IDS #203 - Metallica, Meatloaf, and a Peep Hangover

>> Darin: For a guy who hates reading. I love bookstores. I love going in bookstores.

>> Mike: I've been smelling my books this week.

>> Darin: You've been just a certain page.

>> Mike: Well, you know, I'm on this thing where I'm reading.

>> Darin: You're reading. Trying to read a book of mine.

>> Mike: And bess will be. I'm reading in bed, and she's right next to me. And then every once in a while, I'll smell the book like Al Pacino and Starface.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah. Was it freshly, Was it freshly copied or, like, right off the printer?

>> Mike: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.

>> Darin: I wouldn't say I've been missing it, Bob.

>> Mike: Good one. That's terrific.

>> Darin: Here.

>> Dave: Welcome to irritable dad Syndrome Cincinnati's pancake podcast. Mmm. Please welcome your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I am Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to irritable dad Syndrome Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 203, and we are excited you're here.

>> Mike: We're not just saying that. We're literally excited that you're listening to it, because if you're not listening to this podcast and us, then we're just two weirdos quacking in the void.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

>> Mike: Yeah. how you doing?

>> Darin: I'm good.

>> Mike: Yeah?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: That's a weird. I mean, it's not a weird shirt. It's a cool shirt. It's an. I've never seen. Usually when you see. It's what you call it.

>> Darin: You call a fatigue green. Yeah, it's a Metallica master of puppet shirt.

>> Mike: Is it like, an official.

>> Darin: No, no, I bought it at the,

>> Mike: Who's. It's. What's it?

>> Darin: Foot locker? No, did you. Foot locker?

>> Mike: The place. Hot topic.

>> Darin: Hot topic. I bought it at hot topic.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: That had all kinds of, heavy, metal shirts.

>> Mike: I bought one of my petalica shirts at the target.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And, yeah, there's tick tocks. You've heard of the tick tock?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And YouTube reels and all this stuff of people going up to the young un's, the millennials. I guess they're not young anymore. They're, like, in their forties and thirties and whatever.

>> Darin: It's like he's wearing a pink floyd shirt name. Hm? A Pink Floyd song name.

>> Mike: A Pink Floyd song. And then the dude sitting there, like, something about a moon. And then they. Whatever, they laugh at him. No one ever asked me. I was wearing one of the target Metallica shirts, and one of the guys that's at the gym that I go to. He just came over and he's like, awesome shirt. And I was like, he's gonna ask me. He's gonna ask me.

>> Darin: I'm prepared, dude.

>> Mike: I'm gonna name, like, hardcore, like, back catalog, botanical stuff from, like, garage days and demos and talk about Cliff Burton. And he's like, so you're somebody that would actually know their songs. And I'm like, I do. And then he goes into talking about how these people wear the shirts, and I have no idea what they are. And he never gave me a chance to wow it.

>> Darin: Like that guy at the airport in Chicago, Metallica. And he's just running. His mouth. Couldn't stop. And I knew my stuff. What I like to do is, when someone does that, I throw in a little bit of misinformation to see you testing it. What's your favorite metallica? Well, it's like, I like sad but true. I like, spit out the bone. I like, black wind fire and steel. I like. Yeah, that was. That was not.

>> Mike: No, no.

>> Darin: Still a great song.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah. People ask me, what's your favorite YouTube song? Is, like, the will the wheel in the sky keeps on burning?

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: The thing turning. Yeah, well, I screwed up on multiple levels there.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: But anyway. Yeah, I just. I noticed it stuck out. I was like, that's not a normal shirt, but that kind of makes it cool.

>> Darin: Thank you.

>> Mike: Hot topic of debate amongst boomers, which. We're boom xers. Boom xers. We're not boomers. We're Gen Xers. But people. I'm starting to be called boomers by, like, my kid.

>> Darin: You call me my dog. I call you Boomer all the time.

>> Mike: A lot of us look, at Metallica and say it's ride the lightning or master of puppets.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: And then the black album sometimes gets thrown in there.

>> Darin: Who.

>> Mike: Who knows? But there was a debate that popped up on the Facebook. You've heard of the Facebook?

>> Darin: I have.

>> Mike: I'm on Facebook between master puppets and ride the lightning. So I gotta ask you. I know. I know you like the black album. I know you like hardwired to self destruct.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: So. But if you had to limit yourself to ride the lightning and master of puppets, which one's better?

>> Darin: I. In a pinch, I'd have to say ride the lightning.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: See, right now I'm on master puppets, okay? But I flip flop. Next year, you'll ask me, right? Won't ask me, but I'll ask myself. I'll bring it up on this damn podcast again. And it'll be. Ride the lightning. I go, I guess I flip flop.

>> Darin: That has. For whom the bell tolls.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah. Ride lightning. For whom the bell tolls. Creeping death. and then master puppets. Has master of puppets.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Sanitarium, disposable heroes.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, and when that was leper Messiah. Yeah. When that song Master rabbits was used in stranger things, I had to school my family on it because they weren't sure what they were talking about. And I said, you know, it's about drug use.

>> Mike: Yeah. It's about the old, coke, the old devil's flower.

>> Darin: Yeah, exactly. It's about not letting the drugs become your master.

>> Darin: And they're like, oh, yeah, oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. They didn't know if it had something to do with the old, Satan, which it doesn't. Speaking of Satan, you watched. You watched a movie over the weekend.

>> Mike: I watched late night with the devil. And I am shocked that I have seen this movie before you because this has Darren written all over.

>> Darin: I know. I haven't got around to see it.

>> Mike: There's so much stuff in there that you would appreciate. Okay, so it's at 90. It's sitting at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.

>> Darin: Wow, that's pretty cool.

>> Mike: And I think, what's the other one? or there's one that's like a popcorn emoji. One's. The rotten tomatoes is the tomato emoji. And there's one that's a popcorn emoji.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: One of them is 97. The other one's like 95 or something.

>> Darin: What does Ebert and, Cisco and Ebert think about it? They're dead. Yeah.

>> Mike: But it is a horror movie.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: But, ah, to quote Bess, it wasn't that scary, but it was really good. Best does not like horror movies.

>> Darin: Libby hates horror movies.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: This is not a jump scare. I don't think there's a single jump scare in the whole movie.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: So a lot of people, I hate jump scares. They annoy me.

>> Darin: I know.

>> Mike: They're cheap.

>> Darin: I know.

>> Mike: And ridiculous.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I also hate getting, like, mortally fearful for my life.

>> Darin: Well, every time I watch a horror movie and they open the door, I know they're gonna close it, and someone's gonna be standing behind the door. Someone's gonna be in the mirror when they open the medicine cabinet and they close it.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: and I'm m. Yeah.

