IDS #244 - The Podcast For People Who Love Soup

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>> Mike: I got concerned about my health this morning that I had cut calories and cut sugar so much because I've had a headache for about a day. Stop hitting the tape.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Stop doing this, please.

>> Darin: Yeah, that's this thing. Yeah.

>> Mike: Because the sound travels through the metals.

>> Darin: Yeah. Stop that.

>> Mike: Don't do that.

>> Darin: Stop. I did yoga twice a week. I wore flip flops in public. I really feel like this is gonna be my year.

>> Dave: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. The soup of the day is loaded. Potato. Mmm. Please welcome 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 244.

>> Mike: This is the funniest damn thing you're going to listen to for the next hour.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Guarantee.

>> Darin: Yeah. As long as you don't stop it and go to something else. Yes. Yeah. You're totally fine. Welcome. We're happy that you're with us.

>> Mike: We are. How are you doing?

>> Darin: I'm doing pretty good.

>> Mike: Doing good.

>> Darin: I had a decent day.

>> Mike: Did you?

>> Darin: I did.

>> Mike: What you do today.

>> Darin: The project that I'm working on is going smoothly.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And I'm enjoying it.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I work for antenna TV and right now we're doing a project, the 50th anniversary of Barney Miller.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And my God is if that's not one of the funniest TV shows ever put on television.

>> Mike: Are they okay with you talking about this on the thing? Like, I, don't see a laser pointer on your chest.

>> Darin: Not saying anything negative about it.

>> Mike: That's right. Yeah.

>> Darin: I'm very lucky because my job, I'm watching episodes of Barney Miller and I'm writing things about Barney Miller. So my project is going very well and I'm excited.


You've got one of those, I believe people call it the cushy jobs

>> Mike: Yeah, you've got one of those, I believe people call it the cushy jobs.

>> Darin: Well, I have a creative job. I don't work in a factory. I, don't, you know, watch steel go down a track and people have to bend it into shape and, you know, I don't risk losing a finger at work. I do. I mean, I have a fun job. I enjoyed it.

>> Mike: Let me put a seat belt on this conversation real quick. we don't really talk politics. No, I mean, sometimes we do, but we. We normally don't, so. There's your seatbelt.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Been listening to a lot of political Podcasts lately.

>> Darin: Oh, fun.

>> Mike: and the one thing that I've noticed, and the reason I said you had a cushy job, is whenever people get upset with the podcast person asking them questions that they can't answer, they launch into, well, you don't really have a real. That's not a real job. And they're like, well, I'm.

>> Darin: I'm.

>> Mike: You're, you know, you're. You're paying me. I'm. I'm selling advertising. Yeah. But you're not clocking in, Right. Or you're not getting up early, driving to a place.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Clocking in, working for 12 hours, and then driving home and going to sleep and, and doing it all again.

>> Darin: So.

>> Mike: And like. But no, it's not just like the first time I heard that.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I'm like, okay, this person.

>> Darin: So that makes you better than me.

>> Mike: It makes you. That's a real drive.

>> Darin: An hour to work.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And you have a time clock.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I don't think so.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And by the way, I've done that.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: For. Yeah, I'm 54. I've done that for a good 25. no, 28 years of my life.

>> Mike: I. I did, When I first graduated high school, I did labor. Ah. Through. Through the summers. Yeah. And then I worked at like, cushy jobs compared to labor. I worked at Kroger.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And like the computer place at school. But during the summers I was doing like, like heavy stuff.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: In the refinery.

>> Darin: I used to help my uncle when he raised tobacco. I've worked in the tobacco fields.

>> Mike: I didn't care for it. I didn't care much for it. And I'll tell you this, neither did the working with me, though. The, The. The people that had been working there for years.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: The lifers, I believe they're called. Because they gave me a thing called a brass. Everyone had a number that was imprinted on a circular piece of brass. Metal.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And you wore it around your neck like a, Like a necklace. That was your number.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I don't. I'm assuming if something exploded, they could identify your body. It was like. It was like a dog tag.

>> Darin: Sounds.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They assigned you a number.

>> Mike: Yeah, I had a number.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So that was my clock in number. I'd, you know, clock in the time card with it, all this stuff.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And anyway, I remember each year when I got my brass, like, the main guy, the main foreman would be. He would like, hold it in front of my face and he'd be like, they Called me Odie.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: It was.


Darren Coxy's first job was cleaning up at a lingerie factory

My nickname was Odie.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: You see this Odie? I was like, yeah. He's like, next time you think about not studying at that college you go to. It's never like at college. It was like that college you go to.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: Just remember this brass. And remember being here for the rest of your life. I'm like, dude, okay. At the time. At the time, I was like. At the time, I was 18, 19 at the time, I appreciated the advice, but I kind of want to go back to him. I'm like, what you're doing every year is like going up to people and scaring them with your life. You're basically, you don't want to do what I'm doing. Could you imagine if Yoda did that to Luke Skywalker? Made him wear a brass. Look at this. Look. You will have years, in the swamp eating whatever he ate. Worms. You will?

>> Darin: Yeah. Worm soup.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. My very first job, the first time that I got a paycheck, it was the summer job. And mom had a friend, and she was dating this guy, and he worked at this factory. And he told her, he says, by the way, if your son's looking for work, we're hiring people to help over the summer. Basically, just cleaning up. Okay.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: That's all we need is someone to sweep up the work. I did. Didn't even qualify as janitor work, but the company did.

>> Mike: A janitor come up to you and say, this is your brass, Odie Coxy.

>> Darin: The company was Denise Lingerie.

>> Mike: Wow.

>> Darin: And, the factory. And I'm like, I'm going to work at a lingerie factory? Hell, yes. Where do I sign up?

>> Mike: Not what you think.

>> Darin: When it closes, what I'm going to do is I'm going to dive head first into a giant vat of lingerie. I'm going to swim around in all the daily. The, doilies and whatever.

>> Mike: The doilies.

>> Darin: Doilies. Whatever.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Whatever the hell.

>> Mike: This was a lingerie company in the 30s.

>> Darin: I was seriously going to dive head first into the lingerie.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, when I got a job there, it turns out that they no longer made lingerie. They only made sweatpants.

>> Mike: Well, hey, same thing.

