IDS #315 - Things Are Heating Up at the Waffle House

Why are Costco's gallon milk jugs so awkward? Why does Waffle House always feel like the surface of the sun? And why does Kroger think its ice deserves a luxury price tag? Mike and Darin tackle all of life's biggest mysteries while covering concerts, storms, graduation parties, weather apps, cherries, and much more. Plus, a sneak peek at next week's story about talking to dolphins... and, of course, bloopers.

Topics Discussed:

•  What's The Deal With Costco's Gallon Milk Jugs? 
•  Mike And Darin Look Super Sexy 
•  Can You Stop Rubbernecking On The Damn Highway? 
•  Mike's Car Got Hit By A Rock 
•  Darin Reviews The Doobie Brothers And Santana Concert 
•  Apologies To Zevo But Your Commercial Is Still Awful 
•  Cameron's Graduation Party 
•  Cake Lady At Costco Is Awesome 
•  Taking Down Tents In An Active Storm Was Fun 
•  Mike Hates The Weather App On His Phone 
•  Why Is It So Hot At The Waffle House? 
•  Why Does Kroger Think Their Ice Is Better Than Anybody Else's? 
•  Cherries 
•  A Sneak Peek At Next Week's Story About Talking To Dolphins 
•  Hazing Is Not Amazing 
•  Bloopers 

#IrritableDadSyndrome #ComedyPodcast #FunnyPodcast #DadHumor #WaffleHouse #Costco #RoadRage #DoobieBrothers #Santana #Weather #Kroger #PodcastLife #Comedy #Bloopers

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Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast

>> Darin: Everybody know we're live. You go to Costco, right?

>> Mike: Occasionally.

>> Darin: What's the deal with their milk? I know every person, every grocery store I've ever went to ever in my life has milk in a gallon jug. And it's the stereotypical gallon jug. It looks like a gallon jug of milk. Okay. Every place ever. I'm 56 years old. I've been in hundreds of groceries.

>> Mike: What's your question? I haven't.

>> Darin: My point is Costco puts their milk in a different gallon size. Like they're. Like they're trying to reinvent milk or something. Yeah, it's milk.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Story goes nowhere.

>> Mike: This podcast goes nowhere. Is that the cold open?

>> Darin: It's the cold opener. All right, listen, you're my children, and I love you, but you're all terrible

>> Mike: at what you do.

>> Dave: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. This episode could put us in the podcast hall of fame. Give it up for your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I am Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 315, and we are hot.

>> Mike: Oh, my Lord, we look fantastic.

>> Darin: If you're not watching us on Patreon or on the YouTubes, you don't know what you're missing.

>> Mike: Yeah, you need to go to our website. There's a link to our, YouTube channel. There's a link to Twitch. There's a link to all kinds of things.

>> Darin: Yeah, we. Holy crap.

>> Mike: I mean, we.

>> Darin: We've never looked better.

>> Mike: We have honestly never looked better.

>> Darin: And what I love is the people who are listening to the show right now. I want you to listen. Imagine how hot and sexy Mike and I look right now. And then double it, because that's. You cannot hear how good we look.

>> Mike: As good as we sound. We look that much better.

>> Darin: So much.

>> Mike: The only thing now that's missing, I mean, we look like professional. What do they call them? influencers?

>> Darin: Podcasters? Influencers.

>> Mike: Influencers. The only thing that's missing is that I'm sitting in what looks like a cracker barrel chair.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: I notice that every time I make the videos is, you know, they'll pop

>> Darin: up, and it's, like, rocking.

>> Mike: I feel like I should have a corn cob pipe in my mouth.

>> Darin: It's like a storm's coming through.

>> Mike: Cat with a, eye patch on my lap.

>> Darin: Whittling. Maybe. Maybe later on, me and you will play a game of checkers.

>> Mike: Drinking out of a jug with three X's on the side.

>> Darin: Right? Get some good old shine Anyway, welcome to irritable dad syndrome. We are happy that you're here. This is going to be a great episode. later on I'm going to tell you a story about, Libby and I, we took Cameron, we were out and about, we decided to get some food at Waffle House and boy, did we get more than a meal.

>> Mike: Did you get into a fight?

>> Darin: No. No. This story is epic and you will not want to miss it.


Mike was almost late to work today because of Google Maps

>> Mike: So I. I've had a number of little things happen to me.

>> Darin: What's that?

>> Mike: I was almost late to work today.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And it's really annoyed me because I don't mind if I'm almost late and it's my fault.

>> Darin: So every morning you're asking for it. I get that. Yeah.

>> Mike: Every morning I got to have a coffee from Dunkin Donuts and I just realized I've been getting points with all my coffees. I'm at a point now where I think I get free coffee for the next 13 years. I've literally, for the past two weeks, I've got nothing but free coffee from them using my points.

>> Dave: Wow.

>> Darin: Okay. Yeah, I'm glad you're racking up on them.

>> Mike: Still. Still going. So if I'm late because of that, then so be it. I'll take, I'll take the. But I was doing. Things were going fine. And I use the Googles, the Google Maps, when I'm traversing from place to

>> Darin: place, from point A to point B.

>> Mike: Because. And it was like, mike, don't you know where you were? Yeah, Mike. Mike knows where he works.

>> Darin: I asked that question before. Yes.

>> Mike: The point is, is that it tells you if there's a traffic issue. So it has the path that I normally take and every once in a while it says, maybe you want to go a different route. Yeah.

>> Darin: Just you might want to go another direction, you know, backed up there, you

>> Mike: know, and there are times when I ignore it.

>> Mike: And I pay the price.

>> Darin: Screw it. I'm going to go this way. And I know what I'm doing.

>> Mike: Yeah. I'm stupid late because there's a yak jackknife at the, at the 40 and I can't get through.

>> Darin: There's yak milk everywhere.

>> Mike: It's a horror show. But I'm going. And I see there's So Google Maps, it puts lines, like red lines and blue lines and, brown, like yellowish lines.

>> Darin: Red is bad.

>> Mike: Red's bad. Yellow, yellow is. I don't know about this. Blue's good, blue's awesome.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Right. So I see red and yellow lines on the other side of the highway. Well, my side is not moving. And they're sitting a whole row of cars, on the exit that I'm taking to get off of this highway to hell to go to where I need to go. And. And they're just moving at like five miles an hour because of an accident. But the accident's on the other side of the highway.

>> Darin: They're rubbernecking.

