IDS #224 - Hookers for the Holiday

Welcome to irritable dad syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I am Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to irritable dad syndrome. This is episode 224.

>> Mike: We are Cincinnati's. What? Really? 224. 224.

>> Darin: You know why?

>> Mike: 224 of these. Damn.

>> Darin: I know. Cause the last episode was 223. Add one to it.

>> Mike: Wow. That means the next one's 225 if we get there.

>> Darin: Absolutely.

>> Mike: Multiples of five. yeah. This is. We are Cincinnati's comedy podcast. We are, and we're excited that you're here. Damn it. We're excited that you're here.

>> Darin: We are.

>> Mike: I'm also excited that Darren just edited that out.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: How'd you, Let's start it.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Hey, I'm Mike.

>> Darin: I'm Darren. What was wrong with that one? How to lose weight without diet or.

>> Mike: Exercise pretty much leaves disease, doesn't it?

>> Dave: Welcome to irritable dad syndrome.

>> Mike: Ah.

>> Dave: it still has that new podcast smell. Give it up for 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 224.

>> Mike: We are stupid excited that you're here.

>> Darin: And we're just stupid.

>> Mike: Yeah, we've got a, plethora of things to talk about.

>> Darin: Some would say a lot. People who don't understand the word plethora would say a lot.

>> Mike: A whole giggle of them. I saw ice cube this weekend. Weekend.

>> Darin: I had a comedy competition. I was in a comedy competition, and something happened to me at this competition that has never happened to me before, and I doubt will ever happen to me again.

>> Mike: All right.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: We'd like to thank you for listening. If you liked what you heard, please visit us on, irritabledadsyndrome.com. all of our stuff is there, and it's been great. see you guys later.

>> Darin: Yeah. Bye.


Irritable dad syndrome is a Mike odel Darren cox production

>> Dave: Irritable dad syndrome is a Mike odel Darren cox production.

>> Darin: Oh, we forgot to do the podcast. Damn it. Yeah.

>> Mike: How you doing?

>> Darin: I'm doing pretty good. Yeah.

>> Mike: so this is weird. It's a weird start because I started going on a rant, and then you said, let's just put this in the episode.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then I said, it may not be good. And then you gave me that look that you give when you are trying to tell me I've just said something stupid.

>> Darin: Like, Mike, we never know if anything is gonna work.

>> Mike: 224 episodes in, and now you're starting to self edit what you're gonna talk about. No, we always announce. We stream this live on twitch so that, our fans can join us and laugh, and then we occasionally interact.

>> Darin: It's like a family reunion with people you don't know.

>> Mike: Sometimes we abuse them. And so we usually start that and then through the course of it, we start doing the episode. While we were getting that set up, while I was tweeting or wolfing out the details, wolf.com, i came across a picture of Tim, Curry. You know Tim Curry?

>> Darin: I do. He was in the Rocky horror picture show.

>> Mike: Yeah. And he was also Pennywise in it.

>> Darin: Yes. And I was in legends.

>> Mike: Legend. Legend with Tommy played the devil guy.

>> Darin: Yes, he did.

>> Mike: And I told a story about that.

>> Darin: He was early.

>> Mike: He was in clue.

>> Darin: He is.

>> Mike: He was in little orphan Annie.

>> Darin: He's only.

>> Mike: Yeah, he was. He was an Annie.

>> Darin: He's a legend.

>> Mike: Yes. Literally.

>> Darin: Yeah, absolutely.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: He's a theatrical, Hollywood legend.

>> Mike: But. And I'll say this, the reason I got triggered is because when the new it, you. Because you and I went to go see the new it creators it part one with you, you saw it part one with me.

>> Darin: I did not go see it part two.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I wasn't interested in seeing it after seeing it part one.

>> Mike: But there were all these people, who were posting pictures of Tim Curry as Pennywise and saying, m this is my pennywise. This is my. This is the official it.

>> Darin: This is always be my pennywise.

>> Mike: If you ever. Have you seen the nineties version of it with Tim Curry? Yeah.

>> Darin: John Ritter.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Harry, Dean Stanton.

>> Mike: No, no. Harry Anderson. yeah. Yeah. It sounds like it would have been good.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Wasn't.

>> Darin: God, they. They were hugging all the time.

>> Mike: They were hugging every five minutes.

>> Darin: They were hugging. We're so scared.

>> Mike: Goofy is. They didn't have a budget. Like a budget. Like, movies have budgets.

>> Darin: Oh, they had a budget. $400.

>> Mike: So, like, you know, so I remember the book, you know, he has these jaws that opens up and he's gonna, like, bite somebody.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And they didn't have a budget, so they had Tim Curry open his mouth to go with contacts, and it, like, zoomed into his mouth.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And it's one of those where you're like. You watch it, you're like, oh, God, I love Tim Curry.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: He's great actor.

>> Darin: Yes, he is.

>> Mike: Even great actors have bad roles. And I'm sorry, I don't.


Whether you like it or you don't like it, people are going to lose their minds

Whether you like it or you don't like it, and I know I'll probably get. This is one of those where if this comes out as a miniature video, people are. Lose their minds. How dare you say that Tim Curry's, Pennywise and that it is not the. The bomb. Look, it wasn't just because, but neither.

>> Darin: Was the new one either.

>> Mike: I like the new one, but just because.


Adaptation is when something is jumping to another medium

And I'll tell you what, okay, I want to interrupt myself here for a second. I'm excited for the, the dairy tv show that's coming out because the scariest parts of it were the backstory.

>> Darin: The what?

>> Mike: Welcome to Derry Dairy show. Yeah, Dairy. That's the town in it.

>> Darin: Oh, okay.

>> Mike: Dairy.

>> Darin: Dairy.

>> Mike: so, yes, dairy, dairy, dairy. You know what they breathe in dairy? The derriere. Oh, you have my permission to throw in it.

>> Darin: Oh, wow. I'm never allowed to do that on your jokes. We had a meeting one time.

>> Mike: We're too many streets away from the top. The point is.

>> Darin: Oh, now you want to stay on topic, derriere.

>> Mike: My point is when something is jumping to another medium, when you're, What's that called? what's that called when they turn a book into a movie or turn a book into a tv show?

>> Darin: It's, based on the original.

>> Mike: Source, but they call it something.

>> Darin: Yeah. They do annotation.

>> Mike: and a morphology. adaptation. Adaptation.

>> Darin: When it's adapted into.

>> Mike: Yes, when it's adapted into another art form. For some reason everybody on the planet applies all the credit to that original adaptation.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And it drives me nuts.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Ah, the original cartoon version of Lord of the Rings licks balls. It's stupid.

