IDS #228 - Banjos and Dinosaurs

Welcome to irritable dad syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast

>> Darin: Hello, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I am Michael.

>> Darin: Welcome to. Welcome to NPR radio.

>> Mike: Why don't we start this gem of an episode?

>> Darin: Sounds like.

>> Mike: I don't want to miss.

>> Darin: Don't want to miss a thing.

>> Mike: A minute of this.

>> Darin: No, no, no, you don't. I wish I had an excuse, you know, trying to gain all this weight for a movie. There's no movie. If you saw me eat, you would think there were multiple movies. Are they doing a live action shrek? This guy's gonna be perfect.

>> Dave: Welcome to irritable dad syndrome, the perfect podcast for people who have no friends. Here are your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I'm Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to irritable dad syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 228.

>> Mike: I'm in a mood. Yeah, let's just get this right out. I'm in a mood.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah. We were supposed to record this yesterday, and you. The text Mike sent me, Washington. I've had a weird day. Not a bad day, just a weird day. So I don't even know what I mean. I have no idea what that means for you because you live a weird life.

>> Mike: Anyway, it was a weird, as they say. It was a weird day.

>> Darin: Yeah, that's what they say.

>> Mike: Yeah. We wanted to watch X Files. We get maybe one, maybe two nights a week where we're all in the same house together.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: For about an hour.

>> Mike: Where we get to do something. So we all got excited. We all piled down here to watch X Files. Can't hear a damn thing. Oh, the interesting thing about X Files, a lot of people think you don't need to hear it.

>> Darin: And I'm in the camp that wants to.

>> Mike: Yeah. I mean, and not just because of the theme song. And it is a sexual theme song. Yeah. It's really cool. So that blew apart family time. And then I had the Kia problem, and I just wasn't. I just couldn't. I just.

>> Darin: But as the kids say, you couldn't even.

>> Mike: I couldn't even.

>> Darin: Yeah, but you can now.

>> Mike: I can even.

>> Darin: Well, I'm glad you're here. Here now. Welcome.


Fred: I'm a fan of a group named Sister Hazel

I wanted to ask you something before we get into the thick of the show, into the rundown. You're a member of fan clubs for several bands.

>> Mike: Yeah, I know.

>> Darin: Rush, tool and the ute's. When you joined the fan club, like, say on the Facebook, did you have to answer like a trivia question?

>> Mike: Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't know.

>> Darin: I don't understand that because I'm a fan of a group named Sister Hazel. Okay. I love them. I have all their albums. I've seen them live.

>> Mike: Longtime listeners will know that that's the band I continually mistake for Molly Hatchet.

>> Darin: That's completely night and day different. So, Sister Hazel, I decided I'm going to join their fan club on the Facebook.

>> Mike: Because you're a fan and you enjoy community.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: With other fans.

>> Darin: Yes. And from what I've seen from their community, they're a very decent group of folk. So I decide and I send, I click the join button. Then I get a thing saying,

>> Mike: How do you spell Sister Hazel?

>> Darin: No. It's like, you'll need to answer these two questions before we can accept you into the. To the tribe or whatever. So the first question is, what city in the United States does Sister Hazel hail from? To which I couldn't remember. I know it was. I know it's Florida. And so I wrote something. Something Florida.

>> Mike: Okay. Did you write literally something Florida?

>> Darin: Something, something Florida.

>> Mike: I love that.

>> Darin: Then it said, name the five members of the band. First name only. I know their lead singer is Ken Block, but the rest of them, I drew a blank. And so I said, can I.

>> Mike: Block in those other guys?

>> Darin: I said, Mike Campbell, Howie Epstein, Stan Lynch, Benmont tench. These are all members of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. right.

>> Mike: Okay. Okay.

>> Darin: Within five minutes, they accepted me into the group. So you can just basically put whatever you want.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: If you want to join, be a fan of something on Facebook. Which makes me ask, why the question?

>> Mike: So a lot of people don't know this, and I didn't, at the beginning. And call me what you will. Call me an idiot, call me, malcontent.

>> Darin: Call me.

>> Mike: Call me penultimate. But I just assumed there was one fan club for a band. I think every. You know. You think there should be more than one, right?

>> Darin: Really?

>> Mike: You know?

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: There shouldn't be more than one. Right, said Fred. Fan club.

>> Darin: No. Or there shouldn't be one, period.

>> Mike: Well, but you know what I'm saying.

>> Darin: It's like the members of the band, their family. Yeah, okay.

>> Mike: But it's the Internet. Or interwebs.

>> Darin: Yeah. The over folks, the Ww.

>> Mike: There's no physical room.

>> Mike: You can have ten members. You can have a million members. Why do you need multiple numbers of members? But I digress.


Darren: I had to leave so many YouTube groups because they're obnoxious

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: One of the original YouTube groups I was in asked a question, what's. Who's boner? Or something? I forget what it said. I had to leave so many YouTube groups because they. There's some obnoxious ones. They worship bono to an uncomfortable degree.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I got tired of seeing posts with isn't he dreamy? And with his mullet. And I'm like, yeah, okay.

>> Darin: He hasn't had the mullet since 91.

>> Mike: I'm not saying there's no value in that, but, Darren, that's not what I'm here for.

>> Darin: Right, right.

>> Mike: And I had to leave a couple of toxic tool groups until I found one that was just the correct level of toxicity, for my taste.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And on that one, I did have to answer a question. What was Tool's first album? Which is a trick question. Cause everyone says opiate or undertow. And it was really some, weird thing that I found out after I joined the group, because I answered the question incorrectly. And then they let me in.

>> Darin: They let you?

>> Mike: Begs the question, what the hell's the point of the question?

>> Darin: Why? Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I'm in the Letterman fan club, and I had to answer two questions. I aced those.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. Who runs the K and l Rock America? Well, it was Mujibur and Cyrodi and, you know. Yeah, come on.

>> Mike: Yeah. The rush group that I'm in every once while I click over just to make sure it exists. It's still there, like, 50,000 members, but I swear I'm the only one. Yeah. About once around Thanksgiving and once around March, somebody says, hey, 20, 112 is pretty cool.

>> Darin: Yeah, it is.

>> Mike: And then nobody says, for the rest of the year.

>> Darin: Anyway, welcome to the show.

>> Mike: Welcome to the show.


Mike Eastman visited Plaid Room records in Loveland, Ohio

>> Darin: tonight, I'm going to talk about. I went to Texas.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I went to Dallas, Texas. And.

>> Mike: Late at night, deep in the heart of Texas. Did you do that on the plane?

>> Darin: I did not. I definitely didn't do it on the plane, but I wanted to do it. But there's no payphones. While I was there, I saw St. Paul and the broken bones. And I'm going to give a review of that concert as well. So, Mike, what's up?

>> Mike: I visited my favorite record store this past weekend. I visited Plaid Room records in Loveland, Ohio. We have a fan that's part of their organization that listens to every single episode.

>> Darin: No kidding. Because, yeah, the last time they had record store day, you talked about that, and I think you wore your irritable dad syndrome shirt.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And you mentioned that guy.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Now, here's the deal. I assume that the person listening in Loveland is from plaid Room records. If not, no need to write.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: Anyway, I went there on a journey. I have a vinyl collection. You've seen.

>> Darin: Oh, it's a good vinyl collection. I like your vinyl collection.

>> Mike: I'm not one of these psychopaths.

