IDS #239 - A Cacophony of Idiocy

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>> Mike: Do you ever, you know, if, like you said, a joke. This damn thing.

>> Darin: Yeah. Turn off your buzzer, please.

>> Mike: Don't tell me what to do.

>> Darin: I said please. That's a nice way of asking. Will you please turn off your buzzer? Damn.

>> Mike: What you said, you said turn off your buzzer, please. Please was more of a right in.

>> Darin: There with two fingers.

>> Mike: My point is.

>> Darin: Hello.

>> Mike: You've told funny things to people and they've just kind of stared at you.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Like you're out of your mind.

>> Mike: Wouldn't you like to be able to go back to those people with people who have laughed at that thing.

>> Mike: As your representatives and say, sir, this person thought this comment.

>> Darin: Exhibit A. Yeah.

>> Mike: You didn't laugh at.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Comedy doesn't work that way.

>> Darin: No, it doesn't.

>> Mike: And that's what this is, Darren.

>> Darin: This is comedy that doesn't work. Actually, your name sounds like something Adam Sandler would say. Oh, yes. Timothy Shalomay Taylor. Can I get a chalamet?

>> Mike: Shame.

>> Dave: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. Pour a glass of wine, slip into a hot bath and enjoy the soothing sounds of your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I'm Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 280 and 39.

>> Mike: We are here to pump you up.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: Is it? Yeah.

>> Darin: Hans. I'm Hans, your frog. So, I'll take 80s catchphrases for 400.

>> Mike: Is this the first time we've sat together since holidays?

>> Darin: Yeah. We have been off for like three weeks. Yeah, I know.

>> Mike: And we, yeah, we did see each other.

>> Darin: Yeah. Mike and I went to a New Year's Eve party together.

>> Mike: Christmas. You had a Christmas party? We talked about that.

>> Darin: We did.

>> Mike: Last episode.

>> Darin: Yeah, that's right.

>> Mike: Yeah. and then we had a New Year's Eve party, which is my big story for this episode is I finally punched Chris.

>> Darin: Michael clocked him.

>> Mike: It was glorious.

>> Darin: And tonight I'm going to talk about new board games. No. Right. Holy crap. Buckle in. Yeah.

>> Mike: You've got some, you got some caffeine pills. Drop them now. I can't wait. Yeah.

>> Darin: Gather out the gather of the computer. Ah, you've missed me, haven't you?

>> Mike: Do your board games end in, like, massive fights among the family?

>> Darin: We got a new one that sometimes, does. Yeah.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.


Darren: I think our podcast is pleasant. I think it's entertaining

>> Mike: All right.

>> Darin: Well, I told you a, long time ago that we had to back off playing catan.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because the whole family was getting very, very, What's it called when you don't like to lose.

>> Mike: For clips.

>> Darin: Yeah. For climbs. We were getting very penultimate playing that game cacophony. That's not a word.

>> Mike: But it was scattered.

>> Darin: So this morning, we record this podcast, a week in advance. So we release an episode on a Tuesday morning, and then that night we record a new episode, which releases a week later. Sometimes Mike and I will record two occasionally. we've done the rare three episodes.

>> Mike: That was a crazy.

>> Darin: That was.

>> Mike: Yeah, crazy.

>> Darin: And we usually do that if we've got vacations coming up, holidays, that type of thing. So Mike and I, we have not recorded anything. We haven't sat together and actually talked in, like, three weeks. And I don't know if you guys know this, but Mike doesn't talk to me at all when we're not, doing this podcast. He doesn't answer texts. He doesn't call me. If I ran into him at the store, I. I don't know that. Yeah, I ran into you at Kroger one time. We stood in the damn parking lot, talked for 25 minutes.

>> Mike: We did an episode. We should add something recording that was like.

>> Darin: This was like, on a Thursday.

>> Mike: This is how we talk to each other in normally, like at the party and end up at a table together. And God forbid, if Chris, Michael or Durbin are there, then it's a hootenanny. It is.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But, yeah, you. You posted a thing, and I. I said, Or I posted a link to last episode that dropped today, and I called it a cacophony of idiocy. And I think is beautiful.

>> Darin: And my text was cacophony.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Really? And you said, tonight we're gonna educate Darren on what cacophony means. And I looked up what cacophony means.

>> Mike: A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.

>> Darin: Yeah. Often at loud volume. I'm like, that doesn't. Doesn't apply.

>> Mike: The noun is cacophony.

>> Darin: And I said, boy, do you know how to sell a podcast?

>> Mike: the plural is cacophonies, not cacophony.

>> Darin: I thought it would just be cacophony. Like, moose is a plural for moose is moose.

>> Mike: It's Greek. A combination of cacos, which is bad.

>> Darin: I put a little cone. I put a little cacos in my.

>> Mike: coffee this morning. Marbles lets big cackles out there. For a small dog, his cacos are huge. And he has multiple cacos.

>> Darin: Oh, God. When we had Conrad, he cackled all the time.

>> Mike: And then phone. And then you put Cacophonos together. Greek for ill sounding.

>> Mike: Which I think is probably the best description of.

>> Darin: See, I don't think our podcast is ill sounding. I think our podcast is pleasant. I think it's fun. I think it's entertaining. I think it brings people joy. And I'm happy that our friends and our fans and our people out there who don't know us personally, who want to know us personally. I'm glad that they're all here listening. Welcome to Irritable Dads.

>> Mike: And in the mid 17th century, those French stole it.

>> Darin: Don't get me started on the French.

>> Mike: They stole it from the Greeks. It, used to be K. A, K. Cacophony.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: And the French made them seas. And here's interesting. if you look at usage over time for cacophony, look at this, look at this. Back in the 18. Back in the 1800s.

>> Darin: Okay, there's a graph. There's a cacophony graph on how often it's used over time.

>> Mike: There is.

>> Darin: Jesus. Who had that job?

>> Mike: Somewhere in the. Somewhere in the 90s, it just. Look, it goes off the chart up in where we are right now, 20, 25.

>> Mike: Is the highest usage of the word cacophony.


We're living in the age of cacophony, viewers

>> Darin: It's not a real graph.

>> Mike: Look it up yourself.

>> Darin: There's a cacophony graph.

