IDS #225 - Nicole Kidman's Snobby Honey

This episode of irritable dad syndrome features Mike and Darren

>> Dave: This episode of irritable dad syndrome is brought to you completely ad free thanks to our friends at whompers all beef footlong hot dogs. Enjoy.

>> Mike: Remember they had all the ice beers? Let's save that for the podcast.

>> Darin: Oh, ice. Okay.

>> Mike: You remember that?

>> Darin: Oh, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: and it just went away. It was like the future of beer. They had Terminator commercials where Arnold would go, here is your beer, human ice beer. Ice beer. Just back when Van Dan did the movie cyborg.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: He's like, I'd want the beer, you know, or however he talks.

>> Darin: Shut up. We'll talk about it after we start the podcast. You see that sign?

>> Mike: No shirt, no shoes, no die.

>> Dave: Welcome to irritable dead syndrome. This week we talk about sheep. Please welcome your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I'm Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to irritable dad syndrome. Mike and I, we want to be your podcast friend.

>> Mike: Live from goochland, Virginia, this is episode.

>> Darin: 225 of irritable dad syndrome.

>> Mike: Irritable dad syndrome.

>> Darin: we found out today that somebody in a town in Virginia known as Goochland.

>> Mike: Goochland.

>> Darin: Goochland. I went and I looked up on the www. You look up Goochland, and they pronounce it Goochland. And it's a town about 32, 34 miles away from Richmond, Virginia. Rich, in heritage, and beauty and.

>> Mike: Mike Slang, the word gooch is slang for the perineum. M. The perineum is the area of skin between the anuse and the genitals.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And is also known as the taint.

>> Darin: The taint.

>> Mike: The old joke of taint the balls, taint the ass. In british slang, it's also known as the chad or the Grundle.

>> Darin: The grundle.

>> Mike: The grundle. Sounds like a character in Harry Potter. Ol Grundle. Go get the grundle pants over there, grundle britches.

>> Darin: You know, I was going to invite the mayor. Goochland. Yeah, Gooch town. I don't think he's gonna. Or she. The mayor may be a she.

>> Mike: A gooch crucible.

>> Mike: Because we talked about the crucible.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: A gooch crucible is a small crucible, okay? With a perforated bottom. That means it has holes in it.

>> Darin: I know what perfect that is.

>> Mike: Used to collect stupid dry and weigh precipitates.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: It is also known as a gooch filter.

>> Darin: Okay. Yeah.

>> Mike: In American English, gooch can refer to conduct that is or is not in line with social custom. What the hell kind of definition is that? I don't.

>> Darin: I don't know. It is or is not in line.

>> Mike: It is or is not.

>> Darin: However, that means that I am or am not mayor.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: But Westchester, Ohio, here's what you guys.


People in Australia are downloading our show. We had three or four downloads from Australia

>> Mike: In, Goochland, or Goochland, have been waiting in the Laguna beach area of southern California.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Gooch is sometimes used as a slang for excellent or awesome.

>> Darin: Gooch.

>> Mike: Like, gooch.

>> Darin: Gooch.

>> Mike: Dude, you totally gooched it, man.

>> Darin: Dude, that's gooch, bud.

>> Mike: Gooch.

>> Darin: Gooch, man. And listen, if you live in Goochland, hey, it looks like a beautiful town. Mike and I were doing our research today, and Mike sends me this text. What, pray tell, is Goochland?

>> Mike: Virginia?

>> Darin: M. Gooch. What? Seriously, if you live in Goochland. Goochland. Gooch city. The gooch. If you live there and you downloaded our podcast last week, send us a message. We want. We want to talk to you about what it's like living in goochland.

>> Mike: It's a welsh word.

>> Darin: Mmm. M for, taint.

>> Mike: It was originally m. It meant red haired. Ah. like a red haired taint.

>> Darin: A red haired gooch.

>> Mike: Red haired gooch.

>> Darin: Gooch. You know what I. Hey, Mike, speaking of people who've downloaded our show, I was looking at the people who downloaded our southern culture on the skids episode with Rick Miller. We had three or four downloads from Australia.

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

>> Darin: For the longest time, we've been trying to, get over there, there, to the land down under.

>> Darin: Might wallaby. And now people in Australia are downloading our show.

>> Mike: That's amazing.

>> Darin: And we've got a couple of downloads in Germany.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. We had a couple of german fans for a bit. Yeah, for a bit.

>> Darin: And, I wanted to reach out, if you're overseas, if you're in Australia, if you're in Germany, if you're in. We had some people download our show in India. I can't possibly imagine what someone in India thinks about you and me and our dumbass talking about anything. Yeah, I would love to know.

>> Mike: I want to hear what these Yankees exactly have to say about gooch.

>> Darin: Exactly. If you guys in India, Germany, Australia, anywhere overseas, not the United States, drop us a line. We would love to know what you think about the show and how stupid we are.

>> Mike: I just want to wrap up the gooch conversation.


AI gives eight funny variations of, uh, the gooch

Okay.

>> Darin: Bring out, the.

>> Mike: In the AI. One of the common questions is, and I love this. What is a funny name for a gooch?

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I think the humor is contained right there.

>> Darin: Right there.

>> Mike: Gooch. But this person says no. Uh-huh I want to go deeper into the comedy.

>> Darin: Well, deeper into the gooch.

>> Mike: Yeah. And AI gives eight funny variations of, the gooch.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: The ain't you.

>> Darin: uh-huh

>> Mike: The bonch.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Chode. Everyone knows jode.

>> Darin: Okay? I've never heard Chode.

>> Mike: The guy, Gucci goo. Is that, gooch. They use gooch again.

>> Darin: Gucci goo.

>> Mike: The grundle. We've seen that grundle. Yeah. The guish, which I think is a quiche.

>> Darin: Yeah. With the, that has potatoes instead of.

>> Mike: And the Nifkin.

>> Darin: The what?

>> Mike: The Nifkin.

>> Darin: The Nifkin. I'm worried.

>> Mike: I'm worried that we've used a slang here that's gonna get us canceled when we're talking about the nif.

>> Darin: Some of these. The Nifkin sounds like something that the grundle would carry with him in his, warp.

>> Mike: Yeah, it sounds like an old fairy tale. Fairy tale. The goonch. Gunch mcBunch. M can.

>> Darin: Yeah, gooch.

>> Mike: gross.

>> Darin: Welcome to the show.

>> Mike: How you doing?

>> Darin: I'm doing very well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was talking to somebody at work, and I have an odd collection of friends. Okay? If you have a question about woodwork, I've got a guy, okay? I've got a buddy who knows about woodwork. If you have a question about playing the trombone, I got a buddy who plays trombone.

>> Mike: Huh?

>> Darin: If you have a question about magic tricks, I've got a buddy who's a magician, okay? I've got a buddy who plays the ukulele. I've got lots of.

>> Mike: You've got a guy.

>> Darin: I've got lots of guys who do interesting things. So I found out. Let me back up a little bit. about a year ago, I went to New York City. I went to the Ed Sullivan theater. I went to the retirement party of mister Rupert G. Who used to own and operate the hello deli right next to the Ed Sullivan theater and where Letterman did his show. And when I was at that party, I met writer Steve young, okay? And he and I, we've become friends, and we chat on the, dM.

>> Mike: I see you got in his DM's.