>> Darin: I'm like, well, this is a bunch of crap.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I can't. You seriously. I can't jump into a big old thing of panties? No, you can't. So what they would do was they had rows and rows and rows and rows and rows of. Of people who were sewing the fabric together, like the sweatpants and then all the scraps were on the floor. And every day I would sweep up, like, 10, 20, 30, 40 bags of sweatpant string scraps. And then you'd throw it in the trash. And occasionally you would change out the fluorescent bulbs, and we would throw them into the trash. We'd spear them like you would in the Olympics.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Denise lingerie. I don't even know if they're still in business or not, but that was my first job. And then you're talking about, you know, hey, Odie, look at this. And trying to scare you. When I worked at one, of my TV stations, holiday, was coming up. I can't remember. we were off on Monday, and this guy's like, hey, Darren, you off Monday? And I said, yeah, I am. And, this person must be nice.

>> Mike: Oh, God.

>> Darin: And I. And I just looked at the said person. I said, you know what? It is nice. And if you want a job where you don't have to work every holiday, get out of what you're doing, because this dude is, like, scaring you with this brass number. Don't you want to go up and be like me? You know, you can leave your job anytime.

>> Mike: Have you ever, like, apply.

>> Darin: You can apply for another job.

>> Mike: You could have. You're Ever seen the. You know, the Manchurian Candidate where it's the dude and he just. Somebody says peeps and he goes and kills somebody.


Mike forgot Winter Soldier tonight on the podcast

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Like, triggers him, basically. The, like.

>> Darin: Bucky.

>> Mike: Like, Bucky.

>> Darin: Yeah. Captain America, did you have a point?

>> Mike: The Winter Soldier.

>> Darin: The Winter Soldier. Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Before the podcast, Mike said, if I ever forget Captain America, just strangle me.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And tonight he forgot Winter Soldier.

>> Mike: Yeah, I was close. You did you there. I would have gotten there. I mean, if I really. If I like, shut down, you have to reboot me. Just take me out. No.


Do you have any phrases that instantly enrage you

Do you have any phrases that, like, instantly enrage you? Because one of mine is one that you just said a little bit ago. Must be nice.

>> Darin: Must be nice.

>> Mike: And, you want to know mine? Go ahead.

>> Darin: When somebody says cool beans, I. Oh, my God.

>> Mike: Can I tell you?

>> Darin: Can I tell you I can't stand cool beans?

>> Mike: Bess used to say that all the time.

>> Darin: Time.

>> Mike: Okay. And she listens to our podcast every week. Sorry, Best, can I give you the one?

>> Darin: Like, I need another reason for Best to dislike me.

>> Mike: Yeah, One. One.

>> Darin: Oh, Darren, Best doesn't dislike you at all. Help me out.

>> Mike: One that takes me from 0 to 15 to 20 to life, is if I say, you know, is today Thursday? And somebody's like, all day, I lose my. Internally, internally, internally. You remember the show Chernobyl? You know, where they showed, like, the reactor melting down and everybody's freaking out and people are dying? That's me inside. I said, my whole world crumbles. I don't hear anything anyone says for the next 45 to 46 minutes. I am enraged. I am 100% capable of taking multiple human lives whenever I hear it. It is by grace alone that I can walk away from someone after they've said that and not self harm or harm others.

>> Darin: Well, it's not so much the saying, but have you ever, like, had a person that they say the same thing? So many times. Like, I used to work with a guy every Monday. Hey, how was your weekend? Not, long enough.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Really?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You said that last week, the week before, the week before that, Last month, Two months ago, three months ago, last year.

>> Mike: Yeah. So I kind of enjoy the fact that I am that guy at work. I do it with. Whenever somebody drops something, just put that anywhere from groundhog Day. I say it all the time. To where if somebody drops something and I'm around and I don't say it, they'll actually remind me. Where should we put it, Mike? Just put that anywhere. I cackled in the theater when I saw Groundhog Day the first time. I was in tears, laughing. That was my favorite part.


Something, uh, that I do at my current job is save treats

>> Darin: Something, that I do at my current job. I work remotely. My company is in Chicago, and I work remotely out of the. My basement here in, Cincinnati. Lovely, beautiful Cincinnati, Ohio. And occasionally at work, they will post m a message on teams saying, hey, there's donuts in the break room. And I'm like, okay, Must be nice.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: But no. And then I started saying, hey, save me one, right? So this girl, as she works at the office, every time I would joke about saving one, she said, hey, I got you one right here. Yeah, like. And then she said, I put it in your drawer. So now there's this fictional drawer that I have.

>> Mike: Okay, right.

>> Darin: That I imagine it's got to be, like, 75, 76 donuts in there by now, right? So whenever there's treats, I say, savannah, say, you know the drill. And she says, I got it in your drawer. So we've got this other woman who she, left that. She didn't leave the company. She no longer works in Chicago. She now works remotely out of Nashville.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: So somebody said, she's gonna have to share your drawer. And I threw A fit.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because no, she's not sharing my drawer.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You either give her her own drawer.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Or she's out of luck because one, my drawer is full. Two, my, my drawer is fictional and I'm not having somebody take my fake drawer away from me.

>> Mike: So.

>> Darin: And boy did I unload on everybody. Oh, and they loved it. So they love having me as an employee.

>> Mike: If I worked at this place, I would be compelled. If somebody said that, save me one. I would talk with hr, get their address and doordash them a donut. Just to be. Just to be that guy.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: I think that's what they should do.

>> Darin: Yeah, that's exactly what they should do.

>> Mike: I'm really trying to be good. I have not had sugar for. This is day three.

>> Darin: Oh wow.

>> Mike: I mean with the exception of. I durst some coffee creamer.

>> Darin: Okay. Any cereal, I don't count that.

>> Mike: I, I have high protein cereal with like four net carbs. The, the, that cereal, the Magic Spoon. That's like fifteen hundred dollars a box.

>> Darin: You know it's much cheaper at the Costco.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: It's like you bit two boxes for two $10.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Instead of one box.

>> Mike: Really?

>> Darin: Dollars? Yeah.

>> Mike: They have it there.

>> Darin: Yeah, they got the, just they got the blue box of the chocolate flavored.

>> Mike: Okay. So the chocolate flavor. The chocolate flavor is the good one. All the other ones are like, It's like. Let me put it to you this way.

>> Darin: Tastes like cardboard.

>> Mike: Let's put it in terms of movies. Okay.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Count Chocula. Reese's cereal. Cocoa Puffs.

>> Darin: I love Reese's cereal.

>> Mike: M. Those are let's say Lord of the Rings. Okay.

>> Darin: Oh sure.

>> Mike: Now the Magic Spoon protein chocolate cereal. the Corvette Summer the seventies. What's the seventies? Lord of the Ring one where Bilbo's this. Oh, just the back fat ridiculous bastard. And he's just like yeah, that.

>> Darin: One fat ridiculous bastard.

>> Mike: And I lost my train of thought. all the other flavors, the fruity flavors and all those.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Are like a flip book. And we're. Half the pictures are pictures of someone's butt.


