IDS #245 - I Accidentally Put My Finger In It

This episode of Irritable Dad Syndrome was previously recorded in a basement

>> Dave: This episode of Irritable Dad Syndrome was previously recorded in a basement somewhere in Ohio. Please listen responsibly.

>> Mike: I think it'll be fine.

>> Darin: I think it'll be great. It's not fair that people are seated first come, first served. It should be based on who's hungriest.

>> Dave: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. If you had a rotary phone, you'll love this podcast. Please welcome your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Mike: Hey, I'm Mike.

>> Darin: I'm Darren.

>> Mike: This is Irritable Dad Syndrome. We are Cincinnati's comedy podcast. You are listening to us because you decided to.

>> Darin: That's right. So you have no one to blame but yourself. This is episode 245.

>> Mike: What do you got?

>> Darin: Well, tonight I'm gonna talk about what happened to, my lovely wife and I on Valentine's Day. And I'm gonna talk about Rick Springfield.

>> Mike: You know what did not happen to me on Valentine's Day?

>> Darin: What's that?

>> Mike: I didn't piss myself.

>> Darin: Yo. That's awesome.

>> Mike: At all? Not even a little bit?

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: You know, a little dollop of tea.

>> Darin: Isn't that, sad? When you're happy with that, you're impressed with it. Most people expect that, you know, every day it's like. But you. Hey, guess what didn't happen.

>> Mike: We're getting up there in years.

>> Darin: We are. I'm, like, five years older than you.

>> Mike: Yeah. And, there was a piece of advice that an older gentleman gave me once, and part of the advice was never trust a fart.

>> Darin: Okay. Yeah.

>> Mike: I get up often to pee in the middle of the night.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I got up to pee, and I occasionally fart. Welcome to the show. I occasionally.

>> Darin: We're happy that you're here.

>> Mike: I occasionally.

>> Darin: Oh, this is a good one.

>> Mike: While I'm peeing.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: It's one of the few things I do well.

>> Darin: Son of a bitch.

>> Mike: One of the few things I do.

>> Darin: We're less than a minute and a.

>> Mike: Half into, so this is probably.

>> Darin: Sometimes I fart when I pee.

>> Mike: Sometimes. This is. It was just like one or two in the morning, and I like, oh, here comes one. and lo and behold, twarnt a fart. And. No, no, I'm gonna clean it up for the. For the kids. I, ended up having to take a shower at 1:30 in the morning, throwing away the underwear and apologizing to Booba. She wasn't in the room, but she heard everything.

>> Darin: We're starting over.

>> Mike: No, it's perfect.

>> Darin: That's never happened to me.

>> Mike: Never?

>> Darin: No, no.

>> Mike: Really?

>> Darin: No, I've never. No.

>> Mike: Have you? You've never. So you've never done exactly what I just did, or you've never trusted a fart when you shouldn't have, have you? Sharted, I guess is the.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah. Okay.


Libby skid marked across our carpet on Saturday

You had, you had.

>> Darin: That was something that I realized. Yeah. I don't want to talk about this.

>> Mike: 245 episodes, man. It had to come up at some point.

>> Darin: We have enough problems getting people to listen.

>> Mike: Anyway, people love this, okay? Their favorite thing. Hello. Anyway, we are.

>> Darin: End of the day. Yeah. You're, you know, you're getting undressed. Getting. It's like, oh, wow, that happened.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not that bad if it's at home, you know? Didn't say it was tiled flooring.

>> Darin: What's the flooring kind of do like, when you're the dog, you scoot your butt across the floor.

>> Mike: Which, by the way, now that you mentioned that Booba does that, doesn't she? No. She did that for the first time ever on Saturday.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I was the only person in this family that was horrified. And that scares me even more. She plopped her buttocks directly upon the carpet and did the old boot scooting boogie.

>> Darin: Looked like R2D too.

>> Mike: Into the bedroom. Bess barely even looked at it.

>> Darin: Left a CSI trail.

>> Mike: She. Look what she did. She skid marked across our carpet. Our permanent carpet. I know you can change carpet, but who's going to do that right across the carpet? And Charlie. I told Charlie what happened, and he. And I, quote, like, laughed.

>> Mike: Quote, unquote.

>> Darin: Laughed, unquote. You use a quote when somebody said something.

>> Mike: I had to.

>> Darin: He said, quote. Boy, that's funny. I like on the car.

>> Mike: And then everyone was walking away from m. This disaster, and I had to come down here. Not here, but to the kitchen.

>> Mike: Where we keep the poop cleanup stuff. It's a long story. And go back upstairs with the roll of paper towels and that and do a, ah, hazardous waste cleanup. And I'd let everybody know. You're welcome to. You can walk in and out of the bedroom with your bare feet again.

>> Darin: I do not miss having a dog. Conrad M. That stupid dog of ours would, If he ever got sick, he would be on the tile floor. The tile in the kitchen. The tile. And he'd walk over to the carpet. My Conrad, you stupid dog.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: He would literally walk two feet onto the carpet. This looks like a good place to throw up.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You remember, Molly? I Do, she would go directly to the nearest electronic device, when she was vomiting and puke on it. So I got into the habit of if we. If she started going and doing the dog, like that thing that they do, I'd run over and grab the PlayStation and lift it up. It was almost like, you know, Pavlov's thing where they ring the bell and you salivate. I'm up, you make the wharf sound, and I'm over there lifting PlayStations.

>> Darin: Boy, that'll m. That'll wake you up in the middle of the night, too.

>> Mike: Oh, shoot.

>> Darin: Out of bed.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah. I think I've told the story on this podcast. I know you and I were on another one. and I told this story, but if I told the story already, I'm, gonna tell it again. When Cameron is really, really, really little. M. he got out of bed, he comes into our room, and he gets, like, two inches from my face, and he said, daddy Conrad pooped on the floor. And I accidentally put my finger.

>> Mike: What the hell was that?

>> Darin: To which I said, quote, how do you accidentally put your finger in it?

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Yeah. So Libby's got Cameron in, the bathroom, and she is washing him with hot water, bleach, everything else, and I am cleaning the. Off the carpet.


Stupid. I accidentally, accidentally put my finger in it

>> Mike: Stupid.

>> Darin: I accidentally, accidentally put my finger in it. Okay, can we stop talking about.

>> Mike: We can.

>> Darin: Okay, great. Fantastic.

>> Mike: We've got a great show. We do.


Cox made reservations at Matt the Millers for Valentine's Day

>> Darin: So I mentioned Valentine's Day.

>> Mike: Valentine's Day.

>> Darin: what did you and Bess do for Valentine's Day?