>> Darin: Yes, yes, yes. So he and I, we have chatted. Turns out he is also a musician, and he's a documentary filmmaker, and he's a funny guy. Well, like a week or so ago, he recorded this song, and it's hilarious. And it's about sheep. Okay, okay. And he released it, and he gave us permission to play the sheep song. Tonight.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Speaker D: Hey, sheep. We appreciate you. Hey, sheep. And we celebrate you. Hey, sheep, keep keep on doing what you do, and we'll keep on shearing you. Hey, sheep, keep keep on being sheep. Keep on being sheep keep keep on being m sheep. And I'll, keep on saying sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep I'll keep on saying sheep, sheep.

>> Darin: Right after he releases this song about sheep, like, two or three days later. A friend of mine who I used to work with, she does makeup. Okay. When I did corporate video production, we would oftentimes bring in people to do hair and makeup for our clients who were gonna be on video. She, has a farm, and a couple of stray sheep wound up on her farm.

>> Mike: I don't like where this is going.

>> Darin: Okay, well, it's.


Right now, we're in sheep and makeup, right?

It's fine. Okay, fine. Just calm your gooch.

>> Mike: Right now, we're in sheep and makeup, right? We're really close to.

>> Darin: Well, now she doesn't put makeup on the sheep.

>> Mike: Okay?

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: All right.

>> Darin: And she doesn't use the sheep for makeup. Is that what you're worried about? Makeup testing?

>> Mike: No, no, no. Not testing. Just, I don't want a bunch of sheep out there with the mascara and the blush rouge looking all sexy. In some areas of the country, you get some sexy sheep walking around. Yeah, I'll say. The gooches.

>> Darin: So. So she posts this message on Facebook, trying to find somebody who would take care of these sheep, because all the farmers around her have no clue where these sheep came from. And I started to suspect maybe they're from outer space, but we're not gonna go there, because we remember the last time that conversation happened.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: then I'm thinking, I know a guy.

>> Mike: I've got a sheep guy.

>> Darin: I've got a sheep guy. I know a friend who has a farm. He has a sheep and some goats. So I call him up. This is when I'm on the phone.

>> Mike: Have you ever talked to the sheep guy about anything else, or is this just like he's on?

>> Darin: He's my sheep guy is also my it question guy. And he also is an expert juggler. Yeah.

>> Mike: A hell of an array of skills there, right? Very marketable.

>> Darin: Yeah, he's also my. He. He plays the ukulele. He's also a ukulele guy. Of course he does.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: This is the guy who, had said, I, accidentally bought a ukulele. And I overheard him saying, like, how in the hell do you accidentally buy a ukulele?

>> Mike: I hate it when that.

>> Darin: Yeah, he was on Amazon, and he put it in the cart. He saw one that he wanted, put it in the car, and then the next day, his wife bought everything that was in the cart.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So that's how you accidentally buy a ukulele. Back to the sheep. I call him up, and I'm talking to him. I'm at King's island, okay, right. And I'm waiting on Cameron to ride the beast, because I don't ride the beast anymore.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, we're walking back, and we find Libby, and I'm on the phone, and I'm calling my buddy.

>> Mike: You're on the phone with your sheep guy.

>> Darin: And she says, libby's like, who are you talking to? I'm like, hang on, woman. I'm talking to a guy about a sheep. So I put my sheep guy in touch with my friend who has the farm, and maybe we made a sheep connection.

>> Mike: You're just out here making connections. That's what you do. You connect people.

>> Darin: Just, You got a sheep. I know someone who might want it.

>> Mike: Got a guy.

>> Darin: Yeah. But thanks again to Steve young for letting us play the sheep song. Yeah, I just thought that was.

>> Mike: Yeah, it's weird. Yeah.

>> Darin: It's not every day that you. I can find a home for these sheep.


So, I was listening to the show the other day and I annoyed myself

>> Mike: So, I was listening to the show the other day.

>> Darin: Yeah. Ah.

>> Mike: And I annoyed myself how? And I'll tell you exactly how.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I've noticed that when you're on a long tear.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: And you're telling a story.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Every time you pause, I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Oh, I did this. I do the same thing with you.

>> Mike: And, I started to get annoyed with myself. It's like, please, I quit listening to your story. And I started listening for the pauses in between your story. And counting on one hand how many blank spaces I allowed to happen and how many I filled with a. Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: It's very distracting. So I'm. I'm trying to restrain myself.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Cause you don't. You don't hear that with very well produced podcasts.

>> Darin: I edit a lot of those out of.

>> Mike: Oh, I'm not making any.

>> Darin: I edit a lot of my own out is what I'm saying.

>> Mike: I'm not making any statement about your editing. I'm just saying.

>> Darin: No, I understand.

>> Mike: Most people have self control because I watch a lot of streams.

>> Darin: It drives me crazy, too, is my point.

>> Mike: I watch a lot of streams that end up being podcasts.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And, there's a couple of political people that I follow. They stream and then a few days later, they have made a podcast out of their stream, and they're really. They're just taking ten minute sections here and there. And I noticed that all they're editing out are the blank spaces in between when they're, like, reading what people are saying.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then they start answering the questions.

>> Darin: Yeah. It tightens it up.

>> Mike: And I'm like, wow, you're not. Because you can do that automatically. You can use, artificial intelligence, also known as AI, to do that. And I thought, wow, they have such self control of themselves, and they're not sitting there the entire time going, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: I.

>> Mike: So I'm working on myself. I'm doing some self care.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah. Just want to throw that.

>> Darin: Nice, nice. Good to know.


You left in a joke that I edited out of the podcast

>> Mike: At, 225 episodes in, by the.

>> Darin: Way, you released a video about, your son playing football.

>> Mike: I did.

>> Darin: And you left in a joke that I told that I edited out of the podcast, the audio version. I'm like, oh, he left that in.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because I was like, so, yeah.

>> Mike: Was it bad?

>> Darin: I don't know.

>> Mike: Okay. What. What was. You can always edit out what it. What it was. I'm curious.

>> Darin: You said that Charlie had ran the bowl 90 yards, and they took it back, and then he ran, like, 80 yards. They took it back, and then he got tackled the third time.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And he was sitting out.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then the coach says, you want to. You want to come back in? He got up, and I said, that's where they gave him the injection.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah, right.

>> Darin: Like steroids.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: And then I'm like, someone's gonna think that Mike's kid is all roided up.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Like, you know, some football players are when, hey, their knee automatically works again.

>> Mike: Yeah. So where I was with it is, I saw that that was in there, and I thought, that's just. Darren.

>> Darin: It'S not like you said anything inappropriate.

>> Mike: I've been lazy. A few months ago, I quit using anything that had any, bad words in it because I didn't feel like, for some reason, with the program, it was becoming hard to put the quack in. Yeah, I've got it easy again.

>> Darin: Oh, good.

>> Mike: Coming hard for. I'm using a different program now.

>> Darin: Okay, good, good.

>> Mike: So, I've started to put the quackies back in, so my repertoire of available clips has greatly increased.

>> Darin: Oh, good, good.

>> Mike: but, yeah, I've had one that I watched the actual clip. I was ready to make the video, and I was like, oh, this is good. I'm just gonna set up the video portion of it. I've got the audio over here, and I'm just gonna drag it over. I don't even need to listen to it. And then it's. I just hear, you know, the mumble in the background there, and they're. Oh, yeah, I'd have to come back over and I have to quack all those out.

>> Darin: Oh, you can't walk away.

>> Mike: No, you can't. No, you have to kind of keep one ear on this at all times. You never know when the old cuss bus is gonna run by the.

>> Darin: And I'm just as bad as you are. But like last week. Oh, my goodness, you were George Carlin.

>> Dave: You are listening to irritable dad syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast.

>> Mike: Time for a few fart jokes.

