IDS #235 - Irritable Dad Syndrome and the Curse of the Stolen Belt

Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I'm Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 225.

>> Mike: 235.

>> Darin: 235.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I'm Mike. This is Counting with two old farts.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I kinda want something other to eat. What m you got in there is good to eat?

>> Darin: Well, we got big cheap burgers, Bongo Bur Footlongs, Corny Dogs, Frosty Shakes, Creamy bars. Did you want me to go through the whole list?

>> Mike: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. Keep out of reach of children.

>> Darin: Here are your hosts, Mike and Darren. Hi, I'm Derek.

>> Mike: I am Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 235.

>> Mike: It seems like just yesterday we recorded episode 225.

>> Darin: I know, right?

>> Mike: Amazing how time has flown.

>> Darin: Yeah, I know.

>> Mike: We're gonna talk about a number of things. I'm going to talk about the new Indiana Jones Vijay game that you should be playing.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Your kids may be playing.

>> Darin: I, did some babysitting.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And had some fun. Yeah, that sounds great. We're gonna talk about that.

>> Mike: Buckle up, folks.


Dave Lay is probably most people's favorite part of this podcast

>> Darin: before we get into, all the fun, I want to mention our announcer, Dave Lay. God love him, he is a great announcer. He's been a good friend of mine for a very long time.

>> Mike: I enjoy daily.

>> Darin: Yeah. And he's just fantastic for this podcast. I would venture to say that more people enjoy Dave Lay than, Mike, or myself. And I think that Dave Lay is probably most people's favorite part about this podcast.

>> Mike: I like him better than either one of us.

>> Darin: Yeah, well, tragedy, hit his family. His father passed away, and, man, I gave Dave a call and I talked to him for a long time. And this is how great a friend Dave is, because I had sent him some audio for him to record for the podcast. And I told him, I said, look, I've got, you know, I can use old stuff that we've. I can recycle. I can use any of the old opens. I can. We can do without, you know, do your thing. And he said, darren, I, I love doing stuff for this podcast. It's easy. It takes my mind off it. and Dave recorded, like, some of the best stuff he's ever recorded. Sent it to me the next day.

>> Mike: Do you think he could record a couple of episodes for us? Yeah, just like, use AI to trick people into thinking, hi, I'm Dave Way. You know, you remember when Chef left, South Park.

>> Darin: And they entirely used all recycled audio. That's right.

>> Mike: We have four years of this.

>> Darin: I know.

>> Mike: We could just. Just take a vacation, give it to Dave for a year.

>> Darin: I. You know what? I probably could do a whole. I mean, it would be just all commercials for deaf.

>> Mike: We just talk about old. Anyway, nobody's gonna know.

>> Darin: That's true.

>> Mike: Like. Oh, they're talking about the, Transformers again.

>> Darin: But anyway, Dave, we love you, and we're very sorry to hear about your dad. And so our best go out to you and your. Your mom. Your lovely mom. She was on the show. Yes, she called in one time.

>> Mike: Yeah. And.

>> Darin: Oh, God, that was great.

>> Mike: Not planned at all. Literally, not planned at all. So.

>> Darin: But anyway, our best to you, Dave. Lay.


Darren Cox went to see the Steelers play the Bengals last week

Last week I went to see the Steelers play the Bengals, and in true Darren Cox fashion, I forgot three important parts of the story. We were, So I'm going to do that now. As we were walking in. Have you walked into Paul Brown. Is it Paul Brown Stadium still, or.

>> Mike: Yeah, it's. It's, the Paul Brown.

>> Darin: I thought they changed it to something. Anyway, we're walking in and security. Yeah, security's nuts. Okay. People are lined up like crazy. And again, it's stupid cold. It's like, 25, maybe 30 degrees. And they're checking everybody. They're going through pockets and looking through the bags. And we need you to turn,

>> Mike: Around, bend over, cough.

>> Darin: Yes. Seriously. My buddy Mike Perro walks up, and they had him open his pockets. He had to take off his hat. He's bald. Okay. Yeah, he has to take off his hat. He has one of those hats that looks like a football helmet. Yeah, yeah. So he takes off his hat. He's emptying his pockets. he's got a jacket and a vest and something else, and he's showing what's in his pants. I walk right past. I'm wearing one of them clear backpacks, and I walk right past. Hey, how's it going?

>> Mike: Good.

>> Darin: the security guy says, yeah, I walk right past him. They don't, sir, we need to look in that. I've got probably between all the shirts and the jacket and the vest and. And my pants. I probably have 40 pockets on me that I could have had any number of illegal contraband on. I walk right past, and my buddy Mike is probably at security for five minutes, maybe closer to 10, and I'm like, did they do a body cavity search? And he said, I was hoping so. It's like, get your money's worth.

>> Mike: So I'm not interrupting you. I'm just going on a tangent here. I've been to probably about 15, 20 concerts in my life. Life. many more. I mean, I'm kidding. Last year.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I, I go to many concerts and I am just continue to be shocked at the wild difference in who you're going to see and how closely they're going to check you. I've gone into shows where I. Oh, was I supposed to walk through the metal detector right there? It's like, right, no, don't worry about it. You're good. You're bald. You don't have anything. From that to, you know, one of the sphere shows. I thought they were going to pull me aside and do a body cavity search. You know, it's like, it's you never. Right. so in. And I have been in situations where one person gets singled out and yes, it's. You're like, oh my gosh, they're going to show up on Cops. You know, and meanwhile I'm just strutting in here with a, bazooka or whatever. Nobody's saying it worked right.

>> Darin: But I mean, I had a bag on me.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And they didn't look in it. Mike had nothing except just many layers of clothes. And they, so they, they searched him. I mentioned that we were at the very, very, very tip top. Like the, like three rows down from the very top. We're watching the game and it got to a point where the Bengals were losing and this guy two rows ahead of us is Zach Taylor. You suck.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't understand.

