IDS #226 - Pete Rose and the Munchkins

Mike and Darren talk about their passion for juicing: beets

>> Darin: Do you like beets?

>> Mike: I hate beets.

>> Darin: Yeah. I have never, ever.

>> Mike: I read once that beets were like, really super healthy. We have, you know, we have a juicer.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I found it the other day.

>> Darin: Yeah?

>> Mike: Yeah. Ah. A couple years ago, I got all into juicing. Mm. I'm gonna juice every day.

>> Darin: Juice? Yeah.

>> Mike: And I read the juice is loose. Juicing it.

>> Darin: Juice.

>> Mike: that's what I called it. Yeah, but that's okay. What are you doing? I'm juicing it.

>> Darin: Well, that's what it's called. Yeah.

>> Mike: so that's why you like to juice it sometimes. I would say I like to juice off. Hello. Say, what are you doing over there? I'm juicing off. Just juice the juice out of it? Yeah, just juice it till it can't.

>> Darin: Juice it till it hurts.

>> Mike: You juice it so much that it hurts, and then it won't respond for a good 15, what, 20 minutes. They haven't even started. Will you please pass the ketchup? You mean the ketchup?

>> Darin: Educated people pronounce it catso.

>> Mike: Not if they want me to pass it to them.

>> Dave: Welcome to irritable dad syndrome. Get off your feet and jump around. Give it up for your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I am Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to irritable dad syndrome.


Daryl: The on sale for oasis tickets is tomorrow

This is Cincinnati's comedy podcast, episode 226.

>> Mike: Holy crap. Have you picked a good one.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah. You know what? the other day, not to interrupt your introduction.

>> Mike: Go ahead.

>> Darin: A woman was talking to me, and she said, daryl, what is your podcast about? And I told her, I said, have you ever watched the office?

>> Mike: And she said, yeah.

>> Darin: I said, well, there's a podcast called office ladies, and it stars Pam, Jenna Fisher, and the chick who played Angela.

>> Mike: Her. Angelina.

>> Darin: Angelina. Angela.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And every episode, they talk about an episode of the office, and they have people who, like, guest directed or wrote or whatever, and they bring them on and they talk about every episode.

>> Mike: That sounds fascinating.

>> Darin: and I said, our podcast is nothing at all like that. Yeah, I don't think so.

>> Mike: Our podcast is more,

>> Darin: Yeah, you know, you said the other day that we don't really have a. Nicky. A niche.

>> Mike: A niche. A niche.

>> Darin: A niche.

>> Mike: Niche, as it were.

>> Darin: And we don't. But if I sort of got. If you and I were famous, if, like, if we were to Jon Hamm and Paul Rudd.

>> Mike: Yeah, this would become a new niche.

>> Darin: Holy crap. If we were, like, famous and we did exactly what we're doing right now.

>> Mike: So just pretend you've heard of us before.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And, sit back, strap it up. What? Let it fly.

>> Darin: How you doing?

>> Mike: I'm okay. I was a little nervous because I just told you I got the oasis tickets, and I made a calculated gamble that you wouldn't want to go, and you did the worst possible thing. You said, I kind of want to go. Yeah. And there may still be. I mean, the on sale is tomorrow.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: So I do want you to try to get one, if you can get one.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: General admission. They're the easiest ones to get.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: It's just a sea of out there. Nobody wants to be general admission. because they're not the cheapest seats.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And they're not the most expensive. And there's, you know, oasis fans at this point are forties and above, and nobody wants to be standing all day.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And, you know, when you go ga with me, you're standing in the sun for 10 hours.

>> Darin: I know.

>> Mike: Cause you may meet Linda Gallagher with my plantar fasciitis.

>> Darin: I don't know if I'm gonna be.

>> Mike: Able to do that. Yeah. So anyway. Cause I'm old kids in the oasis, Reddit.


UK used dynamic ticket pricing to increase prices based on perceived demand

I've been active in that today because there was something that happened with the sales over in the UK. You know, in the UK, the Gallagher brothers could run for king and queen, and they would.

>> Darin: There would be no running.

>> Mike: They could just announce, yeah.

>> Darin: they would both be king.

>> Mike: Nobody ran for king backing and co king, like, King George was up against King Frederick, and they. Frederick george. Anyway, vote with your remote. So they did. They used dynamic ticket pricing over there, which this Ticketmaster. They kind of made a deal with Satan.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And I don't like. They basically said, hey, if this. If you had paid $10 for ticket, this ticket, sure, you'd pay 25.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then if you pay 25, my.

>> Darin: God, why wouldn't you pay 75 when.

>> Mike: You stop at 75?

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: If you're going to go that far, go ahead for 150. So it's an algorithm. Look it up, folks. algorithm that will invent.

>> Darin: Invented by Al Gore.

>> Mike: I. Al Gore, yes, exactly. and it will increase the price of the ticket based on perceived demand.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: So let's say you're going to go get tickets for Oasis in the UK. The first ticket, it doesn't matter what they set the price at. $1. The next ticket that sells is going to be $15,000.

>> Darin: Right, but. But that's in pounds, Mike.

>> Mike: Yeah. Point is, they were paying stones. They pay in stones and quid, which is squid without the SDHe.

>> Darin: How many quid is that?

>> Mike: yeah. So they were paying what? The face value was $200. They're paying 800 to 900 pounds.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: For those tickets.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And then they sold out. Like that. Like that. Lickety snap, they sold out. And so then all eyes hit the american tour, which for some reason, these nitwits thought, we just need five dates. That's it. Good.

>> Darin: Five.

>> Mike: Five. Five. Number five.

>> Darin: How many times can we say it? Five.

>> Mike: And then just a couple days ago, they added a smorgasbord of more dates. Six. And they said, ah, in America, we're not using the dynamic pricing model because they know we won't put up with that.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Okay.


Oasis had a pre sale for tickets, and it's you

So they had a pre sale that was today, and it's you. You have a limit of the number of tickets you can buy. You have to be invited to it. You have to be invited. So I got an email from Oasis.

>> Darin: Kind of like entering a house if you're a vampire.

>> Mike: I got an email from Mister Oasis, M. Charles, and he said, would you like to apply to get a ticket? Ballot or voting. That's what they call it, a ballot.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I clicked the thing that said yes. And it took me to another site. I had to enter my name, my email address.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: My phone number.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I had to answer an Oasis trivia question, and it said, if you get the question wrong, your ballots go, you can't get a ticket. So I did what everyone does. I looked up the answer to the question on the another tab and entered in that answer, and I got a ballot.

>> Darin: You cheated.

>> Mike: I cheated. Wow. A couple of days later, I.

>> Darin: What you're saying is there's fraudulent activity. Right.

>> Mike: And then I got an email back that said, you have, confirmed. We've confirmed your ballot entry. We will email you by midnight, whatever this day, whatever today is.

>> Darin: Ah.

>> Mike: And, you know, to give you a code for a number of tickets. And I got the code, and it's like, get in. At this time, it said ten minutes before three. I got in an hour before three, and I was number 4500 in line.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: And I was like, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna get any tickets.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then I got them. But it was moving. Really. You've been on Ticketmaster when it's in one of these and where it's like, sluggish, people watch it like a flight gets all sluggish. Ii, like your square. If you're gonna go buy tickets to flucky Flukerstein at the. At the, boilermaker bar.

>> Darin: This last album was awesome.

>> Mike: You can, like, order 15 tickets like that.

