IDS #320 - Give Me Back My Pool Noodle! - Rejiggered

The pool noodle is back... and so is one of the funniest episodes of Irritable Dad Syndrome.

This is "Give Me Back My Pool Noodle! – Rejiggered," a newly expanded and updated version of one of our favorite prior episodes. We've taken the original recording, cleaned it up, added new material, tightened the pacing, and made it even better while preserving everything that made the original so much fun.

The infamous Devo eye saga returns—this time with medical clarity, fewer false accusations, and plenty of opportunities to laugh at Darin's spectacular overreaction. Mike and Darin also revisit the origins of one of the show's recurring segments, where everyday annoyances are put on trial to determine whether they're truly ridiculous... or simply another case of Irritable Dad Syndrome.

Throw in goat yoga fallout, ongoing confusion about farm animal sound effects, and the usual collection of everyday frustrations spiraling into comedy, and you've got a refreshed version of a classic IDS episode.

Topics include:

•  Expanded and updated edition of "Give Me Back My Pool Noodle!" 
•  Follow-up to the Devo eye incident 
•  Medical clarification and apology 
•  Everyday annoyances turned into comedy 
•  Launch of a new dad-judgment segment 
•  Goat yoga aftermath 
•  Farm animal sound effect confusion 

Whether you're discovering this episode for the first time or revisiting a longtime favorite, "Give Me Back My Pool Noodle! – Rejiggered" gives one of the earliest Irritable Dad Syndrome classics the upgrade it deserves.

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Transcript

This week we'll be airing an encore performance of one of our greatest episodes

>> Dave: Hi, this is your announcer, Dave Lay. Mike and Darren, are taking a mental health break from each other. So this week we'll be airing an encore performance of one of our greatest episodes. Now, hang on. This isn't just a repeat with a fancy name slapped on it. Oh, no. This episode is jam packed with over 15 minutes of bonus audio at the end. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this encore performance of, give me back my pool noodle.

>> Jim Timmerman: He was shooting a wedding for one of his friends. It did not go well. Oh, it did not go well.

>> Darin: You know, the good thing about shooting a wedding is all you got to do is just, you know, back everything up and do it again. Guys, I'm gonna have the bride walk down the aisle one, more time if everybody just hold, act like you haven't seen her, and then applaud.

>> Dave: Yeah.

>> Mike: And, sir, would you stand up over there? Can you move over there, please?

>> Darin: Exactly. And then, mom, I need you to cry again, please, and give it some real spirit. Let's really act like we care, folks. Let's not half ass it this time. And action. I don't fit in. You don't fit in. No one fits in. Life is a pair of skinny jeans, and you are a big fat ass.

>> Dave: Welcome, to Irritable Dad Syndrome, the podcast that floats. Here are 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 265. I'm in a great mood. Mike's in a great mood. We're hoping that you're in a great mood because this is gonna be a fun episode.

>> Mike: Comedic segue. Laugh. We have joyful banter.

>> Darin: We have a brand new segment that we're unveiling tonight. Basically, I tell a story, and we brought in a special guest, longtime fan of the show, Mr. Jim Timmerman. And, we asked the question, am I right, or am I just being an irritable dad? And you're going to want to hang around for that.

>> Mike: Jim listens to us while he engages in lawn care.

>> Darin: Yes, he does.

>> Mike: He mows his lawn.

>> Darin: He used to watch our episode at one and a half speed. And then he stopped doing that because he realized that he wanted to get the full enjoyment. He enjoys the show so much, and he wants to listen to it. Absolutely, as long as humanly possible. And that's a lie.


Last week I accused Devo of giving me pink eye

Speaking of lie, last week I accused Devo of giving me pink eye.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And I need to apologize to Mark Mothersbaugh the rest of the gentlemen in Devo.

>> Mike: Bill.

>> Darin: Bill. Devo. And Bob.

>> Mike: Jerry.