>> Mike: We went to the, Kona Grill. And, the reason we went there is because that was the only place I could get a reservation.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And that's where we went, for Christmas.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Because that's the same thing. It's the only place we get a reservation.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Because I always forget to get reservations at places until it's way too late.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah. So we took Charlie because Andrew. I think Andrew was working.

>> Darin: Yeah. He's still at the pizza place.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And we. We had the dinners.

>> Darin: Yeah. Did you have a good time? Yeah.

>> Mike: Had a good time.

>> Darin: Yeah. And you didn't piss yourself? That's awesome.

>> Mike: I didn't piss myself at all.

>> Darin: So last year, I made reservations at Matt the Millers. We've. You and I, we've been to Matt the Miller with Chris, Hughes, Mr. Huggies City Hughes. That's right. Yeah. So we all went to Matt the Miller's, and it's a nice restaurant, like a 14 hamburger.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Something like that. You get sandwiches and you can get a chicken sandwich and burgers and you get a little pricier things if you want to get a steak. They have a lot of salads. They have a variety of items.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: At Matt the Miller's.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. Welcome back.

>> Mike: Welcome back.

>> Darin: Every time we've been to Matt the Miller's, we've enjoyed it. It's, every time. So I thought, okay, so I made reservations for us at Matt the Millers and 7:30.

>> Mike: Valentine's Day.

>> Darin: For Valentine's Day. And they said, we can get you in at three. Seven, 30.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Or 10:00. I'm like, oh, you know, I'll take the 7:30 best.

>> Mike: That's. Yeah. Of all the dinner time.

>> Darin: I'm old, but I'm not eat dinner at 3:00.

>> Mike: It's the most dinnery of 3:00.

>> Darin: 3. Oh, it's the magic number. Yeah, it is. It's the magic number. Really? They were going to make me a reservation at 3:00.

>> Mike: Yeah. But yeah, that's what people do for holidays. That drives me crazy. That's early for lunch when you have a Thanksgiving dinner. 10:00am what are you doing?

>> Darin: We get to Matt the Miller's and we walk in and I said, table for Cox. And they said, okay, right this way. as she is walking us to the table, she says, oh, and by the way, you guys can only order from this menu tonight. And she winks at me.

>> Mike: What other menus? What do you order from Red Robin's menu? I wish.

>> Darin: We sit down, huh? And they have a special menu for Valentine's Day.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: With like the 49 steak, the 69 steak. And they have the. You could get the three different courses. yeah. So you can get the crab bisque, the something else bisque, almond salad, the thing. Yeah. And then you get whatever steak you.

>> Mike: Want with the thing.

>> Darin: And then you have the tiramisu or the whatever. And I'm looking at this and I'm.

>> Mike: Like, I don't want any of this.

>> Darin: This is.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.


Matt Miller says Matt's restaurant love gouged him on Valentine's Day

>> Darin: We came to Matt the Millers.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I figured, you know, we were gonna get some drinks. We were gonna get, Each of us get, I don't know, like a 15 to 20$.

>> Mike: Give me a corn dog, a Bud Lightning.

>> Darin: Yeah. Don't think they do that.

>> Mike: Oh, that wasn't on the menu. Not even for Valentine's Day. I thought I would have. Thought they would have done that.

>> Darin: I didn't know that was. Wow. No, I would have paid extra for that.

>> Mike: That's the West Virginia.

>> Darin: So I'm sitting there.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, And I looked at Libby. I said, what are they doing? And she says, I. I guess it's just a special thing for Valentine's Day. and I said, they didn't do this. Last year on Valentine's Day, they had a bunch of.

>> Mike: I. You know what it is?

>> Darin: They were love gouging.

>> Mike: It's big. Yeah, it's big, Miller. They've had a bunch of people come in, huh? And order a salad and a corn dog.

>> Darin: Huh?

>> Mike: And hello. And pay. Like. Can we say this? We did pay $20 and leave.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: But then, you know, they lost out on all this money that they could have made if they forced you to buy the more expensive items they dress it up as. Oh, this is a special Valentine's Day to make you feel like a jerk if you say, no, no, give me.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: Give me.

>> Darin: What guy is gonna go, oh, this is too expensive.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: And I'm going to embarrass myself in front of my beautiful lady that I'm sitting next to.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And who's going to do that? Right? yeah, Darren's going to.

>> Mike: Yeah, Darren's going to. Yeah, because Mike's going to.

>> Darin: I asked the waitress, I said, what's going on here? Hey, what happened? How come there's not a. Where's your regular menu? Yeah, I'm not, You know. And she goes, well, it is Valentine's Day. And I said, I know. I know that I made a reservation to be here tonight. I'm not as dumb as I look. That'd be physically impossible.

>> Mike: So, yeah, I said.

>> Darin: I told her. I said, yeah, I know. We were here last year on Valentine's Day, and you could order pretty much anything that you wanted. Now we have a choice of this, this, or this. And. And she says, you know. And Livy's like, honey, she doesn't make the. You know, she doesn't make the rules.

>> Mike: I said, oh, just following orders, huh?

>> Darin: Just following orders even though they're wrong.

>> Mike: That's right.

>> Darin: Libby says, can you give us a minute? And she says, sure. And so she left. And he's like, I'll do whatever you want to do. Yeah, if you want to go, I'll go. And I said, even if I wasn't pissed at them for love gouging us, there wasn't anything that I wanted. I didn't want crab bisque. I didn't want the. A, steak. I wanted. I was really Craving one of their burgers. Because I love their burgers. I love the burgers. I love their French fries.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: That's what I wanted, and they weren't going to let me have that, so we walked out of there.

>> Mike: hey.

>> Darin: Yep.

>> Mike: High five across the room.

>> Darin: Bam.

>> Mike: That's badass.

>> Darin: Yeah.


The Millers went to Smoky Bones for Valentine's Day food

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And we went to Smoky Bones.

>> Mike: There you go.

>> Darin: Two restaurants over.

>> Mike: Right. Over.

>> Darin: 10 minute wait.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Oh, my God. The food at Smokey Bones was the bomb. They.

>> Mike: They practically bring it over in a wheelbarrow. I mean, they throw it at you.

>> Darin: I. We've been. We have been there a few times. And the food we had at smoking, we had fried pickle appetizers. Oh, my God, the fry. I could eat the fried pickles all day.

>> Mike: The homemade donuts there.

>> Darin: Yeah. We had fried pickles. I had a burger. Libby had some chick. We were gonna order a margarita. But when we get a margarita, we want the big market.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And they didn't have the big. You got to go to the Mexican restaurant to get the biggest fishbowl.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. And then we had the, the donuts.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And we did like Louis ck. We ate until we hated ourselves. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: So.