I'm worried I'm going through sugar withdrawal. I'm actually excited about tonight

>> Darin: Well, you told me that it was so good. And you're like before you go, I'll let you have a bite of it. And you didn't. So I bought a box at the time.

>> Mike: I was off sugar again. And it tasted amazing. When you're not having the sugar.

>> Darin: Oh yeah.

>> Mike: Everything I read tells me tonight's the.

>> Darin: Night, where it's gonna be all.

>> Mike: right it's possible that I love you, that once you leave, I pop popcorn and pour butter and maple syrup on it.

>> Darin: Shut up. You don't put syrup on your. On your popcorn.

>> Mike: I have never done it before, but right now it sounds great.

>> Darin: Huh? Uh-huh.

>> Mike: Think about it. Think about maple syrup.

>> Darin: I am thinking about it. Yeah.

>> Mike: What is that like?

>> Darin: Oh my God. It's gotta be amazing.

>> Mike: Gotta be amazing.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Science. Normally I.

>> Darin: Can it be wrong?

>> Mike: Normally I wouldn't do anything like that because I don't want like sticky stuff on my fingers. But where I'm at right now, who cares?

>> Darin: Yeah. Socket. Doesn't matter.

>> Mike: So I'm there. If I can end this podcast and go to bed and wake up and do the same thing tomorrow that I did today.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I'm far less likely to fall back into the trap. And then if I make it to the weekend.

>> Mike: I'm actually. The weekends used to be my, like, scary part.

>> Darin: It's like Mardi Gras on your weekends.

>> Mike: Oh God. I would go buy a cake.

>> Darin: Remember I went through food up in the air.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And it's like whatever falls in my mouth.

>> Mike: That's right.

>> Darin: Falls in my mouth. And then you're like, oh, screw it, it's on the floor. I don't care. And you'd eat that too.

>> Mike: When we first got our Costco membership, I was buying cakes for other people's. I bought a cake for Antonio Banderas.

>> Darin: Antonio Ban years.

>> Mike: And Best thought that was funny. The first three cakes that I bought.

>> Darin: Well, the cakes at Costco are amazing.

>> Mike: They have that, they got that.

>> Darin: White cream in the middle.

>> Mike: Yeah, that's right. A few weeks ago, I ate about four boxes of. I'm not kidding, about four boxes of peeps in a day?

>> Darin: You. In a day?

>> Mike: In a day. In one day.

>> Darin: Did you would think that would put you into some type of shock?

>> Mike: I'm worried I'm going through with sugar withdrawal. Like I. I literally had a headache. I was didn't. I was, I was, I was a pissy person.

>> Darin: Yeah, normal.

>> Mike: I'm a pissy person, but I was like, chemically a pissier person. the last time I did this, it was successful. I lost a lot of weight and I got to the point where apples, Darren Apples tasted like candy.

>> Darin: I love apples.

>> Mike: But they were like. I was like. I would bite one and I would get like a shiver. And it was like the same thing that I get now when I bite into a donut or a Reese's cup and I was like, I don't ever need sugar again. And that was a lie.

>> Darin: Wouldn't a commercial hit the spot just about now? I am out of my mind excited.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And you should be as equally.

>> Mike: Don't har point at me.

>> Darin: You should be excited, too. I'm going to go see Devo in concert.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah, I. We did talk about this.

>> Darin: I am so excited. Honest to God.


I remember when I was a kid, my brother was a Devo fan

I remember when I was a kid, my brother, okay, so the stereo was in his room, and Greg wouldn't let me play or use the stereo, so I had to listen to what he listened to.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: If he wasn't home, I would go in there and play music, but if he was home, he would not let me use it. Anyway, Greg was a Devo fan. He may still be okay. And so he had Freedom of Choice and New Traditionalists. Yeah. are we not men? We are devoid. Whip, it was off of Freedom of Choice. Okay, okay. So we had that. And by the way, you just made my point. I told somebody that I'm gonna go see Devo, and within five minutes, whip it good.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Like they had.

>> Mike: So that's their only song.

>> Darin: That was their only song that charted. It's, like, their only hit. Yeah, but they have.

>> Mike: But everything else is a remix, so.

>> Darin: No, it's not. M. Okay, Shut up. You and I are gonna throw hands.

>> Mike: Is what you say.

>> Darin: They have so many great songs. Anywho, so, I started listening to Devo because of my brother. And then I got. I got hooked, and I really, really, really like Devo. Anyway, I never dreamed. Because a couple years ago, I told somebody, I said, I think I have pretty much seen everybody that I would want to see in concert already. I couldn't think of any other acts. I had no idea they would ever tour again.

>> Mike: You've seen War.

>> Darin: I thought they were. I did see Guar.

>> Mike: Yeah. I mean, because I was about to say, you haven't seen Guar, but they're like, yeah, no, no, I did.

>> Darin: I broke my ankles going to see Guar. I had fake blood, by the way, that's on an episode of Irritable Dad Syndrome. I talk about the fake blood at the Gwar show. Check that out. I don't remember what episode number that was.

>> Mike: Yeah, we can put that in.

>> Darin: Yeah, you can search that. So, but Mikey and I were gonna go see Devo. I. I remember. I heard they were coming.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I texted you. I said, devo, we're coming. You're going. So reach out to your brother Jim. Your brother in Law Jim and see if he wants to come with us.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then you replied like five hours later. Yeah, I don't think so.

>> Mike: Okay, so can I take the story?

>> Darin: I said okay, because I wasn't gonna. I'm not. I'm like, I'm not gonna beg, so I'm not gonna. Oh, come on, man. Once you go, it's like, if you don't want to go, don't go to the greatest concert of the summer.

>> Mike: So when I told Bess the story, she laughed and she said, that is so you. And here's the me. So me.

>> Darin: So you.

>> Mike: Yeah, so you. You texted me. I'm not a Devo fan.

>> Mike: So initially I was like, I don't really, And I was at work. So the five hours. To me, to me. I responded within 10 minutes. But I was like, it was true. We don't know when we're going to be here, when we're not.

>> Darin: When Jon Stewart came through town, I texted you, and you text me back within two minutes.

>> Mike: That's true. But anyway, I was. I was not, going. And then I. So I texted you, whatever. And then I thought of Bess, and I think at some point years ago, best said, if Devo ever comes around, I want to see them.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: So then I looked up tickets, and then I saw tickets were still available.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So I thought, well, if I find out from you where you're sitting, I might be able to get the seats right next to you, around you somewhere there.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And you told me. And the whole row behind you, five seats or five or six of those seats were empty.

>> Darin: Wow.

>> Mike: So I went to the Ticketmaster thing. I picked those seats.


