IDS #229 - Sell the Dog and Buy a Tow Truck

This podcast suffers from ineptitude from within, says Darren M.

>> Dave: Before we start this week's episode, I'd like to mention the colors we're using so you can paint along with us at home. Titanium white, midnight black, Prussian blue, Indian yellow, cadmium yellow, alizarin crimson, SAP green, and Van Dyke brown. Okay, let's have some fun.

>> Darin: I haven't even started making the necklace yet, and I was supposed to three weeks ago.

>> Mike: It's all for naught.

>> Darin: I don't know how I'm going to get new people to listen if I don't deliver on my promises, is the thing.

>> Mike: Well, I didn't want to be the one to say it.

>> Darin: No, I know the problem. The problem is me. I am the problem with this podcast. And I'm going to take this moment right now to ask all our listeners to please forgive me. Thank you.

>> Mike: This podcast suffers from ineptitude from within.

>> Darin: M. Oh, boy, does it. Wearing my shirt untucked. The untucked shirt. The fat man's last roth. Next stop, Momo. You might see a guy with his shirt untucked and think, oh, was he in a hurry?

>> Dave: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. I can't decide whether to get down or get funky. Please give it up for your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I am Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 229, and we were.

>> Mike: Not fighting right before we hit record. No, no, no, not at all.

>> Darin: We do this all the time. This is how we act. This is how friends do one another.

>> Mike: This is a healthy relationship, you millennials. It is. We're Gen X. Right? You're Gen X.

>> Darin: born in 1970.

>> Mike: Yeah, it's 1975. We're right there in the crux of it.

>> Darin: That's right. I'm the old one.

>> Mike: Yeah. Empire Strikes Back. You're welcome. Oh, Pearl Jam. You're welcome.


Tonight on the podcast, I took my wife's car in for an oil change

>> Darin: Tonight on the podcast, I took my wife's car in for an oil change, and you're not going to believe what they found in her car. And I asked a question that I've never asked before, and I will probably never ask again. That's how you write a tease.

>> Mike: That's how you write a tease.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah. Ah, stay tuned.

>> Mike: And I listen till the end. I had Andrew's car towed.

>> Darin: Oh, fun.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You just bought that car.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Hey, what happened?

>> Mike: What happened? We'll get into it because we made a new fan of the show. Who's M listening right now?

>> Darin: Oh, okay.

>> Mike: Say hi to Sam.

>> Darin: Hi, Sam.

>> Mike: Hi, Sam.

>> Darin: What's going Going on, buddy? Yeah, Sam's a guy.

>> Mike: He can't interact. It's a. It's a dude.

>> Darin: well, I. I want him to feel like it's part of it. okay. Sam, you look great, buddy. Yeah. Is that a. Is that a new hat?

>> Mike: You're gonna. He's gonna think that you're seeing him through the camera. You're gonna get him all freaked out. Oh, he's gonna. He's covering up the camera with the. Sam in the. In the.

>> Darin: You know what you did, Sam.

>> Mike: These are the days of.

>> Darin: You should be ashamed of yourself.

>> Mike: Elon Musk is shooting rockets up and catching them again. Well, you just gotta.

>> Darin: Elon Musk needs to catch one of those in his mo.

>> Mike: We're non political.

>> Darin: No, no, no.

>> Mike: We're very pro science. Let's talk about science for a moment.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: Yes, science. All right.

>> Darin: You're the engineer. You know more about science than I do.

>> Mike: See, that's. Yeah, that's right, you do. I, will. Okay.

>> Darin: I mean, yeah. It's a fact.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I'm not judging and I'm not being. Making generalizations, and I'm not saying that engineers are nerds.


Charlie's entered the age where he wants dad to help him with math

>> Mike: Well, let's talk about this for a second.

>> Darin: Okay?

>> Mike: Because I helped. I've been helping. Charlie's entered the age where he wants dad to help him with math.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: See, Andrew entered that age and then left that age to where now I don't even know what they're teaching him in school. he's writing an essay about something and I think they watched a movie. Oh, but dad also. We're past you dad and math. But Charlie's entered the thing of. Hey, I need a little help here.

>> Darin: again. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I told both my kids, look, I can help you with your homework or you can pass the class. You can't do both.

>> Mike: So we've got this. And I hit this stage last night when I was helping him with his homework where I started doing it, and I saw like this glaze come over his eyes. And he looked at me with wonder and for. Yeah. In awe.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: Like, he was like that.

>> Darin: You knew how to do it.

>> Mike: Yeah. He's like, how did you. How did you do. I can't write all that down. How did you do that? I was like, Uh-huh.

>> Darin: You see who's stupid now?

>> Mike: What? No, it's. Dad's got a skill. Dad has a skill.

>> Darin: I used to call you and ask you for Help in two or three years.

>> Mike: Homework in two or three years. This skill is going to be useless to him, but for right now, it's like, I'm Iron man and I can do things.

>> Darin: Jacob's getting his ass kicked with calculus.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Do you know anything about calculus?

>> Mike: I took all the calculus. All the calculi.

>> Darin: You took it. But do you know anything about it? M. Because I'm about to send him over to you.

>> Mike: Take a function, set the limit to zero and infinity, and,

>> Darin: Okay, you're going to integrate that.

>> Mike: Integrate that.

>> Darin: You are going to be Jacob's new math.

>> Mike: That's the title of the podcast. Integrate that.

>> Darin: Integrate it.

>> Mike: How you doing?

>> Darin: I'm good.


When does an old song ever become your favorite song by a band anyway

Something happened to me the other day that just out of nowhere, and it surprised me. Do you like Bachmann Turner Overdrive?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Okay. do you have a favorite Bachman Turner Overdrive song?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: They're not my favorite song about squirrels.

>> Darin: No, no, no, I don't. They're not my favorite band either, but I do like them.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: but for the longest time, my favorite song was Let It Ride.

>> Mike: Bto.

>> Darin: Yeah. Bto. You gotta let it ride.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I'm sorry, but even if you don't like that song.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Let It Ride is badass.

>> Mike: A lot of people confuse them with elo, which is Electric Light.

>> Darin: The Electric Light Orchestra.

>> Mike: yeah, no, they're more modern. They're using electric light.

>> Darin: Yes. Whereas they're turning things over with their Bachmann. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: Turning it Right.

>> Darin: But, I heard a song let, it roll down the highway, and I'm like, this song is way better than Let It Ride.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And how is that? And you know sometimes when you like a band and I know this is going nowhere and what am I doing with my hands? The audio people here.

>> Mike: Yeah. subscribe to us on Patreon. You can see exactly what he's doing.

>> Darin: So if you like a band that keeps making music, of course they're going to release a new song that may become your favorite.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But when does an old song ever become your favorite song by a band anyway? Bachman Turner Overdrive. I don't even know if anyone's still. I have a new favorite song by them. So here's a question, more to come on. Irritable dad Syndrome.

>> Mike: So there are some bands that ended prematurely, huh?

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: And then there's others. It's like, Jesus, another Let it Go. Let it go.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You guys haven't been good for about 50 years. Just calm down. Well, yeah, but can you name a band that's kind of nailed it all through? Like, every album is a classic, and then they just quit, and they're. They're either dead or they're retired or they're doing something else. Is there. Does that exist? Is it Led Zeppelin? Could they. Did they have a stinker in there somewhere?

>> Darin: You know, what I don't think they did was code. But they only had. They only had four.