>> Mike: I'm going to show kids we are.

>> Darin: Living in the age of cacophony, viewers.

>> Mike: there it is. Yeah. Cacophony right there. This is the age of cacophony.

>> Darin: There's a graph. Thank God for the Internet. Thank you, Al Gore.

>> Mike: That is amazing.

>> Darin: Yeah. Of how often the word cacophony is used, because I was going to tell you that nobody uses that word.

>> Mike: They use it more now than they ever have.

>> Darin: Who's they?

>> Mike: Them.

>> Darin: Who?

>> Mike: Them.

>> Darin: Those people.

>> Mike: Those people.

>> Darin: This is. We're living in the age of cacophony.

>> Mike: It started to rise around World War I, World War II, which you would expect.

>> Darin: Right, okay.

>> Mike: Just. You would expect. There's a lot of cacophonies going on there. And then, boy, howdy, 1990. I mean, what was going on tonight? You had Nirvana, Free Love. And Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam. And. And all them damned. The New Age hippies.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: And the Bill Clinton and, What's his name? Kirk Hammett or the guy. Soundgarden.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Chris Cornell.

>> Darin: Chris Cornell.

>> Mike: That's who I meant by Kirk Hammett.

>> Darin: Joe Soundgarden.

>> Mike: Yeah. Joe Soundgarden and the Furious Five.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah. They're just. They're slinging right and left.

>> Mike: They take off like crazy. When the Marvel movies started coming out. Oh. Which the Marvel movies are a cacophony of.

>> Darin: Of light and color and penultimateness.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: another another aside.

>> Darin: It's going nowhere.

>> Mike: And there's another one.

>> Darin: Welcome back everybody.

>> Mike: Yeah. I'm not gonna go off on another aside. We'll save that for later. Later.


Mike and Cameron shoveled their driveway 25.6 inches yesterday

>> Darin: We Mike and I, we live here in Westchester, Ohio.

>> Mike: We got walloped with snow 25.6 inches yesterday.

>> Darin: Huh? Uh-huh.

>> Mike: I looked it up.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah. And. And I'm gonna say it. I've got a lot of friends who are anti meteorologists and like. Yeah. Well that means we could get zero. We could get 85. We could. Nothing could happen at all. It could be sunny tomorrow. And what do we get? 25.66 inches of snow. I've shoveled my driveway three times. Jacob. Cameron and I drove over to my mom's house. We shoveled her driveway and we got her back porch so her dogs could go out and, and winky dinky. And it's just, it's a lot of snow. A lot of damp snow.

>> Mike: A lot m. So I had to drive to work yesterday morning.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: At 10 o'clock on Sunday night. I went out. We have a snow thrower.

>> Mike: And I snow throwed. You threw your stone through my snow from behind my car. And we had what looked like 7 inches of snow on top of the car. So I brushed both cars off, got them all scraped and nice. I was proud of myself. I was in bed by about 11.

>> Darin: A job well done.

>> Mike: Yeah. Woke up at the fives 4:34, 45 around in there.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Look out there. Another just the whole. It's like nobody did anything. There was like a little divot of where I And I kind of slalomed to the main road out here and then it was just covered.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It was a cacophony of ice and horror. trying to drive until I got near where I work. And then the roads there seem to have been dealt with a little better.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But while I was at work it just kept going and going and going and then it made the ride back cacophony of worse.

>> Darin: I like to shovel once and then if it falls in it's easier to shovel the second.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Then you then wait until it all cuz it gets real packed.

>> Mike: Yeah. And then God forbid you it starts to melt and then refreezes. Now you got ice that you're dealing.

>> Darin: With, and I ain't dealing with that, so. but the boys went out and helped me.

>> Mike: Oh, good Lord. Andrew did the whole thing last night.

>> Darin: Just good things about having. Have some kids. They'll shovel your drive.

>> Mike: That's right. Yeah, that's right.

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

>> Darin: Will you please, just once, get off my ass? I'd appreciate it. I really would.


What'd you get for Christmas? I'll tell you what happened

What'd you get for Christmas? There's a transition for you.

>> Mike: I got a Star Trek uniform. or not a uniform. What's that called? A baseball.

>> Darin: Baseball jersey.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because Star Trek, they love playing baseball. They did, yeah.

>> Mike: especially Captain Kirk.

>> Darin: Yeah, he. It was a, cacophony of baseball.

>> Mike: Yeah, I got, all that you can't leave behind the 20th anniversary thing. So you can quit giving me. Okay, not having that.

>> Darin: I didn't give you. I just asked you why you did. Because you got all the other special editions.

>> Mike: Yeah, I know.

>> Darin: And it surprised me that you didn't get well. And I got the CD version. That's my favorite of their albums. I love that.

>> Mike: I know you do. I love that. Well, what happened? I'll tell you what happened is I got the, How to dismantle an Atomic Bomb just had its reissue.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And the vinyl version was way that. Okay. I bought the vinyl version of Joshua Tree because it's the Joshua Tree.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I wish I'd bought the vinyl version of Octung Baby, but I didn't because I like, what's the point Back then, I ain't paying that much money for the vinyl. It was like over $300.

>> Darin: That's a lot of money for something you already have.

>> Mike: Yeah, but the CD was reasonable.

>> Mike: and the fun thing about the CD is they have a whole other album in there. They're calling it the Shadow album, How to reassemble an Atomic Bomb. And it's. It's good.

>> Darin: It's actually really what I've heard was good.

>> Mike: Yeah, I. I got the set with that and then I was like, well, I never bought the all that you can't leave behind, because it was astronomical. But then I looked up the CD version. I was like, I probably should have gotten that looked on Amazon. It's like, it's available and it was on sale and I had points. Amazon points.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: So I threw some points at it.

>> Darin: And I got Kohl's cash.

>> Mike: Not Kohl's cash.

>> Darin: That's only redeemable at Kohl's.

>> Mike: I've learned. So I purchased it and then I went and told Bess, this is what you got me for Christmas. So it came in and she, if you got kids.

>> Mike: Ah. Listening to this. Yeah. Cover their ears for a second.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: since the Santa thing has gone on.

>> Darin: Oh, oh.

