IDS #234 - Sleestacks and Asteroids

Welcome back to another episode of Irritable Dad Syndrome! 🎙️ This week, we dive into:

🏋️‍♂️ Mike's health journey—running, gym routines, and the eternal struggle with donuts.

🍩 Darin's epic battle against winter at a Steelers game.

🏈 The mystery of football penalties and why everyone seems to forget their defense.

🎮 A nostalgic trip down memory lane with Atari games—remember Asteroids?

🎄 A listener has made our Christmas card into a tree ornament—how cool is that?

🍰 Thanksgiving pie debates—pumpkin, cream, and the confusing world of chess pie.

🎥 Movie promises: Sideways vs. Buckaroo Banzai.

🏆 Our Listener of the Week: Courtney Eorgan!

Join us for laughs, nostalgia, and the occasional tangent. Thanks for tuning in!

#Podcast #Comedy #Christmas #IrritableDadSyndrome #Atari #Fitness #Football #ChristmasShopping

Chapters

• 3:33 Weight-Lifting injuries
• 6:56 Homeboy says he's cutting back on his portions after Thanksgiving
• 13:10 Dave Lay talks about Atari 2600 Asteroids and Berserk
• 20:56 Pittsburgh Steelers beat Cincinnati Bengals at Paul Brown Stadium
• 24:06 There were more penalty flags on the field than there were players
• 29:24 What type of pie did you eat at Thanksgiving?
• 36:32 Did you remember the movie Nick of Time?
• 39:23 You need to see the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
• 40:43 Amazon has ruined Christmas for me
• 43:14 Courtney has put our Irritable Dad Syndrome Christmas card on her tree

Transcript

All things on Earth only exist in different stages of becoming garbage

>> Mike: Checkity check, check, check, check.

>> Darin: One, two, three. One, two, three.

>> Mike: That's recording. We're live now. let me get this into.

>> Darin: I have a feeling, Mike. I have a feeling this is going to be the best podcast ever. And I do. It's down in my bones. And if not, we'll just post it anyway. Yeah, whatever. Yeah. All things on Earth only exist in different stages of becoming garbage. Okay. Your home is a garbage processing center where you buy new things, bring them into your house, and slowly crapify them over time.


Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast

>> Dave: Okay, time now for Irritable Dad Syndrome. Perfect. With tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. Here are your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I'm Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. Symbol, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 234.

>> Mike: We are excited.

>> Darin: Well, I'm excited. Mike is not excited about anything tonight. Mike's grumpy.

>> Mike: Yeah, I'm grumpy.

>> Darin: Mike is tired.

>> Mike: One of those Grumpy Mike episodes.

>> Darin: He's, just, I'm not exactly comfortable sitting next to him, so we'll see what happens.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Weird day.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Just been a weird day.

>> Darin: Yeah, I have those sometimes where it's like, hey, how was your day? I'm like, yeah, it's like. It wasn't bad, but there wasn't anything amazing that would put it in the good category.

>> Mike: I mean, I got a decent night's sleep.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I woke up early enough to get coffee on the way in. I m. Did not get a donut.

>> Darin: Oh, okay.

>> Mike: I drove in and then I got. I ordered. Okay. I ordered Jersey Mike's, which I'm allowed to do that.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: With baked lays, as opposed to regular lays.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Baked lays are more healthier.

>> Darin: Oh, they are.

>> Mike: And I actually prefer them now. I didn't in the.

>> Darin: They're not bad.

>> Mike: They're pretty good. The barbecue ones are just regular plain OG Baked lays. OG Baked lay's.

>> Darin: Yeah. By the way, Dave Lay does not work for that company.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Dave: Hi, I'm Dave Lay.

>> Mike: so then I had that, and I was proud of myself for being, you know, not healthy healthy, but healthier than McDonald's.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: So then I drove and got two donuts. I got a cream filled maple iced donut and a cake donut with vanilla icing and sprinkles.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I ate.

>> Darin: Did you get them at Dunkin or Krispy Kreme?

>> Mike: Holtman's.

>> Darin: Shut up. Yeah, I love Holtman's.

>> Mike: Got a problem.

>> Darin: Yeah, those are good.

>> Mike: So Then I thought, well, I've gotta, I'm. I'm having issues.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: let's make this the health and fitness section of the podcast.

>> Darin: Sure.

>> Mike: So I go to the gym relatively regularly.

>> Mike: I have pulled four nights a week.

>> Darin: Five nights a week? More.

>> Mike: Six.

>> Darin: Six days a week.

>> Mike: Five to six.

>> Darin: Okay. And how many hours are, ah, you at the gym when you go?

>> Mike: Well, I say gym, but sometimes I'm going to Sharon woods and I'm running around the thing and then other times I'm at the gym.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: When I'm in the gym, it's 45 minutes.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: When I'm at the park, it can be an hour.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Okay. But that's, that's my.

>> Darin: You go to the park in the cold?

>> Mike: No, I mean, so I went. So I was doing running today because I hurt my arm and I don't know how. So, if you're lifting weights, your.

>> Darin: Arms are ginormous, by the way.

>> Mike: It's, well, it's my shoulder.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And it's.

>> Darin: I.

>> Mike: If you tell someone that you hurt your arms exercising and you explain that you're lifting weights, that makes sense.


Mike says he quit lifting weights because his knees started hurting

>> Darin: Mm.

>> Mike: But if you were to ask me, Mike, what were you doing when you hurt your arm?

>> Darin: Sit ups.

>> Mike: Were you lifting weights?

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: No. I haven't lifted a weight in like a week and a half.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And because my knees started to hurt me.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I think it's because I hit it on a table.

>> Darin: Well, we're at that age where you can wake up after sleeping. Wrong. And your whole body's out of whack and hurts.

>> Mike: So when I was, that's me. It was leg day when I did that.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: And I like, well, my knee either hurts because I hit it on the table.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Or I'm about to do a squat and my knee's going to just break and I'm going to die.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: That's a 50. 50. And I didn't want to take that chance, so I just quit doing that. And then I started eating a lot of food and I finally reached a point where I'm like, I gotta get back to doing something. I can't lift anything, so I'll start running. So I looked up the Hal Higdon half marathon training program. Oh, hall, where did that come from?

>> Darin: That mother scratcher?

>> Mike: I'll tell you, back in the day, I. Was not taking care of myself. And I was told by others. Wow, you've got a problem.

>> Darin: So who told you that?

>> Mike: Some people at Work not where I currently am.

>> Darin: Oh, nice.

>> Mike: Yeah, that's. Yes, they're pleasant people. You look terrible. And they showed me a holiday picture from the holiday party, and I did indeed.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: Look terrible.