>> Mike: Ah.

>> Darin: Albums.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: Or five.

>> Mike: They have seven.

>> Darin: Okay. Only four.

>> Mike: Well, they had one, two, three, four. Uh-huh. Then they had Physical Graffiti, the White Album, Coda. Uh-huh. And then the Joshua Tree.

>> Darin: I remember when Coda came out. And then everybody had to quarantine, and then we stayed at home to flatten the curve.

>> Mike: No, you're thinking of the who.

>> Darin: Oh, okay.

>> Mike: What?

>> Darin: Huh?

>> Dave: What'd you say?

>> Darin: Did have a dud. I don't know.

>> Mike: Yeah. Did the Beatles. I'm not a Beatles fan. I know.

>> Darin: I'm gonna say the Eagles didn't have a bad album.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Okay. So the Eagles.

>> Darin: The Eagles did not have a bad album.

>> Mike: Perfect record.


Recently, the algorithm pushed me back towards Eminem

>> Darin: I don't think so.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I can't think of a bad album that they had. Yeah, I,

>> Mike: Recently, the algorithm pushed me back towards Eminem.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Which effectively turned best back towards Eminem because her phone is listening to what we're listening to. She started listening, and she's like, I was listening to an M. Eminem M. M song the other day. Uh-huh. And she's like, I've never heard this one before, but it was absolutely disgusting.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: He was talking about this and that, and she got, like, three lines into it, and I'm like, oh, yeah, I know that when that's all Slim Shade, it's a third track. She's like. She just looked at me like I was a new creature. Yeah, like you've heard that before.

>> Darin: Yeah, his. His songs have a lot of bad.

>> Mike: It's in the CD that has the Viking, and that's got a lot of bad words on. I mean, if you, like, you got the Martial Matters, you got to bring the Slim Shady along with him.

>> Darin: I'll tell you something I love, though. Was Barack Obama doing Lose Yourself. So I wasn't planning on this, but, you know, my, My palms are sweaty, arms are heavy.

>> Mike: M. Mom spaghetti.

>> Darin: Knees weak. Mom spaghetti. That was the coolest thing I've ever seen a president or former president do.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Was Lose Yourself.

>> Dave: You are listening to Irritable Dead Syndrome. I'm Dave Lay, and I approve this message.

>> Darin: Welcome back.


I took my wife's car in for an oil change

>> Mike: Welcome back.

>> Darin: So I took my wife's car in.

>> Mike: This is, by the way, Cincinnati comedy Podcast. If you're not laughing now, then leave.

>> Darin: What are you doing?

>> Mike: What are you doing?

>> Darin: Well, don't say that.

>> Mike: Oh, I stay.

>> Darin: Yeah. More to come.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: More fun to come. I took my wife's car in for an oil change, and she's got the care package thing.

>> Mike: She got the hemi at the.

>> Darin: She. Yeah, at the Kia dealership.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay. So she's got. I can't remember how many car washes and tire rotations built into this package.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: That she got when she got her vehicle.

>> Mike: Her.

>> Darin: Sorento at Kia. I take her car in. I make a, an appointment. Yeah. And they were actually able to get it in within three weeks. Don't know why it took.

>> Mike: Out of work going on to Kia.

>> Darin: I don't know why it takes three weeks to get an oil change, but whatever. I take her car in, we drop it off, and she borrows my car, and she had to go into work and everything. I'm home. I'm. I work at home, and I'm doing my work. I'm working very hard. I'm a very hard worker.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Diligent.

>> Mike: You telecommute?

>> Darin: I do, yes. I. Well, I teleport into work. So I'm working, and the guy from Kia calls me, and, hey, this is a Todd. We'll call him Todd from the Kia dealership. We're gonna do this, and we're gonna do this. When we rotate the. We rotated her tires, like, as part of the thing. We noticed something in the engine. I, said, what's that? A mouse nest.

>> Mike: What?

>> Darin: And I said, I'm sorry, what? A m. Mouse nest. A mouse. Mike had built this giant fur nest inside.

>> Mike: How did he get the fur?

>> Darin: I don't know.

>> Mike: Does Libby have, like, a bald spot now on her head? Did it like.

>> Darin: No. I have no idea how a mouse got into her engine. He, says, do you want me to clean this up? Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah. Get the. Yes.

>> Darin: Yes. Get that out of there. I'm like, is this like when I.

>> Mike: Was asked for a refund if I wanted all the money? Yes, I want all the money.


A mouse got into Libby's Kia

>> Darin: How long have we been breathing? Mouth cooties.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: That have been generated through the.

>> Mike: It's like, you know, that's how the bubonic plague.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Spread in Europe. A mouse into a Kia.

>> Darin: Yeah. And I said, yes, yes. Get that out of there.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And he sent a little video, and I showed it to Libby. She's like, oh, my. Oh, Thomas, what is that? I don't know how it got in there, because I told you, like, I don't know, three months ago or something, we had a mouse in our garage. Yeah, but it was a little thing, a little baby mouse.

>> Mike: He's probably wondering, hey, where'd my house go?

>> Darin: What the hell?

>> Mike: Yeah, in that Kia. It's gone.

>> Darin: But, I mean, I don't. I'd, have to do a DNA sample. And we threw the old mouse away. So I don't know if that's the mouse that built a nest in her car or what.


99.9% of the time when your car won't start, you need a jump

>> Dave: This portion of our show is brought to you by Overthinkers, Incorporated, providing irrational solutions since 1932.

>> Mike: I got a call or a text. I'm sorry. We don't get calls anymore. I get a text.

>> Darin: Nobody calls you?

>> Mike: No. Had to go pick up Andrew at the Y. His car won't start. Okay, we need a jump. 99.9% of the time when your car won't start, you need a jump.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then do we have jumper cables? I'm like, do we have jumper cables? What do you think I am? Yeah, we.

>> Darin: Yeah, okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Cause we do. I bought some for Libby, and I've got some in my car.

>> Mike: I came home, we got the jumper cables, we went out to the car, and I may or may not have watched a YouTube video on how to connect them. And I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. You bunch of alpha male. A lot of y'all out there know how to jump cars immediately because you do it all the time. I do it once every 10 to 15 years.

>> Darin: Do, like, Michael Scott. Just. Just put those anywhere.

>> Mike: Put them anywhere. So part of me knows. Yeah, a lot of people just put them anywhere. And then part of me knows I'll be the guy in the news tomorrow that the battery exploded, and now half my face is gone.

>> Darin: Yeah. Red is positive.

>> Mike: Red is positive. Yeah. So I do what you're supposed to do. Let my car go for a bit. And then I try to start his car, and it has all these error messages and everything coming up, and it doesn't seem m. Like it's a battery issue. so, I make a few calls, and then I realize I'm gonna have to get this towed to our buddies down at Carx. Yeah, Dave. And the other guy that I call Dave.

>> Darin: Oh, God, we love Carx.

>> Mike: So we're gonna have it towed down there. So I'm looking at, for a.

>> Darin: Tow truck, you know, they'll recommend one.