>> Darin: You don't have to have 4000 vinyls to have a cool vinyl collection. The vinyl that you have like nine tenths of it you can't find anywhere.

>> Mike: Yeah. And say, here's the issue is that once you start down this road of vinyl, and we've talked about this before, you and I.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: in private, we off the podcast now. I'm airing our dirty laundry. You and I have spoken about how once you purchase your first vinyl, or in most cases end up with your first vinyl.

>> Mike: Then it's like, I've got that and now I've got to get this. So, I recently, though, I'm on Oasis kick and my favorite album, not their best album, I think their best album is what's the story, morning Glory?

>> Darin: I concur.

>> Mike: My favorite album is standing on the shoulder of giants.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I realized I don't have that on the vinyl. And it's a beautiful vintal because it has a picture of the New York skyline and the band on top of one of the skyscrapers, and you see everything. And far in the distance, you see the world trade center. So besides being a beautiful picture, it's also, you got a little bit of. Yeah, it's, it's, it's wonderful. So I like, I need to have that because it's my favorite and because it's, it's there. So I went to the plaid room records with my irritable dad shirt, and I brought a, a felt tip pen for signing autographs and everything. Once I was recognized, did anybody asking for an autograph for me? No.

>> Darin: No. Okay. Okay. Maybe they were giving you your space.

>> Mike: I had made sure that my phone was charged in case anybody wanted selfies and then I could send it to them.

>> Darin: you know, they might have thought that of the two of us, that you are the one who's unapproachable.

>> Mike: Yeah, I am. And so then when I was at the counter purchasing the vinyl, I had the golden opportunity to say, you know, I'm him.

>> Darin: M. I'm that guy.

>> Mike: Which. To which she would have said who? Which is why I didn't say that. However, I will say that I did get a 15% discount on my vinyl. and when you don't expect that they're having a sale. Sale. They have random sales. That's one of the things that's two beautiful things about plaid room records, if I may. They have random sales, and they also have deeply discounted damaged vinyls. Now, Darren. Mike, you come from the bowels of Tennessee. I'm from the cockles of West Virginia.

>> Darin: Now, when, I mean, sometimes I lived near Tennessee Eastman, so. Yeah, it didn't smell that bad.

>> Mike: Yeah. When we think of something as damaged.

>> Darin: Eastman Kodak company, you know?

>> Mike: So to me, a new truck is a new truck. A damaged truck is mater. Right.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: It's. It's messed up.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: With a buck tooth and a tongue hanging out. Right.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: They will. I looked at one of their damaged talking heads albums.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: For a long time, because it had the damage sticker on it, and it was damn near half price. I looked at it for a long time, and I finally found a slight bend about an inch and a half off to the left on the front side of the cellophane covering the vinyl.


Pink Floyd released a triple vinyl set. For the price of what is a standard vinyl

>> Darin: Oh, my God.

>> Mike: That's the damage.

>> Darin: That's okay. That's not. That's not damage to the. To the vent.

>> Mike: so Pink Floyd back in the day.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: They did a tour. The delicate sound of thunder. The m delicate sound of Thunder tour.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: They released a lot.

>> Darin: Tour, not tour.

>> Mike: Oh, they released a double cd.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: I've got that.

>> Mike: There's another whole set of recordings from that show, but they can only fit what they went on. Those two cds. They released a triple vinyl set.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Gun, godly expensive. Some chucklehead went into plaid room records and dropped it to where it made a little crinkle on the edge. That's it.

>> Mike: Now I own it.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: For the price of what is a standard vinyl.

>> Darin: So was it the damage to. To the sleeve?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Or to the actual vinyl?

>> Mike: No, no, no. It was a damage to the cardboard. So there were sleeve three vinyls in there, and they are held in a cardboard thing, and it had, like, a little wrinkle on the side.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And fun fact, that's not even there anymore. Just being and living and breathing in this environment. It's just gone.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: So I was wearing. I made out like a, like a bandit, as they say.

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

>> Mike: That is, without question, the funniest story I've ever heard.

>> Darin: I went to Dallas. My company had a promotional event at the state fair of Texas. Don't call it the Texas State Fair.

>> Mike: I was about to call it the Texas State Fair.

>> Darin: The Texas State Fair of Texas.

>> Mike: Is this like Ohio University and the Ohio University and never the twain. Show me.

>> Darin: Never the twain.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It's the official state fair of Texas, and, oh, boy, was it hot. But m before I got there, I had to fly out there.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I noticed something. Our airport is weird.

>> Mike: The Cincinnati.

>> Darin: Cincinnati airport in Kentucky. If you fly into Cincinnati, you don't fly into Cincinnati. You fly into northern Kentucky. But people think they're flying into Cincinnati and they're wrong because it's a Cincinnati northern Kentucky International Airport in Covington, Kentucky. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And so, actually, it's in Hebrew.

>> Mike: They would call it. Yeah. You think they would call it the northern Kentucky airport. Cincinnati airport.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Or the northern Kentucky airport.

>> Darin: Yeah. Cause it's in Kentucky.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It's not in Cincinnati.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: But, you know, when you land, the flight attendant almost called stewardess.

>> Mike: That's wrong.

>> Darin: The flight attendant.

>> Mike: Flight wench.


Cincinnati airport has a library, and you can donate used books

>> Darin: We'd like to welcome you to Cincinnati, where the current temperature is and winds are from the west. Whatever. Yeah. so, I'm getting ready to fly out to Dallas, and I've been to our airport many, many times, and it's almost to the point where I can walk through the place blindfolded.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You know.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I'm very comfortable with this airport, but on this occasion, I had an hour and a half to kill, and I'm just walking around the airport. I noticed that our airport has a library. Have you noticed that there's a library in the airport? You can go in there with used.

>> Mike: Books that other people have touched?

>> Darin: Yes. Yeah. Well, Mike, any library that people have touched the books.

>> Mike: Yeah, but, I mean, you're not going to find a library where someone hasn't, sells new books.

>> Darin: But this is, they've still been touched, though.

>> Mike: This is for the scholar that wants to get.

>> Darin: Okay. Yeah.

>> Mike: 1950S treatise on the Scotland yard. Huh?

>> Darin: Huh? What? So I'm walking through this library, and it's just a little room the size of, like, a gift shop, and there's a bunch of books there. There's a.

>> Mike: Are you sure you weren't in a gift shop?

>> Darin: No, there's a children's section, and there's an adult section, like, oh, let's go to the adult section. There's nothing adult about.

>> Mike: Not the canadian mounted.

>> Darin: No, no. Any of these books you want, you can take, and you can read them on the plane, in the airport, whatever.

>> Mike: Sounds, like a bad idea.

>> Darin: I don't know why?

>> Mike: Well, I mean, you're in an airport.

>> Darin: Yeah. What's wrong with that?

>> Mike: You're, you're in an. It's an international airport.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: You could take a book.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: Let's say the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And fly to China. And they'll never get it back.

>> Darin: Well, no, you're not supposed to bring it back. Right. Yeah.

>> Mike: So how do they have books there?

>> Darin: They encourage people to donate books to. So if wherever they go, what are you.

>> Mike: Not them, to them? yes.

>> Darin: Oh, library.

>> Mike: This is a one way library.