>> Darin: Were you standing profile or facing?

>> Mike: I was facing.

>> Darin: Those are fun.

>> Mike: I was facing head on, but looked like I was standing sideways. That's how bad I look. Fun fact, I am now 10 pounds heavier than that mic. But I also have more muscle than that Mike did. That Mike had hardly any. And I know that muscle weighs more than fat, and I tell myself that every year. And then when we go to the beach, I see pictures that Bess takes of me on the beach with the best of intentions, and I say those need to be scrubbed from all devices.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: in every country. Earth one. All the different types of earths out there. Everything to destroy. Anyway, coming back to. I'm going to. I do the Hal Higdon, but the reason I did the Hal Higdon, it's a half marathon training program. It's beautiful.

>> Darin: 13.1 miles exactly.

>> Mike: It's wonderful. If you are going from zero to. I need to lose, weight or get relatively in shape because it starts you out in little baby steps.

>> Darin: Mm.

>> Mike: Week ones, a couple baby steps, week two, some toddler steps. Then you get some teenager steps.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: You get some older, you go from.

>> Darin: Toddler state to teenager.

>> Mike: You know, it's a quick eighth grade.

>> Darin: Okay. All right, whatever.

>> Mike: Anyway, it worked. It took me from. It took me down about £25 at the time.

>> Darin: Dang.

>> Mike: Yeah. I started it again today because I gave myself an intervention. I went from watching what I eat to just literally watching what I eat as it goes in my mouth. And, there's like a little dude that sits in the back of my head on a couch. And he. He actually set up and said, are you. Is that the third king size Reese's cup that you're. The big cup. You know, the big. The big cup.

>> Darin: Oh, I love the big cup.

>> Mike: So I've reached a point. My first big cup I had and I said, no one needs this much Reese's now.

>> Darin: Maybe I do. Yeah.


Homeboy says he's cutting back on his portions after Thanksgiving

>> Mike: Now I eat an entire big cup. And I think that's one bite.

>> Mike: Thankfully there's two in there. And then I'll eat the first bite of the next one when you get.

>> Darin: To the point where, like, hey, at least I'm not eating four, right?

>> Mike: So, anyway. Anyway. Anyway, I'm sorry. So I did that tonight. I did the running thing tonight and then I came home And I was like, I'm going to have some stir fry that I cooked the other day.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I ate about three adult portions of the stir fry. So now I'm bloated.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I feel.

>> Darin: It's probably because of salt in it.

>> Mike: I feel weird.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So I'm just. I'm just.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So welcome to the show.

>> Darin: Sorry.

>> Mike: This will be hitting sometime. You m. Know, people go to the gym in January.

>> Darin: They do.

>> Mike: That's. They. They go. They do that.

>> Mike: so.

>> Darin: But I'm hoping that when people do that, they say, you know what? I need to catch up on Irritable Dad Syndrome. Our downloads are kind of low. So after the holidays, when you are. When you go to the gym two, three days a week or whatever, you're.

>> Mike: Going to hear me.

>> Darin: Put your headphones on and catch up on this podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I started going back to the gym. I did. I went to the gym and I did the Stair Stepper. I did the weight loss training portion of the Stair Stepper.

>> Mike: The Jacob's Ladder. Did you do that one?

>> Darin: No, the other one.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. And that one's funky because it's like, you know, your feet are going forward.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But it feels like they're going backwards.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. Anyway, so I do that, and then I do, ab exercises. And then I went through and did some of the weights. Not all the weights. I didn't do any of the free weights, but I did five or six of the machines. Okay. We went back again, and I did the same thing. And I've been four or five times. Okay. Okay. I've made a conscious effort to watch my portions. I ate less at Thanksgiving than I normally do.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I'm trying. I'm really, really, really trying. And I swear, and I've said it a thousand times, or, maybe a thousand and one, but this time I'm serious.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I am cutting back on my portions. I am going to exercise more, and I've got to get some of this weight off me.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I don't like it.

>> Mike: You know what we should do?

>> Darin: What's that?

>> Mike: We should plan on running the Flying Pig in May.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: God, I recommend the half.

>> Darin: No, I. No. Homeboy ain't running a marathon.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah, there's just. No, no, no. God, please, no.

>> Mike: It was worth a shot.

>> Darin: Are you serious? Are you going to run it?

>> Mike: I'm on the half marathon trail. I do the half of the half.


Dave: I did the half one year and the full the other year

>> Darin: That's still 13 miles.

>> Mike: Yeah, but that's the fun part. The other 13. See the flying pig. I did the 13. I did.

>> Darin: None of that seems fun to me.

>> Mike: I did the half one year, and it's like, it's intense all the way through. And then the other year, I did the full. And it was not a good situation, not a good experience, because I, in training for it, I messed up my knee.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then about eight miles in homeboy's knee gave out. And then I had to walk, slash, trot out the remaining 18 miles. that was hell.

>> Darin: And I'll tell you, walked 18 miles on the half.

>> Mike: I did the whole 26 miles, but it was around 8.

>> Darin: Maybe I know this.

>> Mike: Maybe I told you. It's on the Facebooks. Maybe I. Maybe I was this before we started hanging out, probably. No, no, no. I was training for. There's pictures of us talking at one of the birthday parties when I was training for it. I'm wearing a Star wars shirt. The, reason I know that is because it's the one picture that exists of me in the past 10 years where I actually look like I'm in shape. And I thought, why do I look like that? And I was like, oh, that's because I was doing that. Okay. the point is, after 13 miles in Cincinnati, the flying pig, they run out of places to send your ass. Cincinnati's a city.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's not a huge city.

>> Darin: No. So Covington and Newport, you cross.

>> Mike: That's all in the beginning, but then afterwards, they just send you out along the highway into these neighborhoods. my favorite part was it was off in one of these neighborhoods. There was an old dude sitting in a lawn chair out there, and he had a boombox with him. This dude had to have been at least 8, 600 years old.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And he was playing the Chariots of Fire theme song as we, ran by. And he had his 8,600 year old arm, doing this whole time, cheering you on. Yeah, he was great.

>> Darin: You ever hear that story Letterman, when he was running?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And, he's running up a hill and this guy in his convertible pulls up and had his window down. He says, hey, Dave, why don't you.

>> Mike: Try a little harder?

>> Darin: And Dave's comeback was. Oh, yeah, you try a little harder. Yeah.

>> Dave: One of those nights you're listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast.

>> Mike: Did you play the. The Atari back as a kid?

>> Darin: Oh, yeah, I had the Atari.

>> Mike: What was your jam?