Jim and Laura are going to see Devo on Friday in Columbus

and then I thought maybe Jim would want to go.

>> Darin: Of course he would want to go.

>> Mike: But he's like, lives five hours away and, you know, and then I go ahead and put three tickets in because I figure if he doesn't want to go, I can always get rid of his ticket. Right. As I'm doing that, Best says, maybe Jim would want to go. I'm like, I got him. I got him covered. I bought the tickets. And then after I bought them, Bess said, maybe Laura would want to go. Now my whole. That's best, sister. Like, now I don't. I don't know what's going on. So Laura has it. She's a professional with. She's, a doctor.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: She's smart.

>> Mike: Jim is an engineer, but he, like. I don't know. He like, does pro. I don't know what he does, he builds. He has an arcade.

>> Darin: I'm,

>> Mike: Basically, I have no idea what he makes. He made a stage once. He just does things. But I guarantee, I told, I guess tell him Best is like. And I told him, I can just generally buy you a ticket at any point, anywhere in the US and you'll probably go. And he's like, yeah, probably will. So I ask, I tell him, and I text Jim, quote, hey, loser, we bought you a, Devo ticket. It's on this date. Do you think Laura would want to go? Or something along those lines? He said, I'll check. And then he asked again what date it was. I went ahead and jumped back into Ticketmaster. M. Lo and behold, the seat right next to him is still open. I went ahead and clicked put it in the cart. And, you know, a little eight minute timer goes down. It's. It's taken down. There's like three minutes. And he just comes back. She's in, bought it, Boom. So I tell Bess this story, and she says, hold on. The day started out with you with Darren asking you to go. You m. Told him no, right? And then you bought four seats behind him, invited Jim and Laura, and now we're all going. I said, yeah. She's like, that is that. Although that's not where she said, that's. You went in to visit Jim and Laura. Because I was going to other gyms. 50th, ah, birthday party.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And we were talking about it. Jim said that they were planning on going to see Devo in Columbus the Friday before.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Now we're in the balcony, our seats for our show. But Jim's like, I'm a GA guy. I'm like, I'm a GA guy too.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I was like, if you're going on Friday, grab me a ticket and I'll go ga with you and we'll snake our way to the front. Front. So then I told Best that. And she's like, that is so you. You went from, there's no way I'm going. And now you're definitely going. And you may go to another one in ga.

>> Darin: So you're gonna go to another one. A GA one.

>> Mike: If he buys. If he gets GA tickets. I told him to get me one. Do you want to go?

>> Darin: What am I, invisible? So here's. Here's my thing.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because I'm explaining this to Libby.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: Because I sent the thing to you.

>> Mike: You would go ga with this.

>> Darin: I told you you're going. and, see if Jim wants to go, and then you're like, yeah. So I'm like, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna wait on you.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: To figure it out. So I call my buddy Chris Newman.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Some guy.


Chris Newman is my rock and roll buddy. Honest to God, when I worked at Channel 5 with him

>> Darin: Chris Newman is my rock and roll buddy.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Honest to God, when I worked at Channel 5 with him, if he came into my office, we would talk for a solid hour.

>> Mike: Easy.

>> Darin: M. Okay. Easy. And if I didn't do this podcast with you.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I could do a podcast with him. Yeah, no problem.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. I would miss you.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And so I said, hey, you want to go see Devo? Absolutely. So he and I get tickets.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. So then next day, I'm going to Devo.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then you're like, where are you going to be? You and Bess are behind us. and then now Jim and Laura are coming. So explaining to Libby, I'm kind of going on a triple date here, but instead of taking you, Libby, my wife, I'm taking my friend Chris Newman, because I didn't know it was going to be a triple date.

>> Mike: And we're going to be behind you, like, poking you and everything.

>> Darin: You're gonna wear your red Devo hat.

>> Mike: Yeah. He has a whole. He has the whole thing.

>> Darin: He probably has the yellow.

>> Mike: Yeah, he has everything.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: He's buddies with one of the guys in the van. I don't know who the guy in the band is, but, they chat on the emails.

>> Darin: But I'm so excited.


Billy Idol is nominated for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

>> Dave: You are listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome now in a convenient resealable bag.

>> Darin: Billy Idol today nominated for Rock and Roll hall of Fame.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I'm positive he's gonna get in.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And if he gets in, I want to go up to Cleveland. I want to go to the induction ceremony.

>> Mike: I thought that everybody. That this is naive me. I always thought years ago that everyone who got nominated got in. I didn't know there's, like, a voting process.

>> Darin: Yeah. They nominate, like, 14 people. And they. They used to. Okay. At the beginning of the Rock and Roll hall of Fame, they would put in, like, 16 or to 20 people.

>> Mike: They had some ground to make up.

>> Darin: Right? Yeah. So they. Yeah. year one through five, I think there's, like, between 14 and 20 people a year. Then for like, five or six years, they skimmed it down to five. And Tom Morello was talking about this. He's like, when the funnel is so, so thin. Right.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And every year, literally every year, you have, like, another 100 artists who are eligible.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You got all these people because people like, how come he hasn't been in there? He was eligible 25 years ago. Yeah. Because they're putting five people a year in. They changed that, and they started putting in eight, nine artists. a year in.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So, God, I hope Billy Idol gets in. I hope Soundgarden gets in.

>> Mike: They're not in there yet.

>> Darin: No, they're not. They. They were the first grunge artist.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. They.

>> Mike: They invented. Yeah.

>> Darin: Soundgarden was out before Nirvana. They were for Pearl Jam.

>> Mike: They were so that it really wasn't even grunge. They were. They were considered, like, almost metal. They were. It was like your metal friends liked them, but it wasn't really metal.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And then your non metal friends thought it was cool that they liked them even though they're not metal.

>> Darin: They called it, like. Do they call alternative music?

>> Mike: Yeah. Alternate. Like. Yeah, but. Well, it was. Alternative rock was everything from REM To. Yeah, well, Soundgarden. Yeah. But. Yeah, you would listen to a Soundgarden song, and you're like, well, this is not metal. And then all of a sudden. Oh, and then outshined is. I. I mean, that's a freaking. That's a. That's a Ronnie James Dio song.

>> Darin: I'm sorry. You can't. You can't. You can't listen to outshine without it all the way.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: as loud as you.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anytime bad Motor Finger ever comes on, it's. No, we gotta start this right. You crank it to the highest it can go, and you restart the song and you just go all the way through. Through. Is there anybody? Like, because I. I would imagine, like, the first year they had, like. Yes, the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, they had to get, like, all these people.


RINO Records is releasing a box set of David Lee Roth solo albums

The first year, there would be riots.