>> Darin: Yes. You pick out anything you want, really? And you read it. And if you want to read it and then pass it on to a, passenger flank somewhere else.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Hey, I read this. You want it, take it. What if they're encouraging reading? And if you have books that you want to donate to the library at the, at the international CVG, Cincinnati Northern Kentucky Airport, you can.

>> Mike: This is fascinating.

>> Darin: Yeah. And I'm walking around and I'm thinking, these books are free. I should take a free book.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right. But I didn't because I know I'm not gonna read it. And then guilt swept over me like, like a river.

>> Mike: Oh, okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. And I was.

>> Mike: Because you weren't reading.

>> Darin: No, because I wanted to take a book so that the guy would think, you know how I want people to think that I read?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right. So I was gonna, this book looks really good. And I was going to read this on my plane.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then the guy would see through me. He would know that I'm lying.

>> Darin: Yeah. So I didn't take a book, but I almost did.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. Anyway, we have a library. Something else that's weird about our airport.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Is since it's in Kentucky, there is a gift shop called, like, I think it's called bluegrass bazaar or something. Yeah, it's a gift shop.


At the bluegrass bazaar, there's a banjo on display

Okay. You can buy shot glasses, sweatshirts, candy, magazines.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. At the front of the bluegrass bazaar, and I may have that name wrong, there's a banjo. It's on display. It's a banjo. Because we're in Kentucky. Of course. Everybody in Kentucky has a banjo, right. I asked the lady, how much for the banjo? She says, excuse me, the banjo. How much for the banjo? Yeah, well, that's not for sale. And I said, well, why do you have it? Because I'm just being a jerk.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I mean, let's say I wanted to buy the banjo, and then she lost interest in having a conversation with me. So you wore out.

>> Mike: you're welcome.


Kentucky airport apparently was riddled with dinosaurs

>> Darin: So I wandered off and I, walking through our airport, and there's all these, dinosaur exhibits. Yeah.

>> Mike: I know those? Yeah, those are those.

>> Darin: Kentucky apparently was just riddled with dinosaurs.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Back in the day, they were right and left.

>> Mike: You can see jurassic park was filmed just down the road.

>> Darin: Yeah. You could swing a dead cat and hit a dinosaur. But I'm like, why? that's just, it's just interesting that you, you land at Kentucky and you see all these dinosaurs in the airport. I'm not saying I'm not against it.

>> Mike: I'm just amazed. I I know, I know. The dinosaurs. There was a period in my life where I was, I lived at the airport. I was like, mister handkerchief in, the terminal. Tom Hanks. Yeah. I was in there all the time. I never saw the banjo, and I had no idea there was a library. I would have a lot more books.

>> Darin: Did you fly American Airlines?

>> Mike: No, Delta. I always fly Delta.

>> Darin: I flew American Airlines. So it was on that part of the m traders world side of the. Okay.


There were two flight attendants on my flight to Dallas

All right, here we go.

>> Mike: Gloves are off.

>> Darin: So I go through the airport, and I went through security. Fine. I went through baggage check, fine. And, everything was going great. And I'm on my plane, and I'm flying to Dallas. And the flight attendant. Yeah, there were two flight attendants. One was a lady, and she seemed frustrated, like she's not having the best day. She was having trouble. She had just had this look on her face, just like she's, unsure what she's doing, why she's there, and she's.

>> Mike: What's happening.

>> Darin: Exactly. Right.

>> Mike: The hell am I even doing?

>> Darin: So she's just gives a.

>> Mike: If this guy gets his crackers or not.

>> Darin: I don't think she was, like, in an uncaring mood. I think she was just.

>> Mike: Existential crisis, possibly, right? Coffee or water? Does it really matter if we all die eventually?

>> Darin: Well, she takes the cart down the aisle, right? She gets past me, and she's having trouble opening the can of whatever she's trying to open, and she's, like, just futzing with it.

>> Mike: And this is like a baseball player forgetting how to hold a ball.

>> Darin: Exactly. It's like right in, if you can't open the can, why are you a flight attendant?

>> Mike: I think they cover that in orientation.

>> Darin: Yeah. So she's just, she's just not having it today. She's not dealing with it. The guy, right? He had a shaved head. It's like he was, he was, he probably still has a shaved head. He was, like, auditioning for his stand up routine.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: Every single word. Hello, ladies. Hey. You know, and the woman's like, can I have a doctor pepper? You can have the doctor pepper. Oh, there's only one left. Okay. So. And he would do that. He would say something, and you know that there's only, that's why I'm gonna give it to you.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right. So he had this.

>> Mike: You can edit that.

>> Darin: Yeah. He had this tone of voice, and he had this tone of voice. And so someone's like, can I have a sprite? And he says, can you have a sprite? Oh, you can have this sprite. It comes in extra large or small. they're the same size. Okay. And I'm just like, okay. You know? And they're loving it. Yeah. And I'm just like, okay. This guy enjoys his job. So this guy's like, again, he's like, shaky, green. And then the woman with him is just, she can't figure out anything that's going on. Playing the straight, she was the straight man to his dean, to his jerry.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They get to me, and, I asked for a coke, and then, you know, they gave me a pack of cookies, right? And Biscoff cookies. And I love the Biscoff cookies. They're a sponsor for this podcast. So I'm, eating my cookies, and I'm thinking, God, I wish. I wonder if I could get another pack of cookies.

>> Mike: It's always worth asking.


A fat guy on a Southwest flight asked for more cookies

>> Darin: I want to ask, but I also don't want to ask, because here I am, this fat guy. Can I have more cookies? And everyone's like, a, ah, fat guy over there wants more cookies. And so they went past me, and I didn't ask. I swear to God. The woman sitting right in front of me, she turns her, she goes, excuse me, can I have another pack of cookies? Oh, and you says, yeah. And I'm like. And I asked him, I said, wait, wait, wait. You can do that. You can ask for more. And he says, do you want more cookies? I said, yeah, I would. I would love more cookies. He goes, yeah, okay. Yeah, I can hook you up. So I'm like, okay. So he, he goes back, uh-huh. Comes over, and then he, like, everybody hears him say, I'm going to hook you up with the, with the cookies.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: He, like, still sneaks them to me, gives me three packs of cookies.

>> Mike: Holy.

>> Darin: Hands it to me. He's like, here's three packs of cookies.

>> Mike: Wow.

>> Darin: Walks up three rows, turns around, comes back, hands me two more.

>> Mike: Did he take them from another passenger?

>> Darin: No, he just, like, that would have been awesome.

>> Mike: Nope.

>> Darin: These go to this guy over here. So it gives me three. Walks up, comes back, gives me two more. Wow. And the lady sitting next to me goes, well, I know who I'm, Robin. I'm like, what the,

>> Mike: What?

>> Darin: Yeah, you could have asked.

>> Mike: You could have asked for more cookies, too. I just add, you know, opportunist.

>> Darin: I thought I was just getting one pack. You know, something m else that happened on that flight was when the, the snack cart was ahead of us. The lady who was all frustrated, the flight attendant who didn't know what was going on, she walks away from the cartae. That son of a bitch started rolling back. Me and this lady, we both reached our arms out and stopped it. Okay? We risked breaking our arms.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. We possibly saved lives.

>> Mike: That's dangerous, okay? Those things are made out of lead and plutonium.

>> Darin: They are. Well, and the moral is, you know, heroes. Not all of them wear capes, okay? So we save lives and we stopped. And then the frustrated lady comes back. She doesn't even say, oh, I should have held onto that stand up comedian. Flight attendant says, sorry, folks, it's her first day. It might be her last day.


