IDS #157 - Ripple Man and the Kazoo Kid

157 Ripple Man and the Kazoo Kid

Mike: [00:00:00] We had a viewer drop. What the hell did you expect? I mean, really? What did you expect? 

Darin: I love how you're talking to a viewer who's not there now. It's a 

Mike: podcast,

Darin: the new phone book here. This is the kind of spontaneous publicity your name in Prince. Let's stop buddy now. Welcome to Irritable dad Syndrome, the podcast that floats Here are your hosts, Mike and Darren. 

Mike: Hey, I'm Mike. I'm Darren. This is Irritable dad syndrome, episode 150. Thank you so much for listening.

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Uh, there's pictures, there's transcripts. There are people who think we're quite handsome. Dapper Dans. Yes. Mm. As it [00:01:00] were. Yes. And there's all kinds of cool stuff there. You can interact with us mm-hmm. And tell us if this sucks or not. Yeah. That'd be fun to know. Yes. Send us a message. Right now we're just quacking into the void.

Yes, we are. 

Darin: Yeah. Yeah. Tonight on the show, uh, we've talked about the gas station known as Casey's. Mm-hmm. Uh, I went by there and I met a very unusual employee. Okay. 

Mike: We went to King's Island this past weekend and had a breakthrough. Okay. And, and you saw, also saw Spider-Man, Jesus. Spider-Man jumps the Spider Verse.

You saw the Spider-Man movie and you didn't like it. The new, the New Spider. Well, I had a reaction to it and I wanna talk about it cause I've changed my mind a little bit. 

Darin: Okay. How you doing? I'm doing okay. How are you? I'm good. That's a Regal Beagle shirt. It is a Regal Beagle shirt. I got it from my birthday.

Really? Yeah. This this last one? Yeah. Yeah. My 53rd birthday. Yeah. The Regal Beagle is the bar that Jack, Janet, and Chrissy, uh uh, hung out at, uh, every single week [00:02:00] on three's company. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, 

Mike: yeah, I think they used the same set for Jax Bistro. They just put some dining tables in there. 

Darin: Probably did.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I think there's maybe a two or three set show. Okay. So, but yeah, I think 

Mike: I'm following John Ritter's son on either the TikTok or the I I Cuz I saw videos of something Ritter. Yeah. It looks a lot like him. Just a bunch of little funny 

Darin: things. Yeah. His son is the voice. Of one of the cartoon characters on Gravity Falls.

Okay. Who? And Cameron absolutely loves that show. Okay. I watched it with him one time, and then I got hooked on the show. And now I love the show. Gravity Falls. It's on, uh, the Disney Channel. Okay. Yeah, check it out. 

Mike: So we went to King's Island. Okay. All right. And. We, so Charlie, we go to Snoopy Land. Yeah. All right.

So Andrew is huge in the coasters. Mm-hmm. You know, the Orion and all that stuff. Yep. He goes with his friends all the time. Yep. We're like, dammit, we're having a family King's Island trip. We're all gonna go, we're gonna ride things with Charlie. Yep. [00:03:00] And we saw that the Surf dog, you know, surf Dog was, I know on the board.

I know, I know. Surf Dog. It was on, it was open and on and working. Wow. Yeah. It's never, I 

Darin: was gonna say, that's rare. 

Mike: So many times, li Libby loves that ride. Now, we're not gonna get deep into this, but Bess and I have a Snoopy and Woodstock thing. I'm Snoopy, she's Woodstock. Okay. It's been that way for 20 plus years.

Okay. All right. Okay. Just, we'll leave that word. That is, I'm not trying to be any further. We love Snoopy and Woodstock. I, I do too. Okay. So we always wanted to ride Surf Dog. Okay. And we couldn't. But now it's open, but now you can't. So we say, Charlie, do you wanna ride Surf Dog? Yes. Mm-hmm. He's excited.

Let's go ride surf dog. Yay. We get over there, we get in line. It's like, I don't know. It's a pretty big drop. Mm-hmm. Which is what it looks like when you're closer to it. And it spins around and it spins around. As we're going through the line, he's getting more and more pensive. Mm, more concerned. Yes. More penultimate.

