IDS #153 - It's Like Inception, But for Dogs

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Darin: [00:00:00] Oh my God. This is the first time I've ever not had a thing 

Mike: on the list. I have nothing. I live there. That's where I live. Woohoo.

Oh, come on guys. It's so simple. Maybe you need a refresher course. It's all ball bearings nowadays. 

Darin: Welcome 

Mike: to Irritable dad syndrome. Made from 100% whole grains. Please give it up for your hosts. Mike and 

Darin: Darren. 

Mike: Hey, I'm Mike. I'm Darren and you are listening to episode one for, uh, of irritable Dad syndrome.

We're glad to be with you. We are, we're very happy. Yeah. To drive your while. You should be working. Yes. While you should be watching your kids. Yes. Whatever you should be doing instead of listening to this, we're glad you're here. You know what I, I 

Darin: would like to know what. Do you do when you listen to the podcast?

Yeah. Send us a note. Do you listen to this on your way to work? Do you listen to it while you're exercising? 

Mike: Do you eat while you listen to this damn thing? That's, that's gross. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Um, [00:01:00] so yeah,

Darren is about to go on some grand adventures. I am. So we are recording this in advance. Mm-hmm. And for the first time in irritable dad syndrome history. Mm-hmm. Darren has nothing for this episode. I'm Mike this week. Yeah. So we I've contributed nothing to the list. We've switched places this week. Yeah.

So Mike, what do you wanna talk about? I want to talk about Marbles and his, okay. Okay. 

Darin: Marbles is your, uh, 

Mike: cute little black dog. Yes. Our cute little black dog. Okay. Mm-hmm. So we have, uh, Booba. Yep. We, we call her Bubba number one and Bubba's a freak. Yeah. Yeah. But she's, she, she, mm-hmm. Me and Buba get along great.

Yeah. I'm the one that BBA kind of snuggles up to in bed Marbles is snuggles up to Bess all the time in bed. Right. I know how you feel about dogs in bed. Yeah. Me and BBA have an understanding. Yeah. Bba respects the fence line of our property. Right. Marbles does everything he can. Mm-hmm. To escape our [00:02:00] fence.

Allow me for a moment. Yeah. To delve back into Marbles, origin story. Okay. We got marbles from a rescue place. Yeah. We were told that he was found as a stray. Yeah. They had him at a halfway house. Foster home. A halfway house, halfway homeless shelter. He was recovering. 

Darin: He was from, from alcohol and 

Mike: drug abuse.

Okay. Yeah. Yes. Something he was getting off the crack. There's some foster, there's six months sober if you're into this kind of thing. There's like a foster program where dogs will stay at someone's place while they find their, I hate calling it forever home. That really I, that that's what it is. Yeah.

Yeah. And the person that hooked us up, the, the, our agent, so to speak mm-hmm. Said that they were surprised. That marbles wasn't taken by the foster family because sometimes that happens. They're like, oh, we want little boo boo. Right? So let's take, we want boo boo to be our own. [00:03:00] But they didn't do that. We got marbles.

Marbles outside of randomly pissing himself, wherever. Outside of that, the perfect little dog. Okay? He's so.

You can en enjoy that for a moment. I don't know 

Darin: why. Just little boo boo. Little, little boo boo caught me. I'm on antibiotics. Caught me off 

Mike: guard. We get boo boo booba back up. We get marbles, Uhhuh. And he is very well behaved. Like I said un, unless you know outside of pissing himself randomly. Yeah, he's a sweet dog.

He's fine. He's a sweetheart. He's a sweet dog. We let him out. We have a fenced yard. Mm-hmm. This would be great. Him and Booba were chasing each other. Yeah. Dakota. Yeah. Things were wonderful. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Marbles found a way out of our fence at one corner into [00:04:00] Into the neighbor's yard. All right. Yeah. So then I had to go reinforce that area of the fence.