>> Mike: Yeah, they've got a guy. Yeah. So I call one number, and they say, you know, where is it? I tell them, and they're like, ah, ah, that's outside of our range. We're. We're more not in that range. I said, okay. They were very non specific. and then I was looking for. For ones that had good reviews. You know, the Google reviews.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: You don't want the one that says the guy showed up with a meth pipe hanging out of his mouth and whatever.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: So I called one, and the guy. And this is on speakerphone in Bess's car, called, and he's like, towing. And I hung up. I said, never mind, and hung up immediately, which caused Bess to lose her mind laughing. And she's like, towing. Yeah, I hear. She said, what was wrong with that? I was like, the way he answered the phone told me everything I needed to know. This dude is huge.

>> Darin: You should have called Boss Hog Towing.

>> Mike: He doesn't. He made me think of Boss Hog Towing. I hung up on him. And then I'm looking through, and I see, a place called Sal's Towing.

>> Darin: Sal's.

>> Mike: Sal. S a L like Sal. My buddy Sal. He's got a towing company. Tony recommend you. They're Italian. Bess is Italian. She speaks their language, Right?

>> Darin: Perfect. You pay them in lasagna.

>> Mike: I call the nicest dude, the world answers. There's a lot of yapping in the background.

>> Darin: Did you call him M. Sally?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I didn't even. He said his name was Sam.

>> Darin: Oh, okay.

>> Mike: So it would have been inappropriate on multiple levels to call him Sally.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: There was a lot of, yapping in the background.


Sam: I called tow company because I live two minutes away

Uh-huh. You see, he wasn't supposed to be answering the phone.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: But there was a lot of stuff going on. He was actually with his family.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: And he said, let me. Let me get away from here so I can talk to you about what we need to do. So I tell him where the car is, and he's like, oh, yeah, I'll be over there in just a. In a jiffy. He didn't use that word, but lickety split. Lickety split. Uh-huh.

>> Darin: In the shake of a lamb's tail.

>> Mike: And he said, how far away? He's like, are you going to be there? And I was m. Like, well, I'm at home right now, but I live, like, two minutes away. He's like, I'll give you a call when I'm five minutes away. We'll Meet there. I was like, that's perfect.

>> Darin: Wow.

>> Mike: Perfect.

>> Darin: Thank you, Sam.

>> Mike: Yeah. I get there, and I'm waiting. He pulls right in, comes over, takes a look at it. My immediate thing that I noticed about him, and he does not look like a tow truck person.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Okay. He was driving a tow truck, but did not look like a tow truck person.

>> Darin: Okay. What did he look like, Mike?

>> Mike: He looked like not a tow truck person.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah. He just didn't. He. And he told me. He's like, I'm not. You know, I kind of got into this business. I've never had a blue collar job before the past couple years.

>> Darin: So.

>> Mike: So you had sex with this dude? Had like, a whole other career. Stuff happened. Covid happened.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And he started over, and he's doing tow trucks. And he just gives me the whole history. We're out there for a while, While he's hooking up the car, he's explaining to me how you connect this on the Ford and all, that he did the whole, like, diagnostics thing to try to figure out what was wrong with the car.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Hey, if I can fix it here, you don't need me to tow you. Right? And I'm like, you are a miracle, dude.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: What? And I looked again. It's Sal's Towing. I was like, this dude's awesome.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah. Gave me a card, was all excited about this whole thing, told me how to work with the insurance. He's like, you got State farm?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Coverage. You gotta go there.

>> Darin: Yeah. They cover this.

>> Mike: How you do the thing? I get to. Here's what you put on the receipt. You get it covered. You already give them a call if you don't trust me. But whatever, you get it all set up. I was like, dude, you're amazing. Gives me his whole life story about how he started the tow truck company, the business of towing, how a, lot of people won't tow Teslas because it's a different way of towing. But he has. What's that called?

>> Darin: esp?

>> Mike: No, no, he's, Cooties. No, no, he's, What do you call that when gingivitis people say it? All that researched. Researched how to do it.

>> Darin: He did his own research.

>> Mike: He did his own research. Now, a lot of people talk about that when they're talking about voting and.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: This dude's applying it to towing, huh?

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: Now he's got this whole market open to him that other tow truck companies don't want to deal with. So this dude's making a killing. He's doing great.


This is the most amazing tow truck story that I've ever been involved in

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: And, I'm fascinated.

>> Darin: He's.

>> Mike: He makes me want to start to be a tow truck guy. Like, I'm starting to think, can I wonder what I need a guy who.

>> Darin: Doesn'T know how to put positive.

>> Mike: Maybe I could sell the couch or, you know, one of the dogs and buy a tow truck.

>> Darin: And then we sell the dog by a tow truck. That's a country song right there.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, 1973, but gets it all set up. He's like, I'll drop it off right there. He's like, I was like, do I need to come with you? He's like, no, no, no, no. He's like, it's Car X. I know, I know those guys. I'll fill out the drop off thing. I'll fill out what's wrong with it. I've already done the thing. I'll put it in there. I'll send you. He sent me pictures of the car at where the Y. Pictures of the car at Carx. A nice couple texts in the background. I talked to him about this podcast. He. I said, this will definitely be on this podcast. This is the most amazing tow truck story that I've ever been involved in.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Just because I know so much more about towing.

>> Darin: And this is your only tow truck story?

>> Mike: My only tow truck story.

>> Darin: And then he even, no offense, he.

>> Mike: Even offered up what he thought was the identity of the guy that, answered the phone as a towing. He did what you're doing right now. He's like, I know exactly who that is. But he explained. He's like, a lot of tow truck companies will answer the phone. They ask you a bunch of questions up front, and what they're doing is they're filling out whether or not, they want to come out and tow you. He's like, when I was talking to you, I just need to address what it is and what's going on. I don't need to know all these other things, you know, like, he's like, So it take a lot for you to tell me something that I can't tow? I mean, if you're outside of my range or whatever. But a lot of these people will find an excuse. He's like, the guy you were talking to would probably find an excuse, Especially since this is like 7:00 at night. M so I. I was excited while we were talking. We're at the Y. One of the guys that's usually in the Y when I'm there stopped by and started talking. And since Sal started talking to him, or. I'm sorry, Sam started talking to him, gave him a card. We talked about towing some more. The dude talked about his car. He was giving him tips on the best places to take your car. Right, and is it over here? No, it's over here. You go in this corner. You turn over there. It's like, dude, you're like a Wikipedia of towing and auto maintenance knowledge. I'm excited.

>> Darin: Oh, God.

>> Mike: And here, Fun fact. Carx is amazing. I love the guys at car.

>> Darin: I do too.

>> Mike: They're awesome.

>> Darin: Yes, they are.

>> Mike: But they couldn't fix this problem.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: It's a Ford dealership. It's one of those things you got to bring into the dealership. It's got the Ford, What's that called? The Illuminati Ford symbol. They got to use a special key to get into.

>> Darin: Sure.

>> Mike: Ah, you know, it's. It's all that other two different people.

>> Darin: Have to turn the red key at the same time.

>> Mike: People. Yeah, Ford and motors. And they gotta do it before it'll even talk to you about what it is.

>> Darin: Yeah, the football.

>> Mike: The football. Yeah, that's right. It's a dude that comes in. It's. It's handcuffed to him.

>> Darin: It's time.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. He said, you know, I'll tow it to whatever for a dealership you want to take it to. It's. You know, and then I caught the insurance, and they said they would pay for that as well. Maybe. Maybe.

>> Darin: Yeah, Maybe.

>> Mike: Yeah, maybe. But, yeah, he was great.


Call Sal's Towing and ask for Sam. Yeah. I'm really embarrassed about this whole ordeal

So I want to, throw a plug out there for people in our local area. Sal's Towing.