>> Mike: Zach Taylor went home and it's like.

>> Darin: I can't believe the guy in row 5009 thinks I suck. And he was crushed. You know?

>> Mike: Well, you know what they say, Darren. You can hear a thousand compliments, but you hear one, one insult and it just. That's all you think about. That's all you care.

>> Darin: Exactly, exactly.

>> Mike: I remember back in, 2021, August.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: 13Th we received a comment.

>> Mike: You guys need to be funny within the first two minutes.

>> Darin: Two minutes.

>> Mike: Right. That's what that paragon of comedy said.


One last thing. I kept referring to the kicker as Chris Bosworth

>> Darin: And that guy may be dead because, I mean, he wrote that. How long ago? Three years ago. Yeah. Okay.

>> Mike: He could have passed on.

>> Darin: You still can't let that go.

>> Mike: There are probably at least two people that listen to our first seven episodes and think that we quit after episode seven.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And think, man, if they only would have had a point.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Here we are still four years later. We still don't have a point. Yeah.

>> Darin: One last thing. I kept referring to the kicker, the Pittsburgh Steelers incredible kicker, as Chris Bosworth. And his name is Chris Boswell.

>> Mike: Boswell.

>> Darin: So my apologies to the boys. I am m sorry, I mean no disrespect. You're one of the greatest kickers not only in the NFL, but of all time. And I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry.

>> Mike: You're listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast that is without question the.

>> Darin: Funniest story I've ever heard.

>> Mike: I want to take a ah, mic vigame moment. Okay, so this is everyone else's cue. Step out for about 10 minutes. If you don't give it in minutes, but okay, okay. Maybe five.


People have been trying to make a good Indiana Jones video game since Pitfall

So people have been trying to make a good Indiana Jones video game since the original Pitfall. Everybody knows that's what Pitfall Harry is supposed to be. Indiana Jones.

>> Darin: Really?

>> Mike: I mean, look at him.

>> Darin: Well, yeah, there's the alligator and he jumps over the thing.

>> Mike: He's just on the vine.

>> Darin: He has a, he has a whip, right?

>> Mike: I don't know.

>> Darin: I remember playing Pitfall, if you had to go to the bathroom, you just jumped on the vine and it would swing back and forth. We let. He would swing back all night.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: Because we were playing one night and we thought, let's see what happens. He jumps on the vine, starts swinging back and forth. We went to bed, next morning, he's still swinging back and forth on that vine. It didn't fall. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: So as action games have continued that.

>> Darin: I think they don't make vines like they used to.

>> Mike: By the way, most people know, what who Tomb Raider is or what Tomb Raider is if you don't search for it. Laura Crop, your safe search on things have gone weird on the interwebs.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And. But there's never really been a good adaptation of Indiana Jones because they're always trying to emulate something else. A new game just came out. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. And I'm here to tell you our generation and older are losing their collective minds over it. I haven't seen anything like this in probably the past 10 years.

>> Darin: Wow.

>> Mike: Gaming. Where so many people are hardcore in love with this game. The people that are iffy on it are the younger people.

>> Darin: And what do they know?

>> Mike: The youth youthfuls. The people that are hardcore on it. If you saw Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom or Last Crusade. Those three, if you saw any of those in the theater. In the theater.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: You're the perfect age range for this.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: They've brought that indie back.

>> Darin: Oh, good.

>> Mike: Yes. The story takes place in between Raiders and Last Crusade.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: In there, I thought.

>> Darin: Aren't the stories. Aren't those movies told, unchronologically?

>> Mike: Well, Temple of Doom chronologically is the first, but Raiders came out the first.

>> Darin: Temple, Doom, Raiders, and then Last Crusade. Okay.

>> Mike: And I get annoyed when they do stuff like that because especially when you watch Temple of Doom, there's callbacks to Raiders. And how are you doing that? My question is, what the hell, you know, when the guy, he. When Indy reaches for the gun because he's just going to shoot him. Like Raiders.

>> Darin: Right. Anyway, you see, I saw those movies I don't know how many times. I never knew that.

>> Mike: Yeah. There is a gaming developer, they're called Machine Games, and they have made themselves famous or whatever by revitalizing the Wolfenstein series.

>> Darin: The Wolfenstein.

>> Mike: Wolfenstein's.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Now the Wolfenstein.

>> Darin: Eddie Van Halen's kid.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: So most people remember Wolfenstein 3D. You're. You're going through a castle in Germany and you're shooting Nazis and it ends with you fighting Hitler.

>> Darin: Oh, it's classic.

>> Mike: The whole point of the game. The game had a story that you could fit on a gum wrapper and you still had enough space left to write another story.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: There was. It was. You're there, you're in a Nazi castle, shoot everybody to get out and try to go Hitler on your way. Yeah, that's it.

>> Darin: In, out.

>> Mike: That's the story. Boom. and machine games came along later, brought that into today's and actually put an engaging story, like an actual. They made this dude whose only point was to shoot Nazis into a real character that you actually cared about and made a story. It was like, wow.

>> Darin: Wow.

>> Mike: And they made multiple games in that series. The last couple of games relied on a lot of stealth and a lot of story. Oh, okay.

>> Darin: Okay.


So then now these are the people that have gone forward with Indiana Jones

>> Mike: So then now these are the people that have gone forward with Indiana Jones.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And in terms of story and character, they've nailed it.

>> Darin: So is this like a story that you wish had been in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or.

>> Mike: that's where I'm going with this.

>> Darin: The Time of the Bandits.

>> Mike: Gen Xers are like, why don't list. This is a movie, right? This is. This should have been what? Crystal Skull. It like that. That. This should have been the fourth movie.

