IDS #152 - Them Vulcans Love to Fart

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Darin: [00:00:00] Tonight on the show, I'm gonna talk like Sam Elliot 

Mike: Oh, oh, oh.

Does that really make you mad? It's, 

Darin: I have the, the thing, 

Mike: the, you got a filter for me. Do, do you? Okay. I've wondered about this for a long 

Darin: time. No, it's, it's, um, uh, it's a thing where people pop their chewing gum. Yeah. Okay. Or people, or people pop or tap, I can't see it. Or whatever's the, the noises. And slurping is one of the things.

Yeah. Like I about put Cameron up for adoption this morning because he's sitting there with his spoon. Ding, ding, ding, ding. D ding, ding. D, d ding, ding d eat 

Mike: cereal. Oh, what? The 

Darin: cereal.

My uncle was a clown for Ringling Brothers Circus and when he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car. Welcome to irritable dad syndrome. If you had a [00:01:00] rotary phone, you'll love this podcast. Please welcome your hosts, Mike and Darren. Hi, I'm Darren. I am Mike. Welcome to Irritable Dad syndrome.

This is episode and I am on antibiotics. 

Mike: You got all sicky. 

Darin: Oh man. On Friday I woke up with a sore throat. Mm-hmm. Saturday it was, uh, scratchy and started to get a little bit sore. Yeah. The soreness went away and then the cough came along and, uh, I'm going to Chicago mm-hmm. Uh, in a week and I can't be sick.

So I went to the, the, uh, we have a doctor, doc, I was gonna say medicine man. I went to the medicine man Yeah. And got tested and I have strep throat. Yeah. So for the first 24 hours. I'm contagious. Okay. I'm not contagious now. Not contagious. Now I'm on the fricking horse pill, antibiotics. Oh yeah. Those are good.

These giant pink pills. The size of your shoe, you know? Uh, but it's, they're draining my brain. And 

Mike: I love antibiotics. 

Darin: Well, I love what they do. Yeah. But I don't know why, but they drain me. Mm-hmm. I [00:02:00] feel like I've ran 20 miles. Yeah. So, anyway, that's why I sound so sexy. You sound sultry. Oh man. 

Mike: Coors, uh, you had a, uh, you had a graduation party?

I did. Jacob 

Darin: graduated high school and at graduation there was an irritable dad syndrome moment. I'll tell you about that here tonight on 

Mike: the show. Um, I am excited because you sent me a note that says you've finally seen Dungeons and Dragons. I did. Did so I do wanna talk about, of dragons later. I, yeah. I haven't been able to get the family together to watch it here.

Mm-hmm. Because Charlie's saying, well, I've already seen it. And I'm like, but it's, we need to see it again. Right. Andrew keeps pointing out times when we could watch it, but it's always times when we can't watch it. Right. So we haven't been able to sit down and go for it. I'll 

Darin: watch it again because, um, Well, Libby fell asleep.

Okay. Libby was the one who wanted to watch it. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I wanted to watch it too, but she's like, Hey, kids, it's on the Paramount. Mm-hmm. Let's watch it. Mm-hmm. And the kids weren't really, uh, they didn't, they weren't into it. No. Yeah. Cameron came down, brought his switch, like, okay, well I'll be, you know, and then as soon as it starts, he's glued.[00:03:00] 

And, uh mm-hmm. I kept dozing off in the middle, not because the movie was boring. Yeah. Because I'm 52 years older. Yeah. And I fall asleep during movies. I get, I get it. And also I'm sick. Yeah. Um, so she fell asleep and missed almost all the ending of it. So we're gonna watch it again. Okay. Another movie that I watched again, Uhhuh, was a man called Otto with Tom Hanks.

Okay. And I'm telling you guys right now, this. My God. Tom Hanks, uh, how old is, he's in his sixties? Yeah. Okay. I don't know how many movies he's made. 40, 45 movies, something like that. He's made Splash. He still has Got it. Now you start using your head. That's that love that's three feet above your ass.

Mm-hmm. I mean, he is still the man. Mm-hmm. And I, I saw the previews for this and it just looked like a grumpy old man looked kinda like about Schmidt with Jack Nicholson. Yeah. Also a great movie. That's a good movie. So the Tom Hanks movie. Is amazing. I can't recommend it enough. So whatever you're doing after this podcast, go watch a man called Otto.

It's on the [00:04:00] Netflix. Uh, 

Mike: yeah. So I need to see the man named a man named Otto, a man named Otto. Uh, Andrew really wants to see Oppenheimer, which I really wanna 

Darin: see. Oh, yes, the new, uh, Christopher Nolan. Christopher Nolan movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Why hasn't he won an Academy 

Mike: Award? So there's like scenes from it.

