IDS #148 - Roy the Virtual DJ

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Mike: [00:00:00] You sounded like the guy from plain streams and automobiles just now. 

Darin: First kid came out sideways. She didn't scream or nothing. Get your lazy butt out of that truck. She good. She's strong, she's little, but she's strong. 

Mike: You 

Darin: that shower, curtain ring, feller train. Don't run outta Wichita lesson. You're a.

Hog or cattle?

Mike: Dad, come on now because I said so. Why? Because I'm the grownup and 

Darin: that's how it is now. Where's my cookie? We're outta here. Come on.

Mike: Welcome 

Dave: to Irritable Dad syndrome. We eliminate the middleman and sell this podcast factory direct to you. Please welcome your hosts, Mike 

Mike: and Darren. Hello, I'm Darren. Hi, I am Mike. 

Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dance Syndrome. This is episode 

Mike: 1 48 on this [00:01:00] episode. Yeah, I'd like to talk about an AI dj. Why do you sound like Mr.

Rogers? Is that Mr. Rogers? You sound like Mr. Rogers neighborhood. I haven't even changed my shoes yet. Okay. Or your sweater. Yeah. I'm trying to be a more low key Mike. Okay. We've gotten complaints. Oh, really? Mike's yells Mike. Mike screams, who complains people. Okay, people complain. Okay. 

Darin: And I'm gonna talk about the world of TikTok.

We're very excited that you're here and at the end of the show. Yeah, we have a special announcement about next week. Yeah. So hang tight. Well, 

Mike: Yes. 

Darin: Yes. Mm-hmm. How you doing? I'm doing okay. So everybody who knows me. Yeah. Uhhuh knows that I'm an idiot. Okay? Yeah. I, I'm an idiot. I, you know, I have a, a Facebook page, okay?

I have a Twitter account at Darren Loves bacon. Nobody goes on my Twitter account. You're 

Mike: not an idiot. You're stupid. Well, okay. Okay. No, that's wrong, right? That's wrong. I'm goofy. You're goofy. I'm goofy. You're goofy. You're not stupid. Yeah. You couldn't be [00:02:00] funny and be stupid. 

Darin: Thank you. You can't. Thank you.

You can't. So, a few weeks ago I was on the Facebook and I was bored, and Darren Facebook boredom is a lethal combination. So I, I don't know how, but this is how my brain works. I was like, I wonder, Hmm. I wonder what the most popular type of apple is. That. And honestly that came into my mind. Yeah. Gala. So I went to, I went to Google.

Yeah. And I looked up and sure enough there is a list of the most popular types of Apple. Yeah. And so I went on Facebook and I said, I, you know, if you ever wondered what the most popular type of apple is, you can go on Google. Thank God for the internet. Right. Yeah. Well, the comment started pouring in Uhhuh, I hate Granny Smith.

And, and then another person said, you know, it's like honey crisp, in my opinion, are the best apples. Yeah. Okay. And they weren't even in the top five. So Yeah. And there was outrage. People were, were like, what? Hey, what happened? And we all agreed that we hated 

Mike: the, uh, granny, granny Smith. Well, here's the thing.

When I was a kid mm-hmm. I loved Granny [00:03:00] Smith apples. They're great if you're making 'em a pie. Well, when you're like, I would eat them like a, like a human being. Yeah. I would grab it and I would eat. I would eat it like a person does. Okay. And as I got older, not like a horse, I went a long, I had a long non-apple period.

I didn't even eat apple pie. For years. You went through a 

Darin: non-Apple period. Yeah, and then I came 

Mike: back. And then you came back to Apples because they're so basic. You know, I want a fruit. Oh, have an Have an Apple. Have an apple. Captain America. Okay. No. Get a real fruit, get a get a banana, or get a watermelon or something.

But I came back into the fold of apples. Okay. And everybody was talking about these, these honey crisps. Oh, they're, yeah. And then galas, uhhuh, there's this gala and that gala. Mm-hmm. And that, so I got, I, I didn't really get excited about the honey crisp. Okay. I liked the gala. The honey crisp seemed too, um, bulbous Bull bullous.

So 

Darin: I went. They were very penultimate. They were very, they were 

Mike: very [00:04:00] penultimate. Okay. They had, they were bulgy, they were huge bulgy fruit. And I liked the gala. The more refined, the more felt gala. Apples and gala. Gala. Gala. Oh, gala. I call, ill call 'em Gala. Gala because I'm an American. Okay. Okay. So I started going with those, and then I'm like, Hey, when I was a kid, Uhhuh, I like these grainy smith apples.