>> Mike: On the nae nae. And we have one Amazon prime account. There are no secrets in this house.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: Because I get a notification on the phone every time something is ordered and delivered. So I look and I'm like, oh, that's cool. I hope she got extra large hello for me. You know, and then we just, we're talking shirts. Yeah. We just had a mass of Amazon boxes. It looked like, you know, speaking of Star Trek, you remember the episode the Tribbles, how they were just multiplying?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: We had Amazon boxes.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: All over.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Where you come in.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: It was like a cacophony of Amazon boxes. And we didn't know who ordered what, who, what was in whatever.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And then Bess took one for the team. She said, okay, I ordered most of this. She's like, did you get me anything to me? And I'm like, yeah, there's a few things in there for you. She's like, I'll take one for the team. I think I can figure, figure out, you know, which is mine.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And she did the, the, that wrapping. and in the process of doing that, when she was doing it while I was at work, I get a text message.


Mike got a pink Xbox controller delivered to his house today

Who's the pink Xbox controller for? Well, I didn't buy a pink Xbox controller.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But we, I, I said, you know, I'm thinking she's not a gamer for who knows what's in that box. I, just know that it's pink. so I came home and sure enough, it's a pink Xbox controller.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And the name is not our name on the package and the address is not our address. Oh, it's a couple streets over. So I thought I told Best. I was like, I'll be Santa. I'm gonna take this to this person and give it to him. And I'm driving over there imagining what this interchange, is gonna be like.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: How it's gonna be slightly comical. Well, look, we got this and you know, we're a PlayStation family. We're not really, but here you go.

>> Darin: We used to be an Atari family.

>> Mike: Back in the day. And this is pink. And here you go. Yeah, I just. All these different fun stories that could come from it.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: When I pull up to the house. I walk up and the dude's door is open.

>> Mike: But the screen door is closed.

>> Darin: It's the screen door. You lost me.

>> Mike: The glass door.

>> Darin: The glass door, okay.

>> Mike: At, ah, the outer door. And he's just standing in the hallway.

>> Darin: Michael.

>> Mike: Halloween music. No, it was like. It was kind of creepy. No, no, no, no. Get there. And then he's. I just, I didn't. He was so. He was right there.

>> Darin: Jason Voorhees was the, Friday 13th.

>> Mike: Yeah. And I just kind of rapped on. I didn't rap. I didn't throw down some rhymes.

>> Darin: Well, my main is Mike, and I'm here to say I got this Xbox.

>> Mike: I just at the house today. Whoa. Wow. You did that freestyle, bro. Call up Eminem M. Do a battle, stick them. So I slapped knuckles on glass.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: You know, I, said, move yo ass. And he came over, came over like Red Rover to find this controller. Cause I gotta go. I ain't got time for this.

>> Darin: Right, right.

>> Mike: Come get your package, you bastard. Or whatever. Anyway, he looks at it and I said, I think this is yours. And he looks in there and he goes, oh, yeah. And he just shuts the door.

>> Darin: No thank you.

>> Mike: No, no, no, no, thank you. Like, oh, it's nice. He just walked. I don't know if he lived there. I don't know if he had just. If he had just murdered the family and he was trying to figure out how to hide the evidence.

>> Darin: He gets a free pink Xbox controller.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Today, everything's covered up roses.

>> Mike: you would think, okay, so if I had ordered a pink Xbox controller, right. And somebody had brought it to my house, I would have been like, oh, yeah, I ordered this for my dog.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Or I didn't know where it was, and I ordered another one. And here's something I would have said something other than cacophony of idiocy.

>> Darin: Somebody drives over and brings something to you handily, you say, thank you. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: You say more to your Domino's delivery dude than he said to me.


Santa Claus brought me some new David Letterman merchandise this year

How's it hanging? You know, was cold out today.

>> Darin: Enough snow for you?

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah. What'd St. Nick bring you this year? Nothing insane.

>> Darin: Well, Santa Claus brought me some new David Letterman merchandise. Yeah, I got the, I got this, brand new hoodie with the Unabomber Dave on it with the, with the beard and the glasses.

>> Mike: Is that from Worldwide Pants?

>> Darin: Worldwidepants Store. If you go to worldwidepants Store and I'm not getting any, any change off of this.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: I don't know why I'm plugging it. Do it. Yeah, but go to worldwidepants store. I got the T shirt. Got the beanie. The beanie is nice.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I love the beanie.

>> Mike: You don't have it on.

>> Darin: No, but. Well, I thought that's weird. I've got to have the letterman hoodie and the letterman beanie. stalker.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: So, maybe next time I come over to your house, I'll wear the letterman beanie.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: But it is comfy and warm, and it's very well made, and the T shirt's the bomb, and I'm very happy with that. yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: It's got the, Yeah. Acrylic threading in the bean. Yeah.

>> Darin: Do you want to touch it? No, I'm talking about the switcher.

>> Mike: Oh, okay.

>> Darin: Jacob, Cameron and I went over to my mom's neighborhood. We were going to shovel her driveway, and it took a couple hours. And, because it had. It had snowed all day at her house, and we didn't get to pre. Pre shovel that, so we shoveled her drive. And then, you know, ah, we gave mom a hug, and we're getting ready to go home, and we're almost out of her neighborhood when the salt truck comes around the corner. Now the salt truck is at the corner. He sees us. We're a car. We've got our lights on.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: This is where he could have stayed where he was. I could have went around him, but the salt truck kept going toward us.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I'm like, what am I supposed to do? It's like, am I supposed to just back all the way up to where we were? Because there was no. No place to go, so. And he keeps coming. Not like. Not like a heated game of chicken. This ain't no Spielberg movie or anything.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But I pulled over and into a drift, and he passes me. Now I can't get my car out.

>> Mike: That's awesome. That's,

>> Darin: No, it's not. Because we were tired. So we get out and with our shovels or trying to shovel my car out of the snow, but there was too much under the belly of the car. So no matter how much you dig the wheels out.

>> Mike: Yeah. Really do anything.

>> Darin: And so this man comes out of his home, and. To which I thought he was going to say, hey, let me help you out. He comes and he goes, no kidding.

>> Mike: It was the same guy. Did he have a pink Xbox controller?