>> Darin: Like that.

>> Mike: But if you're getting a ticket for this, it's like you type. It's not like they ask you for the four digit code, you know, 1234.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: Hit 1234, and it goes one, two, three circles, circle games. Like, God, it's gonna kick me out.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: And it. So I got in there. I got. And I got a ticket. Now Reddit's going crazy with people saying, within 45 minutes, all the seats are gone. All right?

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And then there's other people coming in and saying, this was just the pre sale. There's more tickets on Friday. They hold them back for Friday.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And just to be a,


Dave lay: I was terrified I wasn't gonna get any tickets

I let everyone know what happened with you, too. You know, the band. You, too.

>> Darin: I've heard of it. I've, seen them.

>> Mike: Like, it's Bono, Larry, Adam, the edge, and that other guy, Boner. Boner. They did a similar thing. You had to apply for a thing. They send you an email, you get a code. And then they did their pre sale on a Wednesday, Thursday morning.

>> Mike: They came in, they said, we're not selling any tickets on Friday because they're none. so. M. Their first eight to twelve shows never even went on sale to the general public. They were just sucked up by the fan club. M yeah, yeah, yeah. So my point is.

>> Darin: The point.

>> Mike: The point. The point is I was terrified I wasn't gonna get any tickets.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: I knew for a fact that you weren't gonna pay that amount and go to that city.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: On that date.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: To do that. And then, lo and behold, you said, I would pay that amount. I would go to that city, and I love that date. So I'm telling you, get on the Ticketmaster tomorrow at about. I think it's about two or 03:00 p.m. m. I just think it's.

>> Darin: You're. You feel so guilty. I do.

>> Mike: Well, part of me, I want to. I want to spend time at a concert with Dan. I want to. I want to. I want to spend time. I understand that, but I don't want. I don't want you to feel badly, and I would like you to be there if you want. I just didn't. Okay. Part of it is I didn't want you to feel obligated to go.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: You know, because sometimes when people ask me if I want to go somewhere, I'm like, I don't really want to see that band.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: You know? But I do want to hang out with so and so couple years ago.

>> Darin: When Billy Ettle came through.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I asked you and you said no. I asked my buddy Eric. He didn't want to go. I asked my buddy, I asked like five. Yeah, six people, and nobody wanted to go or go. So I called you back, like, look. Yeah, nobody can go.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So come on. And you're like, okay.

>> Mike: Yeah. And I'm glad I went.

>> Darin: I made you go. I made you do it.

>> Mike: I'm glad I went to it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Dave: You are listening to irritable dead syndrome. I'm Dave lay, and I approved this message.

>> Darin: Before we get into any more fun and frivolity.

>> Mike: Frivolity.

>> Darin: frivolity. Yeah. We record this podcast, like, a week or so in advance, and so by the time you hear this, this news.


Pete Rose gambled on baseball, which is against baseball rules

>> Mike: Is very, very old.

>> Darin: But Pete Rose died.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: The hit king.

>> Mike: And Chris Christopherson.

>> Darin: And Chris Christopherson. I love Kris Kristofferson. Oh, my God, he was amazing. But.

>> Mike: So Peter Rose.

>> Darin: Peter Allen Rose.

>> Mike: He.

>> Darin: Was it Peter Allen or Peter Edward Rose?

>> Mike: Here's what I understand. Now, you tell me where I'm wrong, because I'm not a sports guy.

>> Darin: I'm not either.

>> Mike: He was supposed to be in the hall of Fame because he's really good at baseball. And then he.

>> Darin: He's the hit king.

>> Mike: He's the hit kingdom. And he made a bet and then some.

>> Darin: He made a lot of bets. He gambled on baseball, which is the. There's a rule that you can't do that.

>> Mike: He made a bet.

>> Darin: Like, he made bet, plural. Lots of bets. He made bets while he was a, manager and a player. He bet. I mean, now he bet on the team to win.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay, so. But you can't do that. So he.

>> Mike: It shows initiative. You put in your. Literally putting your money where your mouth is.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: I.

>> Darin: You're not allowed to gamble.

>> Mike: I never understood that.

>> Darin: I don't know.

>> Mike: You're.

>> Darin: You're like a child. Why can't I stay out past midnight? Mama, I just want to. You're not allowed to.

>> Mike: And it's because of those damn boxers. Back in the prohibition era, they would throw the fights.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And the fat cats would get fatter. They would,

>> Darin: The mob, just like.

>> Mike: Not that the mafia or the mob ever existed. I know, but I don't suppose they ever exist.

>> Darin: Which was supposed to throw the match. And he did.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah. Dead, baby.

>> Darin: Zed's dead.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You weren't supposed to do that. He knew that and he gambled anyway. And he got kicked out of baseball. Okay.

>> Mike: You can't play anymore because you gambled.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right. You can't be, You can't be affiliated with baseball, either. I mean, for the longest time. And correct me if I'm wrong, and I probably am, I don't even think he was allowed on the field. Right. I mean, he couldn't. Man.

>> Mike: They don't let me on the field anyway.

>> Darin: Many, many, many people thought that Rose should have been in the hall of fame. Rightfully so. He hit more baseballs than anybody else.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: He still holds the record.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But what up? My point. I got to work with Pete Rose one time.

>> Mike: That's awesome.

>> Darin: Yeah. You put a picture. I did. when I worked at channel five, I made commercials, and I used to do commercials for this local furniture place called Munchin's furniture. And I get this call that said, hey, we're doing a commercial. We're bringing Pete Rose in, okay? And I'm like, oh, this is a big deal.


Darren East directed a commercial with Pete Rose for Munchin's

Okay, because it's Pete Rose.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And back in the day, I used to go and do all these commercials by myself. I would go in, I would set up my lights. I would set up my own camera. I would run my own camera. I would roll up the chords and. And do the audio levels. I did all that stuff. I was a one man band, and I told my boss, I was like, look, I am not one man. Banding this commercial with Pete Rose. And he goes, okay, do what you need to do. So who did I call? I called Dave lay.

>> Dave: Hi, I'm Dave lay.

>> Darin: I called Dave lay, and I called Larry Reynolds, and then, this girl, production assistant at channel five, Stephanie, I brought her along. So there was a team of four of us. I'm like, I want to look like a team.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So, anyway, Pete comes in, and Pete's kind of a really. Yeah, he was. He, was just not in a good mood at all when he got there.

>> Mike: Not happy with you.

>> Darin: Yeah, he was not happy. And I said, hey, Petey, how's it going? Yeah. I said, so, I'm Darren. I'm gonna be directing this commercial, and I said, we're. We're gonna be shooting this in three or four different locations in the store. He goes, four locations? Said, yeah. He goes, why? I said, well, I mean, we need to show off, you know, the. The living room sets and the tables and the mattresses.

>> Mike: Here's the professional here, Pete. Stay in your lane.

>> Darin: He was just like, well, I don't know. Why we're doing that. And his manager was there, and he says, well, you know, Pete, you know, we really need to, you know, show different locations. And he goes, all right. And he was, you know, kind of gruffed and walked off, and I had to go and collect myself, and I was like. And I finally just like, you know what, Darren? I'm not gonna be intimidated. They hired you for a reason.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You are directing this commercial.

>> Mike: It's. You're the boss.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: Online, Pete.

