IDS #314 - First You Whack, Then You Blow

This episode of Irritable Dead syndrome was recorded June 11, 2026

>> Dave: This episode of Irritable Dead syndrome was recorded June 11, 2026.

>> Mike: Wrap them and stack them, kids. That's how you prevent the herpes.

>> Darin: That's the wrap. I know what rapid. Yeah, I don't know what stack it means.

>> Mike: It's best you don't know rapids.

>> Darin: How do you stack?

>> Mike: I don't know.

>> Darin: Maybe that's what I've been doing wrong all these years.

>> Mike: Might be. Might be.

>> Darin: You mean I was supposed to stack

>> Mike: like pancakes with butter in betwixt?

>> Darin: Oh,

>> Mike: the question isn't what are

>> Dave: we going to do?

>> Mike: The question is what aren't we going to do?


This is episode 314 of Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast

>> Dave: Time now for Irritable Dad Syndrome, the podcast that tastes like it was homemade. Here are your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: Hi, I'm Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 314. Mike and I literally just recorded episode 313, which you guys loved and adored and listened to, I'm assuming, several times.

>> Darin: So we recorded that episode and we're fresh on the heels of the success of that hot piece of ass, which was episode 313.

>> Mike: If you're still here, boy, are your expectations high.

>> Darin: Usually when we record two episodes back to back, one of them is a banger and the other one comes kind of blows.

>> Mike: Got banged.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I do have something to say about AMC theaters.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I've noticed Nicole Kidman. They've cut Nicole Kidman back on her.

>> Darin: They've cut her down to like six seconds.

>> Mike: Six seconds. Can you just cut her completely? I mean, they're just dragging her along at this point. It's like, here.

>> Darin: Amc. Yeah, we noticed that too. The audible groan from the audience was, was almost completely gone before they were, done with her.

>> Mike: And I'm legally required to look at one of my kids whenever she comes on because they know I can't stand seeing her on the screen. So the last time I, me and Andrew went back to the back rooms, I saw Backrooms twice.

>> Darin: Oh, I still haven't seen it.

>> Mike: Yeah. So Andrew wanted to see it again, I wanted to see it again. Charlie was at a sleepover. Bess was out gallivanting with her friends, doing whatever they do, drinking. And we figured, hey, go to dinner.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: So I was like, where you want to go? Where do we never go? That we used to always go. Red Robin, Red Robin.

>> Darin: Holy crap. Do I know you or what?

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, Red Robin. It's gotten sticky. It's gotten sticky.

>> Darin: The last time I went to Red Robin. The burgers were thinner. You bite into it and the bun falls apart. Now. And I remember, like, I don't think this is the quality that I'm accustomed to paying for now.

>> Mike: I remember.

>> Darin: No offense, Red Robin, but you are not.

>> Mike: I remember years ago when we went to the Red Robin. there was a person in the Red Robin costume that would hug children and he hugged Andrew.

>> Mike: Right. The tables were smooth and pleasant.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Right. It was a cloth napkin affair.

>> Darin: Oh, okay.

>> Mike: It was very high, ah, society exotic. Yeah. And they. Because they put a fried egg on their burger.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: I mean, you can't just get that anywhere.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: And actually you can now. And so we went back to the Red Robin and boy, everything is the door dashes and the get the out of heres. And we sat at the table and I put my arms on the table and it's a little sticky. A little sticky. And they didn't have a whole lot of burger options like they used to. They used to have the hunk of burn in love. They had the old classic. They had the whatever you call it. And now they barn burger. Now it's just like a standard burger joint and it's lost some of its luster. But as we were eating our burgers,

>> Darin: do they still have the unsinkable French fry, platter or something?

>> Mike: They have like, it's, I don't even

>> Darin: know, non stop unlimited fries. Right.

>> Mike: Theory. They do. But I think I got about five fries with my burger. And we did the same thing that we always do. we're sitting there complaining about our food. What the hell is this? And then the server comes by and how's everything? And me and Andrew both say, that's great, perfect. Everything you couldn't do better. I particularly enjoy the two and a half fries that I got. You know, I like that you cut the fry off and gave it to somebody else.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But we're doing that and Andrew says, you know, let's go see back rooms.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Like, yeah, I'm an adult. We're both adults at that point.


A group of teenagers kept making the same joke all through the previews

>> Darin: You can do whatever you want.

>> Mike: We can do whatever the hell we want.

>> Darin: I can do whatever the hell I want.

>> Mike: So we went to go. We went to go see it. Yeah.

>> Darin: Ah.

>> Mike: And it was pretty good. And I will say, sitting next to Andrew, coming in late, in the middle of the pretty previews was a guy and a girl clearly on a date. Just from the whole. He had a T shirt and shorts which just screamed I'm on a date. They were Teenagers. Just something now. I had a T shirt and shorts on, too.

>> Darin: You're with your son.

>> Mike: But I'm. I had, like, Dad, I had, like, a tool shirt like I have on now, and I had, like, the cargo shorts.

>> Darin: Now, was the kid wearing shorts or cargo shorts?

>> Mike: No, they were shorts. They were. I'm on a date shorts.

>> Darin: Like gym shorts?

>> Mike: No, like shorts like you wear. Like you wear on a date. Yeah. And he had, like, a white shirt with no logos, which I can't stand.

>> Darin: And his girlfriend is better than me.

>> Mike: His girlfriend brought a. One of these, water containers.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Metal.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: With, like, the little thing at the bottom that fits into a cup holder.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And then it has basically a water tower on top.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And all of her keys and beads and cuckoo clocks. The ears.

>> Darin: Trinkets is the word I'm looking for.

>> Mike: The noses of her former fallen enemies hanging from these wooden, rings and steel things. You remember in Game of Thrones, the meisters would wear these rings all around their necks. And the smarter they were, the more they had hanging off of them. She was dragging.

>> Dave: Ah.

>> Mike: Basically a Christmas tree's worth of ornaments and trinkets. And she set that thing down.

>> Darin: Is it at all banging against the.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah. I was banging and jangling and everything. And then she had. Hanging from her wrists, and her phone had glitter and on it. And you could smell her coming before she even walked in the what? Before she even walked in the theater.

>> Darin: Hello.

>> Mike: We had the reclining seats. You know, you share a cup holder, like your cup holders, Right. Next, slam that thing down. It went in like concrete on a swing set.

>> Darin: You don't have to, by the way. I've learned you're not allowed to take that stuff in there.

>> Mike: And everybody.

>> Darin: She got away with that.