>> Mike: They're rubbernecking and it's not. Well, Mike, emergency vehicles need to get through, and they've probably closed off part of the road.

>> Darin: No, no.

>> Mike: As a matter of fact, there was a cop out there who looked almost as pissed off as me waving. You know, cops will have. They have very specific body language that they use. Right. They will pull their is audio podcast. They will extend their arm and pull their hand towards their body. Meaning, let's go.

>> Dave: Right.

>> Mike: Giddy up.

>> Darin: So for the people listening, imagine Mike looking very sexy and doing arm movement, pulling.

>> Mike: This dude was pulling so hard, I could hear the whoosh of his hand. And I could. He was. I could see he was moving his mouth. You know, you could tell when somebody's yelling, even though you can't hear him. Ah, he was mad and he was yelling. Like, he would get down, facing into people's windows, and he would jerk his thumb back like he's trying to get a right, like, get on out of here. Out of here.

>> Darin: Get it.

>> Mike: And, you know, so you. All you people that are rubbernecking and doing that, a. You're making. You're. You're making me late for work. You're making everybody making everyone late for work. You're pissing that cop off. And by the way, that cop could be helping people. But no, no, he's over there telling you to do what you should be doing, which is driving. Which is drive.

>> Darin: My question is, what the hell? On a clear road, move forward at regular speed.

>> Mike: And you may say, well, Mike, or is that all you're going to talk about tonight? Is that pisses you off on the road? No.


Rock flew out of a truck and bounced on the highway multiple times

But I do have one more thing that pissed me off.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Longtime listeners will know that I'm very excited that I had gotten a new car finally.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: it now has a massive scratch slash dent on it because it's, You just got it the size of a golf ball. Rock flew out of a truck and bounced on the highway multiple times. And it kept getting higher and higher.

>> Darin: Boing.

>> Mike: And I could have avoided it if I would have swerved off the road and went down the creek. That's what some call it.

>> Darin: That's what Bo and Luke Duke would have done. That's what Knight Rider would have done.

>> Mike: But I didn't. And it hit the top of my car, and it sounded like we'd been hit by a bomb.

>> Darin: Hey, what happened?

>> Mike: And I thought, well, gee, I hope that didn't, scuff the paint. And I got out. And the good news is it didn't scuff the paint. I don't think that it did. The paint that it removed completely is probably perfectly fine.

>> Darin: On the ground.

>> Mike: Yeah, on the ground.

>> Darin: But I now have still attached to said rock.

>> Mike: Right. I now have a bare metal strike where it hit. And it's in a dent.

>> Darin: It's a brand new car.

>> Mike: Yeah. I'm tired. I'm tired of it. Oh, I'm in a bad mood.

>> Darin: Well, I'm sorry about that.

>> Mike: Yeah,

>> Darin: I'm exhausted. I went to a concert last night, me and my buddy Dan, we went to see the Doobie Brothers and Santana. And over the last few years, I have become more and more of a Doobie Brothers fan. Last night, I am all in.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Absolutely. All in from here. Moving forward, if the Doobie Brothers are in town, I'm gonna go see the Doobie Brothers. The Doobie Brothers were a, ah, hundred times more awesome. I seriously, I thought I would like the show. I didn't know I was going to love the show. They were amazing. Michael McDonald has never sounded better. And the other guys who. I'm sorry, but I don't know their names, but the other guys in the Doobie Brothers were insane. Insane good. Cool as hell. Gifted, talented musicians. And you could tell they were having the time of their life. Don't you enjoy a show, Mike, when the guys performing are enjoying themselves?

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. They were having so much fun. And Dan and I were having a lot of fun.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So Doobie Brothers, amazing.


After this podcast, I want you guys to go online and look up Doobie Brothers tour dates

After this podcast, I want you guys to go online and look up Doobie Brothers tour dates. And then I want you to book a flight, a go Greyhound bus. get an Uber. go see a van with a

>> Mike: flower on the side of it.

>> Darin: Go see the Doobie Brothers, wherever they are, and you will call me up on my phone and say, darren, thank you for that recommendation. They were amazing.

>> Mike: Now. Yeah. How old, I got to ask, how old are the Dubey Brothers?

>> Darin: They've got to be in their 70s.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Got to be.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: But they acted like they were all in their 40s.

>> Mike: Yeah, that's one of the things. I mean, you and I are going to see the rushes here in a few months. Alex Liffison, G.D. lee, and Anika Lillis. Yeah. and she is a beast. She is Neil parts second cousin.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: She's his part.

>> Darin: And she's his daughter. Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah. so stepdaughter. And that's one of the things that I, really enjoy. I've seen them twice, but they have so much fun on the stage. Yes. They don't take each other seriously or themselves seriously at all.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Like, nobody's ever gonna poke more fun at Rush than Rush themselves. Exactly. And they love it. And it makes the whole. The show just. Just. It's just fun the entire entire way through.

>> Darin: Yeah. So the Doobie Brothers opened. I wish that they had been the headliner. I thought they were so much better than Santana. Now. Don't send me any hate mail. I like Carlos Santana. I like him. Okay. I've been a fan of Carlos Santana for a very long time. I. I like so many of his songs. His band, My Lord, they were off the chain. Amazing. They. They had, like, three drummers. Well, a drummer, then two percussionists, and they're going to town with all these Latin rhythms, and people are dancing their butts off in the. In the. On the lawn and everywhere.

>> Dave: Everyone.

>> Mike: Riverbend.

>> Darin: Riverbend, yeah. Okay. Everyone's having the time of their life except for Carlos Santana. Oh.

>> Darin: Who most of the time has his back to the audience

>> Mike: doing a Jim Morrison.

>> Darin: He's kind of. I mean, not full back, but most of his back is toward the audience. And he's. He. He plays guitar. I don't know if, you know. Yeah, he plays guitar. A lot of people think he's a really good guitarist. My buddy Dan said, you know, what did you notice? He was missing a lot of notes, and he sounded kind of muffled there. And I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I wasn't. I was watching the drums and listening to the drums and, getting into the groove that they were dropping. They're a Riverbend. But when Carlos Santana finally started facing the crowd, I noticed he is chewing gum. Like, there's no tomorrow.

>> Mike: It's fine. I mean, at that point, who cares?

>> Darin: And it's like. And, you know, and I don't mind, but okay, I do mind. That's one of my things. I can't watch people chew gum, and I can't stand listening to somebody chew gum. There have been many times in the house Actually gum is not allowed in my house anymore because the kids will be chewing gum within a minute to get it. Spit it out. Get spit it out. Yeah. Now. But he is chewing gum. And to quote my father, he looked like a cow chewing his cud.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.