Yeah, I put all kinds of things around there. He went to the other corner and found his way out there. I went and reinforced that corner. He went back to the original corner, dug his way around there. Reinforced that he found another place and dug out under. He has been trying to, we finally gave up because he would get in the other yard, you get the leash and he would run around and start barking and yelping and not attacking, but like running up to and barking at people in their own yard.

Yeah. Now where I'm from, that's a dog that ends up. Yeah, not making it very long. That's true. You know, back in the day. Yeah. Uh, people did things. Yeah. Um, that's true. That I don't approve of, but it happened. No, I, yes. Yeah. So that's what I was scared of, you know, I'm like, I don't want him, or he could go out and get ran over.

Right. So we got one of those things, the twisty things. You screw it in the yard. You screw it in the yard. You, you brought this up. My brilliant idea. 

Darin: And then he kept choking 

Mike: himself. He kept getting caught up in the deck. Uhhuh. [00:05:00] Then he would get wrapped around one tree. Mm-hmm. Then he'd get wrapped around another tree.

Yes. Then Booba would lead him around these things to wrap him up. He's not like foghorn leg corn. Yeah. He's not a Yes. Marbles is not the smartest dog on the planet. No, no. He's. I love him to death. He's a sweetheart, but he's not smart. Right. And Bubba knows this, so she knows the limit of his leash. And like Foghorn Leghorn, she took all of his toys and put them just outside.

No, she didn't. Yes she did. She did not just outside of the range of his leash. Uhhuh. And she would play with them in front of him and then go to the next toy. Shut up. 

Darin: All right. When she raises 

Mike: button and smack him with the board. No, no, no. Then she would get bored and she would lead him around. Mm-hmm. To where he would wrap himself around the tree and then she would go off and play with his toys again.

Bubba's, very smart b's. So we moved. We moved. Yeah. We, we literally, yeah, so we [00:06:00] moved, we moved the spiky thing, Uhhuh, and then he started pulling on it so hard he started pulling it out. So we keep putting it back in the yard, keep putting it back in the yard. Finally, I went out there and just strong arm this thing down in, and he couldn't get away from it.

Mm-hmm. So two recent things have happened. Okay. One Marbles has a help. I'm stuck and I can't get out Yelp that he does. Yeah, it's more of a, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip yip. Okay. Oh, oh, yip, yip yip. Yep. Radio like that. A whoop whoop. And usually what you see, it's a little silver leash. You see it wrap, come out under the deck and you're like, oh, he's wrapped himself around one of the posts.

Posts of the deck. Right. So, which means. Somebody has to put on their shoes, Mike, go out there and get this dog and explain to it. You see this? It's a post. Yeah. Do you see this? It's a leash. Yeah. If you walk around the post with this leash around your neck, you're going to get Stu. I've told this to him.

Yeah. He looks like he's hearing me. Right. I know he doesn't understand English, but he [00:07:00] looks like he does. Right. I've pointed at it. I've pointed to his leash. I've wrapped it in front of him. Wait, so you're, 

Darin: you're saying that you've. Pointed at it. Yeah, I've pointed at it. Okay. And I've And you've explained it.

I've explained it. Well then I don't know 

Mike: what else you can do. I don't know. I short of taking a chalkboard out there and drawing a picture, I don't know what else to do. This is exhibit A. So two things happen, exhibit B, two things happen. Okay. That happens. He, I look out there, I'm hearing the, I'm stuck.

Yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip yip. Whoop, whoop, whoop. Yeah. I see the leash going under the deck. Uhhuh. I look around the area, the main area of our house to make sure there's no kids around. There weren't. So then I start saying, dammit, you little and I, you know, I start just the whole thing. Yeah. Counsel saying, yep, I calm myself down.

Mm-hmm. I put on my shoes cuz I've learned I can't put slippers on because it's, the grass is wet. It's a whole thing. There's dogs do it. If there's one thing I don't want to do after I've taken my shower and I'm just in for the night. Yeah. I don't wanna put up my [00:08:00] shoes and go back outside. But I'm going out there, right?