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Mike: It was 94 degrees at the Texas state fair this year

>> Darin: Got to Dallas. Is 94 degrees, record heat. It, was like a record high. They'd never seen heat that much in October at the state fair of Texas. And have you ever been to a state fair?

>> Mike: I've been to the Ohio state fair, but I was like a little kid.

>> Darin: I remember pac man, deep m fried food at the state fair. And I've heard about this forever and ever. It's, like, legendary.

>> Mike: And so I'm like, deep fry anything like ice, they'll deep fry it.

>> Darin: They don't give a deep fried oxygen.

>> Mike: Like a cat.

>> Darin: I got a fried bandana.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: So. So we're all there. And a lot of the team, some of the younger kids on our team, they did their shift and then they went off and were riding rides and my God, they bought this and this and these two girls and this one guy on, our team had eaten almost everything you could eat at the fair. How they're alive, I don't know.

>> Mike: Did they have deep fried butter? That's the one they did.

>> Darin: Oh, they had, I didn't try it. I wanted to. Yeah, I really wanted to.

>> Mike: Did you think about bringing home some home for Cameron?

>> Darin: He likes to eat it.

>> Mike: Just get solid on that. Yeah.

>> Darin: My buddy bought some deep fried ravioli. That was good.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: He bought some chicken fried bacon strips.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: That was really good.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I had a deep fried Twinkie.

>> Mike: Oh, was that, was that, it was good. Yeah. Okay.

>> Darin: It was good. It wasn't amazing, but what I had that would make you just smack your mother.

>> Darin: Was a deep fried peanut butter and banana sandwich with grape jelly.

>> Mike: Wow.

>> Darin: Honest to God, I bought it and I'm walking around just going, I ate it before I went back to where our booth was set. we were there for a promotional event. We were giving out free stuff, cuz also, I didn't want to share it with anybody, Mike. It was all I could do to not turn around, go back and buy another one.

>> Mike: Crap.

>> Darin: It was amazing. And you know, our company gave us all like 35 tickets a day, okay. To eat and buy anything we wanted to. Yeah, I had a state fair corn dog.

>> Mike: Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: I'm surprised they didn't have deep fried mountain Dew. But like, my God, they had, like almost anything you could imagine they'd put in the deep fryer. I had deep fried peach cobbler. And I'll tell you what, it was so hot. And we were working out in the heat, doing, we were playing plinko. You put the chip up there and it drops. And if it lands on whatever letter, you can win a keychain or a pencil or eraser. Yeah, well, the eraser comes with the pencil.

>> Mike: Okay. Yeah.

>> Darin: We had this giant box of pencils and one of the guys on our team is like, come on, get a lifetime supply of pencils. Nobody wanted the pencils. yeah. So it was cool. And one of the things we did at our booth was we had a roping contest.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: If you could rope this little calf, it was a fake cow. Okay.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And then you could win like a squeezy cow, or you could win this big foam cowboy hat, right. And all the kids wanted the cowboy. Yeah, everyone wanted the cowboy hat. And so many people came up and wanted to try this, and there were so many who were like, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm like, lady, nobody knows what they're doing. It's a state fair, okay? It's the state fair of Texas, and we're not judging you. It's just for fun, right?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And people were having a great time.

>> Mike: 90% of what we're doing is illegal, except at a state fair.

>> Darin: This one kid comes up. He's got to be 15, and he's got a Stetson hat and sunglasses and this big belt buckle and his shirt tucked in with his jeans and his boots.

>> Mike: Clearly means business.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he goes, hey, hey, can I try. Can I try roping that cow?

>> Mike: Oh, lord.

>> Darin: And I said, sure. And he grabs hold of the rope. He goes, now, I've never held a rope like this. I don't know.


Texas state fair was insane. I mean, we were in Texas. Oklahoma. It was something else. And, you know, despite all the

I don't know if I'm, Am I holding it right?

>> Mike: Okay. Sounds like a hustler.

>> Darin: I'm like, yeah, you're holding it. Right? And I swear to God, he takes a step back and goes. Throws it. And he yanks that cow this. This little fake cow off its feet. He goes, did I do it? I said, yeah, yeah, you did it. Then his buddy's like, oh, I want to try it, too. I'm like, don't you guys?

>> Mike: It was like, the hyper.

>> Darin: You're not trying anything. They clearly, if it was a real cow, they would have just yanked that damn thing right off the ground.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It was impressive.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And there was a bunch of people who actually knew how to rope. I mean, we were in Texas. You're gonna run into a handful of people who know how to rope a cow. It was something else. And, you know, despite all the crap that I ate, it was so hot. I still lost, like, four pounds just working in all that stupid heat.

>> Mike: Did your tum tums hurt after all that? Did you have to take any heartburn medication?

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Wow.

>> Darin: No, I think I sweated it all out.

>> Mike: Jeez.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: My God. I've never drank so much water in my life.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: I mean, I'm out there, you know, meeting and greeting and talking to everybody and giving away free stuff, sweating my balls off. I mean, I am just. We're all just drenched with sweat.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I mean. I mean, we had to have smelled horrible. That's what.

>> Mike: You're fair.

>> Darin: Yeah. You're next to pig races.

>> Mike: They had pig races.

>> Darin: They did have pig races. I saw a steer with, horns that from point to point had to have been 20ft.

>> Mike: Holy crap.

>> Darin: I know. It was insane. But you know what? The people are really cool and I had a blast. And, every, I'm gonna say right now, every person in Dallas who I met at the state fair, you guys were fantastic. We were there on the same day that they had the cotton bowl. Oklahoma.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Versus, Texas state, I believe.

>> Mike: Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

>> Darin: Oh, my God. There's so many drunk people. This drunk. I came out, tried to ride our cow. Damn near broke it. I was like, sir, can you. I had to. Can you not get. Can you get off our cow, please? Look like he was trying to. The cow.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: Come on. There's kids here.

>> Mike: It's for the after 09:00 activities.

>> Darin: While I was in Dallas. Uh-huh one of the people on our team wanted to go and this is, like a serious moment here. Wanted to go see where JFK was assassinated on Dealey Plaza.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And so we're like, okay. I mean, you're there. How can you pass up the opportunity? There's a JFK museum. We didn't have time to go to the museum, but we went. We saw the grassy knoll, we saw the repository. They have, two x's stamped into the ground where JFK was shot and then where the second bullet hit him. Right.

>> Mike: It's kind of morbid.

>> Darin: Well, it's very morbid. Very morbid. Very somber moment.


People were walking into the road, standing on the xenore

But there's, you know, history, historical information to read and all kinds of stuff to learn. Here's my take on this.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: People were walking into the road, standing on the xenore with their kids, smiling, hey. Pointing like it's. Guys, it's not the grand canyon.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: it ain't Disney World.

>> Mike: It's not that kind of photo.

>> Darin: It's not that type of photo. I took photos. Yeah. I took photos of the grassy and all. Took photos of the book depository. I took some photos of the exes. And, you know. God, my mom was such a fan of JFK.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, I sent those to her and she was all sad again. I mean, I'm glad I went. It was just. It was really, really weird, the feeling you get when you're there. But, these people were killing me with the, Hey, look at this.

>> Mike: Were any of them, like, laying down on the x's with their tongue out, like, weird?