Yes. About his coming fate. Very 

Darin: obtuse. About Very obtuse. Yeah. You give you the ho [00:04:00] I don't think it means what you think and 

Mike: miss. We get, uh, maybe five to 10 people away and side note someone. Cut through the entire line, like was pushing through everyone. Okay. To get up to the front uhhuh, and then it was time for people to come on and the lady didn't react to them at all when they were pushing through the line.

Mm-hmm. But when they got to the front, She said, okay. Uh, we have a party of three here, four here, and the two of you need to leave. There's no cutting lines. Yes. And kicked them out. 

Darin: Yes. Kicked them out. Oh, I wish she had ridden the, the, the Italian job. She 

Mike: was awesome. Yeah. I mean, I was wanting to cheer, but nobody seemed to be ready to cheer.

Yeah. But it didn't, anyway, Charlie was beside himself, but he was being strong. Yeah. But he was very nervous about getting on the, the surf dog. We get on the surf dog. Okay. He's. We're going through now. Bess wanted to sit in the middle. She's like, let's just sit in the middle. Yeah. So it won't move that much.

So she sat in a direct center. She's right. Well, you know, well [00:05:00] around the axis, you're not swinging around as fast. I, I gotcha. Right. I gotcha. The problem is, is that you can't see anything when you're there. The thing is in front of your face. The thing is right in front of your, uh, yeah. Right up in your grill.

Yeah. Yeah. So I'm on the end and I'm got Charlie right next to me, and then there's Beth, and then there's Andrew over there, and we're going, and Charlie is upset. I bribed him. I said, if you don't have fun, I'll pay you $10. Oh. Just to get him on there. Okay. And we go through a few of those things and he's like, and he's like, you owe me $10.

And then we went through that, and then I saw him smile. Okay. Then he screamed and laughed, your Honor. Yeah. Exhibit B. Exhibit B, yeah. And Andrew from the other side was like, you like it? And Charlie's like, shut up. So Charlie loved it. Okay. And side note, when it stopped, he wanted to go again. I noticed that.

I heard Charlie squealing with delight myself. I was yelling, I heard Andrew yelling. I heard nothing from Bess. Mm-hmm. I look over to make sure that she's still with us. Yeah. On this [00:06:00] mortal coil. Yeah. She has a death grip on the little bar that they have in front of you. Yeah. She's staring straight ahead.

Mm-hmm. And she is not smiling. No. Nothing. I've been there. Yeah. And I said, are you okay? And she said, I'm going, I think I'm going to throw up. Yeah. And didn't even look at me when she said it. She said, I just need to get off of this thing now. Yeah. At which point we, I. Exited the R Cause you have to get all, you can't just stay on the ride.

No you can't. And we left and it took a while for her to, to c come down from it. Right. We got ice cream. We figured what better for you at when you're about to throw up, eat something than say ice cream. Yeah. So we did that and then we left. Also, there's, 

Darin: there's not a bathroom near. Well, 

Mike: there kind of is.

Well, yeah. Cause I haven't a pop pott before. There's not 

Darin: one that's close enough when you before that you 

Mike: have to Yeah. Yeah. That's a long run with a mouthful 

Darin: of puke. They, yeah, exactly. What they need to do is have, uh, just a, a stall dedicated to the throw up uppers. Yeah. Right [00:07:00] outside uhhuh. Any given ride.

Yep. Yep. And now it's time for this week's top five list. Our category is rejected names for rollercoasters. Here we go. Number five, Tron. Number four, Hur world. Number three, the big heve. Number two. Captain up, Chuck's puke tastic, throw Coaster number one and the number one rejected name for a roller coaster

Spew Mountain. This has been the Irritable Dad syndrome top five list, brought to you by Otis Elevators. Now back to the show. So I mentioned the Italian job, Libby and I went to King's Island and we had Jacob and Cameron. So I have stopped riding the Beast. Okay? The last time I rode the Beast, it beat the absolute crap outta me.

It's not fun anymore. I can't do it anymore. [00:08:00] Okay. It hurts. It legitimately hurts my entire body. I feel like I've been hit by a train after. It feels 

Mike: like you've been hit in the head with a hammer by Conan the 

Darin: Barbarian. Yes, exactly. So I don't ride it anymore, Jacob. It's got Cameron with him and Cameron has like, Hey, it used to be Cameron wouldn't ride anything.

Cameron decided that he wanted to ride some, uh, really big coasters. Okay. And he says, I'm gonna ride the beast. And we're like, okay. So he's gonna go ride the beast with Jacob, Libby and I are not gonna ride the beast. No. So we wish them well. Cause you value your health. Yes, we do. We love you guys have fun.

