jealous. The campus is beautiful.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I mean, it's absolutely gorgeous. And I kind of want to Go back to school. Bess and I did talk about.

>> Darin: I hear you.

>> Mike: We talked about, you know, maybe when the kids are out of college, right? And we've paid off these freaking cars and we don't have that many bills. Maybe we move back to Athens and become hippies, live in a van or something.

>> Darin: And start leaving me here by myself.

>> Mike: Feed store. You can go boxes there. Well, be me, you, Box, Libby. and best. We'll all live in an RV down by the river. And Sarah and Box's mom. And we'll all live in a, in a van down by the river and we'll sell our beatery to the. The people. But I mean. And we went uptown and they got rid of the Bess and I. Our first date was at the Athena Movie Center. Movie cinema. Movie theater. I got there eventually and we saw Pulp Fiction.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then we went right across. Boy, that's the first date right next door to it. We, we got a Whopper at the Burger King.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Original fries. And they've ousted the Burger King. Announced some tie joint.

>> Darin: I mean, that sounds racist.

>> Mike: I'm just saying.

>> Darin: Damn.

>> Mike: time. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. Oh, oh. And they gutted one of the big university bookstores and put a Raising Canes in there.

>> Darin: Oh yeah. Raising canes and a BW3. Raising cane's is like the new Starbucks. It's taking over everywhere.

>> Mike: Oh man, I was really jealous. I want to go back to school.

>> Darin: Well, about 10 years ago, maybe it'd been longer now, because the boys were little. And a friend of mine who, I went to East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. And my friend, she works in the, in the office there's. And they were doing this alumni return to campus thing. And I was invited to come back to etsu me, Darren Cox, and speak about my career in broadcasting. And I thought, how many people turned you down before you came to me?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But they were excited for me to be there. I couldn't wait. I was so excited. I went and I Talked about my 20 some years in broadcasting. How I got where I, where I was. And, and I had advice, I had good advice for the kids. They were. And they were the kids, these students.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But I was like you. I was jealous because I studied, broadcasting. So we shot video. And people who are in the broadcasting business will understand what I'm talking about on three quarter inch tape. Okay. These tapes were ginormous. Yeah. Okay. They were the size of a like Bigger than a Volkswagen. Bigger than a Webster's Dictionary.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Smaller than a Volkswagen. And Yes. And you had to put a little red dot in the back to record. And if that dot was taken out, then you couldn't record on it. And we had to carry a separate deck on our shoulder. The camera weighed 100 pounds, the deck weighed 108 pounds.

>> Darin: And then we didn't have nonlinear editing because now we can edit video on Avid or Adobe Premiere or you name it.

>> Mike: Back in the day, you had to use tape and crayons.

>> Darin: Yes, we did. We had to, put a tape. We had to put a blank tape in the right deck and then our field tape in the left deck. And you would put an in and an out point and then you'd preview and enroll. And it would take you a day and a half to edit five minutes of video.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: Unless you were skilled and you could knock that out.


Getting into broadcasting now compared to when I started

And these students today, my God, they got jibs and they've got steady cams and they have, boom mics.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And all this technology that we did not have. Yeah. And I'm like, wow. And so, these kids, these students today getting into the business. And I sound so old when I say this, but you kids today do not know how lucky you have it. Getting into broadcasting now compared to when I started.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah, we went on the. So because that's. Andrew's going into journalism. And we went into the broadcasting area. We saw their stage for their. They have a football, A football show, a basketball show.

>> Darin: Yeah, I saw you doing the, Doing the weather.

>> Mike: Yeah, I was doing the weather. all the. They have a podcast class. And I was like, yeah, what are they going to teach? What are they. Let me teach that I don't know.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: But she was, she was just talking about some of the points of podcast that were extremely important, like telling a

>> Darin: coherent story, being funny within the first two minutes.

>> Mike: Right. people being able to understand you

>> Darin: not being offensive.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, it was. I had so much fun, going there. Yeah, it's really. And, and, and I want, one more, beef I have.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I did this day when I was a kid. I did the tour ou. Nobody, I. Nobody gave me cookies. They had cookies. And I'm talking the good cookies, like the shortbread cookies with, like the cake icing on, with the sprinkles. Oh, cookie. Hundreds of them. Darren. on silver. I'm not you, I. You not silver platters.

>> Darin: She had thin mints, Graham crunchy seeds, Raisin oatmeal. Raisin oatmeal. And I said, we'll take a graham crunch. How much would that be? And she looks at me and she says, I need about three for that. Was the guy in a tuxedo? Hold on. Did he have like the glove with the towel over his arm?

>> Mike: They had fresh made hot chocolate. And apparently some jackwad in Athens makes coffee. Like, there's Athens brand coffee. They had that freshly brewed up and they were like, oh, this is Athens brand coffee. It's eaten by an opossum and pooped it. And then we put it in the thing, this whole thing. And I. I'm just shoving cookies down my throat and I'm like, nobody.