I get to him with the leash. Mm-hmm. He comes over to me, he's all excited. Hey dad, I notice I unhook the leash from him and I'm holding him, and I'm like, okay, I've gotta untangle the leash from the post and throw it over. And I notice that it's not tangled up in the post. He just thought it was, Hey, what 

Darin: happened?

Mike: Have you heard the thing of 

Darin: where the dog is so stupid? He thought 

Mike: he was caught. He thought he was caught uhhuh and he wasn't. He was out there yiping 

Darin: because he knows he's smart enough to do he, somebody's gonna come up, you'll come 

Mike: get it. He reminded me of the thing where like you can tie a horse to a chair eventually if you tie it up all the time and it'll just think it can't leave.

That's what he was doing. Yeah, that's one thing. Okay. The other thing is I learned about this through a series of texts and phone calls. I wasn't involved in this. Okay. But I'll, I'll give you the end of the, I'll give you the what actually happened. Okay. He pulled his spiky thing out of the ground. Okay.

[00:09:00] He went under the fence into the neighbor's yard. He ran along the fence line in their yard into the bushes. The spiky thing won't go under the fence. The spiky thing gets caught in the fence. Marbles can't move out of their bushes because he's caught in the leash. That's caught in the fence. So now marbles is tangled with the leash.

In the neighbors bushes. Uhhuh with the spiky thing on our side of the yard. This becomes a, a physics problem. Like those, you know, those old, those, like you go to the old country stores back in the day, it has like the wooden with the screws and you gotta Yes. Pre the thing. Yes. So Bess and Charlie are out there trying to figure out this logic puzzle to get this my back over into our yard.

So I had a talk with him last night. Oh, okay. I sat him down. I'm like, marbles, Uhhuh. Look. Yeah, I know you don't have a very good mind. You don't have a very good brain. You have a wonderful heart. He has a such a pure heart. He does. He is such a sweet dog. Uhhuh. I was like, you need to listen to me. [00:10:00] You were astray.

I don't know what you got into. I don't know what you did out there on the streets. Mm-hmm. But I now know why you were astray because. You always wonder why has this dog come to me? So we know Bubba's, uh, origin story. She was a dog, went under a a uh, deck and somewhere in Kentucky, had a bunch of puppies.

Bubba was one of those puppies. Mm-hmm. They were gonna kill her and her puppy mates. Kentucky's a kill shelter place and somebody brought them to Ohio. And brought them to the shelter where we got 'em. And then, and and that's where we got Booba. I know her story. Right. Right. She wasn't running away, she was just in there.

Right, right. And what ended up being the right place at the right time? She's in Wartorn, Kentucky. Booba, or I'm sorry, marbles. Marbles probably has some family out there, Uhhuh. Who I originally thought, you know, a few months ago, I was like, man, he probably just did what he does does with us. He just escaped and they're worried sick.

Mm-hmm. I now know that there's probably [00:11:00] a dude my age with my sensibilities out there saying, well, I told him, I told him he left. He's just gonna be gone. Yeah. I hope they're feeding him. I hope they're feeding him. I hope he is fine.

They need to tell. I, he didn't have like a stick with like a bag hanging on the back, like the hobo and the old cartoons. That's when I see him. He's just go 

Darin: like, how much stuff is a handkerchief? Yeah. How much stuff could you put in that thing? 

Mike: Well, I just wanna know where are you going? That's the I I asked him honestly.

Right. Marbles, where are you going? Where are you going? Yeah, because he gets to the other yard, uhhuh, and then he goes to another yard. Yeah. All those four yards that are connected, he's done the circuit. Yeah. He just keeps going in circles. Circuit. See, I was, I I've actually thought about making a fence within the fence.