>> Darin: My dad says the book was pretty good. It's one of the nine, books that I've read. Actually, I didn't read the book. I listened to the audiobook. And that counts. I've talked to historians and people at the library, and they say that counts.

>> Mike: Library liberry?

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah. Do you think that counts? If you listen to a book on tape, it counts as reading it?

>> Mike: in a way.

>> Darin: Okay, well, it's gonna have to, because.

>> Mike: It'S like watching a movie on your phone. Yeah. You've still. You've seen it, but you haven't really.

>> Darin: Well, that's the same thing. You're watching it, you're. You're absorbing it.

>> Mike: Yeah. Really? Okay, let me ask you this, okay? You remember when Avengers endgame came out?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And me and the family are gonna go see it in the theater.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: And then you want to go along, and I say, Darren, you can watch it on your phone. Just sit in the car, watch it on your phone. We're gonna go into theater. You think that's the same? That's the same is what you're telling me. It's the same thing.

>> Darin: I'm. No, it's not the same. But you're still watching it, are you? Okay.

>> Mike: Continue, please.


Reading a book is completely different than listening to it on audiobook

>> Darin: Oh, you're still watching it and hearing it. Okay, so, yeah, I. You got a book that you got from the library and you read it.

>> Mike: uh-huh

>> Darin: There's no audio or there's no video. It's all your imagination. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But if you get.

>> Mike: I see what you did you get.

>> Darin: The book on tape.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Right. The audiobook.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And you hear it.

>> Darin: Okay, that's. It's different.

>> Mike: Okay. It's different in the way that watching a movie on the theater versus on your phone is different.

>> Darin: It's a completely different type of difference. Type of difference.

>> Mike: It's not a different type of different. It's similar type of difference. Allow me to elaborate.

>> Darin: Reading a book, reading an actual book, reading a book, turning the page.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: There's no audio. There's no video.

>> Mike: You could have a cd going in the background.

>> Darin: Yeah. Which would be of something different, like a YouTube CD or the southern culture on the skids or something. Right? Okay. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah. Ah.

>> Darin: Reading it is completely different than listening to it on audiobook.

>> Mike: Wait, didn't you start this by saying it's the same?

>> Darin: No, you.

>> Mike: I thought you did. I thought you were saying it's the same. You listen to it. It's the same as reading it, and I said it's not the same.

>> Darin: Okay, well, it counts is what I'm. What I'm saying is it counts because.

>> Mike: It'S the same or because it's not the same. What are you talking about?

>> Darin: I don't know. It counts.

>> Mike: You just bugs bunnied me. You just made me take the opposite side of the argument.

>> Darin: Rabbit season.

>> Mike: Duck season.

>> Darin: My point is, if I can quote the great Mike Odal, my point is. Yes, it counts.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay. It counts as, You're absol. You're absorbing the absolving. You're absorbing the content of the book.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: You know what I'm gonna call this right now.

>> Darin: Okay?

>> Mike: There will become a term or a movement. Reading in HD. Are you ready for this?

>> Mike: And you're gonna groan and you're gonna roll your eyes.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And you're gonna be like, oh, my God. But hear me out now.

>> Darin: I'm being you.

>> Mike: Okay.


If you read Lord of the Rings after seeing the movie, it's lame

Okay. Imagine, if you will, it's the 1970s.

>> Darin: Okay, maybe, maybe, maybe Darren Cox was just born.

>> Mike: Okay? And you decide, I'm going to read Lord of the Rings.

>> Darin: Okay?

>> Mike: And the only thing you have to go by is the description in the book and then scenes of Monty Python that you've seen. All the Gondor knights are going to look like the knights in Monty Python.

>> Darin: With the coconuts in your head?

>> Mike: Yeah, with the coconuts. You're gonna think of when they do the ride of the Rohirrim. You're gonna think of the coconut. You won't be able to stop it. It'll happen now.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: You fast forward into the eighties. Now, there's been an animated movie we've talked about. The animated movie the Lord of the Rings.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Horrible. Where the hobbits like a little fat dude with curly hair. Oh, Gandalf, I'm so happy that I saw you let me hate sweet cake.

>> Darin: And they walk and they go dee doop, doodoop dot.

>> Mike: And the elves all look like they just got done making fudge stripe cookies in the back. Yes. None of them are doing the Matrix stuff that Legolas did, anything like that.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: You read the book then, and it's just kind of lame because you're imagining that now. You read Lord of the Rings, and who are you imagining is Gandalf? Ian, McKellen.

>> Darin: Ed Asner.

>> Mike: Yeah. Okay, well, your visual visualization.

>> Darin: Yeah. If you read the book after seeing the movie.

>> Mike: Yes. Yeah. Reading NHD, you. If you read a book when you're a kid.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And then you're. You go forth with. You see other things. Bullet, time in the Matrix, you see the current superhero movies we have.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: You see Jedi flipping around and do all this stuff, and you go back and you read the same thing. Yeah, it's a lot cooler.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I have proof. I have proof. Go back and watch the original fight between Obi Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader in Star Wars. A new hope.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: It's two old men.

>> Darin: Yep.

>> Mike: One.

>> Darin: Bing, bing.

>> Mike: Go watch the YouTube remake that some genius did right, a year or two ago where they made it look like the battles in the recent Star wars movies. They, like, mapped, what's his name? Sir Alec Guinness's face on there.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And they. And they just entered, like, doing flips, shooting fire, flipping things around, throwing stars. Badass fight. Yeah, and then it. It retained that look, that Alec Guinness. Obi Wan Kenobi.

>> Darin: Obi Wan. Yeah.

>> Mike: Shot to Luke right before he got eight by Vader.

>> Darin: Yep. Yep.

>> Mike: And then he goes, still badass. Still badass.

>> Darin: Strike me down. You'll only make me stronger.

>> Mike: Exactly.

>> Darin: Bitch.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: That's what. That's what they should have. I'm surprised they didn't add that back in when they realized it. Bitch.

>> Mike: It, ah. Perfectly set up in McGregor.


A book on audio counts as is reading it

>> Darin: My point is, a book on audio.

>> Mike: Oh, yes.

>> Darin: Counts as is reading it.

>> Mike: No, it doesn't.

>> Darin: It does.

>> Mike: It's not. It's the same, but different.

>> Darin: You absorb it. You absorb it. You absorb all the information.

>> Mike: Yes, yes. It's curated.

>> Darin: It's filtered. It's, cold filtered for freshness.


I'm reading three books at once right now. Why? And I'll tell you why

I want to talk more about books. Okay. When we went on vacation, I have a book, and I got it from my mom.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: It's a Sidney Sheldon book, and I've read a handful of Sidney Sheldon books. And he writes pretty good books. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, I started it, and I was actually getting into it. I got, I don't know, 20 or 30 pages into it since I got home. I have no desire whatsoever to finish reading this book.

>> Mike: Isn't that weird?

>> Darin: But I'm leaving it on my nightstand, and I'll tell you why.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: If I ever go, like, on a crime spree and then have to just pack all my stuff and run, if I mysteriously disappear, if, I'm eaten by wolves or killed by sheep and they have to come to our house, they're gonna walk into my room, and I want them to assume that I read. That's exactly why I leave that book there. And they're like, well, it's not a newly book because he's clearly 24 pages into it. That's where the bookmark is.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. I want people to think that I read. Okay, but I don't want to read. I was actually into the book.

>> Mike: I'm reading three books at once right now.

>> Darin: Why?

>> Mike: And I'll tell you, because we talked about that before. This is my year to read. So I did finish doctor sleep. I think I already said that. And I'm reading three nonfiction books. I think you can read multiple nonfiction books at the same time and not get confused.