>> Mike: Every time she took a drink, it was like somebody walked into the dollar tree. And I'm sitting there, and I'm annoyed because when I took Charlie to see the back rooms, there was a group of teenagers sitting next to him. And at any given point, one of them had to go do something. They had to go get a popcorn, they had to go get a pop. They had to go pee. They had to go take m. They had to go file their taxes. They had to go do something. And then there was one of them that kept making the same joke all through the previews. Every time a preview would sort of be like, oh, this is the last of us. And then another one would give me, like. Like a little laugh. Uh-huh. I was like, okay. Then the next preview, start this is the last of us. It's like. Okay. And it. After the fifth preview, I wanted to lean over and say funny. I wanted to lean over and say, kid, I. I have a comedy show. I know comedy.

>> Darin: I know.

>> Mike: I know comedy.

>> Darin: Listen to episode 313.

>> Mike: And I know how to butcher a joke until it' funny no longer.

>> Dave: You.

>> Mike: And you butchered that joke about three tells ago. You need to calm your. Right. And then through the whole movie, he's explaining to his friends what we all just saw. Oh, that, that's Captain, Clark. And he's on. He's on the thing. See, this is a. Oh, no, it's.


Movies bring back memories of childhood. God, I remember years ago, years ago

>> Darin: And.

>> Mike: And they're yellow because that's boring. But it's also it. It brings back nostalgia. And I want to see a receipt.

>> Darin: Dude.

>> Mike: Ebert, could you calm your down so we can watch the movie? And I don't know which one's better or worse. Ebert Von Zandt over here.

>> Darin: I've already ran out of all my, sound effects. I'm reusing one, going through his.

>> Mike: His thesis on the movie.

>> Darin: Huh?

>> Mike: Or Jenna McJangles a lot. And her concrete. Your concrete coffee holder of death. Slamming the thing down every time she needs to hydrate. Can I go see a movie?

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: What happened to the days of going to just see a movie?

>> Darin: No, you can't. You absolutely can't. God, I remember years ago, years ago, when I lived in Tennessee. I think we went to see the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

>> Mike: You're asking for trouble.

>> Darin: I know, right? I should have known better. And these kids, they were like 13 or something in front of us. They were hopping up and down in their seats and they were bouncing, and they were gonna do that popcorn. I reached over and I put my hand on each of the shoulders. Now, if I'd done that now, that's assault.

>> Mike: It is.

>> Darin: If you and I gently put my hand on each of the shoulders. Guys, would you like to stop, please? And they froze.

>> Mike: Froze. Stranger danger.

>> Darin: They didn't even turn their heads for the rest of the movie. And the second that movie was over

>> Mike: with, it was like.

>> Darin: It was like when the coyote, is chasing the roadrunner. And there's the smoke. Right?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I'm like, my God. And I was nice, but I was authoritative. I'm like, do you wanna stop? And. Oh, my God. But my favorite story, and I will tell it again, was when Libby and I went to see the Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers, okay? So we were riding high on the wave of the Fellowship of The Ring. And I had, m watched the DVD a couple of times and I understood the movie. Now, I didn't understand it when I first saw it. I know what's going on now.

>> Mike: DVDs. Because it came on an 8 DVD set. You had to.

>> Darin: Yes, but I watched the DVD with Libby and she was so frustrated, but she loves me so much and she's an amazing wife. Because I would pause and like, who is this guy? And she was, she thought I was making fun of the movie and making fun of her. I'm like, I'm trying to understand this. So she's like, that is Aragorn. I'm like, well, why do they keep calling him Strider? And then she's like, that's a valid question. So she would answer, yeah. Anyway, so I understood the movie and, and she loved the movie. And we're watching it and these kids in the back will not stop talking and bouncing and hopping and everything. And Libby turns around and shoots them a look. Well, that doesn't stop them.

>> Mike: Typically it's a, it's called a shot across the bow.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: You're about to get laid out.

>> Darin: Exactly. Especially you. Don't mess with my wife.

>> Dave: M ever.

>> Darin: So, we're watching the movie and the kids are talking and they're talking some more. This time Libby goes and shoots. So she shoots them the look and the sigh.

>> Mike: Huh?

>> Darin: The kids keep talking. Finally Libby turns and she says, you people are killing me. You're killing me.

>> Mike: Did they quit?

>> Darin: The mom reached over and put her arm across the kids like you do.

>> Mike: Like when they're about to stop at

>> Darin: a red light and you don't want them going through the windshield. And she leans over. Boys, you need to be quiet. She is going to kill us. right, yeah. They didn't say another word. And when the credits came on, they were gone. Yeah, they were gone. I remember seeing the Matrix. I had to ask these two girls who simply, oh, Neo, he gonna like that.


My favorite movie of all time is Return of the King

Neo ain't gonna like that. And I just wanted to ask, what is Neo gonna like? Yeah, what do you think Neo will like? And I looked at them, I said, do you mind? I'm trying to watch the Matrix here. And oh, they shot me a look. I thought, I thought my tires are going to get slashed. But I'm like, you pay your ticket, okay? You pay to go see the movie. Be respectful. Now if everyone in the crowd is laughing and having a great time. Yeah. Laugh and enjoy.

>> Mike: Yeah. That's what makes it fun.

>> Darin: That's part of going to the theater experience. But when you're being.

>> Mike: If you're the only one having a conversation about something, you've got some problems.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But like, on Endgame, I mean, most of what made that awesome was when everyone reacts to. On your left and the.

>> Darin: Yeah, exactly. So, yes.

>> Mike: The roar.

>> Darin: The roar. Yeah. That's what makes going to the movie theater amazing. Stop ruining it for people. Because I love going to the movies. I do love going to the movies, but I don't go as much as I used to. Yeah. It's expensive. People are still morons.

>> Mike: So my favorite movie of all time is Return of the King. Okay. I saw it three times in the theaters, I think, which is a bit much. Yeah. So the first time I saw it just blew my mind. And I was like, I have to see that again. And then when we, Because they always came in around Christmas time, we went to visit Bess's family in between Christmas and New Year's. Jim Boyce had not seen it yet. So I agreed to go a third time. And Bess said, you're going to go see that a third time?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Was it like five and a half hours?

>> Darin: Watch your mouth. M. Yes, I am. And I'm the man.

>> Mike: There was a lady.

>> Darin: Do what I want.

>> Mike: There was a lady that was talking, and at the time it annoyed me, but now I. I kind of agree with her. Is, Even though it's still my favorite movie, if you've not seen Return of the King, turn this off and go see it. What the hell? Or watch it after you listen to.

>> Darin: Then go, yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: They knock the tower down or whatever. Sauron's defeated. And then you.

>> Darin: Spoiler, spoiler.