>> Darin: And we had a fantastic Valentine's Day. Thank you, Smoky Bones. Screw you, Matt.

>> Mike: The Millers, I think you just answered a question that I've been, wanting to ask you for the past 20 seconds. Is okay. I'll just tell you how I am, and you tell me if you agree. I think about what I want to eat, and then I ask everyone if they want to go to the restaurant that has that item.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And so that when I get in there.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I order that item. So I think I want a Chewy's steak burrito.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: There's really no other reason to get anything else at Chewy's other than their steak burrito.

>> Darin: They. Yeah.

>> Mike: And so I go.

>> Darin: Chewy's is the bomb.

>> Mike: I don't even need to see the menu.

>> Darin: I get the combo fajitas at Chewy's.

>> Mike: They bring me the menu, and I say, please, senor, tell them what, senor.

>> Darin: Don'T dance.

>> Mike: steak burrito at the Red Robin. You've been to the Red.

>> Darin: I've been the Red Robin.

>> Mike: It was the royal Red Robin. The royal red ramen burger. Yes, again, they bring the menu.

>> Darin: Excuse me, senor.

>> Mike: Not needed. Gustavo. Or whatever. Anyway, whatever. Red Robin is garcon. So I would go to Matt Demiller. I already think about what I usually get at Matt Demiller. And if I got. If I went in and some chowder head.

>> Darin: Yeah. Some.

>> Mike: Some lame duck, some knob comes up to me. Some, piece of dog awful comes up to me and brings me a piece of paper. Was it shaped like a heart?

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: It did have hearts on the top.

>> Mike: Get bent. Yeah. And it doesn't have what I normally eat on there. Go pound sand, bruh.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I give this establishment enough money normally.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Do me a solid on Valentine's Day. I've already had to buy a gift. I've had to be nice all day.

>> Darin: Oh, all day.


Darren denied his wife a fancy dinner on Valentine's Day

>> Mike: I've had to, Whatever else you do, that's usually the limit of what I'm able to do. Gift and be nice.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Let me have my, Fluma or whatever it is that I want from the place.

>> Darin: But listen, you. You people, all y'all, listening before you start sending hate mail that Darren denied his wife a fancy dinner on Valentine's Day. Again. She said, I'll do whatever you want to do. And I said, well, I don't want to. You know, if you want to eat something fancy, we will. And she said the same thing. There's not really anything on here that I want.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And now we've been to, Ruth Chris Steakhouse before. And then what's the other big fancy.

>> Mike: Jack, Jake Ruby.

>> Darin: Jack Ruby. Jack. Jack Ruby's.

>> Mike: Jack.

>> Darin: She said Jack Ruby's.

>> Mike: Jeff Ruby.

>> Darin: Jeff Ruby.

>> Mike: Jeff Ruby.

>> Darin: We've been to Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse before, too. We've done that.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, Yeah. You're gonna do that every week. You do that, like, once every five years.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then you regret it. You go on with your life and honest to God. And Jeff Ruby's is a very fine establishment.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But I've had steaks better or just as good at Longhorn Steakhouse. So, I mean, I'm sorry, we went to. Their steaks are good. They're not the best damn steaks ever. We.

>> Mike: I had heard about this. This.

>> Darin: I don't think they're going to be advertisers, forever.

>> Mike: I think it's a capital grill. It's one of them. There's, like, three steakhouses in Cincinnati that are, like. When you say you're going there, somebody says, well, did you win the lottery?

>> Darin: Exactly. It was one of those, you can't hide money.

>> Mike: We'd heard about this for years. And we went in there, took the kids in. Hey, we're all going to go crazy in here. And I got a steak, and I didn't care for it.

>> Darin: I didn't.

>> Mike: I can. I told Bess I can make a better steak at home. Literally. And the kids agreed with me.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So it just. It kind of took it down a notch to explain myself a little bit more. I thought of another analogy while you were talking. I was thinking of other things. It's like you decide you want to go see a movie.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I want to go see Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

>> Darin: Right. Okay.

>> Mike: And you go to the movie theater and they say we're only showing musicals today.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But the website said Sonic was showing.

>> Mike: The website said Sonic was here. And they know that you've brought someone. That's excited to come see a movie. Not necessarily Sonic.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Which I don't understand that at all. But they got you.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: As some would say, they got you by the.

>> Darin: By the, Short hair.

>> Mike: Exactly. So I. You are my new hero. In that you. You look them dead in the eye.

>> Darin: And I walked out with your.

>> Mike: With your foot forward, probably firmly planted on the floor. Put your foot down. And you said, no, no, no, I don't think so.


When I made their reservation, dude on the phone didn't tell me

We're going to the Smokey Bones. Smokey Bones.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Because we've been married for 23 years. 23 years. And I ain't got to impress anybody.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I've got to stand up for what's right.

>> Mike: And what's right is not here.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Suck it.

>> Darin: Yeah. But see, again, they're love gouging. When I made their reservation, dude on the phone didn't tell me. Oh, by the way, Mr. Cox, thank you for your business and we look forward to seeing you. We wanted to let you know that on Valentine's Day we're having a special menu. Yeah, they could have told me that.

>> Mike: I could have told you that.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Sometimes if you're going to. You.

>> Darin: If you're going to completely change the menu, you need to tell people that.

>> Mike: So Bess and the kids and I went to, I think it. It's not. More lines. It was Jeff Ruby, the one in Cincinnati. That's that. Well, in the city. Like right there across from the stadium.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And they were having a Father's Day brunch. You pay for everything when you walk in, so. But they told us on the phone I was making the reservation. They said you have your choice of these three items for the appetizer, these three items for the main, and these three items for the dessert. And they were all like the top tier stuff. But they told you up front when you were making the reservation. They said, this is the Father's Day brunch.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And I said, tell me about everybody in the family. Can we bring a doggy bag for the kids? No, the kids get the same thing whatever from that menu. And I said, fine.

>> Darin: If we wanted that, we could have went to, Ruth's Chris. Ruth's.

>> Mike: Ruth's Chris.

>> Darin: It's Ruth apostrophe s. Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.

>> Mike: It's.

>> Darin: We could have went to Ruth Chris. We could have went to Jeff Ruby or we could have went to that other place that you had just talked about.

>> Mike: The McDonald's or. No, Jeff Ruby or the, the. The other.

>> Darin: The more line or whatever.

>> Mike: The more line. More line is great.

>> Darin: I love the Moore line.