>> Darin: there's.

>> Mike: When you go fiction, there's no way.

>> Darin: I would be able to do well.

>> Mike: One of them is for work. Work is not making me read it. It was just recommended at my job, and I was like, oh, that looks kind of interesting. So I'm reading that, and then I'm reading, you know, Hunter S. Thompson.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Fear and loathing in Las Vegas. So he wrote fear and loathing on the campaign trail, 72. And I'm reading, the hell's Angels book that he wrote.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: They're very different. Hell's angels is not the same as Richard Nixon. Yes.

>> Darin: Question.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Why don't you just read one, finish it, and then start the other one?

>> Mike: Because I got bored with one, so I started reading the other. And then as I'm reading the other, I think I kind of want to go back to this other one. Fear and loathing on the campaign trail I'm reading because it's very similar to where we are right now in politics. So both sides have. I don't know what both sides believe. I know what my side believes, and I think I know what the other side believes in the book. But they. No, now.

>> Darin: Oh, now.

>> Mike: But I believe that everybody thinks it's the end of the world if their person doesn't get into the White House.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Or at least the end of something.

>> Darin: That's fair.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And that's similar to what was going on in 1972. Nixon versus McGovern. It was very pitched, kind of like it is now.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: In a different way. Right. You know, go back to 72. So it's. It's interesting to read that and how people thought, this is it. If this guy doesn't win, we're. It's over. Well, it's not over.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: I mean, I was born three years after that. Clearly things weren't over. I'm still here. America's still here. cherry cordials are still here.

>> Darin: I hate those.

>> Mike: French vanilla ice cream is still here.

>> Darin: Oh, my God. I once had a cherry cordial.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: When I was a kid.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I throw it up and I. That was, I'm gonna say that was almost 48 years ago. I still can't look at those.

>> Mike: Walk down this lane.

>> Darin: I can't look at those without getting sick.

>> Mike: Walk down this lane with me.


In 1972, nerds candy was invented and then evolved to the nerds today

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: In 1972, a lot of people thought the world would end if their person didn't get voted in.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Their person didn't get voted in. And since then, nerds candy was invented and then evolved to the nerds. Gummy, gummy nerds that we love today.

>> Darin: Today, now. Yeah.

>> Mike: Candy that didn't exist. Right. If you were born in back then, you didn't even know nerds wasn't even a thing.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Unless you invented nerds, then you know exactly what they are.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: But. So it wasn't the end of the world.

>> Darin: No.


So what I want to know is, regardless of who wins the election, this is next

>> Mike: So what I want to know is, regardless of who wins the election, this is next. What's the next nerds candy? What's coming in 2027 right now?

>> Darin: I've talked about that many times in that, okay. Because when I was a kid, you know, we were the Jeff Foxworthy joke. If you put your new tv on top of your old tv, you might be a redneck.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: We had the console tv, okay. And I've talked about it on this show before that. We had the three channels. We had the antenna on top of the house.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And when the antenna broke the rotary dial, you turn it north to get the CB's station, you turn it south to get the NBC station.

>> Mike: Of course. Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: I mean, and it took, it went, it took like, two minutes, maybe, to change the channel.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And you would. Slowly.

>> Mike: So you don't flip between channels slowly.

>> Darin: Like we would turn it over to watch mash. And that's why the tv shows took five minutes to start.

>> Mike: Yeah, well, we talked about this before with the hulk.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: When the hulk was changing, it was about a 20 minutes thing for him to change.

>> Darin: Anyway, so it would change the channel. Right. When the rotary dial broke, my dad would climb on top of the house.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And change the antenna by hand.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So that we could watch another.

>> Mike: Well, that's how good God fear and christian households watch the tv. Yeah.

>> Darin: So. And then now, you know, you look at that and. And before that, like my dad when he was a kid, they still sat around and listened to radio.

>> Darin: Okay. And then they had one friend in the neighborhood who, like, the first person who got, a tv. They got the tv.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: The first person who got the tv.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: They had to throw the line over.

>> Mike: They throwed it.

>> Darin: They throwed it over the phone. lines.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So that it. Because if it ran across the road, they would drive over with their horse. Right. Yeah. And they would go over to their.

>> Mike: The one person, someone would light the beacons and Gondor would answer the call.

>> Darin: But they went to this one person's house.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And watched Groucho. Groucho Mars. Yeah.

>> Mike: Okay.


Right now we have all these streaming services. You got Netflix and Uber and Venmo

>> Darin: So it's like I'm one generation removed from the people who watched the very first.

>> Mike: Groucho's got a new joint. Let's go check it out. Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: Groucho's gooch. So. Hello.

>> Mike: Groucho goes to Gucci, right?

>> Darin: Right now we have all these streaming services.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: We have hundreds of television shows. You got Netflix and Uber and Venmo. I don't know the names.

>> Mike: Uber's not a streaming.

>> Darin: It's not. Okay, well, I don't know.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But there's hundreds, of tv shows and my dad, when he's a kid, one. There's one show, so I can't even possibly imagine. I. What's next? Right. How are they going to improve television? I did see that thing where you could get, like, the helmet or whatever.

>> Mike: VR.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah. And you could watch tv in the. The thing, the face. Like, it doesn't. Where does it project makes us in your taint. What you do.

>> Mike: What? so, yeah, it makes a virtual movie theater. You're basically the same you that you see in a movie theater. You're just sitting on a chair like a loser.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Everybody else in your family's like, where's dad? He's in there watching Avengers end game.

>> Darin: On his face, losing my mind. And then next, I'll watch Lord of the Rings again.

>> Mike: So I will. I wanted to change the subject earlier, so I'm gonna change it. I still want to change it, but not yet.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I want to change it again a different way.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: We get the VR on a computer, up there, and there's a visual novel. Someone made a VR version of an HP Lovecraft story, which basically reads the story but then puts you virtually in the areas.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: So instead of telling you about the weird thing that rose up from the ocean, you're there.

>> Darin: The Loch Ness monster.

>> Mike: The Loch Ness monster, asking for tree pity.

>> Darin: Now, this alien had a big head and big black eyes, and it was all bent over me.

>> Mike: I said, what do you want from me, alien?

>> Darin: And do you know what he said? Let me tell the darn story. Now.

>> Mike: It puts you in a boat, and you're, like, sitting there, bobbing around, bobbing around, and you see the thing come up.

>> Darin: Does it make you. Does it make you, like, almost like.

>> Mike: Yeah, you feel like you're on a. Yeah, you're on a thing.

>> Darin: Almost get motion sickness.

>> Mike: Yeah, on some of them, yeah, you do. And it's. Everything's to scale, and it's, like, fascinating.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But that's not where I wanted to.

>> Darin: That's. That's not what you call.

>> Mike: Have you watched. So Star wars.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Famously was the first movie that didn't. Or at least this is what it said in one of the documentaries that didn't show all the credits at the beginning. They saved it towards the end.

>> Darin: Oh, really?

>> Mike: Yeah. Before that, all movies had credits at.

>> Darin: The beginning of, Disney did.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah. They were famous, but now they don't do that.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Have you watched a movie, pre Star wars, with your kids, where you're sitting there and it's like. And it shows, like Clint Eastwood's name? Yes.

>> Darin: Yeah. Takes forever.

>> Mike: Bur Valer.

>> Darin: And the Tijuana brass.

>> Mike: And it's Metro golden mare in Technicolor. Yeah. It's like three minutes into the thing.

>> Darin: And you're still, like, associate producer, Kevin Kimball.