>> Darin: It is.

>> Mike: It's bad.

>> Darin: It is really bad.

>> Mike: I've heard people tell it was like a forerunner in rotoscoped. Rotoscoped animation. That's great. But it blew. It just sucked so bad. Okay, yeah. I remember the original thing. It was called. So was it called the thing?

>> Darin: John Carpenter?

>> Mike: Not. No, no, no, that was a remake, okay? There was something. It was like a fifties show.

>> Darin: You mean like thing from Fantastic Four? Thing?

>> Mike: No, no, the. John Carpenter's. The thing was a remake, okay, of a previous work and. Which is in the fifties. It's like there's an alien here. I'm not going to deal with you, alien. I'm not going to. You're not going to come on my ship and act like this. It's just like. What are you doing? Put Kurt Russell in there.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Give him an alcohol problem. Have him fight with Jeff Bridges. No.

>> Darin: Don Johnson.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Don McClain.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Harry Scheer.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Harrison.

>> Mike: The guy that fought rowdy Roddy Piper. And they live.

>> Darin: Oh, the african american guy.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. I can't believe. No. Black. Keith Moon. Keith David. Keith David. One of the greatest actor.

>> Darin: Look, he's a character.

>> Mike: The point is, nobody, I don't give a. About the original thing.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: To me, the best, the thing is the John Carpenter, the John Carpenter version. I don't mind the newer ones and never seen it.


They're turning the dark tower into a tv show now

I care. Maybe one of these days I'll watch it. But to me, it's John Carpenters. We watch it. I'm not married to. To the Tim Curry, Pennywise and all this stuff. I was a kid when that came out, and I remember watching it as a kid thinking, this is stupid. This is dumb.

>> Darin: I thought it was boring.

>> Mike: Yeah. I thought. I mean, I love John Ritter.

>> Darin: Oh, me too.

>> Mike: And Harry Anderson.

>> Darin: Harry Anderson's amazing.

>> Mike: Yeah. And I was. I was pissed off that John Leraquette wasn't in it.

>> Darin: The woman.

>> Mike: The woman was. Was her.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And,

>> Darin: And she. She's a lady. Wow.

>> Mike: Her.

>> Darin: She. Words can't describe.

>> Mike: Yeah. The dark tower. They're turning the dark tower into a tv show now. They tried to make it into a movie with Matthew McConaughey.

>> Darin: I like that movie.

>> Mike: I went on a rant.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: About how awesome Matthew McConaughey was as the man in black was. I agree with that. How awesome, Idris Elba is as Roland. Or was as Roland. But I'm excited about the tv show because they're really. They're gonna put the time they need. You can't cram all that stuff in the one.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: So I'm not gonna be responsible to.

>> Darin: Think that you can.

>> Mike: I'll probably come on here and say, they should have had Matthew McConaughey as Walter.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But I'm not gonna be saying how awesome that dark tower movie was compared to this show, because it was good, but it wasn't the. It wasn't the dark Tower story.


Mike: The movie is amazing. I think it's better than the book adaptation

>> Darin: So what's circle back?

>> Mike: I was wolfing out about this show. I saw a picture of Tim Curry. And it triggered me.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Because every time I see that, it's somebody's ranting about how he's the only one that could have ever played it, and that's just not true. Now, was he short changed because they did Peter Skarsgard?

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Or stolen Skarsgard. Is that Peter?

>> Mike: Alex Thorson?

>> Darin: No, it's Peter Skarsgard and Alex, the.

>> Mike: Guy with the eyeball scars.

>> Darin: They had all eyeballs. Yes.

>> Mike: One of them vikings played him in the new. And I thought. I thought he did a good job.

>> Darin: He did good.

>> Mike: Yeah. I don't think pennywise the clown is as scary as they try to think they try to market everything. The scary part of it, the book. And this is why I'm excited about the tv show. The scary part of it is the backstory and the. That he did, like, in the past and, like, all that kind of cool stuff, like the weird haunted stories, the story of all these people being boarded up in a house and the house set on fire. And it's a chilling story. Uh-huh. The clown is a part of it.

>> Darin: But for sake stub, Woodley said it best. Almost word for word what I was gonna say. it lost me when the girl got attacked by a drain.

>> Mike: Hair clog.

>> Darin: Absolutely. I was watching the movie with Mike. I remember I looked at you and I said, what the hell? My question is, what the hell?

>> Mike: What the hell was part of it also is just last night, I'm doing a thing in 2024, I'm reading books, M. And I just finished another book. I finished Doctor sleep.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: The sequel to the Shining. And I'm going to watch the movie. But as I was reading the book, I knew in my head I was going to watch the movie. By the way, I'm glad that they had Owen McGregor play Danny in the movie. because the whole time I'm thinking of the kid with the mop, the bowl hair, and I'm like, I can't. I just kept imagining the kid, right. They put Ewan in there. Now I can imagine. Ooh. And it made sense in the book, but that's. That's neither here nor there.

>> Mike: My point is.

>> Darin: Your point, Mike, as I was reading.

>> Mike: The book, you and I have talked about reading books versus movies. In the past.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: What are you gonna do? We've talked about reading books versus,

>> Darin: And the movie is always better.

>> Mike: No, always better in the book.

>> Darin: The movie is amazing. The books usually blow because they're boring.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It takes forever.

>> Mike: Okay. I'm not gonna. You're gonna get destroyed on this online, and I'm not gonna. I'm not dying on this. In the book, you can. You can read what the. On a well written book, what the characters are thinking, all this stuff. Something that can be terrifying in a book, if done wrong in a movie, will look stupid. And there were so many times during Doctor sleep, I was like, whoa. And then I was like, that's gonna look really stupid in the movie.

>> Darin: I will say that I read the stand.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And the. The original mini series of the stand so bad, I thought they came close.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I thought if they had one more episode, one more episode, they could have gotten it. They were close. They were really close.

>> Mike: It has a thing.

>> Darin: I don't know.

>> Mike: I think it's better than the. I think it's better than the it adaptation. I don't know.

>> Darin: If you watch the new one with Whoopi and we. We got like, four or five episodes into that and kind, of lost interest in it.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So,


Fox decided to remake the Rocky Horror picture show

But no, you were talking about Tim.

>> Mike: Curry, and I love Tim Curry. This is not against Tim Curry. No.

>> Darin: I went to see the Rocky horror picture show probably 50 times.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. In high school and a few times in college, which is nothing compared to the people who saw it hundreds, hundreds of years ago. No, hundreds of times. Maybe people who saw like, a thousand. Some, yes. Okay.