Carlos Santana chewing gum during Santana show because there was lightning

>> Darin: Like mouth wide open.

>> Dave: Yeah.

>> Darin: Like he's trying to bite into a well made steak, you know? Yeah. and I'm like, dude. And this is like the two hour or the whole time he was on stage he is chewing this gum like there's no tomorrow. And I couldn't enjoy the show. Couldn't stop watching him m chewing that gum.

>> Mike: It reminds me, another artist who's in their 70s, ACDC. Ryan Johnson, is it? Angus Young.

>> Darin: Angus Young, yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: Malcolm is the one that passed. Angus Young. He's got that chewing thing that he does the entire time. And by the way, he was hopping and skipping around that stage. I felt like an old man because when I saw them I was 50 and I was like two hours in, I'm like, I kind of, I want to sit down.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Meanwhile this dude's up there duck walking and flipping and doing stuff, dipping. But the entire time he's doing the old chaw. And it's not like he was just doing it at that show. You could any, any YouTube video just look at. And he's chawing.

>> Mike: And there's nothing in his mouth.

>> Darin: It's my mother in law. He's up there gaming on something. Stop gaming on everything.

>> Mike: It looks like he's going at a really big smoke sandwich. Yeah.

>> Darin: Well, we're enjoying the show. Despite the gum, we're still enjoying the show. And we had lawn seats and we brought ah, stadium seats that you had put on a bleacher. Yeah, because the last time I sat on the ground my ass was killing me for a week. I mean it just hurt my back and hurt my legs. It hurt everything. So Dan and I were sitting there. Everything's cool. It was sprinkling a little bit and we had raincoats and I had a poncho and Dan had his umbrella and the rain's fine. But then during like the really, really boring part of the show, Carlos went into like a 23 minute guitar solo that nobody I knew knew what he was doing. And the crowd starts leaving. I mean they were leaving by the dozens. They were just clearing out of there. And then it started. Lightning started thundering.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And so Carlos goes up there and says, guys, listen, we're going to have to. Unfortunately we're going to have to cut the show short. your safety is, our main priority. There's lightning, and in my experience, anytime there's problems with weather, weather always wins.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And so I'm sorry, but we're going to cut the show short. But before we go, we're going to do one last song, and we're going to do Smooth. And everybody lost their mind, because that's why it's like, m. If we leave without hearing smooth.

>> Mike: Yeah, it could be a riot.

>> Darin: So they're doing smooth, and they sound really good. And I didn't know how good they were going to sound without Rob Thomas, because Rob Thomas wrote smooth and sings it, and he was with, match the matchbox 20s. So one of the guys in, Santana's band is singing, and he's pretty good. Okay. So they're doing smooth, and they get toward the end of the song, and, everyone is now really clearing out, but the band goes, Give me your heart, make it real or else forget about it. Give me your heart, make it real or else forget about it Give me your heart, make it real or else forget about it Give me your heart, make it real or else forget about it.

>> Darin: Give me your heart, make. And I'm like, okay. They. They must have done it a dozen times. Oh, my Lord. Like, okay. For someone who's so concerned about us getting out of there before lightning strikes, and kills us all, end the song. End it so we can get in the car and go home.

>> Mike: It's like the Return of the King extended version. Okay, just get on the boat and go already. For the long.

>> Darin: But they just kept. I wish I'd counted it now, but I have no idea how many times they did it. Anywho, so, if you're keeping score at home, Doobie Brothers a Santana, I'm gonna give a B minus. Okay. Yeah, all right, but go. See.


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>> Darin: A little while ago I was talking about Jim Steinman who wrote Total Eclipse of the Heart and I Need a Hero and Making Love out of Nothing at All. And that one of his songs was used for a bug commercial. A, bug spray commercial. And I called it Vivo, the company. The product is Zevo. So my apologies to Zevo. I I here I am insulting you in your horrible commercial and then I insulted you by calling you the wrong name. And it's also not Devo, but I kept saying Vevo and it's Zevo.

>> Mike: Fun fact is, for a brief period, we had a presence on Vevo. It's a video site. There's actually quite a few irritable dad syndrome videos on Vivo.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: For all our Vevo viewers out there.

>> Darin: So if I, if I negatively impacted Vevo, I apologize also. But yeah, big screw up on Darren's part. What do I know?

>> Mike: Are we not men?

>> Darin: We are devil.

>> Mike: Are we not men?

>> Darin: Cameron had a graduation party.

>> Mike: He did.

>> Darin: You came to the house. It was a pretty good showing. Yeah. You know what he did?

>> Mike: Cake.

>> Darin: Oh, we had a Costco cake.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Dave: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I'm going to talk about that for in a second. But Cameron was worried. He, there was some friends of his who thought they weren't going to be able to come.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And by God, everybody showed up. Yeah, I mean, everybody showed up. I thought we was going to run out of cake. And I know we did not run out of. I made. So we had taco bowls.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So I made a whole entire crock pot, or crack pot as I started calling it, because people think the taco bowls are made out of crack.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: I had an entire crock pot of taco meat and an entire crock pot of rice. And I ended up throwing almost all that or half that rice away today. But yeah, taco party is a good time.

>> Mike: It's a good time.

>> Darin: Kids are having a good time. I ripped the crotch out of my pants.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: M Wind blew and knocked over somebody's plate. And so sour cream went all over our brand new deck. So I reached down and I'm wiping sour cream up off our deck and yeah. Ripped my entire.

>> Mike: Blows.

>> Dave: God.

>> Darin: Libby thought that was hilarious.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And she's like, Darren gripped it.

>> Mike: I don't think no one would have noticed if, if she hadn't said anything.

>> Darin: No, nobody would have noticed at all if Darren has. That's all there is. Crotch everybody. And she's like Pointing to my crotch. Yeah, show them your crotch, Darren. And then she's like, I don't know what Darren does with his crotch because he rips out his pants in the crotch on almost every pair of jeans and shorts that he's.

>> Mike: That I.

>> Darin: And it is true. I've had so many pair of jeans that ripped out in the crotch. And now if this is the fourth or fifth pair of shorts I've had that ripped out in the crotch, Libby says, what do you do with your crotch? I'm like, I walk around, I sit down, and occasionally I stand up.

>> Dave: Yeah.

