IDS #309 - That Penis Belongs in a Museum!

Episode 309 of Irritable Dad Syndrome features museum adventures, concert talk, podcast chaos, and stories that somehow become more ridiculous with every turn.

This week includes:

•  Bess went to a Penis Museum in Greece 
•  A really inappropriate dog story 
•  More talk about turtles having sex with inanimate objects 
•  A highly censored clip about a beaver website 
•  Libby is smart, especially when it comes to warming up bread 
•  Chicken salad with crack in it 
•  Mike's mileage game in his new car 
•  Best of clip from Episode 144 about corn 
•  Darin's son is having podcast problems 
•  The Strike Force Five 
•  Does Darin really think he knows everything? 
•  U2 did a thing in Mexico 
•  Interrupted by the blender 
•  Bruce Springsteen really likes to count 
•  Should bands play an encore at concerts? 
•  Oh the bloopers 

Dad life, music talk, pop culture, strange conversations, and the usual Irritable Dad Syndrome chaos.

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Transcript

It's time for Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast

>> Mike: Okay, well, this is it, folks.

>> Darin: This is.

>> Mike: This, is what you asked for.

>> Darin: Yep.

>> Mike: Aerodynchronous.

>> Darin: Yep. You signed up for it, so you're gonna. You're gonna get what you pay for.

>> Mike: Oh, my gosh, Darren, you don't even know. All your dreams are about to be answered. Are you ready for this?

>> Darin: Screws fall out all the time. The world's in a perfect.

>> Dave: It's time for Irritable Dad Syndrome. Contact us if you need a speaker at your high school or college graduation ceremony. Give it up for your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hello, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I'm Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 309. Hi. How, you doing, everybody?

>> Mike: It's been a long, hard road getting here.

>> Darin: Mike has had some struggles this week without getting into anything personal. Yeah, Mike's had a week, and it is only Wednesday.

>> Mike: Monday, Mike drove a grand total of nine hours.

>> Darin: That's a long time to drive. And I know. Listen, don't get off you keyboard warriors. Stop complaining.

>> Mike: My grandpappy hauled potatoes from West Virginia to Botswana.

>> Darin: Exactly. I used to drive 14 hours a day, uphill both ways, and. Okay. But for regular folk like me and Mike, who, I mean, good Lord. I drive five minutes a week, and that's to come here. The only times I drive are to come to your house when we record the podcast and when I go to the grocery store on the weekend. Yeah. Work from home. But still, it's just when you're not used to driving all the time, it can wear and tear.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, and then, yeah, I get back to work as I, was off work for a couple of days, doing that, and then I come back and there was just all kinds of stuff going on.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And it continue to go on up until, like, just a few minutes ago.

>> Darin: We. We are about an hour 15 minutes late in doing our show tonight. So, anyway, here's. Here's the thing. This is all stuff that doesn't really affect any of y'.

>> Mike: All. No.

>> Darin: But I am going to be heading to Indianapolis.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: we are doing a promotional event. My company at the Indy 500. I'm going to be off for a week. So tonight we are recording two episodes in a row. And whenever we record two episodes, inevitably, one of them is the best one ever and the other one blows ass.

>> Mike: Fun fact, Indianapolis is the Greek word for city in Indiana.

>> Darin: That is right. If you ever go to Indianapolis, you're like, man, this place is full of Greeks.

>> Mike: Yeah. And if you ever go to Greece, you could say, man, there's a nice museum here. We'll talk more about that later.

>> Darin: yeah, I can't wait.


Mike's wife went on a trip with her sister to Greece

Mike's wife went on a trip with her sister to Greece and a whole

>> Mike: gaggle of people, not just her sister.

>> Darin: And I don't know if you guys know this, but Greece ain't in the United States. No, this is in. Well, it's in Greece. Yeah, it's, overseas. And Mike usually. Usually Mike doesn't add a lot to the rundown, but I get a message from him today that says, bess went to a museum.

>> Mike: Hello.

>> Darin: And I'm like, okay, so, ah, we're leading the show off with this. We'll have to call it a penis museum.

>> Mike: Yeah, a whole museum museum of them.

>> Darin: A whole museum of peni penal penals. Mike Odal, everybody.

>> Mike: Yes. How are you doing?

>> Darin: I'm good.

>> Mike: Bess and I have done this thing for. Good Lord. How long has Google been around? 30, 40, 50 years?

>> Darin: 75 years. And they just had their anniversary.

>> Mike: So I've, I've said that before, and I will say it again. and I've read the AI books. I know that we're all going to be murdered by AI and the. In our slate and Big Brother and all that. Yet anytime, anytime I'm asked for any information, personally identifiable information, anything, share your information. All this, I am first in line to give everything that I have. Hey, here, Learn this about me.

>> Darin: Okay? Yeah.

>> Mike: I want them to know everything because then I know the robot overlords will murder me at some point. Yes. But until then. Hey, I, know when there's a Chipotle near me.

>> Darin: Can I ask you a question?

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: What are you talking about? What's going to do with it?

>> Mike: There's nothing. Just rewind this a little bit. We do a thing. Google Photos. Put all your photos in the Googles. Right.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And so Bess and I have it set up on our phones. And we've done this since the beginning of time.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Any picture I take on this goes right to the Google Photos I shared to both of us. She does the same thing.

>> Darin: So.

>> Mike: So when I was busy minding my own business, handling my business here while she was in Greece, I suddenly see sculptures of, the male genitalia penises in varying degrees of color. I mean, like, purple there were blue ones, there were green ones. There were varying degrees of detail.

>> Darin: This is something that I think would require a phone call, right?

>> Mike: Some of them.

>> Darin: What are you doing?

>> Mike: Long time listeners will Remember that I got paddled in first grade?

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: Because of a certain balloon that I pointed out. The shape. I felt like it resembled a shape. Right.

>> Darin: My penis flew off.

>> Mike: Some of the penises in this museum are like that. And some are very, intricately detailed. some would say veiny.

>> Darin: Were some erect?

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Oh, okay.

>> Mike: As a matter of fact, Bess took a picture of her sister next to a particularly erect purple penis.

>> Darin: Okay. Okay.

>> Mike: With blue veinage.

>> Darin: I want to see this.

>> Mike: But. Yeah, they said they were just walking down the street in Greece, as one does.

>> Darin: One does.

>> Mike: Full of olives and goat cheese. And they looked over and what do they see on yonder horizon but a pecker and multitudes of them. And then they get closer and it's the penis museum. So.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: They did what any normal person would do. You buy a ticket, you go and see what's in there.