>> Darin: Well, I mean, if traffic wasn't you know, it's an active road.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: We even drove over it. When we got the uber to take us back to the hotel. We drove right over. We were in the lane, so it was creepy.


Darren Cox says he's been caught stealing from Kroger before

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

>> Mike: I've stolen from Kroger before.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Accidentally. I've talked about it before.

>> Darin: You mean like eating grapes?

>> Mike: No, no, no, because, like, that's technically. Go through the self checkout, get to the car, and holy crap, there's, like, three things on the bottom that I didn't right check out. What I do have done in those situations is unload, the stuff that I did pay for, take all the other crap back in, go through the line again. I always get a weird look from the person that's watching.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm back.

>> Mike: And then I pay for those things and I leave, and I feel fulfilled and happy.

>> Darin: Well, you're an honest person.

>> Mike: I try to be. So today I stopped at Kroger to get some additional things. I didn't have a lot of time to be there. And I'm going through the self checkout, and, you know, it does the things where it beeps at you. Oh, you didn't put something in the bag and you paid for it, or you paid for it and you didn't put it in the bag, or you've done something to piss off the system and you've got to wait for it to correct itself.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Or wait for the person to come over and say and push a button and go on with your life.

>> Darin: I, love when you get the frustrated person. So, like, look, it's not my fault the thing stops.

>> Mike: So they have things at the door that, like, scan your car as you're going out. And they used to have wheel locks. Did you ever get your wheel locked? Yeah. You're trucking along all of a sudden, and you're like. It's practically like a pile up out there.

>> Darin: And when it did lock.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They came and just unlocked me.

>> Mike: Yeah. They just let you go?

>> Darin: They just unlocked me, yeah, they didn't ask me, hey, what did you steal? Darren Cox?

>> Mike: So it dawned on me, a couple of months ago, I could just. I always get a warning on the thing. I could just take things.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: so I'm walking out today now. I.

>> Darin: By the way, irritable dad syndrome does not condone stealing.

>> Mike: We don't. We don't condone stealing. I paid for everything to get away with it.

>> Darin: There's.

>> Mike: I was in a hurry Right. I had to get to this moment here, to do this magic. We've got fans right now.

>> Darin: We do.

>> Mike: Waiting to hang out with us.

>> Darin: Hi. How are you?

>> Mike: I don't have time to futz around no Kroger.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: I'm going through that thing. I get the. Please return to the blah, blah, blah. You know what I did? Kept trucking.

>> Darin: You just kept. Yeah.

>> Mike: Just kept trucking.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I get close to my car, and I looked back over my shoulder.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: Which is what a guilty person would do.

>> Darin: Yes. As they start walking faster.

>> Mike: And I did. Because I realized after I did that I look guilty. So I start going faster. I get to my car. The whole time, I'm lifting the thing up, and I'm, you know, looking over there.

>> Darin: Trunk.

>> Mike: Yeah, trunk. And I'm putting stuff in there.

>> Darin: Stealing all the diet root beer.

>> Mike: I close it. I make another shifty eyed look at the front. Now, remember, I paid for everything. Yeah. Legal. I have a receipt, for every item in that cardinal. But I thought I just walked out of Kroger with a full basket of stuff.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It alarmed. It said, stop this man. There's a problem stealing things.

>> Darin: Yes. Danger.

>> Mike: And I didn't just stare one way. I was looking back. I looked as suspicious as you could.

>> Darin: Yeah.


When I worked at Winn Dixie, the cashiers can't scan beer

>> Mike: And nobody did anything.

>> Darin: No, they don't.

>> Mike: They don't do a damn thing.

>> Mike: It reminded me of the old Louis ck bit where he rented a car and you're supposed to take it back to a place, and he didn't. And he just called him from the plane and said, yeah, I left your car on the road. And they said, you can't do that. And he's like, well, I just did.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Because they're gonna want their car. They're not just gonna leave it there. They just let me go. So a part of me thought I could just do this every time. Save a ton on groceries.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: I think eventually they would notice that, wouldn't they? Hey, every time that bald guy comes in, we're missing $250. We're losing about $250 a week in groceries.

>> Darin: I mean, they see me so often.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: That they probably. And, you know me. I talk to everybody, like, oh, that's wacky, bald guy.

>> Mike: That's Dougie.

>> Darin: Yeah. Dougie fresh. He wouldn't steal anything. He's here all the time.

>> Mike: It's just a thing. So when I finally crack and I lose all respect for any societal norms or rules, which will probably happen November 6, I think that's what I'm gonna start doing. They don't even check you on the card thing. Like, if you're buying alcohol, if you're buying wine or whatever, they just. They don't even look at me anymore.

>> Darin: Well, come on, I'm pretty sure no one's got a card. You, Mike.

>> Mike: I'm just saying, at least do me the. It used to be, make my day. To be, make my day. Ask, for the card, but at least look at me. Could you look at me? Cuz you acknowledge that I'm the one. I'm thinking about sending, like, one of the kids through with a big old case of beer to see what happens.

>> Darin: When I worked at Winn Dixie, yeah, the cashiers can't scan beer, okay? If they're underage, they're under 18, they can't scan beer, so they have to find someone of age to scan beer.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And if they would ask, like, say me, if I thought somebody was underage, I had to check their id.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay. So the rule was if they look under 30, look at their id. Okay. So this guy comes through, cashier is underage, and, she's. Darren, can you scan the beer? And so I said, sure. And I walked over, I took a look at the guy, I scanned his beer. Have a good day.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: My boss comes down and he goes, hang on, sir. Hang on for a second. I need to see your id. He says, oh, okay. Thank you. Thank you. And he says, darren, keep me a second. I said, yeah. He goes, if they look under 30, I want you to look at their id, check them out. And I said, oh, okay. yeah, I mean, I thought he was like 26 or 27. So, But, yeah, I definitely will next time. And I said, by the way, how old was the guy? He's like 27. He was 27.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I've been in a place. Yeah, I've been in a place, I'm not kidding. Where they, they have a little note that says, if you're under 75, we'll card you if you look like you're under 75. And I know why they're doing that, because they probably had people, you know, like, you are Inc.

>> Darin: I'm 44 years old. You're inconveniencing me.

>> Mike: But I'm. Yeah, I'm here to tell you folks, there are areas of the country, and I come from one of them, where you could have somebody come through with a cane.

>> Mike: Missing teeth, gray beard, and they're 1717 years old. They got their kids in the car.

>> Darin: They had a life.

>> Mike: Skull bandit methods in old Milwaukee. Geez, dude, you're not even old enough to vote.

>> Darin: You've got, like, five years left. Enjoy it.


St. Paul and the broken Bones play at the state fair of Texas

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

>> Darin: while I was at the state fair of Texas, they have bands who play there all day long, every night, and it's like three weeks.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I remember I was looking up who was gonna be there, who was there the night that I was there. Like, the Saturday was there. This band called St. Paul and the broken Bones.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay. When David Letterman was on, had a CB's show. He had them on. Oh, my God.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: They're absolutely amazing. Okay. This. The singer. He's just this. And, no offense, if you're listening, singer for St. Paul and the broken boats. He's just this balding guy who. He kind of looks like an accountant.

>> Mike: Okay?

>> Darin: He. Everybody else looks like they would be in a band.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: He does not look like he would be in a band. He can sing his damn face off.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay. He can. He, like, has a voice, you know, Ceelo Green.