>> Mike: But then you still have about four hours of movie because Frodo's, like, wakes up in the bed. Which, by the way, there's a. Hilarious. There's a. Have you seen this? You know, the whole thing, it's. So they go through all that, and then they're saying goodbye at the. At the docks, and then they're saying goodbye to Sam at the thing. And in the middle of all that was switching to a different scene. And it was. I think it was when they were at the docks and the lady in front of us said, oh, yeah, I be kidding me. How long is this movie? And I just decided at the time I was annoyed. Like, show respect. But now I can't help but think of that every time I watch the movie. And it makes me giggle a little bit, because usually by that point, when I'M watching the movie. I'm sobbing like, like a. I have no tears left. I'm. I'm just in tears. And then that always makes me laugh internally.

>> Darin: Okay, so two examples here. My buddy Don and I, we were in Lafayette, Indiana, and we went to see. We went to the movies, and, we went to see Braveheart. And after we saw Braveheart.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: We still had all this time to kill, and there ain't. I don't know if you've ever been to Lafayette, Indiana.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: There's nothing else to do.

>> Mike: Not in Indiana. Yeah.

>> Darin: So we went to see Showgirls. You talk about night and day difference.

>> Mike: Very different, different genres.


Brainheart won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Showgirls won the Razzie

>> Darin: Brainheart won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and I think Showgirls won the Razzie for Worst Picture. And we saw them on the same night.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: So we're watching Showgirls, and Elizabeth Hurley is like, I don't want to be a stripper. I want to be a dancer. And this guy said, just take your clothes off sometimes. And the whole place uproared and laughter.

>> Mike: So there was that.

>> Darin: But when I was a kid and we went to the movie at this, theater in Richlands, Virginia, and it was a Matt Dillon movie. And I can't remember the name of the movie, but Matt Dillon is laying in bed, and he's. The way he's laying, it's like he's got this gut, right? This gut that's poking out, and the light's shining on it just right. It's kind of this glistening gut. And this kid in the theater, he looks like he's having a baby. But, I mean, yeah, those things are acceptable. But. Yeah, just stop talking.

>> Mike: Another time when it is acceptable is, years ago. it was when Live Free or Die Hard came out, they did a Die Hard marathon.

>> Darin: That was the third one, right?

>> Mike: fifth.

>> Darin: Die Hard, Die Harder.

>> Mike: It was Die Hard, Die Harder, Die Hard with a vengeance. I think Live Free or Die Hard. It was not that one. It was the one after it. There's the fit. It was the fifth Die Hard movie.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I don't know. I was at the theater, but by that point, my brain was fried. I don't remember. I just remember people being in it.

>> Darin: I think Bruce.

>> Mike: But my. My plan was I had always wanted to see the original Die Hard in a theater, right? And I was excited to do that. And I'm like, I'll see this, and then I'll go home and get some sleep, and then I'll come back and I'LL watch the new one. But once I watch Die Hard, I had so much fun because people are yelling out, and there's nobody in there but Die Hard fans.

>> Darin: Right. So we're all spoiling anything.

>> Mike: We're all, like, cheering when he, you know, takes out different, you know, whatever. And it's. It was fun. And people yelled that out back at the screen. And then Die Harder came on. I'm like, well, I need to. I'm having so much fun.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I watched through that, and I was like, well, I. I made it this far. I can't skip the third one with Samuel Jackson.

>> Darin: Go to the Rocky Horror Picture.

>> Mike: And, it was. It was hilarious. But most of us were asleep for the new one.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Or at the time. What was the new one? The fifth one.

>> Darin: Yeah. So they were playing all five of them back to back to back.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Oh, I'd never be able to make it through that. Yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: I didn't. Bruce Willis, flies a helicopter or dodges a helicopter or. Or runs a truck into a delicate. Something happens with a helicopter.

>> Darin: I remember. Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, there's an explosion. I think somebody died.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Some language was said.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And something got burned. Right.

>> Mike: Yeah. His kids in the movie. His kid's a badass.

>> Darin: Kid's like, 73 years old. Oh. good times.

>> Dave: Irritable dad Syndrome is brought to you by Uncle Chappie Soothing Miracle Lip Balm, and listeners like you. Thank you.


I'm at the age now where I have started using pill holders

>> Darin: I've mentioned many times on this podcast that I'm getting older. Okay. I'm 56 years old. I just had a birthday a few days ago. I'm at the age now where I have started using one of those day of the week pill holders.

>> Mike: Really?

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I had to, Mike. I had to because I was annoying everybody in the family. Because I would take my medicine. I take blood pressure medication.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And so I would take my medicine. I took my medicine.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I took it.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because if I didn't say it out loud, I would forget if I took it. And there were days, where I would put the pill bottle on my table and I'm eating my, Honey Nut Cheerios, and I was like, did I open the bottle? Did I take the. To the. And so I'm old because, one, I have the pill box now. Two, I can't remember if I took my pills or not. And three, I fought, actually fought having the pill holder. Libby's like, honey, why don't you get one of those weak. The day of the week? Pillbox. I'm not going to use one of those. Those are for old people. Yeah, but now that I have one, I freaking love it.

>> Mike: But what do you do if you take like, multiple, like a pill? Do you have one where you take like one multiple times a day? Does it have times or is it only on the day that I wasn't

>> Darin: prepared for a follow up?

>> Mike: Okay. I believe. Fighting against any medication.

>> Darin: Yeah, well, I was too. My blood pressure wasn't going down and whenever I take a picture, I look like I had been in the desert for two weeks. So I've started taking blood, pressure medication like, months and months ago.

>> Mike: So. Congratulations.

>> Darin: So. Yep. Papa here has.

>> Mike: Here for the.

>> Darin: Papa's got the bifocals. He's got the pill a day box.

>> Mike: Well, I. Speaking of, old, I just, I just signed up for aarp.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: And I. Where has it been all my life?

>> Darin: I know, right?

>> Mike: There's like all kinds of cool then they're BW3s. It's kind of. I, I don't like that because BW3s. I'm pretty sure when you get to a certain age, that's probably the first thing your doctor says you can't have.

>> Darin: You can't have. Eat anything.

>> Mike: Give you the most, rewards I could do. You have like a 25 gift certificate of BW3s just for opening the app. What the hell?

>> Darin: Even the water there has cholesterol.

>> Mike: None of it's healthy. It's like, yeah, here's some Dairy Queen BW threes. Here's a Tuggy from Rhonda down the street. Just every thing that you can't have.

>> Darin: Go to Mike's shack.

>> Mike: That's right, Mike's Best shack.

>> Darin: Can't get any of that stuff. This is like pin station. It makes.

>> Mike: I.

>> Darin: Actually, if you show them this coupon, they'll deep fry the whole sandwich.