>> Darin: How much was the ticket to see the penis museum?

>> Mike: I don't know.

>> Darin: Okay. Any live demonstrations?

>> Mike: No, no, no, no, no. This is, this is fully. It's all Darren.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah, she took some beautiful pictures.


Bess went to Greece this week with the kids. She had an excellent time

Greece is one of those places. It's hard to take a bad picture.

>> Darin: Right. You know, that's where they had the, the first Olympics.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: In Greece.

>> Mike: And it's where the musical, with, John Travolta and Olivia Newton John.

>> Darin: That's right. It was in Greece.

>> Mike: In Greece. So.

>> Darin: And the sequel, Greece. Correct. Michelle Pfeiffer.

>> Mike: Now here's the deal.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I thought while Bess was there, I thought, man, before she left, we should have watched Clash of the Titans, you know, with Harry Hamlin and the pepperoni. Yeah, we, we should have, we should have watched that. It's a classic.

>> Darin: It doesn't hold up though. It does. No, it doesn't. Look, the graphics do not hold up.

>> Mike: Graphics? What are you, a 12 year old Minecraft kid?

>> Darin: It's like an episode of Gumby. It's the Claymation.

>> Mike: It's Ray Harryhausen.

>> Darin: It's so bad.

>> Mike: it's. It's a classic.

>> Darin: But it is a classic.

>> Mike: If you'll remember, there's a, ah, owl known as Bubo.

>> Darin: It was a golden owl.

>> Mike: Bubo is Greek for booba. Right. It's a mechanical owl, which is also Greek for peanuts. So I came close to texting Bess and saying, hey, if you see any mechanical owl looking things over there, pick me up a bubo. Bring a bubo home. I, didn't send that text. Right. But she brought home a bottle opener. Okay, that is It's a mechanical owl. It looks like Bubo.

>> Darin: Really?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So you were going to text her to do that, and you didn't, and she ESP'd mind about. Yeah. From across the, Atlantic.

>> Mike: It depends on which way the crow flies. You can go the other way.

>> Darin: I'm going to assume that she went across the Atlantic to Greece. So you ESP'd her.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Across the Atlantic.

>> Mike: And she's like electrostatic precipitation.

>> Darin: Send Micah Boobo. Yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: And a. Ah, Bubo. Mike got.

>> Darin: Wow.

>> Mike: That's love right there.

>> Darin: Yeah, that is love. Yeah. Good for her. M. So did she bring back any souvenirs from Penis Museum?

>> Mike: From the Penis Museum.

>> Darin: Did she bring back a bottle opener from the Penis M Museum Or a cork stock?

>> Mike: She brought back tons of gifts for me and the children. nothing for those damn dogs. But the most popular gift that she brought back was the coasters.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I think she was a little taken aback at how excited Charlie and I got over the Greek coasters, because they look really cool. There's tons of pictures of. And the water is perfect and the sun's perfect and all that stuff. It's. It's like. Like I said, you can't take a bad picture there, so.

>> Darin: Yeah, but she, had a good time.

>> Mike: She had. She had an excellent time.

>> Darin: And you didn't lose your mind over here watching the kids by yourself for a week?

>> Mike: I forgot to give Booba her medication.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: On one night, but I remembered it in the middle of the night, and I woke up and I gave her. I said, what the. Who cares? She'll be fine. And she was fine. Yeah, Marbles was. I don't know if you know this, but Marbles, he, loves Bess more than anything in the world. he wants to snuggle with her all the time. He follows her around all this stuff. So we were particularly worried about Marbles mental health when she left. And for the first night, he was very sad.


Mike: Dogs are weird. Dogs are. If you just drop dead in your house with your dog

And then we noticed the next day, it's like she never existed.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: He was just bouncing around.

>> Darin: And I was like, wow, there's something about a dog. Because my buddy Jeff used to have a, Collie.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And the collie's name was Charlie. and it's Jeff Brown. So their dog was Charlie Brown. So whenever I would go to Jeff's house, Charlie would hide. He would go in the bedroom, he would go under the bed. He would go behind the curtains. He would hide behind the couch. He would not come to me. He would not Let me go near him. I don't know what his deal was. I was never mean to the dog. Yeah. Now, granite. There was one time where Charlie had to have surgery, on one of his hind legs, and they shaved part of his leg. Yeah. And so it was cold. So Joy, Jeff's wife, Joy, good, friend of ours. She's a lovely, lovely person. She put pants on Charlie, and I from then on called him Charlie Pants. So I don't know if Charlie Pants didn't like that or what. But anyway, so Charlie would not come to me when we were at their house. Now they were going on a vacation for over a week and needed somebody to watch the dog. We watched their dog, and when Charlie was at our house, he would not leave my sight. He was within an inch of my leg all the time. If I went right, he went right. If I went left, he went left. One time I was at the kitchen counter, and I turned around to do something, and I damn near tripped and killed myself over Charlie. Yeah. It was so weird, because this dog, who henceforth or heretofore would not have anything to do with me.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Would not leave me alone. And so it. Dogs are. My point is, Mike, dogs are weird.

>> Mike: Yeah. Ah. I mean, there's, like, the theory or the question, you know, how long. If you just drop dead in your house with your dog, how long would it be before the dog eats you? Right. Apparently, cats, from what I've heard, cats just dig in almost immediately. They just, like, they can't wait for you to die.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Dogs at least seem concerned for a few days, and then they go at it. and I wasn't sure if I believe that, but, I mean, seeing how he bounced back from his depression within a day, it's like, wow.

>> Darin: He, I saw a video on the Tick Tock. it was trending there for a while. What would your dog do if you just keeled over and died? So these dog m. Owners would have seen those. Would put the camera on the table and then. Oh, my. And fall over and die.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: One dog started humping the lady, and she shot up, and she's like, I'm dead. Oh, my God, Rover. Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Shame on you. He was going to town. Yeah. Just. That's horrible. Hey. Oh, oh, and speaking of that, do you remember a week or so ago when I was talking about the turtle having sex with the basketball?

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Well, because I watched the video of that turtle having sex with the basketball. Now I'm getting more videos of turtles having sex. That's how they get you inanimate objects. This time there's a turtle going to town with. It's a, it's a plastic extension cord roller. It's. It's like a sphere. Not a. Not a circle, by the way. I also saw a video, a disc, but I saw a woman, and she and her sister were at the Sphere in Las Vegas and she kept calling it the spear, but that's not. Yeah. So this turtle is going to town on an extension cord roller. And again, these people have. They don't care if the turtle has any privacy or.

>> Mike: Or what.

>> Darin: And they recorded the whole thing. You know, if.