>> Darin: I ain't Mick Jagger. I'm not doing anything crazy with my crotch. I don't know. I don't know why my crotch keeps. But those are my favorite pair of shorts. Of course they are my favorite pair of shorts.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And they ripped on the crotch. With my neighbor Gary standing there looking at.

>> Mike: Usually, I mean, I don't change a cloth, a clothing. I don't change anything until it rips and tears. That's true. I, I, once I did, it didn't happen, all at once like yours, but I noticed that the seat of my jeans had worn a hole in them.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then I noticed that the seat of the underwear that I was wearing at the time had a hole. So what do you do with your underwear, Mike, for the whole day? in theory, I was completely exposed in the most inopportune area of,

>> Darin: That's right.


There are so many graduation parties happening this weekend, Dave Bell says

>> Mike: Exposure.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: I made a list of everywhere that I sat that day, trying to

>> Darin: back what the possible cause I made

>> Mike: the proper, things that needed to be done to those surfaces. Anyway, we're not going to get into that. I do want to point out, for those of you who are not from the area that we're from, we're not just making up these graduations. See, when I was a kid, you graduated, you had your damn party, the day of the graduation that night. And then nobody ever talked about it again.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: And then I found out these parties

>> Darin: are going well into the next century.

>> Mike: Yeah. I was told that our graduation, Andrew's graduation party was on a certain date. And then I was surprised to find out that graduation was before that. And I made the mistake of saying, well, if his party's there, then why is the graduation here? That's just what they do, how they do it. But then I also found that there were graduation parties on that day. Yeah, there's been graduation parties going on for weeks. There's probably some happening this Weekend. I would guess there are. Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah. Because, I mean, we planned ours. we knew that a bunch of people would have them closer to graduation. Yeah. So we threw ours in June. And sure enough, Andrew had his the same day we went to three graduation parties. The day we went to your son's graduation.

>> Mike: If you're from a one horse town with a single dollar general and a Jiffy Lube like I am, you're sitting there thinking, well, there's only 30 kids in the school anyway. How many graduation parties are you gonna have? You literally just have one party.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And the kids take turns passing around, licking the cake. Licking the cake. but not here, man. Not in the2026.

>> Darin: Lord, yes. So many graduation parties. And, one of the highlights of my graduation party, you. Mike went and used my bathroom. And he came out and he says, have you seen your toilet?

>> Mike: Blew my mind.

>> Darin: What's wrong with it? I thought that. I thought somebody had thrown up or somebody might have left a special present inside said toilet and didn't flush. Mike's like, no, come here, come here. So you took me into our guest bathroom to show me my toilet.

>> Mike: You didn't believe me?

>> Darin: No, I believed you.

>> Mike: I wanted you to experience your toilet with me. Here, look. So this is a audio podcast. the people who aren't watching this.

>> Darin: It's the Coriolis effect.

>> Mike: Well, no, no, no. All toilets have that.

>> Darin: Well, this. Unless you're below the equator.

>> Mike: Darren has one of those toilets. Okay, so you guys know, back. Remember malls? You go to the mall and they'd have that stupid thing that you would put a penny or a quarter in and you go. And down, down. And at the bottom it goes. And then, you know, and then like, oh, do it again. And it was more from big donation to get money from us.

>> Darin: I haven't seen. Seen one of those in years.

>> Mike: But that's what his toilet does. It has this little track at the top where the water shoots out and goes round in another.

>> Darin: You're going the wrong direction.

>> Mike: It has a whole path that it takes on the way down. So if you excuse me.

>> Darin: Kind of like watching Tron.

>> Mike: Yeah. It's like. So let's just say you take a normal human and it drops down directly in the center of the toilet, floats as it should. And then you flush it and it goes down the toilet.

>> Darin: Check your diet.

>> Mike: You don't need that action.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Let's say you are even unfortunate enough. You have an iceberg. Let's say you.

>> Darin: Let's just Discuss with Ann and Dave

>> Mike: what an iceberg was. Let's say you ate well the previous day. yeah. A normal toilet can handle that. But occasionally you'll go to Taco, Bell, China House, P F. Chang's. P. F Chang's, Arby's, gas station, hot, dogs.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Mike: And you will, It'll be less of a sniper shot and more of a shotgun blast into the toilet. Your toilet will go round and collect that and take it to its proper destination. Meaning if you.

>> Darin: Its new home.

>> Mike: Meaning if you.


Darren's push button toilet is a feat of engineering

At Darren's house, you don't have to do the courtesy wipe with the toilet paper in case you have, let's just say painted the house. The water will just take care of it. It's just a feat of engineering.

>> Darin: Painted.

>> Mike: I've never seen. I was. I was. I've never. I was more. I was as impressed with your toilet, as I was the first time I saw a push button toilet.

>> Darin: Oh, okay.

>> Mike: You know where they have the. Where you just push the button.

>> Darin: The look on your face. I've never seen you so excited.

>> Mike: I wanted to video it, but you were acting like I was a weirdo, so I didn't want to.

>> Darin: You always act like a weirdo.

>> Mike: But did you know your toilet did that when you bought us?

>> Darin: I did. We bought it specifically.

>> Mike: I never heard of a toilet.

>> Darin: Like, that's the toilet where you can flush like a dozen golf balls. But the guy's like, you don't do that. That's one of the.

>> Mike: I believe it.

>> Darin: Now you can flush a dozen golf balls in this toilet. Don't. Don't.

>> Mike: Just don't flush a fawn, the baby deer down that thing, and it would go straight.

>> Darin: Of all the things a fawn. You know a fawn. You know you can flush a fawn. Yeah, some.

>> Mike: Yeah.


Jason: I went to Costco to pick up Cameron's graduation cake

>> Dave: Time now for the Costco story of the week.

>> Darin: I went to Costco to pick up Cameron's graduation cake. Now we have ordered birthday cakes at Costco a dozen times. More. I don't know. I've lost count of how many birthday cakes we've gotten at Costco. So one of the reasons why we became members of Costco is because I kept asking Chris Michael to order birthday cakes at Costco. He always would. And then when it was time to pick it up, sometimes Chris would go get it because he's a member. He would go. He was getting his 2,000 pounds of aluminum foil, and he's a prepper. Dog food and kitty litter. So remembers at Costco and I went, and like I said, I've ordered I don't know how many of these cakes I put in my order for Cameron's cake. And I was so excited because we usually get the birthday cake that has the three balloons on it.

>> Mike: Classic.

>> Darin: Yeah, the classic.

>> Mike: That's what we get when we celebrate Antonio Banderas.