>> Mike: And if it's in the seventies with their sound production, you know that the stinger sound is gonna be them. Like, choking a raccoon in a metal cave. And it's just. Yeah, yeah. You know, m but this one, I'm gonna compare this movie to Avatar. Okay? That's how I'm gonna talk about this movie.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Okay. All right.

>> Darin: Avatar was in 3d. late night with the devil was not in 3d.

>> Mike: Correct.

>> Darin: Okay, so you go to avatar heads. Corny weaver.

>> Mike: Avatar works on different levels. Like, there's the story, which is basically dances with wolves, with blue people, with smurfs. But then if you were alive when this came out, when it originally came out in the theaters, yeah, it was mind blowing because it was three d and it was like, really, really good 3d.

>> Darin: Yeah, always amazing.

>> Mike: Awesome.

>> Darin: It was unbelievably amazing. So, best 3d I've ever seen.

>> Mike: Even if you thought the movie sucked for whatever reason, or you weren't interested in it, you could still be like, holy crap. And enjoy the three needed 3d ness.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Late night with the devil has a story.

>> Darin: Okay?

>> Mike: And it's, I think it's a good story, but they nail so many aspects of late night television in late seventies and early eighties, and that's why I was like you were kept popping up in my head. Darren's gonna love this. I mean, they got the band, down. I mean, I'm looking at, it really, really looks like a show. A late night show. Well, I'll give you a little bit of the premise. This guy, something Delroy is the, is the main guy, right? And he is a late night show host. He's in competition with Carson, but just can't quite.

>> Darin: Actual Johnny Carson.

>> Mike: Actual Johnny Carson. They show clips of Johnny Carson. The beginning of the movie is like this ten or 15 minutes retrospective of Delroy and his rise to fame. And he was a comedian or he was a radio, show host and got a talk show or a late night show. And it shows his early things. They've got him in like really, you know, like he's doing skits and they, they have this really kitschy makeup from the seventies where he's acting like a caveman.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: All this cool stuff. It's, it's just, it's very, yeah, talk, show or, I keep saying talk show, but late night show ish. And. Yeah, he's competing with, Johnny Carson, but can't get the ratings. And he's afraid that he's just going to be a, nobody. Like he's going to be a middle, mid range.

>> Darin: Well, many people went up against Carson and failed. Yeah, many.

>> Mike: But it goes so far as to have, like, tv guide covers. Okay. Like the cartoon in that style back in the day, made up. They have, like, exposes and Life magazine and time with him in there. And, like, in their style, it's. It's really well done.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: That's the part I think you'll really enjoy.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But then, like, the band, the way they're dressed, his announcer, it's got like, the mustache and, like, the ball, and he's just. They, they're having a Halloween episode, and that guy's dressed up like this goofy devil outfit. And they, It's just, it's great.

>> Darin: I will check it out.

>> Mike: Yeah. But, all the color motifs and all this stuff. And then it goes really bad, really fast. Like bad bad, not. It's a good movie, but it. Things go wrong.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I won't spoil those. But the. Even if you don't like the horror aspect of it, we were, as a fan, like, Andrew came down and watched half of it with us. We were laughing out loud at parts of it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Just how seventies ish it was.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Just goofy.

>> Darin: Well, I will let you know, and you probably already know this, but I'll let all our listeners know I am a purist.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: So I was watching I'm dying up here. It's a tv series, but it's called I'm dying up here.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And it's a show, like an eight part series about comedians in the seventies. Right. And Sebastian Stan Bucky.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: He's a comedian at, It's kind of. It's almost exactly like the, the comedy store with Letterman and Leno.

>> Mike: Yeah. Richie Richard bright.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Mitzi. Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah. Are you impressed that I knew that?

>> Darin: Yeah, actually, actually I am.

>> Mike: So I just got to throw my Metallica shirt comment out there. It's. He didn't like you.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You weren't there anymore.

>> Darin: That's true. Yeah, exactly. So, Sebastian Stan, I can't remember his comedian's name, but he went on Johnny Carson. Okay. And they lost me because Dylan Baker played Johnny Carson, and he does not look sound.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: He did not capture, Johnny Carson at all. Now, like years ago, rich little played Johnny Carson on that Letterman Leno movie. The thing with the stuff where Leno hid in the closet.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I. The late night wars, it bothered me.

>> Darin: Because, well, the guy who played Letterman had the red hair and was throwing the axes at the big bale of hay in the backyard. And Dave's like, I have never once thrown an axe at a bale of hay, my hair is not red. They have hundreds and hundreds of hours of videotape to see that I don't have red hair.

>> Mike: The thing that bothered me with him, real quick, I don't want to interrupt you too much. The guy that played Letterman, Michael Higgins, the entire time, every time he popped up on screen, a little voice in my head would say, I see what they're going for, but, they just didn't quite get there, you know what I mean?

>> Darin: Like, even the Leno guy was almost like an. I could not stand it was almost an SNL version of Leno.

>> Mike: I actually liked the real Leno, better than him. That's how bad he was.

>> Darin: Anyway, I wasn't impressed with the guy with Dylan Baker who's playing Carson.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Here's my major problem, was that when Sebastian Stan, they introduced him, when he walked out, they played da da da da da, da da da.

>> Mike: I'm like, no, that's Carson's.

>> Darin: No, they don't play Carson's theme when somebody else comes out.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. Ah.

>> Darin: When Carson had a guest host and they walked out, they didn't play Carson's theme.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: correct me if I'm wrong. All you purists out there, there may have been a couple times. I know one time they did the theme, and Tommy Lasorda came out, and that was a joke. And then one time, Tommy Smothers was doing his Johnny Carson impression and came out to Johnny's theme, but nobody came out to Johnny's theme. And I'm like, eh. Ah. And I turned it off. I wasn't interested because I didn't think they did enough research.

>> Mike: yeah. Uh-huh.

>> Darin: It's like, no, you don't do that.

>> Dave: Yeah, you're listening to irritable dad syndrome, Cincinnati's pancake podcast.

>> Mike: This is crazy.

>> Darin: Is nobody really making me flapjacks yet?

>> Mike: At this point, you guys are being.

>> Darin: As irresponsible as I am. We had an interesting weekend for movies, okay? Friday night, mom comes over, we're watching movies, and we got a, pizza downstairs in the movie room. I'm going through the Netflix, and I find this movie called country. Okay, I've heard of that man and his guy and his girlfriend go on a hike.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: They get lost and they.

>> Mike: Who's in it?

>> Darin: boy, I don't. Mom, recognize the actress as the woman who is in the tv show FBI.

>> Mike: Jessica Tandy. No.

>> Darin: No. I'm gonna say no. A hard no on Jessica Tandy. No, Jessica Tandy died 32 years before this movie was made.