They went and rode the beast. Mm-hmm. Libby and I went to ride, uh, the Italian job. Which is no longer the Italian, it's the stunt coaster, whatever they call it, the stunt coaster. While we were in there, these two little kids, Uhhuh ran up and they got right in front of us. And we're like, and they, they cut through and these kids are like bumping and, and slinging nuts and spinning around.

And then they would [00:09:00] like climb over the fence over the thing and then they'd get in the other aisle and then lib and I just, we just walked forward and this guy like, oh, we, we gotta stop doing this. They're gonna take our place. We were so close to going, uh, like you just took our place. Mm-hmm. But we're adults.

Mm-hmm. Okay. Now I really could have said, Hey guys, really, you're gonna get right in front of me. I, I had a nice, uh, moment. Okay. I was fine. And I'll tell you why. Because the kids in front of me who cut line who were spinning and bumping Yeah. And annoying the hell outta me. Yeah. They weren't as bad as the kid behind me who had a kazoo.

A kazoo. Mike, he's in line behind me with a kazoo. Is that legal? You can't do that. And he's playing. And his dad, His dad is trying to guess the song that the kid is playing on the Kazoo. He's like,

is that, is that Buddy [00:10:00] Holly? Yeah. And then he d goes into another song and then another song, and then another song, and 

Mike: then another song. Have your Hallmark Dad kid moment. Out of the 

Darin: line with the kazoo. Stop playing the kazoo. Yeah. I'm about, I'm about to lose my mind. I'm literally, and I can't get outta the line.

Yeah, I wanted to, I mean, just like, you know, and if the kid was there by himself, I would've, can I see that for a second? Whoops. And then just hurl it. Oh God, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to throw that. Yeah. 50 feet over 

Mike: there. Yeah. Stop 

Darin: With the kazoo driving me crazy. We got on the Italian job. Yeah. And, uh, uh, the, the kid with the kazoo is in like three cars behind me.

Yeah. Thank God. And then the two kids who had skipped line rode the ride before us. Okay. So we're finally away from those kids. Yeah. But you're with Kazoo, but, but Kazoo kid is still too behind me. Anyway, I get in, I'm wearing my [00:11:00] Captain America shirt. Of course. Yeah. And the guy says, uh, are you ready to ride Captain America?

He laughs. Like, like, that was funny. Oh, 

Mike: you, are you ready to ride? Comma? Captain America? Captain America. I thought he was saying, are you ready to ride Captain America? No, no, no, 

Darin: no. He some kind of, he, he referred to me as Captain America. Okay. Because I'm wearing the shirt. So clearly I, you're a Captain America and Captain America guy who's 35 pounds overweight easily.

Mike: Well, the shield hides a lot,

Darin: but honest to God, I wanted to take that kazoo and shove it so far. Oh. Okay, guys. Guys. And we have ran a public service announcement on the show before. Mm-hmm. Let's do that again. This is your announcer, Dave Lay with an important announcement. There's never a good time to buy your child a kazoo. I don't care how many times they ask.

Just don't do it. You'll thank me. This has been an important announcement.[00:12:00] 

Mike: So I wanna talk about the spider verse very quickly. Okay. So I went to go, see, I haven't seen the first one. I've seen parts of the first one. This 

Darin: is, you don't see the first one? Yeah, but I, you see the second one? I don't understand what's going on. Here's the thing. That's you. I, no, no. You've owned it for two, three years.

Yeah. It's up there. 

Mike: Yeah, it's over. Right over there. So you're gonna have the same fight that I had with Andrew. Listen, the first 10 minutes of this movie, they explain what happened in the previous movie. I get it. They do. Yeah, I get it. Yeah. And so we're watching the thing. I had to pee a couple of times.

Okay. I just did. Yeah. You know, and I'm like, who is the vi? They keep introducing like, okay. The whole guy, the guy with the holes spot. That's the, that's the bad guy spot. And then, uh, the Antonio, Antonio Bandera Spider-Man. I was like, that's the bad guy. Right. 

Darin: You know what I'm talking about? He's the 

Mike: anti-hero.

The anti-hero. 