>> Mike: If turtles and ferrets and beavers had phones.

>> Darin: Uhhuh.

>> Mike: What if you were,

>> Darin: How would you feel if you were recording you getting it?

>> Mike: Yeah. And a beaver came over and started recording it.


Mike: If you start futzing around with random beavers, there's a

And you know, he's putting it on whatever the beaver version of world. probably a.

>> Darin: Probably a site.

>> Mike: Don't search. Don't search. You know, now that's going to be in the transcript. It's going to be a clickable link in her podcast. Sorry. We're now affiliated with them.

>> Darin: I'm sorry.

>> Mike: We do not accept any responsibility for what may be happening over there.

>> Darin: You, see, that started out as a world, and then, you know, Mike and I, we are trendy with the improv. And so, you know, Mike just started rattling off random animals.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And one of them was a beaver.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then I just assumed that the beavers.

>> Mike: If you start futzing around with random beavers, there's a non zero chance that you'll run into a venomous beaver.

>> Darin: That's true.

>> Mike: Then you are in trouble.

>> Darin: And by the way, if you want to get a venomous beaver T shirt, you can do that at irritable dad syndrome.com approved by Dave Mustaine of the Megadeth.

>> Mike: Wow, that was very smooth transition.

>> Darin: Right. I'm just trying to get out of this.

>> Mike: Thank you. Yeah, we get.

>> Dave: You're listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome. Forklift certified since 1996.

>> Mike: That's right.


Darren: Something I said about my wife was inaccurate last week

>> Darin: So you were talking about your wife. Yeah. going to Greece and, a little story about my wife. well, two little things. One, last week's episode, there was something I said that was inaccurate. She doesn't know what it was. But I said something that she did and she didn't do it exactly as I said. And so I apologize. I don't remember what it was. She doesn't remember what it was. All I know is when she came home, I was wrong.

>> Mike: So do you get told like. Because I will tell stories on the podcast and, and then I will come home and Beth says you that's not exactly how.

>> Darin: We didn't do that at 8 o'.

>> Mike: Clock.

>> Darin: That was in the afternoon.

>> Mike: Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. Okay. Yeah, yeah. It's like the other day we were having Raisin Bran and this bird flew into the house and knocked over the coffee maker and set the whole house on fire. We weren't eating Raisin Bran, Darren. Okay. Cameron was eating oatmeal. Okay. Okay. The point of the story is, ah, the bird flew into the house, knocked over the coffee maker and set the house on fire.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It's the point isn't what we had for breakfast.

>> Mike: Libby M.

>> Darin: And ah, we're back.

>> Darin: With irritable dad syndrome. I was going to say my wife is smarter than I am. She is so much smarter than I am. I had went to the grocery store and I went to the, to Costco. Okay. And when you, you can't buy a loaf of bread at Costco. You have to buy two loaves of bread.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And so I bought two loaves of bread and I had one of them in the freezer out in the garage. Okay. So we had been eating. By the way, if you get chicken salad at Costco.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Oh my Lord. The chicken salad at Costco has crack cocaine in it.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And it is so addictive. And you. I had a chicken salad sandwich and for the first time in my life I'm like, I think, I think I might go have another chicken.

>> Mike: Our lawyers would like us to point, out that the chicken salad in Costco does not actually have crack cocaine.

>> Darin: It's got something comparable to it because it's addictive anyway, so. So yeah, as methadone X, as the millennials call it. So, we had went through the loaf of bread quicker than I anticipated. Like, oh crap, I need to go out into the garage and, and get another loaf of bread.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So I got a loaf of bread out of the garage and I got it on the counter and I'm waiting for it to thaw. Or as we say in Tennessee, waiting for it to unthaw. And lunchtime, comes around and I go up and I reach into the bag there or I wretched into the bag and the bread's still cold. And I'm like, well, the bread's cold. I guess we can't have lunch yet. And Libby says, just put a microwave. Why don't you put it in the toaster oh, my God.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I said, oh, my God, honey, I love you more and more each day because not only is she beautiful and she's funny as hell, she's smart as a whip. I never would have thought. Just put it in the toaster. So I put in the toaster, and my chicken salad sandwich was delicious. thank you, Libby. Now, Libby, when you hear this story, if there's any inaccuracies in it, I'm sorry. And I'm also sorry that I'm telling the story in a way that makes you sound like you're a fact Nazi. Because you're not a fact.

>> Mike: Oh, Fact Nazi.

>> Darin: F, A, C, T. Fact Nazi.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah. I love you, Libby.


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Mike: I bought a hybrid car once. I didn't know it was a hybrid

Now back to you guys in the studio.

>> Mike: So I've been playing a new game with my friend.

>> Darin: What's that game, Mike?

>> Mike: long term listeners. Or at least somebody who's listened to the past couple.

>> Darin: Long time.

>> Mike: Long term. I don't want the long time. I want the long term.

>> Darin: What's and what's the difference? I don't know.

>> Mike: Okay, we'll know that. I got a. A, newer. A newer vehicle. And it has an hev. That's. It's a it. Well, it is a hybrid electric, vehicle. Vehicle.

>> Darin: I didn't know it was a hybrid. Yeah, so I bought a hybrid car once. It was part boat.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay, that was funny on Twitter 12 years ago.

>> Mike: Okay, so it tells you all the time, whether you're using the electric or the gas or both. M. And it gives you a running average of your mileage, and then the amount that your car. Your car's range, how many miles you had before you go empty.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Will change. I've been trying to up my mileage by strategically letting off the gas or, like, speeding up hills and then coasting down the other side because you're what?

>> Darin: The only place I drive is downhill.

>> Mike: Well, I noticed on this nine hour drive I took is my numbers went through the roof. For a long time I was at 41.6 miles per gallon, okay? And in one day I got that up to 42.45.

>> Darin: Shut up.

>> Mike: And then today, dude, I was high five for today. I was at 42.8, okay? And my range went from. Excuse me? My range. My range went from four, hundred seventy or 468 miles per tank. I'm up to 515.

>> Darin: Oh my God.

>> Mike: So suck that gas prices, huh? Topical.

>> Darin: Very, very topical. Very, very topical indeed.

>> Mike: Like ointment. I'm, topical.

>> Mike: See what I did there?

>> Darin: I did, I did.