>> Mike: Felicity Huffman.

>> Darin: No. Stop guessing.

>> Mike: Meg.

>> Darin: M Meg m. Ryan. No.

>> Mike: Terry Gar.

>> Darin: No, it wasn't Terry. Garbage would have been better movie. Meryl Streep. No, but it said two hikers, get lost and come upon a menacing bear.

>> Mike: Okay. Most bears are menacing, but it said menacing menace.

>> Darin: I'm thinking, okay, you know, it's like it's gonna chase them. It's going to, steal their food. They're like, oh, what are we supposed to do?

>> Mike: Have a little hat they're little bear.

>> Darin: With trying to take their pick a neck basket. That is a menacing bear. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: What I wasn't prepared for is the spoiler alert. The bear eats the man alive.

>> Mike: Okay. Okay.

>> Darin: Gets in their tent, pulls him out, mauls him.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And there's me, Jacob, Cameron, Libby and my mom. Jaw, huh? Dropped.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Like, okay. Oh.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: Ooh. Just screaming. He's like, run for your life. And she's in shock.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: What are we, what are we doing? I've completely ruined movie pizza night again.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: It's a good movie.

>> Mike: Yeah. Okay.

>> Darin: It was really well made. Yeah. And then, so that was Friday night.

>> Darin: Saturday, the boys have some friends over. And Cameron's off doing something. And Jacob's off doing something. Libby and I were sitting there trying to find something to watch.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And I had mentioned last year, maybe two years ago, I talked about the movie frozen, about the, the people who were on the, ski lift.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: And they get stuck on the ski lift.

>> Mike: I keep thinking of the cartoon that frozen.

>> Darin: Yeah, I understand. So Libby was like, well, let's watch that. And so I watched it again, and the, spoiler alert, the people in frozen, two of them get eaten alive by wolves.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Screaming. Just. Oh, the screaming. So much screaming. And the first person who got eaten alive by the, by the wolf, his girlfriend and his buddy was in the ski lift over watching, and it happened just. Yeah, yeah. Good times, you know? Good times.

>> Mike: What was that movie with? Yeah, with Leo Leonardo to revenant, I think. Were these two movies after that? Because that kind of raised the bar.

>> Darin: For people getting frozen was made before the revenant, but I don't know when, backcountry was made.

>> Mike: It's, it's like, he didn't get.

>> Darin: Eaten alive by the bear. He got attacked by the bear.

>> Mike: Got attacked by the bear. The bear tried to eat it.

>> Darin: But, you know, you don't mess with Leonardo DiCaprio.

>> Mike: No, no.

>> Darin: He's been trained by, Scorsese.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, they had the moment where the bear looked at him and then had a flashback of Titanic and just walked away.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Saved his life.

>> Dave: Anyway, this summer, a motion picture event so terrifying, you'll be shaken to the core. Alone. Dropped in the middle of nowhere with a horizon filled with horror in every direction. You look. What do you do when there's no place to go, no place to hide and danger all around? You run for your life. You run like hell. Open field, rated r. So we said.

>> Mike: We were gonna talk about fallout, the reason. And you were a bit, perturbed. You're written this.

>> Darin: Three weeks ago, we closed this podcast. You kids can go and listen. Mike's like, hey, next week, we're gonna talk about fallout. So everybody do your homework and watch fallout. Cause Uncle Darren and Uncle Mike, that's what we're gonna talk about. Yuck, yuck, yuck. So I went home, and I started just. I laid into Libby. I started yelling at her. I'm like. Cause I found out that she had watched it without me. Like, m. How dare you? And she said, I didn't think you'd be interested in it. I'm like, why would I not be interested in that? It's the coolest show I've seen in years.

>> Darin: Anyway, so I watched all eight episodes of Fallout only to find out that you're still on episode three.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, we finished episode three. We need to.

>> Darin: That's what I said. You're still.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we just can't get everybody in the family together at the same time.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Charlie will. Will declare without him. Well, we almost did. That's where late night with the devil came in.

>> Darin: Late night with devil?

>> Mike: We were. We were going back and forth. Charlie was at a sleepover. Well, should we watch Fallout with them or without him? I was like, I don't want to watch it without him.

>> Darin: M right.

>> Mike: And I looked. I was like, oh, here's the late night with the devil. You know, as well.

>> Darin: Yeah, but, yeah.

>> Mike: So we, I mean, we can talk about the first couple episodes of Fallout, or we can shelve it for a bit.

>> Darin: I will tell you, it's amazing.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It really is one of the coolest shows I've seen in a very, very long time.

>> Mike: Yeah. So nerds like me who played the fallout games, there's tons of, like, little Easter eggs and things.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: And it's driving me crazy. I mean, I've only seen three episodes. But there's. And don't spoil this. I know you know the answer, but the plot of the very first fallout game, the one that came out in, like, the early nineties, was the vault dweller. The person in the vault.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Has to go out because they broke their water chip. And in the show, the brother that stays behind in the vault the first couple of episodes, one of the other vault dwellers says, we just broke our water chip. And I jumped up from the couch. I was like, they're gonna do fallout one, which they haven't done. they get the whole brotherhood of steel and all this stuff. And then. So I'm having. I'm geeking out over here. I'm explaining where, you know, the. We watch the episode and it's like, well, what's the brotherhood of steel? Well, let me tell you what the brother still is. We're gonna talk about the enclave, and we're gonna talk about all this fun little stuff.

>> Darin: the bottle caps.

>> Mike: Bottle caps. I've got a pip boy in that brown case right there is a pip boy, a working pip boy that they wear on the wrist. The computer. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, there's no computer in it. It put your phone in it, and there's an app, and it becomes that.

>> Darin: Okay. Nerd.

>> Mike: yeah. Well, you use it. That you can play fallout four with it. So while you're playing the game, you can have the map in your inventory and control stuff on your wrist.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: You talking about nerd, man, when I first got that, I was down here. Took, a couple days vacation. Like a big dork.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And bess came down a couple of times. And I've got. Daddy's got his little green weirdo computer here while he's playing in there. And she's just like, I m. Made some bad choices in my life, but we'll get through this.

>> Darin: Maybe you bring me another bologna.

>> Mike: This person I know that's a huge, huge fallout. Even bigger fan than I am said that the show, you can buy an actual pip boy. Like they are in the show and it's included in it. I'm like, what do you. I mean, well, it's nice to have, but it's not really. What are you gonna do?

>> Darin: I'm thrilled to say that as a guy who never played the game, never heard of the game, never watched what anybody even do anything on it. Wasn't lost at all.

>> Mike: Yeah, they do a good job.

>> Darin: Great job of making a show for fallout fans and for people who know nothing like me.