>> Darin: Yeah, but I wasn't gonna go in there with that attitude of, You're gonna listen to me and you're gonna like it.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Nobody likes that because I just wanted to, you know.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I think, Darren, don't let him intimidate you. They brought you in here for a reason. You're gonna make the best commercial that you can.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And so I go over, and, he. He goes over and he sits on the arm of the couch, and. And he sat on my microphone. I was like, hey, Pete, you're sitting on my mic.

>> Mike: Yeah. I don't come out there and sit on your bat.

>> Darin: Hello. Oh, oh, oh. And he got up and he walked away or whatever. And then I'm like, ah.

>> Darin: And then he wasn't happy with the teleprompter, and I said, you need the font to be bigger. Yeah, ah, I need the font to be bigger. So we made the font bigger. Okay. We started doing the shoot, and he kept calling Munchin's furniture munchkins. That's.

>> Mike: Yeah, that's what I thought you said at first.

>> Darin: I kept saying munchkins. And I'm like, Pete, that was great, except it's not munchkins.

>> Mike: For over 50 years, Munchin's has guaranteed the lowest prices on home furnishings, and we invite you to see why so many people choose MUnCHKins.

>> Darin: That was good. We said munchkins. Munchkins.

>> Mike: I have a hard time with that name. Munchkins.

>> Darin: I've done it before, too.

>> Mike: Yeah. Munchkins furniture in Shandon and across from jungle gyms and Eastgate. Go to munchkinsfurniture.com.

>> Darin: Again, we said munchkins. I did. Instead of munchkins. Munchins. Can you change your damn name?

>> Mike: For pre approved, no hassle financing, go to munchkins.


You almost worked with Joe Morgan on a commercial

>> Darin: Munchkins. And then he started laughing, and he would say it again, and he would laugh because he was screwed up. He was reading fine. He just kept messing up their name. And we're having a good time, and we got the first shot in four or five times, something like that.

>> Mike: Ah.

>> Darin: And then I said, okay, we're gonna move over to the mattresses. And he was sitting on a mattress, and he had a solo, and he read his line, and then I had him do it one more time. And then I said, solo?

>> Mike: Is him sitting.

>> Darin: Just sitting there by himself?

>> Mike: Not him.

>> Darin: No, no, no. He wasn't playing any. He didn't bring his ukulele. so the first shot was him and this woman who was with Munchin's furniture.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: The second shot was him by himself. The third was her reading something, and then it ended on the two of them. Okay, so we're at his solo shot. He's sitting on this mattress. He reads this line.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I had him do it one more time.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I liked it. It was good. I said, okay, we're good. We're gonna move. And he said, really? I said, yeah. He goes, wow, you're making this really easy. I said, yeah, that's what I'm trying to do.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then, you know, I sat down next to him, and I said, now the next thing we're gonna do is she's gonna read this, and then we're gonna close there. And he's looking over. Someone from the furniture grabbed a shot of me going over the lines.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I had no idea they were taking pictures because I was gonna get a picture with him. And after the commercials, over with. He left before I could do that. So I got a candid shot of me working with him.

>> Mike: That's awesome.

>> Darin: But, you know, at the end of the day.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Shook my hand. He says, this went great. This is really smooth. I want him over.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I just, Yeah.

>> Mike: And you never know what people are going through because he just dealt with jerk.

>> Darin: He could have had.

>> Mike: Yes, he could.

>> Darin: Had a really bad day. He could have worked with some ass on the previous.

>> Mike: Could have been with those over at certs, with the Reds. And they think they got the over yourself. Whatever.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's just a little piece of food dye is all it is. So you've worked with Pete Rose, you've worked with Billy Bob Thornton. You hobnobbed with these people.

>> Darin: I interviewed Bill.

>> Mike: You've got an Emmy. Yeah, I've got many. You're kind of a big deal, and I abuse the out of you.

>> Darin: I wouldn't say I'm a big deal.

>> Mike: Okay. I think.

>> Darin: But, I mean, thank you for saying that, but I'm not, I've worked with a few people. You know what? Speaking of the big red machine and the Reds. I almost, almost worked with Joe Morgan.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. Joe Morgan was on the big red machine. And we were gonna do a commercial with him. He was gonna come into the studio. He was gonna be on the green screen, and he was promoting this, he was doing this thing. You could go on this special trip, for a week to Alaska or something, and you could meet him and some other people, whatever.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And so he was gonna come in on Wednesday, and we were gonna do the shoot at one, in the afternoon. Okay, on a Wednesday. Here it is. Tuesday, I went to my doctor. I was getting ready to have, hernia repair surgery. Okay. And I had to go in for my pre op appointment. And I'm in the doctor's office. I'm out there in the lobby, and they said, darren, we'll see you now. And I'm walking down the hall and my phone rings and it's sandy Powers.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: She was the secretary in our sales department.


TV station recorded a commercial with Baseball Hall of Famer Joe Morgan

>> Mike: It's a really good name for it.

>> Darin: Sandy Powers.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: And I answer, I'm like, hello? And she goes, Darren, Joe Morgan is here to see you. I said, sandy, it's Tuesday. He's not coming in till tomorrow. And she says, oh, my goodness. Are you sure? I said, yeah, honey, yeah. I didn't call her honey. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: This is the eighties, folks.

>> Darin: I said, I am positive he's not supposed to be there till tomorrow.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I said, I'm walking into my doctor appointment right now. And she goes, okay, hang on, I'll take care of it. So he had sent the script to Mark D'Angelo, my general manager or my sales manager. Mark and Sandy can get into Mark's email. So she got the script and then Bob, one of our directors, had seen Joe Morgan walk in and knew that he was there a day early. And Bob had said, look, I can step in and record this if you need me to. And she says, oh, that'll be fantastic. So they recorded this whole commercial with Baseball hall of famer Joe Morgan.

>> Mike: That's awesome.

>> Darin: And I missed it because he came in a day early and I never got to meet Joe Morgan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I've got another red story.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: When I worked nights at Channel five. Yeah. I, was. Remember I had taken my lunch and it was 08:00 or something. And I'm walking upstairs, I'm getting ready to go to my desk to grab something. And our sports guy comes in and he's got Marty Brennaman with him. Okay. Okay. The announcer yeah. And, you know, I haven't meth tons of people, but I've met a lot of people, uh-huh okay. That have come through the tv station. And, you know, you'd think that I would have been cool and relaxed or whatever. And I said, you're Marty Brennaman. And I was so embarrassed, because I just went, you know, fanboy over Marty Brennan, one of the greatest baseball announcers ever. And he goes, hey, Fowler, how's it going? What's your name? I said, my name is Darren. Nice to meet you. And everything going good? I said, yeah, everything's going great. He goes, all right, well, you take care, and, it's like I met Marty Brenneman.


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We normally don't talk about politics, but I want to mention something political

Now, back to the show.

>> Darin: We normally don't talk about politics, but I want to mention something that's kind of political, okay? And I have a reason for bringing this up.

>> Mike: You don't have to.

>> Darin: No, no.

>> Mike: You're in a safety tree here. We're in a safe space.

>> Darin: There's video of a guy, and he spent $4,000 to buy an autographed Taylor Swift guitar. Okay, okay. And after he bought this guitar that was autographed by Taylor Swift, he took a hammer to it, and he beat the crap out of it, and everybody was cheering. And so I just wanted to say to this guy, I am probably not voting for the person that you're voting for. So what I want you to do is go to irritabledadsyndrome.com. and I want you to buy $4,000 worth of merchandise.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: I want you to rip it up. I want you to burn it, I want you to spit on it, do whatever you want, but please, I want you to protest the hell out of this show. Spend four. You know what? I want you to get so mad at me. Buy $8,000 worth of merchandise.