>> Darin: No. He, He did speak very good English. So we were trying. We were Having. We were having a hard time understanding him.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Super nice guy.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And he. I could tell. He asked me if we could move our car because of the truck.

>> Mike: Speaking in Morse code or just.

>> Darin: He pointed to the car and started.

>> Mike: You know, like, oh, he's a mine.

>> Darin: Asking if we could move the car. And I said, I can't because the salt truck made us move and now we're stuck and I can't get it out.

>> Mike: Yeah, the salt truck.

>> Darin: Yeah. So he gives us another shovel and we're trying to shovel the car out from underneath and that wasn't working. And then he said, you know, can I help you push?


Jacob, Cameron and this guy shoveled my drift

I'm like, that. That would be fantastic. So Jacob, Cameron and this guy were pushing my car and we got it out of the drift.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And then Jacob and Cameron and I helped him shovel the rest of his. Of his drive.

>> Mike: Oh, that's nice.

>> Darin: But I'm like Mr. Salt Truck Driver.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You could have just let me go around, you know, he was at the end of the street. I could have just went around him.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: That pissed me off. Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.


So today I got pissed off at a lady during a winter storm

>> Mike: So today I got pissed off at a lady in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot. Look, I know that this is a winter storm. It has a name. Blair. They name them now. They will name winter storms.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And so I get it.

>> Darin: It's winter storm. Blair.

>> Mike: Winter Storm Blair.

>> Darin: Okay. Not snowstorm. Blair.

>> Mike: Winter storm.

>> Darin: Winter storm.

>> Mike: Storm. Sounds like a pleasant thing or like a flurry. Yeah.

>> Darin: McBlurry.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: What?

>> Mike: Yeah. So, ah, I know. It's chaos on the day that it all comes down. This is now Tuesday, right? M. We're a day removed. The roads have been cleared. Normal laws and regulations start to come back into play. It's no longer acceptable just to go sideways through somebody's yard. I didn't see the road. You can't. You gotta. You gotta follow the rules.

>> Darin: Can't do that.

>> Mike: Right? You can't do that.

>> Darin: You got to follow the rules.

>> Mike: Yesterday was the purge, basically. For any goes. Anything goes. Whatever you need to do to get to wherever you're going and get back is fine. This lady did not even try to go into space. She came to a sliding stop diagonally M in front of the door. Like out enough to where nobody could get around her driving. And it's like, what do you.

>> Darin: And she went into the store, she.

>> Mike: Went in to pick up her order. And she just said hi to me when she was coming back out. And I was giving her the look that said really really? And she. It wasn't like she was in, like, a Dodge Dart or something that couldn't go in the snow. She was in, like, a, an aircraft carrier suv.

>> Darin: She was in a Yugo.

>> Mike: Yeah, she was in. She was in a Yuka, Yukon, ukulele, something. One of those big mother scratchers.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And she just didn't see a need to. Whatever. Now I was. I had to go in anyway, but if I hadn't, I would have had to have sit there.

>> Darin: Why did you.

>> Mike: Wait?

>> Darin: Why did you have to go in?

>> Mike: Because I had to get my coffee and my donut.

>> Darin: But was the drive thru not open?

>> Mike: no, they closed it because people kept getting stuck. Because. Yeah, so the dude was out there shoveling. The dude that normally gives me my coffee. And so we had a funny moment, more. More of an interaction than I had with Xbox guy. I was like, hey, what are you doing? And go back in.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: So I just gave her a nasty look, and she was like, hey. And I was like.


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So I was getting gas at Kroger and an ambulance comes around

Back to you guys in the studio.

>> Darin: We used to do a segment on this podcast called Just Stop, and I haven't done one in months, maybe years. Yeah, but if you get gas, if you pump gas in your car. Okay, when you're done pumping gas, you get in your car and you leave. Okay? You leave. You don't just sit there.

>> Mike: That's the accepted practice.

>> Darin: Yes. So I was getting gas at Kroger, and it looks like all of the pumps for. Oh, I spotted one. And it's on, like, the. The far, left.

>> Mike: the.

>> Darin: The back one.

>> Mike: So I need a more precise description.

>> Darin: Well, I couldn't just pull straight into it. I had to go around. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So while I'm driving around, the person in the front one looks like they're going to leave. And so they pull up. I'm like, okay, yeah, I'll just take that one. So it's easier for someone to pull behind me.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So I pull up behind them, thinking they're leaving and they're not leaving. Yeah, they're just not leaving at all. And I waited and waited. I'm like, okay, fine. So I backed up.

>> Darin: And just as I'm backing up and, and get the, the back pump, an ambulance comes around. Oh, now they were trying to get gas too, and now I'm paranoid.

>> Mike: Like, should they have a patient in there because they just ran out of gas.

>> Darin: Hang tight. Hold this compress on your head.

>> Mike: We're on fumes.

>> Darin: Exactly that.

>> Mike: Do you have a Kroger plus card?

>> Darin: That should stop the bleeding. Yeah. We can go in and get you a lozenge, so you may need some jerky. Yeah. And so the ambulance driver kind of shoots me a look.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: Like, what are you. Like what are you doing? It's like, were you gonna get that one? It looks like you were gonna get that one. Then you backed into this one. I didn't realize that the ambulance driver was coming.

>> Mike: So now you look like.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So the ambulance driver drives around and then grabs another pump.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay. All the while, this person in front of me is still sitting in her car texting or, or doing her nails. I don't know what she's doing.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, that person finally leaves and the. It's a woman who's driving the ambulance and she's pumping her gas.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I walk over and I say hi and hey, I'm sorry about the confusion with things. She goes, it's fine. I said I was trying to get this spot, but ended up getting this one. I didn't know you were coming out. She goes, we're all good. Everything's good. Whatever.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So. And by the way, if you drive an ambulance or if you're a medical professional, thank you for your service. Yes. Yes. And, if you have a person dying, please wait to get gas until after you've taken them to said hospital. But whatever.


You punched Chris Michael on your Facebook page, right? Yeah. You posted that on our Facebook, uh, page

Well, now we're having fun, aren't we? You punched Chris Michael.

>> Mike: He had it coming, you know, And I've thought a lot about you Potion.

>> Darin: You posted that on our Facebook, page, right?