>> Mike: Yeah, Yeah. A mixed bag. Depending on what server you get. Sometimes you go in and it's like boom, boom, bam, and you got everything. Other times you go in and it's like, what the are you people doing back there? Is it still dinner? Do I need to order eggs at this point?


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Sam: Captain America Civil War is probably the closest Marvel movie to perfection

>> Darin: I was hoping that you had seen Captain America, Brave New World, and I could converse about it with you. But you haven't seen it.

>> Mike: I mean, you can converse about it.

>> Darin: I will tell you.

>> Mike: Is it good?

>> Darin: I liked it.

>> Mike: Did you?

>> Darin: I did. it's not getting good reviews.

>> Mike: Really?

>> Darin: Yeah. So don't read the reviews. just go and see it for yourself. Now, is it the perfect Marvel movie? No, it's not. I think Captain America Civil War is probably the closest you get to perfection with a Marvel movie.

>> Mike: Still, I have the. The first Captain America movie is. Has a special place in my heart.

>> Darin: It was really good.

>> Mike: Really good one.

>> Darin: But it wasn't as good, in my opinion, M. As Civil War. Civil War is as close as you can get. To entertainment perfection.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Captain, America. Brave New World is not that Harrison Ford is badass. Yeah. He is so good in it. And, what's his face, Sam? He's a good Captain America. Yeah, I found out that he doesn't. He never took the serum. Why wouldn't you take the serum? You're Captain America. They'll give you the serum. Take the serum. Yeah, do it. Do the drugs. Kids. I mean.

>> Mike: Yeah, the original company, they used to all of them juiced back then. Now, now the new cat, America, is all natural, eats whole wheat toast and avocado, Right?

>> Darin: Yeah. You know, all natural peanut butter. Yeah, yeah. He shops at Whole Foods.

>> Mike: Chris Evans is back there jabbing his butt with needles. and juicing it up. He didn't need to do that.

>> Darin: I will say that I missed Captain America. I missed Chris Evans.

>> Mike: Does he make a cameo? Kenny? No, no, no.

>> Darin: I don't want you to get your hopes up and think that he does.

>> Mike: I mean, I don't mean that, I guess.

>> Darin: But of course he's not going to. It's like, hey, you know what? You're Captain America now.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I can't. You got to drive this car on your.

>> Mike: But they should do a thing every once in a while because technically, he's still alive in the world. Technically. And, he's just an old dude.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: They should just every once in a while, switch a camera to him at the home. You know, kind of like they did with Stan Lee. Give Captain America cameos as an old dude.

>> Darin: Let him be driving the bus. Hey, you gotta get on the bus or not? Grandpa Simpson was Captain America.

>> Mike: No, I. I can't remember if I even mentioned watching it. We just. With the schedules, with Charlie, with games, and Andrew with working. It's. It's weird. I think I told you before we actually started recording, we've been watching X Files. We watch things in one hour slots now. Yeah, it was like, we have an hour, you know.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: To watch this thing.

>> Darin: Yeah. We try to squeeze in an episode or two of, Seinfeld when.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: When Jacob's home, when Cameron's not doing stuff.

>> Mike: Yeah.


You should watch Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul in chronological order

>> Darin: And, Yeah. It's crazy.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: By the way, we've been watching Seinfeld, like, every Friday night. Have you? Yeah. Mom will come over and have pizza with us. And then we watch an episode or two of Seinfeld, and we all just love it. It's great. And there were some episodes that I just forgot were so stinking funny. Like, my God, I forgot that was so funny, George. I mean, Kramer used to be, the best one. Kramer is still the best one on the show. Yeah, but re watching it now, I forgot what a gem, what a true precious gem you had with that character, George Costanza. I mean, would it kill you not to be so funny all the time?

>> Mike: That's all I'm asking.

>> Darin: This woman thinks I'm very funny. And now you're gonna be funny.

>> Mike: So what am I gonna be?

>> Darin: I'm gonna be a short bald guy.

>> Mike: With glasses who suddenly doesn't seem so funny.

>> Darin: Oh, the Sizzler. Oh, God. The Sizzler was like the ultimate steakhouse. You get a steak and a baked potato and you go hit the salad bar. What was the most expensive steak at the scissor? Like 11.99 or something?

>> Mike: See, it changed for me. The Sizzler went from being the steakhouse to the strip club. So it's kept the same name. The, the steaks.

>> Darin: Was it the Sizzler?

>> Mike: Yeah, it was called Southern Sizzler. So it went from Western Sizzler to Southern Sizzler.

>> Darin: They changed it to a street strip bar and they kept the same name.

>> Mike: Yeah, I love that. M. I think they still serve steak.

>> Darin: I don't know, they probably kept the salad bar.

>> Mike: But I think the, the quality of steak changed, as did the price.

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

>> Mike: Okay, so this is for you and all of our long term fans. I can't believe I found this. This is beautiful. And it's caused me to want to revisit both, of these series.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Someone, some genius and altruistic saint.

>> Mike: This would be the order if you want to watch the entire Breaking Bad universe in chronological order. Okay, start Better Call Saul, get the season six, episode nine.

>> Darin: Okay, stop.

>> Mike: Watch Breaking Bad all the way to the end of the series. Uh-huh. Then watch El Camino. Then start Better Call saul from season 6, episode 10 and go to the end of the series. That's chronological order.

>> Darin: I guess so. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: So guess what Mikey's doing. I'm going to, I haven't started it yet.

>> Darin: But then you got the Yoda factor. if you do it in that order, then when you're watching Better Calls or Breaking Bad.

>> Mike: Yeah.


Matt Miller: Breaking Bad is best watched in the wrong order

>> Darin: You know that an attorney is going to come in and help them launder the money. You also know that the, when they go to the. Because initially I think the biggest thing is when you went to Los Palomos? hos, or. What the hell was the. What was the chick?

>> Mike: Don.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Oh, poyo Sermanos. Yeah.

>> Darin: When you go to Pollos Heros, I'd like some chicken, senor.

>> Mike: Donde esta, la pollos?

>> Darin: When you get there, when you're watching Breaking Bad, you don't know that's Gus Frame.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: You will know it's Gus Frame. Right. If you watch better call Sa.

>> Mike: It's not for the.

>> Darin: The first timers.

>> Mike: Yeah, it's not for the first time.

>> Darin: Okay. Okay.

>> Mike: I'm saying, old people like us, that. Who just don't get the thrill anymore. We wouldn't. We need to.

>> Darin: We need to watch in the wrong order to see if it'll spark some excitement into our poor, pathetic lives.

>> Mike: Here's what gets me about it. Are you ready?

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: You won't know. You already know that Gu Is what Gus is. But all through.

>> Darin: Better.