>> Darin: Sal.

>> Mike: Sal.

>> Darin: Sal.

>> Mike: Sal. His name's not Sal. No, Sal is the name of one of his kids.

>> Darin: Sal's coh.

>> Mike: He named the tow truck company after one of his kids.

>> Darin: Call Sal's Towing and ask.

>> Mike: Sal's Towing and ask for Sam.

>> Darin: Yeah, Nothing confusing about that at all. That's good.

>> Mike: Yeah, he's a badass.

>> Darin: What's wrong with the car?

>> Mike: I don't know. Well, everybody thought that it was a, Something modulator and flux capacitor. And so I told that to Ford. There's two Ford dealerships near us.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: One is. Yeah. Ford that has just reviews. Just like all these one star reviews. I gave them my car. They gave me back a, like, potato. I gave him my car. I got back a floaty. A pool floaty.

>> Darin: Pool floaty.

>> Mike: Yeah. And then the other. The other. The other Ford Kings. Ford has amazing reviews.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And so I called the, crappy Ford. They gave me a name of a guy that was supposed to get back to me. He did, like, a couple days later. Yeah, this other Ford. I thought I was talking to AI for a moment. I called.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Because she's like, thank you for calling Ford Motors. How may I help you? And I'm like, real person. Sorry. Real person. This is a real person. Oh, Jesus. I'm sorry.

>> Darin: Hi.

>> Mike: Yeah, person. I'm really embarrassed, the whole thing. They set up the appointment and they said, look, the appointment is not until November 5th. This is like a week ago.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: turns out they told me, if you tow it in, we'll finagle it in there and we'll get you out. So they've already figured out the problem and they've ordered the part. What bothers me a little bit is the m message I got was, we've figured out the problem with your check engine light. At no point during any of this was the check engine light ever a problem. So I don't know what they did. But as long as it starts. Uh-huh. And continues to run, I'm a happy guy.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah. Sal's Towing.

>> Darin: Ask for Sam.

>> Mike: Ask for Sam.

>> Darin: I can't remember a lot of the story, but years ago, Libby's car, this was before she had the Kia. it needed towing, and so we called. But the deal was the people who agreed to pick it up and tow.

>> Mike: It would tow people.

>> Darin: Right. Well, where we bought it, where they were going to fix it. Okay. You could only take it to so many certain places to get the problem fixed.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. You can't just take it to car X. You had to take it to here or there or they wouldn't cover the damage.

>> Mike: Well, that was another thing I had to deal with. I forgot about that.

>> Darin: So I get in touch with a tow truck, and a woman comes out to tow this truck, and she's nice enough person. She gets the car onto the thing. She's like, I'm going to take it to the place. I was like, okay, yeah. Do I need to go out there? No, everything's fine. So I went home, and then I'm going to get Libby, and then we're going to go to where we're going to get the car fixed.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I get a call from this woman. She went by the place.


She dropped our car off at a freshest Big Boy restaurant

They're not open. She's got another call. So she left our car.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: She dropped it in a frish's Big Boy.

>> Mike: Well, yeah, okay. Okay.

>> Darin: And I'M like, wait, you're doing what? I'm dropping your car off here at this address. She dropped our car off at a freshest Big Boy restaurant. They don't like that because she had another call.

>> Mike: Yeah, she's on a call.

>> Darin: She's on a call. And she, went. She went to drop our car off where we were supposed to, but since nobody was there, she wouldn't drop it off there. She dropped it off at a, freshest Big Boy.

>> Mike: Hold on, hold on.

>> Darin: And then she left it there. And we're like, I don't know where this fresh's Big Boy is. Someone could bust into it. So I had to call another tow truck. Will you meet me at this address? And the guy says, yeah. And then I was telling him, I'm like, this other tow truck just left it here. He's. Why would she do that? I don't know.

>> Mike: Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. You can't leave for another call while you're on a call.

>> Darin: Well, you're on a call.

>> Mike: That's like an ambulance, right? Like on the way to the hospital. And then they dump the body off because we got another call.

>> Darin: We've got somebody else who's bleeding. I am also bleeding.

>> Mike: Yes. Yeah.

>> Darin: So anyway. M. Yeah.

>> Mike: Fun. M.

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People bought fake tickets and didn't realize it

>> Mike: Oh, here's another fun fact. recently I got the Oasis tickets.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: They are currently canceling tens of thousands of tickets in the European tour.

>> Darin: Why?

>> Mike: And they're likely to move over to the American tour ticket resellers. Fake tickets. People bought fake tickets and didn't realize it. If you bought it from ticket. If you bought your ticket from Ticketmaster, you're good. If you bought it from like, from.

>> Darin: We sell tickets. Calm.

>> Mike: Yeah. Or one of those other places I don't want to name any of. Yeah. Sal's ticket and towing. they've been selling fake tickets. And I've been on Reddit a lot lately.

>> Darin: Get your car. Do you want to. For buck Return or overdrive? Yes, I do, actually.

>> Mike: I've been becoming a Redditor lately.

>> Darin: You've talked about Reddit several times.

>> Mike: I enjoy it so much.

>> Darin: I know.

>> Mike: sometimes it's helpful. A lot of times it's just fun because it's not helpful. I was reading this thread, like, how people fake tickets, especially digitally. Like, how do you do that? And one of the methods that they use is that they will buy a ticket and they'll put it for sale on all the ticketing platforms, and then they just. They sell them at each of these places. And I don't know how they do that. I don't know how they. How that works. But some other Redditor said that the instant the ticket is used, it invalidates all the other ones.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So I got ticket G4. Let's say Mike has ticket G4. And it was on, Sal's ticket and towing. It was on Ticket Blaster. This is your mom's ticket.

>> Darin: Your momstickets.com.

>> Mike: Those. Those three places. Hey, hey, we love concerts. Hey, hey, we love concerts dot com. And someone bought the ticket, that same ticket G4, on all those places. Whoever gets the venue first and scans it. The next one of those. The person that comes next with your mom's tickets goes to scans like, oh, you're already inside. Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Oh, man.

>> Mike: Fake ticket. So anyway, on one hand, there's a.

>> Darin: Lot of bad individuals out there.

>> Mike: On the one hand, I'm. I'm. Man, that would suck to think you're going and then not and then work.

>> Darin: Well, especially since you're going to Chicago.

>> Mike: Yeah. But then the other piece is. I'm glad. Is that people are finding out now.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Because the same thing was happening with you two in the here. Okay. Uh-huh. And people were flying internationally.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: To go to that. Getting all the way up to the point.

>> Mike: And then it's because it was a fake ticket.

>> Darin: Oh, you talk about somebody being. Dude, I would be so pissed.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The one ticket that I got, the extra show that I went to was from StubHub. so I will plug them. But the only reason I bought it was because I'm here already.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: If it doesn't work, I get a refund. If it works, I get to go to another show for a massive discount. So.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But, buy your tickets carefully out there, folks. The One thing the Redditors and I agree on is the proper way to buy tickets. Now, and this doesn't work for if you're going to see Guar. I mean, if you're going to see Guar, just show up while they're on, stage. They'll let you in for free. Room. Yeah, there's. You're gonna be fine.


Good seats still available. But if you're going to, by the. Buy the fan club pre sale tickets

>> Darin: Good seats still available.