>> Mike: I did.

>> Darin: You posted.

>> Mike: I posted on the. I think I did.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: It's my profile picture now.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: The moment of action.

>> Darin: But I don't know if you posted it on Irritable. Dads, maybe.

>> Mike: Yeah, I need to, I need to do that. yeah, there's, it's kind of a non story. It was a big build up to a whole lot of nothing.

>> Darin: Yep.

>> Mike: Just punched, him. But it was funny.

>> Darin: He's a nice, he didn't really punch him.

>> Mike: Really nice guy. Decked him right in his jowls.

>> Darin: He didn't punch him just right. They staged a picture where it looks like he punched Chris. Michael and Chris could not have been more into it.

>> Mike: he was excited.

>> Darin: It's like if we said, hey, we need to do this seven more times.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay. I've got nowhere else to go.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Nothing else to do. The only thing I want to do is stand here and act like you're punching me. Mike, see here, Jason Durbin was hanging on to my. He was the actor in the group. Like.

>> Mike: Yeah, that was.

>> Darin: Did you see what Mike did?

>> Mike: That just made it is, Jason pearl clutching. Yeah. Yeah. It was great.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So we, it was a fun party.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: The New Year's party. Best made a comment about me going into the party or afterwards. She said, you, you never seem to want to go to those things. But then when you're there, you have a good time. And I'm like, yeah, yeah. And that's me. That's just part of being with me is like when a thing comes up, like if you invite, if there were a camera in this house and you send an invite to me and Bess to go to a thing, you would see Bess go, oh. And you hear me go, oh, my God, Really? I gotta take a shower. I gotta leave the house. I quit drinking for a day. You know I'm kidding, but I do, I don't and moan, but I, I just like, ah. And I, I, I get nervous. I get nervous. And then we go, yeah. And then I have a good time. And then I'm always like, I had a good time. I do that with everything. Movies, I saw the. We'll talk about some other time. The Greatest Showman. I finally saw that. I bitched up and down.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: About it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: In the first 10, 15 minutes, I'm like, I think I need therapy. I need to stop saying that. I need, I need to for years to deal with it.

>> Darin: And I need therapy. So, I mean, it's like, you know, of course if I need it. Of course you need it. We were at the. Jason and Aaron Durbin had us over at their house and we played, we played some board games.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I Teased that at the beginning of the show. So this is what you've been waiting for, folks. Board games. We played left, center, right, which is a dice game that my friend. My best friend in the whole world, Leslie Collie Hole, recommended, that I get. And it's a dice game, and it's fantastic. Yeah, you roll the dice. If an L comes up, you move one of your quarters. You play with quarters, one of your quarters to the left. If our R comes up, you move one of your quarters to the right. And if the C comes up that center, that's the pot. You put that in the center of the table. Boom. And you keep doing that all around the table until only one person has a, quarter left, and then they get all the money and. Stupid.


There's a card game called Set that's extremely difficult to explain

Chris, Michael walked out of there with eight bucks.

>> Mike: Yeah. But he punched for it.

>> Darin: He won both games. We had fun playing that.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: We played Blank Slate, which is a game that we played at Anne.

>> Mike: I really like that one.

>> Darin: And Dave Wiseman's house. And I owe an apology to your wife, because I was picking on your wife as much as I would pick on you. And then I realized, Darren, you're really picking on her hard, Almost to an uncomfortable level. It's interesting, and I. Bess, if you're listening, I apologize. I'm sorry, really.

>> Mike: Because when we were driving home, she said, you were so mean to Darren tonight. And I'm like, I'm always mean to Darren. And she's like, she. She said, no, but you were really, really mean to him. M. When, I for. There was a word. It was a. The game. The weird tarot, card game or whatever the hell that was.

>> Darin: C. Set.

>> Mike: Set.

>> Darin: Set.

>> Mike: She's like, you. You stopped everything. And you're like, you understand this game? You.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: You get it.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: You.

>> Darin: Yeah, that's on the rundown tonight.

>> Mike: You just kept bringing it up. I'm like, well, I just, I was legitimately shocked.

>> Darin: Yeah. There's a card game called Set, and it's extremely difficult to explain, but once you understand it, you understand.

>> Mike: Think of what another game like that is.

>> Darin: I can't think of another game like it, but. Yeah, but you have all. You lay all these cards on the table, and you have to find a set of three that are completely alike or three that are completely different. It's all there's.

>> Mike: Therein lies the rub.

>> Darin: Yeah. There's different colors. There's different shapes. There's different shadings. They're either solid, clear, or shaded.

>> Mike: Let me interrupt you for A moment. That's where I was getting screwed up. Because they have to be either completely different or completely the same.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: And I would find one, and then Aaron or Mary, Or somebody would say, no, no, it has to be completely different. I'm like, oh, but it's the same.

>> Darin: No, it's not.

>> Mike: That's. And, yeah, that's this. It was driving me nuts. And then when you started explaining it to me, something snapped.

>> Darin: And you just. You looked at me and you said, you know how to play this game. And then what made it worse was with Libby, who never stands up for me, ever. She goes, yeah, actually, Mike, he's really good.

>> Mike: I know. I didn't know what to do.

>> Darin: I'm like, yeah, suck it, Mike.

>> Mike: Yeah. it was.

>> Darin: It was weird, Mr. Engineer.

>> Mike: It was so.

>> Darin: Mr. I understand calculus, but you can't play this silly board game designed for a child.

>> Mike: The damn game. Because it's not that you guys understood it. You were moving so fast, like, set. I'm like, what? What? Stop. What is that one? It's. Those are. Those are different. Yeah. That. They're the same. Okay.


Aaron says playing blank slate with adults was the highlight of New Year's Eve

Okay, fine. And I was. I would get really close to examples, and then somebody would grab it. And then. And then I think, Aaron, every once in a while, she was saying, oh, I was about to do that. And I almost called her out, said, I don't think.

>> Darin: You don't think you were.

>> Mike: I don't think you were about to do that. I. You're just watching other people play and then saying, I'm about to do that. Yeah.

>> Darin: yeah. Oh. Oh, you got that one before me. You're so fast.

>> Mike: Yeah, I could have done that.