>> Mike: call Saul. What's it going to be like seeing Gus appear there? And then when you get to Breaking Bad, you already know all that history. See, when you watch Breaking Bad now, you can't help. I can't help. But when that episode comes where, What's his name? Walton. Jesse.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: When they go in.

>> Darin: What's his name?

>> Mike: Yeah. Walt Walton.

>> Darin: Walter White Walton.

>> Mike: Jebediah. When they go in there and they're waiting to meet this guy, and Gus is like, how is the chicken? Is it to your liking? You know, he's all like, gus.

>> Darin: Fringy, by the way, for a drug dealer, he practiced incredible. Phenomenal customer service.

>> Mike: Exactly. Very good. I mean, Matt, the Miller could take a lot of lessons from Gus.

>> Darin: Fringe. Yes.

>> Mike: So.

>> Darin: Yes, but good.

>> Mike: It's like imagine how, if I'll say this, the extended versions of the Lord of the Rings. People who have watched those. Now, to me, the extended versions are the versions.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: but I haven't done this. I don't even think we own the theatrical versions. I think all we have are the extended. But I have seen people post on the Interwebs. You know where those are?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: the WWW that when they go back and watch the theatrical. They seem m. Too short. It's like half the story is missing.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So an example is when they go in Fellowship of the Ring, and they. They meet the LV People with the ears, and the LV lady gives them all gifts.

>> Darin: The elves.

>> Mike: Yeah, the elves. And then, what's his name with the. With the helmet says, she gave me.

>> Darin: A lock of her hair gimli.

>> Mike: Gimli.

>> Darin: I asked for one strand of hair, she gave me three.

>> Mike: No, in the theatrical. It's just like, here's your water bottle, Frodo.

>> Darin: That wasn't in the.

>> Mike: I don't. That's what I've heard. I haven't gone back and watched.

>> Darin: It's been so long since I've seen.

>> Mike: But it's. If you look on the. The track listing thing, it's got a little star for the extended gifts.


Now, Frodo's water bottle has little stars on the added

>> Darin: Oh, it does.

>> Mike: It's got little stars on the added.

>> Darin: There you go. Now.

>> Mike: Now, Frodo's water bottle with the light of.

>> Darin: He didn't have it that little.

>> Mike: Well, she gave him a water. I thought that was cologne.

>> Darin: That was Forever Dwarf.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I gotta. I got a tickle out of that. So.

>> Mike: Forever Dwarf.


Michael: I would think that Saul doesn't come in until season two

>> Darin: But back to Breaking Bad and Miracle Soul. I would think. Think that Saul doesn't come in until season two.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: So you would. I would think that you would want to stagger the last season.

>> Mike: But he's already all sold up. I know. Season two.

>> Darin: I know, but you see Saul getting sold up, and then you see Walter getting to the point where they connect with each other. Yeah, because I think that it would really drag.

>> Mike: Well, here's the thing is, I want to. Because that's.

>> Darin: Wait, that. Sorry, I'm talking in Lord of the Rings, in the second book, the. The Two Towers.

>> Mike: The Two Towers.

>> Darin: The Two Towers, they tell all of Froto and Sam's story, and then they tell all of the other story. Ah. And in the movie, they mixed it up.

>> Mike: Mixed them up.

>> Darin: Yeah. So I think they need to mix them up.

>> Mike: Here's what I want to see, in my opinion.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Better Call Saul. Even though you see him get all sold up. Literally. Cuz his name's not even Saul.

>> Darin: No, it's,

>> Mike: Jimmy. Jimmy Two Fingers.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Jimmy. Jimmy. Slippin. Jimmy.

>> Darin: Slippin. Jimmy.

>> Mike: Jimmy. Jimmy. Jim.

>> Darin: Jimmy McGill.

>> Mike: Jimmy McGill.

>> Darin: Jimmy.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So tell me, Michael. Tell me all about the method. Because you're all in there. You're doing. You're doing the drugs, aren't you?

>> Mike: Do you find that entertaining? Saul in Breaking Bad, when they meet him, is. Seems a bit more callous than Saul in Better Call Saul. Like he actually seems to have a heart and. And care about what he's doing.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Better Call Saul.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But in Breaking Bad is a few times, it's like, I think you gotta take this guy out. You gotta take him out to the desert. And you know, you don't want to do that. You don't wanna. He's trying to. There's an episode or two where he's trying to talk Walt into Often Jesse.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I just don't see the Saul from Better Call Saul doing that. I see him thinking that.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But I don't see him, like, outright.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: This is how we handle it.


I told my friend not to watch Breaking Bad first

>> Darin: Well, we have been invited to go on another podcast, called Greetings from the Idiot Box, with host Alison Lips, A friend of mine who I've met over the interwebs through the Letterman podcast. She was talking to me about some of the series that she's currently watching, and she's getting ready to watch Better Call Saul and. And Breaking Bad. I told her not to watch Saul first.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Was that what she was going to do?

>> Darin: She was contemplating. I said, you got to, Because I'm sorry, but it's just like with Star wars. You watch the OG 70s and the 80s versions, and then you go back and you do not watch the prequels.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then you watch the ones that they released in the early 2000.

>> Mike: Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Because. Yeah. The Yoda Factory.

>> Darin: The Yoda Factory.

>> Mike: He's kind of mysterious in Empire, but if you already knew who he was and all that stuff, the whole time, you'd be looking at your watch like, come on, dude, what are you doing? Get the frog in the.

>> Darin: Yeah, because when. When Saul shows up in Breaking Bad, the first thing you think is, God, this guy's got a goofy haircut. and he's not that great a dresser.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And he looks a little. He looks a little sleazy, a little tacky, but he doesn't look like what he ends up being. So you. You learn about him.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: Yeah.


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Every week on this podcast, Greetings from the Idiot Box,

Now back to the show.

>> Mike: Well, by the way, on that very same podcast, we're going to be talking About Air Wolf.

>> Darin: Airwolf.

>> Mike: Airwolf, that's right.

>> Darin: So every week on this podcast, Greetings from the Idiot Box, she has a special guest come on, and they discuss a certain show, and she asked if we would want to be on. And I said, absolutely. And I reached out to Mike and I said, what show do you want to talk about? And Mike said, airwolf.

>> Mike: Airwolf.

>> Darin: Well, fantastic.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I've been watching Airwolf. Have, you. I've been attempting. I've been trying. Did you watch the first episode? I can't get through a whole episode. I have to skip.

>> Mike: Did you get the part where he's on the top of the mountain playing the cello?

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was at the beginning. Yeah, that was close to the beginning of episode one. He started playing a freaking cello. Yeah, he's not really playing the cello, you know. Oh, what? That's. No, you could see.