>> Mike: You'll be okay. But if you're going to, by the.

>> Darin: Way, ah, there are no bad seats at a guard.

>> Mike: No, no, no.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But if you're going to like a major deal, if you're going. If you're going to a Taylor Swift.

>> Darin: Wear an apron to the guard. Jesus.

>> Mike: Yeah. And a life alert button. But if you're going to like, something that's really going to sell out or whatever, it's a major deal. Get in the fan club. Buy the fan club pre sale tickets. And if you don't get one of those, then. Yeah, you know, don't do resale on those things.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Be careful. You protect yourself out there.

>> Darin: We were trying to get tickets to, the University of Cincinnati Bearcat football.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right. And those tickets are expensive.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Yeah, tickets are real expensive.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And so we're looking and it's ridiculous because it's college football. Now granted, it's entertaining. Okay. I had no idea college football tickets were going to be that expensive. So Libby's looking around and she finds, Was it Stubhub? I don't know. It may have been Sal's ticket and towing.

>> Mike: Sal's ticket and towing.

>> Darin: And she found them much cheaper.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And so she bought three tickets, me, her and Cameron to go see the University of Cincinnati Bearcats football.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: It's like these tickets are like 40, 50 cheaper. Yeah, yeah. But then you got to pay the ticket, fee.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: On top of it.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So we're almost where we were.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we, yeah, took the kids to see a Bengals game a few years ago. Still. That's still part of the mortgage.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then we're taking them to see an OSU game.

>> Mike: in November.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Ah, it was one of the birthday presents. And I'm looking, I was like, I saw you two for half this price.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You two like recently.

>> Darin: Rock and roll hall of Famers from Ireland. You too. Yeah, Yeah.

>> Mike: I saw you two in the sphere for $80. Uh-huh. These tickets were more than that.

>> Darin: 120 bucks.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. Yes. But you know what? Turn about is fair play because a sports Fan would say, why would you spend $80 to go see those potato eaters right in a ball?

>> Darin: Wow, that's racist.

>> Mike: In Sin City.

>> Darin: Wow.

>> Mike: I could do that because I'm Irish. There you are. I'm practically Irish at this point. At this point. Can I claim what is. What am I? Sure. I'm, 35 years a fan of you two. I think after 35 years, you can claim Irish ancestry.


Steve Farrell shares the perfect way to make pancakes that neither of us have tried

>> Darin: One of the things Mike and I have talked about several times on this podcast is the best way to eat pancakes. Well, Steve Farrell, longtime fan of the.

>> Mike: Show, I'm gonna quit the show.

>> Darin: He has been with this show for. Since episode one. Okay. He sent me this link. The perfect way to make pancakes that neither you or I have tried.

>> Mike: Is it to con, like, the. Like the scrambled?

>> Darin: Scrambled, yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You scramble it up just like an egg, and then you cover it with powdered sugar and then the syrup. And I was like, well, Mike would like this because the syrup touches everything.

>> Mike: Yeah. and have you tried it?

>> Darin: I know I haven't.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Have you?

>> Mike: No, but there's another way that I've seen.

>> Darin: Huh? Uh-huh.

>> Mike: You get a, An old. Like, one of those things called mustard. Mustard. Deal. Yeah. You squeeze and you make a pancake. Spaghetti.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I've seen pancakes.

>> Mike: Forget I've thought about doing that, but, you know, when it comes right down to it, I kind of like having the classic.

>> Darin: I like flipping it.

>> Mike: You like. I like flip. I like to flip my pancake. I like to get a nice browning on the. On the top and then flip it and try to match the brown on either side.

>> Darin: But I. You can never completely. Even at ihop, the top part is always a little browner than the bottom part.

>> Mike: One time in 2018.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: March on a Saturday.

>> Darin: Wow. I did it exact. Exact on all of them.

>> Mike: Exact hue.

>> Darin: perfect browning tint was.

>> Mike: The curtains match the drapes of drapes match the curtains.


Libby and I went to University of Cincinnati to see Jacob perform

>> Darin: So I mentioned the University of Cincinnati. Libby and I went to, We went to a football game. We went to see my son Jacob, because he's in the marching band.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And we were looking.

>> Mike: That's why you didn't get a ticket for Jacob. Because he's already out there. He's already. He's already there.

>> Darin: He doesn't need a ticket.

>> Mike: Did he couldn't get you free tickets?

>> Darin: No, no, you can't. He can't get us any.

>> Mike: That's not part of tuition.

>> Darin: No, no.

>> Mike: You'd think throw Pops and Mamaw a ticket. Mamaw I don't know why I called Living Mamaw. I called you Pops.

>> Darin: Wow. Oh, you're gonna pay for that. That's staying in the podcast. She's kind of pissed at you anyway.

>> Mike: Is she? What did I do?

>> Darin: No, you didn't do anything.

>> Mike: I'm sure I did something.

>> Darin: So we're going to the game.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I got in trouble. I got in trouble. We're, driving down there, and we've been to UC twice.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay. We've never been to a game.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So all I know is, how to get to Nippert Stadium. Nippert. And there's a parking garage right across. And I was gonna try and park there.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So I drive to Nippert and the parking garage, students only, it was blocked off. You can't go there. So I drove down, I turned the car around, and I'm going back up the road. This woman gotta be 93, maybe 94 years old. Middle of the road, arm out.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Like Robocop.

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

>> Darin: And I rolled down my window. She says, slow down. You messed up. You went the wrong way. Slow down.

>> Mike: Whoa. I was like, okay, Sounds serious.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: slow down. Oh, I got it. I got it. Okay, so we. We left that part. We drive for a little.

>> Mike: Karen.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: We drive for a little bit. We ask somebody, where can we park? Yeah, it's. Can we park on campus? Nope, you've got to park off campus at this garage near UC Hospital.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Which is a mile. Yeah, maybe a mile.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I don't know. So we drive and we get to the parking garage. We're like, have we left in enough time? Because there's. Jacob was performing at the game. The band performs before the game. They march in and perform.

>> Mike: Okay.


Mike: We're trying to catch all of these performers performance

>> Darin: They perform a few times. We're trying to catch all of these performers performance.

>> Mike: They get the lead out.

>> Darin: They do.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They throw down.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: So we're like, we don't want to miss any of this spaghetti. Yeah, Mom's spaghetti. We're. So we're parking further away. We get to the garage and we get out and we're walking. We ask this guy, is there a shuttle that takes you to the game? Yeah. Oh, it's right there. Cool.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So we get on the shuttle, sit down. There's one other guy, and we got.

>> Mike: Okay, yeah.

>> Darin: And we're looking at the driver like, oh, oh, we're. We're ready.

>> Mike: Carry on.

>> Darin: We're ready to. Ma'am. That's.

>> Mike: Ma'am. Yeah, Carry on.

>> Darin: Ma'am, women drive, too.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Although listen to the rest of the story. Like, you. You can go.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So we're waiting patiently, and we're like, we don't want to miss any of this.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But can. Can you.

>> Mike: Can you go? Can you traverse?

>> Darin: Can you just drive?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And she says, I'm waiting for my boss because he's gonna ride with me.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: We're like, okay. And so we wait and wait, and wait. And Libby's like, should we get off and find another shuttle? And I'm or should we walk? I'm like, libby, if we walk, we're going to get halfway there, and then.

>> Mike: This shuttle going to pass you by.

>> Darin: 15 minutes.