>> Darin: I All I remember like dead. You're embarrassing me. My college, it had, the copy center, C U L P. The cult center. And that's where you could go to the cave. You go into the cave, that's where you got. And looking back now, it wasn't great pizza, but we loved the pizza at the cave. Okay. And that's where people went and hung out. And then there were some separate, rooms where you could, if you had a break between classes, you can go and watch your stories. I used to watch the Young and the Restless with four other guys. We had an off period and me and three other guys in broadcasting would go down to our TV studio and we would watch the Young and the Restless and the Bold and the Beautiful. And we were like, I can't believe Victor's trying to get away with that. You know, that was every day. But at the Culp center there was a little convenience store up there where you could get your sodas and your cookies and crackers and that type of thing. After I graduated, they had a competition. They were going to rename the convenience store. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And whoever named it won a prize. I don't know what the prize was. 50 bucks worth of stuff at this convenience store. So they submitted hundreds of titles.

>> Darin: For this convenience store. And it lasted a couple of weeks. When they came down to it and they decided the name of it, they named it the Buck Mart. And I remember saying, are you crazy? That took weeks.

>> Mike: Yeah, weeks better than Ernie's Fart Barn. But not by much.

>> Darin: I would have loved Ernie's Fart Barn. You guys want to meet up at Ernie's? So as we were leaving Ernie's Fart Barn. Oh yeah.


So our friend, my dear friend, Matt Box still lives in Athens

>> Mike: So our friend, my dear friend, Matt Box still lives and works in Athens. So we stopped by the Athena Theater.

>> Darin: Coolest guys I've ever met.

>> Mike: Stopped by, got a few pictures with

>> Darin: it,

>> Mike: Got a photo op with him. and you know, I love seeing Matt. And we left him, talked to him for a while and then we left and we went to what used to be School Kids Records. Now kids. Oh, in the 90s, this is where you went to get your bootlegs and your. Yeah, you could get the normal CDs like a, like a chode, but you could also go back and get the. I don't know, you go back and get the. Or like a, like a chud. Three, two, one. Now kids, you could go into the school kids, you normal CDs like a chud, or you could go in the back and get the, the bootlegs and all that stuff. And they also had awesome posters that you could get nowhere else.

>> Darin: The big ones.

>> Mike: Oh, the big ones.

>> Darin: Oh yeah.

>> Mike: While we were there, I bought two.

>> Darin: I haven't bought a poster in 15 years.

>> Mike: They were both Breaking Bad posters. I haven't framed them yet. One is a, black and white of Walter White in all his. Like he just. He's in his. No, he's in his, I just done cooking suit thing with. Surrounded by his money and it says all hail the king.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And then the other one is the iconic shot of him standing in the desert with his. In his underwear with the gun.

>> Darin: Nice.

>> Mike: Yeah. This was not happy with that. Like. Well, that's what the people expect. I use the podcast. I said, this is going to be in the basement where we run the podcast. People expect to see Walter White in his underwear.

>> Mike: I don't think she believed me, but it was still. It's. They're good posters. Yeah.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Science.


I'm doing my shopping and I keep hearing this song in my head

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

>> Darin: I'm doing my shopping and I keep hearing this song in my head. It's Insane in the Brain by Cypress Insane in the membrane. Insane in the membrane.

>> Mike: Insane.

>> Darin: You got the brain just.

>> Mike: They go for hours.

>> Darin: I love that song. I thought it was in my head, but I was really listening to it. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And it wasn't. I'm like, there's no way Kroger is playing it. No, there's no way Kroger is playing this over there. They were playing it. No, there was a guy. Oh, shopping. Yeah. And I think he had it on a loop.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: He's walking around like in his cart. No, no, it wasn't a ringtone either. It was in his cart and it wasn't the radio edit either. It was the. Because of blank. Like me is going insane. You know what that word is? Yeah. Ah, yeah. Yeah. Right. Nobody can say that word. Yeah. Who wants to?

>> Mike: Yeah. So.

>> Darin: And I remember he walks right past me. Insane. And the membrane. And I just kind of, like, looked at him like, yeah, all right.

>> Mike: Yeah, we're all about that.

>> Darin: I pass him, and then there's two women, and they look at him. They look at me like, what's his deep.

>> Mike: Like, you.

>> Darin: You're.

>> Mike: You're in charge of him. Like, you're taking him out for the day.

>> Darin: And so it was like, you know what you do? You pass someone on all four, and then you pass them on all five, and then you pass them on all six so you m. M. Wouldn't stop listening to it. And nobody asked him to stop.

>> Mike: Yeah. I don't feel so bad about my rage against the machine outburst from a few months ago then.

>> Darin: But it's like after. After I got home, I thought should stopped him. Should. I said, hey.