Yeah. Like fences that he can escape from and be in another fence yard in our yard. Ooh. An escape room. A fence. A fence. Inception. Yeah. Yeah. Or an escape room fence. Inception. Inception for dogs. See, this is, 

Darin: this is Conrad all over Ken Conrad. Lovable dog [00:12:00] Beagle. Stupid. Okay. He ran away up until like, uh, two weeks before we had to put him down.

He ran off. Ran. It's like, it's like when you, you're never going to stop running outta the house. Yeah. I came home. Yeah. Okay. I had like, I think I had 10 minutes. Uhhuh. Okay. I, 10 minutes to run in and grab changes of clothes for both kids. Yeah. And snacks. Okay. Yeah. For them to eat in the car on their way to said event.

Mm-hmm. I run in and, uh, I come in, Hey, Conrad, and open the back door. I let him out and then, uh, I bring him in and I'm making snacks real quick. Yeah, yeah. And I'm grabbing clothes and I realize, oh, the door to the 

Mike: garage is open. Okay. So he's probably halfway to California at this point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It had rained.

Oh, 

Darin: okay. And so I'm like, I run out and I'm looking, I'm scanning, I'm scanning, I'm scanning. There he is on the other side of the cul-de-sac. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 houses looking at me like, oh my God. Hey Darren. And he doesn't come when you call him, does he? Hey, you're my owner. I know you. [00:13:00] Hey, I'm, I'm over here. Right.

Just looking at me like, look what I did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I came over to this other house that's marbles. Yeah. And then he runs. Yeah. Okay. I take two steps. He takes four. Yeah. The other way. Running 

Mike: through mud. Oh. And through other people's yard. You tried, you wanted to strangle him when he got I did. I did.

And 

Darin: by the time I got him my shoes, my pants. Oh, were covered in mud. Gosh, he was covered in mud. Okay. I, I had to get kids. Okay. And take them to said event. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Libby had chased him like one time she came home and Cameron was a baby Uhhuh. Jacob's like maybe five Uhhuh and Conrad got out and so she had to leave the five-year-old.

Yeah. Watching the one-year-old. That's not a good combination. Yeah. On the front porch. Yeah. While she's chasing the dog. Yeah. There was, I mean, I, I lost count. Oh, Tara and Graham next door. Yeah. They'd be like, oh, Conrad's out. And they would get out and them and their two kids, or three kids Yeah. Would run and [00:14:00] try and help us catch the dog.

Yeah. And we finally bought him one of those callers with his name. Yeah. Yeah. And his phone number. Yeah. And cause Conrad had gotten out and I'm, I couldn't find him anywhere. Yeah. And then I get a phone call. I was like, are you Conrad's dad? 

Mike: Like he made it, well, not biological. No, no. He's, I'm 

Darin: his stepdad.

Uh, he had made it all the way down to the park. Oh my gosh. Which is, 12 or 14 houses. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm like, just hang on to him. I'll come get him. And I drove down the hold right home was excuse. Yeah. Yeah. We feed you. Yeah. We feed you every day. Yeah. You've never slept outside. Yeah. Yeah. You've never went thirsty.

Yeah. Okay. You don't have a single 

Mike: worm? Well, that's why I don't understand marbles is the money stuff we have spent on you. Cuz he was homeless for a while. Yeah. Like he was out there living under a bridge somewhere. Right. Whatever. Doing I was gonna say, eating out of a 10 can, you know, you do you same [00:15:00] thing.

Go where you would go first,

but he's like, he's been, he's been at rock bottom. You think he would appreciate Yeah. A, a 

Darin: house. I'm living indoors. Yeah. I've got a 

Mike: a, a friend. Yes. He's got a friend. Boobah loves him. Yes, yes. And so it breaks my heart because she loves to run and play with him in those few days that he tricked us, Uhhuh, where we thought he couldn't escape.