>> Darin: Exactly. It's the gold standard. Yeah. So I made an order for my cake and, put it in and it's supposed to pick it up on Friday and everything was good. So I go back to the Costco on a Friday to pick it up and they bring out this round little cake. And I said, oh, no, that's, that's not, that's not right. That's somebody else's cake. And they said, it says, congratulations, Cameron. And I thought, okay. Then they went, check the order. Who it up? I it up.

>> Dave: Ah.

>> Darin: I checked the 10 inch cake instead of the sheet cake.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And the look on my face is like, oh my God, how did I, how, how did I screw this up? The lady in the bakery there at Costco, she said, tell you what, do you have a, few minutes? Can you hang out? I said, yeah. She goes, I can take the icing off of this cake and re ice it and I can put it out and someone in the store will buy a plain cake. And she says, we have some sheet cakes. If you can wait a few minutes, I can decorate you a fresh one. I'm like, holy crap. So I waited for like 10 minutes also.

>> Mike: Wait. Okay, so I misunderstood. She wasn't transplanting.

>> Darin: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. She, she scraped the icing off of the, off of the circle cake.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then re iced it with just white icing and then put it on the shelf for someone to buy. Just a generic okay.

>> Mike: For me. The next time I go and I'm celebrating Tim, Burton's birthday.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Dave: Yeah.

>> Darin: Hey, did Darren put that cake back? Yeah. So. And then she redecorated. She, she decorated right there. Congratulations, Cameron, with the cap and gown. 20, 26 and everything. And that was awesome. And I told her, I said, you should be employee of the month. And when I went up to the front and I checked out and the lady said, did you find everything okay? I said, yeah, lady in the back there, she deserves to be employee of the month. And so I hope they give it to her because she did me what the kids call a, solid.

>> Dave: This has been the Costco story of the week.

>> Darin: Well, the day after the party, we had cleaned up almost everything the night after everybody left. You know how many people just left their can just wherever they were, like, I'm gonna drink this Sprite. I think it's fine here on the table. And they just walk away.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So we picked up all the cans, we threw away all the plates, and we cleaned up all the, the leftovers and boxed them up and put them in the fridge and did the dishes and we did all that. And we were just desaurosted and we watched an episode of something and we went to bed. And the next day it was a beautiful day. Absolutely beautiful. And we slept in and we relaxed all day long. We did nothing the day after the party except relaxed, watched television, and we all took a little nappy naps. Okay. And I was editing the podcast.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I was editing an episode because that's relaxing for me. I love doing that. And I'm sitting there, like I said, we were sitting there almost all day with beautiful weather.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: And then I look out the window and I'm like, looks like there's a storm coming.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Dave: Right.

>> Darin: M. We still have all the chairs that I borrowed from you in the yard. And we have the tables that we borrowed from Jason Durbin. And the tents that we borrowed from Jason Durbin are still set up in the yard. And I said, Jacob, Cameron, let's go take these tents down before they blow up and go on to the neighbor's yards. And then we ended up paying Jason Durbin for his tents. So we said, okay. And we go out there and the second we put our hand on the tent, it starts pouring down rain. And Jacob and Cameron and myself are all saying we had all day to do this.

>> Mike: This.


We're taking down tents in a monsoon. The wind was blowing, rain was blowing sideways

>> Darin: The wind was blowing, rain was blowing sideways, rain was coming up from the ground. And we're. We're taking down these chairs and folding up tables and we're trying to get these tents disassembled in a monsoon. And we had all day. We had all day to take them down anyway, so we put them in the garage and they were just dripping wet. And then the next day when the sun came back out, we hung everything out, let it dry real nice. We put everything. And by the way, I forgot to bring your chairs back tonight. I hope you don't need them.

>> Mike: I did have a brief thought when the storm hit. I bet that son of a left my chairs out there.

>> Darin: We folded them up and put them under the deck.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Where they were fine.

>> Mike: Get it?


Bess follows southwest Ohio weather freak. Did you know that?

Speaking of storms, we had some tornadoes, last night. Did you know that?

>> Darin: That's right. Yes, I saw that.

>> Mike: So Bess follows. Bess is in a number of cults. She's in the buy nothing cult where just random people will show up and take from our front porch. Ah. And she's also in this other thing. she follows the southwest Ohio weather freak.


For a long time the worst argument was about the best pancake

and we get into our newest argument. So for a long time the worst argument that we'd had was about the

>> Darin: best pancake and who got the best pancake. Yeah.

>> Mike: And I still just mentioning that I

>> Darin: get a little up.

>> Mike: Get a little because it's the. But like I. It's the best one. I Should have the best one.

>> Darin: Not because you made it.

>> Mike: I made it because I made it. Like if she made the pancakes, then she, he who he or she,

>> Darin: who makes m want to be sexist

>> Mike: should choose who gets the best one. And it had gone too long.


New argument comes about from what weather app are we trusting now

Anyway, our new argument has come about from what weather app are we trusting now? I come at this argument from the standpoint of I don't like my weather app either. The Weather Channel app is the one I use. I hate the Weather Channel and I'll tell you why. Because it doesn't matter what the weather is. It's a disaster.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: It could say that it's sunny and it'll show a picture of a kid with like a nuclear bomb on their skin and it'll say like massive heat wave coming. Your kids have five seconds to be in the sun before they die.

>> Darin: They implode. Yeah.

>> Mike: If it's going to sprinkle a little bit. There's a picture of a duck with its bill blown around the back of its head. There's ads for prepper stuff. It's insane. Ads keep popping up all over everything.

>> Darin: Are you prepared?

>> Mike: Before you ask, yes. I've even purchased the premium version that says it gets rid of ads. It doesn't. The problem is.

>> Darin: Wait, wait, you purchased a weather app?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Subscription.

>> Darin: I have a free thing on my phone.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And that's what I look at and I see what the temperature is.

>> Mike: Here's the. I don't care what temperature it is. I care about if House is going to interrupt me.

>> Darin: I see what the temperature is. I see if it's going to rain that day.

>> Mike: Okay. So ah, the other thing the app does if you buy the premium is you get 15 minute increments on the forecast, which is pretty, pretty nice. Situations like that.


At midnight, southwest Ohio weather freak posts tornado warning on Facebook

But anyway, we get into arguments because southwest Ohio weather freak will get on there and he. It's like, he's trying to. I assume it's a he. The way he writes his post, it's a he. It just. He's got he. Ness all over him. He tries to make it. It's like, It's all caps. It's like a Michael Bay movie. We're all gonna die.