Last week's episode was called Neil Young Knows how to Eat Corn

Last week's episode was called Neil Young Knows how to Eat Corn. And in that episode, I couldn't remember why I had written down Neil Young knows how to eat corn. Well, I found out. I went back and watched episode 144, which was the great Pancake fight. And in that episode, I was very funny. I was, I was actually hilarious. Talking about how grocery stores should sell floss on the same aisle with corn on the cob. Because you eat corn on the cob, you got to have floss, right? And then we started talking about people who eat corn and, and people who floss and, the random. All the people to pick. Mike jumps in there, says, well, Neil Young eats corn.

>> Mike: I was like, well, of course he's

>> Darin: corn because he's from Canada, right?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And why did he say Neil Young? I don't know, but that really should have been the title of that episode.

>> Mike: So that was my fault.

>> Darin: Yeah, that.

>> Mike: That thing was my fault.

>> Darin: Yeah, that's why we. That's why we did it. Okay, a potential title for episode 144. And we went with the Great Pancake fight. And I'm like, why didn't we call it Neil Young knows how to eat corn? But that's why we did that. And here's a clip.

>> Mike: There's really no good way to eat corn in the cob and look cool. That's true. You can't really. Because I tried. We had corn in the cob here. I'm like, there's gotta be a way.

>> Darin: Because at some point it spurts and gets on everybody.

>> Mike: At some point I'm gonna be invited to eat dinner with the president and he's gonna pull out corn on the cob and I need to know how to. What I normally do because I don't want to deal with any of that is I take a knife and I just saw off the corn.

>> Darin: See, I was wondering, because I know you don't like food touching your face.

>> Mike: No. Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Sometimes I go crazy. Sometimes I get a little nuts, Live it up a little bit. Get a couple of beers in me, get me all liquored up. I'll take corn on the cob as God intended it.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: However, normally I saw the kernels off, but like I said, at some point it's going to matter. I'll be. Eddie Vedder will invite me to his cookout, and he'll have corn on the cob, and I'll be talking to Billy Corgan, and he'll be like, Eddie.

>> Darin: And. Eddie and Billy hang out together.

>> Mike: Yeah. Okay, well, they cook corn together, and then I'll be eating the corn on the cob, and then Neil Young will be. What the is wrong with you? And the way you're eating this corn in the cob. Who. Who taught you how to eat? Because that's all they do. He's from Montana.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And that.

>> Darin: Neil Young. Yeah, he's from Canada.

>> Mike: Same thing.

>> Darin: It's close.

>> Mike: It's close enough. Yeah. And that's all they do is eat corn on the cob. They know how to do in play with trains. Point is, he wrote Harvest Moon. I don't know if you've heard that.

>> Darin: I have. It's. Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It's one of my favorite Neil Young songs.

>> Mike: Half the songs are about corn.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: He knows how to eat it. You need to learn how to eat it. That's all. That's my point. You can eat.


My son Jacob is starting to dip his toe in the pool with a podcast

>> Darin: And we're back. Hey, Mike, did you know something? This is the podcast. You and I are hosting a podcast. People right now are listening to a podcast. my son Jacob, is starting to dip his toe in the pool. That is podcasting.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay. So a buddy of his, at school asked him if he'd want to join him on his podcast. And Jacob said, sure, that sounds great.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And they recorded, one. It was just the trial. Yeah.

>> Mike: And, just the Twain of them.

>> Darin: The. The Twain of them, yes. They recorded it in a place that had a lot of background noise. A lot of background noise. And so I was. I was like, jacob, I don't know if you know this, but Daddy has a podcast. And he said, you do? I said, yeah, yeah. I've mentioned it from time to time. So. And I said, I hate to be critical. You guys were having a good conversation. What you were saying. Was great.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: It's just you recorded it in a place where there was a lot of background noise. I'm not trying to be critical. He says, you know what, dad? You're exactly right. So they attempted episode two. The podcast is parallel sync, S, Y N C. I don't know if they have a website. I don't know where it's readily available. So they were attempting episode two, and Jacob came home and he was so discouraged. And I said, buddy, what's going on? They thought they recorded and the whole entire hour was not recorded.

>> Mike: That's never happened to, us before.

>> Darin: I dropped my head and I walked over and I hugged him and I said, jacob, it happens to the best of us. I said, was the lead singer and guitar player of Southern Culture on the Skids on your show? No. Okay. Because he was on our show when we, when we didn't record the audio. So God love him. He's. I'm like, dude, you've knocked out one of the biggest mistakes. The early.

>> Mike: Early. Yeah.

>> Darin: So just, you know, just shrug it off and go back and don't lose faith. Try it again. Record your next one.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: And it just gets better and better every time. So good luck on your next episode. And I can't wait to hear it.

>> Mike: This is Rick from Southern Culture on the Skids and you are listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome.


Stephen Colbert and his Strike Force 5 reunited on the list

>> Darin: And we're back. Speaking of podcasts, Stephen Colbert and his Strike Force 5 reunited

>> Mike: on the list. Amazing.

>> Darin: It was amazing.

>> Mike: I only clicked on it to watch it for like three minutes. I ended up watching the whole thing.

>> Darin: I did, too.

>> Mike: I got a little misty eyed at points. I did too. here's the deal. I like Colbert.

>> Mike: And John Oliver.

>> Darin: That's a joke. Deal with it.

>> Mike: Love John Oliver and Colbert. I like Jimmy Kimmel. I've watched most of his stuff. but I remember him from the man show.

>> Darin: I do too. I remember him from Wyn. Ben Stein's Money.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: That was.

>> Mike: Wow. Yeah. He was on there.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: For some reason. What's the. What's the other. Oh, my God.

>> Darin: Fallon. No, Seth Meyer.

>> Mike: Seth Meyer. For some reason, I never liked him, but I kept watching him and I grew to like him.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: And then the same thing happened with Jimmy Fallon. For a long time, I couldn't figure out why Jimmy Fallon got a show. Right. I don't know now.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: To be fair, I don't know why.

>> Darin: I don't know why we have a

>> Mike: show and, we don't have a show in the same way that Jimmy Fallon has a show.

>> Darin: But I never, like, Jimmy Fallon has, like, the show.

>> Mike: Like, whenever I watched SNL back in the day, I didn't pick him out as the guy that would be the guy that has a show. You know what I mean?

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: It didn't.

>> Darin: I saw him, like, potentially being, like, having a sitcom. Like the direction Tina Fey went, yeah. Or, yeah. Norm McDougal nuts. What's his name? The guy who's on Brooklyn Nine.

>> Mike: Nine. But after seeing, how Jimmy Fallon has, I like him a lot. Like, I haven't seen, like, he does, like, wild stuff sometimes. Just, like, stuff. It's like he's got this personality around him. It's like, that's good. Let's do it. Let's do that. We're just going to do that.