He, they ran, they had so much fun. Yeah. They were both not. Crappy at night. Right now they're crappy at night because I don't know if you've noticed, longtime listeners have probably heard Booba on the podcast. Yeah. And Marbles. That's them running and losing their shit Uhhuh because they're not getting enough exercise because one of them is on a leash and the other one is torturing them by holding their toys out and laughing at them.

God. It's ridiculous. Yeah, it's absolutely ridiculous. What we're 

Darin: trying to say folks, is if you don't have a dog, get one. Right? Yeah. I mean, go to your National Humane Society and pick up a dog. 

Mike: If I were in, if I were in I, I swore I'd never get another dog. If I were [00:16:00] in Shaw Shank Prison, I would want marbles with me.

Yeah. Because he would lead me out. But other than that, there's no reason to keep escaping. He would find a way out. He would find a way out. Yeah. Yeah, BVA would just look at me and say, well, here we are. Yeah, we're just here. Honestly, 

Darin: I'm gonna, that, that dog drove me to the brink of insanity. It's making me mental.

And after he, I, I 

Mike: miss him dearly. Yeah. He, uh, I love marbles to death. I do. A couple 

Darin: weeks ago I saw on the Facebook that it was like the 10th anniversary of us having to put 'em down. I'm, and I, it's like our old house. He's buried in the backyard of her old house. Yeah. So, so I went for a walk and if, if I'm going on that part of the neighborhood Yeah, yeah.

I'll walk past my old house. Yeah. I'll walk up to their new fence. Yeah. And I'll sit there and talk to my dog in their backyard. Yeah. Yeah. And one of these days they're gonna like, you need to leave. But I do, I talk to Conrad whenever I walk past him and my, the, the, the people that bought my old house.

Yeah. But I, I swore, I was like, I can't do this again. Yeah. I I cannot 

Mike: do it in the dog. Well, we're at the point now [00:17:00] where we're looking at getting like one of the fences that, you know, they don't shock anymore. Back in the eighties, you got a fence. Uhhuh, the invisible would like the, the green mile fence.

Like, knock the dog back 10 feet 

Darin: now. Hey,

Mike: Now they got like a little thing that connects to their collar and says, I don't think you should go over there. Watch out. Like, yeah, like a cell. Like they got a little call in their and their little dogs. That was an episode of The Simpsons 

Darin: where they were in family therapy and they could buzz each other whenever they pissed each other off.

Mike: That's were the really real old ones. Yeah. That's season one, I think. Yeah. So I want one that were like, a hand will come out and grab the dog and say, listen, you little get Uhhuh. What's wrong with you? Yeah, yeah. So

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Darin: in the studio. 

Mike: I wanna talk about another thing that pisses me off. Okay. And that's Casey's. Okay. I was so excited when Casey's was going on and I coming in and I'll tell you why. For people 

Darin: new to the podcast, it's a gas station. It's a, it's a convenience store. Yeah. With the gas station.

Okay. Now, uh, right across the street from where my neighborhood is, there is a U D F, which is United Dairy 

Mike: Farmers. I have never seen a dairy farmer in there at all. I haven't either. 

Darin: And well, and then it's like, are they really united? Yeah. Yeah. It's like, why do I have to join the union? I'm not [00:19:00] milking a cow.

Right. Uh, anyway, it's, that's, it's stupid. Edit that out. 

Mike: Um, that's gonna be the clip. 

Darin: So there's been a U D F there for years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This Casey's Yeah. Rolls up. Like, I'm gonna park my flag right here. And your sons of bitches. 

Mike: Well, so when they were building the building mm-hmm. Before it was labeled or before it was Casey's Uhhuh, we thought it was gonna be a Sheets, which is a huge West Virginia thing.

Have you ever been to a Sheets? Is that where we went after the concert? Yes. You can order anything. Yeah. Oh, like whatever food you want. Yeah. What do you want? I want a corn dog and a shwarma. A taco and a taco with shrimp in it. Uhhuh. Okay. And oatmeal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With a pancake. Yeah. And a live bird.