>> Darin: Oh, boy. Well, I loved Space Invaders, Asteroids. This nerve. This is, like, so boring. But I was a big Fan of Breakout.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And then, I love Pitfall.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Boy. What were some of the other ones? The Atari version of Pac man was lame as hell. Yes.

>> Mike: Science. Yeah.

>> Darin: But I had it and I. And I played it. Yeah.

>> Mike: So there's a,

>> Darin: There's adventure.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: I learned where the hidden keys were. And you could take the bridge and you could put it up to one of the walls, and you found an invisible portal into another room. I thought I discovered the magic of the universe.

>> Mike: You can go through the wall? Yeah. There's a game program. It's on Switch. It's on all of them. It's called Atari 50. Have you heard of this?

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: The 50th anniversary or whatever of Atari.

>> Darin: And it's got, like, all 700 games.

>> Mike: It's got about 100 of them on, but it's an interactive documentary type thing. So it's got videos from back in the day, interviews, and it's got a little timeline.


Dave Lay talks about Atari 2600 Asteroids and Berserk

You can read about, watch videos, watch documentary stuff about the games. And then they're there and you can actually play them.

>> Darin: Is the ET Game one of them?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I have gone, berserk over Berserk.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah.

>> Mike: destroy all humans. I'm playing the piss out of that game. And then, the old asteroids. The Atari 2600 asteroids. I was the lord of that now.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I'm not a record holder, but I should be.

>> Darin: The secret to the original, the OG Asteroids on Atari is don't move.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Yes. You just stay in the middle and just rotate. You'll fly all over the thing. Because then they come in from the side. Because an asteroid can go on the right side of the screen and then reappear on the left side of the screen. And that. Who, Come on. Who is kidding? So that's not possible.

>> Mike: So the home version, and I know this because I played it last night, the home version just had the Asteroids down on the left and right side of the screen. And they slowly get closer. As each stage, they get closer and closer. But usually they're not going right at you unless you've broken them up.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: In the OG and the arcade, which is also in this collection, they want you to die immediately.

>> Darin: Well, that's the goal because you'll more quarters into it. I almost died.

>> Mike: Yeah. So I highly recommend. You guys got the switch or the PlayStation?

>> Darin: We have the Switch.

>> Mike: It's on all of them.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And it's really cool. The OG Asteroids had that Vectrex like the glowy graphics. It was like an oscilloscope type graphics.

>> Darin: So I don't know what an association.

>> Mike: On the newer things, they emulate that. So it's like all glowy.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And stuff. It's really cool.

>> Darin: Speaking of asteroids and, the cars.

>> Mike: That'S right up there with that. Just put that anywhere.

>> Darin: Speaking of asteroids, in the Empire Strikes Back, some of those asteroids were potatoes.

>> Mike: That's true.

>> Darin: And I heard that. And I'm like, this whole time and now it made me question what else in Star wars was fake.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Like, come on.

>> Mike: I think that they should go back and reprogram all copies of Asteroids to start out with the quote. You're not actually going to fly into an asteroid field, are you?

>> Darin: They'd be crazy to follow us.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. And then have Chewy and then the stage starts.

>> Darin: Never tell me the odds.

>> Mike: that's right.

>> Darin: But, sir.

>> Mike: Yeah, be awesome.

>> Darin: Julie said 271. What are you doing? You're not actually going into an asteroid field.

>> Mike: It'd be crazy to follow us, wouldn't they?

>> Darin: You don't have to do this to impress me.

>> Mike: Sir.

>> Darin: The possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1. Never tell me the odds.

>> Mike: They don't have to do anything else in the game. Just throw those things in there.

>> Darin: That would be awesome.

>> Mike: Yeah.

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Pittsburgh Steelers beat Cincinnati Bengals 44 to 38 in a football game

>> Darin: Last, I went to see my Pittsburgh Steelers. They came to Cincinnati, Ohio. They played the Cincinnati Bengals and it was a game.

>> Mike: Who won?

>> Darin: The Steelers. Steelers won, 44 to 38.

>> Mike: Wow.

>> Darin: It was a game. It was close.

>> Mike: That was within a touchdown there.

>> Darin: Yes, Very good.

>> Mike: Literally.

>> Darin: Literally. It was six point difference. Yeah. if they had scored one more, they would have beaten us by one.

>> Mike: Or two field goals.

>> Darin: That's true. They would have tied it up with two field goals, six extra kicks. That's all I know about football. No, for the longest time, for the first two quarters or the half as they call it, it's like neither. Yeah. And we're talking football here. Two guys who know nothing about football. For the first half, neither team brought their defense.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: so whoever had the ball scored. They get the ball, and then they score. Then the Steelers got the ball, then they scored. The Bengals got the ball, then they scored. And we're like, huh? And every time, like, we got the ball, we're like, well, okay, if one.

>> Mike: Team doesn't bring the D, it's down to whoever's carrying the ball. Is that how. That seems weird?

>> Darin: A, couple of buddies of mine from Pittsburgh came down, and one of my friends had said it perfectly that we forgot to bring our D and our fence sign.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: So. So we weren't telling anybody to use defense.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So they.

>> Mike: They just didn't.

>> Darin: They just didn't.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Finally, the trend was broken and Boz. Chris Bosworth, the kicker, scored, a, field goal, and we were ahead.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And it was like, okay, for the first time in the game, we're ahead. Anyway, long story short, it just went back and forth and back and forth, and we didn't know it was, like, a really good football game because up until the end.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You were like, okay, this. This is.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And we finally won. Dude. It was 30 degrees. Okay.

>> Mike: Oh, you were there.

>> Darin: I keep. We were there. I was there.

>> Mike: Where were your seats? Were you up in the nosebleeds, as you would say?

>> Darin: We had a sharp us up to the top, and then, we were three rows down from the very, very, very top. As high as you can get.

>> Mike: Awesome. Is it steep up there?

>> Darin: Oh, yeah, yeah. And we were on the side of the stadium that was blocked by the sun, so we were in shade the whole time. Okay. So I think it was closer to 20 degrees. we were sitting. I had on two pair of wool socks. Yeah. I had long underwear, sweatpants, jeans.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: Okay. Then I had a T shirt, a long sleeve T shirt, a hoodie, and then my Terry Bradshaw jersey and a vest. I had gloves. I had my Steelers toboggan and my hood over, and it's like my body was pretty warm. I lost feeling in my feet. And for most of the game, I had to hold my terrible towel over my face. And I was like, this is great. Go to Steelers.

>> Mike: Yay.

>> Darin: Russell whistle. Just through the ball. And Chris Bowser's got kicking in.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: And Libby's like, what are you doing? I said, I can't fill my nose.

>> Mike: I have.