>> Darin: You know, I tried watching Crystal Skull again because, like, I don't know, four or five years after I'D seen it and I, like, maybe I gave it too hard a rap.

>> Mike: So I'll, I'll tell you, I'll tell you why I think this. So they've got Brody. yes, obviously Indiana Jones.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Now there's a thing they have to do when they're making characters in games. They make the character look a little bit like the voice actor. And in Indy's case, obviously they need to make it look a lot like Harrison Ford.

>> Mike: So when you see the character, he looks a lot like Indy, but then there's a little something in the eyes where he looks like the voice actor.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: The reason they do that, I'm gonna get a little technical here is to avoid the uncanny valley. Do you know what the uncanny valley is, Darren?

>> Darin: no.

>> Mike: Well, I'm going to explain it badly.

>> Darin: Okay. Okay.

>> Mike: All right. As characters get more and more lifelike, there's a point where they suddenly look nothing like a lifelike character. So you take a cartoony looking character, make it more and more realistic. You get to a point where they all of a sudden they look plastic and they look fake. And one of the ways that companies get around that is they need to match the facial features with the actor that's playing them. It's one of the reasons why the Polar Express is not a terrifying movie. Because the all the actors that's not are in it look a little bit like Tom Hanks or have a little bit of his face in them. Right. Because he does, because he does their voice. If he didn't, it would be really freaky weird. If you look at old animation earlier, like computer animation, where they didn't do that. It looks odd.


The game starts with the ball just like in the original movie

The game starts. You remember the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark with the ball and all that?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So it opens with that. You play that. You're walking first person view as Indy through the jungle. All the stuff.

>> Darin: You see things through his eyes.

>> Mike: See things through his eyes. And then they also have recreated parts of the movie. They actually don't show his face for a long time. And that just like in the original movie.

>> Darin: does he say bad dates?

>> Mike: No, that's in, that's later in the movie. This is the beginning with the ball. Anyway, it's. Everything's exactly like the ball. You, you take the sand out of the bag to put it on the idle thing. The difference is the ball rolls over you and kills you. Right. It's a dream. It's a bad dream that you had. Indy wakes up from a nightmare like, oh, I Got ran over by the ball. That gets you into the game and then you're playing. And the part where I actually caught myself grinning like a maniac. The Harrison four point. He does it.

>> Darin: Oh nice.

>> Mike: He. There's a break in into the. The museum or the university. he works in. He comes up to the guy and he does the Harrison Ford point. Like you. And I was like, I love this game.

>> Darin: That's awesome.

>> Mike: This is from that point on it's official indie. Indie pro movie.

>> Darin: yeah.

>> Mike: They have all the stuff when he's flying. They show the map and all these different things in the background. And cool stuff when he punches. It sounds like a pile of bricks hitting a freaking punching bag. I mean it's like, like Biff. Like actually how indie punches.

>> Darin: Anyway, Indiana Jones is a badass, so just flat out badass.

>> Mike: So you guys should play this game if you're got some kind of weird thing going. Like I don't want to play a game because whatever. Buy it for your kids and then don't let them play it. You play it. He will take you back. You'll be you'll be cruel. You will be as you were watching the original movies in the theater. It's, it's that type of indie. It's amazing.

>> Darin: Well, I just saw this thing on the TikTok yesterday explaining why the Indiana Jones movie didn't do well. And he's like, duh. The audience that enjoys Indiana Jones is dying out.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They haven't done anything to make newer audiences appreciate it. It's still geared for the older audiences.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: And I was like, damn, that makes sense.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And maybe, maybe had they released this viggy game three, four years ago before Indiana Jones five, the the Curse of the Stolen Belt.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It maybe it would have made a little bit more money because it, I mean it didn't bomb, but I think it did it break even. I can't remember.


There was speculation that Chris Pratt would be the new Indiana Jones

>> Mike: Well, here's the thing is the guy that plays Indy.

>> Mike: Is Troy Baker. He also played Joel in the Last of Us. Not the show, but the game.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: He's a very. Well, he's like the Tom Hanks of video game actors. Everyone, if you games like, oh, I bet Troy Baker's in there.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: He nails in these voice.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And there's a lot of people saying, you know, he's a young pup. Why don't you just start making a series of Indiana Jones Vidya games? And that's where the series goes. Because Harrison Ford's already said, when I die, he dies.

>> Darin: He dies.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. When there was speculation that Chris Pratt was going to be the new Indiana Jones.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And what I said last week about Jack Black being overexposed, I'm gonna say the same thing about Chris Pratt. And I love Chris.

>> Mike: I love Chris Pratt. Come on.

>> Darin: He didn't need to be Garfield.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. He was. It was very, very close to. I don't think so. When they cast him as Mario.

>> Mike: Yeah. But, like I said, there's all kinds. I really want them to continue with this series because there's all kinds of little Harrison Fordisms that they nail in the new game. So it is like watching a new movie.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: The little stuff like in Temple of Doom. And this doesn't. It's not in there, but it's an example of it when he's talking to the lady and he's trying to figure out where the draft is coming from, and he just, like. He's just like. Yeah, yeah. He's pushing those grunts.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: All that. There's a couple of scenes in the game in the, like, new things that haven't been Harrison Forded. And it's like, dude, it's like he's making a new movie.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Amazing.

>> Darin: Well, he was amazing in 1848 or whatever. The. The western that he made, which is the, the prequel to Yellowstone. Amazing in that.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then he's hysterically funny. He's so great and shrinking. And I was showing this thing to my kids. It's weird that you brought up Harrison Ford because just we were talking about him most of the week. There's this great clip of him on Jimmy Kimmel, and it was, I think, right around when Force Awakens was,

>> Mike: Rumored to be starting with him and Chewbacca. You son of a bitch.