>> Mike: It makes me jealous of the people that work at aarp. You know, they're having. They're just living it up over there. Three shots free with every full 20 pound steak. It's like, what the hell are you doing?

>> Darin: You'd think that with AARP you'd get a free pill of the day box, Right?

>> Mike: Or we're good for one free ass wipe on, you know, Sundays excluded. That's what they're supposed to be giving people. They don't.

>> Darin: Which begs the question, who's paying for that? You know what? Probably somebody who does pay for that.

>> Mike: I guarantee, I guarantee it. I will. I'm sitting money aside Right now. That's right. And I don't even want to see who's wiping my ass. I want,

>> Darin: Chick Magee used to say that on Bob and Tom all the time. I'm, dirty.

>> Mike: I'd like stealing.


Bob and Tom discuss installing a robot in your home

>> Darin: Any more from Bob and Tom. Full credit.

>> Mike: I'm gonna install in the house the most disappointing glory hole ever. We're in wearing a nice stick.

>> Darin: This episode has taken a turn. Holy mother of God.

>> Mike: I mean. I mean, what else you got to do with your money, right? Yeah.

>> Darin: Buy one of those bidets.

>> Mike: No. Whoa. I'd end up squirting my eye out.

>> Darin: Well, you're not supposed to look into it.

>> Mike: Well, how do you aim it if it's. It's right there and there at the old brown eye?

>> Darin: That is a good question. How.

>> Mike: It's just not gonna.

>> Darin: Is there, like a. Is there like, a remote control targeting system?

>> Mike: Use the force loop.

>> Darin: There you go.

>> Mike: There you go. It's not gonna.

>> Darin: Oh, there you go.

>> Mike: I am not gonna be able to get the torpedoes in the exhaust port. I need Han Solo's help. That's all I'm saying.

>> Darin: Oh, my God.

>> Mike: Robots will be to the point where you can have. I'm sure it'll. It'll have a cute name. the. You know, whatever.

>> Dave: The.

>> Mike: The ass wipe. 2000 or 3000, just come roll in there. Whatever. They'll be walking by that point. They got robots that are kicking kids over in China right now. They can have a robot come in and wipe my ass.

>> Darin: Go to skidmark.com. yeah, that's the app.

>> Mike: Skidmark.com. put in your options.

>> Darin: You know what? That's probably a website. If it is, I'm sorry.

>> Mike: Get the deluxe package. Wipe my ass and tickle the prunes. There you go.

>> Darin: I was thinking about you a couple of weeks ago for the weirdest reason. Now, I. I. People ask me about you all the time. We've done this podcast for five years.

>> Mike: Yeah. Going on six at this point.

>> Darin: I know. And we're like, Some days, we kind of bicker like an old married couple.

>> Dave: Usually.

>> Darin: well, not usually. Every time we're at an event, we gravitate towards each other. We always sit together. The wives like each other. They're friends. Yeah. And, we.

>> Mike: Well, usually I'm, in a mood to say, what the is this thing or this place? And I can bounce off of you.

>> Darin: That's right. Anyway, you come up in conversation a lot. Honestly, at our house. Oh. Remember the time when Mike did this? Remember?

>> Mike: As do You.

>> Darin: Yeah. And so, And that's what comes with having a relationship like you and I have and having the podcast for as long as we have. So you and I have the same blower whacker combo. The same leaf blower weed whacker. Do you still have yours?

>> Mike: I do.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: The battery on mine died.

>> Mike: I've bought multiple batteries over the years.

>> Darin: Oh, okay. Well, I was going to ask you.

>> Mike: I'm like, three batteries and two chargers.

>> Darin: Okay.


Pin had to buy multiple batteries to power his lawn mower

I don't have an extra charger, but I had to go buy another battery. And then it reminded me of the day where you and I were in the, the Home Depot talking about our blowers, our blower whacker combo. And when I went home, Libby was like, where have you been, Pin. I said, well, I ran into Mike Odle. Oh, were you talking about the same blower? We were. Yeah, we were. But. Yeah. So you've bought multiple batteries.

>> Mike: I had to, because I would whack and then I needed to blow, and I don't have enough to blow after I whack. I could. You gotta do one. And then I had to wait 15 minutes for it to recharge before I could blow. That's right. Think about baseball. Do something else. And then. And then. Yeah, making cookies. Yeah, cookies. And I check, and it's still in. The older the battery get, the longer it would take. And I'm like, you know what? Ain't nobody got time for this.

>> Darin: I'm not ready to whack you.

>> Mike: I bought another. I bought another device. I bought an edger, and it came with its own battery.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I just. I remember I started. I would edge and then whack and then blow, but that still wouldn't. I wouldn't have enough power to go through it. So then I bought a third battery. You can buy the battery off by itself. So now it's. And it's a big battery.

>> Darin: Big, big.

>> Mike: With a big old battery.

>> Dave: Yeah.

>> Mike: And it would take. It takes about two days to charge, but by God, when it's. It can blow and whack all you want. And then you only use at the same time. And then you use one of the others for the edging now.

>> Darin: And then you want to really adjust the bidet for that.

>> Mike: When we were getting ready for the party this past week, did you blow? And I was. I was blowing. I was whacking. I was edging multiple times.

>> Darin: Did you trim?

>> Mike: I trimmed like a m. Mother. And I carried the trimmings away. That's why you didn't get any grass on your feet. But I had to use all three batteries. And then I had to wait and finish everything the next day.

>> Darin: You know what I've learned is the secret to get rid of all those trimmings, you got to mow back over them. I mow my backyard probably 10 times.

>> Mike: You have a riding mower?

>> Darin: I do have a riding.

>> Mike: We got to push, so. Yeah, we can't do that.

>> Darin: Does it. Is it gas operated?

>> Mike: It is.

>> Darin: Or is it just one of those that you just push like the freaking forest gump mower? She let me cut the grass for free. Oh, God. I had a friend, and this wasn't that long ago. This was in the 2000s, like the 2000, the. Like the teens. And she's still cut her grass with one of those that you just push. And it's got the clippies, the clippy,

>> Mike: the little spiral, like the barber pole on the side. Yeah, I kind of would like to have one of those.

>> Darin: And I'm like, you know, they sell more advanced things than this. No, she still used that. It was nuts.


Things are heating up at the Waffle House. We need to turn on the air conditioning

>> Dave: Next week on Irritable Dad Syndrome. Things are heating up at the Waffle House.