Darin: He's the good guy. There's the bad guy. Ends up being 

Mike: the bad and then they bring back the uncle, cuz he goes back a spoiler, I guess. Yeah. And [00:13:00] into another universe. Yeah. Into another universe. And now the uncle, I'm sorry, another spider verse. And now miles is really the bad guy. So I, I got all that.

But here's the thing. Mm-hmm. Because that was happening. I was like, oh my God, I had to pee. I, me and Charlie had to go pee. So we're like, okay, this is a good time to go. Cause we get it. Mm-hmm. You know, we go pee. We come back and there's people coming out of the theater and we're like, Hey, what happened?

An idiot me this, this will show you how many concerts I go to. I thought, oh, they're leaving so that they can get to their car and get outta here. So they're not like gridlocked at a movie theater on like a Saturday afternoon. Yeah. There's gonna be a gridlock. Yep. And we go in and there's credits and I'm like, me and Charlie are both what?

The what? The quack. Uhhuh and I look, and Bess is coming down and she has, her eyes are wide. She's like, I guess it's over. Yeah. I'm like, what? The 

Darin: quack happened? 

Mike: Yeah. Yeah. Like what happened? They were just talking uhhuh 

Darin: and now it's over. So you went to the bathroom and when you came back It was, it was over.

Oh, okay. 

Mike: She's like, you know when I went to the bathroom? Yeah. So, You, I, I, [00:14:00] you are going on and on and on about how great Spider Verse was. And I enjoyed the animation. The beginning, I was on team Darren. I'm like, this is, this is, wow. I like this. I think I like Miles better than Peter Parker. Okay. I think I enjoy this.

I like all the little knots. I'm like, how long is this for movie? It said it was two hours and 20 minutes. Yeah. But they haven't even gotten to the middle of this damn thing yet. Yeah. And it's just going and going. I'm getting more and more annoyed. And I was like, it ends like that. And I'm out in the parking lot and I think I texted you.

I was like, yeah, I, I started a fight with you. I'm like, Hey Darren, we just saw Spider first. And you're like, good, you're, you are like, Hey, great. How did Bad Worst movie I've ever seen Whatever I said to 

Darin: you. Yeah. The worst movie you said The 

Mike: worst movie you've seen in yours. The stupidest thing. Yeah. I hate it.

I hate you for liking it. All this, and then, so you really 

Darin: hate when people like things or that you dislike? I do more than any 

Mike: child. I know. We get home and then it hit me. It hit me like a ton of bricks, uhhuh on the head. [00:15:00] I'm like, I gotta talk to Darren about this. On the podcast I have finally experienced.

What people who went to see the Lord of the Rings movies. Yeah. Who didn't know that it was a trilogy. Yeah. Thought Yeah. As they were hitting, because I remember at the end of the, you know, the journey, the unexpected journey. Yeah. When they're like, well, I guess we just. Go this way then. Yeah. And then the credits come up.

Yeah. I remember people in the back going, what the, you know, just, just tearing into it. Yeah. People in the back going, what the quack is happening. 

Darin: Yeah. My buddy Jeff and his wife Joy, she had no idea. But here's the thing, cuz you mentioned that. Mm-hmm. I'm like, yeah, it's part of a trilogy and you said it is.

And I said yes, because anymore, every movie's part of a trilogy. Yeah. Okay. We can't, well you can't make one movie. You have to make three movies. I'm talking about like within the last 10 years. I know anytime you make a movie, you gotta make three or 10 if it's the, uh, fast and the furry. But I went back and I listened to the podcast Yeah.

That we recorded and I'm talking to you [00:16:00] about, you know, the first one was, uh, uh, into the spider verse. This was across the spider verse and the next one's beyond the spider verse. And you said, there's gonna be a next one. I said, yeah, there's gonna be a next one. You told me this. Yes. On it's, it's Audi, it's recorded.

Your Honor, exhibit B. Okay. Can I, and you said, so there's a trilogy. I said, yeah, it's a trilogy. You knew that. And then you come another one. 

Mike: Yes. What's the problem is I don't listen to you. No, you don't. You don't. There's 156 episodes of us out there. You talking. Don't listen to. I haven't heard a word You, I hear you.

When I listen later, I'll hear this conversation later. Yeah. Oh, hilarious. Oh my gosh. Wow. 

Darin: So I'm sorry that you didn't know, even though you knew. That it's a trilogy. 

Mike: So I'm back to, I think it was, I think it was pretty good. I like, I think it was well done. Think it was a well done movie. 