Yeah. And I got one and I bit into it, and it's, and you started to cry. It's like Satan's fruit. It's not done. 

Darin: No, it's not. It's not. Finished. You didn't put any sugar in this apple. 

Mike: It's, it's like, it's like they were in the middle of inventing the apple and somebody said, ah, fuck it. Or just threw 

Darin: it out when it was happened.

Just pushed it down the left. They didn't color it. No, they ain't a new, we won't even 

Mike: find worms in them. Worms won't even go to Green Smith. No, they 

Darin: won't. So, so anyway. I, I went off on this rant. Yeah. And I got a lot of comments and, and Shannon Brown was bitching about this apple and then someone was bitching about that apple and then, uh, my friend Marilyn didn't get it.

Yeah. She totally didn't get it. Cuz she [00:05:00] commented and then I replied to her. Yeah. With a very smart ass comment. No, about, that's exactly like something you would say, oh, well you like to say that. So, so Marilyn doesn't know me personally. Uhhuh Marilyn knows me. Through the Letterman fan page that I'm on.

Yeah. So I reached out to her and said, listen, I'm just screwing around. I'm bored. I'm on Facebook. Mm-hmm. I don't want you to think I'm being about these apples, cuz honestly I'm just, you know, she goes, oh, okay. I get it, but I don't get it. I understand that you're. Being, you know you. Yeah, but I don't get it.

Yeah. Anyway, there's a woman in my neighborhood who I forgot, follows me on Facebook. Okay. Okay. I'm taking a walk as one does now that it's nice outside. You're allowed to, right? Well you're allowed to go for a walk anytime. It's America. Yeah. So I'm out there and I'm taking a walk in my neighborhood and this car rolls by, stops.

Rolls the window down. Honey Chris.

Mike: You had a drive-by Apple preference. [00:06:00] 

Darin: And I said, and this was like the next day you got Apple jack. I got 

Mike: apple jack.

Darin: It was like two days later. And I'm like, what? And then she says, honey, Chris, I'm like, Oh yeah. Oh yeah, yeah. The, the joke. Yeah. Yeah. That's, there's nothing awkward about this conversation now. I'm like, yeah, I sure do. Uh, I sure do love those. Yeah. All right. Well be careful going home. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow.

Gotta love the internet. 

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Mike: Speaking of the internet. Yeah. So I fire up Spotify now. I'm a happening dude. You are an happen. I'm a pretty, I I 

Darin: You have your finger on the pulse of popular culture. Well, I try. 

Mike: You do. I get excited when I like a newish band. I was so excited. I didn't know you were newish. Oh, what? Okay. 

Darin: I thought you were Presbyterian.

We don't, 

Mike: we only celebrate on holidays. Gotcha. We don't observe all day. Right, right, right. Right. Um, I was excited when I liked AWOL Nation. Okay. They're a relatively newish band. Yeah. You've told me about them. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, Gojira, I mean, [00:08:00] long-term fans of the show Exactly. Know that I enjoy Gojira. Yes.

And they are a relatively new band, and, uh, they're disturbing. So they have that going for them. Yes. Uh, I enjoy the, the Pusser now, they're not that new of a band. No, but they're newish. Okay. They're newer than, let's say, led Zeppelin. Yeah. 

Darin: I think every band is, is newer than Led Zeppelin. 

Mike: Okay. And I'd like, I, I got, was really proud when I liked Modest Mouse years ago.

Okay. They were new at the time. Yes. I, I don't want to be that guy mm-hmm. That listens to the same stuff over and over. And I, I hear you. I've fallen those traps sometimes with the band that shall not be named Right. With tool. Mm-hmm. Uh, I went down a Pink Floyd rabbit hole a couple years ago, that pink, but Platter Placid for a long time.

Yeah. But they still, the Pink Floyd are amazing in my defense. They're badass. Yeah. 

Darin: Here's the ding. Anyone who says Pink Floyd or a bad band can go screw themselves 

Mike: occasionally. Mm-hmm. I like to find new bands. I to do too, hear your new music. Cause I don't wanna be that guy that doesn't know anything about new music.

Right. And I don't think that all new, new music sucks. I think that's a [00:09:00] don't either. Aro don't. Yeah. Right. My, my father was like that. Yeah. I think people like what they liked when they were teenagers and when they were in college or those years. Mm-hmm. And then it kind of sticks with them. And I, I, I sense that when it's tapping in with me, I'm like, I need to quit listening to Stone Temple pilots for a bit and go listen to something that was made this century.