>> Mike: I just. You could.

>> Darin: It just cracked me up sometimes. It's not even touching the strings.

>> Mike: It just. It's like. Of all the instruments you could lug up a mountain. Why don't you just take a full drum kit up there? A freaking cello.

>> Darin: Got a. Got a. Got a blue tick hound named Tet. And then, Not Tit. Tet.

>> Mike: Tet.

>> Darin: Tet. And then, Mikhail's Navy. Ernest Borgnine. Ernest Borgnine's great in it.

>> Mike: I'm gonna m. Have to.

>> Darin: And then there's the dude with the. What's the dude with the eye patch?

>> Mike: Oh, Cody Banks. He's the head guy. Yeah, he's the main guy.

>> Darin: Skinny Doug. What? Yeah, Skinny Pete and Skinny Pete. Yeah, one episode. Badger, Mike Airwolf, or, what's his name is,

>> Mike: Flying.

>> Darin: Out of a volcano.

>> Mike: Somebody else fly the helicopter?

>> Darin: Is it? Because it's so exciting. No, The hell's his name?

>> Mike: Michael Vincent.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, but it's.

>> Mike: It's a. Stringfellow.

>> Darin: String. Fellow Hawk. Yeah, because there's an episode.

>> Mike: That's a poor name if you ever.

>> Darin: There's an episode where these guys, like, what the hell kind of name is Stringfellow?

>> Mike: Did they actually say that?

>> Darin: Yes, yes. There was, one. One episode where they're being chased by another Airwolf.

>> Mike: Oh, okay.

>> Darin: This Two of them, has the same technology as that Airwolf. Right. And they found out, like, oh, my God, when we turn right, they're turning right. We turn left. They're doing the same thing. They've locked into our system.

>> Mike: Yeah. So they Flew into an asteroid field.

>> Darin: No, the dude I think is the dude with the eyepatch said go cold. They told him. They gave him, permission to go cold. So they unplugged all their electric device.

>> Mike: Oh, that'll work.


I've been watching episodes of Airwolf so that I would have knowledge

>> Darin: And they went cold. Like, we're going. We're going full Orville and Wilbur on this one. And then they outmaneuvered the other one.

>> Mike: There you go.

>> Darin: Oh, my God.

>> Mike: Cold.

>> Darin: Yeah. So I've been watching episodes of Airwolf so that I would have some knowledge when I go on the Greetings, from the Idiot Box podcast.

>> Mike: Airwolf was among the first of the, exciting aerial combat. But it's not entertaining.

>> Darin: But the show's not exciting, though.

>> Mike: It had to start somewhere. You went from, let's go Orville and Wilbur on them to. You had to get to Maverick. I'll hit the brakes.

>> Darin: You'll fly right by.

>> Mike: you know, you don't just come out of nowhere with that. It's gonna be a progression.

>> Darin: But it's so boring. It takes so long to get to them flying around in the helicopters.

>> Mike: The best part, there's two things about Airwolf that are awesome. One is the theme song. And the other is the theme song and the thing.

>> Darin: They don't even play it in some of the episodes.

>> Mike: But here's the thing.

>> Darin: It is a good. It is a kick ass theme song.

>> Mike: The challenge, the fun in Airwolf every episode that starts, how are they going to solve this problem by Stringfellow and Ernest Borgnine flying a helicopter up out of a volcano? Because that's. It's like Cobra Kai. It's why I quit watching Cobra Kai. I quit watching it in season two because I told Bess, let's solve this by fighting.

>> Darin: What's.

>> Mike: What's the problem? so and so failed his math test. Oh, well, who do we need to kick to pass the test? Or. You know, I've gone on and on about Walking Dead, you know.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah, Are they.

>> Mike: Have they turned yet? Have they met somebody new? Is it a different farm? And Airwolf is the same thing. So, and so stole a bomb from Kids R Us. Well, fire up the helicopter. And then they fly and.

>> Darin: Wait, wait. Yeah, that was your helicopter.

>> Mike: It's Airwolf.

>> Darin: You're like a regular. That dude from Police Academy.

>> Mike: The other awesome part about Airwolf is. And you called it on the overall and Wilbur, we're doing the show right now.

>> Darin: Ah.

>> Mike: Is every James Bond movie you. You have James Bond Visits Q&Q has three things for him. Here's a condom that blows up into a submarine.

>> Darin: Be careful when you launch it.

>> Mike: Here's a gum wrapper that turns into a grenade.

>> Darin: Killed her.

>> Mike: And here's a dog collar that, you know, flaps and, you know he's going to use them in the movie. It's the same thing with Airwolf. There's some new thing the helicopter does in every episode. That one, he went Orville and Wilbur. There's been one where they get something on a plug.

>> Darin: All the electric stuff. Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: Like that's what you would actually do. Like, it's just like a. A switchboard in there. It's like. It's like they can hear my car stereo because I drive by.

>> Darin: Oh, well, let's just unplug it. Yeah, it's. We're going Orville and Wilbur on him.

>> Mike: Yeah. one of the greatest shows of the 80s.

>> Darin: This is not.

>> Mike: So I have a confession.

>> Darin: On an early episode, we talked about Airwolf, like, I don't know, season one, like episode 21 of our four or something like that. And, I. I said that the A Team was. I thought A Team was a better show than Airwolf. And Mike scoffed at me, as he always does when I, you know, mention that.


There's three shows that I grew up on. Four. I would have whatever series was on

I have another opinion. Right.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And he didn't like A Team because it wasn't realistic. But, you know, the A Team had catchy. I Pity the fool, and I love when a plan comes together. And every week they got to break Murdoch out of the mental hospital. At what point did Face who's. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: BA Barakas never had to unplug the cigarette lighter in the van to fight the other 18 probably did.

>> Darin: But B.A. bracus would throw people through the window.

>> Mike: And here's the thing. Can I tell you this real quick?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: There's three shows that I grew up on.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: All right. Four. Airwolf, MacGyver.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Remington Steele.

>> Mike: And then Miami Vice. At times.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Watching them was. They were on the basement that I grew up like my. That we had their computer m. That I played the computer games on. And then the TV was behind me. I would have whatever series was on. It was MacGyver. And then it went to Airwolf and then went into something else while I'm ditzing around on the computer. And every once in a while I turn around and watch a few minutes and come back. That's how I saw it. To me, Remington Steele is a combination of Pierce Bronson and a bunch of video games. MacGyver is he. MacGyver is the only one that would actually. I would get up from the computer, go over and watch the whole episode. And, I think it's partially because he narrated.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You know, he would. He would do. He would open up like Richard Dean and Richard Dean Anderson. It would come away, come back for commercial and be like, well, I got a sticky situation here, and hanging on the bottom of this camel, and I've got to get on the top.