>> Mike: And they introduced it. So, yeah, you play through the games, and you learn about the brotherhood of Steel. It's. The m show is a lot like that. You learn little bits about them. The Michael Rapaport in the brotherhood of Steel armor. I was laughing at myself, silly.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Dave: It's time now for the Kroger story of the week.

>> Darin: The other day, I ran into you at Kroger. I pulled in to create an honest to God. I pull in, and what do I see? There's some moron who has a YouTube license plate. I'm like, oh, cool. This guy has a u two stick. That's Mike. That is Mike's car.

>> Mike: Yeah. I've. I now have the most recognizable car.

>> Darin: Well, I really thought somebody else in Ohio had a YouTube not bumper sticker license plate, and it's you.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So I thought, okay, well, I'll run in and say hi to Mike. And I was walking in right when you were walking out. Yeah.

>> Mike: And you asked me the stupidest question you've ever asked me. You said, you don't have any ice cream in there, do you? And I said, you wouldn't see me if I had ice cream. I would have gone down to the. There's two entrances to this kroger.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: It's. It's about a 15 minutes walk down and back. I would have just gone back in and all the way down, you would.

>> Darin: Have hidden in there and let me walk into the store. And then. Because you wouldn't have exposed your ice cream to more sunshine.

>> Mike: That's true.

>> Darin: It was a beautiful day.

>> Mike: It wasn't. It was a nice day.

>> Darin: Yeah. You and I had a nice little ten minute podcast.

>> Mike: The other podcast where we talk about.

>> Darin: Things that we can't talk about on, this podcast.

>> Mike: Yeah. And people were trying to get by, like, shopping for food while we're trying to have a conversation. Yeah, right in front of the door.

>> Darin: Exactly. Yeah. And one of the employees kept walking past because she was trying to put plants outside or something. Did you see the look she gave us? Yeah. Like, do you guys want to talk somewhere else?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: No, I don't. I'm, fine right here.

>> Mike: Yeah. You even asked me, do you want to go inside? And I'm like, no, don't want to go inside. Doesn't surprise me too much that we ran into each other.

>> Darin: I mean, two reasons.

>> Mike: One, we always go to Kroger.

>> Darin: Right. And two, you'd think it would happen more than twice.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Twice is the time that you and I have bumped into each other at Kroger.

>> Mike: I went to Kroger on Friday, on Saturday, on Sunday. I went there yesterday. and tonight, I had to delay this for another 15 minutes because I had to stop at Kroger's and get some stuff for dinner. One of the times that I went to Kroger, a car was backing up, right. And I'm going to where my car is parked, and he's backing up towards me along the aisle because there's a car up front that is pulling out, and he wants to get that space.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: He looked up in his rearview mirror, sees me. I start to make a turn into my car, which is closer to me. And then he just starts to back up and brushes my leg with this car. Literally. I think that's legally a hit. Yeah, isn't it?

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And then slams on his brakes. And then I give the official. And this is audio podcast the international. Hey, what happened?

>> Darin: The hands up, like, yeah. Really?

>> Mike: Like, I'm about to tell Joe Pesci, like, what, you really?

>> Mike: And he was doing it because he wanted to get my space.

>> Mike: Now I can't stand people who sit, I should say.

>> Darin: This isn't riverbend.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: You know, it's not the drive in movie theater. It's Kroger.

>> Mike: Yeah. I can't stand people who will, like, sit and wait for the people to pull out. If I'm the one that needs to.

>> Darin: Pull out, it's not.

>> Mike: I find anything else to do.

>> Darin: It's not Christmas Eve.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It's like, when I was there, all kinds of spots available.

>> Mike: Yeah, well, there were multiple spots, like, 3ft further up there that he could have gone to. But no, he's gonna sit.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And he's gonna block me from getting out, other people from getting out to get that space. And plus, he, struck the hair on my leg.

>> Darin: That son of a bitch.

>> Mike: I know.

>> Darin: I would have sued him to kingdom come and see. You know what? We're going to get Andrew Jackson Gibbons on this. He is still our consiglier.

>> Mike: and I was proud of myself because I had my phone with me, and I immediately pulled out the phone, and on my little running rundown, I was like, I'm going to put this in because I'm going to talk about it at the podcast. My God, this is going to be an amazing story for the podcast.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And now that I have told it, I m realize it goes nowhere. Nowhere it goes.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: It's not even interesting to me. I'm trying to find a way to get out of this damn story. I can't imagine what the listeners said.

>> Darin: So what you're saying is the guy didn't hit you.

>> Mike: He didn't hit me.

>> Darin: Okay, but you thought he was going to.

>> Mike: I thought he was going to.

>> Darin: Okay, but he did.

>> Mike: Yeah, therein lies the drama. The drama.

>> Darin: Yeah, that's the rub, so to speak.

>> Dave: This has been the Kroger story of the week.

>> Darin: The time before that that I was at Kroger. Because I was there a couple days before then too. I had noticed that there were God knows how many boxes of peeps still available and I called to see if you wanted any, but I had a question because I was going to get some, ripped, roaring watermelon or whatever flavor it is. They didn't have any of those. Yeah, but they had the sour strawberry.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They had purple, they had yellow. And I wasn't going to get the bunnies because, I'm sorry, you don't buy the bunny peeps. because you're a loser if you do. They're so. Yeah, but I was asking if the sour strawberry were worth my time and you replied that they're whatever with you. But if I bought them and didn't want them, you would buy them off me, double the price. You would take them off my hands. Yeah, double what I paid.

>> Mike: Listen, I'm always down for some peeps, right? Let's get that straight. If peeps were the blue method.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: I'm skinny Pete.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: All right. I'm always.

>> Darin: And I'm badger.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. You pull out the peep. I'm getting some peep.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And that's all there is to it. It doesn't matter. I've never bought. They have birthday cake peeps and bubblegum peeps.

>> Darin: Gross.

>> Mike: I've never tried either one of them. But if I'm, at a party. And someone pulls out the birthday cake peeps and the cotton. I'm sorry, it's cotton candy. I'll try them.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I'll try them because that's how the watermelon hit.

>> Mike: And fun fact, folks, that's how my whole peep addiction started, was the watermelon and the red hots, those two together.

>> Darin: So this was recent, your peep addiction?

>> Mike: No, it's been going on a couple of years.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: It was watermelon comes and goes. The red hots were around for a year. That was the darkest moment of my peep life. Okay, well, it can argue the fact that I have 20 boxes of peeps right now covered. I think Bess and the rest of the family see this current period of my life as the darkest. Right, but the real darkest.

>> Darin: You're starting to have what's called a problem.

>> Mike: I eat peeps alone.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I'm not a social by myself. I'm not a social peep eater. I, ah, have gotten peep hangovers. Those are real?