>> Mike: Our mugs are really breakable.

>> Darin: Oh, God. you can get an irritable dance in your mug, throw it right up against the wall.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then you could just pee on all the broken mug parts.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I want you to hate this podcast so much. You buy so much merchandise and just destroy the hell out of it, please.

>> Mike: Yeah, I was. I was. I'm glad you went there, because I I saw that on the rundown. I'm like, what the hell is this, dude?

>> Darin: Boy, you sure showed her $4,000.

>> Mike: She doesn't even know that car exists. They just. Somebody just handed it to. I was watching.

>> Darin: She spends more than $4,000 on gum.


On Instagram and other social media, my name is misspelled

So I've mentioned several times on this podcast that people, they don't know my name, okay? They either call me Derek or Daryl or. I don't even know your name, Damon. I've been Damien. I've been called Darfin, okay? I've been called Dwayne. I've been called Dan even. There are employees of this podcast, okay? Who, when they post videos, okay, on our. On Instagram or on our tiktoks or whatever, my name is misspelled. And they're, like I said, employees of this podcast can't spell my name. Nobody. It's just. It's a problem. It's a major, major problem here, and I'm trying to figure out what to do about it. Now, here's the thing.

>> Mike: You need to re spell your name.

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

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. My name is my. My mother and my father, rest his soul in heaven above, named me Darin. And that's my name.

>> Mike: It is.

>> Darin: Don't wear it out.

>> Mike: I'm not wearing it out. I'm not saying.

>> Darin: I'm not changing it. I don't care what you say. I'm not changing.

>> Mike: I just said it.

>> Darin: I'm not changing. Here's the thing. I got a new one the other day. Again, I've been called Derek, Darrell, Dwayne, Damon, Damien, Darfin. Dan. Okay? I've been called Dan. I don't know how many times. Cameron and I went to a, Culver's.

>> Mike: we got home of the butterburger.

>> Darin: We got. Oh, yeah, we got burgers. And, I ordered, and she said, what's the name on the order? And I said, darren. And she says, okay. And she puts it in. I get my receipt. She put my name down as Don.

>> Mike: Don.

>> Darin: Not d o n. Dawn. D a w n, as in Tony Orlando and Dawn. Dawn. Then that.

>> Mike: Typically, that's a woman. I don't want to. Yeah. I didn't want to.

>> Darin: It's a woman.

>> Mike: I don't want to misgender you, but that is a,

>> Darin: No, it's a woman.

>> Mike: Typically, a feminine.

>> Darin: Dawn.

>> Mike: Dawn.

>> Darin: Dawn.

>> Mike: Dawn.

>> Darin: I'm like, did you not hear Darren? because I. I'm, like, closer to her than I am. M to you and Darren. Darren.

>> Mike: Dawn.

>> Darin: Two syllables. Darren.

>> Mike: If you're going to make any type of mistake, you think they would make the mistake of you being Aaron.

>> Darin: Right? Or I've been called Aaron.

>> Mike: Aaron and Eric. Or Daryl.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right. Yeah.

>> Mike: Dawn.

>> Darin: I went to the chick fil a, and the dude put it down as Darwin, and I said, seriously, Darwin.

>> Mike: Darwin, you know, the problem with the chick fil a is they got too many damn people walking around out there.

>> Darin: But, yeah, Don. Hi. I'm Mike. And I'm Dawn.

>> Mike: I kind of like the name Don. I don't think.

>> Darin: It's not a bad name.

>> Mike: I don't think I can have a podcast with a guy named Don, though. yeah, I think.


Mikey calls Kia dealership to get oil changed using artificial intelligence

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>> Darin: You know, there's a, lot of AI going on, Mike. There's a lot of AI.

>> Mike: Artificial intelligence.

>> Darin: AI.

>> Mike: Artificial. Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay, so, okay.

>> Mike: A dot, I dot. What I said about heartbreaking movie. Did you ever see the movie artificial intelligence? Steven Spiel?

>> Darin: Yeah, with, Haley Joel Osment bawling. Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah, it was a slobbering mess.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good times.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: AI.

>> Mike: Yeah. AI. Artificial intelligence.

>> Darin: So I called the Kia dealership.

>> Mike: Mmm.

>> Darin: Trying to get an appointment to get Libby's oil changed in her Kia Sorrento.

>> Darin: And I call and it says, press one if you want to talk to, What's, It called? Maintenance. Good to one for maintenance, two for sales. Whatever. Boop. I want maintenance.

>> Mike: Whatever.

>> Darin: It rings.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then there's a pause and. Hello? Darren, this is Brooke. Brooke, the AI chick?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Answers. They have Brooke at the Kia dealership. Hi, this is Brooke. How are you? And Brooke, almost sounds like she's got the hots for me, because she said, hi, Darren, what can I help you with?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I'm like, well, I need to get my oil changed. And she's like, I can change your oil easy. I'm like, oh, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. Brooke, what are you wearing? Yeah, hang on there, Sally.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah, it answers. Hi, Darren.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I'm like, it's getting creepy.

>> Mike: Yeah, it's kind of.

>> Darin: It's really getting creepy. And your wife, Bess, mentioned that she tried to call something, and the AI comes on, says, let me look into that. It sounds like. It sounds like they're typing.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They're not typing.

>> Mike: No. no, they need to have AI.

>> Darin: That sounds like they're playing the damn guitar.

>> Mike: I want an AI. that's butch. Yeah. What you. And he keeps going in and out like he's talking. Get it? But put the pies back there. Put it back on the backside.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: What do you need? What do you got? You got.

>> Darin: Hang on 1 second there, Mikey. Order up.

>> Mike: he said he's got a Sorento. He's got a Sorento. What do you got to Sorrento? You got the tires? You got the oil. What do you got? What do you got? We got.


I'll tell you what I'll do for you there. Yeah, I'll put the air in your tires

>> Darin: I'll tell you what I'll do for you there. Yeah, I'll put the air in your tires.

>> Mike: Tell you what. you get the nitrogen. You get that in there. You get those biggest fat nitrogen molecules. They really fill the air up in the. In their tires there. You can't get that over the Ford or the Honda to Toyota.

>> Darin: You know what I heard?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I heard that butch has been hitting on. I think they got together at the Christmas party. I think they made out on the factory.

>> Mike: If I programmed the AI, I would throw it in like, a random cussing, every once in a while, like, do you like an oil change? And. You.

>> Darin: Son of a bitch. We've already booked it that day.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Ah, yeah.


The sheep found a new home. I made a sheep connection with. Previous story update

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

>> Darin: I have a couple of updates from previous shows. Oh, yeah. Remember I was talking about the sheep?

>> Mike: The sheep, yeah.

>> Darin: My friend who's trying to get a, home for the two sheep.

>> Mike: Huh?

>> Darin: And I called my buddy who has a farm. He went and picked up the sheep. They've got a new home. He went and picked up the sheep in his car. Drove his car.

>> Mike: Where do you put a sheep in the car?

>> Darin: Back seat.

>> Mike: In the back seat. Did he put, like, a blanket down?