>> Darin: He's ridiculously talented.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And that he can impersonate.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Blows my mind.

>> Mike: And that came out in Stephen, Colbert and the Strike Force Five. You saw all these different personalities. So you saw that Jimmy. That's your character tip. You saw Jimmy Kimmel. He basically. There was a lot of talk about how he almost got canceled, or he did get canceled for, like, three days. But I noticed every time something weird would be brought up, Fallon was the first one to be like, yeah, I'll do it. Yeah, dude. And he was like, Colbert is like, yeah, come on, we'll, we'll. And they actually, they leaned into it a little bit. I love when Colbert, when Jimmy Fallon said, yeah, you could come on this summer. You just, host the show. And then Colbert's like, exactly when, like.


What I love about The Strike Force 5 is the friendship, camaraderie

>> Darin: Well, what I love about The Strike Force 5 is the Brotherhood, the friendship, the camaraderie.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: The fact that there's no animosity between any of them.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: They're all buddies because they have. Some of them have competing shows.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I mean, Kimmel, Colbert and Fallon are all on at 11:35, and they root for each other. You didn't see this when Letterman was going on against Leno.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And when Bonehead, Chevy Chase got into the mix. You didn't see Chevy Chase, Pat Sajak, Jay Leno, Arsenio hall and David Letterman all showing up and, hanging out together.

>> Mike: Now, I know I'm. I'm biased now.

>> Darin: Letterman and Leno claim to have, you know, it was always just because of the show. Like, they weren't enemies. They didn't hate each other. From what I've read repeatedly, Leno and Letterman have just ginormous amounts of respect for the Other Dave says Leno is like the funniest person ever. But, you know, when they were growing up doing comedy out in Los Angeles and stuff. But you didn't see them appearing on each other's show and supporting. just. It's amazing.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, it was great. And I just. I couldn't help thinking the entire time, like, these are five dudes that basically do the same thing. You talk about having some stuff in common, but also being their own, like, separate little.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Things. I mean, yeah. I don't know where the hell I was going.

>> Darin: John Oliver. Oh, my God. John Oliver is my favorite of the group. And he.

>> Mike: He. When they were talking about how they each got a podcast kit. Uh-huh. And Jimmy Fallon was saying there were all these buttons and they weren't all important. So I didn't really. And then challenge was, no, actually, they were important. I can't do his thing. He's like, maybe you should have learned how to do it. Which buttons to press.

>> Darin: Oh, and I love it. He's like, perhaps we should all abide by the process. yes, John will abide by the process. So. But no, I thought it was cool. I thought it was really, really cool. And I hope they continue doing the Strike Force Five.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Who knows what's going to happen after Colbert leaves? You know, Colbert's writing a Lord of the Rings movie.

>> Mike: Best said something about that.

>> Darin: He is, I can't remember what it's about. I haven't read the book. Something about the. I think with the cimmerillion. I don't know. I don't know. Don't quote. Don't quote me on.

>> Mike: You heard it here first, folks.

>> Darin: But he is writing a Lord of the Rings movie and he is doing it in conjunction with Peter Jackson and with, Sparky Gomez, Penelope Boreals, whatever the hell her name is.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: yeah, the team that did the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. So I think Stephen Colbert is going to be fine. Oh, yeah.

>> Dave: Nothing tastes better at a cookout than a. Ah. Whompers. All beef, foot long hot dog.


I pissed somebody off online with a comment about Jon Stewart playing drums

>> Darin: Speaking of late night talk show hosts, I've told you before that sometimes I like to go on social media and. And dig just a little bit just to get a spot. Spark out of people. But I wasn't doing it this time. I pissed somebody off online. So it was the night of a, Thousand Stars or something. And there was Conan o' Brien playing guitar. Jimmy Kimmel was there on clarinet. And who was on drums? None other than Jon Stewart. Okay. I didn't know Jon Stewart played drums. Now they're doing Seven nation Army. And it's not the most.

>> Mike: It's not the hardest.

>> Darin: It's not the hardest song to play on drums, but it does take some skill. Okay. Anyway, they're playing Seven nation Army, and I comment. I said I didn't know Jon Stewart played drums.

>> Mike: Right. Pretty tame. Yeah, pretty.

>> Darin: A comment that shouldn't provoke any type of welcome.

>> Mike: I will say a welcome comment, because I too, did not know that Jon Stewart played drums.

>> Darin: So there was a comment. Oh, and you know everything. My question is, what the hell? What did I do to you?

>> Mike: You caught somebody in between doses of medication.

>> Darin: Did I? Are you the one who I was making fun of David Lee Roth about? It's like, what? Then there was a video of a guy. It's. There was this exercise, and I know I've seen it in, What's that game show? Not sound game show. Where's that event where you got to run that. That crazy obstacle course?

>> Mike: American Gladiator.

>> Darin: American Gladiator. So there's this guy, and he's got a bar, and he's hanging from the bar, and he throws the bar up onto a set of rungs. Okay. And he jumps and he hooks the bar. And then he goes higher. Yeah. And higher.

>> Mike: Wretches he riches.

>> Darin: Higher and higher. And he ends up going like 20, 30ft up in the air. And I said, man, that guy does that faster than I can. Right?

>> Mike: Yeah. You see?

>> Darin: And that's one of my things. Like, if I hear that somebody made $40 million last year, I say, man, that's more money than I make. Right? Duh. Yeah. Ah, that's what's called a joke. Okay. So I said, this guy does that quicker than I can. This versus. You can't do that with three exclamation points.

>> Mike: Yeah, he's emphatic.

>> Darin: It's just like when I said happy birthday to Joyce DeWitt and it's a picture of Pat Benatar. Yeah. And then I was like, that's not Joyce DeWitt. like, these are jokes, people. These are jokes. If you don't understand the common. Especially the common. What's called low hanging fruit.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: If you don't understand low hanging fruit comedy material. Stay off a tick. Tock.

>> Mike: I,

>> Darin: Primity sake.

>> Mike: I joined a Facebook group. And, yeah, I know that ages me. I'm a boomer because I'm on Facebook.

>> Darin: But the one about the soup.

>> Mike: No, the, Bad photography or fake photography because I thought they were hilarious. And the reason I joined was they had a picture of Ali G, you know, Sasha Baron Cohen, and it said, happy birthday, the Edge. I cackled every once in a while. For a while there, I was just like, reposting those on my page. And every single time, M. A friend of mine on Facebook would say, you know, that's not really the Edge. right. Thank you.

>> Darin: You would know.

>> Mike: I know.


I had someone explain to me that Ali G was not the Edge

Yeah.