Darin: It was, it was amazingly well done.

Yeah. I thought it was, you know, because, uh, my, my favorite thing about Pixar is so many is Pix. That's not Pixar. No, it's not. Okay. But I'm, I'm making an example here. Ooh. This is what's called an [00:17:00] analogy. Okay. Pixar. When they make a movie, they don't rely on just their visuals. Yeah. Okay. Like George Lucas.

He'll make, he'll put 25 billion into the razzle dazzle for a script that sucks. But can we say razzle dazzle? Yeah, we can. We can. So Pixar has a great story mm-hmm. That they use kickass animation around. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And that's the same thing that they did with the Spider verse movement? Yes. Okay. It's a great story.

It's a, it's a really, really good story. Yeah. Yeah. And Angry 

Mike: birds 

Darin: too. Yes, and, and Angry Birds too. Time now for the Casey's story of the week. So in the past you have complained about Casey's. Yeah. The gas station down the street. Yeah, it's right in the middle of my house. In your house. The hell with Casey's?

Yeah. Yes. So you don't like Casey's? No. I stopped by there to see what the big woo was with Casey's. Mm-hmm. And I bought a lemon pie. Yeah. And it was just [00:18:00] unbelievably, uh, you don't like, it's favorable to my taste palettes. Okay. Okay. You enjoy it. I enjoyed it. Immensely. Yeah. Okay. And so I bought the lemon pie and it was like a dollar 70 or something 

Mike: cheap.

It's like one of those 

Darin: hostess, like it, yeah, it, do you remember the old apple pies at McDonald's? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, okay. That's what the But this, it's got lemon filling in it, so I love the lemon pie. Okay. Last week when we recorded our podcasts mm-hmm. I drove home and on the way I stopped by Casey's.

Okay. And I got me another lemon pocket. Okay. Now this time. I'm up at the register. Yeah. And, uh, I'm standing there lada who do, do mm-hmm. Got my thumbs twiddling waiting for someone to come. Mm-hmm. And, uh, uh, check me out. Mm-hmm. Oh, hey, I see you got a little, uh, yeah. At the register. Take my money. Yes. I'm waiting for someone to come and take my money.

This dude, someone 

Mike: to finish the transaction? Yes. Yeah. Well, 

Darin: to completely make the transaction. Indeed. So this dude who's back there with Jeremy, the taquito guy, back next to the Go Grill. Okay. [00:19:00] Huh? Oh. I'm away and he, he's walking unusually weird. Something is going on with this guy. Yeah. He runs around to the register.

Sorry buddy. Sorry man. Sorry. Sorry buddy. I'm like, it's okay. It's okay. Yeah. So he, uh, back off there. He, he takes the lemon pie Uhhuh, is, is there anything else you need, bud? I'm like, no, I'm, I'm good. Yeah, dude. And he opens up the register. He takes his cell phone out and puts the cell phone in the drawer.

And he's trying to close the drawer with his cell phone in it. And he's looking at the phone and he's looking at the drawer, and he's looking at the phone. Then he looks at the drawer, then he looks at me and I'm looking at him like, what in the hell are you doing? And he goes, oh, oh, uh, sorry. Um, He takes the cell phone out of the drawer.

He looks at the pie, he looks at the drawer, [00:20:00] he looks at my money, looks at the pie. 

Mike: Were his pupils 

Darin: dilated? He had, I they were, they were rolling something besides tequila his back. Okay. And the now I, okay, listen, I don't want to openly accuse an employee at Casey's of, of, but my God, of course not. He.

Really, really acted like something was going on. Yeah. 

Mike: Well, everything is Casey's branded. Maybe there's Casey's edibles back there 

Darin: somewhere, maybe. But, um, it, it took a little bit longer than normal Wow. To make the transaction. Wow. And he's like, all thanks buddy. I'm like, yeah, dude, you walk got my change.

And I went on out there. So tonight, We'll, we'll see if he is there again. Okay, because I'm just that bored. This has been the Casey's story of the week. Th This is how old I am. Okay. I got my driver's license renewed because I had a birthday. Yeah. I had my 53rd [00:21:00] birthday. Okay. Okay. 53. 53. Uh, dude, I'm 53 years old.