>> Darin: Yes. But before that was when Jimmy Kimmel was asking him, and Harrison Ford said, hey, everything is, you know, still under development, and I can't really say anything about it. And then Jimmy says, well, do you mind if you take some questions from the audience?

>> Mike: Sure.

>> Darin: And so. Questions from the audience. Remember, no Star wars questions. First dude is dressed as a Jedi with a. With a lightsaber. And, do you enjoy making movies? And Harrison Ford said, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: Just like that, too.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then the second guy dresses Princess.

>> Mike: Leia with a beard.

>> Darin: Yeah. Are you hungry? No, Not. Not really.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: I'm like, it just. The guy can do anything. Okay. He's 80. He is an. A, badass action star.

>> Mike: Hold on.

>> Darin: I think he's a great actor.

>> Mike: He. Oh, yes.

>> Darin: He's only been nominated for an Academy Award one time, and that was for Witness. And if you haven't seen Witness, stop what you're doing, go to Blockbuster, rent it and watch Witness.

>> Mike: I haven't seen Witness.


Harrison Ford is hilarious. He has just a natural comedic. For years I thought he was just being a jerk

>> Darin: I watch such a great movie, so. Although the Fugitive is his best movie. Yeah, okay, the Fugitive is best movie. But then the thing that really I love the most about Harrison Ford is he is hilarious.

>> Mike: He is.

>> Darin: He has just a natural comedic. His pacing, it is so dramatism. Yes.

>> Mike: For years I thought he was just being a jerk. Watch him back. He's. He's freaking, hilarious.

>> Darin: He's hysterically.

>> Mike: Have you seen. Did you see the. When they were doing the Star Wars Force Awaken stuff when he was on Conan O'Brien and Jordan Schlansky brought out the. You know what I'm talking about. The Millennium Fluff. Yes. And he dropped it. Flings it up.

>> Darin: Yep, yep. Yeah. It's great. It's just great.

>> Mike: When did Raiders come out? It was 81.

>> Darin: 81.

>> Mike: So I was 6. I remember seeing, trailers for it. It looked scary to me when I.

>> Darin: Was like, well, yeah, there was, there was a lot of scary stuff in it, especially for the younger crowd.

>> Mike: Right. Yeah.

>> Darin: no, because I remember when I was a little kid, I wanted to be Han Solo. Okay. Not, I wanted to be like Han Solo. I wanted to be him. I wanted my Millennium Falcon. I wanted a wookie. I wanted a laser pistol at my. On my holster. And I wanted everything about being Han Solo. I got a little older and realized, darren, you can't be Han Solo. That's fiction. Okay? That's not real. Then Indiana Jones came around. I said, well, I can be Indiana Jones.

>> Mike: I wanted to be Indiana.

>> Darin: That's real. Okay? So then, you know, I. I threw away all my thoughts and dreams of having a wookie. Right. And then I wanted a whip and a pistol.

>> Mike: Yeah. And, I would do things you could have.

>> Darin: Yes, totally. And I would be in the. In our backyard in Virginia. We had trees, just all kinds of trees. And I was climbing trees and imagining that I was in the woods and. And I was stealing and just being Indiana Jones.

>> Darin: And I'm 54. I still want to be Indiana Jones.

>> Mike: Yeah, I do too.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's another reason.

>> Darin: I'm just. That's why I'm disappointed with everything else in my life. Cuz I'm not Indiana Jones.

>> Mike: You're listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. Oh, gnarly.


Chris Michael asked us to watch his daughters Victoria and Natalie for a party

>> Darin: I've got to talk about Chris Michael. He's my neighbor, and we have given him a lot of crap lately. And I apologize to Chris Michael for how I treated him last week. And the crazy thing was, despite everything that you've said about him, despite everything that I've said about him, he still trusted me and my wife Libby to watch their girls. They went to a Christmas party.

>> Mike: They're human girls.

>> Darin: They're human girls.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yes. Their adorable little daughters, Victoria and Natalie. Okay. I think they're three and. And one and a half or something like that.

>> Mike: Old enough to. To clean your house. Did you have them clean your house?

>> Darin: I had them just, you know, just grab the toilet. Just the baseboards.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. They did some dusting.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And some,

>> Mike: Change the filter and the.

>> Darin: Well, they're short, so cleaning the toilet wasn't a problem.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Any who toss them up on the roof, clear the gutters.

>> Darin: They. They had a party to go to and asked if we could watch their girls for a few hours. And. And we said, absolutely. And these girls were amazing. Oh, my God. I haven't watched little kids since my kids were little. I mean, seriously. And so I. Honestly, Mike, I was a little bit nervous because I was like, you know, I'm good, and I'm, you know, fun Uncle Darren. And I can get on the floor. Well, I can get on the floor and play, but getting up is the problem. But I was like, oh, Lord, what do I do if they, If they throw a fit and. Which they. They didn't just lock them outside. They. That's one option. They have a basement.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. So put them in the basement. Yeah, I didn't have to do that. So. These girls are adorable, and they're perfect, and we're having a good time, and they ate their dinner, and they, We were doing puzzles, and they were just perfect little kids. They've got one of them little, It's not. It's like an Etch A Sketch, but I picked up the Etch A Sketch. I said, you know, Victoria, I said, do you want me to draw you picture of you? And she says, yes. So I drew, like, one huge eye and then spiky hair and, a neck and then, I don't know, like, forearms and. And I showed it to her. I said, what do you think? And she goes, okay, nice. And then she says, but I have two eyes. I'm like, oh, you're right. So I drew one little eye next to the. The big eye.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And then she said, where are my ears? Like, oh, okay. So I drew two big ears, and then I showed it to her, and she goes, I like it. Okay. So it didn't work.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Because when my kids were little, I would draw that, and they would go, no, no, no. And they would act silly, and then they would erase it. Whatever. So I said, okay, I'm going to draw a picture of Natalie. So with Natalie, I drew two ginormous, like, football shaped eyes and, a nose the size of Kansas. And, weird hair and something else. And I said, that's Natalie. And she says, yeah, okay. Okay. I said, okay, I'm gonna draw a picture of your dog, Sadie. So I drew a picture of a dog. The dog looks more like a horse.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But. So I draw the picture of Sadie and I show it to her. I said, that, Sadie, do you like that? She goes, that looks like mommy. Okay. So I immediately texted Chris and Mary, and I said, you're. You know, your daughter thinks this is what mommy looks like, Which Mary thought was kind of rude. But anyway, so that was fun. And, before Chris left, he punched.