>> Darin: The Beatles didn't get inducted till, like, year four, I think.

>> Mike: Who the hell gets in there? Well, Elvis, Chuck Berry. Yeah.

>> Darin: Little Richard.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: the Everly Brothers.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Buddy Holly.

>> Mike: Is there anybody from back in the day like that that hasn't made it yet that I.

>> Darin: Funny you asked that.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Chubby Checker is on the ballot this year for induction into the Rock and Roll. No. The Twist. Come on, baby, let's do the Twist.

>> Mike: Oh, my gosh.

>> Darin: Chubby Checker is on the same ballot with Billy Idol. Soundgarden.

>> Mike: I'm pretty sure Phil Collins is in there twice. And Chubby Checker's not in there.

>> Darin: Phil Collins is.

>> Mike: Is, Genesis is in there.

>> Darin: Genesis is in there. Phil is not in there as a solo artist.

>> Mike: Really?

>> Darin: Yeah. We've talked about. Nope, he's not m. He's only in there with Genesis. Peter Gabriel is in twice.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah, that may be where you're confused.

>> Mike: But that may be.

>> Darin: Yeah. You know how I love pissing, off people on the Internet?

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: I tried. I was trying so hard this particular time.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And I think I made a new best friend. I saw an ad. RINO Records is releasing a box set of the first five David Lee Roth solo albums.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Right. And I, I instantly, I went straight to the comments and people were like, are there any bonus tracks? Is this, is this, are these reissues? Are they.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Are there, or did they, Are they remastered?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You know, and these people are complaining because it's just the five albums.

>> Mike: I didn't know he had five albums.

>> Darin: There's crazy from the Heat.

>> Mike: Yeah. Was just a Gigolo album that was.

>> Darin: Off of, something in this. I don't know what they're called. But anyway, so all these people were complaining that they weren't remastered, there's not bonus songs or whatever. And I said, this would be great if it weren't for all the David Lee Roth music. And within like 20 minutes, this guy comments. Hey, I like Dave. Oh, but that's hilarious. That's a joke.

>> Mike: Boy, you missed it.


Mike is in the Soup Lovers club

>> Darin: So, Mike.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I understand that you were in a new club.

>> Mike: I am in a new club. I'm in the Soup Lovers club.

>> Darin: How old are you?

>> Mike: I would, you like to know the, the story of how I got into this.

>> Darin: How did you get in the Soup Lovers Club?

>> Mike: I've been downloading recipes like crazy from. I don't even know where I'm at half the time. YouTube Reels, Facebook, reels, Instagrams, Tick tocks, They're all, all whatever. And I saw a delicious looking stew.

>> Darin: Oh, now wait, hold on.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Does stew qualify as soup?

>> Mike: It's in the soup lovers group. Someone in the soup lovers group.

>> Darin: But that question, I don't want to piss off soup level.

>> Mike: Well, that question was proposed in there and then there was. There became a heated debate about whether or not you should put the mushrooms in. In my opinion, the mushrooms make the stew.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: More than a lot of people were like, ooh, I don't want mushrooms in my stew.

>> Darin: Well then don't put mushrooms in your stew.

>> Mike: Yep. They were very upset. It. It was a slow cooker recipe.

>> Mike: They tell you the ingredients. They don't tell you a crap about what temperature or how long. Like the Stuff you need to know.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: So I thought, well, that's a waste. But then I saw it was in the soup lovers group. I'm like, that's interesting. because this is an amazing looking picture of stew. I bet dollars to donuts.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: That group has more delicious soups and stews. And I bet, that in there, if they don't have the temperatures that you need to use in the recipe, someone in the comments can help guide you right to the temperature. But regardless, once in the soup lovers group, you can have amazing soup and.

>> Darin: Or stew. I'm betting that.

>> Mike: And I may be leaving it soon. And I'll tell you why here.

>> Darin: You're getting too many notifications.

>> Mike: It's getting very controversial.

>> Darin: Oh, okay. I'll add carrots. Okay.

>> Mike: There's So I. I'm in the soup lovers. And you saw. I was very proud and excited.

>> Darin: Yeah. You know, I was actually a little bit jealous. I'm like, damn it. Mike's in a soup club and I'm not.

>> Mike: They took a. I think I like.

>> Darin: Soup more than you do.

>> Mike: They took a respectable amount of time I To vet me to be in there. Not everybody. You may love soup, but you may not love soup in the way that the soup lovers group loves soup right now. Let me just admire it.

>> Darin: Does a bisque. Does that count as a soup?

>> Mike: I, haven't been in the club that long.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And there are some things that we can't.

>> Darin: Is. Is there like a co. Group that you can join? what type of bread goes best with this soup? Like. Yeah, because I. Well, duh. Okay, okay, okay. Here's.

>> Mike: You find a way to push bread into every conversation because you're. No Libby. Still doing this to you.

>> Darin: Day one.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Of the soup club.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: They're gonna go over chicken noodle, tomato.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Vegetable. Okay. Those are your three basic soups.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. Yeah. Then down the road, two or three weeks later, they're gonna get into loaded potato.


As a member of the soup lovers club, I am free to discuss soup

They're gonna get into savory, mushroom or. Or corn chowder. Chowder. Chowder.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Is that a soup?

>> Mike: Yeah, well, it. Yes, it is.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: French onion soup is the more advanced.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Crew.

>> Mike: See, there's ancillary soup topics like what bread you stick.

>> Darin: Hang on. I gotta find out what ancillary means. Then there's broccoli cheese soup.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: I'm not eating that.

>> Mike: Yeah. I'm not taking questions right now.

>> Darin: Cream of chicken and wild rice.

>> Mike: As a member of the soup lovers club. I am free to discuss soup with others within the club.

>> Darin: Oh, but not me.

>> Mike: I mean, it's a secret society, Darren.

>> Darin: so secret that you went on Facebook and hey, everybody, look at this club that I'm in.

>> Mike: I was proud.

>> Darin: did you see.

>> Mike: Because they have a picture. Did you see the picture? Yeah, it's a nice picture of soup. Really nice looking soup. Like a little bit darker than a tan with some vegetables and you can see little bits of meat. It hits it.

>> Darin: I wonder if were there trivia questions like. Like which company claimed that their soup ate like a meal?

>> Mike: So the first hours. Of being in the soup lovers club, everything I would have thought it would be pictures of delicious soup. heated discussions.

>> Darin: No pun intended.

>> Mike: Heated discussions. Why is there celery in this soup? Celery doesn't belong in soup. To where someone would say cream.

>> Darin: M of celery.