Okay. Fair enough. So I go looking and a great place to do that is Spotify for years. Mm-hmm. Spotify has had a thing where it kind of watches what you're playing. Yeah. And it'll say, Hey, here's a rock playlist. That is kind of like what you would like. Yeah. And what we've noticed that you would like, if 

Darin: you like this artist, you'll also like this artist 

Mike: psychopaths.

Like you Yes. Would enjoy this type of music. Right. Okay. So I've, I've found new bands. Mm-hmm. From that. Yeah. Today, Uhhuh, I fired up the Spotify. Mm-hmm. And I have my little speaker at work that I listen to it at a reasonable volume. Okay. I'm allowed to listen to Spotify at a reasonable volume. Yeah. And new feature is the AI.

[00:10:00] Dj. Oh. I was like, oh, with a Wiki. Wiki. Yeah. And I was like, okay. Okay. And I touched it and it talked to me. You tapped through my YouTube speaker. I tapped. You tapped it? I tapped it. You tapped it? I tapped it. Hmm. And it said, Hey, this is Roy. That's his name, Roy, or whatever his name was. I don remember his all the, I'm gonna say his a boy.

I'm a dj. I'm Roy Roy. And he is like, I'm your, I'm your virtual dj. And he said, I'm not a real person. Uhhuh, I'm living inside Spotify. Okay. And I was like, this is kind of weird. Yeah. But it's like, um, so Mike, it called me by name. Okay. He's like, it looks like you, like blah, blah. And just named off Rat, off that band that shall not be named Uhhuh.

It's like you sounds like you're looking for some mu new music. Yeah. And I'm your AI buddy. Oh, I see. The whole, oh, okay. And it starts playing something. From that band that shall not be named. He said, let's start you out with something that you're kind of used to. Okay. It's like, okay, this is kind of weird.

Yeah. And it played a song from them and they came back as like, how'd that grab you? We know you liked that [00:11:00] when you played it X number of times last year. And I'm like, okay, this is getting a little 

Darin: creepy. Did Roy actually say, how did that grab you? Okay. Did that tickle your sweet spot? Mike said, listen, Mike, did that give you the feelings inside?

Mike: He's like, let's throw another one at you that's kind of along those same lines, and it threw a different band that I hadn't heard. That did sound kind of like the band that shall not be named. Was it the Black Puma? I don't know who it was. It didn't look. Okay. Okay. And then that one it said, Hey, Mike, you just out of the blue.

Hey, Mike. It talked to me. Okay. He's like, let's change things up a little bit. Let's, let's get crazy. Let's, let's, let's use a genre that you don't really listen to that often. Oh. But we think you'll like, okay. And then I started playing something that I, I did not like. Okay. It was like a saxophone, uhhuh with a, like a with a saxophone.

And I think there was a, a, a lady in the back going.

I did not enjoy that. You're like Roy, Roy and I. So I skipped it. Uhhuh. You can push a button and And skip it. Or tap a button and tap, skip it. I tapped it. You? [00:12:00] Yeah, you double tap it. And it went into another thing, a different saxophone this time with keyboards. Okay. And the dude was doing like a wild solo on the saxophone.

So I let that one get him a halfway through. Okay. And tapped it. And then Roy came back. Uhhuh. Hey Mike. Me and Roy go way back at this point. 

Darin: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You, you. And sounds like you and Roy are gonna get 

Mike: sounds, sounds like you're having some trouble trying that jam on. Oh, trying that jam on. So let's switch gears again, Uhhuh, and let's go this direction.

I think you'll start playing down with that. It started and I, I turned the damn thing off. At that point, I'm like, you know what Roy? Go fuck yourself. And I put on some Led Zeppelin and not that. I like hearing new music, but Roy's gotta get his together. 

Darin: Roy just sounds creepy. Here's Roy, like I'm, I'm gonna pick you up at eight and we're gonna go for a ride and I'm gonna let you try something that you, 

Mike: you're really gonna like.

Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. I'd love it. I'd like it if they'd use the CU native voice. Here's something I think you'll find really nice. So, a couple things. We are in the [00:13:00] dawn of the AI h where AI is like creepily real. Ah-huh. Yeah. Um. And I've actually used it on some of our, our posts. I'll like just type out like the random show notes.

Oh, venomous Beaver. Okay. Well, I, yeah. The artwork, yeah. Came from Venomous. Uh, the Venomous Beaver Arbor came from ai. Ai, yeah. Some of the postings about our episodes, I'll say, we talk about, uh, flaming what Weasel and something, and it'll say, Hey, here's a new episode where the boys really delve into the blah, blah, blah.