>> Mike: Aren't you supposed to, like, do jello shots and no fart?

>> Darin: Well, no. You do fart. Rocky horps.

>> Mike: Good. Maybe I'll go.

>> Darin: They. They dance in front of the screen. They throw rice, they throw toilet paper. They run around. It's so much fun. You yell at the screen. It yells back at them. like I said, it was a huge part of my high school years. Okay.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And it was so much fun. And the friends that I had who went to see that with me are still great friends to this day. And it was a bonding experience. And you're looking at me funky, and you have to get over this. But Fox decided that they are going to remake the Rocky Horror picture show. Why? No. God, please, no, no. And there's a lot of my friends who stood beside me, and they're like, no, we are not going to watch it. Like, there's no point because nobody can be frank n furter like Tim Curry.

>> Mike: I see you shiver with anticipation.

>> Darin: Now, that's a character that you can't. And when they. You know what? I was against them, remaking, or casting a young Han solo solo wasn't a great movie.

>> Mike: So, you know, I'm gonna leave that. I'm gonna sound like I'm going back and forth here, and I probably am. And I don't care. I, You never. I will say, I can think of some movies that they. I don't. I would get pissed if they remade the big Lebowski. You can't do that. That's. It's Jeff Bridges and, the guy.

>> Darin: John Goodman.

>> Mike: John Goodman.

>> Darin: And Steve Buscemi.

>> Mike: Steve Buscemi.

>> Darin: Yeah. Well, you know, that's just like, your opinion.

>> Mike: Man raising Arizona. I just saw some clips of that the other day. It has to be Nicolas Cage and it has to be early career.

>> Darin: Has to be Holly hunter Cage and.

>> Mike: Holly Hunter and John Goodman. Yeah, John. I think John Goodman's in his, in every comedy that I think he like.

>> Darin: M. I think he did seven Coen brothers films. Six or seven of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: He was, yeah, it's about to list them off. I was like, oh, that, that was Mike.

>> Darin: Well, he was Bart and think, okay. anyway, he was an old brother. Where art thou?

>> Mike: Anyway, we should probably start the episode at some point.

>> Darin: Yeah, we're in the episode.

>> Mike: okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Dave: You are listening to irritable dad syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. Well, now we're having fun, aren't we?


Charlie had the most amazing football game he's ever had

>> Mike: Some cool stuff happened this past weekend. Charlie had the most amazing football game I think he's ever had. I was so proud as a dad. He is running back.

>> Mike: Okay. And then he's like the left corner. He's running back on offense, left corner on defense.

>> Darin: Oh, they play him on offense and defense.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because there's only what, eight kids on the team?

>> Mike: No, they have just, he's, he's usually plays the whole game.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I know from people I've talked to because I'm like, I don't know what those positions mean. Charlie said, those are really hard positions. Play like, I don't know. I talked to a, ah, coach guy that I know and he's like, oh yeah, there's a really tough position. I guess I'm so, I'm proud of him.

>> Darin: Really tough.

>> Mike: And he got the ball at the third yard line.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And ran the entire field, 97 yards for 97 yard touchdown.

>> Darin: No kidding.

>> Mike: And it got called back. What? Because of holding. What? Okay, okay. No, no. Maybe two or three minutes later. And I'm not kidding, at the 20 yard line.

>> Mike: He got the ball again, ran the entire field. Another touchdown. Uh-huh got called back for holding.

>> Darin: Hey, what happened?

>> Mike: And that's when other parents started yelling from the stands, just give it to him. Cause he was, he had ran. This was, it was like 95 degrees this past Sunday.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: He was visibly like panting. They were giving him water. He'd been through it. Nobody could catch him.

>> Mike: About five to seven minutes after that, it was the same quarter, but you know, they have timeouts, everything. It was the end of the quarter.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: He got the ball in again. The same thing he ran through. He, what's that called? Stiff arm. Like. Yeah, straight arm. A kid. Knocked the kid completely back. And I remember telling people at work today, I was like, that was frustration. That, was. I've ran this field twice, and they won't give me a touchdown.

>> Darin: Get off my field.

>> Mike: Get out of my way. Yeah, he ran about 60 yards.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: And he was starting to slow down my fact, because I was telling another parent, I was like, I wanted to yell, run faster. He's going to get you. But I was like, I'm, his fat dad sitting in the stands watching my kid run his, like, upwards of 300 yards at this point, running within a span of, like, ten minutes. I can't do that. So I watched him get tackled right almost directly in front of the goal line. He went down hard. He got up, he was holding his stomach. He was hyperventilating a little bit. I could tell that he wasn't hurt, but he was just done well. So they brought him to the side. He did get all that, game. I was thinking, they're gonna. He's out of the game at this point. It was near the end of the game. I was like, they're not gonna make him go back out there. Mm And they ended up getting the touchdown.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then it was time for the conversion. They don't do kick through the goal post at that age. They do conversion. Like, either pass it in or run it in for the extra points. Oh, right.

>> Darin: For 2.2.2 conversion. So they do a field goal.

>> Mike: I don't. At that age, I guess they don't. They just don't. And they don't punt. They just say, we're punting. It's like, okay, go back 25 yards.

>> Darin: There you go.


Charlie ran the entire field twice and got no points for it

>> Mike: Anyway, the point is, he's only been on the sidelines for maybe two minutes at this point. He looked like he was about to pass out. And the coach looked over at him, Charlie, you're in. And he did. Gave a thumbs up and went out. I was like, oh, my. And then he got the two point conversion. And a part of me thought, they're going to call that back. But no, they. They let that one fly so that his team ended up winning. I think it was 1918 or 19 to zero.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: And, But I mean, man, he, he ran that entire field twice and got no points for it.

>> Darin: That's. Oh, man.

>> Mike: By so proud of the little dude he was. I couldn't believe he gave a thumbs up. I told, best if it were me. And the coach is like, are you ready to get back in? He's like, I'm not.

>> Darin: No, I wouldn't be there next week.

>> Mike: I would have been in the car. Yeah, let's go. But he gave the thumbs up and just walks out there and doesn't. Let's go. Yeah.

>> Darin: All you fellers with me.

>> Dave: This portion of irritable dad syndrome is brought to you by tab. I think I'll have one right now.


Saturday I entered a clean comedy competition in Ohio

now back to the studio.

>> Darin: So Saturday I entered a clean comedy competition. I've mentioned before that again, at a place. Hang on. Don't get ahead.

>> Mike: I'm back.

>> Darin: I don't have a problem with language, but the last handful of times I did stand up comedy, the other people who were on the bill were doing school shooting jokes and abortion jokes and having, relations with, quadriplegic jokes. And. And the crowd was just looking at people on the stage, right. And it's like, hey, you know what? First amendment. You want to try this out? Whatever.