>> Darin: I would know the Edge more than you would know your own family.

>> Mike: I had someone explain to me that Ali G was not the Edge.

>> Darin: thank you.

>> Mike: Yeah, Yeah.

>> Darin: I love making a joke and have somebody come in and explain it to me.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: It's like, okay, okay, okay.


U2 did a thing in Mexico. Did you hear about it

>> Mike: Speaking of the Edge.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So you two did a thing in Mexico. Did you hear about.

>> Darin: The Edge is the guitar player for the.

>> Mike: He plays a little bit of the guitars for them. for they. The ukulele is. Every once in a while.

>> Darin: Before you jump into. Oh, this. Yeah. I wanted to say something, and this May, because I was going to go into the. I was going to go into the thread that we have with the group.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: But you know that song, Shut up and Dance With Me?

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: Okay. There's a song called Shut up and Dance With Me. You don't say the opening of it, Just the opening. The guitar on the opening sounds like it could have been written and performed by the Edge.

>> Mike: Senior Edge.

>> Darin: Senior Edge.

>> Mike: Okay. Thank you.

>> Darin: You're welcome. listen to that. And then scoff and kick me out of the group thread.

>> Mike: I'm in some YouTube groups. M. I had to leave one today because what? They just. They're stupid. someone posted a picture of an email that they got, and it basically said, if you are going to be in the center of Mexico City between 2 and 8pm on May 12, fill out the form below. We'd love to see you there.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: There's a number of people. You bought a group that I'm with. Well, I would have. I didn't get the email. It was sent out to specific people. One of them was a person that runs the group, the Sphere group. The. Yeah. And he, got invited. Well, it turns out this is how old I'm getting. Like, I saw that. Like, oh, they're gonna stand on top of another liquor store, or they're gonna get on a boat and go by the harbor, or they're gonna be on a flatbed and go through New York.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: They got on a bus and went through Mexico. You two. At any given moment, not only did

>> Darin: they get On a bus. They got on a bus.

>> Mike: On a bus.

>> Darin: On the top of the bus.

>> Mike: On top of. Yeah, they get. And they did that with Vegas too, if you remember.

>> Darin: I do.

>> Mike: so that's kind of what.

>> Darin: You still haven't found what I'm looking for.

>> Mike: No, no, no. For, Atomic City. for. I still have found what I'm looking for. They couldn't afford a bus yet. They were walking down the street. but it's literally the same street.

>> Darin: But they had to trade potatoes for their amplifier.

>> Mike: It's become a thing now. Every time they're gonna put a new album because they're from Idols, they go rent a, mode of transportation, stand on it, and go through a city.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I just shangled by Shanghai. And so they did that with the U2s. They played their new song single.

>> Dave: Ah.

>> Mike: From the upcoming album. The song was called, street of.

>> Darin: Street of Desire. Right.

>> Mike: No, street of, street of Streams. Street. Street of Dreams.

>> Darin: Pain.

>> Mike: Street of Dreams. And, I got a couple excited.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And, people were looking at the pictures, of course. Bono looks like he's about 300 years old. I. I don't know what happened. The Edge has looked the same, from from the moment he put the beanie on and got the goatee. From that moment forward, he stopped aging.

>> Darin: He knows he's bald, Right?

>> Mike: Okay, that's.

>> Darin: I mean, I'm bald.

>> Mike: He does.

>> Darin: And you're.


Adam Levine looks like he aged back to how he looked in 1997

Okay. You know, I think we need to have the same conversation with him.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: That we were gonna have with Brett Michaels.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It's like Brett Michaels is blonde. Oh, God. You're not fooling anybody. He's been wearing that fake thing in the bandana in the. In the couch.

>> Mike: Like Bono looked m. Like he did in the octung baby years forever. And, like, on a Friday in 2017, he went home. He was. He was Bono from the. From the October baby. And then Monday, he woke up and he's like, an old Robin Williams.

>> Darin: He's like br there now.

>> Mike: And what? People are going nuts over Adam because Adam has de. Aged back to how he looked in 1997 in Vegas. He did the thing where his hair was standing up and he got a mustache. And all the YouTube fans, had fun bringing fake mustaches to the shows. now he looks like he did in the 90s, and people are like, what's going on?

>> Darin: Wait, so he still has the white hair or.

>> Mike: He does, but he's. He's actually. It's actually shorter. It's like, it looks again like he did in 97 in pop when he went on the, went on the pop tour. And Larry hasn't aged since he was 12.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: He looks the same and I hate him, the entire thing.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And now it looks like Bono is their grandpa. He's Edge's dad. Yep, the Edge is the dad. and he's bringing along their kid Larry.

>> Darin: His step kids.

>> Mike: Yeah. And, you know, none of them look bad. Adam's the uncle off to the side there. But yeah, they got a new album that's going to, in theory come out at the end of this year. Which, you know what that means, kids, at some point, a tour at some point in the next month or two, Mike's going to get an email that says tickets go on sale tomorrow at 9:05am for a tour in 2027. Tickets will be available in your group for 10 seconds, at which point you decide where you're going to be in 2027 at some, random date. So.

>> Darin: But they put on, they put on a great show, so it's worth it.

>> Mike: Yeah, they do it pretty good.

>> Darin: Started saying that at work. That's a pretty good video. You made their Todd pretty pretty.

>> Mike: And speaking.

>> Darin: Sorry to interrupt. Charlie wants a smoothie, so I'm gonna have to use the blender and it's going to get loud for a few minutes. I tried to wait, but he has to go to bed. So just. You're just going to have to deal with it. Okay, thanks. Bye.

>> Mike: All right.


I listen to U2X satellite radio on my drive on Monday

Speaking of the U2s, long term

>> Darin: listeners, and this has been a smoothie update,

>> Mike: I've been listening to the U2X radio.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I was, writing. You can totally hear that on the thing. It's a ninja blender, which you think

>> Darin: would be more discreet.

>> Mike: It's just

>> Darin: because ninjas, they're known to be sneaky. The one thing I know about ninjas is they never were flip flops.

>> Mike: No.

>> Darin: They never have the hiccups.

>> Mike: And they fart. Rarely.

>> Darin: Never fart.

>> Mike: They never.

>> Darin: Can you imagine a ninja trying to sneak up on you?

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: U2X satellite radio.

>> Mike: I listen to the U2X satellite radio on my drive on Monday. I was driving with someone. They did not like the U2X radio. So I flipped to one of the other stations and I landed on Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Man.

>> Darin: E Street Man.