>> Darin: I mean, I assume. I don't know. So we're going to post the picture on our. On our page. On our, irritable, dancecenter.com. i keep saying that. Mike's never posted any pictures. We've got pictures of shadow Stevens and Heywood banks holding coffee mugs that we've sent them. It's just I've asked for, like, two years, and there's. They're still not on there.

>> Mike: I'll talk on the Instagram. They're on the Instagram.

>> Darin: post them on our.

>> Mike: Go to our Instagram. The picture. Yeah.

>> Darin: Anyway, so the sheep found a home. Okay, so that was awesome. I made a sheep connection with.

>> Mike: I'll keep on saying sheep.

>> Darin: Sheep.


What was your favorite bar when you were in your twenties

Last week, you and I were supposed to talk about ice beer.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And we never talked about ice beer.

>> Mike: I just want to know what the hell's the, It seemed like everybody had ice beer.

>> Mike: Do you remember that?

>> Darin: I do. I do.

>> Mike: It was like if you went to a bar, there were the people drinking the ice beer. M. And then there are all the other CRO magnons in there drinking whatever they ordered at the bar.

>> Darin: I've got a buddy, Chad.

>> Mike: Keystone ice.

>> Darin: Yeah. I drink ice house.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I like. In the long neck. I liked ice house. My buddy Chad would never drink an ice house. And I said, why don't you? He says, do you not like it? He goes, no, it's not the flavor. You just get so hungover. It really, really makes you hungover. Like, hungover af, as the kids say. And I said, oh, you're crazy af.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, boy, I had two ice house one night. Oh, my God.

>> Mike: Was I hungover? Knocked you sideways.

>> Darin: I was hungover af.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Been talking. AI, I need you to stop doing that.

>> Darin: That's right. Just, this is the episode where you question how much caffeine I've had. Like, I've been drinking caffeine af. Ah, it's.

>> Mike: Whoo. It's like, here, come on. It's like hearing your pasture sake. It doesn't. Doesn't work.

>> Darin: No, my. My pastor said, can I wash your peter? Yeah. But no, I. Because I was drinking ice house one night. We went to Gatsby's, and then after Gatsby's, we went to the great Gatsby's.

>> Mike: Oh, God.

>> Darin: Gatsby's was such a good bar.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: In its day, Gatsby's was, loved going to Gatsby.

>> Mike: I never knew Gatsby's.

>> Darin: Yeah. I mean, what was your favorite bar? Did you have a favorite bar when.

>> Mike: I like in your twenties, back in the day, there was a, this wasn't my favorite, but there was a weird bar in Huntington. So that was across the river from where I grew up. And when I go back home during college, you know, during summer or whatever, there was a bar over there. I can't remember what was called now because it keeps changing names and. But there was a period of time, right. It had two main sections and for a few years one section was all hip hop and like uv black light and everything. And the very next section over, you go through a curtain.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Everything's red and it's country with line dancing.

>> Darin: Oh my. We had a bar like that in Johnson City.

>> Mike: I think this was, I think it's the wild dog saloon.

>> Darin: But then everybody would get drunk and they'd meet in the middle and beat the.

>> Mike: You just go back and forth like, you would go. We spent most of the time over in the. Actually in the country area, it was a little quieter so you could actually.

>> Darin: Isn't that where the line dancing was?

>> Mike: That's where the line dancing was. Well, when they started their line dancing, then we go back over to the hip hop area.

>> Darin: God bless Texas.

>> Mike: It was a cool place to be. Yeah, yeah. But there was a bar called the 1896. That was almost, it was like somebody's townhouse that got turned into a bar that was kind of cool place called the warehouse, which is exactly what it sounds like. It was just like a warehouse with a bar in the middle of it.

>> Darin: Yeah, there were some cool places. So Gatsby's was like a block down the street from M. The tv station where we worked. Usually they would start charging cover at 10:00 okay, so we would get there at 945.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then we'd stay. Totally. Closing time in Tennessee was three. So they would, you know, give last call at two, 30 am.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And he had to leave at three, so. But God, did we love Gatsby's.


The Ou Ohio university had 23 bars that you go to

And there was this round table at the window. And if you were looking for me, Shannon, Jim, Chad or Donnie Friday, or Saturday night, that's where we were, the roundtable. And there was a few times where we would go in and someone would be sitting at our roundtable and we would stand there uncomfortably and wait for them to leave. Just stand there and look at them. Like whenever you want to go, you know, we want to sit there. So we loved going to Gatsby's and Gatsby's was the perfect bar for like a couple of years. And then, on the side. On the other side, where the bar was on the other side of it, there used to be, like, three pool tables.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Well, they took that side, and then they put a stage in there, and they started bringing in bands. Yeah, okay, whatever. But then it got really loud, and it was no longer the cool bar where you could just go.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And have some drinks and chat. Then it was, like, nuts because the band would play, and it was really loud.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So it was a cool bar up until the band started playing, and. Which is normally, like 10 30, 11:00 or something. Then they added a dance floor. It was over. Yeah, I mean, the dance. Yeah, the dance floor was cool. And you go down there and. And, so it was like three bars, and it was, you know, you're walking there, you got your arms in the air, so you knock over your bottle, and it was,

>> Mike: So I went to school at Ou in Athens. The Ou Ohio university had the thing called the court street shuffle. I think I've talked about. They had 23 bars. And the deal was, you wear a white t shirt, you bring a marker, and you get a shot or a drink in every bar, and you get someone to sign your shirt.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And by the end, you start at the smiling skull saloon. Oh, which is the local biker bar. Yeah. You start there because you want to be sober when you go in. You need to go sober in and sober out.

>> Darin: No, you don't want to go.

>> Mike: No, no. And so. And then you go through the bars, and you end. You know, when I was there at a place called the greenery, which was the 118 year old bar, like, they would let 18 year olds go in.

>> Darin: Yeah, that doesn't sound like a bar at all.

>> Mike: The freshmen were allowed to go in there, but they go to get a corsage. They couldn't drink, you know.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: So I did the shuffle with my. With my. Actually, my engineering class, and the professors. We did that one night. But, I. When you were talking, I was thinking about the progression of bars that you go to.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: At ou, when you're starting out, the only bar you can go to is the greenery. And. And then you go to the nickelodeon, which was less douchey than the greenery, but still kind of like a kid.

>> Darin: Bar that sounds like a video game place.

>> Mike: And then, you know, in my mid years, we ended up there was a place called Tonys, which was a local bar, and it was, you know, the local townies. And by the end of my college career, I ended up living out behind this old lady's house. This old lady vo?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: she was renting out. She had, like, a separate guest room thing off from her house.

>> Darin: Kind of like Fonzie when he lived over the garage in happy days.

>> Mike: Okay. But this was like. And she. Every once in a while, she would make me dinner. She'd just bring over spaghetti. she was awesome. Okay. And anyway, I was near the smiling skull saloon there, and I was in my later years, so I was basically a townie. So it was like, I felt comfortable going to the smiling skull. And it was, I went from, at the beginning of my college career, smiling skull was like, oh, my God, don't go in there.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: You never come out. I went from that to being the guy that was in there and seeing the people who would walk in and clearly walked into the wrong bar, because there's literally nothing on that side of the town. There was, like, this old meat processing plant that I swear, I couldn't tell whether it was in operation or not. And I was there for five years.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I still don't know what was going on in there. The saloon and then the place where I live and some other apartments, that was all it was over there.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Like, whenever those people would do the shuffle, someone. They would need to have someone show them. No. The smiling skulls down there.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: Get in there, get a drink. Ask the bartender to sign your shirt. Don't ask anyone in the bar. The bartender, because everyone else will stab you, you know, and then get out. It, was like the bar in the blues brothers, where they, you know, they're like, oh, my God, we're gonna get murdered in here.