>> Darin: I don't think so.

>> Mike: And then I'll see that. And then I'll go to the Weather Channel, and there's still. You're all gonna die. But it's like, just for a few minutes, and then. Then some of you. Some of you won't. What are you going to do? That's how the Weather Channel goes at it. So I see that tornadoes are possible. Bess has been watching the Southwest Ohio weather freak last night for I don't know how many hours. I go to bed at about 10:30. A respectable hour for a man of my age.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: About 10:30. I was proud of myself.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: At midnight, the light comes on. Bess is like, we're all in the basement. There's tornadoes, a tornado. What's it called when there's one knocking on your front door? Warning, A warning. There was a tornado. Tornado warning. And I could hear the sirens going off. And I thought, it's the big one. It's time. Mother Nature is about, to tell me to suck it, right? All these years.

>> Darin: Call your loved ones.

>> Mike: Call your loved ones. Get in the basement. So I put on my clothes, because I'm not a psychopath, and I go down. We come to the basement door, and I had to pee,

>> Darin: right?

>> Mike: And I had a brief moment where I thought, you know what?

>> Darin: How long is this tornado gonna last?

>> Mike: And there's no, like, wind blowing out there. Now, I've seen enough twister movies to know that there's a point where you're in the center of the storm, right? And it's like, barnaby, Everything's nice, and there's no wind or anything blowing. Is that Barnaby? What's Barnaby?

>> Darin: Barnaby.

>> Mike: I have no clue what you're talking about. So I've seen these twister movies where, you get the center of the storm, and it's all perfectly calm and nothing's happening. And that's when the know it all. the Dwight Schrute says, actually, we're all about to die.

>> Darin: Right?

>> Mike: Right? And I got a twinge of fear. I'm like, I'm not. I'm not going to just. Pete. Now we have a drain in there. But I'm not Going to pee in the drain like a weirdo. So I peed in the bathroom. And then, while I'm peeing, I'm looking at the weather app and I see that the warning only lasts for another 15 minutes. And I also what that I don't hear the sirens at the anymore. So I think there's no wind. We only got 15 more minutes. The Weather Channel says it's up at Miami University. That's leagues away from here as the crow flies. So I think we're out of danger.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: So I yell down the stairs to my family, who's cowering down here. I'm going back to bed. It's in Miami University, and the sirens aren't going off. And then Andrew says, yeah, there's no tornado. I get back into bed. He came up, he went to his bedroom. I went to our bedroom and I lay down. And as I'm laying my head on the pillow, I hear the sirens kick up again. But then I went to sleep. Because here's the thing. You don't get to. What's that called? No take backs. Like, it's either tornadoing or it's not tornadoing. Right. Like, if we've got something out there that's so intent, on blowing me away.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: That it's going to circle around and come back.

>> Darin: Right.


Kevin: I hope everybody in Florence is okay

>> Mike: Who am I to.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Getting its way.

>> Darin: Well, I turned on my old, TV channel and was watching them, and they were explaining where it was. And then it got to a point where the most of the stuff was in, Florence. Florence. Y' all local people get that joke? So it was in Florence and there was an active tornado. And get to your basement now.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then I'm like, oh, okay, okay. And I'm listening to them, and I'm like, okay. I hope everybody in Florence is okay. I did wish everybody. Okay. And then I'm like, move your head a little bit, Kevin. And I'm looking and I'm like, okay, it looks like Butler County's fine. Looks like we're good. Looks like it's fine. Yeah. And then I went to bed, and Libby asked me, she says, do we need to go to the basement? And I said, quote,

>> Mike: yeah, what are you.

>> Darin: I was. I was done. I was asleep probably 10 minutes before you gave up on it.


Time now for the Waffle House story of the week

>> Dave: Time now for the Waffle House story of the week.

>> Darin: I have been chomping at the bit for two days to tell this story. Cause Libby, Cameron and I, we went to a, orientation at the University of Cincinnati on the way home, we are starving to death, and we're gonna go eat somewhere. Where do you want to eat? Where do you want to eat? I don't care. Where do you want to eat? I don't know. Wherever you want to be. Any place is fine with me. Any place is fine with me. I finally said, let's go to Waffle House. M. Because it's close. Never had a bad meal at the Waffle House, and I was really craving Waffle House. So we pull into the Waffle House, and our initial thought was, are they open? Because there's only one other car in the parking lot. Yeah. I have never been in a Waffle House where we didn't have to wait at least a few minutes to get a booth. usually they're always packed. And they're packed because they have 12 tables. So it gives the impression that they're doing a steady business.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: So we get in there, and we're the only ones there. And there's only one guy there. And he looks at us and he says, welcome to Waffle House.

>> Mike: Oh, you're. Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. And we're the only ones there, and we sit down and he's like, do you know what you want? well, I'm going to look here real quick. I do know I want some ice water drink. Cameron ordered a chocolate milk.

>> Mike: Okay, it is.

>> Darin: And I'm trying not to exaggerate here, but it's probably close to 90 degrees inside. Said Waffle House. It is hot. Hot. And Libby's like, it is really hot in here. Which is what you say when it's hot. And the guy's like, yeah, well, I'm, I don't really notice because I'm always, you know, they're cooking and we're like, okay, all right, well, that's a good point. But he knows that we think it's hot.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: So, yeah, he doesn't do anything. He takes our order, and then he goes over and he's doing the cooking. So there's one guy running the Waffle House, and we're like, what's going to happen if business picks up? This is going to be, quote, interesting, unquote.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So we're there, and he brings us our food. It's still hot. Yeah, like, really, really hot. And Libby's like, I don't know how, much longer I'm gonna be able to do this. We need to eat and then go. Finally, a second employee of the Waffle House comes in through one of the side Doors there at the back. And he said, you know what? So hot, somebody turned on the heat. We're like, oh, my God.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Then he starts complaining about the lady who runs the place. he says if she's cold, she makes sure that everybody is hot. And it's not about her, it's not about her comfort. It should be about her customers. Because if your customers are too hot, you need to turn on the air. You don't turn on the heat, you turn on the air conditioning. Yeah. Now I know that in the summer if you're sitting next to the window, you're going to get hot because the sunlight now it's in the winter and you're sitting next to the window, you're going to be cold because the glass is cold. And that in the winter is when you need to turn on the heat. It's summertime now. We need to not turn on the heat, we need to turn on the air conditioning. But if she's cold, then she makes sure that everybody is hot.