>> Darin: You're not smarter than I am. You're just quicker than I am.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah, but I'm telling you, I, Libby and I went home, and I'm hanging up my coat and I'm getting on my pajam jams, and I told her. I said, the highlight of New Year's Eve was Mike saying, you understand this. That was the highlight for me.

>> Mike: I got trouble for that.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I got into, like, a.

>> Darin: But no. When we were playing blank slate, Best said something that I thought was funny, and, boy, I just started ripping on her.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, boy, I'm really sorry. But she laughed it off. And I. I hope she wasn't upset with me.

>> Mike: No. I was surprised at how many unfortunate slate combinations were coming up. A group of adults. Adults who. The parents extremely, What is that called? Immature adults. And you'd have something. Say blank job. Well, okay. And your mom's in the group there.

>> Darin: Yeah, my mom.

>> Mike: Blank pie showed up.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And I thought. And then it was. It was Mary.

>> Darin: Mary Cream.

>> Mike: Boom.

>> Darin: Cream pie.

>> Mike: Wow.

>> Darin: To which I said, that's my pie.

>> Mike: And then. Yeah, I. Revenge of the nerds. And then Bess got mad at me, like, you know, like. I just. Like. She's like, get your mind out of the gutter, Mike. I'm like, I'm not the one. She wrote it.

>> Darin: Mary said, crazy dirty woman.

>> Mike: Jeez.

>> Darin: Yeah. We were playing blank slate with, mom is me, Libby, mom, and, the boys. And we're playing blank slate at the house. And the clue was ball blank. Ball blank. Okay, well, so everybody. Everybody wrote. And, we're turning over the cards. And I was so proud of my answer. There was a ball. boy. Okay. Ball field.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Ball game. Okay. I think. I think two. I think two people. Nobody went there. Yeah, I think two people had a. Ah. Ball game.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Ball game. I said ball gladder. And everybody looked at me like I was out of my mind. Right. And I said. I said, you know, like the organ.


Dave Lay and his family enjoyed playing board games over Christmas break

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And Libby said, darren, it's gallbladder. And I. The flush. I was embarrassed. It was. And I was about fell out of my chair laughing at myself because I thought the word was ball gladder. Wow. Yeah.

>> Mike: What a cacophony.

>> Darin: What a cacophony of idiocy. I was. Yeah.

>> Mike: Awesome. Yeah. Ah, yeah.

>> Darin: We had a fun time playing board games. I'm gonna tell you something right now. I don't know. Are you guys an Uno family?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Okay. We love playing Uno, and we've played Uno for years. There's a new version of Uno. I don't know how long it's been around, but it's called Uno. Show them no mercy.

>> Mike: Oh,

>> Darin: Holy crap. There's draw four, draw six, draw ten. And you can put a draw six on top of a draw four, and you can put a draw ten on top of that. And the deal is, if somebody gets 25 cards in their hand, they're out. They're. They're not coming back. And I've. We've played it twice. I won it both times, and each time I won it because, process of elimination, I was the last person to be holding cards. And if you have a zero, all your hand goes to the right. And whoever's sitting next to you, their hand goes to you.

>> Mike: Okay?

>> Darin: So you can be stuck with two cards, and the person next to you has 17 cards? Yeah.

>> Mike: Boom.

>> Darin: You've got 17 cards. Like son of a. Yeah, but we had fun playing that too. We, we played a lot of games over Christmas break.

>> Mike: We did, we had a couple of games that we got for Christmas. Abduct that one. It's, it's you move ducks around a little board and you're trying to make patterns. And then the, the fun of that game is that you can screw with other people's boards as well as change your own. So you see somebody about to get a pattern of ducks and you just use a card. It just screws their world up. Really fun.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: For me, the one that was a real hit, is called something Smart ass. And the basically the gist of the game is you. Somebody the asked. Whoever's asking the question starts reading clues and you yell out the answer.

>> Mike: And it's made to trap people like me who pretend to know things that they don't know. So the first couple clues will kind of lead you. They're all clues for the actual answer, but they get, they're vague and then by the time it gets to the bottom clues, it's like it's a city in Italy, you know, with a initial R and ends in ohm. You know you're gonna get.

>> Darin: It rhymes with foam.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Dave: This portion of Irritable dad syndrome is brought to you by the Rubik's Cube. Hi, I'm Dave Lay and I'm telling you right now, chicks love a guy who can solve the Rubik's Cube. Available wherever cube shaped puzzles and toys are sold.


Sales of Jenga plummeted in 2001 because of 9 11

Now back to the show.

>> Mike: I was futzing around on the interwebs as I do and you know, I like the Reddit. There was a picture on Reddit M. and it said this graph tells a story. And the title of the graph was Sales of Jenga per year. And you see they're all high and then around 2001 they plummet.

>> Darin: Right around the same time cacophony started to rise. I wonder if there's a correlation.

>> Mike: And then they're all the way down there and I was just, I read the comments and all these comments were like, well that's when all them damn pansies were born. And, and that's when the, you know, it's like just all this different stuff. And I'm like what? And I just, I just said out loud, Bess is at the table and Charlie was there. I was like people are so freaking stupid. And she just, she just laughed.

>> Mike: And she's like, what is it? And I said, look, look at this.

>> Mike: There's people. What does this graph say to you? And she looks at it and she's like. And I'm like, really? And Charlie.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: Looked at it. He's like, oh, is that cuz of 9 11? And I'm like, yes, thank you. That's. Sales of Jenga plummeted in 2001 because of 9 11. Yeah. It was a combination of them stores not wanting to carry it and it was. Ah, you don't want to play a game about towers falling down. You're surprised by that as well.

>> Darin: I am, yeah.

>> Mike: But I mean there were hundreds of, hundreds of comments like, well, it's because of the China is doing trade embargoes.

>> Darin: That's all. Yeah, yeah. No, I just said, I believe you. That it was in the Reddit.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, they were all in there. But that's, but it was just like. And then, and then I was just. I just, it was like really? Really? You, you. Like, we were adults when this happened. We know that it happened. Charlie is 11. He's just like, I don't know how he's heard about it.

>> Darin: People stop getting like dominoes too, around.