>> Dave: Please stand by. We're experiencing technical difficulties. Thank you.

>> Mike: 20 minutes. M. Later. Hold on, hold on. We're on now. I come back over.

>> Darin: Is there a way to check the stream, Mike, to see if we need to do this whole thing over again?

>> Mike: No, no, no. We don't have to do the whole thing over.

>> Darin: Okay, hold on.

>> Mike: Do this. Check, check. Okay, so we should be on now, Libby, if we leave now.


Mike and Libby went to the University of Cincinnati Bearcat football game

Look, look, look.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I'm Mike.

>> Darin: we had some.

>> Mike: I got everything. Everything's recording now. We apologize.

>> Darin: We had some technical difficulties. The Internet went out, and we're back and ready, to go. I was talking about our trip to see the University of Cincinnati Bearcat football game to watch my son march.

>> Mike: If you get off this truck now, it's just going to pass you by.

>> Darin: Yes, that's. Yeah, that's exactly what I said. I told Libby we're just going to wait on the shuttle. And anyway, so the driver, this woman. And again, I don't have a problem with female drivers. I really, really don't. But this is her first time ever driving the shuttle. and she didn't know where she was going. And we were panicking because we didn't want to miss any of this game. Right. So she gets us there, and we get off the shuttle, and there's so, much tailgating going on.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Oh, my God. This guy's growing burgers. This guy's got bratwurst. This people, this people. This man. Me. Me make burger. Me eat chili and me cook food.

>> Mike: Yeah. This is so much better than.

>> Darin: They had everything.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And we were planning on that.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: We're like, oh, my God. And everything looked and smelled amazing.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So we kept telling Cameron, dude, walk over to the table. Look pathetic.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: Just. Wow. My mom and dad never make burgers. My mom and dad never make chicken enchiladas or whatever.

>> Mike: And, then we fried.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Mice.

>> Darin: Deep fried mice. So we thought maybe if Cameron acted pathetic, someone might feed us. But that didn't happen because he was. He was, like, worried about.

>> Mike: Did you ever. There were some helpful people when we went. The last time we went to a Bearcats game, there were a few helpful people walking around explaining loudly who was going to hell and when and. Right. And for. For being at the game. Did you have any.

>> Darin: I didn't have any of that.

>> Mike: Yeah. that's always good when you have young children with you.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Some strange, crazed man.

>> Darin: And usually, you know, you see, Like, I saw one guy playing the bucket. The. The playing drums on a bucket.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: On our way out. But usually you see a good fair amount of homeless, people going in. We didn't see that.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: So anyway, we got to the place and we watched Jacob perform. Jacob sounded amazing. The band was amazing. And, it was a really good time. We're watching the game. They're playing the, The Arizona Sun Devils. Yeah, I think it was the Sun Devils.

>> Darin: And, Oh, let me back up a second. We're watching Jacob in the band perform, and there's this guy next to me talking to a buddy of his, and he won't shut up about the benefits of having surgery. Well, over and over again. And if you have the surgery, I'm telling you, your. Your body is. I mean, it's going to take a while to comb to heal completely from the surgery, but you're going to want to have the surgery. If you don't have the surgery, then it's like. It's just. The problem is just going to get worse and worse and worse.


It depends on context. If you're in Elysium, surgery is very much needed

And I swear to God, if he said surgery once, he said it 20 times. And we're trying to listen to our kid play in the band.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Surgery, surgery, surgery. Shut up. Now I'm going to surgically remove your face.

>> Mike: If you were, like I am, which I'm not, you might have turned around and said yes. But it depends on context.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: If you're in Elysium, surgery is very much needed and welcome.

>> Darin: Absolutely. Yes.

>> Mike: If you're in the Human Centipede. No, not so much.

>> Darin: Not so much.

>> Mike: There's, you know, context matters.

>> Darin: If I had that knowledge, I would have said that. I wish. I wish I had that comment.

>> Mike: There should be an A.I. mike and Darren, that listens to everyone's conversation.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And you have little ear thing. It says oh, say this.

>> Darin: What would Mike do? What would Darren do in this situation? Yeah. I'd love to develop an app. I love dad syndrome app. I wish A or B, what Mike would do, what Darren would do.

>> Mike: I would love so much to have video of Chris Hughes using the app and then just randomly going up to a person in the street saying, no, Ox Own Baby is the best album. And just getting into a whole argument. Right. And all the recipe. Are you cooking beans?

>> Darin: Yeah, that'd be great.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: We got into the game and we are way, way up top. Oh, we are two rows from up top.

>> Mike: Yeah. And those hundred and twenty tickets, the 110 tickets are just behind the urinal. Yeah. The 125 are like. Yeah. They give you a parachute when you go up there. Yeah.

>> Darin: when we. Hi, I'm Darren. When we got there, our seats were on the opposing, team side of the stadium.

>> Mike: Jesus.

>> Darin: Okay. So we knew when the band came out we were going to be watching the back of their heads.

>> Mike: You did get these from Sal's Ticket Towing.

>> Darin: So when we got there, we're like, we're going to stand behind the seats and watch the band run down. Because the coolest thing, is the band charging the field.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They run down the stadium. They run down the steps. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then they perform their opening songs and do all that stuff.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So we're standing there watching, and there's this woman and she keeps looking at me like, what are you doing? She's shooting me this look. She is not happy with me at all. And I don't know what, because I'm not making any noise. I'm not talking about surgery. I'm just standing there and Libby and I are taking photos and we're getting video of the band coming down and doing a thing. And she won't stop giving me this mean look. Finally, somebody taps me on the shoulder and says, sir, you're not allowed to stand here. I said, oh, that must be the problem.

>> Mike: You're in the no standing zone.

>> Darin: We're in the no standing zone. How was I supposed to know that? It's only written everywhere on the floor.

>> Mike: The white zone is for loading and unloading. The blue zone is for standing.

>> Darin: Yeah, I'm sorry.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I didn't think to look down.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Look, don't give me this blue zone, white zone.

>> Mike: You're the one.

>> Darin: Yeah. So that's why she was mad at me.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: then we get our tickets and we're like, okay, where are our seats? m okay, so I was gonna ask this lady, but she's busy helping other people. So I walk over to another person, and I said, can you tell me the easiest way to get to these seats? And she says, do I look like I work here? Like, I'm like, what are you Chandler being. And I said, actually, you do. Oh.

>> Mike: Boom. Right back in her face.


The guy sitting next to me is chewing his fingernails the entire game

>> Darin: You're wearing like the same clothes that that woman's wearing who works here. Because she pissed me off.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: And it was just, well, let me look at him. She goes, well, you got to go around that way. I'm like, you know, okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So I had the lady yell at me. Then this lady give me the mean look. And then this woman was a bitch. Okay, fine. So we're gonna move on. Yeah, we go up way, way, way, way up top. We get our seats. The guy sitting next to me is chewing his fingernails the entire game.

>> Mike: He's a big fan.

>> Darin: He's just.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And occasionally he would look like, I hope nobody's seeing me chew my fingernails. He. I'm like. And I'm thinking, you must have a lot of barbecue sauce in there because that's the only reason he is just chewing like crazy.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Was he, was he like playing with them afterwards?

>> Darin: He wasn't spitting them out, so he had to been swallowing that. Unless he was secretly, you know, pocketing them. You know, because sometimes you, you know, you pick and then you. And then you flick when no one's. When do you pick and flick when no one's looking. Yeah.