It goes, it writes this whole thing. I am picking 

Darin: up what you're putting 

Mike: down. Here's the point. Okay. We're at the point where it's still showboating a little bit Uhhuh. Grand standing. Grand standing. Yeah. So Roy, the AI buddy mm-hmm. Has to pop in, call me by name. Yeah. Say hey, sounds like uh, I'm throwing you some, you just can't catch.

Say things like that, Uhhuh. You know, here's something that'll just slam your mama and wait, you throw it at me? Me. Wait. Hello? Like that. You know Roy's gotta be like, you know, all happening. 

Darin: The last music that slammed my mama. [00:14:00] Was Jackson Brown. Okay, so, so gimme all you got 

Mike: Roy. It's fun. It's fun to be in this.

You remember Smellovision? Let's go here. Okay. You remember, you remember 3d, they would've the 3D movies and you'd get the little 3D glasses, a little red and the. Blue. Remember one eye? Yes. Yeah. 3d. 3D glasses. Every once in a while they would show a 3D movie on like regular network tv. And you'd get those glasses at like a gas station or a Kroger?

Yeah. Or a trade. Well, in our case. Okay. And you'd go there and you're like, we're gonna show Godzilla was one movie. They were or not? God's uh, they Who's the monkey? King Kong. King Kong. They were doing King Kong in 3D Uhhuh and had the guy with the paddle at our lake. Point. Yeah. Well, yeah. Do thing. It would be like a guy would be talking, all of a sudden he'd just put his finger towards the camera and go, Ooh, it's over there.

Really? Yeah. Yeah. And you, there'd be things in the paper, go get your glasses at the, at the sunglass hut or wherever. Trade Well, and to trade well and watch it. And I'd watch and it, it didn't work. I mean, it kind of [00:15:00] did, but it didn't really. Yeah. And they did the same thing with Smell vision. They had a sticker, I remember it was in the paper, go to Tradewell again and get your smell vision.

Scratch the sniff stickers. Mm-hmm. And then it would be some black and white movie, and it'd be like, I, I smell something odd. And little thing at the bottom would say, scratch sticker three. And you'd scratch it and it's like a a an ass or something. Yeah. And whatever. Wait, wait. Yeah. Whose ass because that, well, that was the mystery.

Okay. Okay. So. And those things went away. I thought I passed out. Those things have gone away. Those 3D things have gone away. And then Thrill D came remember real D in the theaters where it's like, oh my Like Avatar, I think was the first. Yeah. Mainstream. Huge one like that. Yeah. And then kind of settled down.

Now we're in vr, so things have kind of moved along the way. Yeah. I think we're in that, that smell vision version of AI right now. Mm-hmm. Before it goes full Skynet and enslaves us all. Yeah. Where. [00:16:00] It's like, Hey, I've got a music player that'll talk to me and try to give me a jam that I dig. But it's annoying the piss outta me.

It's like the guy in the group of friends who won't shut up about Steely Dan. Yeah. And everybody needs to listen to Steely Dan. And he just really gets you in. You're like, I don't want to hear that. Oh, and he knows, okay. Turns it off and like, here's Garfunkel without Simon. Cause we know how you feel. All that stuff they.

You know, switching things up and trying to be likable, they're gonna get to the point. Yeah. Where it just plays the music that it knows you're gonna like and you're gonna start thinking, I actually do kind of like everything that this thing is playing and that that's right before they completely take over our minds.

Right. And kill us all. Yeah. We're that phase, but we're not there yet. We're still at the phase. We're clo. We're closer now than we've ever been. They're annoying. And it reminds me, This is May. Mm-hmm. This is, uh, the month where it's Talde Talde is May 

Darin: 25th. Okay. Okay. 

Mike: Yes. A celebration [00:17:00] of Hitchhiker's Guide at the Galaxy.

Yes. And one of the big themes in there is where Arthur Dent, the lead of, um, that book, the main character, the, the, yeah. Goes to a computer that's going to make him tea. And it, it looks, it does some kind of profile of you to determine the perfect cup of tea for you. It spits it out, it uses AI and all this stuff.

He takes a drink, he thinks it tastes like cat and throws the cup. And he became, he becomes like a, a, a, a guy figure of the, yeah. Like the revolution against ai. Yeah. In that book and, uh, I really don't know where I'm going with this. What happened? I just think it's creepy. I think it's creepy as, yeah, that they've, they've skipped o like they have to have the guy come in and talk to me like I'm his buddy.

Yeah. He's not even a real person. No, it's not pre a recorded. I know things. I know it's some guy's a voice and they. Because they do that now you can have Arnold Schwarzenegger say whatever. Mm-hmm. We could have Arnold Schwarzenegger's [00:18:00] voice. We could write the script for this show. Yeah. And have him and Sylvester Stallone.