>> Mike: To where someone would say, you need a little bit of crunch in the soup. And then someone else would say, if your celery is crunching, you're not making the soup correctly. You haven't cooked it long enough. And then others I would call the purists would come in and say in the prehistoric times, they didn't have a lot of time to let no soup absorb into the celery and cook it because they're saber tooth tigers and other predators coming. The, the smell of the soup will attract predators. So if you're, if you're like, what do they call that? The old, what are the prehistoric convention? No, no, there's a diet. The. Oh, what are they called?

>> Darin: Caveman?

>> Mike: No, it's the caveman diet. It's basically the caveman diet. You want your celery in your soup to be crunchy, right? As it was when Ugg originally made it. or Thor, depending on whether you're, whether you're in America or Grease. It doesn't matter. The point is. The point is lively discussions, delicious soup, wonderful recipes, and then pictures of sad people holding soup. And with. With descriptions that had nothing to do with soup lovers.

>> Mike: my, my husband left me and all I have is the soup.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Disturbing.

>> Darin: No. Yeah, he probably left her some strange who only made like chili and then.

>> Mike: Random posts that have nothing to do with.


I'm in the soup lovers club to read about soup

I'm in the soup lovers club to read about soup.

>> Darin: I'm going to join the soup lovers.

>> Mike: I would love for you to come into the super. I could put in a word for you.

>> Darin: I am going to talk nothing about anything else except for the Fact that I love Campbell's soup. I love opening. Cracking open a can of Campbell's soup. Yeah. pouring it in with half a glass of water and then just the. Oh, my God. How dare you?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: How dare you eat canned soup.

>> Mike: Yeah. You're going to piss them off. You. Can I tell you something?

>> Darin: Sure.

>> Mike: These, people that listen to our show may not know because they have lives. They may not know. When you get into a Facebook, have you met.

>> Darin: Have you met Chris Hughes?

>> Mike: When you get into a Facebook group, you get badges for comments. Like, if you're very helpful, if you're a helpy helperton in the group, you get gold. Like, you get a badge.

>> Darin: Help me. Help.

>> Mike: Yeah. Chris Hughes has a badge in our Irritable Dad Syndrome group.

>> Darin: He frequently comments.

>> Mike: He frequently comments and he helps people.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: I want the Helpy Helperton star and badge in the Soup Club so that when I do comment, my words have weight. Ah, right.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I've already got. I am well decorated in the YouTube group, which means when I say something, there's. They listen.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: They know that what's coming out of my mouth.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Means something.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And I want that same power in the Soup Club.

>> Darin: Yeah. I'm well known and respected. Well, I'm well known in the, David Letterman fan club. On Facebook. Yeah. I don't think I'm respected anywhere once. But I think.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I think in time, I could work my way. Weasel my way in to the Soup.

>> Mike: Lovers Club so I could use you in there. Because once I get to the highest levels of the Soup Lovers Club monarchy.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Once. I am the most respected soup discussor, in the crew.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: That's when I unleash my secret weapon.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: And I'm gonna let everybody here at Irritable Dad Syndrome know what that is.

>> Darin: Because no one's gonna right now.

>> Mike: Nobody's gonna. Nobody's gonna hear. And none of y'all are getting in the Soup Lovers Club. It's a very exclusive.

>> Darin: It's like, Jimmy Hoffa could be on this podcast. No one would ever know.

>> Mike: No. I'm going to say with all seriousness, M is cereal soup.

>> Darin: Oh, come on. I wasn't gonna do that. Yeah, I wasn't gonna do that.

>> Mike: It's the most annoying thing.

>> Darin: It is.

>> Mike: Name a more annoying.

>> Darin: I'll tell you what's more annoying than that.

>> Mike: What's that?

>> Darin: Is my kids, not my kids in general. My kids have had arguments over and over and over again.

>> Mike: Over.

>> Darin: Is water wet.

>> Mike: Yeah. Okay.

>> Darin: Because it's not but whatever it touches, it makes that thing wet.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

>> Darin: And they wouldn't stop.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And they're going to listen to this, huh?

>> Mike: And it's going to start it all over it again.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: the other thing that I can do, and actually you could do if you infiltrate the Soup Lovers club, is to post the, Sesame street bit with the blue guy calling over Grover because there's a fly in his soup.

>> Darin: Yes.


Jerry Smith: Soup lovers convention is scheduled for Miami next month

>> Mike: Just post that on there. And like an instant question. What soup do you think he's eating? Oh, and then I can come in like an alley oop and a dunk and I could say, looks like fly soup. Oh, that's a double whammy.

>> Darin: Is the Eddie Murphy bit from Coming to America. Is that like the video that you watch?

>> Darin: Stop right there. A minute man goes into a restaurant. You listening? A man goes into a restaurant. He sits down, he's having a bowl of soup. He says to the Raider Raider, come taste the soup. Ray says, is there something wrong with the soup? He says, taste the soup. He says, there's something wrong with the soup. Is the soup too high? He says, will you taste the soup? It's wrong. Is the soup too cold? Will you just taste the soup? All right, I'll taste the soup. Where's the spoon?

>> Darin: so I imagine when you, like every year they're probably going to have like these soup lovers convention. Of course it's gonna be in Miami.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: New Orleans or Connecticut. Not what. I'm sure it's beautiful.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Not what I had in mind.

>> Mike: You know, Alaska.

>> Darin: And then like everyone's gathering around and before they bring in their comic, it's probably Geechee guy. they will show. Yeah, yeah, they will. Well, they got to entertain.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They will show the Soup Nazi clip.

>> Mike: Oh, of course. Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: And they'll probably bring him in. Hey, Jerry, I didn't know you like soup. Hard to believe. This guy makes the best soup in the city.

>> Mike: Jerry.

>> Darin: The best.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: He'll sign autographs.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: No soup for you. There will be like a tribute to the founder of the soup lovers.

>> Mike: Exactly.

>> Darin: Soupy Sales.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, there you go. Which. That. Hey, hey. 244 episodes. That's the first time Soupy sales has been brought up.

>> Mike: It's another opportunity.

>> Mike: To undermine the soup Lovers Club. Is that when we're at the convention? Trade out all the crackers for Ritz.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Nobody wants Ritz crackers in their soup. I like Ritz crackers. These, these highfalutin, holier than Thou look down your nose while eating the soup. Those people, them, they're looking down. They're looking.

>> Darin: They look Ritz crackers.

>> Mike: I guarantee everything goes better on a Ritz.

>> Darin: Really?

>> Mike: Yeah. That's too corporate for these people.

>> Mike: They're there.

>> Darin: Yeah, it's rough.