>> Darin: You eat so many that the sugar goes to the head.

>> Mike: Yeah. I've had people in my family say, maybe you should cut back on the peeps. It's affected my work.

>> Darin: Have they had an intervention yet?

>> Mike: I was close when I was stacking the peeps in the cupboard, and I had to remove some of our dishes to make room for more peeps. I'm serious.

>> Darin: Put some dishes out in the garage.

>> Mike: Ah, we have shaker cups, me and Andrew do, and we have a place where we put them. And I had to get those out of there. I had to put them, I put them on the counter everywhere. And I've got 20 boxes of peeps in there.

>> Darin: uh-huh Now, did you buy any more since then? Cause you told me that you were.

>> Mike: Talking about, I got a bad box of peeps in the bunch. What yellow ones? Now, you know, I don't know if the podcast knows this the best way to eat a peep. You get the first one out, it's squishy, but you leave it open.

>> Darin: This is what you say.

>> Mike: You let the air get to it, let it get stale. There's your good peep.

>> Darin: See, I'm not gonna do that.

>> Mike: Now, the yellow peep box that I got came out of the box stale. And that's a different kind of stale. It's like a chewier stale, and it's. It makes you think there's something wrong with the peep.

>> Mike: I still ate about four of those, but then I threw the other six away.

>> Darin: I'm surprised you didn't go back to Kroger and get your $0.66 back.

>> Mike: But I said, I'll be damned if I'm getting more yellow peeps, which are really the classic peep color.

>> Darin: They are yellow and pink, I think. Go back.

>> Mike: And then I panicked, you know, so I had three or four of those. Four. and then I. I was like, oh, my God, I hope the purple and blue peeps that I bought aren't like that. And I opened them up and I had one each, and thankfully they were not like that.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then I was like, well, I've already opened the package and it was a dark morning.

>> Darin: We're here.

>> Mike: It was.

>> Darin: Maybe it's cold outside. Eat some peeps.

>> Mike: Yeah. yeah, man.

>> Darin: So you told me that sour strawberry ones were, man. Ah, whatever. My God. I ate one and I lost my mind. Well, that was like my total. Sitting in my car in the Kroger parking lot. Yeah. And I ate five peeps in the car.

>> Mike: Yeah, I've got three or four boxes of those up there. I mean, on the peep spectrum, they're not my favorite.

>> Darin: Okay, all right, red hots are your favorite.

>> Mike: Red hots and watermelon go back and forth. Now, they've never had red hots and watermelon out in the same year. Okay, if you ever, if it gets to be about march and you go to Walgreens or Kroger and you see a display with watermelon and red hot peeps, you may not hear from me for a while. Like if I go missing you and fans of the podcast know.

>> Mike: Something that's gone down in Peepland here.

>> Darin: You'Ve gone to a peep funk because.

>> Mike: Then what happens is you've got the red hots, which are in there in and of themselves, addictive. I will eat a box of red hots looking you dead, knee high without blinking. And I'm not kidding, I'll eat them for dinner and then I'll have another box for lunch or for dessert.

>> Darin: Yeah, I can't imagine those big. How spicy were they?

>> Mike: They're like, you know what?

>> Darin: Cinnamon. Right?

>> Mike: They're like those, but puffed into a marshmallow, okay. With the coating.

>> Darin: So it's just, it's just like hot cinnamon.

>> Mike: Yeah, but on a marshmallow. Dude. Dude.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: M you m know how the sour strawberry got you?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I saw your face with the watermelon ones the other day.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Now imagine that with the red hot. It's just so the problem is though, you get that red hot, it's like the salty sweet thing. You get the red hot and it's like you got watermelons right here. You get one and then you gotta eat that whole package. Now you've got the watermelon taste. I need to go back over here to the red hot. Open another package. It's a never ending cycle.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And we haven't even talked about the doctor pepper ones, right?

>> Darin: I had a doctor pepper one.

>> Mike: they're good, but they're more along the lines of. Yeah, it tastes like a doctor pepper.

>> Darin: You see, I didn't think it tasted enough like a doctor pepper to qualify it as a doctor.

>> Mike: See, I didn't think the sour strawberry tasted enough. Like, the watermelon hit me like a punch in the, in the testes.

>> Darin: Hello.

>> Mike: But the. The sour strawberry, maybe I have screwed up taste buds.

>> Darin: It didn't cleanse the palate for you.

>> Mike: It was a little too soft for me.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It felt like a can of natural light compared to hard liquor. Like hard moonshine.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: From a barrel cask, which is what the red hots and the watermelons are.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And then I've always shunned the normal flavored peeps because who has time for those with all these wonderful flavors? But every once in a while, you got to clear your palate with some normal peeps. And then I go back to the extremes.

>> Darin: It's. You know, I'm the guy who, if you go back a, couple hundred or 50 episodes of this podcast, I'm the guy who was always telling, like, the oreo people and the pop tart people.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: To stop. Just stop.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: With all the freaking flavors. But I mean, peeps have only. They haven't even gone past ten flavors, have they? I don't think so. I mean, oreos lost their love and mind.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And pop tarts are, Yeah. By the way, I want to see the Jerry Seinfeld pop Tart movie. I can't wait to see the Pop Tart movie. I cannot wait to see.

>> Mike: You haven't heard Pop Tart movie?

>> Darin: You haven't heard about the pop tart.

>> Mike: Pop Tart movie.

>> Darin: Jerry Seifeld, he and two or three other people wrote and he directed a movie about Pop tarts. It's set in the sixties where the.

>> Mike: Post people are creating the actual invention of Pop tarts.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: Holy.

>> Darin: The post people, they. Word had gotten out that they have created a breakfast pastry and Kellogg said, holy. We have got to get in this race. And it is like the space race. We've got to beat them to the moon.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I cannot wait to see it.

>> Dave: It's time now for the chick fil a story of the week.

>> Darin: Last week you had a great chick fil a story.

>> Mike: Okay?

>> Darin: Holy crap. This week you got, one, many levels to this chick fil a story. Libby and I have been going to this, it's called the art of marriage. And it's a class. It's been a six segment class at our church we go to. It's been fantastic.

>> Mike: Do painting?

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: No, we don't do any painting.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: But there's like, 60, couples there. And we go through all this stuff, you know, because Libby and I. I'll just be honest with you. I'm not joking around. Libby and I have a really good marriage. We're really good. You can always make things better.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. You can always improve.

>> Mike: You can add painting.