>> Mike: radio, yes. And Bruce Springsteen edit down at a low volume. So you could just hear the gist of the music, but you could still carry on a conversation. It was like that for about five hours of the drive.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: I started to get the giggles because it was like every four minutes I

>> Darin: hear 1, 2, 3, everybody kinda hungry.

>> Mike: And then it goes for like three or four minutes. And then.

>> Darin: Few more, few more minutes.

>> Mike: We fat, we go. We stop to get gas, get back, turn on the car. And some songs. He does it during this Port of the USA in the middle. They do the big breakdown. He goes. I was like, there's got to be a website out there where they. Where they make a note every time.

>> Darin: Bruce go to Bruce springsteenlovestocount.com.

>> Mike: it just drove me nuts because I kept thinking, Max Weinberg is the drummer, Right?

>> Darin: He is.

>> Mike: He's got to be back there saying, why doesn't he. Let me count. I'm the drummer. Let me count him in, damn it. I'm the. What are you. You're the singer. We're going to be out here.

>> Darin: He's a little more than just the singer.

>> Mike: He's the talent.

>> Darin: He's the whole.

>> Mike: He's the whole kitten caboo.

>> Darin: Yeah, he is.

>> Mike: But let somebody else count, you know? But I got into it. I. I think he should lend out his voice if people want to count.

>> Darin: Well, he should count for anybody. Count Bon Jovian.

>> Mike: When we go. When we go. See you two next. I would love it if Springsteen comes out the beginning and it just leaves and then you two kick. Kid.

>> Darin: Jump in with desire. Yeah.

>> Mike: Count in Pearl Jam. Anybody? Sure. Just. You're right.

>> Darin: I never thought about what Max Wyber like, why don't you let me. Do you ever let me do my job?

>> Mike: Do you subscribe to X Radio or the. To, Sirius?

>> Darin: I did. We had satellite radio after. For like three months after Cameron had his car. But I couldn't stop listening to yacht rock.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Yeah, I'm. I'm serious. I had an addiction to yacht rock radio. I loved it. It's like. And every day you'd. And sometimes it would be like the same block of songs and I didn't care. You go from Michael McDonald to Steely Dan and then to, Robbie Dupree.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: But that's not why you called. But no, I mean, one of my favorite songs by Bruce Springsteen is Badlands. And the live video of it on the YouTubes is fantastic.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And they get into a thing where they do a very. They do a very, very long, drawn out guitar riff and then he. He's looking at the crowd.


Badland has never seen Conan O'Brien Live

Badland got to live it every day.

>> Mike: I have never seen him Live. I had an opportunity. he was in Lexington, and for some reason, we just decided not to go either. Lexington or Louisville. I can't remember. Years ago.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I would love it so much. It would be wildly inappropriate, but I would love to go see him and have him do the count in the middle of, like, Streets of Philadelphia or the Ghost of Tom Joad or something like one of the lower ones.

>> Darin: I was bruised and battered. I couldn't tell what I felt. I met Max Weinberg one time.

>> Mike: Did you really?

>> Darin: Yeah, when we went to see Conan O'. Brien.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: 96. And to go see Conan O'. Brien. They were given tickets away that day. We got them in the gift shop at the NBC studios.

>> Mike: Right? Yeah.

>> Darin: Like, you guys want to see Conan. Do you have friends who want to see Conan? Does your mother or father? Are they in town? Can you bring them in?

>> Mike: He's an inflatable guy. Can you blow him up and sit next to you?

>> Darin: Yeah, exactly. During commercial breaks, if anybody gets up, can you fill their seats?

>> Mike: It looks like there's.

>> Darin: I mean, they were like, God, please come see Conan.

>> Mike: Don't. You didn't blame him?

>> Darin: No. Oh, God, no. You don't blame Conan.

>> Mike: Don't blame.

>> Darin: Don't blame Conan. Conan. He's a family man, by the way. So we went to see Conan. Yeah. And it was a great show. After the show, by, the way, this was the episode. I was on this episode, Jay Thomas was promoting Mr. Holland's opus. But then he started talking about the most famous movie he'd been in was chud. And my buddy Don and I started talking about cannibalistic human underground dwellers.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: The cameras swoop around, and they're focusing on me, and Jay accuses us of. Of being a couple stoners. And Conan's like, this whole show's turning into a forum for these two guys. One of the biggest nights of my life. We were thrilled because the night before, we had made it on the Letterman show, and now we're on Conan tomorrow. Let's go see Ricky Lake. See if we can get on Ricky Lake. You know, we're unstoppable. So after the show, we're just, like, on cloud nine because we had made it on the Conan o' Brien show. Well, one of the stage hands or cameramen or something was nearby, and I said, excuse me, buddy. I said, I called him buddy because I felt a connection.

>> Mike: Yeah, it's better than pal. It's more formal than pal.

>> Darin: Hey, pal. Yeah, hey, chief. And I said, can I say hi to Max. Is it possible to, you know, can we talk to Max Weinberg?


Max Weinberg says there's something going on at live concerts

He goes, let me find out. And I just assumed that that was as far as it was going to go. So Don and I were talking. We're like, how cool was it that we got to be on Conan? And what are we doing now? And we're going to get dinner or where do you want to go? And Don says, Darren, I turned around. There's Max Weinberg just standing there. He's like, you wanted to say something? And I said, yeah. And I reached out my hand. I'm like, hi. He's like, hi, how are you? I said, well, I'm doing really good. And. And I said, we just. You're. You are an amazing drummer, and I've enjoyed you drumming forever. And I even said, something like, you know, you're great on Bad out of Hell. Oh, thanks. It was on Meatloaf. A lot of people don't realize that. People. A lot of people just remember him from Bruce Springsteen. And anyway, he said, do you play drums? I said, yeah. He goes, well, cool. And anyway, he autographed a thing, and he says, hit it, Max Weinberg. And he drew, like, a little miniature, drum set. Yeah. And so, yeah, Max Weinberg, one of the coolest people I've ever met.

>> Mike: Nice.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Dave: You're listening to Irritable Dad Syndrome. Mike and Darren in the morning. Classic rock all day.

>> Darin: We were talking about Bruce Springsteen Live and YouTube Live. I saw this video on the TikToks, and I don't know if I agree with it. The guy was saying that there's something going on at live concerts. He says, you guys just need to stop. And he said, what is going on here? Why are people still doing this? He says, you need to stop doing the encore. He says, if you're at a Spin Doctor song and they haven't played Little Miss Can't Be Wrong, they're gonna play Little Miss Can't Be Wrong. He says, but before they do it, they have to go off stage and let everybody get riled up. And then they come out and do that as an encore. And he says, just play the song and go home. Now, do you agree with that?