They've shown like pictures, I guess. Albert Einstein and different people in it. Yeah. So they tweeted out and made a little meme saying, this is like the Avengers for scientists, which cracked 

Darin: me up. That's right. Well the Avengers is 

Mike: full of scientists. It is. Yeah, it is. Well, except for Captain America.

That's true. 

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Jacob graduated high school. He did. Congratulations to Jacob. He, thank you. Thank you.

Mike: Does he move moved out yet? That's, that's the New Year's Eve. Okay. Well, same thing. You can use it for all kinds of things. Have you kicked him outta the 

Darin: house yet? No. No. Okay. He is going to the University of Cincinnati. Yeah. Uh, he's going to the Blue Ash campus. He's going to live at home. Okay. For the, 

Mike: is the blue ash camp?

It's in blue Ash. Blue, 

Darin: okay. So yeah, he's, he's going to uc and he's excited. And I'll tell you what, he worked really, really hard. [00:06:00] Yeah. I mean, he was always doing homework uhhuh, and he threw that on top of marching band and he threw that on top of his, uh, part-time job. So we're very proud of him. Yeah.

Yeah. And we've got And skateboarding, accidents and a skate. Yeah. Yeah. So we've 

Mike: got, so I, I'm gonna take this opportunity Yeah. Because it doesn't mean anything when you say it, right? Cause you, you were legally required to talk about how awesome your family is. I am. I wanna point out how nice and well adjusted and, um, uh, It, you have wonderful children.

Darin: Thank you. Yeah. That's the greatest compliment anybody can pay me. Yeah. Yeah. 

Mike: Um, and you, you do a good job. I think you and Libby do a very good job in parenting them. And I'm saying this, oh, we, we try, I'm saying this from the standpoint of you. Encourage them. Mm-hmm. And, and they, they have interest that going off in this thing, and then you encourage them to continue in that path.

Yeah. I have been, 

Darin: you keep your foot on the neck and you're like, you [00:07:00] are not Sit down. No, no, no. Shut 

Mike: up. No. When I grew up, and now I'm not saying I'm not gonna, people are gonna listen to say, oh, Mike's parents were, were horrible to him. They weren't, this is not about my parents. Right. The area that I grew up in, um, I watched.

Uh, some of my friends and some people that I grew up with, it seemed like they were stifled and, and pushed in a certain direction, right? And I've always kind of kept that in and thought, I, I'm not gonna do that with my kids. Right? And if I see somebody doing that with their kids, um, I'm gonna say something.

Yeah. Like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna point out, hey, not, I'm not gonna be a penis about it. I'm not gonna, you know, stop and, and just start yelling at somebody. Right. But I'm gonna say, Hey, you know, your, your kid's into whatever. Let 'em buck lava. Let him have it, let him have an extra helping so, 

Darin: He actually got a buckle of a 

Mike: scholarship.

Yeah. Yeah. But, uh, I, I think it's, it's, it might, part of it is a generational thing. Mm-hmm. It's probably [00:08:00] the same where you grew up, you probably had a lot of, well, you're gonna do this and you're gonna follow along and these footsteps you're gonna follow along. Maybe not right. It's kind of how it was in, in the area that I was, and Bess and I have made sure that we encourage, by the way, because we are not, we have no.

Sports abilities. Yeah. Whatsoever. So years ago, if somebody would've said, you're gonna push your kids into sports, I'd be like, I don't even know how to spell sports. Yeah. Um, 

Darin: well, I, I'm one generation away from a family who it was very, uh, common uhhuh for the parents to have lots of kids so the kids would stay and work the farm.

Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And you know, my dad had seven, uh, brothers and sisters. Yeah. So, and you know, they kind of thought that when they, you know Yeah. Grew up, that they would do that and they, and they had a lot of farms Yeah. And stuff. I've, I've got an uncle who raised, uh, tobacco and then another uncle who had.

Some 

Mike: cattle and, and you had the one that did the coke beans and, and you guys, you know, and that was, 

Darin: and we're not supposed to talk about that on the podcast because of the 

Mike: i'll cause of legal reasons. [00:09:00] Yeah. But I think the statute of limitations has passed. Oh yeah. And there were no video cameras around at that time.

No, no. Um, 

Darin: anyway. Okay. Thank you for what you said about Jacob. Yes. He, he, he, he worked very, very hard. Yeah. So we had an irritable dad syndrome moment. Yeah. At graduation. Okay. So, uh, there were so many students. Uh, graduated 600. Some students graduated. Jesus. Yeah, I know. And as many parents, family members wanted to come, could have like, five, graduated from my high school.