>> Darin: Jerry. Devo. They did not give me pink eye. I had what's referred to as blepharitis.

>> Mike: Blepharitis.

>> Darin: Blepharitis, that's where you have inflammation of your eyelid. I went to my doctor. She said, darren, you have blepharitis. And I said, so Devo did not give me pink eye. She said, no, I don't believe Devo gave you pink eye. So my apologies to Devo for that accusation. I got some steroids, and I got some antibiotics, and I'm feeling a lot better.

>> Mike: Blepharitis. Yeah.

>> Darin: I also need to apologize to the fine folks who do goat yoga. Mike was talking about goat yoga last week. By the way, last week's episode was amazing. If you haven't listened to last week's episode, you need to go back and listen to episode 264. Here's the thing. This is why I'm apologizing. we kept talking about goat yoga, and then our editor kept playing sound effects, right? And these sound effects, it turns out, weren't of goats. They were of sheep. Yeah, that's wrong.

>> Mike: Hey, sheep, we appreciate you hey, sheep and we celebrate you hey, sheep, keep. Keep on doing what you do and we'll keep on shearing you hey, sheep, keep. Keep on being sheep. Keep on being she. On being sheep. And I'll, keep on saying sheep, Sheep, Sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep. I'll keep on saying sheep, Sheep.

>> Mike: I looked up blepharitis.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And it is an inflammation.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: due to bacteria and seeing 80s bands.

>> Darin: So you're saying that Devo were responsible?

>> Mike: Well, not really, because they started in the 70s, so I don't think you can. I don't think you can blame them. Yeah, but there were a lot of people that look like they may cause blepharitis at the show.

>> Darin: That's true.

>> Mike: I'm not. I'm not judging anyone.

>> Darin: I hear. You know what?

>> Mike: Just from medically speaking, at the concert

>> Darin: in Cincinnati, you guys decided to move down to the floor while my friend Chris Newman and I sat up in the seats. There was a guy. He shows up at a Devo concert. Okay? Imagine. What do you think someone at a Devo concert is going to be wearing? Probably the red hat, right? Maybe a black concert T shirt. I don't know. There were some punk rock.

>> Mike: Punk rock looking people there.

>> Darin: there's this.

>> Mike: A guy in Hawaiian shirt that looked like an extra from True Lies.

>> Darin: Yeah, there's a person at the concert. Cincinnati. He was wearing a three piece suit with the tie all the way up and a cowboy hat.

>> Mike: M. My question is, what the hell? Boss Hoggin it.

>> Darin: Oh, if his. If only his suit was solid white.

>> Mike: Did you know that Boss Hogg was a war hero?

>> Darin: Yeah, Sorrel book. Yes, the, And he spoke like he was a Shakespearean trained actor. And he spoke, I think, four or five languages.

>> Mike: Yeah. And did you know that Ennis was not.

>> Darin: Enos.

>> Mike: Enos.

>> Darin: Ennis. And by the way, rest in peace to the actor who played Cletus. He just passed away the other day.

>> Mike: This is terrible.

>> Darin: This is going nowhere.

>> Mike: Yeah,

>> Darin: well, no, there was a guy in a cowboy hat. Devo show. And that didn't make any sense to me. You know, Mike and I, we go out and about and we're always wondering, when is this podcast going to take off? When are people going to say, hey, are you with Irritable Dancing? Or you look like Mike Odle. You look like Darren Cox. Hasn't happened yet.


A complete stranger wanted his picture taken with us before the Devo show

While we were waiting to get into the Devo show, this guy comes over to us and he wanted to have his picture taken with us. M Because Bess and Laura were wearing Devo hats. Are we not men? We are devo. Are we not medieval? Hey, this complete stranger wanted his picture taken with us. for that reason. Let's get to the new segment.