>> Darin: No, I remember when I learned that, it was my bar.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.


Dave Lay used to shoot pool at a bar down the street from his station

So, like I said, we always got there at 945 before COVID I got there one night, 1030, 1045. And whenever we would go in, Scotty, the bartender, he would give us the chilled mugs. Yeah, okay. Most everybody just got a mug. He had a select group of people who give a chilled mug.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: They kept in the freezer. Right? So I got there at, like, 1045, and I go up to the bar, and he says, where have you been, man? I've been worried sick. Hands me my mug. Yeah, I used to go back and I would shoot, like. Like I said, it was a block down the street from my tv station, so I would go down there on my lunch break, and, from seven to eight, and I would shoot pool by myself. And sometimes if someone else was there, I would shoot. So I started hanging out with these guys. There's one guy who was nicknamed Dollar Bill. Okay. Bill. And he always wore. He. My God, he could break your neck with his arms. Okay. He had these really, really. I think he was in the navy or something, and he looked like he would fight you for a quarter.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: You know, he would just want to fight anybody. And he was really good at pool.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And if it was busy, he and I would partner up. Yeah, right. You know, like I said, I don't. I can't shoot pool for crap now. But, back in the day, I was okay. And then there was another guy, Charlie.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Charlie had a wooden leg. Not an artificial leg, a wooden leg. He would bang it against the. Hey, you want to see my leg? You know, hit it against the wall. So Charlie and I were shooting pool one night, just killing time before I had to go back to work. This woman comes up, and she puts her quarters on the table, and she goes, you know, you guys want to play some nine ball? Sure. So the three of us played around a nine ball, and she said, well, that was fun. And then she said, I got to go. And she leaves, and Charlie walks over to me, goes, Don't ask me how I know this, but she's a hooker.

>> Mike: You want to.

>> Darin: You want to rack them up? I'm like, okay, I just shot pool with a hooker.

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Jon Stewart from The Daily Show is coming to Columbus, Ohio next month

Now back to you guys in the studio.

>> Darin: So the other day, I called Mike, and I had seen that Jon Stewart from the Daily show is gonna be in Columbus, Ohio. So I texted Mike, hey, you wanna go see Jon Stewart? You never text me back. I never, ever. And you're like, within seconds, yes. All caps, yes, Bess, and I wanna go. And I'm like, holy crap. It was the quickest response.

>> Mike: I almost didn't text you back because I knew this would be the response. And let me. I want to tell you this. Usually when you text me, I'm literally in the middle of something.

>> Darin: I know.

>> Mike: I had my phone. Huh? We were having Andrew's birthday. Birthday party. Yeah. With Charlie.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I literally had put my phone. I was checking listens to this thing, and it popped up. Do you want to see Jon Stewart? And I'm like, oh, my God. I was excited that I get to respond back to you. Bess is right there. She can answer any questions. You're live, I'm live. We're all able to communicate. that's what I was excited about. I'm gonna clear this up, because then as soon as I entered that back, I was like, he's gonna think the only reason I did that was because it's John Stewart.

>> Darin: Stewart.

>> Mike: That's gonna be a whole thing. But it's because I was excited that I can answer. You told Livy.

>> Darin: Like, he texted me back, honey, Santa Claus is real. Yeah. So,

>> Mike: And then I was proud of my side. Did good, didn't I? I did good.

>> Darin: So we're all excited because the four of us, we're gonna go see Jon Stewart.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then we all go and look, and there's like, yeah, nine seats left. And there. None of them.

>> Mike: Yeah, we would have to.

>> Darin: There's not even two sets of two seats.

>> Mike: And so with tears and flashlights to communicate, you know, we were, like, so excited.

>> Darin: And then we're like, hey, it'll be fun. We'll go get dinner. We'll ride up to Columbus.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then within five minutes, we're like, okay, we're not gonna do that. So, so excited to. I hope it's a good show.

>> Mike: We were even gonna do, like, two and two.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Like, we'll go have dinner. We'll do the thing, and then we'll get to the front and be like, I'll see you later.

>> Darin: Oh, and then. So what does Mike do? because I've got him on speakerphone and Libby's making dinner. Mike says, what if just the three of us went? Libby stayed home. Hey, what happened? I'm like, mike, mike, mike, mike, mike.

>> Mike: I'm all about options.

>> Darin: I know you are.

>> Mike: I want things to work out, and.

>> Darin: Then I spend the rest of the night. Honey, Mike likes you. He calls you Liberella. He likes you. He doesn't give people nicknames.

>> Mike: If he doesn't like and possibly think that I don't like her, he doesn't want me to go, like, hazardous.

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

>> Darin: Yay.


I went to Kings Island this weekend with Libby and Cameron

I went to Kings Island. Kings Island's almost closed for the season.

>> Mike: Yeah, we're supposed to go this weekend.

>> Darin: We bought season tickets, and I think we've used them three times or four times. Back when the kids were little. Oh, my God. We would go, like, 20, I think, 30 times. We used to go almost every weekend.

>> Mike: Right. The golden number, isn't it? Four. Once you've gone four times, you've paid for it.

>> Darin: Paid for our season pass. But we still haven't used it enough.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So we're gonna go and, you know, Libby had back surgery, last year, and she's not riding any roller coasters.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: She's just not going to take the risk. And I totally understand. So she and Cameron were going to go ride. There's a new. God. There's a new ride. It looks like, eggs. And you go upside down, and it just basically goes around. Yeah, I'm not doing that. So I was going to go ride adventure express, which used to be the Indiana Jones ride. Right. So, And there's not hardly anybody in line because it had just stopped raining.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I don't know why they did this, but I thought I was gonna be right. Riding the ride by myself.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: This dude comes and he's gonna be riding it with me, which is always awkward when you're riding a ride with a stranger.

>> Mike: Yeah. I tell you, get off.

>> Darin: And, like I said, I could lose a few pounds.

>> Mike: You're in a little egg with this man.

>> Darin: No, no, no. I'm on adventure express.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I'm getting on the Adventure express. And so he comes over.

>> Mike: That's still that. What's up? That one's a tight one. It is. You know. Yeah, I don't like that.

>> Darin: Yeah. So he comes over and he's getting. He's gonna ride the ride with me.

>> Darin: M and, and you know me, I usually just chat. Doesn't matter if I know you or not.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I thought, I'm not gonna be that guy. I'm just gonna ride the ride.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And he gets in there, and he's trying to pull the thing down. He goes, I'm starting to rethink my love of barbecue, if you know what I mean.

>> Mike: M and I'm like, yeah, tell me.

>> Darin: You know, tell me about it. You know, I did the old pet in my stomach, and. And, you know, we rode the ride, and usually I scream like, holy hell on these, rides. And I was just like, I don't know this guy. And I felt weird. I couldn't. I wasn't enjoying myself.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: and like I said, he could have, I think he could have ridden somewhere else on the car. I don't know why he sat next to me as we're pulling in, as the rides over with one of the employees there, she's waving at the people. and I'm like, hi. Hey. And I'm waving back, and I'm waving back at her, hi. I had a good time. I enjoyed myself. Nothing. And I looked at him. Can you believe that? She's waving at me. I wave back at her. She doesn't say anything. He doesn't say anything. So now you. Now this is awkward.