I think we had, I remember when I graduated, I sat next to this guy named Phillip Curtis. Great guy. Okay. And, uh, I, I knew him, he knew me. And we're sitting there and we're watching people cross the stage and we're constantly going, have you ever seen him? Nope. Her Uhuh. Her. Oh, I know her. I, I know her. You know, we were, you know, and we thought that that was huge.

No, 200 some kids. So all the students march in to, 

Mike: oh, that's the one I was trying to do.[00:10:00] 

Darin: That's the song

And cut.

It went on forever. Like forever. They're all sitting there and then the speeches start like the, the, the principal talks and then the superintendent of schools talks and something else, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They get to the salutatorian and the valedictorian. Okay. Okay. The salutatorian is up there talking, doing his, doing his speech.

I think he was the salutatorian. Okay. There were three or four students who spoke, okay. One of 'em was up there talking and, and, you know, follow your dreams and always know that your friends are there for you. And, and thanks to the mom and dads. And it sounds like he's, he's done. Yeah. The principal stands up and starts walking towards him, and the kid says, and remember, starts talking some over.

Yeah. And the principal is whoop. Yeah. And sits back down. Everybody starts laughing. [00:11:00] Yeah. Yeah. And so this kid is like, what happened?

And Libby and Cameron looked at me and go, Hey, what happened? Hey, what happened? It was the biggest laugh of the night and. Kudos to this kid. Yeah. Because, you know, kids don't know how to make public speeches. No. That all of them were nervous as could possibly be, you know? Yeah. Uh, and they did a lot of really, really good jobs.

Yeah. Speaking. Yeah. Unlike me right here, right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, it didn't shake him. Okay. Yeah. You know, he just, what happened? Got a big laugh. He finished his speech. Yeah. And then the principal goes up there and just shakes it off and he goes, yeah, sorry about that, Tony. You know, big laugh. Yeah. And then moved on.

But yeah, that was our irritable dad syndrome moment from graduation. And congratulations to the 2023 class, uh, at Lakota West High School. You guys did a great job. Yeah. Speaking of Jacob, we're having a party for him. Yeah. I'll offer for you guys. You and Bess are coming. Yeah. And so we're planning this party Uhhuh.

Okay. At our house. [00:12:00] And Libby and I, uh, we're busy. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Libby and I have a lot of things going on. You gotta gotta 

Mike: get the code. We got, we gotta get the, 

Darin: would you stop talking about cocaine? I'll, you can edit. You can add that out. Yeah. No. It's like I've got my job. Yeah. And then I've got the podcast Uhhuh, and then, you know, occasionally I play with my band.

Yeah, yeah. And then you've got the podcast, you've got your job and so everybody's got stuff going on. Yeah. Libby's got her church activities. I've gotta grind my 

Mike: camos. Yes, you 

Darin: do. It's very important. We're trying to plan this party Uhhuh, and so we're looking at Libby's calendar, we're looking at my calendar.

We're looking at Jacob's calendar, Uhhuh and is this day fine? Cuz we couldn't do this day cuz of something Jacob had. We couldn't do this day because something Libby had, we couldn't do this day because I'm gonna be in Chicago. Yeah. So let's say we finally find a day we can do it. Uhhuh. It was a Saturday and uh, the fantastic, we sent out all the invitations.

Yeah, we get almost everybody RSVP'd and then we realized, Cameron has an event on Saturday [00:13:00] and can't make it to the party. Well, poor Cameron. Yeah. We're so focused on Jacob's calendar, my calendar, and Louis's calendar that nobody thought to ask Cameron. Yeah, because he has a mar. He's still in marching band.

Yeah, he's got a marching band event that Saturday, so we had to move it to Sunday. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, cuz we're 

Mike: older. We're crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I was gonna tell you, Andrew has to work, right? I don't know if you need can move it again. 

Darin: He can come after we, he can 

Mike: come after we close up. So I gotta tell you a little bit about this conversation that we had with Andrew.

We, we told, you know, he literally had to work the hours of the party, like starting when the party starts and end when the party ends. Okay? So Bess and I talked to him. It's like, well, can you have, talk to your boss, save him a piece of cake. No, no, no. Okay. I don't save cake. Oh, I, I eat cake. Start the part, or, or start work.

Ask your boss if you can start work an hour later or a half hour later, and then you stay. Mm-hmm. Half hour an hour. And he said, well, so [00:14:00] then I'll just be at the beginning of the party. Yeah. He's like, well, why can't I do it earlier? And then I'll be at the end of the party and we're like, no, no, we're no, no, no.