>> Darin: I had it buried in my terrible towel.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then I would. I would unbury it just to twirl it whenever we would, Score.


I never understood why Han said that. That seemed unnecessary

>> Mike: Here's what I want you to do the next time you're in that situation, okay. I want you to get up and start going down to, like, the concessions, huh? And I want you to have Libby yell after you. You'll. You'll freeze before you reach the third row. And I want you to yell back, I'll see you in hell.

>> Darin: I never understood why Han said that.

>> Mike: I'm like.

>> Darin: That seemed unnecessary. That was unnecessarily harsh.

>> Mike: Yeah, that.

>> Darin: I'll see you in hell.

>> Mike: What did.

>> Darin: What did he do? He was concerned about Han Solo going out looking for Luke on the ice planet. A hot. I mean, I wish they'd cut away to. The guy's like, what's his.

>> Mike: I think old George Lucas was at the typewriter a little late that night, and the whiskey took hold. He just typed that out and went to bed.

>> Darin: Well, he didn't write that one. He,

>> Mike: Oh, it was,

>> Darin: the guy, Lance, Van Rickson. What the hell's his name?

>> Mike: Yeah. Bess's mom went to school.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Lawrence Cast.

>> Darin: Lawrence Cast.

>> Mike: Yeah. Old Larry K. Lance Henriksen.

>> Darin: He was in.

>> Mike: He was Bishop in Aliens.

>> Darin: He was an alien.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Lonnie Donegan wrote the Empire Strikes Back.

>> Mike: Hold on. Let's. Let's pause for just a minute, please.

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

>> Mike: We got a little gaggle of people here, peeps. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.


Pittsburgh Steelers beat Cincinnati Bengals 27-17 at Paul Brown Stadium

>> Darin: So we're there at the.

>> Mike: Don't give it.

>> Darin: I do, but I'm gonna lose my train of thought.

>> Mike: You were there in the.

>> Darin: In the shiny.

>> Mike: Yeah. You were there in the.

>> Darin: In the jungle.

>> Mike: In the.

>> Darin: As they call it. We were down there in the jungle. You know what? And they welcomed us.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: to the jungle when we got there.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But, man, you know what?

>> Mike: We got fun and games.

>> Darin: They got everything you want.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Except for a win for the band.

>> Mike: And then for some reason, they want to watch you bleed.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Goes downhill.

>> Darin: I know. So there's five of us, and we're walking around, and, you know, there's a lot of Pittsburgh Steelers fans on game day, and a lot of them are from Cincinnati. And I noticed that, like, whenever I would talk to Bingle fans and they're in their tiger costumes, and they got whiskers and a tail, and, like, Tony the Tiger. They're great, dude.

>> Mike: Jumping around on a bouncy, springy tail like Tigger.

>> Darin: What's next? That's a lion. The metro. Golden mayor.

>> Mike: Roar. Same animal.

>> Darin: But we're. They Are.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But we're talking to these Bingle fans, and you could tell on their face that, a, they don't want to talk to us.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And two, after we've started a conversation with them, and they engaged in a conversation with us, they were shocked at how nice we were.

>> Mike: Yeah. I mean, it's. You can.

>> Darin: They just. They had no interest in communicating with us whatsoever.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But then they're like, damn it, these guys are nice.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But. Yeah. And so, had a great time. Now, I've been to the Paul Brown Stadium before when it didn't go so well. I remember I was wearing my Palamalo jersey one time. Troy Palamalo. I was wearing my Troy Palamallo jersey. We're leaving, and this guy standing right behind me, it says, he's a great player, but I swear to God, if I see one more Palamalo jersey, I'm gonna kill somebody. He stopped.

>> Mike: You turn around and say, sir, had you already seen me before? You made that?

>> Darin: I was like, I'm m. Yeah. I'm hoping the one more is after me. So. But he didn't start anything. And then my buddy, Greg Hauser, this girl. Woman. She comes up. this lady.

>> Mike: Female.

>> Darin: A female? Yeah. This chick, this broad, this dame. She gets right up into his face and starts like. And he's like, what is your problem with me? And she's like, you guys always win. And he says, well, what are you mad at me?

>> Mike: He's not on the team.

>> Darin: I'm not playing.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: You know, and we didn't have any of that after the win. We're, leaving, and this guy, this Bingle fan in his, whiskers and his stripes and everything, he says, well, I bet you guys are relieved. Aren't you relieved? You're just relieved. You got that smirk on your face. And I bet you're so relieved. And you could stop puckering those ass cheeks now.

>> Mike: This is turning into a, like, a John Carpenter horror thing. It's like, what?

>> Darin: So this guy was talking to us.

>> Mike: yeah.

>> Darin: About the fact that the game was close.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's a good game.

>> Darin: It was a good game. The Bengals played very well.


There were more penalty flags on the field than there were players

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I'll tell you what, though. There were more penalty flags on the field than there were players.

>> Mike: Every Bess and I. That's called there's laundry on the field.

>> Darin: There's laundry.

>> Mike: Oh, I like that. Yeah. We learned that in. During Charlie's games that they would. They would announce that. And we thought that now when me and Bess, we Went to the Ohio State game. There was a flag and Bess said, oh, there's some laundry on the field. It was, it was awesome because she seemed like a, like a football God at that point.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah. But, yeah, there was just, I think every play had a penalty. Had to have.

>> Mike: It just messes up the flow.

>> Darin: The umpire was out there or the ref. Is it an umpire or is it a ref? Is it both?

>> Mike: Who cares?

>> Darin: It's a. It's a man. he was out there and, holding. And then, unsportsmanlike, conduct, five yard penalty. And I don't understand when something gets a penalty and when something's declined, who makes that decision?

>> Mike: The. The other guy.

>> Darin: The people. Yeah. Who do that?

>> Mike: Dude that's watching the, thing.

>> Darin: Yeah. And then one of the guys, I can't remember his name on the Steelers team got called twice for unsportsmanlike conduct. It was a really good game. Again, m freezing. I just got feeling back in my feet like an hour ago.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: My God, it's the coldest I've ever been. Steelers are looking really good this year. They didn't look that last year. We were lucky to have a winning season. And this year, it's looking like we're going to hit the. I predict we're going to the playoffs.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: So we got to watch out for the Buffalo Bills. My God, they're good this year.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And the Kansas City Chiefs.

>> Mike: Yeah, they're really good this year. That's Mahomes.

>> Darin: And what pisses me off most about the Kansas City Chiefs is I like the Kansas City Chiefs. I like Mahomes, I like Andy Reid. And I think Taylor Swift's going to suit up and she's going to start playing. Might as well.