Every tv show had a theme song. The eighties was famous for it

>> Mike: The worst. The worst. I wanted to get Andrew into Star Trek. Star Trek the motion picture. It's about 15 minutes of just going through space.

>> Darin: Same guy.

>> Mike: Leonard D. Boyden. Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. It took forever.

>> Mike: Yeah. It's like, what the hell's going on?

>> Darin: Yeah, well, tv shows were like that, too.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They had, you know, the intro would be two, three minutes long. Like, every tv show had a theme song.

>> Mike: Oh, right. Yeah.

>> Darin: yeah. And then they're like, hold on a second.

>> Mike: The eighties was famous for it.

>> Darin: I think. I, think. And correct me if I'm wrong, and I'd have to ask Adam need of this, but I think Fraziere may have been the first show that just boom. And then it. And then it starts.

>> Mike: It may be.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Cause before that, you bin burn Burr. That's all you're worried. Running through the house, grabbing the Doritos. I'm coming.

>> Darin: Show me long I've got. Yeah, I've got a minute.

>> Mike: Yeah. Or with me, with air. I'm running through the thing. Dallas. Dallas was loud, as in our house when I came on.

>> Darin: I do miss the theme song.

>> Mike: Never painting my heart.

>> Darin: I wonder what them Duke boys are up to next. Me tall Ben and trail with a.

>> Mike: Long since the day they was born. And sometimes they would shorten it. And you just go right into.

>> Darin: What happened to the bacon. Their way only way, no how.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, and yeah.

>> Darin: You know, sorry, I gotta do the whole thing. Then the low would alone.

>> Mike: What happened? Hey, what happened to did all in the family? Oh, yeah. It was them singing. It was Edith.

>> Darin: And they hit, the wagle. And by the way, Glenn Miller played songs that made the hit parade. Guys like us, we had it made. Those were the days.

>> Mike: Those were the days we ain't don't burn on a grill. Took a whole lot of climbing just to get it up that hill.

>> Darin: I did a marathon promo for the Jeffersons.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, I loved. I worked for Antana TV, so I was doing a marathon promo for the Jeffersons, and I went through, I don't know, 20 episodes, to find some new footage to put in this new promo. And every episode that I started, I listened to the intro.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Like most shows, I go right past that.

>> Mike: Yeah. But then still, there's some tv show, like, the Walking Dead kept the full thing and sopranos and those things, but, like, breaking bad, you know, they.

>> Darin: Game of Thrones takes forever.

>> Mike: Yeah, but we listen to it every single time.

>> Darin: Yeah, but we skipped it so much, that the one day we listened to it, we're like, my God, we could have baked a cake. Could have mixed it. Cracked the eggs.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Put in the oven. Yeah, and put the fork in it.

>> Mike: Have you ever listened to the full breaking bad theme? It's on Spotify. Because. Yeah. on the. When you watch the show, it's just like, Hank's making some beer.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then he goes, wait, Walt Heisenberg? And then it go, m. And then it goes.

>> Darin: It's all sort of what deal with these cheese slicers?

>> Mike: How much of this is gonna get cut?

>> Darin: I'm.

>> Mike: None of it.

>> Darin: None of it.


Streethawk was the first show that ever killed anybody, I think

>> Mike: I would watch shows just because of the theme. I love the theme for Streethawk. You ever street hawk? The guy with the motorcycle? Yeah, he had the. The weird bald guy.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: That stayed behind, ran the computers. Oh, no, no. He had glasses. He looked like the bad guy from Robocop, but it wasn't him. Okay, wasn't that red from seventies, show? But then they did street hawk out there, and all that was. All the show was, literally was. It would show a crime. Somehow they would find a way that it could be solved with a guy riding a motorcycle really fast. And then it would do the motorcycle, him getting that geared up, for, like, ten minutes. And then it would show someone point of view riding a motorcycle through the city. And they would play it, like, 15 times.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then he would go in slow motion, and then it. Freeze, freeze.

>> Darin: Executive producer Carl.

>> Mike: Carl. And he would, like, hit the bad guy in the face with the tire, not kill him, because nobody ever died back then. no, no, not to the Sopranos. That was the first show that ever killed anybody, I think. Well, Dallas shot Junior Ewing, but yeah.

>> Darin: Wait, wait. What? Spoiler alert, Mike. Come on.

>> Mike: No main characters died until sopranos, right?

>> Darin: No, that's not true.

>> Mike: When? Name?

>> Darin: Name a major Henry Blake on mash. okay, that was the worst. Yo, you didn't watch mash?

>> Mike: I didn't watch mash.

>> Darin: Oh, my God. Henry blake.

>> Mike: I mean, I watched the theme song.

>> Darin: Colonel Henry Blake. Okay. Was, He was going home. Okay, on mash.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I think he was going home anyway. He said goodbye to everybody, hugged him and whatever. He flew off. And. And then they were all, They went back into surgery. And hawkeye and Pierce, and everybody was out there doing their Pierce brosnan. No, no. honeycutt. hawkeye and Bj honeycutt were doing surgery, and hot lips Houlihan was there. and radar o'Reilly comes in, and he said that Colonel Henry blake got shot down, and he died.

>> Mike: And we're like, what? My question is, what the hell?

>> Darin: Are you kidding me? and the guy who played Henry blake, he didn't know. He thought he. He didn't know his career was getting killed off. Yeah, he knew he was leaving the show. He didn't know he's getting killed off.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah. These are back in the glory days when I had no idea that characters are getting written out of shows like, Shelley was it Shelly Winters?

>> Darin: Shelly long.

>> Mike: Shelley long.

>> Darin: Cheers.

>> Mike: Yeah, that's Shelley. Oh, who's the lady? Oh, Shelley Duvall is from the shining. Okay. Shelley long.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: When she was leaving is because she was leaving the show to go star in the burbs or something.

>> Darin: And then her career, she wasn't.

>> Mike: She went to go be in the burbs and boom. Kind of like Michael J. Fox went to go be in, back to the future. But then that worked out for him a little bit.

>> Darin: Yeah, he did. Okay. M biggest star in the world.

>> Mike: I was watching cheers.


Please stop putting your phone in your boobs, ladies

I'm like, what the hell are you doing? You guys are gonna get together. Didn't even think that they were actors. I'm a little stupid little kid eating Doritos watching this show.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: Thinking that a motorcycle and a guy on it with a bald dude in back directed him could save the world.

>> Darin: Yeah. I haven't done a. Just stop in a while.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And, it's. It's time.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I've seen this over and over and over again, and this is for all you ladies out there, please stop putting your phone in your boobs.

>> Mike: All right. Yeah.

>> Darin: Either get a fanny pack.

>> Mike: Yeah. Do you see this often?

>> Darin: Oh, all the time. Okay.

>> Mike: All right. Yeah.

>> Darin: Walking around, they have no pockets.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Wearing.

>> Mike: Well, that's why.

>> Darin: Yeah, I know, but they're wearing the, yoga pants or yoga shorts. Okay. And then they're. Whatever top, and they got their phone jammed down in their boobs.

>> Mike: Yeah. I mean, if I didn't have a pocket, I put my phone in my gooche. But it's like, it's just.

>> Darin: It's gross. All that boob sweat on your phone.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. That's why they make cases.

>> Darin: Get a fanny pack.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Carry it in your hand. Make your husband carry it for,

>> Mike: Wear pants with pockets.

>> Darin: Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But just stop carrying in your boobs.

>> Mike: I mean, I don't see it. I don't.

>> Darin: I have never seen it.

>> Mike: I don't say that I've never seen it. I just. I'm trying to think of when the last time I saw that. I can't. I don't know.