>> Mike: You just reminded me of somebody that I used to work with. And I'm going to, I'm going to insert this here.

>> Darin: Now you can remove it as Lonnie Stevens.

>> Mike: No, but I'm also not going to give this person's name. Let's say it's Stephen Lonnie's.

>> Darin: Stephen Lonnie's.

>> Mike: Okay. He did, snuff. Oh, okay.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And he was giving me a tour around the, facility. This is, this is a good 20 years ago. And I noticed that when he was in his office, he had a spit cup, which was as disgusting. Nice. Yes. As fun as it sounds. Then we're going around the facility and it's a long tour, like over an hour. And I notice he still has his stuff in, but I noticed we're inside, he's not spitting anywhere. So I started paying attention to him. And every 30 to 40 seconds I would see him go. And just. You can't. It's. It's an odd podcast he was swallowing. He was swallowing it as he was going through and not even making the. Like. I feel like if I do something disgusting in front of someone, even if I'm used to it, I should at least give a courtesy. You know what I mean? Like, sorry I'm doing this, but, yeah, I just. I'm up. But no, he was.

>> Darin: That's disgusting.

>> Mike: He was owning it. Just going with it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then we get back to his office and he resumes using the cup. I felt like this is a new job at the time, but what's the point? Why now? Clearly, you've evolved past this. You don't need this anymore. What do you.

>> Darin: Absolutely backwards.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: He was not in the best of health.

>> Darin: I'm gonna go even more disgusting.

>> Mike: Hi.


I do not recommend watching ingrown toenail videos on TikTok

>> Darin: Welcome to irritable dad syndrome. I was on TikTok, and I didn't search for this, and I don't know why it popped up, because you know how the algorithm the best TikToks, right? That way you start watching Taylor Swift videos. Taylor Swift videos are going, to show up. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Out of nowhere, this video comes up of a person having ingrown toenails repaired. Okay, what did I do?

>> Mike: You watch.

>> Darin: Watched every second.

>> Mike: Oh, my God.

>> Darin: I can't watch the pimple popping videos. but I can watch the toenail. The ingrown toenail stuff. Well, one, I have ingrown toenails, and I have to deal with them myself. They're nowhere near as bad as these freaks on the Internet who have theirs. My Lord. It's like, well, here's the thing. Why do you let it get this bad one?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Denial, right?

>> Mike: Yeah. It's not that bad.

>> Darin: And, so I went on, and I go on. Almost every comment, someone says, oh, what a relief that must be.

>> Mike: What?

>> Darin: That must be such a relief, having that toenail taken out of there.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Right. And then another person will say, does it hurt the horse? I get. I get on there and ask, does the guy get to keep the toenail? But I do not recommend watching ingrown toenail. It's. It's, Wow.

>> Mike: Yeah. Any type of medical. If it pops up, you can see. Because you can. They all have that 70s horror movie color, that sickly yellow thing with it. Yeah.

>> Darin: Yes, you.

>> Mike: Just a little grainy, and there's like something's moving unnaturally. because it's, like, zoomed in. He's like, ah, swipe. I don't. It's either. Either a huge insect or something. Horrifying. Is going to happen.


Max goes into great detail about airplane engines on TikTok

>> Darin: Speaking of TikTok, if you're on there, you got to look up airplane facts with Max. There's a guy, he's got hair down to, like to the middle of his back. He works on airplane engines. And he comes out there, and I'm not going to do this guy any justice. he says, you know, I'm here in the hull of the aircraft, and we're looking at this. This is the carburetor, this is the. This is the air shaft. this is the thing, and this is how it works. And the way it works is that it brings in the thing that has the stuff, and that's what enables the. The plane to do the thing.

>> Mike: We are not an aviation podcast.

>> Darin: I'm not. I'm not. But he goes into great, great detail about this part of the engine, how it works, the benefits of having it. And the reason it works is because of, this thing. Kind of like in the Lord of the Rings, when they were marching up to the hill to Mordor and Legolas and Frodo. And this it for, like, five minutes.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: He goes on about this and this and this, and then the inure and the something, something.

>> Mike: Wow.

>> Darin: Straight face. And basically.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And that's how the, And that's how the aircraft works. And he stops. Best thing I've seen on TikTok in forever. You gotta look up airplane facts with Max.


You just reminded me of a meme. I can't remember where I saw this meme

>> Mike: Okay. You just got to. You just reminded me of a meme.

>> Darin: I want to try and get him on the show.

>> Mike: Yeah. I can't remember where I saw this meme. I think it might have been Reddit, but fighting has started. George R.R. martin. The writer of Game of Thrones, not.

>> Darin: Related to, Lloyd R.R. tolkien.

>> Mike: Now you tell me. Has stated that Jaime Lannister. You know Jaime Lannister?

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: Would.

>> Darin: Slept with his sister.

>> Mike: No. Well, yeah, he did.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: welcome back, George.


Someone claimed that Jaime Lannister would destroy Aragorn

Welcome back. George R.R. martin claimed that Jaime Lannister would destroy Aragorn. What?

>> Darin: No way. The Internet, no way.

>> Mike: Aflame.

>> Darin: No way.

>> Mike: You talk about a comment section that lost its mind.

>> Darin: Yeah. There's no way.

>> Mike: and one of my favorite comments, and I'm not going to do it justice, but somebody just went full good sir on him. he's like. Excuse me. Excuse me. Oh, if I may point out, you can bring me Jaime Lannister when he faces down an army of orcs at the Black Gate by himself.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yes.

>> Mike: Show me him doing that.

>> Darin: No way.

>> Mike: Maybe. Maybe he could breathe the same air as Aragorn. And it filled me with such a glee because, I don't know if you know, this Aragorn doesn't exist.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: And neither does any Lannister or the orcs or any of this stuff.

>> Darin: Well, it reminds me of that other argument that, What is Captain America's shield made out of?

>> Mike: Vibranium.

>> Darin: Vibranium.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: And then the, Not Boba Fett.

>> Mike: The, Jango Fett Jank.

>> Darin: No, the Mandalorian.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: What's his staff made out of?

>> Mike: Ah.

>> Darin: Mithril. M. No, that. That's.

>> Mike: It's that weird. Every time they show it. It does the theme song every time they show.

>> Darin: So there was that argument over, is this metal stronger than that Metal? They're both fake metals.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yes.

>> Darin: But, my God, the argument. Oh, the people would fight to the death over this.

>> Mike: At some point, I had hoped. It's. I don't think it's going to happen in this election.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But I think one of the candidates could have won if they would have just stepped out and said Aragorn could totally destroy Jaime Lannister.

>> Darin: But by the way, this episode is released on election day. Be sure to vote.

>> Mike: Yeah, I would say 60 to 65% of the people in the country would have no idea what they're talking about or what that has to do with anything. But they would win every battleground state. It would be a sweep. It would be the end for the other candidate.

>> Darin: Did he not watch the Lord of the Rings? There's no way Jaime Lannister is j. His name is Jaime.

>> Mike: yeah.

>> Darin: There's no way he's gonna be Aragorn.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Strider, Son of Thorin. What. What's his. What's his father's name? Yeah, Thorin is the.

>> Mike: He's the guy. Aragorn, son of Arathorn.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: That's literally. I just burned in my brain. No, no.

>> Darin: Did you not watch him fight that orc in. In the Fellowship of the Ring?