Yeah. Of some origin. What 

Darin: did I had a breakfast sandwich. Yeah. Of sheets. It was the bomb. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's, it's amazing. Why did you think it was gonna be a 

Mike: sheets? Because that's what the building looks like, the structure, like, they're all, they're brick, they all look like they're all [00:20:00] red brick. And it has like, it had a red, um, the, the signs were all red.

That's a sheets thing. Okay. Yeah. It just looked all the whole family. Well, now you got me mad that it's not a sheets. I'm, I was furious that it wasn't a sheets. It was like Casey's and then we as a family, we were driving by, I was like, oh, maybe Casey's is the Ohio Sheets. Huh. Okay. So the reason I was so excited for Sheets is because UDF has pissed me off for years, and I'll tell you why.

Okay. When you go to get gas. Yeah. Right? Yeah. They don't always work. The things don't always work. That's, that's true. They don't And, and it always, and sometimes they, they, they spin or they get a little wheel of death and, and then your car doesn't work because the computer lost its connection. Right.

It's happened to me way too many times to the point where I drive, I. Have driven outta my way to get gas somewhere else, because I'm always gonna, I've been late to work. Right. Multiple times because of U D F. Yeah. All right. Mm. So I'm like the hell with it now. There's an actual gas [00:21:00] station, a nice one going in right across the thing, and I was going to, I was so excited about the first time that I get gas there.

I was going to get gas at the pump that was closest to U D F on the other side, and I was gonna s. Air over at him, because I've gone to UDF so many times. I'm bald uhhuh. I'm relatively recognizable. I was hoping in my dream that somebody over there would be like, that's Mike. That's Mike over there. He's going over, he's over what the, and then I would get a call, someone, someone would like, knock on the door with their hat in their hand saying, why have you left our gas station?

I wanted to tell him, because your gas station sucks. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I'm gone here. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Who are you? So I went, I've been to Casey's twice the first time. Mm-hmm. Was with Charlie. Okay. Like, let's see what the Casey's thing is. This is when we thought it might be like sheets. We walk in and it's like, huh.

Smaller ha. It actually looks smaller on the inside than it should be. Really? To me, because it looks huge on the outside. It does. It does. Yeah. Go in there. [00:22:00] Okay. It, it actually, It's, I will. It's like, what should you do with the space? Are these walls reinforced for the zombie outbreak? Like it look, it looks like it's like a hundred feet by a hundred feet or something outside, and you come in and it's like a couple of rooms like the size of this basement.

You're like, what did you do? What are you using this space for? It's a refractive glass. Refractive glass. Yeah. So I'm looking around and so U D F has ice cream. Yeah. That's a hard thing to fight against. Yeah. When you walk into udf, Uhhuh, there are donuts. Yes. Like you have to move around the donuts to get into the udf.

You do. They're right there in your face. You do? Yeah. And then there's malts and ice cream mm-hmm. And milkshakes and all this stuff. Yep. You go in Casey's, it's like I got the little uh, uh, taco things, the little burritos, taquitos, the little things that are rolling on the thing. Yeah. They got, they got people making those.

It's like, Well, they have [00:23:00] that at U D F and you just pick it up and you put it in a thing and you have it right. This one, they've got some guy back there. They hand Jeremy, the taquito guy, they 

Darin: hand roll their taquitos. I don't know what they do. I didn't look at it that closely. Okay. Okay. But what I mean, you, you started 

Mike: this so what, what, what?

What?

Darin: Sorry, I asked a follow-up 

Mike: question. Don't dare ask a follow-up something. 

Darin: You have no idea the fuck you're talking about. I'm trying to figure out 

Mike: what makes Casey's Casey's Uhhuh. What makes it tick and the scary thing, the eerie thing. Uhhuh, the Desperate Housewives thing. The shepherd wives thing. The, the was Stepford.