>> Darin: God, you go. It's like you go to Kings island. You see women all the time walking.

>> Mike: Okay, maybe Kings island with a phone and their boobs. Yeah. Well, where else you gonna put it.

>> Darin: Again?

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: A pocket. A m. Purse.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Yeah. There's so many different places you can carry a phone.

>> Mike: You know, that's. That's what's gonna. We were talking about, like, what are we gonna have in the future? There will be a point where we look back and, you know, like, when you look at movies or shows from the eighties and nineties when they had those freaking airstrike cell phones. You know what I'm talking about? Like, when, Oh, my gosh. What's the Miami Vice guys, rocket and tubs would have a cell phone. It was like a big loaf of bread that they were talking.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Like, you laugh at, like, oh, you know, I got this little square, this little rectangle. This is what. This is modern phone. There'll be a moment 20 years from now when we look back at these rectangle things. We like, what the hell? When people use that. And we'll go like. Like, touch next door. Eyeball.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: Down.

>> Darin: Download contact list.

>> Mike: Yeah.


Speaking of Miami Vice, when we used to watch that, it had amazing theme song

>> Darin: Speaking of Miami Vice, when we used to watch that as a kid, also. Theme song. Amazing theme song.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: So this is like Yon Hammer. Yawn Hammer. This is every episode of Miami Vice. And I'm not picking on my mom, but I am picking on my mom. This was every episode. It would open up. It's. It's at night, and there's a dock, and a boat pulls up, and a seedy guy comes up, and they're having a conversation about something, and, they make a deal.

>> Mike: You got the cocagna.

>> Darin: Exactly. Somebody gets shot, then doom. Doom, doom. Yeah, yeah. And then it comes back on, and it's daylight.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And within 20 seconds, my mom says, I have no idea what's going on. Every episode.

>> Mike: My favorite.

>> Darin: I'm lost.

>> Mike: So Miami Vice went dark as it, like, it, like, started as a comedy, not a con. Like a very. It was ad funny watch the first season. Okay, fine. It streaming somewhere. Yeah, it was not a comedy. Like naked gun.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But, like, it would add. He had an alligator named Elvis living on his boat.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: They would have, like, little gags with that feel like Michael Thomas Washington. Good God. They didn't know what to do with him the first season.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: He was almost. He would. They would go into a nightclub, and he would just be looking around all googly eyed, like, whoa, man. I'm like, what do you. That's not what you do. You guys. These are not the guys that drive around in the Ferrari Testarossa stern ready to go blow somebody's head off, you know, this is not that crew. Then Edward James almost took control of the police department. He had that stern look about his face, and he was a ninja on the side. There was an episode there where he, like, got a ninja garb oh, you.

>> Darin: Didn'T mess with him.

>> Mike: No, you didn't mess with him.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But they went from, you know, goofy, I've got an alligator on my boat, to I'm a damaged person, and I'm going to go shoot someone.

>> Darin: Yep.

>> Mike: That has cocaine.

>> Darin: Yep. I always felt bad for Philip Michael Thomas.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because, I mean, he's a good looking guy. Yeah. You know what? Sonny Crockett. Don Johnson.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Good looking guy.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They both had very, very amazing, cool fashion sense. But to this day, you don't see somebody go to a Halloween party. I'm, dressed as tubs.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It's always the white jacket with the sleeves rolled up and the green or the pink or the pastel. Whatever.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Nobody dresses like tubs. Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They always dress as Crockett.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I'm like, Philip Michael Thomas is good looking guy.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Sharp dresser.

>> Mike: The, no socks in the shoes. Didn't. Didn't fly.

>> Darin: No, I tried that. Oh, God, that stinks.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You know.


We started watching the X Files again. We just finished season two

>> Mike: We started watching the X Files again.

>> Darin: Oh, okay.

>> Mike: We're in season. We just finished season two. Or I think we're on the season finale of season two. It's like 24 episodes of season. They did not screw around.

>> Darin: No. And that show put Fox on the map.

>> Mike: It did.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: The acting is horrendous. Like, really, the first few seats now, I know they got good, but I think it was the writing. You know, if you watch, like, Star wars is great, but if you're really watching acting, horrible.

>> Darin: Oh, my God.

>> Mike: Like, Luke Skywalker is the worst. Yeah. And then Leia goes from being like, british royalty to whatever. And back. they're all over the place. And Han Solo, Harrison Ford is famous for saying, yeah, we don't talk like that. People don't talk like that.

>> Darin: Yeah, it ain't that kind of movie.

>> Mike: X Files. It was just all kinds of. Fox would look at something saying, what are the manifestations of the cubic blah blah, blah, blah? Like, what are you talking about, dude? And Scully would, you know, just all this stuff in. But then they would have, A lot of actors got their start on X Files. Hank is an episode.

>> Darin: Bryan Cranston.

>> Mike: Yeah. Hank is in an episode in season two. Looks exactly the same, except he's thin and acts exactly the same.

>> Darin: Oh, wow.

>> Mike: He's a us marshal.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And he's like, he's got his gun out, like, half the time. Like, we're gonna go in there. We're gonna get him. I'm like, get him. Hank gonna get Tuco's not.

>> Darin: Tuco's in Goochland.

>> Mike: He is in gooch. But it's like the show is so good that the acting doesn't bother you. It's like Star wars.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: The acting doesn't bother you that much because the movie's so good. Same thing.

>> Darin: I will have to check it out again because I do not remember the.

>> Mike: Acting being bad later seasons. It's, it's good.

>> Darin: I do remember, you know, it's kind of like Seinfeld.

>> Mike: It's not that funny in the first season.

>> Darin: But then it becomes, we have been watching Seinfeld again.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And we are just reminded that Jerry Seinfeld is a horrible actor. Yeah, but it doesn't matter. No, it doesn't matter on that show.

>> Mike: I think they figured it out.

>> Darin: Every single episode. Jerry is trying not to laugh.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I forgot how damn funny Kramer was when he goes through the door.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And one episode, he comes in and he almost lost his footing and completely wiped out. You could see the look in his eyes, like, whoa. Like, I think I overdid this one. Right. And they've always said that, you know, that Jerry was the comedian and Kramer was a comedian, but George, you know, Jason Alexander was the only actor on the show.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: Because Elaine came from m, Saturday Night Live. and from a skit comedy background, they said george is the only one who could act. The rest of them were just doing.

>> Mike: And Jerry was just being the first few, first season, George is just, it's almost like he's just reading his lines. But then he got the, he got into the George character. So he got to the point where you just see him on the screen, you start laughing.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Because you know what he's thinking.

>> Darin: Yeah, but no, I remember, back to x Files.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: Like at the Emmy awards, nobody could pronounce Duchovny.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: David Duchovagney. Is it, is it David?

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: You're kidding. Is it David? Yeah, it's David.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And you'd think that they would put the pronouncer underneath.

>> Mike: Yeah.


The nineties shows had a style about them. They were really. And x Files is all style at the beginning

On the card pronunciation.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It's like David Hyde Pierce, you're presenting tonight. Okay. The nominees. Duchovny.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: I'm sorry. It's like if you're presenting, your job is to learn the people's names.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Darren Cokes. Just Darren.

>> Mike: God, I will tell you that I love the, it's got, the nineties shows had a style about them. And x Files is all style at the beginning. And it cracked me up a couple times. This last episode we were watching, he's. Mulder is going through a well lit building.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But then he's gonna have a confrontation with one of the secretive government, types.

>> Darin: The smoking guy.