>> Mike: No. And I think this man's stupid.

>> Darin: I'll tell you why I don't agree with it either.

>> Mike: I'll tell you why. So that comes from the standpoint of, I'm assuming this person goes to a lot of concerts and he loves music.

>> Darin: The vibe I got from him Was that he gets pissed off easily. He's like an old bitch.

>> Mike: Here's the value of the encore, is to get rid of all the dumb that don't understand Than an encore. You remember when we saw the Nine Inch Nails?

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: And people were head like a hole and hurt had not been played right.

>> Darin: And people were leaving.

>> Mike: Yeah. And people were, well, I guess it's over. The lights went out for a minute. I'm just going to head on down there and get myself a hot dog. And it happens at every concert I've been to. I've seen people walking out during. Where the streets have no name for you too. And I'm like, are you out of your mind?

>> Darin: Yeah. What are. What is wrong?

>> Mike: What is your problem? Let's see. Paige and Plant, they played when the Levee Breaks was there on court. I. I was like. My mind was literally on fire and blowing out of my skull. People were leaving. Well, I guess concert's over.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's just. What are you doing?

>> Darin: It would really bother me.

>> Mike: Here's the reason. Here's the reason. M. I'm sorry I bitched, but I didn't get the reason. The reason is get them out. Those people can barely breathe and walk at the same time. They're morons. Let them clear out the parking lot, get out of the way, get into traffic and get out there. So that when the normal people.


There are some songs that are better as an encore

That are seeing Pink Floyd and said, hey, I'd like to see them play Comfortably numb.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Right.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And you can enjoy the show, walk out, maybe have a nice piss.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Maybe you thought, I, want to buy an extra T shirt, then leisurely stroll out to the parking lot, get to your car and drive to your house or to your nearest hotel room.

>> Darin: Right. But no, there are some songs that are better as an encore. Yeah, they're just better. You know, it's like you're listening to the show. It's Mellencamp. And like, he hasn't done Check it out.

>> Mike: Right?

>> Darin: And he has. And so. And he's. He's played his 15 songs, he takes a break and he comes back, da da da na na na na, 2, 3, 4. Check it out. You know?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And it just sounds better, Right. As an encore. And I like the encore. When I went to see Southern Culture on the Skids, my God, they played longer and harder and better than they ever have in the 30 years or so that they have been touring. They took a break. And now, granted, this was at a club so they walked 10ft away behind the thing, you know, or whatever. But they came out and did three more songs. And you know what? I think it's that when they stop and they take a break and they get a drink and. And maybe sit down for a minute or whatever, then they go back out and by God, they give you three more songs as good and as powerful as they can get.

>> Mike: The most exciting part of any concert, and the keyboard warriors may come out for this. I don't give a. Is the very beginning when the band comes out, that initial presentation.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And it's exciting. And that's an opportunity for the band to do that again at the end with their most popular and well loved, Tunages.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Yeah. So, yeah, let them have at it. I enjoy it. I have fun.

>> Darin: Keep the encore.

>> Mike: Keep the encore.

>> Darin: Man.

>> Mike: I had something funny to say on that and it just let.

>> Darin: It went.

>> Mike: Just like, seeped right out of my brain. The hell did it go? Son of a bitch. It was gonna. You were gonna fall down and yourself.

>> Darin: It was gonna be a good one.

>> Mike: Well, thanks for coming.

>> Darin: See ya.

>> Mike: Don't let the door hit you in the ass.


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>> Darin: No, we are going to go. We're going to take, Actually, we're going to take a break because we're getting ready to record episode 310 here in a few minutes. But we want to thank you for listening. We want to tell you to please go to irritable dad syndrome.com and we want to encourage you to share this podcast with your friends. I'm telling you, and it's not, listen, I know I'm biased, But the last 10, 15 episodes that we've produced have been bangers. I mean, I have had people coming up and telling me, like, dang, dude. Yeah, that's. I had a friend say, got a good podcast.

>> Mike: People have said, yeah, that it's fire.

>> Darin: It's fire.

>> Mike: And that's good.

>> Darin: People are loving it. So share it with your friends. Tell your neighbors about it. Talk to your clergyman, tell. When you go pick up your pharmaceuticals, tell your pharmacist, like, yeah, you know what? I'm gonna listen to more Irritable Dads in the air in my car before I get my fluvoxamine.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. We hope to see you next week on Irritable Dad Syndrome.

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

>> Mike: Here's another thing is I'm already recording now, so none of this oops, I forgot that you always do YouTube.

>> Darin: Speaking of the you that's all going in. That's.

>> Mike: That's, totally going in. Yeah. By the way, I,

>> Darin: And then he went two, three.

>> Mike: Boy, I'm in trouble. This episode's gonna get us. We're so canceled.

>> Darin: So in trouble when I get home. Yeah, that's fine. It's fine. I've been in trouble before, so be in trouble again.


Stephen Correll Corel talks to Mike tonight like he's a live guest

We're back. Speaking of podcasts, Stephen Correll Corel. Don't start that again.

>> Mike: Yeah, I know.

>> Darin: That's awesome. I think. Stephen Cole.

>> Mike: That's what she said, right?

>> Darin: I. I didn't get that vibe. The. The.

>> Mike: No. yeah. So that's what that is.

>> Darin: And if you ever go to Indianapolis, you. I know exactly what you mean, Mike. You do everything right, and I do everything wrong. Well, that's just how it is. Nothing's ever good enough for you. Nothing will ever be good enough for you. And apparently, doing what you're doing right now is just too hard.

>> Mike: It was for the person who sent this.

>> Darin: You're talking to me tonight like we have a live guest.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: This is how you talk to me when we have somebody in here? Because Pepaw here. Blind as a bat.

>> Mike: Can you see it?

>> Darin: Yeah, I can see that.

>> Mike: I can't look at that.

>> Darin: Nice. Huh?

>> Darin: On the twitch, I've got nothing here lately. Like, just literally nothing up in the head.

>> Mike: I linked a YouTube channel. Yeah, I am not entirely sure it's ours. Dude, I should not have had Taco Bell last night. Have you ever had Taco Bell at night?

>> Darin: I mean.

>> Mike: Well, have you? I guess. have you ever had Taco Bell during the day?

>> Darin: I love Taco Bell.

>> Mike: Wait, wait, wait.

>> Darin: It says zoom right underneath view. I wonder if the nine people who listen to this podcast are getting tired of.

>> Mike: I don't give a. I like it.

>> Darin: Hey, what happened?

>> Mike: Recording stopped.