>> Mike: I, I don't know. I don't know. But that the, the, the Jingograph. And literally all it said was this graph tells a story. And it was like, yeah.

>> Darin: Hey.


I've complained many, many times about our Alexa. I think our Alexa is either deaf or stupid

So I had a few, a few quick things I wanted to mention. These aren't necessarily full blown stories, but it's just, it's something worth mentioning. I've complained many, many times about our Alexa. I think our Alexa is either deaf or she's stupid or she is intentionally trying to piss us off.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because over Christmas we'll ask her a question and then she'll just start spouting off it. According to Alexa contributor, the Great Wall of China was built in. Whatever. No, we asked you where the nearest Chinese food restaurant was, you know.

>> Mike: Yeah, right. Yeah.

>> Darin: She's doing all this weird stuff.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Libby asked Alexa, she said, alexa, play Sleigh Ride and My Hand to God. Alexa said playing Slow Ride by Fog Hat on Amazon Music. And we're laughing so hard. Yeah. We're like, no, not Slow Ride. Sleigh Ride.

>> Mike: Yeah. It's Christmas.

>> Darin: We're making Christmas cookies.

>> Mike: It's like context clues. Alexa.

>> Darin: Yeah, come on. We, I mean we played like three or four Christmas songs before that.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So we're not gonna go from most wonderful time of the year. Yeah. To. To rock around The Christmas tree. So to slow ride.

>> Mike: So by fog Hat. So the Google lady. So, you know, you're on the Alexa, thing. We do the Google lady and I call all of our dogs Booba.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And I go, you call both your kids so. Yeah.

>> Darin: You call other people's dogs.

>> Mike: I do, Yeah. I call myself Boo Bottom. So the way to activate the Google is hey, Google. And I'll go, hey, you, you, Booba. And every once in a while, Google thinks I'm talking to her. It's a her. Because it's a female voice.

>> Darin: It's a female voice. Yeah.

>> Mike: And she says, you know, I'm sorry, I can't help with that. Or, you know, try, you know, scratching the, you know.

>> Darin: Oh, you move.

>> Mike: I like to be tickled. I'm sorry, I don't like to be tickled. Shut up. And I. I abuse the Google lady.

>> Darin: Google doesn't like to be tickled.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And she, she will answer questions unbidden that way.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then we will be in an argument at the table.

>> Mike: Like, I don't think Ralph Furley was the best of, the.

>> Darin: On the Jefferson or Three's Company. I worked for Antenna tv. Ralph really was on Three's Company.

>> Mike: I don't think Ralph early was the best landlord on the thing. And so, hey, Google, who is the best landlord on Three's Company? I'm sorry, I don't understand the. Oh, you don't understand the question.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Three's company. Mr. Furley and Mr. Roper. Yeah. Mr. Roper's the other guy.

>> Darin: Norman Fell, Don Knotts.

>> Mike: so anytime that she can actually be helpful, she's not. This thing went.

>> Darin: Hello. I had bronchitis.

>> Darin: I went to urgent care.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: I was afraid I had strep throat.

>> Mike: It's part of the reason we didn't record last week. Right.

>> Darin: yes.

>> Mike: Or whenever.

>> Darin: Yeah. I was gonna try to see if we could do one earlier.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But yeah, I. I sounded sexy as hell. But I go in, I think I have strep throat. And the doctor, who doesn't speak very good English.


Cameron went to Chick Fil a today with bronchitis

Okay, I keep. I'm not making fun of people who don't speak very good English. It's just a matter of fact, like, if not everybody speaks English, if somebody was tall. This guy was tall.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: This guy didn't speak very good English.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And anyway, he says, you have the bronchitis. I said, oh, okay.

>> Mike: She's like, mario is your doctor? Yes. And he said, it's me, a doctor.

>> Darin: He Said, drink lots of fluids. Eat chicken of the soup. And so I told Libby, do we have chicken of the soup? Eat chicken of the soup.

>> Mike: If you're,

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: If you're bad all year Christmas, the chicken of the soup comes out and all over your present.

>> Darin: Chicken of the soup. Yeah. And a few weeks ago, we talked about Cameron possibly getting a job at Chick Fil a. Yeah. He did not get the job at Chick Fil A. So we can say whatever the hell we want about Chick Fil a. I.

>> Mike: Went to Chick Fil a today for the first time in a long time.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: what's a good name?

>> Mike: they said Pleasure, not my pleasure.

>> Darin: Which they just said Pleasure.

>> Mike: Pleasure.

>> Darin: They cut it down to just Pleasure.

>> Mike: This. This you said.

>> Darin: You said thank you. And this lady said Pleasure.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: That's weird.

>> Mike: Yeah, it was very AI ish.

>> Darin: Hey, you had an AI.

>> Mike: It felt like AI. no, it was a very uneventful, Chick Fil A, it's that they've changed up their people outside.

>> Darin: They.

>> Mike: They all chick fil A's have about 15 people, mimes and circus performers and everybody else taking your order. Unicycles, you know, here, I'll take your order. And if you came with cash, you got to talk to Percy, up there. Percy's got the cash, and he's also guiding which cars come through the thing. But the guy who took my order was uncomfortably far away from me while I was trying to order. Like. Like I had bad breath. And I'm in a car and it's cold and the wind is blowing. And he's like, leaning back like. Like that. And, I didn't understand that. Threw me all the way off.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: he got the dressing wrong. I had to correct him on the dressing. And then they sent me up. I'm just going to call her Percy. They sent me up to them.

>> Darin: They're all Percy.

>> Mike: Yeah. To the. The change lady. And she's the one that said Pleasure. I was just. It was a weird event all the way around. So.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah, I was going to get a donut at Chick Fil a. No. Oh, I will drive. I will eat my salad from Chick Fil a. I'll feel so good about getting a salad that I'll then drive and get a donut.

>> Darin: I've been good.

>> Mike: Yeah. And so I actually drove to the donut place, right. And then turned around and left the donut place. And I did not get a donut. And the drive itself of going to the Donut place and leaving. I'm so used to having a donut on the way back from the donut place m that by the time I got back to where I'd left originally, I felt like I'd had a donut. It was like a cheat code. Like, I had the joy of having a donut, and I didn't actually have a donut.