>> Darin: He would make a bomb out of.

>> Mike: Paperclip, you know, chewing gum and a dog collar.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But Stringfellow Hawk never narrated. Remington still didn't. He didn't. Pierce. He didn't know that narrated something.

>> Darin: I don't know. I don't think I ever watched a full episode. Remington still. I know. everybody lives. Raymond Doris Roberts was on it.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. Pierce Brosnan.

>> Mike: it was a really, really good show. It was a. It was like a light hearted Mission Impossible.

>> Darin: Well, you know, he's kind of like Moonlight.

>> Mike: It was very similar to Moonlighting Mission. Impossibly.

>> Darin: Yeah. Well, he had that contract and he couldn't get out of it. That's why. I mean, they wanted him to be James Bond earlier.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah. But, yeah, there was. I remember one episode, it seemed like it went on forever. He had to get down a hallway with lasers. It was. I think that was the whole show. I think the budget was gone for that season. It's the only set that they had. They're like, we got to figure out a way to make this hallway last an hour. And they did it, man. And it was awesome. But, you know, looking back, I'm like, being a writer on that show in.

>> Darin: The 80s, I mean, that's what they did with Airwolf. They would have a conversation like 30 minutes long.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Well, that's what we need to do, String. Well, I. People who know him well call them string.

>> Mike: I did read that they started running out of. Because it costs a lot. It's a.


The first season of Walking Dead used miniature helicopters. Yeah. Especially in episode one

It's a lot of money to fly that helicopter around.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: And you could tell that when they were, like, in it. But they weren't in it.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: You know, they were on a sound.

>> Darin: Stage that they used miniature helicopters.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Especially in episode one, when that one was flying through the neighborhood. in between the buildings. Yeah. And then it's like Ernest goes by a shoebox. Yeah. Ernest Borgnine is, like, popping his head out the window, yelling at the dog, get off the. Get off the thing. I gotta park the helicopter.

>> Mike: It's old Luke Skywalker figure.

>> Darin: Yeah. Just. It's like, oh, my God. It reminds me of the miniatures that they used in the original Terminator. I think that's a miniature.

>> Mike: Most shows, they get more and more popular. They get a bigger budget. So you see the first season of Walking Dead compared to, like, the final seasons. The final seasons are, like, all over the place.

>> Darin: Oh, my God. They really.

>> Mike: And same thing with the budget. Game of Thrones was practically Lord of the Rings in the last few episodes as far as special effects.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But in the beginning, it was, you know, just. You know what it was. Airwolf was the opposite, because I think they started to run out of money. and flying. This is what I read. Flying the bell helicopter. Which is what it was.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Was expensive. So they only had so much footage of it. So they would start to recycle footage from other episodes, but reverse it and flip it. And some of them. You can see the lettering is backwards.

>> Darin: Well, I was reading, season four, because they only. They got canceled after three seasons. Season four, USA picked it up.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And that's the death of Jan. Michael Vincent was only in one episode.

>> Mike: Yeah. He was a small part in it.

>> Darin: And they used, like, mainly recycled video of the old helicopter.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: From previous seasons.

>> Mike: Yeah. And maybe clips.

>> Darin: Wasn't that just in the desert? Yeah, it's over the highway.

>> Mike: Clips of Jean Claude Van Damme in the dark. It looks like jam Michael Vincent from an angle. Yeah. He went downhill.

>> Darin: So what we're gonna do is when we go on the Greetings from the Idiot Box, we'll just play this.

>> Mike: That's what that is. That's what the show's gonna be. I'm not a big.

>> Darin: I feel bad now because we've already blew our wad.

>> Mike: We'll just blow it again. We'll take this and we'll make it better.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: For next.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: It'll be even. Even more.

>> Darin: Even more better for. Even more for our friend Allison.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So, yeah. We'll let you know when that episode drops, and you guys can listen to this whole conversation. Conversation again. I bought a new CD, you'll be glad to know.


Rick Springfield released Jesse's Girl. That was his only number one hit

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: At 245 episodes, this is the first time we've ever talked about Rick Springfield.

>> Mike: Okay. Rick Springfield.

>> Darin: Rick Springfield released Jesse's Girl. Yes.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. That was his only number one hit.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: He won a Grammy for that. Yeah. And, at one time, the year before Michael Jackson got the award for Entertainer of the Year, the year before, it went to Rick Springfield. He used to be hot.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay. He still has screaming fans everywhere he goes. And he was. He played Dr. No, he played Dr. Noah Drake on Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, and.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: What's it like being Rick Springfield?

>> Mike: I thought he was related to Bruce Springsteen. No, I was a little kid.

>> Darin: He even has a song called they Call Me Bruce.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. Which is kind of like a weird owl.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Funny.

>> Mike: Haha.

>> Darin: song. So, Rick, Springfield released. I'm a fan of Rick Springfield.

>> Mike: Here we go.

>> Darin: But I laugh when it's called Big Hits Greatest Hits, Volume 2. Okay. Okay. And, Rick, if you're out there.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: If you're listening to me right now, Darren Cox, I've seen you live a couple of times. I've got your albums, and I'm a big fan. You can't call your album Greatest Hits if there are no hits on the album.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: You can call it Best of, Best of.

>> Darin: Call it Best of.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Because there's. And now it's. It's good. The music on it is good.

>> Mike: All right.

>> Darin: Okay. I enjoy it.

>> Mike: A little dangerous here.

>> Darin: We're gonna.

>> Mike: You're pissing off.

>> Darin: It's really good.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Because there are a lot of people who like you. You say Rick Springfield. Oh, Jesse's Girl. He had a lot of other hits besides Jesse's Girl. Okay, okay.

>> Mike: But you said. No, he didn't have a lot of other hits.

>> Darin: Not on this album. Not on Greatest Hits Volume 2.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: These are the greatest hits Volume 1 has all the hits. Okay, okay. Greatest Hits Volume 2 is stuff from albums that he released. He. He disappeared for a while. Okay. Yeah, he was gone for, I don't know, like 10 or 12 years or something. And then he released, a, I guess you call it a comeback album. Pretty good. Yeah. Okay. A lot of good stuff on it, but not that was played on the radio.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay. He didn't have any hits. He didn't. He didn't have any chart toppers.

>> Mike: Are there cult classics? Because, I mean, so you're gonna look.

>> Darin: At this and Die Hard, Rick Springfield fans, the people who followed him and bought his albums after, you know. You know, yeah, after the.