Actually, I may do that. I may take one of the transcripts and feed it in and have them like a show with them. Okay. That may be a fun project. Your point, Mike. I wanna talk to Roy. 

Darin: Right. They don't need that. 

Mike: And Roy's listening to me right now. Right. He's probably gonna gimme some 

Darin: next time. Roy. Roy. Roy is unhappy next time I start.

You know why? Roy's unhappy. Because you're unhappy, Mike. Yeah, yeah. No, they, that's, um, no, you're right. They don't need to have something talked to you. Mm. To, you know, it's like all they have to do is just, you know, you enjoyed this, enjoy this. Although that's screwy because Netflix used to do that and whenever.

Really? Yeah. I used to have the DVD plant. Okay. On Netflix. And so we would get a dvd. You watch it, you send it, and then they send you another one. Yeah. You go through and you, you pick, you know, you make your, your Q. Okay. Which by the way, Q is spelled q u e u e. Too many hues. Yeah, too 

Mike: many. Whatever. Just one letter.

Just let say Q uh, Q. 

Darin: Thank you. Yeah, but I digress. Yeah. So I had [00:19:00] watched. I think it was, it was a horror movie, not like a crazy, crazy horror movie. Mm-hmm. It was like a, a psychological drama, what do they call it? Oh. And they said, if you enjoyed this movie, you'll enjoy some of these. Yeah. And one of 'em was the Clint Eastwood directed movie about Frankie Valley in the Four Seasons.

Okay. All right. Like what does that gotta do? Yeah. With this psychological thriller that I watch might be the 

Mike: same director or the same 

Darin: key grip it, it wasn't, yeah. It may have been the same key grip. Yeah. But those two movies had absolutely nothing. Mm-hmm. In common. Mm-hmm. Okay. Mm-hmm. And you are like, me and I have an extremely diverse.

Taste in music. Oh yeah. I've been listened to Willie Nelson. Yeah. And then listened to Rage 

Mike: Against the Machine. We're the first ones hunted down and shot when the AI takes over. Yeah. Because they can't get a grasp on us. You're like Exactly. Uh, he's once gogi, he was just listening to a video game soundtrack.

Exactly. And wait, well, he si Paul Simon. What? What? Kill him. Yeah. Go take him down. 

Darin: Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, I, I'm listening to Man of War. [00:20:00] Mm-hmm. And then the next second I'm listening to the Indigo Girls. Yeah. Loving them. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. You can't say, Darren, you like this. You're gonna also like this because Yeah.

I may not. Yeah. Because I don't like all heavy metal music and I don't like all country music. No. There's a lot of country music I despise 

Mike: and I have to, it has to be mm-hmm. The top level. Yeah. Top shelf country music. Yeah. It, it's gotta be black label. It's gotta be a hundred year old. Exactly. Aged, uh, in a, in a barrel.

My second country 

Darin: music for me, favorite song of all time is The Humpty Dance by the Digital Underground. Okay. That's not country, 

Mike: but 

Darin: no, it's not. Okay. But I don't like hardly any rap music. Yeah, okay. Yeah. So you can't pin, well, here's a musical 

Mike: style on me. There was a long period, and I still do, I still don't even try it.

Roy. I still like Eminem. And I had all of Eminem stuff up to a point, but I don't like rap that goes, uh, that tries to be super, um, offensive. Right. But I like Eminem a [00:21:00] lot and I really like, um, and Eminem is very offensive. He is, yeah. For fun. Okay. And I think that it, it, I'll tie this back to rock. Okay.

Because we've had this discussion before. Mm-hmm. I expect certain rock stars to be, if I find out that they're not an, I probably would never listen to 'em again. Example is one of my favorite musicians is Noel Gallagher of Oasis. Oasis. I love Oasis, but I've always loved Noel. Uh, if I meet him, I expect him to be an, I expect him to be an yeah.

If he's nice to me. I'll lose a little bit of respect for him Conversely. Mm-hmm. If I meet anyone from that band that shall not be named mm-hmm. And they're even the slightest bit of a jerk to me, I'm gonna have exactly major problems. I hear you. Those two thoughts, those two expectations exist in my brain.

Yep. Simultaneously. And it makes perfect sense to me. Yeah. I would've expected Johnny Cash to be an asto Me. Yeah. I expect Will and Nelson to be very nice. 

Darin: Yeah. Now I see, I think Johnny Cash would be, I, I've got a friend who, well, it [00:22:00] depends on when you meet him. I've got a couple of friends who've met him.