And so this is how old I am. Mm-hmm. I went to the, to the bmv. Now, when I lived in Tennessee, it was the D M V, the Division of Motor Vehicles. It's a Department of Motor Vehicles. Department of Motor Vehicles. Yeah. Thank you. Now that we live up here, it's the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Mm. I get there and I'm your bureau's in the north, departments in the south.

Yeah, you're right. Once you cross the Mason Dixon line, that's where the difference lies. I get to the, to the bmv and I'm thinking, I'm going on a a a Thursday or Afri, I'm going on a Friday. Mm-hmm. At one in the afternoon. How busy can it be? Oh, oh my God. 

Mike: The place is Kings Island, Orion. The, the place is packed.

Yeah, just packed. So could go. They could open it at midnight and there'll be like, 5,000 people there. That's true. 

Darin: So, um, I, I put my thing in the kiosk mm-hmm. Put my name in there and I'm fully expecting someone to screw it up. Yeah. They didn't screw up my name, so I don't have one of those stories. You don't screw around at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

Yeah, I know. And I'm waiting and I'm waiting. And, and [00:22:00] I don't know if you do this, but if there's five registers mm-hmm. I like to guess, uh, which one will come up and, and I, I play like, uh, Desk roulette and see. Okay. And I lost was the, it was the, that's Darren. You can edit that up. That's not part of the story.

The lady calls me up. Yeah. And I go up there and, uh, I said, I'm here to renew my license. And she says, okay, fantastic. And I, I give her my name and, and everything else. And she says, uh, asked how old I was and I had to do the test. None of your business lady? I had to do the vision test again. Oh. Huh. So I do the vision test.

Do you ever pretend 

Mike: you can't even see the machine? 

Darin: No, because, because I want my license. Never once. Just like they 

Mike: got the driver license thing here and just, I don't, I don't 

Darin: see anything. Yeah. Uh, so yeah,

then you turn around and start talking to Helen. Helen, Helen. Yeah, I didn't know I didn't do that. Yeah. Uh, [00:23:00] she asks me, do you wanna renew for four years or for eight years? I'm like, well, 8, 8, 8. Yeah. Yeah. I don't wanna come back here in four years. Yeah. Because the last time I renewed it was like that.

Yeah. It just. Flies by. I'm like, yeah, I wanna renew it for eight. And she goes, okay, got you down for eight years. And by the way, that's the last time you'll be able to do that because after you're over 63, you can't renew your license for any longer than that. Oh my gosh, grandpa, because Exactly. Oh no. I'm like, oh my God, I'm, you're gonna be dead soon.

So I'm, yeah. I'm getting the last time I can renew it for eight years. God, this is only, gosh, the one and only time I've enjoyed this pleasure. And, uh, the o Only other interesting thing that happened was, um, while I'm there, the dude who was next to me and the line that I predicted, I would go in. Yeah, the lady asked what his name was and he said, Mike, Hunt, but he said it faster.

And then the lady goes, Michael, and, and the woman who's working with me goes, huh, [00:24:00] hello? And she looks at me like, did he do the, huh? What? Like, did, did you hear that? And then we're acting like we didn't hear him say that. Yeah. And so now I'm wondering, Okay. Did you, 

Mike: years and years ago. Yeah. I was in a professional situation with Yep.

Right, with a Mike Hunt. Yeah. Yeah. And I was, I look cuz I saw the name and they were coming to talk to us, Uhhuh. I'm like, I am gonna lose my job today. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm gonna be worried, so worried about it. I'm going to say I'm, I'm not gonna say it. Right. Yeah. And I did, I did an intentional mm-hmm. Mike, 

Darin: period hunt, pause.

Mike: Yes. Yes. Mr. Hunt. Yes. You can call me Mike. Michael. Okay. Mike. What's Mike? Mike? 

Darin: Hunt. Yes. 

Mike: But then if you do that, it sounds like you're, it's even worse. I know. It sounds like you're underlining that. Yeah, it 

Darin: is. It totally is. We interrupt this program for a special announcement. Congratulations to Chris Calloway, irritable dad syndrome's, listener of the week.

That's right. This has been a [00:25:00] special announcement.

For my birthday. Yeah. We went to the New Port Aquarium. Okay. There's fish there, there are a lot, a ton of fish there. Yeah. And turtles. Yeah. And there's a, uh, octopus. Okay. There's a giant crab. Oh, there's, uh, an 

Mike: a eel. Do they still have that big ass gator in there? They've got some white Gators, magic Mike, or whatever the hell his name is.