>> Mike: You don't have to convince me. This is like someone saying a, Gobot is gonna destroy Prime. Get the out of here. Gobot. Or those little green army men, like the. The guy with the shovel?

>> Darin: Their legs are connected.

>> Mike: You're connected. It's gonna beat G.I. joe. No.

>> Darin: No, it's not gonna happen. Hey. We're running out of time.


There are several Julie Lowell fan pages who repost her

But last week I mentioned. Remember I mentioned that woman. She's got her own page. All she does is listen to comedians. And she just stands there.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And me. And points and Laughs and what? And sometimes she's wearing shorts and sometimes she's. Her hair is in a ponytail and sometimes she's wearing sweatpants.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: Sometimes she's walking in the kitchen. Sometimes she's sitting reading a book and listening to this. And not only it's her name, it's Julie and Mike Lowell. Lowell. L O W E L L. But there are several Julie Lowell fan pages who. They have their own page, where they repost her. Okay. So not only is she listening to comedians, that's all she's doing is listening to comics. she's listening.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then that's. And reacting. now there's people who are reposting her. Listening and reacting. And they've got a page as a Mike and Julie Lowell fan page.


Esther Price: I wanted to do Airplane Facts with Max

>> Mike: We're in the end days. What is. We're in the what?

>> Darin: This is going on.

>> Mike: Armageddon is around the corner.

>> Darin: Hey, what happened? I'm like, how you, know what Airplane Facts with Max. That guy. You can't do what Airplane Facts with Max does. No, you can't. He has read the books and seen the movies. Knows how many times and knows everything front and back. He's done his own.

>> Mike: Y'all digging too deep. You're gonna. You know what happened in Moria? They dug too deep.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: Got too greedy.

>> Mike: And then what happened?

>> Darin: No. Remember when they were in the mines of Moria and, what's. His face knocked over the book and it went down.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Full of a.

>> Mike: Took.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: Let me. Okay, so Peregrine took.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Charlie's football season is over. Uh-huh. But they had a thing where you could. The parents needed to sign up for things. And one of the jobs you could sign up for was announcer. And, you were allowed to play music over the thing or sounds.

>> Darin: Did you do it?

>> Mike: I came close to it. I couldn't get a ruling. What I wanted to do was every time they. A team would fail on the third down, they would go to do the punt or whatever. I wanted to have the sound bite of Gandalf going, you shall not pass. I wanted to do that so bad. But then I was like, the problem is that you have to do more than that.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: You can't just play that. Yeah.

>> Darin: You have to like.

>> Mike: You have to say little Manny Frederickson.

>> Darin: Number five, Sal Rosenberg.

>> Mike: It's a fair catch on the. Fair catch in the west fairway.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: That's on the third green.

>> Darin: He did not breach the line of scrimmage on backgammon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had to do that one time. And I told this story on the podcast before episode nine.

>> Mike: I don't know.

>> Darin: Look it up, Cameron.

>> Mike: Unless you're a patreon.

>> Darin: Cameron's swim team. And the parents would volunteer and some would coach and some would, not. Not coach. Some would line watch. And I don't know what they did.

>> Mike: But it was stay in your lane.

>> Darin: It was my week to announce, and all I had to do was, would. Group 14 meet behind the slides. Group 14 meet behind the slides. Yeah. And then group 15 meet behind the slides. Group 15 meet behind the slides. Group 16 meet you.

>> Mike: You get it?

>> Darin: Yeah, I'm just sitting there. I'd like to welcome everybody to the swim meet. And Valentine's Day was coming up. And hey, fellas, don't forget, tomorrow's Valentine's Day run by the Kroger.

>> Mike: You saved a dude.

>> Darin: Pick her up some, some chocolate or some flowers and do something special for her tomorrow. Valentine's Day. Your wife will thank you.

>> Mike: Esther Price, thank you for everybody for.

>> Darin: Coming out and watching today's swim meet.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: By the way, Group 18, meet behind the slides.


Mike Odle: I hope you've had fun with Irritable Dad Syndrome

So what do you all think about this Lord of the Rings, Jamie Lannister debacle? You know? Yeah, don't give me a microphone unless you're prepared to hear me.

>> Mike: Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah. I think this was a good. This was like a couple of them.

>> Darin: I've had fun. I've had fun. I hope you've had fun. And I hope you, all of you, all our loyal listeners, all our new listeners, anybody who's sitting there giving this thing a shot, thank you so much for spending time with us. If you want, you can go to irritabledadcenter.com if you had fun today, you can listen to more of our nuts talking.

>> Mike: Follow us on Facebook. I can't believe I'm about to do this. Follow us on Facebook. if you made it all the way to the end of this episode, tell us who you think would win between Jaime Lannister and Aragorn. And Aragorn.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Oh. Oh, that's a. That's called a web driver.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Good job, Mike.

>> Mike: Call to action.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: 229 episodes. I'm doing what three year olds do in the first episode. They know how to do this.

>> Darin: All right, thanks for listening. We hope to see you next week on Irritable Dad Syndrome.

>> Dave: Irritable dad Syndrome is a Mike Odle, Darren Cox production.

>> Mike: Oh, here's a fun Fact.

>> Darin: What's that?

>> Mike: Some of our AI things have started to recognize that your name is spelled D A R I N. Finally they came back automatically. The D A R R E N. For literally for a few months. And now they've seen me correct it so much that they're. It's starting to naturally. Oh my God.

>> Darin: It's starting to learn.

>> Mike: It's art, but it's artificial. I mean, it'll. You'll save on calories, but you might have a brain tumor.

>> Darin: I need to save on calories.


Darren Biden: I've never seen a mouse nest in our garage

>> Mike: I gotta talk about our toe.

>> Darin: Toe. T O E T O W. Oh, okay. You guys share a toe.

>> Mike: Times are tough.

>> Darin: You've been married.

>> Mike: Thanks. Thanks, Biden.

>> Darin: Married a long time.

>> Mike: It's just in this economy, you should.

>> Darin: See how we put on the flip flop.

>> Mike: We got the flip flop still on layaway. we got a whole little ecosystem going on in your garage.

>> Darin: But I've never seen a mouse nest in our. I've heard about it.

>> Mike: Yeah. Mammalian. Yeah.

>> Darin: And then.

>> Mike: Huh?

>> Darin: What a million.

>> Mike: Mammalian.

>> Darin: Mammalian.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Something about a mammal.

>> Mike: Mammal.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: A mammalian.

>> Darin: Yeah. I thought it was a rodent.

>> Mike: Part of you is going to want to keep this in. I implore you, remove it.

>> Darin: That's what she said.

>> Mike: Maybe that part ago on the end. This is past Mike. Talking to future Darren. Cut that out.

>> Darin: I implore you.

>> Mike: It wasn't funny.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren. Damn it, you. I said I'm gonna start the show, and that's when you start drinking. Yeah.

>> Mike: you think I met your beck and call.

>> Darin: Well, I said I was gonna start and you said you're ready. Take two. Tonight on the podcast, I took my wife's car in for an oil change. And you're not gonna believe what I found out tonight on the podcast. I took Let it Roll, down the highway.

>> Mike: So I'm reading a new book. That's terrifying.

>> Darin: So that was fun.

>> Mike: Yeah.


Before we go, you may have noticed that the guys teased a story at the beginning

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

>> Darin: Have a great day and stay cool.