>> Mike: They want to be the new Andrew Dice Clay.

>> Darin: Yeah. You and I went to see, Louis CK. Louis CK.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: God knows he did some inappropriate material.

>> Mike: He did. But he's. But he's good at it.

>> Darin: He's Louis CK.

>> Mike: Yeah, he's good at it.

>> Darin: He did it in a way.

>> Mike: Yeah. And so he added comedy to it. It's not just a. Up there saying offensive stuff.

>> Darin: Yeah. So there's this clean comedy competition, and I'm like, absolutely. And I signed up for it, and it's in a. In Belbrook, Ohio.

>> Mike: Any details here?

>> Darin: Okay, I'm trying to give you all the details.

>> Mike: You said, well, you signed up for it. How do you hear about these things?

>> Darin: How do I, On the Dayton Comedy Facebook page. And I'm on the Cincinnati Comedy Facebook page, so.

>> Mike: And they had an announcement.

>> Darin: Our friend Kevin Rupert.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Posted it as part of Bricky's comedy club. They're having a clean comedy competition in Belbrook, Ohio.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And so I signed up for it. And though the, like, the top three prizes were, there was some cash, there was the one person gets to headline. I think somebody's gonna headline. Somebody's going to be, like, an opening act, and then somebody gets to emcee or host at brickies. So I'm like, if I. If I do well in this comedy competition, then, you know, maybe Kevin will bring me on at Brickies Comedy club, and I'll do that thing.

>> Mike: And you could wear an Israel dad syndrome t shirt.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: Then we go national, and it's like. And we take over the world. Gravy from the world.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah. It's like, it's like that's the cake. This is the frosting.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So I was all excited and I worked on my routine for a couple of weeks.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Or more. I mean, I wrote and I, tweaked, and I. And this and knock, knock.

>> Mike: Who's there? Your mom. Your mom who? Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah, exactly.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I'm all excited. And the thing is, from four to six, and again, it's in Belbrook, Ohio. I've never been to Bellbrook.

>> Mike: I don't know where Bellbrook is.

>> Darin: What's it near Dayton, near Miami. Near Miami's.

>> Mike: That makes sense.

>> Darin: So I drive up there and, it's a beautiful day.

>> Mike: Hm.

>> Darin: And I'm. Again, I'm driving, I'm going through my routine in the car and I'm working on it. I don't know how many times I went through the routine. 50 times, probably. You know, I rehearsed.

>> Mike: You were prepared.


This is your third time performing outdoors

>> Darin: Somebody asked me what time. If I just get up there and wing it. I'm like, it may sound like I'm just winging it. And the reason I rehearse it so many times is because I forget my stuff. Okay. Sometimes if I have an act where I talk about this and it leads into that, then that leads into something else. There have been so many times where I jump in and I forget the first part of the routine. And then I'm like, I'm,

>> Mike: Then you and the. I told it wrong. Let me start over. And I had to do that.

>> Darin: And it was so embarrassing, and it wasn't going well anyway, but. So I get to Belbrook, Ohio, and I take a right on this street. I take a left on this street, and the gps says, you are here. I'm at a park. I'm like, hm. This is. This is it. I didn't know it was an outdoor show.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: Oh, I'm like, this. This can't be right.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I look, and there's somebody setting up microphones. Somebody's setting up speakers. And then over there, underneath the gazebo, or the gazebo, as you call it.

>> Mike: The gazebo, is Kevin Rupert. Wow.

>> Darin: Oh, you had it.

>> Mike: You had a comedy show here. So that prepared you for this?

>> Darin: Yeah, this is so. This is my third time performing outdoors. I performed. I don't know if I ever told you, but I did a comedy show once I thought was going to be at a country club. It was actually at a pool. Okay. A pool. I opened up for Steve Kaminity. and they, instead of like a billboard, you know, with your name and lights, or whatever. They had a dry erase board, and Steve Cabinetti's name was written in black magic marker. They ran out of magic marker black.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: So they wrote my name in Greenland, and you couldn't see that, so you.

>> Mike: Had to get real close up to.

>> Darin: Oh, it's my name. And I took a picture of that, and I looked at LiBby, says, honey, I have made it. And they put us right in front of the bathrooms. So you're doing your routine, and then someone goes back into the changing area bathroom. You hear them flushing everything all right back there. but that show was really cool because afterwards, I'm telling you, every person who was at that show hung around, and they had their pictures taken with us, okay. And they hung around and talked, and they were like, oh, my God, I can't believe that comedians actually came to our neighborhood.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Like, we were big shots.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: anyway, so I'm at this park, okay? I go over and I find Kevin, and he forgot, that I had signed up for it. Oh, crap. Hey, Darren, this is embarrassing. I'm sorry. So he does the little thing, and he squeezes me in. You're gonna go on in between kicks.

>> Mike: Gerald out and lets you.

>> Darin: Darren Cox is here. Get the hell out of here, Gerald.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: So he puts me on the list, and he says, you're gonna go after this guy and you're gonna introduce this guy. A lot of times at these events, do you do what's called piggyback? So your host will do, like, five minutes, introduce the act, and thank everybody for coming and say, hey, be sure to check out there's merchandise in the back and all that stuff.


Up next is Gerald. And this just happened this past week

All right, you guys ready for. Have a good, you know, you ready for a show?

>> Mike: And then.

>> Darin: Yeah. So the first act introduces the second act. Second act introduces the third. That's called. Yeah, piggyback.

>> Mike: Yeah. Up next is Gerald.

>> Darin: Up next is Gerald. But unfortunately, he was kicked out because I was the guy who went on ahead of me.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: Really nice guy.

>> Mike: And this just happened this past week.

>> Darin: This is Saturday.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: He was a super nice guy.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But what he did in his act, no one's ever done before.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: He asks the guy running the audio booth, hey, will you play that song for me? I'm gonna sing a song. Will you play my music? he turns on the audio for him, and it's not the music. Yeah, it's. He accidentally. And I'm holding quote marks. He accidentally played his, he was working on his. His diary, like, inner dialogue, note to self. Okay, so we're doing this thing, and I'm not doing his, his bit any justice because I don't remember a lot of what exactly what he said, but it's him doing a diary today. I was working on this and something else, and the comedian keeps looking like, I can't believe they're playing the wrong clip. And what's going on? Whatever he starts talking about, I hope I don't accidentally spill anything on myself because people will think I have a pee pee problem.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And I don't want people to think I have a pee pee problem because I've got this pee pee under control.