You don't wanna be at the end of the party. Right. You don't wanna be the guy that shows up at the end because, Because here's the, when all the chips are gone. So I, I don't know what time the party ends because I don't know these things. What is it like eight? Four to eight? Eight, okay. Mm-hmm. So in my world, you guys know you can stay later than it in my world, Uhhuh, Darren.

Yeah. If the party's from four to eight and I'm hosting it, I'm thinking maybe people will start leaving at about seven 30 and about eight. Oh five. I'll be down here grinding 

Darin: my camos. You're, you're 

Mike: survey to get the hell out, aren't you? Last, the last thing that I want anybody doing is walking in and getting cake.

Mm-hmm. At the end of the party when everybody's already done being nice to each other and now's we, you're supposed to just go, well, we got. Feed the hogs in the morning or whatever it is. I [00:15:00] gotta, I gotta head out. You don't want some chucklehead showing up then, right? So we're trying to explain that to him, that that's, that's kind of how that works.

Yeah. You wanna come early, you wanna be, you don't wanna be like super early. He can come 

Darin: anytime he wants. 

Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, Andrew, if you're listening to this, you can't, you've, you've gotta come later, you know? Uh, with us at the beginning, 

Darin: we ordered a Costco cake, Uhhuh. We're not, we're not members of Costco.

Mike: Okay. Is it expensive when you do it that way? It's 25 

Darin: bucks. Really? For a giant cake. Those are big 

Mike: cakes. They're giant. 

Darin: Yeah. They're not big. They're giant. Yeah, they're like that. They're enormous. So did 

Mike: you write anything on it? Like, uh, yeah. Well, happy anniversary or something to mess with 

Darin: them. So, uh, congratulations on your, 

Mike: uh, service bar bar mitzvah, right?

Darin: Yeah, same thing. Yeah. So, uh, okay. So over the weekend, my. Brother-in-law and his wife, Uhhuh and their little boy Ryan came. Yeah. And then my sister-in-law, Peggy, and since we had to move the party. Yeah. Um, Larry and Debbie, our good friends, weren't [00:16:00] able to make it to the new date. Yeah. And we told 'em, I says, why don't you come and, and cook out with us?

And so they came uhhuh. And so we're like, we're gonna have. Uh, a small party. Then we're gonna have another party. Yeah. Yeah. So we're, we ordered a cake from Costco. Yeah, yeah. Okay. I'm not a Costco member, but my neighbor Chris Michael is. Oh, okay. So he ordered it for me, Uhhuh. And usually, uh, when he does this, he goes and picks it up.

He wasn't able to pick it up, so he says, tell you what, here's my stuff. Here's my card and my thing. So you're impersonated Chris. Michael, I'm gonna impersonate Chris. Michael, this is entirely 

Mike: illegal. This is a whole level of. Patronage that we don't, this is, 

Darin: yes. Yeah, this is like out the door. Crazy illegal.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I could have, I could be in, you could have been shot. I could be in Guantanamo Bay. Right now they've got snipers. Had they caught me at the top of the, My brother-in-law, Eddie and I, yeah, we drive out to Costco to get the cake. You made him go in and get it? I kinda maybe sort of with a hat and glasses look like I could pass for Chris.

Michael. Okay. Eddie. He ain't passing for Chris Michael. No. Yeah, we're driving to Costco and he takes a right. He takes the, the. The [00:17:00] wrong, right? Yeah. And we're going, we're getting ready to get back on the interstate. Yeah. So he's got his Jeep. What does he do? He drives over the concrete medium. There you go.

Cocoon. Cocoon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm like, nothing doesn't look suspicious at all. No, no, not at all. No. He pulls into the Costco Uhhuh. We walk in. And the whole time we're in there, he goes. So, Chris, Michael, what else are we picking up today besides the cake? Gee, Chris, Michael, do you guys need to get any uh, uh, 

Mike: cargo shorts for you here?

Hey, Chris, Michael of three turn 32 Eagle Lane. Liberty Township, Westchester. Arkansas. 

Darin: There's nobody in the baker when we got there. Yeah. And we finally found an employee and he walks up and says, uh, my buddy Chris, Michael and I were wondering if somebody could get a cake for us. Okay. Gets the cake. Yeah.

We go up. Nobody looked at the id. No, nobody, nobody cares. I swear. Got They don't care. I felt like I'm, I'm like buying beer for a, a 16 year old. Yeah. You know? Yeah. 

Mike: [00:18:00] Nobody, so, okay, so at the, at the Y we, we go to the Liberty. Y the East Butler y over here. Yeah. I used to go to that one. You, you're not allowed to go into the weight area, not even into the, where the free weights are.