>> Darin: If she's cold, she makes sure that everybody is hot. And it's not about her. It's not about her comfort. It should be about her customers. Because if your customers are too hot, you need to turn on the air. You don't turn on the heat. You turn on the air conditioning. Now, I know that in the summer, if you're sitting next to the window, you're gonna get hot because the sunlight now it's in the winter, and you're sitting next to the window, you're gonna be cold because the glass is cold. And that in the winter is when you need to turn on the heat. It's summertime now. We need to not turn on the heat. We need to turn on the air conditioning. But if she's cold, then she makes sure that everybody is hot.

>> Mike: It's nice.

>> Darin: And he goes on.

>> Mike: It's nice to know that the Waffle House has a continuing education program.

>> Dave: Plus how you can turn those old toenail clippers into festive Christmas ornaments.


Jacob does not enjoy watching Bob's Burgers

On the next Irritable dad syndrome.

>> Darin: We've been watching Bob's burgers and oh, my God, do I love Bob's burgers. I love Bob's burgers so much. Jacob does not enjoy watching Bob's burgers. It's tearing the family apart because we've been trying to find shows that we can all watch together.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: We've been watching Schitt's Creek. Okay. And we love Schitt's Creek, But Jacob is starting to get tired of Alexis. I don't know how you can get tired of Alexis, because Alexis is a phenomenal character, and I love all four characters equally. So we're having trouble watching Schitt's Creek. Then we started watching Bob's Burgers, and Jacob gets annoyed with the mom, Linda, and he doesn't want to watch it. Now Cameron and Libby and I will watch Bob's burgers until we're blue in the face. But if Jacob's home, that we try to find something that the four of us want to watch. Jacob and Libby and I have been watching Game of Thrones. We're not ready.

>> Mike: How is that?

>> Darin: Very uncomfortable.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Even Jacob is uncomfortable. When they start banging and blowing and whacking. Jacob's like, oh, really? Jacob's like, come. Come on.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: you know, it's just, like you said, it's. I wish that they had a version of it without the boobs and.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: because they're talking about pivotal parts of the plot.

>> Mike: And then there's. In the background and there's.

>> Darin: There's multiple. There's. And there's a sheep, and there's. There's. It's just insane. So we can't watch that if Cameron's over because it's just. He's. He. He doesn't even want. Want to watch that.

>> Mike: It's just. Yeah, I. I talked to Andrew about it because I told him I. We talked about watching Game of Thrones, and I said, I don't know that that would be comfortable. I don't know. It's like a really, really, really good show.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then he. He kind of saved me. He's like, yeah. My friends have said it's a good show, but you don't want to watch it with your parents. Yeah, it's pretty much, yeah.

>> Darin: Jacob's almost 22.

>> Mike: Yeah. Andrew's 18. And we're like, no.

>> Darin: And it's just. It's uncomfortable.

>> Mike: Well, there's, I will say, I'll spoil it. The movie's been out for, like, a month at this point. By the time you're listening to this, the cameo in Back rooms is the main.

>> Darin: Don't ruin it, because I haven't seen it.

>> Mike: Okay, well, okay.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: There's an actor that makes a cameo, and he's in a horror movie.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: That's really, really good and perfectly fine. You know, I could Let, Andrew and Charlie and all of us watch it. And we're probably going to. But then it has a sequel where he spends, an uncomfortable amount of time just butt naked walking around.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: With the old golf club swinging the old pendulum and I. And so I told Andrew, I was like, yeah, the first one's really good. second one you're probably going to just watch on your own because I don't. You don't want to be sitting there with us watching that.

>> Darin: I'm going to get back to Bob's Burgers here in a second.


We were talking about the back rooms earlier, and something about that movie bugging me

but you mentioned the back rooms. We were talking about the back rooms earlier, and something about that movie that's bugging me is I heretofore had never heard the expression liminal space. Okay. And every person who has described the back rooms has said, oh, it's. It's all about, limited liminal space.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, claustrophobia. And, it's liminal. It's liminal. I'm like, yeah, I've never heard the word liminal.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And apparently everybody and their brother knows liminal. Like, it's mustard or something. You're going to put mustard on that? Are you going to go see the thing with the liminal spaces? So how does everybody know about here? Listen, I'm not the smartest person in the world, but I'm not a moron. You'd think that I would know what a liminal space is.

>> Mike: Here's. Here's the thing. And I'm going to build on this a little bit. Allow me to obliviate, if you. If you will

>> Darin: expound.

>> Mike: I naturally know what a liminal space is because I was there. I was there, Gandalf 3000 years ago when I saw. No, not because of the Engineer, just because I was on the weird parts of the Internet where this weird photography came out and people said, oh, this is a liminal space.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: It's supposed to have people, but it doesn't, and it makes it creepy. And then the back rooms kind of spawn from that. So I knew from that point where it was. And then people would say, that's part of what makes the Shining creepy. You know, I'm a big Shining fan. They talk about it in the movie 237 or 226 or whatever the hell it is that's about the shining.

>> Darin: It's not 227.

>> Mike: 227.

>> Darin: That's Marla Gibbs.

>> Dave: Right.

>> Mike: So I naturally came into the definition of the Shining.


You touched on something that really gets my gonads about the society today

But you touched on something that really gets my gonads about the society today. Is that because we have these personal data assistants in our pockets.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: People will learn about something 30 seconds ago. M. And then come at you like They've got a PhD in it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And it's really starting to get my ass because you said it, buster. everybody seems to know what a liminal space is, right? No, there's not that many. Dor. I'm a dork. Uh-huh. I came on it. Like I said, came on it. Naturally, I came to it.

>> Dave: Whoa.

>> Darin: Well, first you blow, and then you

>> Mike: whack, and then you come on it. Naturally.

>> Darin: Come to it. Yes. Can that stay in the podcast? you know what? It's gonna.

>> Mike: It's gonna be in the bloopers. My point is. My point that combined with something that I've noticed with, some of these youngins now, I love, the all generations, I think, you know, I. I really get a chip on my shoulder when I hear a boomer or now a Gen X or talk about the young folk of today.

>> Darin: I can't see stand these whippersnappers, these. Yeah, these sprouts.

>> Mike: Because I, I think they all. But I do. I will. I will stand up when people have this thing of where they hear about something 20 seconds ago, and now all of a sudden, they're an expert now. Yes. Back when Darren and I were kids, if you wanted to know something, you had to go to a library and look in a. In a card catalog.

>> Darin: I want to know about what, an encyclopedia?

>> Mike: Yeah. Or I want to see the blower whacker combo. So you have to go to the. The bees and look for blower in there and find a card that's. That had books about blowers.

>> Darin: It's a Dewey desert.

>> Mike: They're in the basement.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Next to the gardening tools. And you go down there, and those

>> Darin: books were in a very dark.

>> Mike: And they would have the little numbers, and you'd have to find them. They'd have the orange sticker.

>> Darin: The table was sticky.