Stepford? Yeah. What are the shepherd wives? Shepherd wives are completely shepherd. Okay. They're Amish. Okay. Yeah. They're against zippers. They have all this candy. But it's all Casey's candy. Okay, so you don't have your ERs butter Scotch, you've got Casey's Butter Scotch, you've got Casey's Peppermint Things, you've got Casey's gummies.

Wait, they don't have 

Darin: that alongside with 

Mike: Well, they, they do in another section, but the, [00:24:00] cause I'm not gonna get you in the, I'm not getting Casey's, Casey's M I'm get Casey's m and ms. No, I'm not. Get Kcms. They have all this there and I'm like, okay, well that's kind of stupid. That takes up 95% of the store and then you've got the taquito bar.

Over here, Uhhuh. And then you have what may be the largest register area. It's like they were like, well, we have another 50 square feet. What can we put here? A register? Yeah. And a long counter. Well, and like a couple people back there and it's like, what are you all here for? Like, you can ring me up 

Darin: when, when they hit the register, it comes 

Mike: out way out.

Hmm. Yeah. So Charlie and I, now Charlie loves to go to udf. Okay. He loves to go to Walgreens. Mm-hmm. He loves to go anywhere he can get snacks. Yes. He wants to get candy. He wants to get chips. Yeah. He loves it. We walk in the case. This is, here's my only review you need of the inside of Casey's. Okay. We walked around that place.

Four entire [00:25:00] times. And Charlie, I kept saying, Charlie, you can get whatever you want. And he's like, they don't have anything what they don't have, they didn't have anything that he wanted. My child, who will eat, uh, TAs. Have you seen the TAs? Yeah. He'll eat those. They they hot? Yeah, they hot. They hot. He didn't want anything in there.

Uhhuh and ask, can we go to UDF or Walgreens or We ended up going to Minis. The little drive-through thing. Yeah, yeah. After Casey's, cuz he couldn't find anything in Casey's that he wanted. That's the first story about Casey's. Okay. Okay. Here's my second story. Okay. I'm running late to work. This is perfect and I need gas.

Yeah. I was like, oh, this is what I've been excited about forever. Mm-hmm. Because 

Darin: I predict that your, your gas story at Casey's is gonna be my gas story 

Mike: at Casey's. It may be. I thinks it is. I pulled up and I'm like, finally new gas pumps. Mm-hmm. New everything. Yep. It's not gonna mess with me at the gas pump.

Are the TV's on that give you the weather? Yeah. And they ask you if you wanna be in the loyalty thing. And I'm like, no, I don't wanna be in the loyalty thing. And I have the, I, I'm waiting, you know, [00:26:00] because you go through there and you say no. Right. And then most normal God-fearing Christian gas pumps will say, lift the nozzle and select your gas.

Right, right. Yeah. This one didn't. It just said, do you wanna be in the loyalty thing? No. Yeah. Waiting. Waiting. Uhhuh waiting. I'm late. Yeah. I'm late. Yeah, I'm late. Yeah. I'm there. It's like a minute I, and I start laughing. Yeah. And then I start saying, what the hell? Yeah, you are. You kidding me? So I just take the nozzle out.

I'm talking a full minute. That's a long time to wait for this thing to get it together. Right. So I've, you're late. I've already, I've already put my card in, by the way. Ooh. Well, I, I put the gas thing in. You committed my thing and I like pushed the, the regular. I went, gimme gas. Yeah. Gimme, and I start squeezing it.

Squeeze it. Mm. Nothing. Nothing's happening. So you squeezed. It's, it's thinking. Yeah, it's, see, I squeezed it a lot. Uhhuh. Hello? I squeezed it as much as I could squeeze it. That's what she said. I used all the allotted squeezing time. Okay. That I had right before being stupid late for work before I ended up being five minutes late for work, which [00:27:00] is very noticeable before I get Did it get inappropriate?