Mighty Mike. Mighty Mike. The Gator Gator comes out in the fog? Uh, no. No. He was 

Darin: not there that day. Okay. He was not there that day. Yeah. So, uh, but we're at the aquarium and we took mom and the boys and everyone was having a great time. Yeah. And it reminded me, And I don't think I've ever told this story on the podcast, but many years ago, uh, I had my name on a freelance list.

Okay. So when I did video production, when I was at, uh, uh, channel nine, I put my name on a video production, uh, list. Yeah. So that I could do some freelance work. Okay. Okay. So there's this country music group outta Canada. Their name is Emerson Drive. Okay. And they had, I could [00:26:00] think of two hits, but their one big one that I remember was a song called Fall Into Me.

It's a great song. I must have heard it. A hundred times. Mm-hmm. 150 times. Mm-hmm. From four till, uh, way past midnight. Okay. Oh, wow. So a very, very, very long time. We shot in several different locations and then, um, They needed two people to go to another location where there's a pool and there's a girl, uh, who's in love with the lead singer of the band.

Mm-hmm. And she's going to climb up this, uh, stairway and go to the diving board and jump into this pool where they have an underwater camera. Okay. So I go, I'm part of crew B Okay. Where we go to the University of Cincinnati and their indoor pool. Okay. And, uh, we took a lot of plaques off the wall. Mm-hmm.

And we did a few things. Uh, one of the [00:27:00] most interesting jobs I've ever had was the girl is going to be sitting on the side of the pool and her job is to be thinking, uh, admirably about her boyfriend. Okay. Okay. And she's just sitting there just like, oh, I just love. Yeah. Kevin, so much or whatever. Yeah.

Yeah. And, uh, she's sitting there and, and you can hear the director go, we need some ripples in the water. The, the wa the No, no, the water's not The water's just still, the water's still. We need, we need ripples in the wa. Okay. Okay. Darren. I said, I said, yeah. He goes, it's Darren, right? I said, yeah's Darren?

Yeah. Yeah. Can you, okay. And then they, they scramble a little bit. Yeah. And then they get like a, Like a, like a paddle or something. Uhhuh. I'm on the other side of the pool. Yeah. And I'm making ripples in the water. Yeah. Okay. This is 

Mike: my job. 

Darin: And I'm like, you've made it. And I'm sitting there thinking point, yeah.

I went to college. Yeah. You're the big times now. I graduated college pretty, you know, I wasn't the number [00:28:00] one student, but I was, I was closed. You were 

Mike: clearly beyond the ripple guy. I was be, 

Darin: yes. Yes. And I'm sitting there, like, there, I'm making ripples in the water and the director's like, More ripples.

Darren. Darren. More ripples. You're 

Mike: getting crack. More ripple, Darren. Cause you've got enough ripples. 

Darin: Okay, not enough ripples. I'm like, okay. Okay. Make up your mind. Yeah. And so whenever that video would come on, and I know I posted it on my Facebook page a long time ago, like that was me. I made the, I'm the, I'm the guy.

But that was fun. It was a good time. 

Mike: Should we wrap this puppy up? I, we might as well. 

Darin: Yeah. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We wanna thank you for listening to Irritable Dad syndrome and you know what we said earlier, we meant it. We really, really hope that you go to irritable dad syndrome.com and we would love nothing more if you would go.

And leave a review on Apple Podcasts or in anywhere that you get your podcast. Let us know how we're doing. Cuz see, the deal is when you leave a [00:29:00] review, it puts our name up higher. Yeah. More people see us and 

Mike: share us with your friends, your enemies. 

Darin: It's not a vain thing. We don't, it's not like we want to hear people kiss our butt, but we would love to know what you think.

Mm-hmm. And when you do that, more people can see and hear us. And that would mean the world to us. Yeah. Yeah. We're gonna head out and, uh, we hope to see you next time on Irritable Dancing. Boom. The show's over, folks, it's time to go to work, go to bed, or whatever it is you do. Thanks for hanging with us.

We'll see you next time. And I,

Mike: the William Pace Show has been canceled. What? What's the William 

Darin: Pay Show? He used to be our lead in when we had the[00:30:00] 

poor William Pay. How bad does your show have to be to get canceled? Yeah, look on public access. Recording stopped.