>> Mike: I've heard the name.

>> Darin: He has a voice kind of similar to him. He dances like James Brown.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: He's all over the place. Okay. He. He, is an insane. And he doesn't do that.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: He does that dance where you shimmy your right foot, then you drag your left, then you shimmy your left foot, and you drag your right. And, he's got the crowd right in the palm of his hand.

>> Mike: Okay. Yeah.

>> Darin: So, I. They were gonna be there, and I was so excited. And all day long, I'm telling people, after my shift, I'm going to see St. Paul in the broken boat. And people are like, who?

>> Mike: M.

>> Darin: So all day long, I'm at the fair. The state fair of Texas.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: And I'm telling my friends, my coworkers, m. They're equal. Their friends and co workers.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: That tonight, after I get off my break, 830, I am going to see St. Paul and the broken bones. Who? St. Paul and the broken bones. Who are they? They're a band. I saw them on letterman. They play soul music. They've got a horn section. They're funky.

>> Mike: Yeah, they're.

>> Darin: They're great. And I can't wait. Then I would tell somebody else. And I would tell somebody else. I would tell somebody else. Hey, if you want to go, it's free. I'm going down there. 830. Come to the show with me if you want. Hang out with Darren. I'm fun at concerts.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: One person from work went. He didn't hang out with me, though. He was like, way, way, way in the back.

>> Mike: He's back with the.

>> Darin: He's sitting.

>> Mike: He's sitting back fried. He did butter banana.

>> Darin: he didn't want to get in the crowd.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: The mosh pit for safety was insane. It's right there in the name.

>> Darin: So of all the people on the team that, I told about, one person came, and after the show, he's like, oh, my God, Darren was right. This band, it was amazing. And, yeah, and my friends, like, what band? And they keep. I'm like, I told everybody, and then the next morning, I'm describing the band, and then they're. They're like, going on Spotify. You know what Spotify is a, music download.


Darren: St. Paul is a good band to see live

Yeah, yeah. And they're like, they sound pretty cool. And one guy's like, I kind of wish I'd went, I tried, I tried. I tried so hard. Like, guys, if you get a recommend, okay, here. Hi, I'm Darren, co host of irritable dancer. If I ever give you a recommendation for a band that you should see live, take it from me, they're a good band to see live.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay, try. It's free.

>> Mike: It was infuriating.

>> Darin: It was free. And they missed one of the funkiest, grooviest bet. I mean, they were amazing. The horn sections were insane. The trombone player did a solo, the saxophone player did a solo. The trumpet guy did a solo. Keyboardist turned his keyboard into the cheeses hazard, you know, guitarist was. Was all over the place. The drummer was. The drummer was great. The bass player, if the bass player for St. Paul and the broken bones ever toured just by himself, he was no and no offense to the rest of the band. The bass player was so damn funky, I would have just seen him. But the lead singer, who's outlandish.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Flamboyant and just crazy at one point crawls underneath the thing where the drums were.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Like, like gollum getting into his hole, you know, and he's still singing underneath the drums.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And then he climbs back out just.

>> Mike: Like a prairie dog.

>> Darin: Yes, exactly.

>> Mike: Wow.

>> Darin: And we're all like, what is he doing? What on earth is he doing? And he even came out in, like, this giant choir robe.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: All glittery.

>> Mike: St. Paul, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: amazing. I cannot recommend them enough. Something else happened at the concert. There was a couple up and over from me. They were almost having full on intercourse. Oh, that's always fun at a concerte. That's right. Go see St. Paul in the back.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.


You triggered a memory with me when you were asking people about Garbage

you reminded me of a story, and I think I've told it on here. I can't remember if I've told it on here or told it to you outside of the recording. I'm gonna tell it again. And if you've heard it before, then I don't care.

>> Darin: Story, time with Mike, because you.

>> Mike: Triggered a memory with me when you were asking people, do you want to go see this? Everybody's like, who? What? Who, what? I was on a business trip in Chicago in the two thousands early two thousands.

>> Darin: Mm

>> Mike: And we, me and a guy that I was traveling with went to. It was tower Records.

>> Darin: Yeah. Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: Like a two story record store.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And there was a guy standing in front of the staircase that went upstairs to the second, and you could tell something was going on up there. You couldn't hear anything, but there were, like, lights flashing, and there's a guy just standing there like a bouncer. And I just said, what? What's going up there? He's like, garbage, is here to celebrate their new album. It was garbage 2.0. It was their second album.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So, kids, Garbage was a band in the nineties. In the nineties that was created of music producers like Butch Vig. the only one that wasn't a music producer was the vocalist, but everybody else was a producer of other bands. It was like a little super group of producers. And their first album was amazing.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: it's stupid girl is the.

>> Darin: I love stupid girl.

>> Mike: I can listen to that over and over and over and over. So that was what they were writing the success of when I saw this, and I was like. I was like, does. Is it free? He's like, oh, yeah, absolutely free. He's like, you. He's like, the band's up there just mingling, mingling, mingling, talking to you. I was like, you just walk around. Yeah. He's like, at some point, they're gonna pick up their instruments and start playing. But, yeah, I was like, holy crap. I could. I could see garbage. I could talk to them. I could just. I could meet Butch Vig, who at the time was the producer for Smashing Pumpkins or one of them. I was like, holy crap. And the guys with. Is like, I'm not really into that.

>> Darin: It's like, you don't know. You just.

>> Mike: I was like, I mean, a guy.

>> Darin: Like you, who has such an eclectic.

>> Mike: Taste in music, I didn't have the testicular fortitude to just say, I'm gonna go up and watch them. You do whatever you want to do.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Maybe I'll see you at the vent tomorrow. I don't know, but I'm gonna go see garbage.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And meet them and hang out with them.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Weirdo.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But I didn't, I just didn't do it. That's one of the things that everyone. You triggered that, and it got me all pissed off again over it, but.

>> Darin: Again, St. Paul and the broken bones. Free. A free show. They played an hour and 15 minutes. That's really good. It, I just, I went back, and then the next day, I told everybody, I said, you really, really missed it. Ah, a free show. Free.

>> Mike: That's awesome.


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Darren, what are your first five concerts you've seen

Now, back to the show.

>> Mike: I've been on the Reddit, sleetly, okay. And I, there was, there's been a couple of threads. I've been, there's a concerts, Reddit, and I've been pretty active in there. And a couple of questions popped up, and I was like, I want to ask Darren these questions. So one of them you're not going to know off the top of your head, or maybe you will.

>> Darin: I might.

>> Mike: It was, what are the first five current concerts you've saw?

>> Darin: Okay, what.

>> Mike: Let me rephrase that in English. What are the first five concerts you've seen then? What are the last five concerts you've seen?

>> Darin: Okay, so, like rock music concerts.

>> Mike: I would say anything. I would say anything.

>> Darin: Okay. When I was five, or very, very early, my parents took me to see Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin brothers.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: The country music legends.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Okay. I believe that was the very first concert I've ever seen.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I also saw Hank Williams junior.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay. So I saw those two.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Concerts before my first rock concert, which was Bryan Adams and survivor.

>> Mike: Wow. He was opening for who?

>> Darin: Brian Adams was the headliner. Survivor was open. I went because I had the tiger. Oh, God. Yeah, they did. I had a tiger, and they had the album vital signs.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Which had, like, four, I think, pretty big hits. They were big.