>> Mike: It's nice. Yeah.

>> Darin: And he goes on, it's nice to

>> Mike: know that the Waffle House has a continuing education program. H vac.

>> Darin: He goes on.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And it's safe to say that he talked to us.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: The remainder of our visit. We finished our meal and he was, he was still talking.

>> Mike: It sounds like he should be on the show.

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah. Ah, a lady came in. So now we have two customers, four of us, Libby, Cameron and I. And then this lady, and he starts talking to the lady and he's telling her the same thing. If you're hot, you turn on the air conditioning.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: If you're cold, then you turn on the heat. But the lady who runs the place is a stuffy old woman.

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

>> Darin: She's a stuffy old woman who, when she's hot, she makes sure everybody else is cold. If she's cold, she makes sure that everybody else is hot. And it's not about her, it's about the customer. And the other guy who took our order was just standing there. And then dude says, you know what I'm gonna do one of these days?


Waffle House story of the week: Cameron's encounter with geese

I'm gonna get in the car and I'm gonna drive south. I'm gonna get me an ice scraper and I'm gonna ask somebody, do you know what this is? And if they say no, I'm gonna throw it away. And I'm gonna say, I'm, home.

>> Mike: That's a solid plan.

>> Darin: Then I'm gonna get a one room apartment and find the nearest fishing hole. So then the lady that strikes, interest in her, she's like, you know what? There's a lot of people who go fishing down the street from where I live, But I don't know if you can go fishing there. If you live there, you can go fishing. You can go fishing. Pertinent everywhere you go, but you got to watch out because, And I had to go to the bathroom.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I'm like, I don't want to miss any of this.

>> Mike: Yeah. Ah.

>> Darin: So I went and I use the bathroom as fast as I possibly could.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: When I came back to the table. Geese are mean geese. You don't go up near the geese because they will. They will bite you. You know, because if a geese gets too hot or too cold, I'm like, oh, my God.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And then the lady says something about her golden doodle. Something. Something terrier likes to chase the geese. And I had this look on my eyes like, oh, for sake. And Cameron about lost it. And we're trying not to laugh because he's standing right next to our table. He's like, I could reach over.

>> Mike: You became the entertainment.

>> Darin: I could reach over and touch him. Right. And I'm trying not to just lose.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah.

>> Darin: Lose everything I have. and then Cameron's, like, biting his tongue.

>> Mike: That's awesome.

>> Darin: Well, listen, it was, It was nice meeting you. Yeah. Well, make sure you're not too hot when you get out of here or too cold. I'm like, okay. But I got in the car, and I started her up and had the air conditioning going. And then I reached out for my phone. Libby said, what are you doing? I'm putting this on the rundown right now. And then I texted you. Yeah. Because do you. I don't know if you remember the story you told about giant, eagle.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. Birthday cake. Yeah.

>> Darin: I'm like, oh, my God.

>> Mike: It's the same caliber.

>> Darin: Same caliber. But, boy, we got more than just a meal at the Waffle House that time.

>> Dave: This has been the Waffle House story of the week.

>> Mike: You know what we never did? We've recorded all the audio.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: We never went live.

>> Darin: So we don't have a video of this?

>> Mike: No, we talked about all the video.

>> Darin: We talked about how we talked it up, and there's no video of us.

>> Dave: No.

>> Mike: Not a single minute. And I. I put an announcement that we're live. Son of a.

>> Darin: That story's never gonna go.

>> Mike: No, no, no, no. I can, I can still make videos of it. It just Won't have us talking. Okay, now we're live. Because I was just like, why is nobody saying anything? Because nobody's here.

>> Darin: That's right.


Mike M. asks four questions when buying ice at Kroger

M.

>> Dave: It's time now for the Kroger story of the week.

>> Darin: So, Mike.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Before the party.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Cameron and I, we went to Kroger to buy some ice.

>> Mike: Uh-huh.

>> Darin: So that we could have, ice, icy cold drinks.

>> Mike: Okay. Right. Yeah, yeah. And I'm getting frosty beverages.

>> Darin: I'm getting a couple of 20 pound bags of ice.

>> Mike: Yeah. At Kroger.

>> Darin: and I've never really thought about it. I've always been one of the ice is ice, okay? You buy the ice, you put your stuff on it, it gets cold. Boom.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Bob's your uncle, you go home.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So there is this giant sign on the ice maker, on the ice machine, the thing that holds the ice, the freezer. M. As it were at Kroger. And I'm going to read this. This is why our ice is better. Oh, exclamation point.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: We have the most extensive water filtration system available to provide you with absolute pure ice. Okay, so their ice is pure.

>> Mike: Yeah. They have a Brita filter.

>> Darin: Yeah. It's softened. And when they soften their ice, it removes calcium and iron. Okay. It's purified, Mike. By double carbon filters and a reverse osmosis filtration system. Yeah.

>> Mike: A Brita filter.

>> Darin: Bill will not a science guy or something. It's treated with ultraviolet light to eliminate any. And it's lab tested to ensure purity, quality, and your confidence.

>> Mike: Yes, science.

>> Darin: Who farted? It's ice.

>> Mike: It's ice. It's ice.

>> Darin: No, it's like, from now on, whenever I go to buy a bag of ice, I'm gonna ask these four questions. Is it softened? Is it purified? Is it treated? And most importantly, has it been lab tested?

>> Mike: I don't want softened ice.

>> Darin: You're telling me. I'm calling. I don't think they lab tested their ice.

>> Mike: They don't have a lab.

>> Darin: And what kind of lab is it?

>> Mike: And what test did you run on it? Is it cold? Do you have a thermometer? And you just have a guy come over with a lab coat, and say, yep, that's ice.

>> Darin: They've got mice running around there eating ice, making sure that they don't grow another tail.

>> Mike: Tiny mouse cups with some ice shavings in them.

>> Darin: My question is, what the hell?

>> Mike: And Bob the mouse says, hey, they coated.

>> Darin: But here's the thing. It's just like, is the ice Company. Are they hurting? Do they have to run a campaign? Guys, we gotta figure out a way to sell our ice more than those other.

>> Mike: Yeah, ice is a thing you just accidentally have anyway. It's. I think that's how the market started. Like we got all this ice over here. Well, put it in bags and put it out there. Somebody will buy it, you know.

>> Darin: But I mean it's ice, Ice, ice baby.

>> Mike: It's ice.

>> Darin: What's

>> Mike: no, no person buying ice gives the first amount of a. About any of those points.