>> Mike: Yeah, right?

>> Darin: I wasn't gonna talk to the guy. he made a joke. I wasn't gonna talk to him. And then I thought, okay, now I'll make a jock and I'll talk to him.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And now it's just ruined.

>> Mike: Okay?


Alexis: I made a faux pas on a log flume

>> Darin: It was ruined af you.

>> Mike: You reminded me of a story from Busch Gardens that I forgot to tell, okay. From our vacation at the Virginia beach. We rode every single roller coaster there. But then they also had a log flume thing, you know? I love the log.

>> Darin: I love the log flume. Yeah, the log flume.

>> Mike: So I made a faux pas, a Falx pass, as it were. I, and it's, it's because I didn't understand the logistics of how the log worked.

>> Mike: Right. There's two seats in the log.

>> Mike: You're supposed to one person sit in this seat, one person sit in the seat behind and you go fluming, like, right.

>> Darin: As logs.

>> Mike: As you do. So Charlie wanted to sit in the seat with me. He wanted, like, me sit in the front seat. And then he sits, like, between my legs. So behind us was some girl, I don't know how old she was, maybe 1718. I don't know what. She was there by herself. And I felt like an idiot because me and Charlie were in the front seat and I thought that meant somebody was supposed to get behind. So I just looked back. I was like, are you gonna get a thing? And she gave me a look like she's like, no, I'm not. And then she looked at the guy that was running the ride. And then it started to dawn on me. What? This looks like some, fat 49 year old dude with his kid saying up in the back, honey, we're going fluming.

>> Darin: It'll be fine.

>> Mike: And then I feel to say, I just, it seems like there's more room in the log.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You know, this. We messed up.

>> Darin: We're just wasting logs.

>> Mike: Plenty of, you know. And I didn't get a chance because he already said, you know, go. And so then the whole log free ride, they're behind she, and, whoever she ended up riding with is behind us.

>> Darin: They're in the next. In the next log.

>> Mike: Yeah. And I'm like, they're probably talking about the creepy fat dude in the. In the log update.

>> Darin: He had his kid with him.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And he wanted me to sit there.

>> Mike: I am the story. I am the creepy, bald fat guy in somebody's story.

>> Darin: Now, you're probably mentioned on her podcast. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: And it's just a moment of stupidity.

>> Darin: Right? The other day, Jacob was, on the Alexa, and he was listening to free Bird. Okay. And Alexa plays the live version.

>> Mike: Lord knows I can't stop.

>> Darin: Right, right. I can't change.

>> Mike: Change.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: M and big Skynyrd fan here.

>> Darin: Do you like free bird?

>> Mike: Ah, I've seen Skynyrd live, actually. Oh, it's zz top.

>> Darin: Okay. I've seen zz top back in my.

>> Mike: Eyes, back in my twenties.

>> Darin: Never seen Skynyrd.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: well, as I say, none of the members are alive now.

>> Mike: Fun fact. there's a part of the Skynyrd show where the entire screen behind them is the rebel flag. And I did not know this. I had gone to get a beer, and I came back, and there's a rebel flag. And I. For a second, I thought, I. I've walked into the wrong room. I'm supposed to be where the concert.

>> Darin: Is anyway, so free bird is playing.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And we get, like, two or three minutes into the solo. and Libby says she's. Alexis, stop.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: And Jacob's like, what are you doing?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: He says, you can't. You can't stop. You can't just stop the solo.

>> Mike: I know exactly how Libby feels, though.

>> Darin: The truth is, I do too.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But. But I felt like piling up because I was.


Paul: Alexa stopped the solo right in the middle of the song

Just went in one of those moods. Plus, you could tell that it was one of those days where you could joke and not get stabbed by Libby. And I walked in like, what's going on? He's like, she stopped the, Right. I'm like, right in the middle of solo. Right in the middle of the solo.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: In the middle of the solo.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Free bird. How dare you? Oh, my God. You can't. In the middle. In the middle of the solo, dad. Wow.

>> Darin: And then she's like, Alexa, resume. No, no, no, no. the moment's gone.

>> Mike: You've killed it.

>> Darin: The moment's gone. Yeah, I'm not in the mood.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then so she.

>> Mike: You're in the mood. The dog starts scratching on the door, right? You're out of the mood. You can't write. You can't.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: Where you can't pick back.

>> Darin: You get a phone call and the mood's gone.

>> Mike: Unlock the door, wash your hands and get on with your night. It's done. Wash your hands.

>> Darin: It's done. But she's like, she's like, alexa, play free bird. And it's played free bird. No, no, no. Because we don't want to hear the whole thing again.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Because it takes twelve minutes, to get to the solo. Right. Yeah. And they've. Because.

>> Mike: And they had a whole lp to fill back then. Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: So it's like, I don't want to hear the whole freaking.

>> Mike: So, yeah, you know me, whenever I get. I get a band in my head and I start playing them all the time. And I got. When tool was. Was touring tool, their songs range from four minutes to 40 minutes.

>> Darin: They have a 40 minutes. They don't.

>> Mike: Yeah. They don't. It's like 15. They feel twelve to 15 minutes long songs. But then, you know, they have their. And one of the. I forget which song it is. It's going for like five or six minutes. And bess, I didn't even know she was listening. She was in the other room. She's like, does it just keep doing that? It's like, yeah, I could. I'll skip it. Yeah. And ours is the Google lady. Okay. Google.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You know, yeah.

>> Darin: When I hear hey jude, I'm like, okay. They could cut the na na, na na na na, down about twelve times. Yeah, yeah. That. That goes even. It's like, okay, all right, Paul.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Stop.

>> Mike: There is a, You know, you, you. We talked about oasis and the Beatles together. I need to look up the.

>> Darin: Name many times that you hate the Beatles.

>> Mike: I don't hate the Beatles. I've tried to start listening to it. I think I do like them. I just. I'm.


All around the world by Oasis. Get on Spotify, get on YouTube music. And listen to the song. It's about 3 hours long

I, want to find the name of the song here because I haven't listened to it in forever. Because once you hear this song, beatles.

>> Darin: A beatles all around the world.

>> Mike: All around the world by Oasis.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Get on Spotify, get on the YouTube music.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: And listen to the song. It's about 3 hours long. Around minute three. Mm It's Liam.

>> Darin: All around the world. Yeah.

>> Mike: All around the world I've heard all around the world. Okay. And then he stops, and it's just the orchestra in the background, and then it gets, it kicks back in, and he comes back. All right. It's like, jesus, dude. Are you serious?

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: I love him, but my God, I remember one of my very close friends in college, stapleton, and I were watching MTV. They were broadcasting, a concert of oasis when be here now came out, and they did that song. It was like, there were 40, you know, it was an hour long show that they were doing. It's like minute 40. They started that song, and it was like, became clear that that was the last song. And both of us were like, oh, my God.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: They're just gonna keep doing this.

>> Darin: Yeah, I know.

>> Mike: The cut it out.

>> Darin: Yeah. I'm going from them to Eric Clapton. But the original version of Layla.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Like, they would never, ever release a song like Layla today.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because four minutes into it, it kicks into Goodfellas. A completely different song.

>> Mike: Yeah. It becomes goodfellas. You're the end of the guy, the fonz in the back of the refrigerator truck hanging from the. With the meat.