>> Mike: Yeah. I see Mahomes. There's a number of different things I like. I like his hair. I like how when they show him in between plays, he doesn't carry himself like a football player.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: He kind of. He. He looks like. Like, I believe I would look if you put me in a uniform, with all the pads. And I didn't quite know where I was supposed to go or what I was supposed to do.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Until the play starts. And then he's like. He just. He's just. I mean, he's. He is what he is, but m. There's always that, like, right before. He doesn't quite see. It's almost like somebody's go, like, do you know what you're doing? It's very Subtle. Do you know what I'm talking about?

>> Darin: Well, no. There's a video of him running, and there were a few comments where people said, he's running like he's trying not to poop in his pants. What happened? But again, I like the guy.

>> Mike: I do, too. And what's, the bingo guy? Joe Burrow.

>> Darin: Joe Burrow.

>> Mike: He always looks like he's trying to figure out what just happened.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Like, every time some play hits and they show him, it's. First of all, it's the kid from Home Alone. And I know that that's a tired joke. I know that they. They dressed up as each other this past Halloween.


Dave Reed: I feel like I'm reasonably into sports now

Or one of them. Yeah. what's the guy's name?

>> Darin: Macaulay Culkin.

>> Mike: Colleague. Culkin dressed up as Joe Burrow for Halloween. This fast.

>> Darin: That's cool.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So anyway, and it's just whenever the camera is on him, he looks like he's about. Like, if they had a microphone, he'd be like, what are you people doing? Meanwhile, I would love to see. I can't wait for them to play each other because there's always something to watch, even when there's not a play. You can watch Macaulay Culkin. His face. He's going to be pissed off. And you can watch Mahomes, where you're almost about ready to say, someone stop the game and get that guy.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Someone explained to him what football is. Oh, the play started.

>> Darin: He's good. Have you seen that guy who dresses up as Andy Reid and goes to the games?

>> Mike: I don't know who that is.

>> Darin: The coach for the Kansas City Chiefs looks exactly like him, and he carries the clipboard, and he's got the mustache, and it's. It's really impressive how much it looks like Reed, so.

>> Mike: You know, I'm legendary for not knowing a damn thing about sports, but me, too, over the years, my kids, I. They've taught me m. And I feel like I'm reasonably into sports now. Like, 25% of the time. I can understand what the call is on the field and explain it to someone who doesn't know.

>> Darin: Yeah, I know. holding. I know, holding.

>> Mike: But I feel like it's. It's a waste. I wish I were like this back when. Saturday Night Live was it Saturday Night Live did the Bulls. The Bears. The Bears with, George Went and Mike Farley. Yeah. I would be so into that now. I don't know. So the only fallback I have now is, have you seen the Bill Burr, Sam Adams commercials. That they do.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Oh, my Lord.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Where he's fighting with his son. Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. It's pretty choice. Yeah.

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What type of pie did you eat at Thanksgiving? Pumpkin, of course

now back to the show.

>> Darin: A friend of the show sent in a question and asked, what type of pie did we eat at Thanksgiving?

>> Mike: Pumpkin, of course.

>> Darin: Yeah. Did you have anything else besides pumpkin?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Okay. At, Jeff and Joy's, I had some pumpkin pie.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But then at our house, I had, some cream pie that my mom made. And then we had apple pie. It's kind of like.

>> Mike: Is it like cheesecake?

>> Darin: No. Kind of like custard. And it's got, like a nutmeg.

>> Mike: I don't know what it is, but it's good. I'd like some.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Can you have her make me a cream pie?

>> Darin: You know what?

>> Mike: Wait, is that. Am I allowed to say that you can? I don't think I can say that.

>> Darin: It's my mom.

>> Mike: Okay. My mom. Okay. Is that what it's called?

>> Darin: It's called a cream pie.

>> Mike: I don't think we could say that. I think we just lost half of our things.

>> Darin: Years ago, when I worked at Channel 5, we had a partnership with graders. Ice cream. And graders was giving everybody at WLWT a free pie. And you had your choice. You could get a pumpkin pie or a pumpkin pie, A, pecan pie or a chess pie. I love chess pie.

>> Mike: My teeth always get caught on the little horsies I love. Ah, waka waka waka.

>> Darin: My friend Christina, she asked me, she said, I'm not gonna. Yeah, I'm not gonna get my pie this year. Do you want mine? And I'm like, oh, are you sure? I'm like, yeah. And she goes, what's a chest pie? I'm like, christina, it's a whole different. It is.

>> Mike: It's like a Cleveland steamer.

>> Darin: It's not a chest pie. It's a chess pie.

>> Mike: It's like a Cincinnati microwave.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You know, watch out for those. A Boston Pancake.

>> Darin: You could put the. You could put the, And with your tone. Yeah. I gave her the old phone charger.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: and then put. If you know what I mean.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Anything.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: We were.

>> Mike: The old Arizona Spatula. Arizona Spatula.

>> Darin: The Minnesota Tick Tock. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: And the old California Bert.

>> Darin: Hey, I was watching some of the, Muppet Family Christmas again today. Yeah. Yeah. I've got to watch the whole thing.

>> Mike: I've been advertising at the People. That is. I still.

>> Darin: We don't make any money off of YouTube. Certainly doesn't make any money.

>> Mike: I. Usually when you tell me something that I should watch, part of me is like, I have a thing of where I don't want to watch what people tell me to watch.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I don't know what it is. It was Jim Boyce that said, let's watch this. I heard about it on your podcast. Let's watch it.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Like, okay. And then we watched it. And, I mean, I was in tears at the chef.


You've got to watch Sideways, the Sand Guy and Spiderman

>> Darin: Why are you like that? Why do you not.

>> Mike: I don't know.

>> Darin: Recommendations from people.

>> Mike: I still have those DVDs that you let me borrow for your ago.

>> Darin: Yeah. The Sandlot. Yeah.

>> Mike: And the Sideways.

>> Darin: And you still haven't watched Sideways?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: You would freaking love Sideways.

>> Mike: I think I sold it at Traders World.

>> Darin: You are so missing out.

>> Mike: I have a problem. I would love. I never felt comfortable in libraries. like. Ah, well, I. Looking at stuff, but, like, taking it home and reading.

>> Darin: What's it got to do with anything?

>> Mike: It's borrowing a thing. And then I just. I don't know what it is. It's a weirdness.

>> Darin: You would love the movie Sideways.

>> Mike: I'll watch it.

>> Darin: No, you won't.

>> Mike: I will. I will eventually. I think about it at least once a year. Something comes up.

>> Darin: I forgot. I.