>> Mike: This was 80.

>> Darin: 85.

>> Mike: 85.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So, that's, badass. And Brian Adams was right off his big hit, heaven.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And cuts like a. Cuts like a knife.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: I mean, Brian Adams was amazing. I saw Rick Springfield.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And then, kiss on the crazy nights tour, I believe. I'm pretty sure those are my favorite.

>> Mike: I.

>> Darin: First five concerts.

>> Mike: Okay, so I I didn't go as far back as you did because I've seen Steppenwolf when I was a kid, but I didn't claim that. Okay, they were at the Huntington regatta.

>> Darin: You saw Steppenwolf?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Born to be wild.

>> Mike: Yeah. I didn't know who they were. My dad was excited, and, ah, I didn't give a sure. So I was just a little kid. but what I counted was the first concert that I like. Rock concert. So my first one of all time, Washington smashing pumpkins. My m. Second was pink Floyd.

>> Darin: Oh, my God. Okay, well, I think about your kid, you know, Charlie's first concert was you two at the sphere. Anything he goes now is going to be a letdown.

>> Mike: I saw Van Halen, and collective soul opened for them.

>> Darin: Sammy Hager. Okay.

>> Mike: I saw white zombie. The Ramones opened for them. So I can say I saw the Ramones, but.

>> Darin: Yeah, I saw the Ramones, too. Yeah.

>> Mike: And I can't remember what. The fifth one.

>> Darin: Yes. Yeah.

>> Mike: Old, page and plant and rusted. Rusted root open for them.

>> Darin: Okay. I saw rusted root. They're amazing live.

>> Mike: Yeah, they are there. I've actually seen them twice. I saw them open for that, and then they came to ou.


Are your last five concerts okay? Yeah, because I slowed down

Now, what are your last five?

>> Darin: Well, St. Paul. Oh, my God. I can't remember.

>> Mike: Hooting the blowfish.

>> Darin: Yeah. Collective soul. Okay.

>> Mike: And then you saw offspring with a, Jacob.

>> Darin: Yes. You remember the concerts? Billy idol. Billy idol and Jimmy Buffett.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Are my last five concerts okay? Yeah, because I slowed down.

>> Mike: Yeah. I didn't slow down recently.

>> Darin: Yeah, I can't. Well, I can't. You know, there are so many people who just keep coming through.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I'm like, I've already got. I've already seen you twice, and it's so expensive.

>> Mike: Okay, so my last five were ice cube.

>> Darin: huh?

>> Mike: Hootie and the blowfish with collective soul. Opening with. With you and I. You two. It's a fear.

>> Darin: Well, you saw them twice there, so.

>> Mike: Three. I only counted that as one.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Okay. I'm gonna want to be, you know.

>> Darin: Now you don't want to be.

>> Mike: It was just a Reddit thread, and I thought it was interesting. I was like, I don't know what Darren's, things are.


What concert did you go to that completely surprised you at the band

And then another question, which I think I know the answer for you. What concert did you go to that completely surprised you in a good way or a bad way at the band? Like. Like, you were excited to see it, and then you go there and like, what the hell was that? Or, I, don't want to go to this. And like, holy. That was amazing.

>> Darin: I went to see the bare naked ladies, and I knew they were gonna be good. This band called Guster opened up for them.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And I had no idea who they were. Yeah, they blew me away.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Absolutely blew me away.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I had no idea who they were. And I bought their album and I listened to it a hundred times.

>> Mike: Guster was similar music to bare naked. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: They would be on the same radio station.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Okay, so, I've told you this before. I saw Rem and I had such high expectations for them, and they were horrible.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And every person I talked to.

>> Mike: What? Yeah. Best was about to cut you. And you said that.

>> Darin: Yeah, they were horrible the night I saw them. Absolutely horrible. Michael Stipe was not in it. He didn't care. He was a. He was just not having it.

>> Darin: And they would play a song and then wait two or three minutes and then play another song. So it's like you'd get all ramped up and then it would pause and you just kept losing the momentum. I saw sting, and sting was phoning it in. He ruined Roxanne. He did a calypso, kind of, offbeat, weird version of Roxanne.

>> Mike: I mean, just the fact that he played Roxanne, I would have walked out right then.

>> Darin: I know, but I was like, you know, but we went, That's like, okay, yeah, I wanted to see sting, Tracy Chapman. Note for him. Tracy Chapman was absolutely amazing.

>> Mike: So, okay.

>> Darin: I, went to see the stone temple pilots, and they, I think lead singer was. I think he was sick that night or something.

>> Mike: Yeah, it was. It was boring.

>> Darin: It was very, very, very boring. And I was just like, what's going on here? These are the stone temple pilots.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And they're yeah. When I went to Lollapalooza, I knew that rage against the machine were going to be on the bill. I had heard their name. I wasn't exactly sure who they were.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Good lord.

>> Mike: Knocked your off, didn't they?

>> Darin: Yeah, absolutely. My were in the parking lot. Hey, what happened? I I was mind. Absolutely. That was the most mind blowing moment, and I was instant fan.

>> Mike: Yeah. I recently had my mind blown by them within the past couple of months because I've always listened to my favorite album of theirs is the battle for Los Angeles, testify. and I love evil empire, but I had never listened to what's killing in the name of their first. What's the name of their first album? I forget. It's got killing in the name.

>> Darin: That was just raging.

>> Mike: Just rage against the machine.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I listened it for the first time a couple of months ago, and in the gym, I said out loud, because it was just one banger after another. I was like, oh, my God, this is amazing.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's like, this is. And then I'm like, Mike, you're getting excited about a band that's been broken up for, like, 20 years at this point.

>> Darin: I was listening to them on the way to the airport.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I figure one of these days, I'm going to get pulled over and I'm going to tell the police officers, like, do you realize how fast you're going? How fast? 90. I was listening to rage against the machine.

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

>> Darin: Absolutely. Chris Hughes says he got. He would see Willie Nelson. I saw Willie Nelson before Willie willing. Oh, Willie was great.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Thank God, the fans.


Willie Nelson's band blew our minds with how good they were

>> Mike: It seems like Willie, at a Willie Nelson show, he just let anybody come up and play with him.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You know what I mean? Just like, come on up.

>> Darin: Willie was amazing.

>> Mike: Real quick. I'll say. And me and Bess agree on this. The band that we saw that blew our minds with how good they were was tears for fears, because we didn't say it before we went, but we really only knew shout. everybody wants to rule the world and what's the other one? Head over heels. So their second song was everyone wants to rule the world. And I thought, that's got to be their uncle. Like, I was there.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I literally. What the are you people doing? Yeah, what are you gonna play for the rest of the night? And it was not a single bad song. Everything they did.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It wasn't as good as that, but it was close to it. And their final encore was, shout. Yeah. Like, that was really really good.

>> Darin: Well, I'll tell you who else was I was blown away with was Garth Brooks.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: He comes out and he goes, listen, I'm not playing any new stuff. I'm not. It's all hits tonight.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And he. I thought he was gonna die when he was standing there for his final bow, covered in sweat.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Gasping for air. He took a bow and he had to have taken straight oxygen.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: When he was, over with. But it was. That was an amazing.