>> Darin: That makes no sense at all. You had a phantom.

>> Mike: Phantom donut in a phantom donut. Like, if, you know, somebody gets their hand chopped off and they feel like they still feel.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah. I felt like you ate a donut.

>> Mike: So I'm gonna start using that. I'm gonna start driving to places that sell things that are bad for me and just not getting those things.

>> Darin: You know what I've done? I got a lot of candy for Christmas. and my wife.


Libby lost her mind over the Christmas holiday break with lots of sweets

I love my wife very much. Libby lost her mind over the Christmas holiday break. there was. In one night. She made lemon cookies. She made, what are called buckeyes, which are peanut butter chocolate balls.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Oh, my God. And she made two different types of cake balls. And she made, something else. Oh, like a day or two before. She and the boys took Nutter butter cookies and covered them in white chocolate and then put, like, Christmas sprinkles on them. So we had that. We had no baked cookies. We had. Oh, my God.

>> Mike: Do you have any vegetables at any point?

>> Darin: No. Why would you eat a vegetable over holiday?

>> Mike: Okay, that's true.

>> Darin: I mean, come on. It's Christmas.

>> Mike: You gotta poop at some point.

>> Darin: But you don't need to have to eat a vegetable over Christmas. Santa's not gonna come if you eat vegetables. Okay, so we had all these cookies.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. So we had all these cookies and sweets and stuff. And Santa Claus in my stocking put Swiss, rolls. Little Debbie Swiss rolls, and then the Little Debbie Christmas cakes. And then I got. My God, Reese cups and something else. So I've got so much. So much candy.

>> Mike: Well, what do you. Okay, go ahead. I'm sorry.

>> Darin: and I've told you I need to lose weight. I've got to lose weight. So I really have. I'm cracking down on the sweets. I had one Christmas cake. One Little Debbie Christmas cake.

>> Mike: Like a whole sheet.

>> Darin: No, no, One. One Little Debbie individually wrapped Christmas cake.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I love those.

>> Mike: Okay. I love those so much.

>> Darin: I called Jacob and Cameron and said, guys, you guys eat the rest of this. I gave my Christmas cakes away.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And the look on their face, like, dad's lost his mind.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah, so I gave those away.

>> Mike: I tried a few new recipes over Christmas, so. So last Christmas, we, like. I completely redesigned Charlie's room. Like, painted it, got a new bed, put all these things. Like, he has an awesome room. Hardly ever sleeps in there. Just randomly sleeps around the house.

>> Darin: Right. Sometimes, he just leans up next to the mailbox.

>> Mike: This year, I downloaded a bunch of recipes, and I made a. The one that was a big hit, at least for me, is a pasta bake recipe. But it's. It's from this guy. I can't. I can't think of his name, but he's, like, got little recipes on Facebook. Reels. So I follow him.

>> Darin: Kevin.

>> Mike: No, but he. He winks, and he always ends the thing. Like, when you get done with the food, it's like, take a bite of it and put it in your mouth.

>> Darin: Hello.

>> Mike: And then he winks, and it's really.

>> Darin: That's weird.

>> Mike: It's. It's distressing.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So the end of each of the recipes is a bit. Is a bit distressing. It's extremely famous.

>> Darin: Take a bit of it and put it in your mouth.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. And Sullivan with. Put it in your mouth.

>> Darin: You don't need to. Yeah.


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>> Mike: This is like one of those poops you keep wiping, and it just keeps.

>> Darin: It's like you got a magic Marker.

>> Mike: It's like, oh, wait, I got another one. And then it's just like a little turdlet, and it barely makes a splash.

>> Dave: You.

>> Mike: You feel your way around that.

>> Darin: Well, I'll feel it up.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Hello.

>> Mike: What?

>> Darin: And you know that usually when we do two, the second one's better. Than the first one.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So let's do the second one first. Take out my wallet. All this money. So.

>> Mike: Yeah. Charlie got a new, deal there.

>> Darin: Yeah. How's he liking his new deal?

>> Mike: He's into it.

>> Darin: Okay, well, good.

>> Mike: He digs it.

>> Darin: Everybody needs a. Who is the president who wanted everybody to have the new deal?

>> Mike: Taft.

>> Darin: Yeah. With a, pig.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: a pig in every pot. Frederico Fernandez.

>> Mike: Roosevelt. Was it Roosevelt's new deal? It sounds like. Right. FDR's new deal.

>> Darin: And there was.

>> Mike: Sounds about right.

>> Darin: A pot in every stove.

>> Mike: chicken. in every.

>> Darin: A chicken in every pot.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Hell, who was. It was a good slogan at the time. You couldn't do that now.


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>> Mike: I almost quit the pike podcast today.

>> Darin: Why?

>> Mike: I. I started watching Nate Vargazi, and I was like, you know, it's kind of like, what's the point? Like, what's the point?

>> Darin: What's the point?

>> Mike: What's the point?

>> Darin: Yeah. You ready to start?

>> Mike: Yeah. Okay, I'm ready.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren. I'm ready.

>> Mike: Glug, glug, glug, glug, glug.

>> Darin: HE chugs A glass of, some sort of odd liquid.

>> Mike: It's pink.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: I'm Mike.

>> Darin: Okay. Hi, I'm Dan.

>> Mike: Three viewers. And now we only have one.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Are you sure you're ready?

>> Mike: It's been a weird week.

>> Darin: I. I know.

>> Mike: I've only two.

>> Darin: I've had a day.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. All right.

>> Mike: For Clint.

>> Darin: Yeah, for Clint.


The plural is cacophonies, not cacophony

>> Mike: We were getting very penultimate playing that game cacophony of.

>> Darin: That's not a word.

>> Mike: What is Episode. That dropped today, and I called it a cacophony of, idiocy, which I think is beautiful.

>> Darin: And my text was cacophony.

>> Mike: the plural is cacophonies, not cacophony.

>> Darin: Oh, I thought it would just be cacophony.

>> Mike: if you look at usage over time for cacophony. Look at this. Look at this.

>> Darin: There's a cacophony graph on how often it's used over time.

>> Mike: There is.

>> Darin: Right around the same time cacophony started. We are living in the age of cacophony. You keep using the word. I do not think it means what you think it means.