Chris Michaels says when he loses a remote, it could be anywhere

>> Mike: Him in the face.

>> Darin: I did not punch him because he had a Christmas party to go to. I didn't want him all bruised. He says, here's the remote. And did you know how to operate an Apple tv? And I said, I can figure it out. He says, great. So he shows me that. And, anyway, I'm playing with the girls, and it was time for Natalie to go to bed. Livy put Natalie to bed. Victoria and I are downstairs, and we're watching tv, and she wanted to watch Mickey Mouse. I can't find the remote. It's not on the coffee table. It's not under the coffee table. It's not on the side table. It's not where the TV is. I thought maybe it went down. And Victoria and I are looking in the couch, and she says, I'd like to watch Mickey Mouse. I'm like, I understand. I, too, would like to watch Mickey Mouse. Sweetie, I can't find the remote. We looked all over and by. We me m. Looked all over, and I could not find this remote control to save my life.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And finally, you know, I. I said, sorry, sweetie, we can't watch because if you don't have a remote, you can't change the channel on your tv.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You just can't. Well, not anymore.

>> Mike: You can get an app.

>> Darin: Well, and then do what? And then operate the app with your remote? No, no, with Your phone?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. Yeah, well, it's not my house. It's not my tv.

>> Mike: Yeah, it's Chris Michaels.

>> Darin: Anyway, he comes home and I'm like, I give up. Where's your remote? It's on the k. Kitchen counter. I'm like, why would you put it on the kitchen counter? Yes.

>> Mike: What do you.

>> Darin: What. Why is it on the kitchen counter? Okay, so it was on the kitchen counter and when we were giving the girls dinner, I was getting the bibs out and I actually, it's my fault. I set a bib on top of the remote.

>> Mike: You son.

>> Darin: And then.

>> Mike: Yeah, so see, when we lose a remote, it's gone.

>> Darin: Yeah, it's.

>> Mike: It could be literally anywhere.

>> Darin: Do you, on your furniture, do you have. Because like on the back of our recliners there's like Velcro and you can unstrap the. The Velcro and then stuff that you've lost like in 2021 falls out.

>> Mike: Yeah, we. Yeah, so that's happened once with this one. This. Yeah, yeah, right there.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: most of the stuff falls down in between and gets caught in the little mechanical things. This is the nicest piece of furniture that BMs have ever owned in our lives. Like m. This right here. Beyond everything. So the, couch upstairs is in need of a new home. Yeah, we need a new couch. and when we lose something there, there are pillows that are currently lost inside the couch.

>> Darin: Pillows.

>> Mike: Pillows.

>> Darin: You lost a pillow inside your couch?

>> Mike: Inside the couch. So we have at least one of our kids thinks it's fun and has thought it's fun for a long time to jump on said couch. I remember when we bought this couch, the couch salesman told us it was a sturdy couch withstand anything. And I have two problems with that. One, he's a lion bastard. And two, I didn't want a couch salesman. Anyway, there's some things that when I'm buying, I don't want to talk to anybody. A couch is one of them.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Get out of my face. I hear you. I can see it.

>> Mike: I can sit on it.

>> Darin: I can feel it.

>> Mike: I can feel it. And I can see the price tag. That's all I don't need. All I need you for Mr. Sales Guy is throw one on the truck and here's our address. We'll see you Sunday. Whatever. I don't need you to sell me. I don't care that this fabric is made with camel fur treated with wax from South Botswana because Corinthian leather. Corinthian leather on the, on the undersides of the whatchamacallit to make the McGregor's work.


Cameron quoted Ricardo Montalban while eating dinner

>> Darin: Mahogany posts.

>> Mike: Mahogany.

>> Darin: I don't care. Yeah, I'm probably gonna Comfortable. Can I afford it?

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: It's a couch. Will it fit through my door? Yeah, yeah. Bring a. I don't care.

>> Mike: We're still in the, in the phase where at least two dogs and probably another person are going to pee on this couch weekly for the next three years. Gonna pee on probably me.

>> Darin: You're that thin, are you, Are you that old? Oh God.

>> Mike: Dump stuff down in the middle of it, throw popcorn across the couch at the other kid. Things like that happen. I don't need the Corinthian leather.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And all that fun stuff.

>> Darin: By the way, speaking of Corinthian leather, the other day we're at the we're at the dining room table and we're eating dinner and Cameron said, rich Corinthian leather. And I was so proud. I said, dude, you quoted Ricardo Montalban. Yes, even rich Corinthian leather.

>> Mike: Chrysler Engineering achieves Fuel economy for the Times.

>> Darin: How do you know Ricardo Montalban? And he said, who's Ricardo Montalban? Yeah, he said, I'm quoting Deadpool.

>> Mike: Rich Corinthian leather. Of course you're quoting. He's quoting.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: By the way, I'm so proud of.

>> Darin: Him because he quoted Ricardo Montalban. But I couldn't figure out how in the hell was. Have you been watching Fantasy island in your off time?