I've never heard anyone say anything bad about Bruce Springsteen on the Internet

>> Mike: So. So in this thread, there were lots of people. It was interesting because you would see, they didn't mention REm, but Soundgarden, Alison Chains, and Stone Temple pilots were three bands where you would see someone say, this is the greatest concert I ever saw in my life was a sound garden of blood. And then a few posts later, you'd see somebody say, the worst I ever saw was sound guard and some. Something. Yeah. In Alison chains, same thing. And I. It has to have something to do with just, I don't know, their attitude or what they were expecting to see. But I've never, on that thread in M concerts, on the Internet in person, I've never heard anyone say anything bad about Bruce Springsteen. A Springsteen show.

>> Darin: It's like, no, Bruce Springsteen was amazing.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: The only.

>> Mike: The only negative thing I've heard was it was a guy that I used to work with said I went to a show and they didn't play any hits. I'm like, dude, did you. Was Bruce on the stage? If Bruce is saying, if sound is coming from him, it's a hit.

>> Darin: That's a person who only was around for born in the USA.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.


There is a woman on Instagram who just listens to jokes

>> Darin: Hey, we're running over, but before we go, I wanted to mention one more thing. I don't remember the woman's name, but there is a woman, she's on Instagram or Facebook reels, and she's got thousands of followers and all she does is listen to jokes. That's all. She's like, walking around the house and they're playing Jeff Foxworthy and she's laughing right at Jeff Foxworthy's joke. And she has, I don't know, 40, 50 some videos more.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I'm just like, pissed because she's just listening to jokes.

>> Mike: Yeah, that's.

>> Darin: And I'm like, how do you do that? How do you. I've got an idea. oh, here's a brilliant idea. I'm going to listen to a joke and then post the video of me smiling and laughing at a joke. And I'm going to get and you and I, we are busting our ass trying to make content for this dog and pony little podcast thing we got going on. And she is just standing there. Sometimes she's wearing shorts.

>> Mike: Dog and pony little thing we got. It's the title of this episode.

>> Darin: Sometimes she's sitting on the couch. Sometimes. Hey, hey. On this video, she's wearing glasses.

>> Mike: Okay, now you've triggered me. Okay.

>> Darin: I'm like, create something. Create some content.

>> Mike: I have two things to say to you on this. One is, I follow a drummer, and I can't remember his name, but he's just amazing. He does Tommy Lee. No, no, it's somebody nobody you've ever heard of. The one handed guy that.

>> Darin: The groove father.

>> Mike: His groove father. Yeah, I follow him.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: Oh, my God. You'll do things that people can't do with multiple hands. He's just one handed while he's drinking from a,

>> Darin: Everybody dance now. Yeah, the video for everybody dance hits.

>> Mike: The thing that flips. And he.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Okay, so there's another.

>> Darin: He isn't. He's amazing.

>> Mike: Yeah. There's another channel where all it is is a guy and who's sitting there going, who's watching? Watching him.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then everyone so goes, oh, man, that's sick. Oh, man, that's amazing.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And you look at the comments and, like, half the comments are like, what the are you even doing? Yeah. You're just copying his video. Yeah, there's that. And then just one that I actually got sucked into. And now I feel,

>> Darin: Dirty.

>> Mike: Dirty. Yeah, yeah. Reaction videos for people hearing a song for the first time.

>> Darin: I like that. I do the original one. Well, and it may not have been the original. It was the two, african, american boys. They're like 14 or 15.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Because when they listen to in the air tonight with Phil Collins and they lost their mind.

>> Mike: Yeah. Some of them are legitimate, but you can't tell. There's, like, videos of people in their sixties.

>> Darin: You're telling islands in the stream by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton.

>> Mike: I mean, go screw yourself. There was one of this. The thumbnail was this lady, and she had tears. I said, hearing. And it was like, I don't know, in the air tonight for the first time, like, whatever.

>> Darin: Yeah, you're. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know, I know. Yeah.

>> Mike: The legitimate ones. I get it.

>> Darin: Yeah. The original guys. Because even Obama talked to them and they had something. But after a while, I'm like, you really, seriously haven't heard any song.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because they got like, 40 50 songs deep into this.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You're pulling the skin over my nose.

>> Mike: What? Yeah.


Irritable dad syndrome features music from around the world

what?

>> Darin: Yeah, that's.

>> Mike: But, yeah, I mean, there was. I've seen where people listen to wish you were here for the first time. I was like, that's not the first time you've ever heard, like, people our age. My God, I've never heard anything like this. Yes, you did. If you turned on a radio, right. Or walked by a radio.

>> Darin: Also, if you haven't heard any of these songs, you are a horrible person, and you had horrible parents.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. do you know why I like Bob Dylan?

>> Mike: Why?

>> Darin: Because my mom listened to Bob Dylan, and I went through her albums and I found. And that's why I like surf music. Because mom and dad had, the safaris. Okay. And I'm sitting there digging, listening to these surf albums at age four or five.

>> Mike: There is one of, a guy that's our age never m listened to stairway to heaven.

>> Darin: Oh, he's. Yeah.

>> Mike: Because that's even a throwaway joke in Wayne's world. Remember when they go on the guitar show, no. Stairway?

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: Okay. Don't tell me you never listened to stairway to heaven.

>> Darin: Yeah. That always pissed me off when someone's like, oh, that was before my time. Come on.

>> Mike: Yeah. so were dinosaurs, but, you know, they.

>> Darin: Yeah, I know of dinosaurs. They've got them at the airport. Yeah. like, I know Bill Haley in the comments did rock around the clock. Yeah, right. That was in the damn fifties. I was born in 1970. Now I'm pissed.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You triggered me, man.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Because I'm thinking of all these that I've seen. It just, it just, I just don't, I don't like it. I don't like it one bit.

>> Darin: I should have remembered that woman's name. I think I might invite her on the show. Yeah. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to invite her to just listen to us.

>> Mike: And then what?

>> Darin: And then what?

>> Mike: She can see if she laughs. Yeah.

>> Darin: And she could just sit here and just, should guffaw.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Because we got some funny.

>> Darin: She'll get like, 3000 likes and we won't refuse. And we'll get nothing.

>> Mike: It'll be awesome.

>> Darin: Yeah. Maybe she'll be wearing a swimsuit. Maybe she'll be wearing shorts. Maybe she'll be wearing a, robe.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Her hair might be unkempt.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Her hair may be combed. Who knows? Who knows what to expect with this chick?

>> Mike: Yeah. Should do it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah. Whenever.

>> Darin: Go to irritable dad syndrome.com. if you want to hear more fantastic episodes like this one we had.

>> Mike: For you today, sometimes they end gracefully. Sometimes they end like thelma Louise, right off cliff. Boom.

>> Darin: We'll see you next week.

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

>> Darin: Excuse me. A little too much pre show soda.

>> Mike: 228 is an interesting number.

>> Darin: How so?

>> Mike: It's, two, which is an even number. Two, which is another even number. And is the second number in that series. And eight, which is an even number. And is two times four, which is two times the number of twos.


Math time with Mike again. This is flowing like glue coming out of a box

>> Darin: Math time with Mike again. you haven't done that, in, like, 200 episodes. The email has to go up into space and hit the satellite and then bounce back.

>> Mike: I have no idea what the point of bringing this up was.

>> Darin: That's the point of anything we talk about. There's no point. This is flowing like glue coming out of a box.

>> Mike: This is going beautifully. Yeah.

>> Darin: Sadeena. If I. The.