>> Mike: It's going to take a lot of climbing to get up that hill. It's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll with the soup people. I'll get there. I'll get there. We'll take them down together.

>> Darin: I am so joining this soup club.

>> Mike: It's the best.

>> Darin: I can't wait.

>> Dave: You are listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome. This podcast is so hot, you're going to need sunscreen.

>> Darin: My body temperature is 95 if you wish to be warm. Dr. Smith, come into my arms. Have a great day and stay cool.


My youngest son, Cameron, got a job at Culver's

So my youngest son, Cameron, got a job. They hired him at Culver's.

>> Mike: Culver's.

>> Darin: Culver's sells.

>> Mike: Home of the Butter Burger.

>> Darin: The Butter Burger.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I don't know if any of y'all have ever been to Culver's, but I'm telling you, Culver's makes a good burger. Yeah, their food is really good. I do like Culver's.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And when he told me he was going to interview there or he was going to apply for work there, I was like, well, good, because I think he would get sick of being at McDonald's.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And he interviewed at Chick Fil A and that didn't pan out, which was great because I didn't want him asking what's a good number? And you know, it's like, it's my pleasure. I didn't want to see that.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Ah, he doesn't have to do that. That's Culver's. That's right.

>> Mike: yeah, Culver's. Here's your food.

>> Darin: No, no, they don't say that he works for Culver's.

>> Mike: Okay?

>> Darin: He doesn't. They're very nice at Cul.

>> Mike: they're good people.

>> Darin: The best restaurant ever is Culver's. Okay. Yeah. So he's got an interview, 4:00. I drive him to 4:00am yes, Mike, he had an interview at 4:00am an hour before you get.

>> Mike: They got it. They gotta butter the buns, get ready for them, get ready for the day.

>> Darin: So I drive him and he goes in, he's doing his interview, and I'm sitting out there in the car waiting on him to complete said interview. And he calls me and, he Says, dad, they need you to come in. And I'm like, why on earth would they need me to come in?

>> Mike: You know, vouch for him.

>> Darin: Thank God I'm wearing jeans. I was at home.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I was working from home, as I do, in my pajama pants.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I had on pajamas, and I thought, you know what? I better put on some jeans.

>> Mike: Was it like a character pajama pants? No Wolverine or anything?

>> Darin: No, I don't have Wolverine pamphlets. I have spongebob pajama pants, and I have Grinch pajama pants.

>> Mike: Based.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: What?

>> Mike: You haven't heard that yet?

>> Darin: based.

>> Mike: Based.

>> Darin: No, that's.

>> Mike: That's what all the kids are saying.

>> Darin: B, A, S, E, D. Oh, not B, A, S, T, E. I was like, what the.

>> Mike: You're still. You're still on the Soup Club?

>> Darin: Yes, I am. I'm. I could.

>> Mike: You could start saying that. Say if your kid says something that's awesome, like, based.

>> Darin: Based.

>> Mike: Dude, you get so much. You'll get so much street rep in your house.

>> Darin: Well, every Saturday, Jacob has his band come over.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: And so, Hey, guys. How's it going? Good. Good. Yeah. That's a based.

>> Mike: No, don't do that. No, just ask, like, if the kid that they bring.

>> Darin: Hey, guys, are you based today?

>> Mike: No. No. Damn it. When they, like. Does one of them have an instrument that they bring in? Yeah, let's say it's a bass guitar. An Ibanez. Ibanez. Ibanez. Ibanez. Ebenezer. Let's just say it's an Ebenezer. You say, hey, is that an Ebenezer? Yeah. Based.


Jacob says Mo taught him how to play bass, and I almost laughed

>> Darin: Based.

>> Mike: It just kind of nod. You'll be the coolest dad.

>> Darin: I was good.

>> Mike: I was really good. Uh-huh.

>> Darin: Because they came over last Saturday, and they were getting ready to leave, and Jacob says, hey, dad, Mo taught me how to play bass, and I was this close to going, well. Yeah, dude, it's a bass. Anybody can play bass. And I didn't because these kids, they don't know me, yet.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Anyway, after they left, I told him. He goes, why didn't you? That was hilarious. They would have loved that. So what was I talking about?

>> Mike: Larry or Curly in the band too?

>> Darin: No, Dan and. And Mo, which is short for Mo base. Mo. Mo money.

>> Mike: Mo Money. Okay.


Dad says Cameron had to fill out forms for job interview

>> Darin: Anyway, I'm at C. Yes. And I'm waiting on Cameron to get done with his interview, and he says, dad, they need you to come in here.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I was like, okay. And so I walk in there, I'm glad that I have on jeans and I'm wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers sweatshirt.

>> Mike: There you go.

>> Darin: And the first thing I. Woman is high. And I said, I didn't know I was going to be part of this. Please forgive the Steeler sweatshirt. This doesn't have any. Please.

>> Mike: Bearing.

>> Darin: There's no bearing on him. And she goes, I will not hold that against him. I said, okay. They were going to give him the job. Okay. He had to fill out all these forms, with the, checking account number and. And this and that and all that stuff. So she's like, most of the kids who come in here have no idea any of this stuff. So I'm filling out these forms.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: For him, and then she, you know, she's talking to Cameron, and then he's filling some stuff out, and I'm just sitting there, and it's so awkward. And you know me, I can't just sit.

>> Mike: I know. Yeah.

>> Darin: And I'm just really, really, really having a hard time. And I looked over, I said, did he tell you that he has straight A's? And she goes, no, he's. He's, He's got straight A's.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then I'm like, yeah, he's a, He's a pretty good kid.

>> Mike: You're gonna get him from the fries, right on the custard machine. That's where the big pucks come. Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: And I was like, darren, shut up. Shut up. Don't embarrass him. Yeah, but I. I didn't know I was going to be in there for the interview.

>> Mike: What do they expect?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: What do they expect is that you're just gonna sit there and just, like a robot, fill out forms.

>> Darin: I will fill out the form.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. But, yeah, he got the job, so good for him.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. And I didn't screw it up for him. No soup for you.


What is your opinion on people who wear shirts from events they did not attend

What is your opinion on people who wear shirts from events that they did not attend? Like, if I went to see a, Devo in concert and you didn't go in and you said, bring me back a Devo shirt.

>> Mike: Yeah. I'm not a fan.

>> Darin: Why not?

>> Mike: because you didn't go.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: But I have. I have a shirt or two of things that I didn't go to.

>> Darin: Okay. We were at Boy Scouts.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: And they had a table, full of old hiking, boots and T shirts.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And it was yours if you wanted it.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Because the previous Scouts had these things, outgrew them, no longer needed them, not.

>> Mike: Fell off a cliff. No Scout. They pulled it off of his dead body.