>> Mike: You. Occasionally we send each other funnies. Occasionally meet me and best in each other funnies. We have no filter.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: So I, I know I annoy her. I send her like 10 to 15 funnies, an hour. It's ridiculous. And the same back to me, the con. Fight. Yeah, the con clip that you sent me.

>> Darin: Oh, wasn't that great?

>> Mike: I was in tears. The way got me. The one that got me was Khan was the only one that knew to cover his mouth and run out the room.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, I know it does you guys know justice but I was on the Tick Tock and I found this great, this fantastic narrated clip of Khan fighting Spock on the original Star Trek.

>> Mike: Captain Kirk.

>> Darin: Captain Kirk. Yeah. Thank you. Khan fighting Captain Kirk on the OG Star Trek. And the narration was much like one on like an old like Shaft or something like that.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. He's double fist hitting him. Yeah, Hit him in the knees. He hit him with a plastic pipe. That's what took him down. That's what took him down.

>> Darin: It's awesome.

>> Mike: Khan was unfazed. He could handle anything. He was like, I'm five times the man you are, Kirk. Oh, yeah? Well, take five of these.

>> Darin: That was K's weakness.

>> Mike: Repeated blows from a plastic pipe.

>> Darin: Yeah, I know. I find some of these things and, like, this is a perfect thing to send to Libby. This is a perfect thing to send to Mike.

>> Mike: Yeah.


Cameron has interviewed for a job at the Chick Fil A

It's time now for the Chick Fil.

>> Darin: A story of the week. Speaking of Cameron, we may have to stop making jokes about Chick Fil A.

>> Mike: Okay?

>> Darin: He has interviewed for a job at the Chick Fil A. Yeah, Nobody listens.

>> Mike: To this thing anyway.

>> Darin: Well, I know. yeah, so Cameron had friends over and, the other day, and his friends like, oh, your camera said. I said, yeah. He said, you have a podcast. I'm like, I do. And he says, you're cool.

>> Mike: I'm like, we are.

>> Darin: Yeah. All the cool dads have a podcast.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So if he goes into Chick Fil A, he starts telling them, you know, my dad and his buddy Mike mentioned you guys on the podcast all the time. Someone, a manager is going to listen to it and then come in the next day. Cameron, we need to talk about a, ah, potential breach of contract here.

>> Mike: I have.

>> Darin: And that potential breach. And by the way, Cameron said he's already planning, if he gets the job at Chick Fil A, what he's going to do on his last day.

>> Mike: Okay?

>> Darin: So he's clearly not planning on making it a lifetime gig.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And I told him, I said, listen, if you work for Chick Fil A and you decide to leave on your very last day, all day long, you're going to say, you're welcome.

>> Mike: I've got one word for Chick Fil A. Oh, boy. Accountability. Okay, don't start. No, won't be no.

>> Darin: That's all right.

>> Mike: If you guys do your job and.

>> Darin: Don'T screw around, there'll be no problem.

>> Mike: I don't have anything to talk about. Nobody wants to hear a, podcast where I'm talking about. Yes, I went to Chick Fil A and I ordered a chicken sandwich and they gave it to me and I paid and left.

>> Darin: They got my name right and they gave me the exact chain.

>> Mike: That's not a fun story.

>> Darin: No, it's not a fun story.

>> Mike: That happened to me the other night.

>> Darin: When they call you Darwin.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I was. You know where they. They take like 50, 15 orders. They have multiple lanes of traffic going.

>> Darin: Through there, like at the airport, and.

>> Mike: They'Re running out and my pleasure. And you're this and my pleasure and you're that. And the. The guy handed me a couple of bags, and it said, did you have the Powerade? And he's holding drinks. I didn't order any drinks. I'm like, no. And then another Chick fil a person, I could tell because they have the red shirt, walks up giggling, walked.

>> Darin: Out of the building.

>> Mike: He comes up giggling and says, no, the other black suv. And then he handed me a bag and said, there's your order. My pleasure left. There was maybe half of my order that they got right. Now they normally get my order right.

>> Darin: Yes. And I. I think the last time they screwed up my order, they like, when Libby goes to Chick Fil a, she'll order 24 packages of the Chick Fil A sauce. And they only gave 23. So we had to pull back around.


The following story involves Darren's wife and was exaggerated for comedic purposes

>> Mike: The following story involves Darren's wife and was exaggerated for comedic purposes only. Please listen accordingly. Usually my only problem with Chick Fil a, I've got two main ones. They're just recurring, and I've quit talking about them because I've done that bit. But just to recount for, newer listeners, you can go back and listen. I bitch about the fact that they got seven working in the line.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: They don't need that.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: And then the other one is they interrupt me while I'm ordering to layer in their own flavor. And I don't need that. I need a. What's a good name for the order?

>> Darin: My name.

>> Mike: My name is Mike. Let's use my name.

>> Darin: That's the best name you can use is my name.

>> Mike: I'd like a Cobb salad with the, Would you want it fried like we do? I hate that.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: I've identified the particular Chick Fil a wanderers out there that say that. You've got some of them that know to keep their mouth shut and just let me order. And then you got the others that come up, say you want the nuggets fried like we do. Like we do is what bothers me. I enjoy the fact that there's a choice. Right. of course I want the fried nuggets. I'm an American. Yeah, this is America, the last time I checked. Yeah, I want the fried nugget. Well, what kind of psychopath is getting grilled nuggets?

>> Darin: No, you don't do that.

>> Mike: Screw off. Yeah, give me the fried nuggets. But it's the like we do. The hell's up with you? You are not the Frank First Chicken Joint on, this block.

>> Darin: Like they're the only person to ever fry chicken. How about Kentucky Fried Chicken?

>> Mike: Also known as KFC because of the haters.

>> Darin: Did you know that there's KFC flavored Mac and cheese?

>> Mike: I saw that. There's a.

>> Darin: Shut up.