>> Darin: Henry wasn't in.

>> Mike: the guy that looked like him. the guy with the hairdouse. My wife's italian. So we're good. Oh, yeah, we're good. I ate pasta yesterday.

>> Darin: I did, too.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You have garlic bread.

>> Darin: I did not have any garlic bread.

>> Mike: You didn't eat pasta?

>> Darin: Well, actually, I did. I had leftover pasta.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: For lunch.


If you hate anything about the show, go to irritable dads

All right, this has been fun.

>> Mike: This has been a good one.

>> Darin: This is a hoot. I mentioned earlier that, if you hate anything about the show, I want you to go to irritable dads in.com, buy some merchandise and destroy it, please.

>> Mike: while you're on irritable death, film yourself destroying it. It'll make us feel bad.

>> Darin: Oh, my God. We'll post it on our.

>> Mike: Because we're voting for that one, can.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And you feel very strongly about that one.

>> Darin: Yeah. And against your.

>> Mike: Against your candidates.

>> Darin: Horrible.

>> Mike: Yeah. So buy our, toss it in the fire, teach us a lesson, and film yourself doing it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then make a video of that, upload it, tag us.

>> Darin: You know what? And if you really want to protest this podcast, you can go to Patreon. yeah. And you can just, like, send us five or $10 a month, and you can curse every month when it comes in. Like, God, I hate them.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Sin. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because we need to be taught a lesson. We're gonna go. We hope to see you next week on irritable dad syndrome.

>> Dave: Irritable dad syndrome is a Mike Odal Darren Cox productions.


The Oasis tour sold out in 45 minutes. I have a couple of updates from previous shows

>> Mike: Isn't pickling, like an old person's thing? Because I've really recently started to, like, gravitate towards pickle because I like the pickle flavored.

>> Darin: Well, I mean, I never, ever see a bunch of 20 year olds. Hey, what are you younger 20 year old kids doing? We're gonna go pickling.

>> Mike: This is gonna go invest off. I can feel it. Or not. Part of it is.

>> Darin: It could or it could.

>> Mike: It could or it couldn't. And.

>> Darin: They had the sedate cookie monster. I know that you have a life outside of our friendship. I have a couple of updates from previous shows.

>> Mike: For what?

>> Darin: From pre. I have a cup. I have a couple of updates, from previous shows.

>> Mike: Okay. You said shoes.

>> Darin: Shoes. All of a sudden, I'm canadian.

>> Mike: Listen, back when you're. When you're editing this, you'll hear what I heard. And I get weird, you know? Really? I actually had to, like, because the tour sold out in 45 minutes.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: The tour.

>> Darin: The tour.

>> Mike: The tour. The Oasis tour.

>> Darin: The tour.

>> Mike: The tour.

>> Darin: The tour.

>> Mike: Oh, Jesus. Is this new one the tour for my horse? So. So, yes. I'm trying to get, like, more disciplined discipline.

>> Darin: Yeah, you're banging them out.

>> Mike: What?

>> Darin: You're banging the hammer. You guys go home.

>> Mike: We gotta. I mean, it's. The sun's coming up.

>> Darin: I've got a sitter.

>> Mike: Hey.

>> Darin: Hey.

>> Mike: Thanks for coming.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, it's a good time.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Mike: Our affordable prices and superior customer service is what we believe will make you a customer for life.

>> Darin: We believe it and we guarantee it, too.

>> Mike: Messed you up. That's a good subject. Yeah. I didn't have this last time, and I was all jacked up.

>> Darin: Befuddled.

>> Mike: Befuddled.

>> Darin: Betwixt.

>> Mike: Ah.

>> Darin: Bewildered.

>> Mike: I want to make sure I'm timing this.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: The exact amount of time I have to spend with you, and then I can. And stop it.

>> Dave: Hold on. The show's not over yet. Irritable dad syndrome is going into overtime, starting right now.

>> Mike: You know, I enjoy abusing you. I know it's part of this friendship that's.

>> Darin: Yeah, I know.

>> Mike: Abuse. I know it's not healthy. I know it's not healthy.

>> Darin: And I. And what's worse is I keep coming back.

>> Mike: I think you're gonna be.

>> Darin: I look forward to it.

>> Mike: Feel bad. Are you proud of the fact that you're gonna be in therapy? If I drop, if I. You don't. You don't feel bad at all. You're gonna be on a couch somewhere. And you'd be like, I like talking to him. The last thing Mike told me to was I would. I would come back. You know, like, sometimes people come back to say one last.

>> Darin: I can just see, like, visiting you in the hospital, and you're like, yeah. Bess says he's trying to tell you something.


I would pay for people to be ready to go whenever I die

And you're like. And then you fart, and you're like, that was funny.

>> Mike: Oh, that's the best. To get somebody to come in close.

>> Darin: And just unload right in your shorts. Yeah. And then you're like, hey, joke's on you. And with my luck, best would be outd, you know, hallway.

>> Mike: This is gonna sound horrible.

>> Darin: And she'd be like, what did he say? I'm, Like, he told me that this is.

>> Mike: Why I could never become a billionaire. Because I would pay for this to happen. I would pay for people to be ready to go whenever I die.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Wherever it is, if I'm in the hospital, if I'm at home, a crack team ready. And as soon as the thing flatlines and whoever's in there with me, there's. They run in, they grab me, and I. And they throw me in a wood chipper down on the road right there.

>> Darin: I've told Jacob and Cameron both that I will get the viking funeral.

>> Mike: Like Condor.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Middle of the river, light mountain fire. I'm dead. They can't be arrested for it. It's in the paperwork.

>> Mike: It should put you in the little pond down here on 747 or the one in my neighborhood right next to the mellow mushroom.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just right in front of the Starbucks.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Light you up.

>> Darin: Just light me up.

>> Mike: You keep going out.

>> Darin: How. Okay, so you do the viking funeral. How long would it burn before somebody came to stop it?

>> Mike: I would volunteer to be in scuba gear out there with a propane torch to light you back on fire. I'd like you.

>> Darin: You gotta do the arrow. You gotta do it with the arrow.

>> Mike: And I mean, like, damn it, come out.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah. But seriously, how long would you burn, do you think, before.

>> Mike: Oh, you mean shoot the flaming arrow.

>> Darin: Shoot the arrow onto the thing, and then light you on fire on. Far as they say in Virginia.

>> Mike: Can I use a bottle rocket? Sure.

>> Darin: That's a pretty good bottle rocket impression. I went to see Elton John, and.

>> Mike: He did, immigrant slum.

>> Darin: No, he did Rocketman.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: Like a 20 minutes live version of Rocketmande. Yeah, I mean, dude, literally, I think it's gonna be a long, long time.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I think it's like, okay, yeah, it is gonna. It's a long.

>> Darin: I remember. I think I may have told you.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Like, when he starts rocket man, that's when you go to the bathroom. When you go get a beer. That's when you go buy a t shirt. So, like, say you forgot to, Like, your kid got locked out of the house.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: You drive home, you let your kid back in the house, and you get in your car, you drive back to the stadium.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You re park. You, walk the ten minutes, and then you get to your seat once you get through security, because they're gonna say, weren't you already here? And we shouldn't really be letting you back in because we have a policy that you can't leave and come back. You're like, I was here because my wife is still inside.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And they're like, okay. And then you go and you sit down, and I think it's gonna be a long time.

>> Mike: yeah, it's a great song. Bye.