>> Mike: Yeah. not the smoky guy. Different guy. And he walks into a stairwell. Suddenly the stairwells completely dark, and he's like a band of light, and there's a backlight. Like, what the hell happened?

>> Darin: Oh, my God. College students, like, video students and film students were like, this was an absolute exercise in backlighting.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They. I mean, and that happened when I was studying broadcasting.

>> Mike: Why did mist suddenly go into this hospital with a laser shooting through and Mulder coming in and going, you know.

>> Darin: Just, like, mysteriously had a hair light. Every room they went into the. Especially Scully.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: She had that red hair and that hair light.

>> Mike: They were really. We watched an episode about a virus, that went crazy.

>> Darin: Have you seen the one about the. Where they thought they found the alien yet?

>> Mike: That was a good one.

>> Darin: Look that one. Get on Google. Look that one up.

>> Mike: They had an episode about a virus, and it had. The people that got the sickness had, like, pustules and things.

>> Darin: They were down with the sick.

>> Mike: And you could tell that they spent a lot of money making that look good. And they're gonna get their money's worth every chance they had. Yeah, they zoomed in on those things, and they were making them, like, pulsate, and they all exploded. And it was just a good, fun time.

>> Darin: Disgusting. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: Love the x file.

>> Darin: It was good.

>> Mike: It was good shit. Yeah, I didn't watch it when it was on. I'm so.


I saw the spoiler for a 50 year old show before knowing what he was

I'm experiencing.

>> Darin: Yeah, I got into it later.

>> Mike: Yeah, I've seen the movie fight the future, and I had no idea. I was with my stepmom at the time, and she was explaining all that guy smokes and he does. So I saw the spoiler for a 50 year old show. I saw the end of the smoking man's, you know, thing before knowing what he was.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: So now I'm watching through, and he's like. He's just back there smoking. And I'm like, I know where you end up.

>> Darin: When Libby and I first started dating, this is like date three.

>> Mike: Yeah, maybe four.

>> Darin: I can't remember.

>> Mike: That's a good x Files date. Yeah.

>> Darin: I can't remember where we were. We were watching tv together or saw a movie, and Libby goes, oh, that's the, That's that guy from the exile, the smoking guy. I said, that's not the smoking guy. She goes, no, no, it's the smoking guy. It turned into a Nate barghetzi thing. I'm like, that's not the smoking guy. And we didn't have IMDb at the time.

>> Mike: right.

>> Darin: And she goes, no, no, no. And I found out she was purposely with me. That's. No, that's the smoking guy. I'm like, it's not the smoking guy.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: And it wasn't so many fights. I brought that up like a year or 227 years later. Yeah, it wasn't a smoking guy. That's. That's the smoking guy.

>> Mike: All this technology and all this IMDb has ruined the fights back in the nineties, dude, we get into hardcore fights in college, dude. Somebody would say, well, that's the guy from Reservoir dogs. I beg your pardon?

>> Darin: I don't think so.

>> Mike: It's pronounced Keedle. No, it's Keitel. It's Harvey Keitel.

>> Darin: Harvey Keedle.

>> Mike: He was the guy that was in taxi driver. No, he wasn't. Yes, he was.

>> Darin: My friend Jody, she was the queen, absolute queen of telling you who this actress was. And she played that part in pretty pink, and she was his best friend and the brain on her mind blown.

>> Mike: Did you get to the point where like, I just want to watch the movie. Shut up, Jody.

>> Darin: Just shut up and watch the movie. But it's like, she was great to have with you at a party. Yeah, yeah. Jody, tell her that wasn't the smoking guy.


The algorithm threw up Scarface clips to me the other day

>> Mike: The algorithm threw up Scarface clips to me the other day.

>> Darin: Oh, dear God.

>> Mike: So I was watching various Scarface clips. Say hello to my little friend. Hello. Al Pacino is a genius.

>> Darin: He is a genius. He is one of our greatest actors.

>> Mike: He is.

>> Darin: Even though. And, he's in my top five. Yeah, he really is in my top five. favorite actors. He plays a lot of the same guys.

>> Mike: He does.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah. He and De Niro both.

>> Mike: Yeah, they're good at them.

>> Darin: They've played a lot of cops, a lot of detectives. Yeah, yeah, they. Yeah.

>> Mike: And I. But I'm watching his.

>> Darin: I'm just getting warmed up.

>> Mike: Yes. But I'm watching him do. He's being. What was his. What was his character in Scarface? I mean, it was Scarface, but what was the guy's Tony Montana? The scene that I was watching was he's visiting, the drug lord in wherever country they're in. And he's along with a guy that's actually an FBI informant. M. And they're having a meeting. And Tony's like, he's doing his whole thing, and it got to the edge of. I don't know, you're so deep into the cuban accent. It's all. You're really, really close to parody. You know what I mean? He's like, took it right to the edge of. And I'm,

>> Darin: Are you making fun of.

>> Mike: Yeah, it's almost, it was almost there.

>> Darin: I wouldn't do that if I were you.

>> Mike: I don't like him. I never like him. He just, it goes so deep into it that I'm like, oh, man, did he have a coach with the money?

>> Darin: Then you get the power.

>> Mike: It's, you know, and for some reason, Ace Ventura clips were popping up at the same time. And, you know, he's going full tilt making fun of everything. Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey, yeah. Why can't I think of people's names?

>> Darin: Because you're taking over from me this week.


Tony Montana is the only cuban actor in Scarface with an accent

>> Mike: But then it comes back to, Tony Montana. Ah. And, Al Pacino. And I'm like, him. And there was another actor. It's another guy that's an american actor that's doing a cuban accent. Donna ladio.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: He's in Scarface. He's. Scarface's like, okay, buddy.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: He's young, you know, obviously, he's the only one. He's the only one in the whole crew, actually cuban, that actually has an accent. And I'm just wondering. He's like, there's scenes with, without Pacino and Al Pacino's like, let me tell you something. And I just see the guy that's like. I almost think he's gonna say, like, what are you doing, man? Yeah, we don't talk like that.

>> Darin: Really.

>> Mike: I just, I would love to see a behind the scenes kind of like.

>> Darin: I'd say that was kind of like, yes, I'm doing this. When Renee Zellweger did Bridget Jones's diary, the only american playing a british person with all these british people.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And if you didn't know her.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You would think that she was, she was a Brit.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Well, okay, I'll take it out of Scarface. I'll put. Go to Braveheart. There were a lot of people that came out about Mel Gibson's portrayal in Braveheart.

>> Darin: Yeah. Saying that he movie was very inaccurate.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: To my point is, I don't care. It was a kick ass movie.

>> Mike: But I was watching a, one of the YouTube documentaries about how inaccurate it was, and they had a scottish guy on there. Saying, that's not how we talk. I'm like, it's good enough for me. You know, it's fine. It's. Mel Gibson's not making fun of you.

>> Darin: When we went to see Fargo, my buddy, after the movie, my.

>> Mike: What do you mean? Heck? Do me.

>> Darin: What the heck do you mean? My buddy Jim went to the bathroom.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: He comes out laughing. He goes, oh, my God. There's a guy in the bathroom from Minnesota going, if people up there talk like that, I'll eat my hat.

>> Mike: I will tell you, the movie we've talked about before, the movie October sky was m filmed about area where my family came from. That's how my family talked. Like, they talked. Exactly. I was like, yep. Nailed it. Nailed the accent. They sound like a bunch of hicks, but that's just what we sounded like. That's what I sounded like when I.

>> Darin: Went to college, how I sounded when I lived in Virginia, too.

>> Mike: Yeah. I want to know.