What if we started another podcast? We called it Irritable Dad Syndrome Greatest Hits

The golden days. Yeah. They're gonna. They're gonna like it.

>> Mike: So.

>> Darin: And actually, if you know nothing about Rick Springfield, you're gonna like it, but there are no hits on it.

>> Mike: Let me put this in terms I understand.

>> Darin: Okay?

>> Mike: Let's use Rush.

>> Darin: Okay. All right.

>> Mike: If you're gonna have a Greatest Hits Rush cd, it's gonna be Tom Sawyer Finding My Way.

>> Darin: Spirit of Radio.

>> Mike: Spirit of Radio Free Will working. man.

>> Mike: There's your Rush greatest hits.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Then you're gonna have some the fans hits by Tor and the Snow Dog.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: His Xanadu.

>> Darin: The Trees.

>> Mike: The Trees. So there are die hard Rush fans out there who say, yeah, that second album blows that first album away.

>> Darin: Spent Water.

>> Mike: What the. Every time was that. Every time I see that title, that's how I. I say it in my mind. Ah, yeah. Yeah. So is it. Is it that. Is it like cult hits or is it just. It's they found on the floor and said, here, put it on another greatest hit album. I don't know.

>> Darin: It's like the best of his albums that he made after he came back. They didn't get radio play that I.

>> Mike: Would be such an awesome. All you guys got to do is make me a star. And I will give you the funniest. My second greatest hits album would be the Best of All the Rest of the. That's what it would be titled.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Sell this Walmart.

>> Darin: It's kind of like when we put out a greatest hit.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But we don't call it Irritable Dad Syndrome Greatest Hits. We call it the best of volume M5.

>> Mike: We shouldn't tell anyone.

>> Darin: Which is coming up here pretty soon.

>> Mike: It is. We shouldn't tell anyone this, but I've had thoughts.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: What if we started another podcast? We called it a name as good as Irritable Dad Syndrome. And.

>> Darin: Oh, I don't know if we're going to come up with the name as well.

>> Mike: There are some challenges to this.

>> Darin: can if we name it, can it sound like a body disease?

>> Mike: It can. Mike and Darren and the Rickets. Whatever you want to. Whatever. But then we release as episodes just the best of this show. The same episode.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: We just a different opener with the. Hey, I'm Mike. And, I'm Darren. We can change our names. I'm Jim. And I'm Jim Dandy.

>> Darin: And we got the Crickets.

>> Mike: And we got the Crickets.

>> Darin: The Crickets.

>> Mike: here's our first episode. And, And we just had the first best of. And then a month later we released a second best of. I wonder if that thing wouldn't take off. Like, like Airwolf Wildfire.

>> Darin: Like.

>> Mike: Colonel Sanders.

>> Darin: The chicken guy.

>> Mike: The chicken guy, huh? before Pollo Serramanos. Colonel. The Colonel. Mr. Sanders. No, he was a military Colonel Sanders.

>> Darin: I always called him Kern.

>> Mike: The Colonel Kern.

>> Darin: Yo. Kern, bruh.

>> Mike: Dude made chicken for years.


Irritable Dad Syndrome is a Mike Odle Darren Cox production

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: He was in his 70s when he said, hey, I can make a buck off of this.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And he started. Colonel, Colonel Colonel Fried Chickens or Kentucky Fried Chickens, because he was in Kentucky.

>> Darin: You know how you can tell when someone's really old? Was that is when they pass a kfc. Oh, you want to pull into the Colonel and get a bucket. when they call it the Colonel.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Colonel Sanders even on the damn logo anymore.

>> Mike: Yeah, but it's like, it's like a. It's like, it's a. It's a. It's a millennial looking gen Y Colonel Sanders. It's not the norm MacDonald Colonel Sanders that we grew up.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: Remember?

>> Darin: Oh, there was a time where, like.

>> Mike: He was on,

>> Darin: Yeah, Norm was Colonel Sanders for a couple weeks.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: wasn't Tim Meadows. No. Jim Gaffigan was the Colonel.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. They were all taking turns because I put on my Facebook page, I'm like, any day now, it's gonna be my turn and I'm gonna be Colonel Sanders.

>> Mike: I think somebody lost a bet.

>> Darin: Yeah. There was a time they were just rotating him in and out.

>> Mike: Yeah. So you'd see that. And then you see. You'll care. Taco Bell. You know that guy?

>> Darin: I think we're gonna wrap this one.

>> Mike: Up, scratch her up and put it.

>> Darin: Under the tree for every person. And by the way, Mike's tree is still up, and you can put something underneath it if you want. For all of you who made it past the first five minutes. Thank you. Yeah, we want you to go to Irritable Dad Syndrome and you, can check out other episodes that we have. If you want to become a patron, you can do that. And then you can listen to bonus stuff. And, you get, like, Christmas cards.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And all kinds of cool things in the mail.

>> Mike: Yeah. Kids can go to school.

>> Darin: It's great.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. All right, we're gonna go. Hope to see you next week on Irritable Dad Syndrome. See you guys.

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

>> Mike: We call it Captain America.

>> Darin: Captain America.

>> Mike: Cap.

>> Darin: Cap.

>> Mike: America.

>> Darin: Cap America.

>> Mike: Cap America.

>> Darin: America.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: To the heart. Tick tock. You don't stop. Hit it. Skibidi.

>> Mike: But no, just edit me out of the whole show. Sorry, the thing beeped. Just cuz I picked it up.

>> Darin: Yeah. this would be a great time for you to. To turn it off, to mute it. What do you think? I was being, optimistic.

>> Mike: You were you being. Are you. Why are you being so obtuse?

>> Darin: Why are you acting like Tom Cruz?

>> Mike: That's not. You're.

>> Darin: You're obtuse. Remember Matt Lauer? Yeah, yeah, before he had the trap door.

>> Mike: I got it. No, I was. I was being,

>> Darin: No, he didn't have a trap door. He had the door that locked.

>> Mike: Yeah.


You should do a podcast. You should do Smartless

>> Darin: And then he would take off his pants. That was fun. I've been working on that one.

>> Mike: I like that one. You think so? Oh, that's lovely. I love it. Now you're doing Smartless. Yeah, it's a podcast.

>> Darin: It's a podcast.

>> Mike: You should do a podcast. Oh, I don't know.

>> Darin: I have never been that broke.

>> Mike: Popular the Confederacy.

>> Dave: Hey, this is Dave. If you would like to hear the story about Mike pissing himself on Valentine's day, download episode 168. This is our best of volume three special, and it's available at our website, irritable dadsyndrome.com.