>> Mike: Right. Yeah.

>> Darin: Next thing you know, he looks like he has pissed himself. And it runs right all through the crotch, all down to both knees. Yeah. And he's like, so clearly this was.

>> Mike: Planned.

>> Darin: But brilliant, right?

>> Mike: Huh? Yeah.

>> Darin: He's like, oh, my goodness. Everyone's gonna think I have a PB problem. Well, listen, guys, thanks for coming. Please welcome your next comic. And he brings me on.

>> Mike: Oh, no.

>> Darin: And the look on my face is like, okay. And they were already laughing at me when I got up there because of, just. I was like. And Kevin had said, listen, when you bring up your next comic, don't, you know, don't make a joke about their name or something else or whatever, know, because we've had people who try to sabotage another act.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You know, because I was thinking, can we get this guy some paper towels, maybe some depends or something? And I wasn't gonna, like, make jokes about him. and so. But all I could say was, wow. And so anyway, he was a cool guy. He was funny, and I enjoyed talking to him a lot.


The show was outdoors and it was sunny, luckily we were in the shade

But the show was outdoors. Okay. I don't know if you've.

>> Mike: Well, I've been outdoors before.

>> Darin: I don't know about you.

>> Mike: I've been outside.

>> Darin: So when there's not a, what's it called, that thing?

>> Mike: A roof.

>> Darin: Yeah. Or walls.

>> Mike: Walls. Or a back wall is in when you're outside. Yeah.

>> Darin: There's no, If they were laughing, I could not hear anybody laughing.

>> Mike: Okay. You couldn't hear anything?

>> Darin: I couldn't hear anybody laughing. We're outside. There's nothing to capture the sound. So there was a lot of people smiling?

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: The people in the front row, they're all enjoying themselves.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Nobody was laughing. Everybody was smiling. And occasionally this guy would look at his wife and go, yeah, okay.

>> Mike: He said the thing on his side.

>> Darin: But, you know, like I said, they were enjoying themselves. No laughter. And if there was laughter, then I couldn't hear it. And then since we were outdoors and it was sunny, luckily we were in the shade. Here I am in jeans and a black t shirt. I'm gonna cook. I was dressed like Jon Stewart in his early comedy days, but, because of where the trees were, there were people who were sitting way, like 3400ft because that's where the shade was. So if they were laughing, I certainly couldn't hear them.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But anyway, there was, I think, 15 or 16 people competed. And Kevin told me that I came in fifth place. Number five.

>> Mike: Wow. So now, congratulations.

>> Darin: I didn't win. But you know what? Fifth.

>> Mike: That's pretty good. That's pretty good. That's up in the. That's in the upper third.

>> Darin: Yeah. I didn't forget any of my routine.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And that's what I'm always worried about. You know, I've, Ah, you know, I'm confident in my material, but there have been so many times where I've been up there and I've tried to do my stuff and I forget a thing or whatever, and then I get frustrated. I keep my notes with me all the time.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But I was pleased with it.

>> Mike: Good.

>> Darin: Oh, and there was, there were no bathrooms. There was one porta potty. One, hundred and 15 degrees inside.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: Outside of that, it was fun. Kevin, Rupert says hello. Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: Hey, Kevin.

>> Darin: So do stand up comedy.

>> Mike: Kevin's a good dude.

>> Darin: It's fun. He is a good guy. After.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: After the comedy show, he and I went to this brewery in Belbrook and got, a beer. And they had a food truck outside and I got this burger. It was, it was expensive, but my God, it was thick. Yeah, it was. And it was seasoned. The meat was seasoned all the way through. And they, they cooked it exactly like I wanted it to. It was a really tasty burger for a food truck burger, because I had. I didn't know what I was, what to expect.


So I got an injury here at work. Is this considered a, our first work injury

>> Dave: This portion of our show is brought to you by blockbuster video.

>> Darin: You all right?

>> Mike: Yeah. I'm bleeding. Oh, yeah. So I got an injury here.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I think there's a paper towel. Luckily, this is Charlie's area, and it's usually triage stuff over here. Why I'm bleeding. This is the first. Is this, is this considered a, our first work injury?

>> Darin: I don't know. What about that?

>> Mike: Oh, the bug?

>> Darin: Yeah. I don't know. Well, that, that wasn't an injury. That just scared the crap out of you. Yeah.

>> Mike: I don't know what the hell happened here.

>> Darin: Don't, just put pressure on it.

>> Mike: No, I'm not, like, actively.

>> Darin: Do you need a splint?

>> Mike: No, I just don't. I don't know what happened.

>> Darin: What happened?

>> Mike: Yeah, I put this in the mug. That's not disgusting.

>> Darin: No, not at all.

>> Mike: So my Saturday, I went to go see a musical, performance.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I went to see ice cube.

>> Darin: Ice cube?

>> Mike: Ice cube. At Hollywood casino in Cincinnati. So I am a rock guy.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Right. That's. That's my. That's my jam.

>> Darin: Yeah. You mentioned a couple weeks ago you're gonna go see ice cube. And I was surprised because I did not think that you would, go to a show like this.

>> Mike: So back in the. Just, watching this, burgeoning injury. burgeoning? Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Burgeoning. So I think in the nineties, I think everyone ended up having somewhere in their cd collection, Snoop dogg doggy style. Did you have doggy style?

>> Darin: no.

>> Mike: Okay. You. You must have been out of that.

>> Darin: I do have a Snoop Dogg CD in my collection. The one that has California.

>> Mike: Okay, okay. I guess everybody has Snoop Dogg. I was gonna say back in my area, it was doggy style.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I don't know how I have it. I have it. I don't know where it came from. It's there.

>> Darin: Okay. I was bigger fan of digital underground back.

>> Mike: Okay. I had beastie boys.

>> Darin: I had licensed ill.

>> Mike: I had doctor, dre to the 2001. Not the stuff before that. And I had two. Eminem. You know, when he, you know, hit.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And. But then ice cube. And the one that I like, did.

>> Darin: He ever stand up?

>> Mike: Okay. All right.

>> Darin: Can you turn off your phone? It's buzzing the whole desk. See, Eminem said, please stand up, and please stand up.

>> Mike: You can edit that.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Okay.


Back in the day, if it wasn't on the radio, you had to

but I was curious, so I liked some rap in my area, of what I like the most. It's rock at the top. And then I would say rap and electronic. Not in the same genre, but electronic. And then the rap. Country. I have to really, really like somebody to like a country song. Okay. I think the only country songs I've ever liked, or Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Junior, to be funny.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: and then Willie Nelson, if he says something, I'm.