>> Mike: Because I, like. I'm a wine guy. I've become a wine guy.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And I like the line, I'm not going to drink Merlot.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Because I. Before I was a wine guy, that was the only wine that I'd ever heard of.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But now you get the Merlot. I don't need that in my life right away. Yeah, it's Murlot and need it M.

>> Darin: Well, Paul Giamatti is, his absolute best. And then Thomas Hayden Church. My God, the two of them together are perfect. Absolutely perfect.

>> Mike: Was he Stifler?

>> Darin: No, Thomas Hayden Church was on Wings. He played Lowell.

>> Mike: Oh, like the main guy? No, he had, like, the long maintenance guy. And was he in Coach as well.

>> Darin: No, you're thinking of, the guy who's. The guy who does the voice of Patrick on.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Paul Giamatti was amazing. And the only other movie he did that was as good as that was the Holdovers. M. Yeah.

>> Mike: You've got to watch Sideways, the Sand Guy and Spiderman. Okay, I got you. Sand Guy inspires four, right?

>> Darin: Or three, I think Spider man three.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, okay. Yep, I know who that is.

>> Darin: Now he's got the real deep voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Dave: You're listening to Irritable Dead syndrome now with more bacon.

>> Darin: I need you to answer me a question.


Billy Bob Thornton has been getting comparisons to Johnny Depp lately

What is going on? What's the deal with Billy Bob Thornton? Have you seen some of his interviews lately?

>> Mike: No, I don't. I don't care about any of this.

>> Darin: Okay. I love Billy Bob Thornton. I've been a fan of him for a long, long time. I met him again, one of the coolest people I've ever had the pleasure to sit and talk to. He could not have possibly been nicer or cooler, to me. He autographed my copy of Sling Blade.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And I will cherish that forever. Okay. And he signed an autograph that I gave to my friend Tim Cable, who is no longer with us. And he gave me an autograph that I gave to my brother in law, Eddie.

>> Mike: Okay?

>> Darin: Yeah. So super nice guy.

>> Mike: There's these two fellers standing on a bridge. You go into the bathroom. One feller says that the water is cold. Other feller said the water is deep. I believe one feller come from Arkansas. Get it?

>> Darin: But he's been doing interviews lately.

>> Mike: He's got. He wears multiple hats.

>> Darin: Yes. Yeah, yes. He's got the, like the beanie, but a thin beanie and then kind of like, Billy Gibbons, a ZZ Top. He's wearing a hat on top of the hat, which I don't even understand why Billy Gibbons is wearing the hat on top of the hat. But Billy Bob in the beanie, on the left side, he's got earrings hanging out of the side. It's kind of like when you're a kid and you're going through your parents closet trying to find. To put on so that you can look like a pirate.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: I don't know what he's doing.

>> Mike: That's what I would do.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: If I ever, you know, you've seen these memes. Like, I'm not going to announce that I'm rich, but there'll be signs. And it's kind of like a Picture of a Millennium Falcon parked in the driveway.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Mine is going to. I'm going to start doing that. I'll have like a tattoo of me on sandwich.

>> Darin: Yeah. Life size.

>> Mike: Life size or what was it? George Garland? A tattoo of me, but taller. I'll Johnny Depp it up.

>> Darin: The comparisons to Johnny Depp have been made too, because I don't know what's Johnny Depp's? people are going to start thinking he's weird. But I really like Johnny Depp.

>> Mike: I really like Johnny Depp.

>> Darin: Johnny Depp is awesome.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: He's made way more good movies than he's made bad ones.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Way more.


Did you remember the movie Nick of Time? Yes. Yeah. It's kind of a movie you really only see once

>> Mike: Did you remember the movie Nick of Time? Yes. That was an amazing. I only saw it once.

>> Darin: Yeah, it's.

>> Mike: It's kind of a movie you really only see once.

>> Darin: Yes. And the gimmick was it was, real time. In real time.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I guess they had to have done a lot of cgi, afterwards because they would be walking through the crowded subway and they wouldn't just cut away because you can cut away to a clock anytime you want, but they would be walking through and the clock on the wall, the giant one or whatever, had the time.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So I mean, you know, because that's a nightmare if you're shooting a movie and all your scenes have to have something in the shot that has the right time.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: There's no way. And then editing would be a bitch.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So they had to have computer. Graphically. Space technology. The time.

>> Mike: Yeah, space, time. The most annoying thing about Nick of Time, or the worst part about it, was when the first season of 24 came out.

>> Mike: If you were ever talking to anyone about 24.

>> Darin: Oh. Like Nick.

>> Mike: Someone in the room would have to be like, you know, they weren't the first one to do that. It was Nick of Time with the, old Jonathan Depp.

>> Darin: Yep.

>> Mike: Like, I get it. It's. Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then you'd go for another couple of months and nobody would say anything. And then Keeper Sutherland would come up and then you get a phone call. You know, he was not the first person to do real time. It. Nicholas, of Time with, J. Depp.

>> Darin: Nicholas.

>> Mike: Nicholas.

>> Darin: Nicholas.

>> Mike: My God.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It wasn't until 24, season three, where people quit talking about that and they started talking about the actual show. 24. At least in the circles that I run in.

>> Darin: Right. But in 24, you know, the only time you saw the time.

>> Mike: That was badass though. It was. See, you can. People can stream It. Or they can watch it on DVD now. But the real cool, the coolest part for me was every once in a while, because they would go to commercial and it would show the time. Every once in a while they would. In between some commercials. Uh-huh. They would show the dude, like, walking down the hallway with the time going. And then it would go to another commercial.

>> Darin: What?

>> Mike: For just a couple seconds.

>> Darin: Really?

>> Mike: Yeah. Everyone saw that. Very rarely. To the point where you're like, you know, you're yelling for everybody to get back to the tv.

>> Darin: You know what? I never watched it when it was on tv. Yeah, yeah, we started it late. Yeah. We watched the DVD of season one.

>> Mike: They did have. I remember one time specifically. You know how they would, like, have the screen shrink and then another screen would come in.

>> Darin: Yes, yes.

>> Mike: They did that during commercials. You'd be watching a dove commercial and then it would shrink and it was just, It was just Kiefer Sutherland sitting at a desk.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Because it left. And he was like, I can figure this out. Then during the commercials, it shrinks and it just shows him looking back and forth between two pictures.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then when the show comes back, he's like, aha. you're like, that's kind of cool.


You need to see the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. Have you ever seen the first season

>> Darin: Chloe. I loved Chloe. Yeah, Chloe was awesome.

>> Mike: Yeah. Tony Almeida, I liked.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah, well, until you didn't like to know, you know, till he turned on him.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: That dick. Yeah.