Mm-hmm. And that he was absolutely amazing all through his thing. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. Now, uh, many years ago, probably 35 years ago, I met Gene Simmons. He was arrogant as hell. Would not talk to me, barely looked at me. Yeah. I would expect that. Yeah. And I was like, oh, that's that. That was Gene Simmons.

That's awesome. That was Dean Simmons. He refused to look at me. Okay. And then about 15. Maybe 20 years ago I met John. Wait. Yeah. Couldn't have been nicer. Yeah, absolutely. And exactly. It's like you said, I once got my mom backstage to meet Dan Fogelberg and I thought, if you so much act one iota, like I will kill you.

Dan Fogelberg. Yeah. And he was as nice as guy as you could possibly imagine. Mom's like, oh, he was so nice. Yeah. Yeah. Mom doesn't talk like that. But yeah, I expected Gene to be that way. And, uh, I, I was hit and miss with Dan Fogelberg. Yeah. I didn't know if he was gonna be what or whatever. Yeah. You're looking at a guy who's met Gene Simmons and Dan Fogelberg.

Yeah. Thank you. That's awesome. Yeah. 

Mike: I, I look [00:23:00] at, um, I look at Gojira mm-hmm. As being more intense and hardcore metal than Metallica. If you tell me you listen to Metallica and, and you have one person listen to Metallica and one person that listens, Gojira, the one that listens to Gojira, I'm gonna be a little.

A little, I'm gonna watch myself around a little bit more. Right. They may actually lunge at you. Yeah. Okay. But. I expect Metallica to be asses to me, and I expect Gaje to be nothing but nice. Actually, 

Darin: there are members of Metallica who I think would be asses. Mm-hmm. And then a couple who I don't think 

Mike: would be nice.

So our mutual friend Kevin that got us into the Metallica in Louisville. Exactly. Yeah. He has met James Hetfield. Yeah. And he asked James Hetfield to call him up. And James refused and said, but man, I'm not gonna call you. Okay. And, and Kevin was like, come on, just call me a And he, he wouldn't do it. And then as Kevin, you know, I'm editing this one.

I know. Okay. As Kevin and and Jim were walking away, away, he said, okay, you know, in full. Nice James. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's 

Dave: time [00:24:00] now for the 

Darin: Kroger's story of the week. I was at our favorite grocery store last week, Uhhuh. And I was getting a cake for Cameron cause he had a birthday. He turned 15. So what kind of cake did you get him?

Just a uh, it was a confetti cake with white icing. Okay. Yeah. That's nice. Um, No fruit in the middle of it? No. No. Well, we had an ice cream cake maybe with ice cream sandwiches and fudge and stuff. Okay. All right. And then a regular cake in case kids didn't want ice cream cake turns. There's a kid like me, turns out the kids ate a piece of cake and a piece of ice cream cake.

There you go. But whatever. Yeah. So I picked up the cake that I wanted and I go to the bakery and I'm waiting for someone back there to come and write. Happy Birthday Cameron on it. Yeah. And this lady comes out. Nice. Is enough. You know, she's probably in her twenties. She's got her hand in a, in a cast or in a brace, okay?

And she says, uh, can I, do you need something decorated on the cake? I said, yeah, can you write Happy Birthday Cameron on there? Uhhuh? She says, Uhhuh, sure, yeah. She says, how do you spell it? And I said, C H A P P 

Mike: Y. 

Darin: I said, C A M E R o n. And [00:25:00] she goes, okay, c a n e R. No, c a m. She goes, okay, C a r e C a. Yeah, 

Mike: M uhhuh.

E. 

Darin: Yeah. How are It's not hard. Cam Marin. Yeah. And so she finally gets it and you know me. I can't stop talking. Yeah. I can't stop asking questions. I said, um, What happened to your hand? Mm-hmm. And she says, oh, I pulled my thumb out of the socket while washing my hands. Hey, what happened? Holy Lord. I'm like, how hard are you washing your 

Mike: hands?

This is really one of those things. 

Darin: Clean. Geez. They're back there using lava and boiling water. Cut. Lost his hands. Yeah. Bang. Wow. Pulled the thumb out of her socket. Mm. Washing her hands. Mm. Yeah. 

Mike: Mm. Maybe 

Darin: she had to get some of those sandy wipes. Yeah. And just 

Mike: gently approach it for sanitary wipes. Not Santa Sandy.

No. No. 

Darin: Not Santa wipes. Sandy 

Mike: wipes. Yeah. It's been a good hundred 47 [00:26:00] episode run. 

Dave: This has been the Kroger story of the 

Darin: week. Are are you on the TikTok? I am on the TikTok. I'm on the TikTok. Mm-hmm. And I made the mistake of watching a video where a deer got its antlers caught in a fence. Oh, okay. Okay. And so two guys and the, and, and I watched every waking second of these guys.