Right. If you're under 15, by the way, 

Darin: they're, they say they're free weights, try taking 'em out of the place, 

Mike: right? That's right. And even once you're past 15, you have to take like a class, which class in major quotation marks. It's basically a teenager walks around and says, that's a machine you do legs.

This is where you do your setups and there's where your arms go, Uhhuh, and your face goes here. That, that. Thanks, Tony. Yeah, so we went in there and Andrew, I was just having him come through, you know, whatever, like come into the weight room with me pre 15 oh oh. And so you're supposed to have an armband, like a little wristband when you do that.

See, you're doing the illegal too. I was, okay, this has been the past. Oh. And we learned which ones would ask and which ones won't. So 90. Let me make it a little nicer. [00:19:00] 89% of that is nicer of the employees. Did not care. Uhhuh, but there was one I. Eagle eye employee. Mm-hmm. Who would look at him and the eyebrows would like Yeah.

He get the old hairy eyeball. He'd stare at him. Mm-hmm. He'd say, are you 15? And I, the supportive dad would say, oh, you got busted bru. And I would step away from Andrew and point him and say, I don't even know who this kid is. Yeah. He just comes in? Yeah, he follows me in here. Uh, so Andrew got pushed out into the basketball area.

He was not allowed to be in the free weight thing. Mm-hmm. And then after Andrew, you didn't lie and tell him that he was 15? No. No. And then after Andrew was 15, well, they look him up. I mean, he's got a membership. It tells their age right there. Oh, okay. And then you get, and then I get in major trouble. So I didn't, I did everything I could.

What's it called when you lied? Under, under oath? Um, uh, perjury. Perjury. Yeah. Yeah. You perjury yourself, yout commit perjury in the Y. No. Um, so he, we put the why in went, went off to the basketballs. [00:20:00] So after Andrew turned 15 Yeah, yeah, yeah. After Andrew turned 15, this would be one of those. 

Darin: I'll listen to Andrew.

I'm sorry, I'm, I'm, I'm cracking myself up tonight 

Mike: after he turned 15. It's the antibiotic. The guy would like stare at him. Uhhuh. The first couple times we came in like, Ooh. And then I know Andrew went over and he is like, you, are you 15? And Andrew would be like, yep. And they looked up, they showed, they took the class, class, class, please.

He was supposed to take a follow-up class. But I told Andrew, I was like, you're not doing the follow-up class. Yeah. Because what are you, what are you gonna do? Go back to the machine. And then the guy says, What's that for? And then you say L you put your face in that. Put your face in that. It's been a good, it's been a good run.

Speaking 

Darin: of illegal stuff, Uhhuh uh, my buddy Larry was over at the house the other day. Yeah. We were talking about back when we first started hanging out, Uhhuh. So Larry and I used to work together at W C P O Channel nine. He used to do the weather there. Yep. And we were gonna go to a movie, a matinee after we both got outta work.

Okay. [00:21:00] And I'd never been to the movies with Larry before. I sneak in food to the movie. Okay. Okay. I just do and you can't stop me. Yeah. I don don't care if the sign says no outside food or drink. Yeah. You I'm gonna bring in my food. I just am. Yeah. I'm not paying $8 for a Coke. Yeah. So how do you, where do you put it?

In my jacket pocket. Okay. In my pants. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. If if Libby's with me, she has her big purse. Oh yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. So, Larry and I had never been to the movie before Uhhuh, and we go up there and he gets his ticket and then, you know, I'm putting stuff in my pocket and he's like, what are you putting in your pocket?

Yeah. I'm like, shut up, Larry. He's like, is that, is that food in your pocket, 

Mike: Larry? Just piss you off when somebodys not on the same level of crime that you're on? 

Darin: He goes, are you, do you have like candy in your pocket? Yeah. Yes. I have candy here, my pocket. He's gonna to do a citizen's arrest on, you know, he's about to go Barney Fife.

I'm like, would you, would you shut up? Yeah. You know? Yeah. So, yeah, I took my Mountain Dew and my m and Ms. Uhhuh, I'll buy the popcorn. Okay. At the theater, it's hard to beat the theater popcorn. It is, it is. I, so, but then I eat [00:22:00] two m and ms and then a handful of popcorn. Yeah. I eat my popcorn and my m and ms at the same time.

Yeah. So you're basically Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then, and and so anyway, so he was having a big old time making fun of me and my illegal illness doing that. Mm-hmm. He told his wife about it, she says, Well, that's a great idea. Yeah. And now she sneaks in food all the time. 

Mike: So here's what I want to do. I wanna bring in mashed potatoes in a plastic bag, like Turkey in another plastic bag, some gravy.