>> Mike: There's a cane's down the road. There's a Popeyes down the road. They all do things like they do. You don't have to say like we do. You're not the only chicken joint frying up chicken you don't own. Kentucky Fried Chicken has it in their name. Uh-huh. They fry them.

>> Darin: And they're not the first people to fry chicken.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Legend has it that people fried chicken before 1985.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: I've heard that that happened.

>> Darin: So I think Jesus fried chicken in the Bible.

>> Mike: You guys, you. That's the title. That's the title to our Christmas episode. It is. It's gonna be. I don't care what you say. That's what it is. Well, one.

>> Darin: This is in our Christmas episode. That's next week.


You, our listeners, you people who eat fried chicken get this ranting

>> Mike: All right, look.

>> Darin: Oh, God.

>> Mike: You.

>> Darin: I'm sorry.

>> Mike: You people. And by you people, I mean you people listening right now. You, our listeners, you people who eat fried chicken, you get to hear this ranting, from me.

>> Darin: You're welcome.

>> Mike: You're welcome. Yeah, but in general, in normal life, I don't rant like this at people. I don't know.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I just don't.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I have some social skills to a degree. But I tell you what, when. When they say like we do, oh, they get close, dude. You ever seen those videos? I've seen a lot of the. The tick tock videos of the dumbasses that try to feed the bear their Snickers bar outside of the window.

>> Darin: Oh, my God.

>> Mike: And the bear comes over and. And they find out, and the camera.

>> Darin: The camera shuts off quickly before the blood.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, It's. It's like that. They're. They're testing me. I'm like a bear, and they're hanging a stickers bar.

>> Darin: How stupid are you?

>> Mike: There's a social contract. You're there to take the order. I'm there to tell you what I want. It's no judgment.

>> Darin: Uhhuh.

>> Mike: Huh? I have no judgment. Just. You chose the job, I chose the joint. Yeah, let's. Let's do this, and let's keep the whole thing off. Let's keep the police out of it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: That's all I'm saying. You give me my food, I'll Give you the money and I'll go with my life. You go on with your life. I'll see you again next Tuesday.

>> Darin: Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Libby has already told me that if he gets the job at Chick Fil A, that I'm gonna have to let it go with the you're welcome. And I don't know that I can.

>> Mike: Do that with the you're welcome. Oh, the. I mean, the my pleasure.

>> Darin: yeah. Yeah, that is. I mean, I want them to say, you're welcome, like a person.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Honest to God, that's in kindergarten when we were taught manners. It's like when someone says, thank you, you say, you're welcome.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I. I think I, have a lot of plans for if I ever become a millionaire and don't need to work. I'm not gonna just go off and not do anything. I'm gonna apply to all kinds of jobs, and I'm gonna work them and try to get fired. All of them. And a place I'm gonna apply to that sounds amazing. Is Chick Fil A. Yeah. And I'm gonna say, my pleasure, but I'm gonna be weird about it. They're gonna order.

>> Darin: Oh, it's my pleasure.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: I'll.

>> Mike: I'll try to get the Gollum, you know, my precious, and make it my. Oh, I'll do it like in the goblet m of sauce. I will. Yeah. Yeah. I'll ask them how they're doing, but I'll just keep the conversation going until they drive away because that's another one. I hate that stick shift.

>> Darin: Well, I love driving a stick shift. I remember. Do you like to peel the tires? yeah.

>> Mike: And I. I'll do. I'll talk to them and then I'll try to one up them. Huh? Oh, that'll be so fun. Uh-huh.


Mike: Monday, I'm applying to everything. If you guys want to see the ultimate reality show

Like, what do you got planned today? Oh, we're going to go fishing. Really? I went fishing the other day out the Pacific. Called a marlin. This about 15ft.

>> Darin: The picture of it wakes.

>> Mike: I was catching so many fish, it got boring.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah. Have fun on your stupid little lake trip.

>> Darin: Love you. Bye.

>> Mike: This has been the Chick Fil A.

>> Darin: Story of the week. Dude, you want.

>> Mike: I'm telling you. Hey, if you guys want to see. If you guys want to see the ultimate reality show, make My Ass a Millionaire, I will apply to. I'll do, like. I'll be like, the mike row, but I'll be. I'll just be.

>> Darin: It'd be like that episode of the Simpsons where Bart went to the retirement home to see grandpa, and he walks in, and that old man was there. He's like. He's like, hey, there, grandson. And Bart's like, you're not my grandpa. Can your grandpa do this? He starts doing this weird little dance, and then they.

>> Mike: They.

>> Darin: They grab him by the collar pull. Yeah, that's good. You're gonna be out there, Mike. We need to talk to you inside.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah, yeah. I work at a car dealership. I'll try to talk everyone out of buying a car. every. Oh, you don't want that. You know, squirrel died in the tailpipe of that.

>> Darin: You know, they put that true coat on at the factory. Let me ask you, are you buying this car to drive? Are you buying this car to make out? the back seat?

>> Mike: You know what I'm saying? Do they have pet stores? Can I go in there? And every dog that sold, we named the dog Indiana. Every dog.

>> Darin: Yes, they have pet stores.

>> Mike: Mike, we need to talk about you saying that. It's. It's just not funny anymore. It never was funny.

>> Darin: If that dog humps your leg, it's best just to let him go. Yeah. you know what? I might just make that my goal.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: My goal for the longest time has been, you know, I'm just gonna stand in the yard with my robe open, waving cars. Right. No, Now I want to do. I want to be like, Mike, when.

>> Mike: I'm retired, I'm gonna take a weekend off. I'll retire on a Friday.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Monday, I'm applying to everything. I'll be a Walmart greeter and tell everyone it's closed. Yeah, you put some cones out there. You just need to go on down to Target. How long could you do that before. And then as soon as they talk to me about my performance, accuse them of being ageist. Yeah. This is America.