Yeah. Uh, trying to get this deer uhhuh, get the antlers out of the, out of the barbed wire fence. They got it loose. Yeah. And then the deer just runs off. Doesn't even say thank you. 

Mike: Just 

Darin: runs. Just gets the hell out of there. These guys, they didn't have to save the deer. No, they didn't. Okay. No they did not.

No, but they did. Yeah. Out of the goodness of their stupid hearts. Yeah. They saved this deer. Then the deer doesn't even stop and turn around and look at 'em and give a knock. Cause I, okay. A deer nod. I know deers don't talk. Okay. Right. I know that. Yeah. The deer still could, you know, it's like dogs don't talk either, but they still go over and rub their head on you.

Yeah. You know when a dog says [00:27:00] thank you. Yeah. Yeah. So I made the mistake of watching this video. Mm-hmm. Now, every day I see, uh, people in a boat, they get a turtle. Yeah. And it's caught in a net. You, and they sit there and they cut, they pull the straw outta the turtle's nose. Okay. Yeah. They find the, the rabbit with its foot in the trap and they put the thing around the neck of the animal so it doesn't bite.

And then they get the foot outta the trap. 

Mike: Yep. You've been in down the old TikTok 

Darin: hole every day. You gotta, and I can't, I can't stop. I made the mistake of watching somebody getting their pimple pop. Oh, okay. And now, Gross. Mm-hmm. And then I, I found out the difference between a pimple and a boil. I didn't need to know that, man.

Thank you, TikTok. Yeah. Thanks for nothing. If you're eating at this 

Mike: point. 

Darin: Yeah. Well, we're not gonna post any pictures or video of it on No, no, no, no, 

Mike: no, no on. But yeah, it's like we learned that from, uh, Megan Mitchell when she was on here. Yes. She was talking about how the algorithm in TikTok watches you per second, which once he said that, it makes sense that it's called TikTok and actually TikTok.

TikTok, yeah. Yeah. It's actually tracking how many seconds you [00:28:00] watch a certain type of video, and it'll, that's why they call it TikTok. Yes. And then it'll feed similar videos to you. So, yeah, I, I don't complain too much about what's on TikTok because if somebody's really listening, yeah. Now the AI's listening, it's like, oh, well you must be watching a lot of deer get caught in fence videos for that to happen.

Because I have not yet seen a deer caught in a fence or a turtle. I'll tell you what, I do get a lot of uhhuh. I get a lot of the back rooms. Have you heard of the back? We've talked about those. You told me about the backwards horror thing. Yeah. I get a lot of, oh, you're scared of the ocean. Here's some that'll make sure you never step foot in water for the rest of your life.

I 

Darin: see those. Yeah. This, this shirt came two feet up on land. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now you're afraid to stay on 

Mike: the land. It didn't randomly. I'll get a skateboarder. I don't know where that comes from. Yeah. I, you know, but it's like, I watched a fight between a skateboarder. Mm-hmm. Wanting to grind a rail. You'll be impressed.

I didn't know this. Grinding down these steps. Mm-hmm. And there was a woman that pulled up in her [00:29:00] minivan demanding that these damn teenagers get off of the steps. Someone's going to get hurt, Uhhuh. And they were yelling back as politely as they could, Hey lady, get the fuck out of our way. And there were multiple of them with cameras.

One was set up down next to her van Uhhuh because that's where he was. And she pulled up right next to him. Yeah, someone in the top of the steps and someone in the middle. And they were all yelling and they kept switching camera angles cuz they put this video together And the one guy that was going to grind the rail was yelling, uh, Hey lady, get the fuck out of our way.

Again, 

Darin: you know, I'm editing this week and she wouldn't, she 

Mike: wouldn't move Uhhuh. And then the guy down below yelled out, uh, and I'm gonna try to censor myself. Okay, yeah. Just blank and do it. Yeah, she's not gonna move anyway. Uhhuh. And then the guy at the top said, yeah, dude, I think you can totally miss her.

And the whole time you hear her yelling, this is 

Darin: unsafe. You need to leave. You need 

Mike: to leave this area. And the guy in the middle Uhhuh was [00:30:00] yelling back, this is a public. A staircase. Yeah. This is a public park. Yeah. We're, we're in a 32nd video and we're outta here. Yeah. You, you need to leave. And then the guy.

Went back. Mm-hmm. And now she thought he was leaving. Yeah. What he was doing was going back to get his running start uhhuh and get and, and then slam down on the ground with it, and then come up and grind. That's what she said. And she, he's walking away and you hear her say, There. Now somebody has some sense and I'm like, oh, this is gonna be the greatest video I've ever 

Darin: seen in my life.