>> Mike: And Peter Weller, he was the main bad guy. The first. Was it the first season or the second season?

>> Darin: Who's Peter Weller? RoboCop.

>> Mike: oh, okay.

>> Darin: Yeah, you know, I.

>> Mike: Or Buckaroo Banzai.

>> Darin: Oh, okay. Okay.

>> Mike: Have you ever seen the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai?

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Do you think Jeff Goldblum is cool?

>> Darin: I do. I like Jeff Goldblum a lot.

>> Mike: You need to see the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. After you see that. Jeff Goldblum. After you see that. Is 500 times cooler than I can imagine.

>> Darin: Ah, yeah.

>> Mike: He's dressed as a cowboy. And I don't mean a normal cowboy. I'm talking a Pee Wee Herman foam cowboy.

>> Darin: And he's just Cowboy Bob Curtis. Cowboy.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And he's just dead serious. Dead pan serious the whole time. Like that. Yeah, it's amazing.

>> Darin: I will, Well, I can't promise you, but, you know what? I'll watch that if you watch Sideways. Yeah.

>> Mike: You know what we haven't done in a while?

>> Darin: What's that?

>> Mike: we haven't done a review on the show.

>> Darin: No, we have not.

>> Mike: So I'll watch Sideways, you watch the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And we'll come back and we'll talk about it. Like, I don't want to put any pressure, but. Yeah. In the coming year, we'll do it.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: At some point.

>> Darin: Yeah. We'll plan it out.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.


Courtney Ergen: Amazon has ruined Christmas for me

>> Dave: We interrupt this program for a special announcement. Congratulations to Courtney Ergen, Irritable Dad Syndrome's Listener of the Week. This has been a special announcement.

>> Darin: Hey, you know what? Christmas is coming up.

>> Mike: It is. What are you getting Libby?

>> Darin: I got her a, thing.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It's coming in a box. Yeah. I've got to wrap it.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Put it underneath the tree.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: Oh, my thing that Bess got me that I ordered should m have been delivered today. I have to look for it on the front best.

>> Darin: Got you.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: We talked about what it is that I want, and I was like, I've got it right here. I can just. Amazon has ruined Christmas. It's like, what do you want? I want that thing right there. This exact thing. And it's like, well, just click buy now. And it's.

>> Darin: Well, I don't know if you guys. Do you both have, Gmail accounts?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. Do you get notifications when her emails come in? Because we're on the floor. Like, the family plan.

>> Mike: Use my prime. I have prime.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And everyone uses my account, so I get notified. Like, I'll get a picture. Bono does. Dallas is coming. You know, like, oh, well, I know what you got me for my birthday now, so.

>> Darin: What? You've already got it on vhs. Is coming on laserdisc.

>> Mike: It's viewfinder.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah. John Lithgow is in Buckaroo.

>> Darin: I get a notification, an email notification. I look, and it's for Libby, and I have to swipe to make sure that I don't see. Because you're right. Since Amazon, I mean, we order everything online. Everything.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: We've been finding presents that we bought the kids years ago because I told you, we're going through a garage now.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I've just. I've been finding things that I bought for them months ago. I found a bunch of Star wars figures that I bought. Uh-huh. From the Disney Store.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Like original OG Star wars figures. Like Han Solo and R2D2.

>> Darin: Are you keeping them?

>> Mike: They're mine now. They were originally for the kids.

>> Darin: Okay. Please tell me I kind of did get rid of them, because if you.

>> Mike: Are, I'll take them I kind of did the thing of, like, you guys don't want this crap. I'm going to put it.

>> Darin: This is worthless.

>> Mike: Throw it out. Like, no, I don't want that.

>> Darin: This toy that's still in the box.

>> Mike: You know what? I'll throw it away for you. I'll deal with it for you. And then I hid it in the.

>> Darin: Bedroom when the boys were little, between me and Libby and my mom and, you know, when our parents, who were alive at the time, and then, you know, the aunts and the uncles and everything else, the boys were actually exhausted. Opening up Christmas presents.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And by like the 10th or 12th or whatever.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They were like, do we. Oh, okay. Thank. Thank you. You know, you can tell.

>> Mike: Yeah. And Jesus.


Craig: Courtney has put our irritable dad syndrome Christmas card on her tree

>> Darin: And it's like, you know, they're little kids, right. And so they can't keep their attention on things for, a very long time. And so they would play with one toy like mad, and they would forget about all these. There were so many toys that we put away and then gave them back for their birthdays in. In July and in May.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And they didn't know. They really didn't know. So all these years later, they go back and look at our home videos. Like, why did you give me the same thing for Christmas on my birthday? Hey, hey, hey. What happened? I brought up Christmas because Courtney, Ergon Jurgen as her, has put our irritable dad syndrome Christmas card on her Christmas tree.

>> Mike: That's really cool.

>> Darin: She's decorated her Christmas tree with our mugs.

>> Mike: That's awesome.

>> Darin: And she said that in the next coming years or so, she's going to take that card and make it into an actual Christmas ornament. I don't know how she's going to do that.

>> Mike: Put a hook in it, but.

>> Darin: Just put a hook in it. Tie a string to both sides.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But I was so flattered. I'm like, you know, I know that there's pictures of us on our Christmas tree. Yeah. The family stuff. But I'm like, there's somebody in Tennessee who's got your face and my face on their Christmas tree.

>> Mike: we have over here somewhere. an irritable dad syndrome up there. Irritable dad syndrome truck.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: Somebody made from the OG logo.

>> Darin: Yes. I've got the truck at my house, too.

>> Mike: That blows my mind. Because we created the podcast, came up with the name.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: You came up with. Well, we.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And then you designed that logo, and someone took that and put it on a serial killer van and gave it to us. That's awesome.

>> Darin: That was very, very awesome.

>> Mike: Someone sent us at some point. We've got flamingos. Remember we got the whole thing of zero bars.

>> Darin: Craig. Thank you for doing that.

>> Mike: We've had all kinds of cool things.

>> Darin: We did get a box. We got a box of zero bars. That was Chris Michael. He gave that to us before he hated us. Because by the way, if, and I don't know if Chris Hughes knows this though, but we have replaced Chris Hughes with Chris Michael. We've taken all the anger and volatility that we used to give Chris Hughes and we have geared it, aimed it at Chris Michael, I think so. You're welcome.

>> Mike: Yeah. We enjoy your company. Chris Hughes. We like Chris Hughes.

>> Darin: Sure. but I really, in small portions.

>> Mike: The two Chris's that support the show.

>> Darin: Well, there's three Chris's who support the show. Three O. It's the magic number. Yeah, it is. Oh, you know what? Chris Calloway, take this as a warning.