>> Darin: Somebody's wallet.

>> Mike: There's blood on this.

>> Darin: Hey, what happened? so there was a, a shirt, and it was in xl, and I'm like, that looks pretty comfortable. And I grabbed it.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And it's from. I don't remember the event. I'm telling this story, and I can't remember anything about it.

>> Mike: Yeah. I think that's okay, but.

>> Darin: No, but I'm wearing this out one day. Hey, you went to that Scout thing. I'm like, no, no. It's a free T shirt. The look. Oh, the look I got. Like, how dare you?

>> Mike: Like a judgmental look.

>> Darin: Yes, absolutely. Well, my son and I went to that, and we had a very good rewarding adventure and a bonding experience at said event.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Oh, good. I'm glad you did.

>> Mike: Jaska. If they got a T shirt.

>> Darin: Jacob has wore my concert T shirts to school.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And he gets. He wore my Van Halen shirt one time. Oh, did you go see Van Halen? And Jacob's like, no, My dad gave me this shirt.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And the kids, like, I try not.

>> Mike: To do it myself, but I do. Like I said, I do have a couple of shirts from things that I did not go to. and that's just life, and that's just how it is, and I don't care. One of them is a YouTube shirt for a concert I didn't go to. I think that I have established my YouTube fandom, pretty well. I think I'm allowed to wear right now.

>> Darin: I've got a buddy who went to see the year the Pittsburgh Steelers played the Eagles in the Super Bowl.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And beat them. He brought me back a Super Bowl T shirt.

>> Mike: Okay. I think that's fine.

>> Darin: Yeah. And people like, oh, man, you went to the Super Bowl?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: No, a friend of mine went, and they're like, oh, yeah. Like, what do you care?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It's like, is they really. Are you disappointed? Like, had I gone?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Would that have made you been happy?

>> Mike: I'm on the verge of getting a Rush T shirt. So Rush is doing a thing where they are. They've actually reprinted tour programs from their past tours. So if you went to, like, any of their concerts and you want the tour program, they've reprinted it.

>> Darin: See, I didn't buy a T shirt when I was. Saw Rush.

>> Mike: Well, the T shirt that I have from the. It was the Clockwork Angels tours. The one you saw. The one that I have that shrunk down to where I think Marbles might be able to fit a paw in it.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: It's annoying. They have that shirt, but they changed. They tweaked the design a little bit. Why not this? I don't know why. But they have. So they have programs and they have shirts from their previous tours. And one of my favorite albums, the album that actually got me into Rush is Presto.


I want a Rush Presto shirt. And I think it looks cool

And they have a shirt from the Presto tour. And I think it looks cool because Presto is the one had all the little bunnies on it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And it's just, it's a Rush shirt because most Rush shirts have the pentagram with the naked guy's ass, you know?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Or the, the people carrying pictures. This one, it's. You got to listen to the thing.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's about ass. No, it's not. I don't know what it's about. I do know what it's about. I don't know why that picture's there. But the point is, I want a Rush Presto shirt. And, I will put probably end up at some point getting that shirt. And I didn't see Presto. And when they, when they toured.

>> Darin: Yeah. We got a comment. How is that any different from people wearing T shirts from colleges that they didn't attend?

>> Mike: I think it's very different.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Well, you can be a fan.

>> Mike: You can be a fan, but then why are you?

>> Darin: Yeah, my father in law was a big fan of UT football and he wore UT orange.

>> Mike: One of my friends, just as I was with this weekend, has a Gonzaga hat. Is that. That's it?

>> Darin: I thought that was a chi.

>> Mike: Yeah. Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I have a T shirt for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because we, when we were in Destin, we went to Florida. We went to the town that was, they filmed, the Truman show in Good Morning. And there's a music store in there. And in the back of the music store they have concert T shirts for authors.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And they're real. And I was like, the only one I would buy would be Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And lo and behold, there it was. I got it.

>> Darin: But like, is that a,

>> Mike: It'S an awesome shirt.

>> Darin: No. Is that like an unwritten rule that you can't wear a shirt from a college that you didn't attend?

>> Mike: It's. It's just like. Well, the thing is, is you're going to get questions like, oh, did you go so and so? And like. No, I just. I like the picture.

>> Darin: When my buddy Don and I, when we went to see the Late Show.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right. We're front row.

>> Mike: David Letterman with David Letterman. Yeah.

>> Darin: And we're sitting in the front row, and my buddy Don is wearing a Ball State sweatshirt, and Letterman looks at him and goes, hey, Ball State. Did you go to Ball State? And Doug goes, no. And he goes, oh, next question.

>> Mike: That's why you don't wear it.

>> Darin: So he talked to. He talked to David.

>> Mike: That's true.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's his conversation starter. Yeah.

>> Darin: Did you go? No.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Okay. M. I think that was a conversation dinner, which is perfect, because we're wrapping this.

>> Mike: We are wrapping this thing up. This is just. We did. Okay.

>> Darin: I had a good time.

>> Mike: We made it.

>> Darin: I.

>> Mike: We made it to the end.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: For the 244th time.

>> Darin: Yeah. Congratulations.

>> Mike: Thank you.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah. You did well yourself. You know, it was a team effort.

>> Darin: I think we both, carried the baton and we ran across the finish line. Jesus. Okay.


Mike Odle: I gave myself a headache with all that soup talk

Okay, guys, we're gonna go. Thanks for listening. We hope to see you next week on Irritable Dad Syndrome.

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

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Mike.

>> Mike: I'm Buford. I'm not Buford. I gave myself a headache with all that soup talk.

>> Darin: I don't think there's gonna be a mosh pit at Depot. Really? Don't.

>> Mike: Bill Burr got really pissed off because Howie, Mandel. He was on Howie Mandel's podcast, and. Howie.

>> Darin: Hold on. Stop. He'll do Howie's podcast, but he won't do this one.

>> Mike: Yeah. Are you futzing with the, Yeah, the Jimmy Jammer. Okay, I'm going crazy.

>> Darin: Oh, man.

>> Mike: You don't know what I'm gonna do next.

>> Darin: You're out of control. Please allow me to introduce myself. Ah. And fame. Looks like we made it. Something, Left each other on the, Way to another love.

>> Mike: That's how I roll, Darren. I don't care.

>> Darin: I don't care. You know it. Speaking of Mork and Mindy Shazbot.

>> Mike: I mean, soup is kind of funny when you think about it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Darin: What do you know from funny, you, Bastard.

>> Dave: If you've enjoyed this episode, then I know you'll enjoy our other episodes. And guess what? They're all available to listen to right now from our website, irritabledadsyndrome.com. we'll see you next week.