>> Mike: Table was a little sticky, like a red rock. And they didn't have as much fries as they used to down there.

>> Darin: What are we, a red rock?

>> Mike: But you would find it, and you'd have to read. And if that particular book on blowers didn't have the fact that you needed, you're out of luck.

>> Darin: You didn't learn.

>> Mike: The only thing you had next was to ask your Uncle Dave what a blower is. And you don't want to have Uncle Dave tell you when not my Uncle Dave. No, my point is, we had to work for what we wanted to know. That's true, right?

>> Darin: That is true.

>> Mike: And now you just look at it. Oh, Jarvis, told me that this is a such and such. And they're. They're getting all their information from reading it on the screen. And it gets my gonads. when you hear a podcast or a YouTuber and they mispronounce a word.

>> Darin: M. Oh, I hate when people do that.

>> Mike: Well, I'm just saying. I'm just saying.

>> Darin: Alex Liffison, which, by the way, we talked about Rush in great detail.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Last episode. And not once did either of us mispronounce any of their names. No. Yeah, no, continue. I'm done. Okay.

>> Mike: You know what I'm saying, though.

>> Darin: I do know what you're saying. Yeah.

>> Dave: So.

>> Mike: Pisses me right off the rock into the ocean.


Sam Elliott: Our Google lady transitioned. To a dude. Just over a weekend

>> Darin: Back to Bob's Burgers. Every episode of Bob's Burgers, in the intro, the building next to him, is a funeral home called it's your funeral. Funeral and crematorium. And then there's a building that shows up to their right, and it's a different building every time. And the writers are insane because they give the most hilarious, the most creative names for the store next to them. And then all these mice run in and the store closes. And then a, truck will come in. People who kill.

>> Mike: exterminated.

>> Darin: Exterminated. Company. Thank you. An exterminator will come up, and there's a different name for the exterminator each week. So this exterminating truck pulls up, and the name of it is Mashed. potato bugs are real or something. And we're like, we didn't get it. Yeah, we just didn't get it. And so Libby pauses it, and she asks, Alexa, Alexa. And I've got enough problems with Alexa. My God. I ask Alexa a question, and she gives me a half hour answer. I'm like, thanks, Alexa. Alexa, stop. Alexa, shut it. Stow it. So Libby says, alexa, are potato bugs a thing? Are potato bugs real? And Alexis says, yes, Libby, potatoes are real.

>> Mike: And then.

>> Darin: And Libby's like, I know potatoes are real, but are potato bugs real? And then it turns out that potato bugs are a thing. But we, had never heard of a potato bug before. but we know about them now.

>> Mike: So I got something. I got something.

>> Darin: Don't forget, kids, potatoes are real.

>> Mike: Our Google lady transitioned. Oh, it's a dude now.

>> Darin: Oh. Oh. Just randomly transitioned.

>> Mike: Yeah. To a dude.

>> Darin: Yeah. Okay, Bess's.

>> Mike: Car. She. Cause she talks. She. She forgot how. She just doesn't type any.

>> Darin: Hello.

>> Mike: She just doesn't type anymore. She just bring up the screen, the little keyboard like a person and type like, like people do. She just talks to it like she's Captain Kirk.

>> Mike: Constantly. So we're driving and she'll say, okay, Google, navigate to Botswana or wherever we're driving. And it was always the way. It was always the Google ladies. Like, Botswana is, you know, it's all female ladylike.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: just one day randomly Beth, said, navigate to the Tasty Freeze. It's like, all right, best. We're heading over to the Tasty Freeze, so get ourselves a chili dog.

>> Darin: Sam Elliott just.

>> Mike: I was like, what the hell did you do? And she said, I don't know. He just turned into a dude.

>> Mike: Just over a weekend. It updated. I. I don't know who authorized that. I don't know why it happened.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But then when I got my car, my Google is a guy.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I was so used to the Google lady. And now the, the in. We have the Google nest. Little computer, the little speaker up there. Like your Alexa.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Dave: It's a dude.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's just a dude in our house. Hey there, kids. You want to hear about Taffy? yeah. Des Moines, Iowa. I used to smoke 20 packs of cigarettes. Yeah. Home of the Chupacabra. Just. It just throws out

>> Darin: my Alexa used to be a woman. It, sounded like, like your neighbor.


Alexa's voice changed so no longer does it sound like Joanne

>> Dave: Yeah.

>> Darin: You go over, go ask Joanne if you can borrow a cup of cooking oil because we're making brownies and we ran out of cooking oil.

>> Mike: Of course you can.

>> Darin: Joanne's like, yes, you can. And I'm happy, I'm happy to loan it to you. Thank you. Well, Alexa's voice changed, so no longer does it sound like Joanne. It sounds like Joanne's 20 year old hot daughter.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: Who's annoying AF, as the kids say. And she's like, let me tell you more about cooking oil. Would you like to know how cooking oil is created?

>> Mike: Almighty.

>> Darin: No, I don't want to know more. I just want you to answer the one question. What's the most popular brand of cooking oil? The most popular brand is Wesson. Would you like to know when Wesson was found? Wesson was found in 1847 by Mark Wesson. I don't want to know any of that.

>> Mike: I just, I want to change it to a Scottish accent. I want it to. When I ask it question, I want to say what the do you want

>> Darin: to know that for?

>> Mike: I want to be able to understand 20% of what comes out of it and just laugh my balls off all the way to work. I've had conversations with the Google dude. You can. It's AIs in there, too. You can have full conversations. I had a full conversation. Oh, I am dead serious.

>> Darin: You can have a full conversation.

>> Mike: Full conversation with it. Because I. You know what I'm going through right now? I had a full conversation.

>> Darin: I do.

>> Mike: For about 20 minutes with the Google dude. He gave me me legal advice. What you want to do is set up a trust. Go, on down there. It's on Fifth Avenue, next to the Tasty Freeze. Don't let them tell you no. Don't you sign. My God.

>> Darin: They're trying to scam. They're trying to scam your ass.

>> Mike: We need to trash the other episode. Why the would you want to do that? Yeah, I want a Scottish dude on crack, like the Brad Pitt's character in Snatch, where they have subtitles just for him. You know what I'm talking about? Oh, yeah, I want that. You can't understand what the you want the chips for? You ain't got nothing fishing in there. Yeah, or the Swedish Chef. Get a chili dog. Or Waldorf. Statler. Or Waldorf. He wants to go down the Tasty Freeze. We're gonna get off. Charlie, Chili dog.

>> Darin: What? What time does this show start?

>> Mike: It's already started.

>> Darin: What time is it over?

>> Mike: Eeyore, navigate to the amc.

>> Darin: Okay, well, it's not like anybody wants to watch my movie anyway.