Get a plate. You know, bests can put a plate in her bag. Come in there, have like a full Thanksgiving dinner right there.

Darin: What is your favorite song about a car wash? Tell us now@irritabledeadsyndrome.com.

But yeah, the we, we watched the Dungeon and Dragons movie. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. 

Mike: So we never got to that. No, we didn't. So how'd you like, did you like it? I did like it. The parts that you've 

Darin: seen? [00:23:00] Yeah. Yeah. I, I, it's like I dozed off a few times at the beginning, Uhhuh, uh, but I didn't miss anything integral to the plot.

Okay. I don't 

Mike: think. Okay. So there's some key moments Yeah. That I wanna throw out at you to see if you've seen them. Yeah. Spoiler alert. Spoiler. Spoiler Alert for Dungeons and Dragons Uhhuh. Did you see the part where he was trying to fool the guards by? By being the bard and singing and his face starts to melt?

Yes. And the sound okay? Yes. That was funny. Did you see the fat dragon? Yes. Okay. Yes. The goody two shoes, Paladin, that would not do anything wrong at all, ever. The guy with the sword. 

Darin: I don't think I saw that. Okay. I think I dozed off during that. 

Mike: Okay. Yeah. Well, he's with them at the Dragon. Okay, so he's one of the party members.

Yeah, 

Darin: yeah, yeah. But Chris Pine 

Mike: is great. I love Chris Pine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's, cuz did you, you've, I'm assuming you've seen like the new Star Trek movies? No, no, no. 

Darin: No, no, I, you know what? I, yeah. I'm not a Trekkie. Okay. Um, you don't need to be, but I know that. Yeah, I know that. [00:24:00] Yeah. I was really, really vehemently, extremely strongly against them remaking Star Trek, even though I, I'm not a major, it's not a remake.

I understand it. It 

Mike: is, it, it's not, it is it? Well, you, you're telling, you're arguing with me. You haven't seen it. It's not a remake. It's 

Darin: Star Trek with new people in it. Yeah. So it's 

Mike: a remake? No, it, yes, it's an alternate timeline because the original Star Trek members are in it too. It's a remake. 

Darin: It's not a, okay.

He does he play Kirk. 

Mike: And does he play Spock? Yeah, there's two. There's multiple Spocks. Okay. Original Spock and then Smooth Sp. Okay. So they 

Darin: did a Spider-Man, uh, alternate 

Mike: universe thing. Yeah. Okay. So Spider-Man's not the only alternate universe. You can't, you're not allowed to. Like, every time there's an alternate universe, go back to Spider-Man.

I'm 

Darin: allowed to throw something out there that I understand. This is my brain, Mike. 

Mike: Okay. But it's not a reit. 

Darin: What, which you, which stop for a second. Yeah, yeah. Which alternate universe do you prefer that I use as an example? Next time, [00:25:00] just, just walk 

Mike: with me in Blues Street universe that I'm in blue. Is 

Darin: there a Hill Street Blues alternate universe?

No, there should be. Well, okay. 

Mike: It's, it's 

Darin: okay. How do I say it bat like Batman, if 

Mike: like the flash you need to, you need to have seen the original series Uhhuh for the new one to make sense. Okay. For you to get all of it. Okay. You don't, you don't have to. It'd be like someone watching Infinity War and Endgame by themselves.

Why? Yeah. They could understand the story. No, but it's not as not, it's not as good as if you watched the, all the movies leading up to it. Right. Yeah. So there's, there's like, there's intertwinement Oh. And things happening. Okay. There's like, oh, in the original Spock did this and this one, Spock does that.

And that's Leonard Devoy. That's actually Spock. Okay. And he's meeting New Spock and new Captain Kirk is meeting spoiler alert. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So it's, it's not a, I know what you're saying. It's, but it's not a remake. Can I 

Darin: say something? Yes, you can. I would like to apologize. 

Mike: My point was, before we went 

Darin: down that rabbit [00:26:00] hole, I, I, I was just seriously like, what the hell are they doing?

Yeah. They're seriously gonna remake Star Trek. No, they didn't 

make 

Mike: re. Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah. So, but it's awesome. Okay. Um, and JJ Abrams. JJ Abrams, yeah. Yeah. So what they, what the cool thing that they did do is, there's a lot of humor in it, but it's, it's like, um, 

Darin: like fart jokes. Hey, time for a few 

Mike: fart jokes.

No, no, no. It's, it's humor. Like this them vulcans love to fart. If, if you watch the original series, the original movies, yeah. There's a lot of humor in those too. There 

Darin: was, yeah. The, 

Mike: the first one, the fourth one was practically a comedy. 