>> Darin: You can. Yes, absolutely. Libby's driving home from work. I made dinner for the kids. I made this pasta fajul. No, no, I did not make pasta fisholi. I, made this pasta and a salad. Okay, kids.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I thought Libby was coming home, and she was going to eat with us because we also have the life 360 app on her phone.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And I can see how, if she's. If she ever gets lost or she's close to being home or whatever. So I thought she was coming home, and we were all going to eat dinner together.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So I was eating, and then I noticed that she ran an errand and then came back. She didn't have time to eat.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: So we get in the car. We're driving to our church to do this art of marriage class, to which she said, I'm gonna need you to pull over here at Chick fil a and get me something to eat. And I said, oh, so we're going to chick fil a. Oh. And she says, yeah. I said, you know, if I'd known you were going to chick fil a, I wouldn't have eaten at home. Because, you know, daddy has a problem. I can't just go through chick fil a and not order anything.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So the quandary is, if I don't order anything, then I'm going through chick fil a, and I'm not ordering anything. If I do order something, then tubby here is eating dinner twice.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: Which, I did and I did not want to do.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: But I thought, okay, the duality of am I unhappy or am I unhappy? So which version am I going to be the least amount of unhappy?

>> Mike: If I may. If I may. The real difference between those two states is how much self respect you have. If you're open to just saying, m, I don't care.

>> Darin: Yeah. I'm going to eat dinner again.

>> Mike: Yeah, tubby.

>> Darin: So I decided, okay, I'm not gonna order a sandwich.

>> Mike: Okay, that's interesting.

>> Darin: I did. I decided, I'm not gonna order a sandwich. And Libby says, okay, I'll tell you what. And, of course, and I don't need her permission, but she says, you can order a sandwich, Darren. It's like, I know I can, but I'm, I'm going to be good.

>> Mike: Did you go, nuggets?

>> Darin: No. she said, tell you what, I'll order the meal, and then you can, if you want, you can have my french fries. And I'm like, okay, okay. And then I thought, and if I just can't stand it, if I really go crazy, she'll let me have a bite of her sandwich. Okay, we're in line. And I asked Libby, I said, do you think they're gonna say, what's a good name? Or do you think they're gonna screw up my name? It's chick fil a roulette.

>> Mike: It's always one of the, one of those two.

>> Darin: And we both bet that they would mess up my name. and they did. Girl comes in, and she said, what's the name for the order? And I told her, darren, and we're gonna order this sandwich with the, cherry coke to drink. She says, fantastic. We go around the corner, another girl comes over to give me my receipt. Why the first girl couldn't give me the receipt, I don't know.

>> Mike: That's how they do it. Each, each chick fil a employee has one thing.

>> Darin: the chick fil a down the street from your house, the same guy who takes the order prints off the thing right there at his belt.

>> Mike: Yeah, right.

>> Darin: And then he gives you the receipt.

>> Mike: Yeah. What's. Cause best buys right there, they got technology.

>> Darin: So, at this one, a second girl comes out with my receipt, and she looks at my car, and m she goes, Aaron, Aaron, Aaron. And I said, no. Yeah. She says it again, aaron. And I said, no. Nope. Nobody.

>> Mike: You don't know who you are?

>> Darin: Nobody in this car named Aaron. Yeah, and Libby's just, I can hear her going, Darren, come on. I said, nobody here named Aaron.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then she said, did you order the spicy chicken sandwiches? Oh, yeah, that's what we ordered. She goes, oh, and she prints me my thing, and then she hands it to me, and Libby goes, thank you. My pleasure. And I'm like, damn it, Libby, how many times have I told you not to say thank you?

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: And then she says, what? Really? I'm like, yeah. You don't say thank you in line at chick fil a. You say, have a great day. Talk to you later. Word to your mother, something.

>> Mike: Yes, yes.

>> Darin: So we get to the window.

>> Mike: Yeah, bros before hoes, I found. Works well, too.

>> Darin: We get to the window, huh? And a third girl comes out and. And she says, aaron. And, nope. No Aaron. Second time, I said, nobody here named Aaron. Did you order the spicy chicken sandwich? I said, yeah, that's what I ordered.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: She doesn't apologize for getting my name wrong.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: she hands me my food.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And then Libby goes, thank you. I'm like, you did it again.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah, you did it again. And she goes, I'm sorry. I'm like, look, Libby, Libby, look, you're either with me or you're with chick fil a, okay? You married me. We're going to marriage class.

>> Mike: Yeah. Okay.

>> Darin: We are going to make our marriage better. Going to this class.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Now, either you really want to make our marriage better by siding with me, or you can lay in bed with the chick fil a.

>> Mike: Okay. Yeah. You laid it down there.

>> Darin: I know I did. I put my foot down. The foot was down.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. So we get the food, and this is where the problem happens.

>> Darin: The fries are really, really hot.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And this is where Libby had the problem, because the fries are never hot. She always complains that the fries are cold every time we go to any restaurant. Shortest french fries. Can I get extra crispy fries? Sure, you can have extra crispy fries. They don't do anything to make them extra crispy. They just give you. They just look at them and go, pretty crispy. And then they just give them to you.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right. So the fries are really hot. Now, Libby doesn't want to share the fries because they're really hot.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. And they put a little bit of extra salt on them.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So Libby doesn't want to share her fries.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: She asks me if I want a bite of her sandwich. I took a bite of the sandwich. It's spicy. I'm like, why did you have to order spicy chicken when you know I don't like spicy chicken? So that's a problem. Okay.

>> Mike: on the way to marriage class.

>> Darin: On the way to marriage class.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: The cherry coke, is diet. And then Libby says, it's not diet. I'm like, yes, it is, Darren. It's not diet. It's a diet soda. I know what diet tastes like.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah. Ah.

>> Darin: We pull into the chick fil a is, like, literally 1 minute away from our church. We get out of the car, and we're like, I told you it was diet. She says, it wasn't diet. Why did you have to order the spicy sandwich? And did you have to eat all my fries? And we're joking with each other, but this lady has no idea we're joking with each other, and we're like, I wish you had. No. Hey, how you doing? Nice to see you.

>> Mike: Hi. Yeah.

>> Darin: And I held the door for this lady to let her walk in. I'm like, I can't believe you had to order a spicy sandwich. Good times. Yeah, it's good times.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So Libby ate her food. I didn't tell you this. I don't know why I would tell you this. It's like, oh, somebody call Mike. Libby had, to get an invisalign, okay. Because her bottom teeth were growing in a way that they started knocking, into her top teeth, and they were starting to damage the undercoat of her top.

>> Mike: I didn't know that could happen. Yeah, I thought once you were an adult. Does stuff stop? What is she, like, a shark?

>> Darin: Learn?

>> Mike: She just has, like, teeth are growing and popping out.

>> Darin: For whatever reason, her bottom teeth are rubbing on the bottom of her top teeth. So she has an invisalign new thing for me.