I never got gas. Okay. I never got gas there. You know where I did get gas? U df, U d F. Okay. That doesn't have any of that. Yeah. I mean, the only thing that a problem I have there is the roulette wheel of which gas pump today is not gonna work. Uhhuh. But I was so pissed. I was like, I'm done with Casey's.

Casey's, I hope the business,

but to hell with them. Right. 

Darin: So, uh, on, it's a gas station on Sunday. Yeah. Uh, mom goes to church with us. Yeah. And so there's five of us. We all can't fit in a car Uhhuh, so we usually take mom's van. Yeah. Yeah. So mom pulls up in her red Dodge Van Uhhuh and she said, I'm gonna come a little bit early. I need to run by Casey's and get some gas.

Mike: Okay. 

Darin: Good luck. And I'm like, why do you, why do you have to go by Casey's? Yeah. And she says, I want to go by Casey's. It's new. It looks nice. I wanna see it. Yeah. Well, she had seen on the thing where there gas was 10 cents cheaper than 

Mike: udf. Of course. Okay. So you just can't [00:28:00] get it right. 

Darin: So I pulled in and, uh, I look at the thing, yeah, it's 10 cents cheaper if you're a Bucky or a Casey member.

Oh, right. And I'm like, mom, did, did you fill out a loyalty thing? No. I'm like, well, you gotta be a loyalty thing to get the, to get the, you gotta be a member 

Mike: of Casey's to get the,

Darin: but yeah. Yeah. So I, I, you know, I went up and I went ahead and filled her tank. Yeah. And then I get in the car and I told her that, you know, I said, yeah, you don't get the, the, the cheap price unless you're a loyalty member. Yeah. What, Hey, what happened? Yeah. And she wasn't happy about that. Yeah. And so she's not going back to Casey's.

Yeah. Yeah.

Mike: Just rubbed me the wrong way. I can't 

Darin: believe that you couldn't find any snacks. None 

Mike: at Casey's. None. None. Well, I, the little Debbie's. Uh, I don't, I, I don't, I don't think, did they have those? He doesn't like those. What? I don't think he likes those. Yeah. Did they have the little 

Darin: chocolate donuts that 

Mike: tastes like [00:29:00] candle wax?

Uh, yeah. I'm sure they did. Yeah. They have love. I don't know why, but I love those. I do too. I don't know why I pretend. I like to pretend I'm eating wax candles. Yeah. Yeah. 

Darin: Just the best taste candle I've ever had. Yeah. 

Mike: Yeah. Yeah. We couldn't find anything we wanted. Yeah. Neither of us. I, well, I was trying to be good and not get anything bad for me, but, but Charlie was like, dude, you got full rain.

We got 10 bucks. Go crazy. Get whatever you want. Guys, we want to thank 

Darin: you 

Mike: for listening. If you're still alive. Hey, it's possible somebody's playing this to, to like somebody that's like in the hospital in a coma. It's possible. And we're there to like, keep 'em company. Yeah. You 

know 

Darin: what, like it is possible.

Yeah. And I like to think that maybe there are people who, yeah. Yeah. If you listen to this podcast, if you're not in a good position, if you're not in a good place or whatever. Yeah. And if, if we do anything to cheer you up. That, that makes me feel good. It does. I, I hope that, I hope that's the 

Mike: case. I hope we bring sunshine to [00:30:00] somebody's life.

Somebody, yeah, 

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And you can throw us a buck here and there. And, uh, there's all kinds of cool on that thing. It's really something else. And if you want to hear Mike and I Yeah. You know, complain, go off about something, I'm sure we'll do that next week. Oh yeah. So, 

Mike: uh, 

Darin: yeah, we hope to see you again on irritable Dan Syndrome.

Mike: Yeah. Good. The show's over. I'm going to get me a pop-tart. 

Darin: That's right.

Mike: I told you we had another one, didn't. There never, never underestimate our ability to pull, yeah. Yeah. Blood from a turnip. What?