Darin: That's true. Was that where they went on earth and, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And Spock had to have the, the earmuffs to cover up his 

Mike: points.

Yeah. So, okay. I get it. You're not a Treki. My point is that the, you could see Chris Pine's ability to be a comedic, uh, actor. Right? It's, it's kinda like John Ham. If you only saw John Ham in serious movies and then you see him be funny, you're like, I didn't know he could. [00:27:00] Dude, I didn't know. Oh my 

Darin: God. When John Ham was on 30 Rock.

Yeah. Yeah. 

Mike: He's hilarious. The dude, the dude is hilarious. He's hysterical. So, yeah. And it's the same thing, in my opinion with Chris Pine. Yeah. I, when I've watched Star Trek, I was like, he could do something hilarious. He could be funny as a dog. Yeah. And, and then they put him in the Dungeons and Dragons.

Yeah. As soon as I saw the Chris Pine was in it, I was like, this is gonna be a comedy. This is gonna be hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's a long way to get there. We had our first Star Trek fight. 

Darin: Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good. The only I remember cuz my grandpa Bill loved watching Star Trek Uhhuh. He lived in Lafayette.

Okay. Whenever we would go visit him, um, that's usually like the only time we would watch it Uhhuh. So we went to visit him one time and uh, we walked in and Star Trek was coming Right on. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy, right? Yeah. Hey, you know what, Darren? It's not really crazy. Yeah. It's, that just happened to be what?

Timing it came on. Yeah. So he's watching and the episode was the trouble with Tris. [00:28:00] Yeah. The tribbles are those things that live on the ceiling, 

Mike: the hamsters things? Yeah. They're, well, they're, and they multiply, 

Darin: they, they look like. I don't know. They're round, 

Mike: they're circular. Yeah. They're tennis balls with fur on 'em.

They're like kind of 

Darin: sucky. Right. Hello. Okay. And then they, they fall and then they stick to you or something? 

Mike: I don't know. Yeah, they, they kept multiplying and getting in the ship's engines and they were gonna like destroy the ship. So that was 

Darin: the episode that we saw? Yeah. Okay. The trouble with triples.

Okay. And then he was telling us about it. He goes, those, those are triples. So we're like, okay. My brother and I, we had no idea what he was talking about. Yeah. So, uh, you know, we spent the weekend or however long Uhhuh Ann and Bill's house, we went home. Uh, I don't know, four or five months later we go back to Lafayette to visit Nana and Bill again.

Yeah. We walk in the house and a little bit later Bill's like, oh, star Trek's on. He turns on Same episode. Yeah, the same episode. The trouble with troubles. Yeah. So when you talk about the original series Yeah. Outside of Clips, Uhhuh, the only entire episode I've seen. Okay. Is that one. Twice, 

Mike: but you haven't, you've seen the [00:29:00] movies.

Yes. The original 

Darin: movies. Yeah. Yeah. I 

Mike: really enjoy the first, the motion picture. It goes for like a half hour of floating through space with music before anything 

Darin: happens. Star Trek, the motion picture Yeah. Was boring as hell. I loved it. Yeah. Well I was, I was a kid. I don't remember anything about it. Yeah.

Uh, two, the wrath of Con. Okay. I liked the Wrath. 

Mike: Yeah. Fun fact. You need to, uh, watch Raton to. Recognize a joke in Seinfeld. One 

Darin: of the greatest moments in my life, honestly. Uhhuh, uh, grandpa Bill. Yeah. Took me and my brother to the drive-in Uhhuh and we watched, um, star Trek two. The Rat Ethicon. Yeah. At the drive-in.

Yeah. And uh, after the movie's over with getting ready to leave and bill's like, well hold a second. Uh, usually they show another movie. Yeah. What was the second 

Mike: movie? Airplane. 

Darin: Airplane. My grandpa Yeah. Was laughing so hard that the car was shaking. Okay. And Bill, God, love him. My grandpa, bill. Yeah. I, I, I love the man.

I, I admire the hell out of him if I could be half the man he is when I uhhuh when I grew [00:30:00] up. That would be amazing. Yeah. Yeah. He bought us all the root beer we wanted, all the popcorn we wanted, and the, me and my brother and my grandpa, and he's just crying, laughing at airplanes. And the car was shaken.

And, uh, it was great. 

Mike: I had a moment, uh, when I was visiting one of my, I I, I went to one of my friends, he took me to his grandparents' house. It was like they were having a trip and it's like, ah, bring Mike along. Yeah. So I went to the grandparents' house. I don't wanna name him. I don't wanna embarrass anybody.