>> Darin: You gotta love whalen.

>> Mike: I never listened to whalen Jennings. Never listened to Whelan Jennings. Anyway. You love Waylon is. I've always liked ice cube. Okay. So I was like. I saw that he was coming to town. I was like, ah. I'm gonna go see ice cube. Didn't know much about him other than the couple of cds I have before I got into music. I remember having this conversation in high school. I didn't know what groups to buy because back in the day, it's not like it is today. Today you can just go on the Spotify or the youtubes or whatever and listen to anything you want. Right? It wasn't like that back in the day. Back in the day, if it wasn't on the radio, you had to go to a store and buy a cassette tape or something like that to listen to something, right?

>> Darin: I remember.

>> Mike: And you walk into a music store and they're all out there, and it's like, if you don't know what bands are, what, then? So you just pick something that looks cool and you go, you know, that's kind of how I knew all about rock. I'm at the point in rock where I have, like, very strong opinions.

>> Darin: Really?

>> Mike: See somebody. Yeah, I see somebody go into this area over here. I'm like, well, there's nobody on that Alphabet portion that you should be listening to in rock. No.

>> Darin: What are you doing?

>> Mike: Get right over there and go.

>> Darin: Few loser.

>> Mike: The Van Halen. This will tell.

>> Darin: Stop talking about it.

>> Mike: You keep looking at it.

>> Darin: I can look at it.

>> Mike: You gotta quit mentioning it. You can edit that.

>> Darin: I know, but you're like, Cause you're like, I stopped talking about the blood who? And then I know I'm bleeding Van Halen.

>> Mike: Look. So back in the day, I would go into, like, a music store. I had no idea what to buy. Eventually, I figured out what I like and.

>> Dave: Okay, please stand by. We're experiencing technical difficulties. Thank you.

>> Mike: So back in the day, going to a music store, I had no idea to go where to go with anything until I hit on different artists that I like and those led into other ones. Boom, here I am, 30, 40 years later, and I have very strong opinions on rock. So with rapid. I walked into the show not having very strong opinions. I know that I like ice cube. I know that I like some dre stuff. I know I like Eminem, m, and you know all that stuff, but I don't know much about it. This show was great for me, seeing all the different stuff. Like he did some NwA. They had picked like a whole video thing going there during every song. So I saw Dre, I was like, oh, he was, you know, and the easy e and that whole crew. And I was like, well, wow, that whole world is a little bit smaller. It reminded me of when the rock world, for me, shrunk rock went from, like, this huge universe of where I don't even know where to start to, like, it got smaller. Like, oh, they collaborated with them. They. Like, if you like, Genesis, you're getting exposed to Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, and Genesis all in one big mic. And the mechanics and sting Mike and the mechanics, you know, they're, you know, the Robert plant, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, the yard birds, all that. You know, it's. It's a smaller world.

>> Darin: Dexy's midnight runners.

>> Mike: Exactly. Gwar, the trogs, the. Yeah. It all. It's a smaller world than what it is when you first walk into it. So then I walk into the rap world, and it starts to shriek. And I thought that was cool. I'm like, wow, I know more about this genre than I thought I did.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: Yeah. And so it was. Yeah, it's awesome show. Yeah, he went through, He did a really good job of in between each track, like, talking to the audience. He brought Cincinnati into it a lot. He really likes Cincinnati.


The older I get, the more country I like. Does that make any sense

>> Darin: Oh, good.

>> Mike: He's friends with Bootsy Collins. That's part of the reason he's well talked about.

>> Darin: Everybody's a friend of Bootsy Collins. You know, when I interviewed Billy Bob Thornton, he's a friend of Bootsy Collins.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And Bootsy seriously said that they should write a song together sometime. And he's like, can you imagine me and Bootsy Collins write a song?

>> Mike: My point is, it did a really good job of introducing where everything was. I learned what songs were about. I had no idea what some of the songs were about, which made me want to go back and listen to them more. I know that people do that so that you listen to their stuff and you, like, consume more of their stuff. But, yeah, still interesting. I know all about the beef between him and Dre and easy. I know that that beef is squashed now. They all love each other. Well, easy is gone, but, Doctor Dre, MC Ren and, ice cube, they all get along.

>> Darin: Gone. But he'll always be alive in our heart.

>> Mike: Yes. Yeah. Okay.

>> Darin: Who was the one that held the guy upside down over the. Over the. Outside?

>> Mike: The Arnold Schwarzenegger.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Commando.

>> Darin: No, no, no, no.

>> Mike: Sully, I let them go.

>> Darin: Yeah. No, the rap.

>> Mike: I like you, sully. I, kill you last.

>> Darin: The rapper who held the guy.

>> Mike: Sugar night.

>> Darin: Sugar suge night.

>> Mike: Yeah. I mean, any story that involves somebody almost dying.

>> Darin: Was ice cube there?

>> Mike: Probably. Because here's the thing that's what I'm saying is, like, you don't realize how small this world is until you get into it. And, like. Like I said, the rock world was like that for me. The electronic music world was like that for me. Same thing. I'm sure if I ever gave a country would be like that to me, but I just don't care.

>> Darin: As I say, the older I get, the more country I like. But I still wouldn't call myself the country music. Country music fan.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Does that make any sense?

>> Mike: Can I tell you something?

>> Darin: I love Garth Brooks. I've got so much Garth Brooks music, and I'll tell you why I've got so much Garth Brooks music. Because he released six cds, and then he put them on a box set, and the box set was like, dollar 20.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: At Walmart.

>> Mike: Okay, okay.

>> Darin: I'm like, yeah, I can buy six cds for $20.

>> Mike: Yeah, sure.

>> Darin: And then he released, like, five or six more. Released another box set again, 25, whatever dollars. I bought that.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I own all his music for, like, $40. It's a steal. And then his concert was. I remember seeing that, and I'm like, it's the best concert I've ever seen. And then a month later is when I saw the Joshua Tree tour.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And so, yeah, I love Johnny cash. I love Willie Nelson. Waylon Jennings.

>> Darin: Amazing.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: The. The what's his face on PBs did the Conway Twitty. You know what? Conway 20. Had some good music.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. Hello.

>> Mike: Vibranium leg. A lot of people don't know that.

>> Darin: If you ever get an opportunity to watch the documentary on PBS. Country music.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Fascinating.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Don Williams. I love Don Williams.

>> Mike: I don't know who that is.


Mc was on stage completely by himself at this show

>> Darin: He's got so many.

>> Mike: But Dolly Parton.

>> Darin: I love Dolly.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Nobody don't love Dolly Parton.