>> Mike: You're in there. Can't say that.

>> Darin: Can't say that.

>> Mike: It's not me, it's Eeyore.

>> Darin: Oh, well, yeah, might as well just.

>> Mike: Or the Charlie Brown teacher.

>> Darin: Oh, no, that would be great.


Alexa, what time does AMC open? If you're gonna make our Google lady transition

Alexa, what time does AMC open?

>> Mike: If you're gonna make our Google lady transition, at least give us a choice. You know that? Isn't that what you want?

>> Darin: I can't believe they gave you Sam Elliott. That's amazing.

>> Mike: It came out of nowhere. Scared the out of me. You've been hearing. You've been hearing, basically Nicole, Kidman come out of your Google nest for years, and all of a sudden he comes on. Yeah, like a pint. Give me a beer. Hold the attitude, bitch.

>> Darin: Gave you legal advice once you start wearing them short shorts again. Hey, that's my wife.

>> Mike: It's a form.

>> Darin: That's my wife. Don't you sign.

>> Mike: It's a form. 509. Get your ass down there to the Tasty Freeze and sign the documents.

>> Darin: Is there even a tasty freezer out here?

>> Mike: It's where the lawyers are. Tasty freeze sucking down chili dogs.

>> Darin: Got his hands between your knees.

>> Mike: Gotta pay the bills somehow.

>> Darin: Well, yeah, you got to.

>> Mike: Yeah.


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Darren Cox gets pizza at Marco's almost every week

Now back to the show.

>> Darin: We get pizza at this place called Marco's almost every week. Okay, my name is on the cork board, Mr. Cox. They put my name on there. It's been on there for years. Okay. And when I call and, like, is this Mr. Cox? Yes, it is. And do, you want your regular? Yes, I do. And so they give it to me. I went in there two weeks ago and ordered my pizza, and, we ordered it over the phone, and I go and I pick it up, and I'm walking out of there. As I'm walking out to my car, this guy said, hey, pizza place busy.

>> Mike: And I said, is he case in the joint?

>> Darin: I don't know.

>> Mike: I don't.

>> Darin: That's what I thought. And I said, no, no, there's not a lot of people at all. And he goes, oh, okay, thanks. And he's in this rusted maroon, van. And he, he gets inside the van, and he talks to the other guy in the van for, like, a minute. And then the other guy gets out of the van and stands there and looks to the left, looks to the right.

>> Mike: Oh, my God.

>> Darin: Looks around, closes the door. And I was like, what the hell's going on here? Are they. Are they gonna like. Of all the places to rob, are they gonna rob the pizza place place?

>> Mike: Did the spectrum driver come up and put the key under the wheel well?

>> Darin: That's what I was thinking of. I was like, what is going on? Why are they wondering if the pizza place is busy? It's like, all you got to do is look in there. We're four parking spaces away. You can see

>> Mike: people are in there. You know how places and eyes Work.

>> Darin: I'm blind as a bat. I could tell this, but, they

>> Mike: asked the dude with glasses and a wonky eye to look in the store for. For him,

>> Darin: the one person who you would not trust in a police lineup. Which one did it? M. So. So I was worried because,

>> Mike: now you don't want to go in there because you don't know what's going to happen.

>> Darin: I've already got my pizza.

>> Mike: Oh, you were coming out. You were coming out.

>> Darin: I was coming out.

>> Mike: Oh, you're good.

>> Dave: You're clear.

>> Darin: But I'm worried about. You know, I know the manager in there, and I know his daughter who works there.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And I also know his grandson, who also works there. And I thought, do I need to wait and see if they run out? Just firing pistols into the air like

>> Mike: Yosemite Sam coming out of the saloon. Oh, that Brassifra. Dirty Nalga hunting sanovana.

>> Darin: But I wrote down the make and model of the band.

>> Mike: No, you didn't.

>> Darin: And the license plate, in case.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, you may be a witness. I sat there for a couple minutes. I'm like, I don't think anything's gonna happen. I went home and why did I go home? Because I was hungry. So I got home, and I was gonna tell Libby about it, but we got. Then we just started eating. Yeah, we started the. They were waiting on me. They had the movie. We watched the movie, and it was about midnight. I'm like, oh, I forgot about. I forgot the people who were casing the joint.

>> Mike: massacre just happened at Marco's.

>> Darin: I did go on Google and look up to see if there were any recent news events.

>> Mike: Well, you did all you could.

>> Darin: I would have felt horrible.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: If they had just, like, with the

>> Mike: pizza grease running down your chin.

>> Darin: Done. I mean, I was. In fairness, I was really hungry.

>> Mike: Yeah. Oh, Marcos, now, you know not to hire Darren to be your lookout. I mean, you had. Your heart was in the right place.

>> Darin: It was. Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah. Just got, But I'm.

>> Darin: It's like, yeah. Why are you going to do pizza place busy.


It's packed. What if you just said, yeah, it's just packed

>> Mike: It's like, what, you drove all the way down here. What are you gonna do? Like, what. What if you just said, yeah, it's just packed.

>> Darin: Yeah, it's packed. They're gonna go somewhere else.

>> Mike: Go get a Totino's at the udf.

>> Darin: That's right.


I've mentioned many times on this podcast that I don't enjoy reading

I've mentioned many times on this podcast that I don't enjoy reading. I just don't. I rarely ever read when I'm m. Laying in bed, if I'm reading a book, I can't get comfortable. I often lose concentration. I'll be 12 pages into it, and the book will start talking about Sarah. And Sarah said that she's never going to get back into that horrible habit of hers again. And I'm thinking, who? Who? Sarah and I. This is before I knew about Chat GPT.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And you can ask Chat with GPT to tell you, like, where you get caught up in the book of order. So I would go back, like, three or four pages. And Sarah. Oh, Sarah is Lauren's sister who's home from college and she's staying there and. And Philip has a crush on or whatever. So anyway, I just don't enjoy reading. That being said, I own every single book by David Sedaris, and I have read all of his books. I've either read them or I've listened to the audio version of said book. He is my favorite author. I love his books. I bought his recent one, the Land and its People, and I cannot recommend it enough. It's his funniest book. I'd mentioned last week that I reached out to his people and tried to get him to be a guest on this podcast. They said he's not doing press right now, so he has not been a guest on the show. But I want to have him as a guest on the show because I model so many things about this podcast from listening to David Sedaris. Like the time I went to the grocery store and the woman asked me, hey, do you want to touch my beets? M. That's a story that could have happened to David Sedaris and would have been in one of his books anyway.