She sounds like Mr. Bill. Yeah. Mr. Bill. And he 

Mike: comes tearing Uhhuh up. Now you can see him because you're looking at all their angles, but you can't see it from her angle. Yeah. So it's fun because you see him running full tilt. Jumps on the board and kicks up into the air. When he gets in her view, you hear her go, oh Jesus, and he comes down grinding on the rail right towards her face, Uhhuh, because she's stupid enough to be at [00:31:00] the end of the rail.

I don't think she knows what grinding a rail is, right? He's coming right at her. She dives out of the way. He flips off the end of it. And does one of those twirly, I'm the skateboarders, know what I'm talking about. The skateboard flips around. Yeah. Uhhuh and then lands on its wheels, and he lands on top of it's, and starts called Triple Shar.

Everybody cheers. And she's on the ground screaming Uhhuh. And then they all just leave. And the one guy that's on the steps as they're walking away is keeping the camera on her as she gets up and gets in her van. And she leaves. Yeah. It's one of the, my favorite videos, but because I watched the whole video, uh, three to four times Uhhuh tackling the entire time.

Yeah. Now random skateboard videos will pop up in the midst of 

all 

Darin: this at my first TV station. Mm-hmm. Uh, we did a, uh, a little half hour show that aired, uh, once a once a month I think. Yeah. And, uh, it was geared at the teens. Okay. Yeah. It's like America's youth. Today. Mm-hmm. And there was a new skate park opened up in [00:32:00] Johnson City and I went out there to get footage of these skateboarders.

Now I don't skate. Mm-hmm. Okay. Um, so, uh, it would've been great if I did, cuz I could have got some footage Yeah. On the skateboard. Yeah. You know, going through the park, but I couldn't, uh, and I'm trying to get as creative, uh, shots as I can mm-hmm. With the camera on my shoulder, but whatever. So I'm thinking, okay, I'm gonna do this.

And this was the one of the dumbest things I've ever done in my life. Uhhuh, especially in my career. Okay. Okay. Had it not worked this, it really, really, really would've not. I laid on my back Oh, with the camera shooting straight up. Yeah. And I let these three guys jump over me. Yeah. And I saw. Who, and the first time they did it, they were off center.

Yeah. So they, they just were kind of in my shot. Yeah. A little bit. And my heart's just pounding at us. And I need you guys to do it again. And I need you to 

Mike: go right over, 

Darin: right over the lens. Oh boy. Oh boy. And they, they did it again. I brought the footage back to the station. [00:33:00] Yeah. And everyone's like, are you outta your mind?

I'm like, yeah. It's a cool shot though. It's a cool shot. All they had to do was, uh, yeah, jump a little flub up once, and one of the engineers said, do you know how much that camera costs? Not concerned about my face. No, no, no. Yeah. Uh, guys, we're about out of time. As I mentioned at the beginning of this episode.

There's a special announcement, uh, on our next episode. We have a very special guest and we're recording that in probably about 40 minutes. Uh, our guest on the next episode is legendary, uh, uh, radio personality. Actor podcaster, uh, extraordinaire, Mr. Shadow Stevens. Okay. Shadow Stevens. Shadow Stevens. Many of you remember him from the Hollywood Squares?

Hang on. Many of you. Well, he was on the, uh, uh, Larry. Larry Sanderson. Yeah. Yeah. He's an actor. He is hysterical. One of the nicest people I've ever worked. In this business that I work in. Anyway, he's gonna be our [00:34:00] guest and he's gonna talk about his career. He's gonna talk about a thing called mental radio, which is most recent project.

It's a radio drama that he produces and it's hysterical and I can't even begin to describe it. But that is coming up mm-hmm. On the next episode of Irritable Dad syndrome. So you're gonna want to be sure and listen to that. Uh, we want you to go to irritable dad center.com. If you like the podcast, you want to support us, you can, you know, go to Patreon, you can throw us a couple of bucks.

We got a new Pat member. Last week. Yeah, we did. Yeah, I know. That was awesome. Chris Calloway. Yeah. Chris, 

Mike: thank you so much for doing that. He went, he went with the, the penultimate. He did. He did. So we've gotta up our game. 

Darin: Yes, yes we do. So Chris, thank you so much and there's gonna be something, uh, for you coming down the road here.

But, uh, again, we thank you so much and we hope to see you again on irritable dance syndrome. Oh good. 

Dave: The show's over. I'm gonna get some pudding 

Mike: Recording stopped.