>> Mike: Yeah. I mean, she was in a movie with Daphne Coleman.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And if you're in a movie with. Yeah, yeah. The whole crew.

>> Darin: Yeah. we went from ice cube to.

>> Mike: Dolly Parton and Lilly Tomlin. It was a great show. Yeah. it would. Loud it. I would say, holy lord. And I was. I ended up on the rail, like, right, in front, on the. On the right side.

>> Darin: Oh, that's where I was for offspring.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, right. Right there.

>> Darin: Too old to be that close. Yeah. Were they moshing?

>> Mike: No, but they. They had, like, a guy. So I was impressed that he was out there completely by himself, like, no other people running around. Like, they usually have a hype man or no dj. No, no. It was just him. I mean, there's like a crew playing music behind a tent back here that was like feeding the music through.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: He was on stage by himself.

>> Darin: You know, when I saw young, Mc, he opened up for the digital underground back in the 2002, I think.

>> Mike: The aughts the odds.

>> Darin: Yeah. And young MC came out and did four songs. It was just him on stage.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, I had a boombox. Yeah, he did.

>> Darin: He.

>> Mike: But literally was just him. He had these two inflatable, you know, west side finger things going up. I'll show you a picture of it later.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And that was it. And like a screen behind him that played stuff. I did not know how many movies he's been in. They played so many cars. Oh, yeah, he, from his movie. I know everybody knows Friday, but then three kings, 21 Jump street, he was in part of that.

>> Darin: But boys in the hood.

>> Mike: Yeah. Well, I mean, all, he's like, let's just play clip after clip. After a while during the show, I was like, if I didn't know better, you could have told me. Yeah. This movie star became a rapid, ah, artist.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I would. I would have believed you because they had, like, it was like, constant throughout the whole thing.

>> Darin: His episode of Jiminy Glick was.

>> Mike: Oh, no.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Okay. Yeah, I gotta. Okay. Yeah.

>> Darin: Cuz he. For a while there, he wasn't playing along with it.

>> Mike: Yeah.


Jimmy Fallon talks about his favorite movie bloopers

>> Darin: So, so how is it. What's it like being ice. Yo, man, I'm not iced tea on my skew.

>> Mike: Yeah, that's interesting.

>> Darin: So how long have it been a movie star, you know? And he finally broke and started laughing and went along with it, but I'm like, my God, why did ice Cube.

>> Mike: Agree to be on Jimmy click? Yeah. did he ever. Did he ever go on between two ferns? I don't think so.

>> Darin: I love between two ferns.

>> Mike: Every. I don't know if you're like me, but every time I come across a clip of between two ferns on TikTok or YouTube.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I watch it and then I go seek out other ones and I end up watching all of them. And I always see the bloopers.

>> Darin: Yep.

>> Mike: And the. My favorite blooper is the John Ham. And, Zach Galifianakis mentions, your thing is in the hall of whatever, right next to the Cosby sweater. And then Jon Hamm goes, does the Cosby laugh? Oh, my God.

>> Darin: Oh, the Brie Larson one.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: Where she tore him a new one.

>> Mike: Was really, really good. Yeah. Your parents divorced when you were four. Was that your fault? And the Jennifer Lawrence You're off putting. You should be off putting. Yeah, because you're fat. You know, the Bradley Cooper, they slap each other and they get into a fight. Oh, my. Yeah. All of them.

>> Darin: They're all really, really. Zach Galifianakis is a comedy genius.

>> Mike: So we went from ice cube to dolly Parton. Dolly parton to Zach Galvin Galifianakis. Okay.

>> Darin: Yay.


The pastor at our church told a dirty joke during church

Speaking of comedy.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: The pastor at our church, uh-huh. Told a dirty joke.

>> Mike: Okay. A nun, a priest, and a rabbi walking a bar.

>> Darin: I'm still surprised that he did it.

>> Mike: Okay. Little Johnny sat in church.

>> Darin: No, no, I'm not going to name the church, and I'm not going to name the pastor, but I'm debating whether I should really tell the joke. He was talking about how he was speaking to a large group of people. This is 2030 years ago, when he was a much younger, pastor, and.

>> Mike: Churches were much bluer back.

>> Darin: M he was talking about how. How Jesus would wash people's feet. And he went to wash Peter's feet, and he says, is it okay if I wash your Peter instead of is it? And I'm like, oh, my God. And the dude next to me had, water. Yeah.

>> Mike: Did he do that on purpose?

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah. He told us that joke. Not really a joke, but a funny thing that happened.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Like, and you told it during church.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: There you go.


I started collecting bread ties because I could use them to help hang Christmas lights

>> Dave: It's time now for an irritable dead syndrome. Previous story update.

>> Darin: I mentioned that I've been collecting bread ties. I got some.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I started saving them because I could use them to help hang Christmas lights outside. And then I thought, there's got to be other creative reasons, things that I can do with these bread ties. I didn't realize how many I was saving. It turns out I've got, like, a couple hundred. And they're in a giant sandwich, bag that I have in a drawer. After we recorded this episode, steve, Farrell, a fan of the show, sends a picture to me of a bag, a sandwich bag full of bread ties. And I thought, well, hold on. How in the hell did he get a picture of my bread ties? And it wasn't my bread ties, it was his bread ties.

>> Mike: So he's trying to.

>> Darin: So, no, this friend of mine who I've had since college.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Also saves bread ties. And I'm like, you're a freak, too. He's like, yeah. And I didn't even ask him why he saves his.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But anyway, I haven't started the necklace. I am going to take these spread ties, I'm going to make them into a necklace.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: We are going to auction them all.

>> Mike: Yeah, it's for charity.

>> Darin: For charity.

>> Mike: Yeah, let's get some.

>> Darin: Yeah, exactly.

>> Mike: Put your money, where your mouth is.

>> Darin: Yeah, but where my bread ties? In my pocket. What?

>> Mike: What?

>> Darin: Yeah. So, yeah, I'm gonna do that.

>> Mike: Now, if you get a package of bagels, can you use a bagel tie?

>> Darin: No, but you can use that. The plastic one. Yeah, you can use that. You can use that for a guitar.

>> Mike: Pick if it comes with. Really? I never even thought about that. Yeah.

>> Darin: And listen, don't spend hundreds of dollars at Christmas with your tree. If you're gonna hang on those little ornament hangers, just use bread ties.

>> Mike: So as a kid, when Jacob was.

>> Darin: Little, he called those Christmas hookers. You put your ornament on a Christmas sucker. Yeah. And still he's 20. I'm gonna be 21 in July. We still say, hey, Jacob, go get the Christmas suckers.

>> Mike: So.