>> Mike: His name is. I always call him Callie.

>> Darin: Because when we get done with Chris Michael, we're coming for you, buddy.

>> Mike: I would not punch Chris Calloway. I wouldn't punch Chris Hughes. I'd backhand him though. You know, I just flat. And I would do it. Here's how I would do.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I would do it when we're all in a good mood and laughing about something and then. Yeah, and I mean a good one. Take that like m. Do my best to knock him out. because that would be even funnier if he comes to and he has no idea what the hell just happened.

>> Darin: New people to the podcast, they're gonna think, God, these guys really support violence. They think violence is hysterical.

>> Mike: Just about just to the Chris's.

>> Darin: But yeah, if your name is not Chris, don't worry.

>> Mike: Yeah, so I don't want Chris Hughes to see it coming. I wanted to just. I want him, I want him to wonder as he's falling. But with Chris Michael, with Chris Michael, I want to call him on the phone.

>> Mike: I'm coming over there and I'm going to punch you in seven minutes, right? Yeah, like 24.


Michael actually went to a Halloween party dressed as irritable

And have video of me driving while the time is going down and go up and punch him right at when it goes down to zero. I want him to know it's coming. I want to see the look, in his eye right before it connects.

>> Darin: You know what, he's such a nice guy. He is probably just laugh it off and then send us a check.

>> Mike: Those guys, those wacky guys, the only fans we talk about physically abusing Chris are the ones that support us.

>> Darin: As I say, Chris, Michael actually went to a Halloween party dressed as irritable. Ah, dad syndrome. He had the bald wig. Yeah. And since he didn't have a goatee, he could have been either of us.

>> Mike: Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's true.

>> Darin: So, yeah, he comes to the Christmas party at the Durbin's house with his irritable dad syndrome shirt, the baldwig. And boy, he was proud of his costume.

>> Mike: He was.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: He was grinning ear to ear.

>> Darin: Yeah. And that punchable face. Yeah. Long, story short, Courtney, thank you so much for putting your. Yeah, thank you for putting us on your Christmas tree.

>> Mike: Yo, ding dong, man. Ding dong, ding dong. Yo.


Are you gonna see the War of the Rohiro? Have you heard of this

Are you gonna see the War of the Rohiro? Have you heard of this?

>> Darin: Oh, yes, I am gonna go see the war.

>> Mike: It's. When does it come? It's like this this month, isn't it?

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: I think it's like an anime thing.

>> Darin: Yeah. Peter Jackson's behind it.

>> Mike: Is he?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: It welcomes you to Middle Earth.

>> Mike: The Rohiro, they are the horse people.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: In the Lord of the Rings, are.

>> Darin: They the ones who. The, Sleevestacks?

>> Mike: what?

>> Darin: The seven people who are the drink. The ring race.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Not Sleeztacks. That's the land of the loss. The ring race. All ride horses.

>> Mike: They do.

>> Darin: Okay, so they're not the Rohiro, they're not the Rohirrin.

>> Mike: The Rohirrim are Rohiram or Rohirin. Rohiram.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: You know, the King.

>> Darin: Is Bombadil gonna be in this?

>> Mike: probably.

>> Darin: Okay. Did you watch the season, two of the.

>> Mike: Hey, hey, the Ring, is he in it?

>> Darin: No, but they mention him. Do they mention Tom Bombadil in that? They sing a song about Tom Bombadil.

>> Mike: Okay, I did.

>> Darin: See, a thought was a precursor to.

>> Mike: I'm going to interrupt your interruption. somebody pointed out, because they were talking about no Tom Bombadil in the Lord of the Rings movies by Peter Jackson. And somebody aptly pointed out the only way they could have done it and have it not be a train wreck would have been to have Robin Williams be Tom Bombadil. And when I read that, I thought, yes, okay, he could have done it. Because the essence of Tom Bombadil, and.

>> Darin: That'S what this is, Tingly fingers, is.

>> Mike: He'S, like, dead serious, like, you know, whatever. But then also, making fun of everything kind of at the same time, right in between those two things. And I think Robin Williams could do that Jack Black. I don't know that he could. He'd be the only one that I think would do it now. But I still think Robin Williams would have nailed that role.

>> Darin: You know, I really, really like Jack Black.

>> Mike: I do, too.

>> Darin: I'm going to say something.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: He's borderline too much Jack Black.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: We're almost at a point where Jack Black is in as many things as Ryan Seacrest.

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: And, it's like, okay. Because, he plays Steve in the Minecraft movie.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And I like. You were just in, Mario. The Mario Brothers movie. Yeah. As Bowser.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Peaches. Peaches. Peaches. Peachy Peaches. Yeah. I really like Jack Black. I'm a fan of Tenacious D. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: I'd like CM plate. Golem.


We want you to tell your friends about irritabledad syndrome

All right, let's wrap this thing up.

>> Darin: Yeah, we're gonna go. We want you to go to irritabledadcyndrome.com. we want you to listen to every episode you have. We want you to tell your friends about irritabledad syndrome.com. we want you to go to the store on our website, and it would be awesome if you would buy a coffee mug or a T shirt or a hoodie or a blanket or something. We don't have blankets. We've got towels. If you're small. If you're very, Astute. Is that the word? I'm astute? Petite.

>> Mike: Petite.

>> Darin: If you're very petite, then you could use our beach blanket as a, Our beach towel as a blanket. I am drunk. So go to irritable. Hey. Go to irritabledadstone.com. become a patron.

>> Mike: Sign up for the mailing list.

>> Darin: Lord have mercy. If you enjoy this show, then show, us how much you care. Become a patron, and you get all kinds of cool stuff, and you get to see videos and audio. That's, And it's amazing. Absolutely.

>> Mike: Hells, yeah. I picked up my photos while you're trying to do that.

>> Darin: This is in theater when someone takes, the cane and pulls me off the stage by my neck. We hope to see you next week on Irritable Dance.

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

>> Mike: M. I want to tell these fine folk about my personal life. Lonnie Donegan.

>> Darin: Lonnie Done. Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I'm Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to how you doing? I'm Eeyore. Yeah, I could give a crap.

>> Mike: Yeah. Welcome to the show.

>> Darin: Is that your phone? Yeah, it's my phone.

>> Mike: Oh. What do you think it's just the top of it looks weird. It looks like a. Like a remote.

>> Darin: Okay, It's a phone. Looks just like your phone.

>> Mike: Okay, yeah, mine doesn't look like a remote. Yeah, please cut that out. Ah, not for any reason other than it just has no point.

>> Darin: Like anything else in this podcast has a point.

>> Mike: Your tontine will freeze before you reach first marker. It'll see you in hell.