>> Darin: Any of those things.

>> Mike: No, no, because the main question that people have, ah, when they buy ice is no, do we have enough? How many bags do we need? Do we need the big bag or the little bag? If ah, you want to sell more ice, help people out with that. Just have a pictures of crowds and you point to the crowd and it should say equals X numbers of what size ice. That's all. If you do that, you are going to outsell all the other weirdo ice. people. Our ice comes from blue water.

>> Darin: You know, ice, ice baby.

>> Mike: And then the counter thing was like, you know, water's not really blue.

>> Darin: So what's in the blue water people?


Kroger is promoting crystal clear party ice as a promotion

That's right.

>> Dave: This has been the Kroger story of the week.

>> Darin: I just remembered Letterman. And every night the top 10 list or the word of the day or something was brought to you by crystal clear party ice. And I never got tired of crystal clear party ice. Every night I would say it word for word and I just like. But now I wonder if crystal clear party ice, if it was if it was softened, purified, treated and lab.

>> Mike: I'm not buying any Kroger ice.

>> Darin: They're pulling our chain. Yeah, I really think they're or they're just making a big deal out of

>> Mike: somebody in the marketing department wants a promotion.


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>> Mike: so part of this makes me want. There's all kinds of weird stuff that happens in organizations. That almost seems like somebody lost a bet and had to make that sign because we. So you know that Andrew does broadcasting. He was in the student broadcasting thing, and he was broadcasting just about every sports event that Lakota west was doing. And we noticed one night when we were listening to him, they kept mentioning cherries, like, constantly.

>> Darin: It's like, he.

>> Mike: You know, the. The. That's a cherry of a shot from the left, and it would just. He would just pop up randomly.

>> Darin: A cherry?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And then when Andrew came home that night, or it might have been the next day, Bess was like, what's with the cherry thing? He started laughing. Uh-huh. And he said that they were doing a thing where every once in a while, just to keep things, you know, fun.

>> Mike: They'll try to. They'll pick a word that they've got to work into the broadcast somehow. And it's like, whoever does it the funniest way or the best way.

>> Darin: Tell you what. Sounds like he pulled the old ceiling fan on that move. You got that right.

>> Mike: So a. That makes me feel better about not knowing what the hell they're talking about sometimes in the sports broadcasting, because I can't think that they're the first group of kids to figure this out. It's got to be, like, a thing that happens.

>> Darin: Well, I went to a baseball game with some guys when I worked at Channel nine, and they're like, can of corn, can of corn, can of corn. I'm like, what are you talking about? Turns out can of corn is a, thing. But I thought they were screwing with things.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So that's a cherry of a shot there.

>> Mike: Yeah. He threw that from downtown at the Loose Moose, you know?

>> Darin: And that, my friends, is the inside joke of the day.

>> Mike: Yes. Darren and I are going to enjoy that ourselves.

>> Dave: Ah.

>> Darin: Maybe one of these days you'll hear what happened at the Loose Moose.

>> Mike: We have at least one other listener that's enjoying this right now.

>> Darin: I'm just. We can't tell the story, but I promise you, it was epic.


Coming up on the next Irritable Dad Syndrome is a dolphin question

>> Dave: Coming up on the next Irritable Dad Syndrome. Is it illegal to talk to a dolphin?

>> Darin: They're telling me, don't go close enough to this dolphin. That's going to alter their behavior.

>> Mike: Well, if they see you, they're gonna react immediately. Right.

>> Darin: Also, I mean, do these people realize that I'm in Ohio.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: There are no dolphins in Ohio.

>> Mike: And if they're. If you do see a dolphin in Ohio.

>> Darin: Right. Call the cops.

>> Dave: Yeah. Plus, why some fashion experts say the perm is making a comeback. Next week on Irritable Dad Syndrome.

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>> Mike: You get access to all kinds of Most of the videos of our episodes. This one's a little.

>> Darin: Huh?

>> Mike: It's like every possible combination of ways to up. We're like the doctor Strange of. For podcasts, you know, where he has to, like, live every possible reality. And then. That's right, like, this is the one M. This is the one where everything was perfect on the visual side, and we didn't record any of it. I've been down here with, like, my. I got, like, spaghetti stains on my shirt. I got my, you know, like, half unshaven zit on my forehead. We're in perfect 4k. The one where we're both coming at it like. We're like, we just got off the. We're on the set.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: Ready to roll.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: None of it did nothing.

>> Dave: It.

>> Mike: See you next week.

>> Darin: See you next week on Irritable Dad Syndrome.

>> Dave: Irritable dad syndrome is a Mark Goodson, Bill Todman production.

>> Darin: I think it would be awesome if advised. I think it would be great if you started recording.

>> Mike: We complement each other very well today. Colors. I think we look fantastic.

>> Darin: Fantastic. It's like I'm looking there. I'm like, is that Don Draper as

>> Dave: fun,

>> Darin: stuffy old woman heretofore. Have you ever walked in and asked any of these questions? Is your eyes, Does it meet any of these standards? Well, I guess I'm going to Food City.

>> Mike: Yeah.


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>> Mike: I'm gonna give the folks what they want to hear. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little bit of a Waterloo. Yeah.

>> Darin: Yum.

>> Mike: That's gonna add something into that. I. I self edited. I was like, that's not. That's stupid. Don't say that.

>> Darin: One of these days, I'm gonna get me an ice scraper and I'm gonna drive south. I'm just gonna keep driving south. And eventually someone's gonna say, eventually some. I'm gonna. I had a high school teacher.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah, I was talking about those.

>> Darin: I had a high school teacher pass away. Oh, I'm not gonna. Care to rephrase your statement? Yeah. I remember you saying, hey, you want me to hit record? Yeah, sure.

>> Mike: I just did that. I just never went live. I mean, we sound great.

>> Darin: Just so happy that we recorded.

>> Mike: you know what I might do? I've toyed with the idea.

>> Darin: Best episodes ever.

>> Mike: I've toyed with the idea of doing this before, and I. I'm in some, podcast groups, and they've said, absolutely, don't do this. But I'm like, five years in. What's it gonna hurt? What's it. I've toyed with the idea of just having random video of us play and then play the edited podcast audio under it. Nothing. Syncing up with.

>> Darin: Just see if anybody run across the stage. Yeah.

>> Mike: All right, let's end this thing. I gotta. I gotta make popcorn.

>> Darin: Yeah. Is that what you call it now,

>> Mike: ice baby?