YouTube has videos of people making aluminum balls from Hershey's kisses

Okay, dad.

>> Dave: This has been an irritable dad syndrome. Previous story update.

>> Mike: Here's the thing that you, I was a dip as a kid.

>> Darin: Yep.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I would get a full package of Hershey's kisses.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: The classic with the.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: You know, they have the regular, normal. The packaging has all american aluminum foil, like silver with the white. Now they get all Christmassy with the red and the gold and the whatever.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: But this is back in the day, and I would lay on the floor of my room watching tv with an entire bag of Hershey's kisses, and I would eat them and then roll up the little ball like boogers. And then the next one, I would roll it around that, and I would slowly build.

>> Darin: You made a giant aluminum ball?

>> Mike: And my dream was to make an aluminum ball bigger than our house.

>> Darin: Like the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota.

>> Mike: I never did that. But these days, now you can find videos of people who have done that. But I found a video that combined that insanity with the insanity. Have you seen the videos of the press that crushes?

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: Oh, I love it when they press, like, wax.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And all shoots through like spaghetti.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: And then also, all day, also videos where they melt aluminum and they make things like. Yeah. A grabber or a. Yeah, they think.

>> Darin: They make a thing.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: In the sand.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right. They make that shape in the sand. And then they pour the molten metal in there. Where are you molding this metal?

>> Mike: A mouse helmet.

>> Darin: And then they do the mouse helmet.

>> Mike: They need protection.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: but anyway, I saw a video where someone had created the Hershey's kisses aluminum ball, then put it in one of those presses. It pressed it down until, you know, it goes. And usually if it's a ceramic thing, it crashes. You hear some. Somebody in the back go, oh, you know, whatever.

>> Darin: There's one guy on TikTok who, will roll things down steps.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then they break. And then he ties giant bottles, and he, swings them.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And he wants them to hit each other. And he goes, oh, yeah. Then he throws things into tvs.

>> Mike: Yeah. There's psychos all over the Internet.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: They crush this ball down to a piece of aluminum.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And you see a hand get it, and they tap it up against something metal and it's like. It's a chunk of aluminum at that point.

>> Darin: Yeah. Then you see aluminium.

>> Mike: Then you see them put it in like a crucible and they melt it and then they put it into a mold and they make an aluminum thing all from a crucible. Hershey's kisses, like a thing that you heat stuff in.

>> Darin: Is that called a crucible?

>> Mike: Yes. You have learned. We're gonna have to make a list of the vocabulary.

>> Darin: I thought crucible was something else, like from the old, night days, like with the swords and horses and castles.

>> Mike: Well, I mean, they may have said it back then, but, It's a thing.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: All right. They put it in a thing.

>> Darin: Okay. Well, you never say words that actually mean thing. You say thing and stuff.

>> Mike: Anyway, my point is that they took this to the end point where they took the wrappers, crushed it to do the thing, melded it to make another thing, and now they have a completely new object.

>> Darin: Well, there you go.

>> Mike: Story went nowhere.


There is a video of somebody misspeaking an order

Nowhere.

>> Darin: So, crucible. There are multiple, matches for crucible. It's a container for melting substances.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Okay. It's also a play. The crucible is a play that some say is about the paranoia and political implications of the Salem witch trials.

>> Mike: That's where I heard crucible, Salem witch trials. Knights.

>> Darin: Yeah. Same.

>> Mike: Boom.

>> Darin: Chocolates. Eat them all up.

>> Mike: Get fat. Yeah.

>> Darin: Watch ice cube and Dolly Parton. And then Christmas hookers.

>> Mike: And then find some witches.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's almost Halloween, so why not?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah. Did the guy really say, I'm gonna wash up eater.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah, it's okay if I wash your. I was going to ask, is it okay if I wash your feet? Yeah, Peter, but then he says it. Okay if I wash your theater.

>> Mike: Did he misspeak?

>> Darin: He misspoke.

>> Mike: Okay. All, Right, you can. You can edit that.

>> Darin: No, no, no.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: No, no, no. He accidentally said, okay.

>> Mike: Yeah. I'm just. I'm picturing a guy who kind of.

>> Darin: Like when you order the twelve.

>> Mike: Yeah. Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. He misspoke.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And he told the story of misspeaking.

>> Mike: hm.

>> Darin: In church. Yes.

>> Mike: M speaking of nuggets, there is a, video of somebody misspeaking an order. And I. Part of me, I saw it. I can't remember what they were ordering, but part of me thought, did they see our video? And now they're kind of, you know, I'm the nugget guy.

>> Darin: I know. You just saying we've got a trademark on that.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's like, if we see a video tomorrow about Christmas hookers, you're probably gonna be like, well, ho, ho, whoa.

>> Darin: Slow down, pally.

>> Mike: speaking of that, me and Bess. Bess and I, our family never took down our Halloween lights. Last year, they've been above our door. Uh-huh. And now it's time to put up Halloween lights. All we have to do now is just plug them in. It's awesome.


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>> Darin: Can we talk about how long you left your Christmas tree up? your Christmas tree was, up almost at Valentine's day.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah. I thought it made it to Easter. No, no, it didn't make it that.

>> Darin: Okay, well, we were gonna have Michael Flannery here, and you're like, well, we can't have Michael Flannery here. We sell the Christmas tree.

>> Mike: Ah.

>> Darin: Then we're never gonna have Michael Flannery here, are we? You know what you do?

>> Mike: You.

>> Darin: You leave it up as long as you want.

>> Mike: Yeah. I mean, we had dog in our tree for years.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Now it's under our tree.

>> Darin: Hey, what happened? Wrap this one up.

>> Mike: Yeah, we. How we wrap it up in aluminum foil, crush it, and meld it. Right? Mouse helmet.

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>> Darin: Huh? Yeah. Okay.

>> Mike: Now that went out like a wet fart.

>> Darin: Hope to see you next week on irritable dad syndrome.

>> Mike: Jeez.

>> Darin: God.

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

>> Darin: Can't you just not be a. For a second? Yeah.

>> Mike: You need to jump in with something. Cause I'm. I feel like I'm lambasting everyone.

>> Darin: What's it called? the audio enclosure.

>> Mike: The audio goes everywhere. I don't know where you're going.

>> Darin: You'd never know that. We've done 220 of these beforehand. Eventually we're gonna get better, right?

>> Mike: I. Yeah.

>> Darin: You think? Janet.

>> Mike: Brad Rooker. Hello, Janet. Dr. Scott, Janet.

>> Darin: Brad Rooker.

>> Dave: Hi, Janet.

>> Mike: Dr. Scott, Janet Rocker.