>> Mike: See, I have a problem with teeth.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I have nightmares that I lose my teeth. I wake up sometimes, and I've been grinding my teeth, and they hurt, and I didn't. Oh. Oh. Like, yeah, I've got some, teeth. I got some tooth fears.

>> Darin: So she wears an invisalign. Well, she can't eat with the invisalign on. So she takes her invisalign out, and we're eating. I'm eating the hot fries. As many she'll let me have.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And she's eating her spicy chicken sandwich, which was too hot. And then it's like, oh, crap, we got to go in because it starts in a minute.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I grabbed the bag to throw it away, and she goes, whoa, stop. She'd put her invisalign in the bag.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: So I almost threw away her,

>> Mike: That would be bad. Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: We were just all kinds of mess from. Why didn't you tell me you were going to order a chick fil a?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: How dare you throw away my invisalign.

>> Mike: Those things are probably pretty expensive.

>> Darin: They are, yeah. Yeah. We didn't want to do it, but.

>> Mike: I remember I threw away my retainer in, in the McDonald's when I was a kid. This is back when retainers were made out of, like, wood and bone and, cost.

>> Darin: Apparently, you had the same kind that George Washington had.

>> Mike: Lead and wood. From the way, I was there. I was at McDonald's with my mom. From the way she reacted when I said, I think I threw it away, it must have cost three or $4,000 at least. And so we had the McDonald's people come over and pull the trash can out, and we sipped it through the trash and found it in there.

>> Darin: Oh, okay.

>> Mike: And, you know, just brushed it off a little bit and stuck it back in my mouth. Who cares?

>> Dave: This has been the chick fil a story of the week. Now back to you, Mike, and Darwin.

>> Mike: Since you told that story, Libby, now my teeth.

>> Darin: Your teeth hurt?

>> Mike: Yeah, I, We've had a couple of problems on the podcast where my teeth get in front of my words.

>> Darin: You're always saying your teeth get in the way.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And I thought you were just squirting, screwing around.

>> Mike: So I'm going to tell you a story.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: When Andrew and I don't know how old he was, we went to Keener park. You know where Keener park is?

>> Darin: Yeah, it's good.

>> Mike: I've heard way down. And, they've got a staircase. There's like a little baseball field down there, but then there's a wooden staircase that goes up to the. The top part.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: we actually. We had scout meetings there when this podcast, the origination, was keener park. Yeah. Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So on the other side, we were on the other side. On the other. Yeah.

>> Darin: Oh, we need to have a reunion show at. Yeah.

>> Mike: On the other side, there's, like, this big wooden staircase. And me and Bess and Andrew were out there. This is before Charlie, lived. Andrew was running up the staircase and fell and hit his front teeth on the thing.

>> Darin: Ow.

>> Mike: And we looked, and it did not look good. There was blood, and it was clear. Something beyond which we had the ability to deal with needed to happen.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: His teeth bent inwards like they went like. Like a trapdoor.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And I almost screamed. And I learned, through my life, mainly from my dad, is it doesn't matter what someone's injury is. Just act like it's no big deal, but get them help.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: I could have been shot in the face when I was a kid, and my dad would be like, yeah, just put a band aid on it. But he would take me to the.

>> Darin: You know what? We're gonna go and check to make sure it's not.

>> Mike: Could drop the leg off and be like, it's gonna make it hard to walk for a few days, but you'll be all right. We'll go to the hospital.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So I kind of had that thing, but internally I am screaming.

>> Mike: Because I'm just the whole drive over to the emergency dental place which is right across from Barnes and Noble to where we went.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I am. I am doing everything. I'm gripping the steering wheel to keep from screaming. We, get in there, dental whatever the guy is. Orthodontia, orthopedic dental guy. Yeah, but this is on like a. This is on like a Saturday afternoon. So we've got the guy. He, like, comes out. He's like, put the guy here.

>> Darin: He almost passed dental school.

>> Mike: He's putting out a cigarette, he's wiping.

>> Darin: This guy who mops up to the place. He watches a lot of procedures. He knows what's going on.

>> Mike: He's wiping the thousand island dressing off his mouth with his sleeve. He comes over, he asks Andrew to open his mouth. And you can see the teeth are pointed, Backwards. And again, I start almost screaming. He reaches into Andrew's mouth, And puts his finger back behind the teeth and goes, I think I passed out.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: The next thing I remember was the nurse telling Bess what it was going to cost and that we need to go see. No, no, no. Something happened. I think I literally passed out. I lost time. Like the, like, what's the movie? Primal fear where the guy, I just lost time and he wakes up and, he's murdered someone. I lost time in the dental office. And they said, just go to your normal dentist on Monday and do what they tell you to do in. Bess took Andrew there. His teeth were gray. All of his front teeth were gray. And they stayed like that for a few months. The dentist said, yeah, it's, they bend, they do whatever, but they'll go back to normal and that color will go away.

>> Darin: Or they, were they baby teeth or adult teeth?

>> Mike: Baby teeth.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: He said the color will go away. Dot, dot, dot, or it won't or.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah, I still have nightmares about that. My own teeth, like, and I'm like, a tooth is going out like this.

>> Darin: I just go, you were talking about the guy who said his teeth could change or they couldn't. Yeah, I've got a, My jaw pops. Okay.

>> Mike: Mine does too.

>> Darin: Yeah, it's popped for years.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Sometimes if I yawn, it locks open. And I gotta, like, watch myself. Freaked Libby out cuz I'm in the car going, Mike Tyson.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Self here, knocking my jaw loose.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I went to my dentist, this is forever ago. And they said, it's TMJ.

>> Mike: Okay?

>> Darin: Which stands for too much information, too much, Jaw problem.

>> Mike: Yeah. But in ancient Greek, I starts with a Jehovah.

>> Darin: Starts with an eye?

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: The TMJ specialist looked at me, listened to it, saw was doing. He said, you know, we could put it in a splint. It could help. It couldn't help. We could, We could do nothing. It may help itself on its own. It may get worse. There's a surgical procedure which I don't think you want to do. I'm not sure that I really want you to do the surgical procedure either, because sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it, you know, inflames it, makes it a little more. And I'm like, why did I come here?

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: What? Why did I.

>> Mike: Why?

>> Darin: You're telling me all these things and.

>> Mike: They'Re all the same after a certain. How old were you when this happened?

>> Darin: in my twenties.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Like maybe 30. No, 31. 32.

>> Mike: All right.

>> Darin: Yeah. I'm like, okay, so I could do nothing or I could do something.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And there's no anything could possibly have.