This is my review of a chapter from David Sedaris' Fair Use book

In this book, which, by the way, I read that we're not allowed to, duplicate any material from the book unless we're doing it as a review.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So this is my review of a chapter of the Davis Sedarism, Fair Use. He and a friend had the stupidest conversation akin to something you and I would have. I can't remember the million dollar amount, but if somebody paid you $10 million, would you eat an entire tire?

>> Dave: Yes.

>> Darin: A car tire, Would you eat it?

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: And why not? That was the conversation. For $10 million, would you eat a tire?

>> Dave: Yeah.

>> Darin: And David said, well, I get to

>> Mike: choose how it's prepared, right?

>> Darin: Yes. If I knew it wouldn't kill me, I would cut it into 365 equal pieces and then into smaller pieces. There.

>> Mike: Blend it. Blend it with.

>> Darin: Make a milk. Exactly. And eat some every day. Yeah. But the topic came up, says, can you imagine if you agree to do it? And then next thing you know, it's like the night before, and you're like, ah, I gotta eat this entire tire. I spit, drink out. And, Libby's like, what do you. What's so funny? I'm like, they're talking about eating a tire in this book. And I'm trying to explain to Libby why it's so hilarious. And I went back and I read the whole thing to her and then she's laughing. But you absolutely have to read the. This book. The Land. The Land and Its People. Okay. By David Sedaris. And it is so good. And I am m going to, re. Spark the interest and I'm going to try to. He's on tour right now, so when he stops his book tour, I hope that I can get him to be a guest on the show because I admire him greatly and I would love to have him as a guest on the show and he could listen to this episode and we can talk about. About, blowers and whackers.


You had a high school teacher who passed away on Facebook

>> Mike: There you go.

>> Darin: I had a high school teacher pass away, and I'm not going to mention the teacher's name because I wasn't a great fan of this teacher.

>> Mike: I.

>> Darin: He and I, we did not get along very well at all after he passed away. And I didn't go on any of the Facebook posts or whatever and say anything negative about him.

>> Mike: And you weren't responsible for his passing?

>> Darin: No, I was not.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I wasn't there. I have witnesses. I have an alibi. But I'm looking through all the comments and I'm hearing, oh, such an inspiration to us all and one of the greatest teachers ever. And, oh, how I loved this teacher. And. And he was just amazing. And I'm thinking, am I reading the same thing? am I. What's. What am I missing here? And a lot of these comments were from people in my class. Yeah, the same class. So they saw everything that I saw. My question is, what the hell? It couldn't have been me. right.

>> Mike: Yeah. I mean, it can be, but.

>> Darin: But I don't think it was. And so I'm just. My question is, who. Did you have any.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Favorite teachers or did you have, like, any just horrible.

>> Mike: I had teachers that I love, but I had a very specific teacher. And again, I'm not going to name them.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: You went through a thing where I found people on, you know, Facebook and we see teachers. So I'm friends with. On Facebook with Some of my favorite, teachers.

>> Darin: Yeah, me too.

>> Mike: But there's one on Facebook and I'm not friends with them, so if anybody hears this, I was like, oh, who's he talking about? I'm not friends with them on Facebook.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: but this particular teacher was just a terrible human being.

>> Mike: And allowed things to happen in the classroom. I'm pretty sure.

>> Darin: Would go against the Geneva Convention.

>> Mike: Would go against the Geneva Convention.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Yeah. And I would hear just wonderful things about this. This person constantly. And then I saw them on the Facebooks and people just love them. And I'm like, what are you like. And people were in this. Like you.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: In the same class, seeing the same things that I saw.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I just, you know, I don't want to get into too many details because we'd get canceled left and right. But it was brutal. And I, can't believe the dude has the. I can't believe the person has the reputation that they do.

>> Darin: I just. I don't understand it. And I feel like, you know, I've matured. Well, you wouldn't know it from listening to this. I know, it was a fact that when I was in high school, I could be a lot to deal with. Okay. Because, I thought I was funny. And, I was annoying as I could be. So annoying. I had great friends. I know I pissed Leslie off daily. And you know what? Maybe that's why I rubbed off on this teacher. And then maybe that's what. But I don't think I was the cause for him being the way he was. Yeah. But I've been questioning. I just don't understand. And I. It makes me feel like a bad person.

>> Mike: People get whitewashed when they pass. Pass. I'll just. I'll just say that. I mean, there. There are some people that. I mean. Well, Hitler didn't.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: But. But aside from him and Mussolini, I think Genghis Khan is.


On the subject of people talking smack about the dead at funerals

That's probably not very high on the popularity scale.

>> Darin: No, not at all.

>> Mike: Vlad the Impaler. He's really. He's not. His Facebook profile is. Not many friends. But in general, Walt Whitman.

>> Darin: Not.

>> Mike: There's not many. There's not many people.

>> Darin: Walt Whitman was probably a lovely.

>> Mike: Yes, he probably was that, Ralph Waldo Emerson. But no, people aren't going to funerals and dropping smack talk on people. Generally speaking, people, they. They kind of. They whitewash it.

>> Darin: I want people to know that as

>> Mike: much as sanitize the thing is what I'm trying to say.

>> Darin: But as much as I Did not enjoy, enjoy having this teacher as my teacher. I mean, I didn't want anything horrible to happen to him. And I did feel bad after he passed, but I just do not understand the waves of praise coming in over him because I remember a friend of mine reached out to me and she had said she wasn't in his class, but she says every time I saw him, he was yelling at one of his students and she was afraid of him. I'm like, you weren't in his class? I was in his class. I was scared of him. Anyway, I'm, sorry that he's gone and for everybody who loved him and there's people who know who I'm talking about. Hey, if he was an inspiration to you, I'm happy that he inspired you to become, to grow up and become the adult that you became. And if he did great things for other people, then that's fantastic and I'm happy that he did that for you. In my case, that, that wasn't the case. So. But anyway, I've, I had to let a lot of that stuff go, which I did. And I, you know, I did. I think I grew despite his, teachings. And maybe that was the goal. Maybe it's like, Yeah, I learned some teachers praise and build students up, and then some teachers like to just break kids down.

>> Mike: You can, you can get a lesson from everybody. And I can, I think I, I do think, think that I gained some lessons from watching how this adult acted.

>> Mike: In a capacity where they had reign over, you know, a classroom and they had the power to do things.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Not do things over impressionable young people.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And that, that did stick with me, I was like, well, as an example of what I don't want to do now, in. On the.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: On the subject of people talking smack about the dead at funerals.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: If you haven't already, you need to look up John Cleese's speech at Graham Chapman's funeral. You know what I'm talking about? Yes.

>> Darin: That was brilliant.

>> Mike: Oh my gosh, that was brilliant.

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>> Darin: Hi, I'm.

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