>> Darin: I wonder if that's how they sound in Goochland.

>> Mike: No. Goochland, for some reason, I think, is just minions. I think it's just a town of minions walking around. Yeah. Oh, yummy.


Kroger does a good job of pairing things together with the exception of honey

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

>> Darin: We're running out of time, but I promised Jim Temmerman I would do one more thing. Okay, we've got a kroger story of the week. Jim Tamerman went to Kroger, and he noticed at the beer section, you could buy your beer. Then what do they sell right alongside the beer? Ping pong balls.

>> Mike: That's.

>> Darin: And he's like, that's brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Because you go in, he's like, you know what? I would like to play some beer pong. Like, are you gonna go buy your beer and then go to the toy aisle?

>> Mike: No, no, no. Not gonna go to ping pong r us after you get your beer.

>> Darin: No, you're not one stop shopping. You got your beer, and I bet you they have the solo cups.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then you got your ping pong balls right there. So Kroger, our friend Jim Timmerman said, way to go. Job well done.

>> Mike: Along those lines. They do a very good job, at least at our Kroger, of pairing things together with the exception of honey. Have you gone to the honey? Yeah, it's in between the cabbage and the beer. It's like what? I've never wanted honey when I want cabbage.

>> Mike: And I've never been having a beer and saying, you know what would hit the spot right now? A big old teaspoon of honey. It's the end cap right next to the veggies and the beer.

>> Darin: Oh, you're looking at like the special honey. Like, is that, that's the special.

>> Mike: Oh, is there another. Is there more honey?

>> Darin: Yeah, like the, the honey bear stuff. I think that's on the same aisle with, the syrup.

>> Mike: Oh, that makes more sense.

>> Darin: But what you're looking at is like the local farm brought in special honey.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: The Coleman honey.

>> Darin: I'm cuz.

>> Mike: Here, it's real honey.

>> Darin: No, it's like, this is the, I bought this honey because I think I'm better than you. Yeah, that honey it is. By the way, I got a guy if you want. I've, got a honey guy.

>> Mike: Hold on.

>> Darin: Yeah, it is.

>> Mike: Because the beer, if you look at the beer cooler. Yeah, it's the more expensive beers right next to the special honey. The Heinekens and all that stuff is right there.

>> Darin: Snobby beer.

>> Mike: But then you go over to the veggies. It's the organic veggies that ride up against that.

>> Mike: Wow. It's the snobby honey.

>> Darin: It's the snobby honey.

>> Mike: Nicole Kidman snobby honey. It's the title. That's the title. That's got, that's got.

>> Darin: Because here you're better than them.

>> Mike: That's right.

>> Darin: Mmm.

>> Mike: That's right.

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


Name the only state with a different vowel

>> Darin: I'm gonna tell one more story.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I was having fun off people on the Internet. I love doing this.

>> Mike: I guess you're good at it.

>> Darin: I love doing this.

>> Mike: Yeah, you're good at being a.

>> Darin: Somebody on instagram asked the question. Name the only state that starts and ends with a different vowel. It starts and ends with a different vowel.

>> Mike: Idaho.

>> Darin: Okay, that's one of them.

>> Mike: Iowa.

>> Darin: Iowa's another one.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I said Hawaii, to which somebody felt the urge to correct me. He gets on there and he said, h is not a vowel. And I said, well, it should be and I do not.

>> Mike: Which is the perfect response.

>> Darin: It should be.

>> Mike: It should be a vowel.

>> Darin: I, you not. Somebody got on behind me and goes, yeah, h should be a vowel.

>> Mike: You started a movement.

>> Darin: It's a joke. Yeah, I know that h isn't a vowel. I know that. That's. That's where the humor lies.

>> Mike: It should be a vowel.

>> Darin: It should be.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So starting now, there's a e, I, o u. Sometimes.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Sometimes.

>> Mike: H. Yeah.

>> Darin: Guys, we want you to go to irritable dad syndrome.com. if you've enjoyed this episode, if you've enjoyed any episode we've done, please tell your friends.

>> Mike: Share this.

>> Darin: Share this thing. Yeah. Our episode with Rick Miller from southern culture on the skids is more than tripled.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah. Our other podcasts people seem to enjoy it.

>> Darin: yeah. Yeah. And I'm hoping that some of the people who listen to that because he came along, will come along and, listen to some more of them.

>> Mike: Yeah. And, some of them are quite.

>> Darin: Good, I've been told some episodes of our show.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: I've heard. I've heard some of them, and they're good.

>> Darin: I honestly, I'm very proud of the work we do on this podcast.

>> Mike: I am, too.

>> Darin: And the only reason I do this is because it's so much damn fun.

>> Mike: And I love it.

>> Darin: I'm going to continue doing it as long as I love it. So, we want to thank you for listening, and we hope to see you next week on irritable dad syndrome.

>> Dave: Before we go, you may have noticed that the guys teased a story at the beginning of the show that they didn't talk about. We're sorry about that, and we'll try to get around to it next week. Don't try to sue us. Ha ha ha. Our lawyer will destroy you in court.


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Anywho, irritable dad syndrome is a Mike Odell Darren cox production.

>> Mike: I don't know what happened. We went way. We veered way off this one. Yes. This show is as stupid as you think it is right now.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely.

>> Mike: Goochville. Goochland.

>> Darin: Goochland. The mayor is Mike the gooch.

>> Mike: What is the mayor? I went to school with a guy that we. He was called the gooch.

>> Darin: No, you didn't.

>> Mike: I did. We called him gooch. We go for, like, long periods where nobody seems to be watching anything. And also it shoots up. No rhyme, no reason. No reason. Just.

>> Darin: Yeah. Last week we were talking and I could not remember the word. Word acoustics. Let's talk about the outdoor show. And there was no,

>> Mike: Yeah, you're talking about the walls.

>> Darin: There's no ceiling. There's no walls and ceiling. I couldn't remember the word acoustics.

>> Mike: Yeah. That's the first stages of dementia, dude.

>> Darin: I have hit the first stage of dementia several times.

>> Mike: I was a slim shady. I like the slim shady.

>> Darin: Yeah. Please stand up.

>> Mike: Yeah. No, that was the next album.

>> Darin: I'm Slim Shady assigned the slim shady. All the slim shadies are just imitating. So with a real slim shady. Please stand up.

>> Mike: Yeah, I know that was not the Slim Shady album.

>> Darin: Okay. But that's still part of the song.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay, so what I'm saying is I'm right, you're wrong. Say hello to my middle little friend. To my middle friend.

>> Mike: Because you did bugs bunny me. And I'm curious. I want to hear it again, because there's a point at which you take the opposite side and force me to the other side. And I don't know exactly when that happened. I just. It was in the middle of arguing with you and realized, wait a second. I agree. That's what he's saying. What I was saying.

>> Darin: Well, you confused me. I think you bugs bunny me.

>> Mike: He tricked me. He tricked me.

>> Darin: I'll, eat my hat.

>> Mike: Yeah. Oh, this is gonna drive me crazy.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yep. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: I don't care what you suggest. It's the cold kid with snobby honeydeh. This is the title of this.

>> Darin: Oh, I can't remember having this much.

>> Mike: Fun on the podcast. H starts with a vowel when you say a h. H. Yeah, yeah.

>> Speaker D: Hey, sheep, we appreciate you. Hey, sheep. And we celebrate you hey, sheep, keep, keep on doing what you do and we'll keep on shearing you hey, sheep, keep, keep on being sheep keep on being sheep keep, keep on being sheep and, I'll keep on saying sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep. I'll keep on saying sheep, sheep.