>> Darin: You can't treat people like.

>> Mike: You can't treat people like this.

>> Darin: No work. Go work at an Olin Mills or, like, the JCPenney Studio. Are you going to wear that?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Oh, glad you put some makeup on, mom. Yeah. Ah. Is Olen Mills still in business?

>> Mike: I don't even know. I'm so excited. I'd work at Kings island and just ride. Get on the ride with everybody else.

>> Darin: Just. You go to put their. Put their belt buckle on, scooch over.

>> Mike: They got the button that you push. Just gonna. Okay, let's go.

>> Darin: You know, the last time I wrote this, I threw up.

>> Mike: Work the games where they throw the ping pong balls in with them and Sit back there with the ping pong battle and try to knock them out as they're throwing them all.


Mike Odle: I've thought about tons of scenarios for applying for jobs

Yeah, they have those stories. They talk about, the dude was it Colonel Sanders made KFC when he was, like, what, 93? That's when he started it. That's what I'm gonna be. It's on my, my. When you read about me on Wikipedia 50 years from now, it'd be like, Mike really made his fortune at 65. And one day he started the, the ultimate reality show.

>> Darin: Honestly, though, the idea of having a job and you don't need it and then just. Just not going in.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Just, you know, like, screw this, and you just don't go in. And then they're like, is my. Darren, are you coming in?

>> Mike: Who? Yeah. Oh.

>> Darin: Oh. Do, you need me to. Well, I mean, yeah.

>> Mike: I've thought about, tons of scenarios. A job running.

>> Darin: It's like, you don't want to do that, like, at a hospital.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: There's people dying here.

>> Mike: No. Or like, an airline pilot.

>> Darin: They're not gonna hire me at the hospital.

>> Mike: You don't want to be an airline pilot and just, like, kick around how to buy this thing. You don't want to do that. But, yeah, I, work at a job. Like, be super professional in the interview process. Get, like, a real, really important job. And then the first meeting, just sitting there, just crank them out left and right and blame it on somebody else.

>> Darin: You know what you do? Like, when you send a resume, if. If you really want people to notice it, you have it typed out.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah. On paper.

>> Mike: Work at door dash and bring everyone sushi. No matter what they ordered. Just bring them sushi.

>> Darin: I ordered pizza.

>> Mike: Sushi.

>> Darin: Here's your sushi.

>> Mike: Bye. Yeah, give them and blame them.

>> Darin: Give them.

>> Mike: I said pizza. No, this is sushi.

>> Darin: And then, you know, on your resume, give him Chris Michael's phone number.

>> Mike: I would take Chris Michael, with me door to door.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And when they open the door, say, would you like to punch him in the face? You're $5 a shot.

>> Darin: He's so nice. He'd probably.

>> Mike: He'd turn the other cheek, too. Yeah. He just. Boom. Be great.

>> Darin: All right, well, listen, it doesn't get any better than that. So we're gonna go.

>> Mike: I'm sorry.

>> Darin: Do the things we normally tell you to do.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, check us out next week on Irritable Dad.

>> Mike: Check those things out.

>> Darin: See ya.

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


Darren: We're gonna do something new this time. Have you listened to any of our last episodes

All right. Darren, I stink. I don't. I apologize. I don't know what you're.

>> Darin: I can't smell you.

>> Mike: I can smell my ass.

>> Darin: Okay, well, okay.

>> Mike: Yeah. Oh, we're still on.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: I'm gonna get a decaf. I need to smell my ass. I can smell my ass all the way across the podcast. So they've got that going on. They have. I lost my train of thought.

>> Darin: Wolfenstein.

>> Mike: Wolfenstein.

>> Darin: no. no. Indiana Jones.

>> Mike: Indiana Jones. Okay, yeah. Edit all this out. I'm back.

>> Darin: I never knowed that.

>> Mike: So.

>> Darin: Lord, Darren, they.

>> Mike: And I've started preparing videos. My intention.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: is to have many, many videos in 2025.

>> Darin: Oh, good.

>> Mike: Started building them.

>> Darin: that's going to be. That's going to be great.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah. So basically what I'm saying is I'm going to start doing my job. Whatever.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah. Best if you're happen to. Happening to be listening. Marbles ate Andrew's dinner.

>> Darin: Come out of the bathroom. Be like, he licked my plate. And I thought Andrew was saying that Charlie licked his plate. And then I thought, why would Charlie lick his plate? and then I instantly thought, you know what? That doesn't surprise me that Charlie licked his plate.

>> Mike: Yeah, it can. It can.

>> Darin: Little brothers do that sometimes.

>> Mike: Yes. Yeah, you got to kind of watch.

>> Darin: Yep. Yes. We're adults and again, we're talking about farts.

>> Mike: Oh, I gotta show you. we're gonna show. We're, gonna do something new this time.

>> Darin: Have you listened to any of our last however many episodes? There's one episode, like five, six ones ago, or I swear to God, I think I used 12, maybe 15, fart sound effects. And I thought for sure Mike's gonna go, hey, Darren, you want to lay off the fart sound effects? And nothing you didn't. So here's the title. I'm just gonna put anything in there and see if you know this. It's like. Darren. Our last episode was just one hour of the Letterman podcast. I wonder if Mike Chisholm.


Welcome once again to the Letterman podcast. My name is Mike Chisholm

>> Mike: Welcome once again to the Letterman podcast. My name is Mike Chisholm. this is a fun episode. We focus on, Merv Griffin, Johnny Carson, David Letterman. but a big part of it. Merv Griffin. Steven D.C. is our guest today. He is the author of, Merv Griffin the Inside Story. and this is a guy who. Boy, for the small, resilient handful that are still with us listening or watching. this is one of our people.