>> Mike: That's what they told me. That's how my hernia was, you know, I had the hernia operation.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: The original doctor was like, eh, ah. I'll give you the number of a guy, he can fix that or not. And I go to him, I go to the other doctor, and he's like, yeah, you've had this since birth. I could fix it. Or, yeah, we just leave it like that. And I'm like, the. It could get bigger. And then your intestines come out and then that's really dangerous medically. You could. It's some kind of strangulation. Yes, and that's extremely serious. And I said, well, I want to fix it. And he's like, yeah, I probably would too. I'm not shopping for drapes here. Am I dying or not? Like, you gotta do something to me here, seriously.

>> Darin: Well, if you get the drapes, it'll block more sunlight, although the vertical blinds will do the same thing. depends what type of couch you're going to have. It's like.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Hey, we're going to go. But before we go, I want to give an update on our buddy Jason Durbin. I went by his house the other day. We talked about him last week. He was in a bad, real bad car accident. Broke his ankle, broke his thumb. He's, doing a lot better. He's in really good spirits. Libby and I made him a meatloaf and some mashed potatoes.

>> Mike: All right.

>> Darin: Some, biscuits I made him.

>> Mike: Should I take him some peeps? Do you think he likes peeps?

>> Darin: Well, he's, I. The kids would eat the peas, probably.

>> Mike: He wouldn't eat the peeps.

>> Darin: Well, he's diabetic. I don't think he would eat a lot of the peeps.

>> Mike: He should do it for me.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah. But he's in good spirits. Okay. He's feeling better of. I, think his thumb is driving him crazier.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Than his ankle, because, you know, it's his right hand. That's how he writes and stuff. But he's doing a lot better. We're so thrilled that he's doing better. But I was gonna say, if you're making a meatloaf and if you're in the grocery store, get a box of Lipton, beefy onion soup mix. It's in the cardboard box. Okay. And there's a recipe from meatloaf on the back.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: That's what I use. But, but here's my secret. I never give people my meatloaf. Secret.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: What I do is it says use three quarters a cup of plain breadcrumbs. Plain bread crumbs. Those are. I use the italian seasoned breadcrumbs.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And I put a whole cup of.

>> Mike: That son of a bitch right there in the meat. Yeah. Get on it. Get on it.

>> Darin: Yeah. I don't spare the breadcrumbs. And that's my meatloaf recipe. It says to cook for an hour. I bake it for like, 70 minutes.

>> Mike: Okay. Yeah.

>> Darin: It gets it all the way through.

>> Mike: Get a little crusty on there.

>> Darin: It does?

>> Mike: Yeah. You reminded me in this, and I've been meaning to reveal this for many episodes, and I keep forgetting you're gonna reveal yourself. the, my pancakes. How I make my pancakes.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I'm gonna tread lightly.

>> Darin: This is Cincinnati's pancake positive.

>> Mike: So if you get, if you go to the store, you go to the aisle that they have this stuff. Bisquick eight. Yeah. Get your bisquick. You look on the back, there's a recipe for pancakes. And then they say, ultimate pancakes. That's what you want. You want that recipe on the bisquick box.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: But you want to use the cracker barrel, biscuit and pancake mix. Ignore the cracker barrel directions.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Who needs them, right? Take that material that's in that box and use the bisquick recipe.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: It adds, you add three tablespoons of sugar, two tablespoons of vegetable oil, the eggs, whatever. Vanilla.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah. And, if you want to get really saucy, put some cinnamon in there. I do that sometimes. Cook those puppies up. And there you go. I'm hungry. As soon as you leave, I'm making popcorn.

>> Darin: And why don't you make some pancakes while I'm here?

>> Mike: No, no, because I'll eat them. And I'm trying to be good. I'm trying to lose. I've lost. I've lost. Eleven pounds.

>> Darin: Oh, good.

>> Mike: A month.

>> Darin: Wow.

>> Mike: Second a month.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: But I'm on my way.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: because we're going to the beach at some point this summer. I don't want to look like I looked at the beach last summer. Because.

>> Darin: Yeah, I thought, I'm gonna be wearing my t shirt to the pool.

>> Mike: Yeah, I thought I looked good. And then I see all these pictures, like, who's this fat ball guy with my kids? That's like. Well, that's.

>> Darin: That's you, honey. Years and years ago, when Libby and I went on the whole 40.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And. Oh, I hated that. I was miserable. I.

>> Mike: Was that when you went to the orange place?

>> Darin: No, no, no. Orange Julius orange theory.

>> Mike: Or.

>> Darin: That was a different time.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: When we did the whole 40, that's when we went 40. Or is it the whole 30? Whatever. We went all these days without, Without dairy. That sugar, fruit, the bread.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: And the.

>> Mike: Did it work? Did you lose.

>> Darin: I did lose some weight, yeah. But. Yeah. And the thing is, it's like, I used to wear a watch.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Then when I got a job where I was, editing video all the time, my watch would be clacking the desk all the time, so I stopped wearing a watch. Anyway, I lost, like, 20 some pounds.

>> Mike: Good God.

>> Darin: My watch was loose on my wrist.

>> Mike: I'm like, to gain weight to get it. You, make your watch fit, right? Yeah.

>> Darin: I'm like, really? Did I. How do you lose weight in your wrist?

>> Mike: Yeah, well, that happened.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Really. I mean, that. It messed me up. I couldn't figure that how I did that. Anyway, kids, we're gonna go. Thank you for listening to episode 203 of irritable dad syndrome. Go to irritable dad syndrome. If you want to be a patron, you can do that. If you want to buy a t shirt, you can do that. If you want to listen to old episodes, they're all on there, and there's a lot of really, really, really good ones.

>> Mike: There are.

>> Darin: And, we would appreciate everything you do for us. We appreciate you listening, and we hope to see you next week on irritable dad center.

>> Dave: Irritable dad syndrome is a Mike Odell. Darren Cox, production.

>> Mike: You're gonna have to cut out like 15 minutes of pop tart talk or peep talk.

>> Darin: I don't care.

>> Mike: Another thing I'm doing while on camera is picking stuff out of my teeth. Right, because I was eating right before you came in. Yeah, look at that.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: Now see, we don't schedule this. We just say, boom. Go with it.

>> Darin: Can I get a what what? You can make?

>> Mike: It's electric. I could have fallen down and pulled a full blown. Karen. Yeah, in the parking lot screaming.

>> Mike: Oh my God, you hit me.

>> Darin: If I had been there, I would say, oh my God. Mister, are you okay? Somebody call for help? don't worry, mister. I will stay here and take care of you until the authorities arrive. I saw a joke on the TikTok. Guy asked, it's in an office. He says, hey, where's the colored printer at? He says, dude, it's 2024. You can use any printer you want.

>> Mike: Okay. I thought you were going one way and you went the other.

>> Darin: M m good old TikTok.

>> Mike: M m.