>> Mike: I mean, hey, who are you to. To mess up somebody? Citizens rest in the burn.


The first Buc ee's is open in Ohio

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

>> Darin: They have opened a, Buc ee's in Ohio. Okay. The first Buc ee's is open in Ohio. I'm not sure where it is. I think it's about an hour north of us. But I know the local TV stations were posting on the Facebook pages that people had camped out. Camped out. They had their lawn chairs, and they were sleeping on the sidewalk. So they could be one of the first people to shop at the new Buc EE's. Okay. And my favorite comment of all time was, it's a gas station.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It's, hundreds of people like this comment. I'm like, yeah, it's a gas station. Someone else is like, by the way, you know it's going to be open tomorrow, right? Yeah, yeah. And Thursday and Friday. But, I mean, were they getting free barbecue? I don't know.

>> Mike: I mean, here's the thing. Did Buc EE's start out as, like, we have a hundred gas pumps and then add on the food and the beaver nuggets and the costumes or whatever after the fact, or did it start out with those and then they added all the pumps?

>> Darin: We have a vision. We have a dream here at Buc ee's. Oh, crap. I was going to talk about Rush, too. Do you want to talk?

>> Mike: Let's talk about Rush. There's always time for Rush. What's this I see in the rundown about Rush's name.

>> Darin: I can't wait to see Rush. Mike and I are going in August. We're going up to Detroit. And every time I see a story like this, I want to go even harder.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Somebody asked Geddy Lee and Alex Lifison, are you guys really going to use the name Rush? And Getty said, why the wouldn't we use the name Rush? Yes. He says, what are we. Thank you. He said, quote, what are we supposed to call ourselves? Iron Maiden. And I'm so thrilled that in the comments, it's like, there's hope for this planet.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because about 95% of the people, on there was like, yeah, they were rushed before Neil Peart, and they're going to be Rush after Neil Pert. An enormous portion of people said, Neil would have wanted this.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: And then there's people like, why wouldn't they use the name Rush? And then occasionally you would see one little straggler on there who'd say, well, Getty did say there was no Rush without Neil Peart. And you know what? He may have, said that. Yeah, he may have said that 15 years ago, before Neil died. But my comment moon is flat. So it doesn't really matter what they call themselves.

>> Mike: That's right. That.

>> Darin: That's a throwback. Oh, I had more fun tonight than I normally.

>> Mike: If. If bands change their name every time they got a new drummer, Pearl Jam would have changed with every freaking album.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Like when David Letterman inducted him in the balcony tonight. All former Pearl Jam drummers. Take a bow, fellas. Take a bow.

>> Mike: Oh, my God.

>> Darin: Oh, God. When he did that, Eddie got a real big laugh out of the Eddie

>> Mike: Vedder lead singer, you know. You know, by the way, that we're going to get comments, because we did last time you mentioned Alex. Lif. Yes, but that's not how you actually say it,

>> Darin: so it doesn't really matter how I say.

>> Mike: We got a comment today on my video about the pizza. why didn't you just get your kid a pizza, too? Because it's my pizza.

>> Darin: It's my pizza.

>> Mike: I mean, what I don't see what's so hard to understand about this. He's 18. He can get his own pizza.

>> Darin: Pizza. Guys, we're gonna go. Thank you so much for listening to us. We want you to go to irritable dadcenter.com download every episode. Hey, listen, I'm telling you what episode. 303 people have loved it. I have had so many people comment.

>> Mike: It was the Bizom it was the bism.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Or the bosom. Bosom.

>> Darin: It was the teats.

>> Mike: The teeth. Mike likes to say the teats runneth over, man.

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

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>> Darin: The Patreon. Our Patreon. Three, two, one.

>> Mike: Or.

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>> Mike: Cypress Hill.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Cypress Hill. Yeah. Injunction.

>> Darin: Yes. Yes.

>> Mike: It's a joint 304. Right. I thought we would have been famous by now.

>> Darin: I was hoping we would have been famous 100 episodes ago.

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>> Darin: insane in the brain, brother. Insane.

>> Mike: What? What did you. What happened that you broke me? Oh, I said microfiche and you went, oh, microfiche. That's what you call.

>> Darin: I remember, but nobody says microfiche. It's a thing.

>> Mike: Well, it's a thing from school.

>> Darin: I remember. Would you like to see the feet?

>> Mike: I thought it was stupid to call it. Our teacher said microfiche, and I said, you mean m. Micro fish. No, it's not in a lake. It's, a. You know, it's micro fiche. I was like, okay, it's micro feesh.

>> Darin: Micro fiche.

>> Mike: Micro feesh. It looks like micro fitchy.

>> Darin: You are so stupid. And I love everything about it. That's how you're supposed to say it. I know. Micro. Micro fish.

>> Mike: Recording stopped.