Okay. Steve, and this is back in the eighties. Okay. And I remember we went into the living room and there's all these like older, you know, and his grandpa and uncle, all these, and they're all sitting around watching Rambo first blood part two. Nice. So we sat down mm-hmm. And wa as kids we're like, this is awesome.

Yeah. We're totally, we're getting to see this movie that, you know, we're totally not allowed to see. So you've seen the movie? Yeah, we watched the whole thing all the way up until there's one part. And everybody's being quiet. There's one part where you see Sylvester Stallone. Rambo, yeah. [00:31:00] Is, is holding a machine gun Uhhuh and with one arm, Uhhuh, and he's just mowing down.

Yeah, yeah. The enemy. Yeah. He's got the headband on, and then from the corner of the room. That's bold.

I look over and it's, you know, one of them, I don't know who it was, he said, you can't fire an M 60 with one arm like that now as a kid, right. I knew that this was a ridiculous conversation. Right. As an adult, I want to go back and find this man and say, you made it up to that point in the week. That's the point.

That's the breaking point. There's where they crossed over to Ridiculousness, Rambo first blood part two. He, he got hung up in the jet engine, cut himself loose with a knife. He had nothing. Right. He happened to run into. The lady that he was supposed to meet, even though he landed in the [00:32:00] wrong spot. Mm-hmm.

They happened to find the boat. They happened to have a rocket launcher Sure. On the boat to shoot the other boat. 

Darin: He single-handedly kills, kill all these 

Mike: 70, all of them of them. There's a, there's a part of the movie where there's literally like 50 people lined up with machine guns all shooting at him, uhhuh, and he's going like, pop.

Pop Pop one shot each destroying them. He's, he doesn't get hit once. He's going up a mountain with POWs. Uhhuh. They're all shooting automatic weapons at him. Nobody hits him. Nobody Him. Yeah. Or the POWs, one of them gets hit in the leg, but the part where he stands up with one arm of the machine gun.

There's the bull. Yeah. That's the point where you just check out. Drove me nuts. Remember 

Darin: Jason versus Freddie? I haven't seen an Alien versus Predator. Yeah, I haven't seen either of those. I always thought they need to have Rambo versus commando. 

Mike: Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah, 

Darin: yeah, yeah. They just, just see what one of 'em, what's gonna happen.

What? Because I mean, it's like, you know, you got the immovable object and the unstoppable horse. The 

Mike: hell. Yeah. Well, I [00:33:00] will say this, I know you're not a gamer. The the latest Mortal Combat, mortal Combat 11 characters. You can be, you can be Rambo and you can be the Terminator. Yeah. So there have been people that have had that little head to head that way.

Um, but yeah. Yeah. It reminds me, go 

Darin: ahead. That's both kid. That's, and I love that he said that 

Mike: with all the kids in the house too. Oh, well they're watching Rambo with all the kids. You know, who cares at that point? But I, I remember there was a lot of that when I was growing up, going to the movies and somebody would have to point out, if you go to the movies with the wrong person mm-hmm.

They, they just can't handle, they can't suspend their disbelief. Right. Now there's, there's one, there's one part where it's like you're watching Indiana Jones and Crystal Skull Uhhuh swinging on vines that are, are, uh, appearing. The Jeep is driving itself and he lands back in the seat. Yeah. That's the point at which you or I would say that's that.

That's, yeah. But come on. Part of the reason you're going to see a movie is to see some cool stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Or, or if that type of movie, especially action or anything like that. Mm-hmm. I [00:34:00] don't want everything to be believable. I don't, you know, there's a time and a place for that. Right. You know, there's the Christopher Nolan Batman where you can say, okay, each one of these, this is how you could actually do it.

Yeah. But then you also have the Avengers where you're like, I don't give a sh turn green, uh, kick ass and kick ass. Yeah. Hulk smash. Yeah. And you can't, you can't evacuate the city that fast. They're killing all these people in these buildings. Good, good, good, good. Make a director's cut where you see blood splatter out the windows every time Hulk runs into a building.

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Go back in episode we had sh uh, we had Shadow Stevens on the show. Yeah. He was incredible. Yeah. And then a few weeks before that we had Haywood 

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Darin: Irritable Dance Center. Is it just me or is this show getting more and more stupid? Nah, whatever.

That's right. 

Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, 

Darin: so can we turn off that damn beeping 

Mike: that's on the phone? 

Darin: Oh, [00:36:00] that's on my phone. Okay. Can you turn that off? Yes. Thank you. 

Mike: Can you turn off that damn beeping please? Should be. Please be the title of this episode for the love of God and your own body. Halt 

Darin: the hammering please.