Darren Criss welcomes Jim Timmerman to Irritable Dad Syndrome

Welcome back, everybody. I'm very excited because we're going to do a new segment here on Irritable Dad Syndrome called Am I right or Am I being an Irritable Dad? And joining us is our very special guest, Mr. Jim Timmerman. Jim is a friend of mine. I used to work for him. He helped me out greatly in this business of television that I work in. he's a friend. We've known each other for going on 25 years now. And, he's also a fan of the podcast. So, Jim, welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. I'm happy that you're with us tonight.

>> Jim Timmerman: Thank you very much. I'm very excited about being here.

>> Darin: Oh, good. How are you?

>> Jim Timmerman: I'm good. I had a pretty good day today. I've got a glass of wine. I'm watching the show. I'm part of the show.

>> Darin: You're part of the show? Yeah.

>> Jim Timmerman: This is so cool. I'm taking things off my Christmas list right now.

>> Darin: Well, what's wild is Jim, for the longest time, Mike, whenever I would talk to Jim, I would say, have you checked out the Podcast? no, Darren, I haven't done that yet. And he was kind of looking down his nose at us. And, he would used to, I think the word scoff. He would scoff at me, because I had one of the, one of the podcasts.

>> Mike: Everybody and their brother has a podcast.

>> Darin: Yeah. But then he finally checked it out and he calls me up one day and he hates to do that, and he says, Darren, I want to apologize. Your podcast is the greatest thing I've ever heard. And then he would listen to it. He used to listen to it at one and a half the speed so that he could get through it, but now. Jim, didn't you say you stopped doing that? You listened to it?

>> Jim Timmerman: It was one and a quarter. And I would, I would listen to it because that's. It was at the right length. And, if I did one and a quarter, then I could listen to the show and cut the yard.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Jim Timmerman: Takes 46 minutes to do that. So they would be done.

>> Mike: there you go.

>> Jim Timmerman: When the show is done.

>> Darin: Yeah, right.

>> Jim Timmerman: But now it's, it's. I do it at regular speed.

>> Mike: Yeah. So you get the full effect of the THX surround.

>> Darin: Yes, yes, that's right.

>> Mike: That we put into every episode.

>> Darin: And didn't you say that our podcast is perfect for mowing the lawn?

>> Jim Timmerman: It is. Oh my God. Because, I mean, you're out there and you're just walking around, so why not laugh and walk around at the same time? Which I do.


A kid borrowed my pool noodle at a YMCA pool over the weekend

>> Darin: Okay, well, all right, so here's the deal. something happened to me over the weekend and my wife was with me and she felt that she wasn't sure if I dealt with this situation in the correct way. So I'm going to run through, I'm going to give you what the kids call the skinny. Okay. My wife and I, we were at the YMCA pool and, we brought some pool doodles with us and we were actually at the pool by ourselves.

>> Mike: You brought your own pool noodles?

>> Darin: We brought our own pool noodles, yes. We always bring our own pool noodles. And I'm out there with my noodles and I'm getting ready to come out of the pool and this kid asks me, are those your noodles? And I said, yes, they are.

>> Mike: But you're just. It's a factual statement. Those are your news.

>> Darin: These are my pool noodles. Right. And so I set them on the side of the pool while I swam, a lap. And then I'm getting ready to get out of the pool and the same kid said, hey, excuse me, sir, can I borrow a noodle? Now, I didn't want to loan this kid my noodle because this kid probably has cooties, okay? But I reluctantly said, sure. And I loaned him the small noodle, not one of the big fat ones.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So I loaned him a noodle. And then I get out of the pool and I go over and I'm sitting in a lawn, chair and I'm talking to Libby. Next thing you know, these storms roll in and one of the lifeguards says, okay, everybody, they blow the whistle. Everybody get out of the pool. We're closing up the pool. We're closing for the night. So I'm starting to get my things together. I notice this kid walking away with my pool noodle, okay? Because at the YMCA here in Westchester, he starts walking up this ramp that goes inside the building, okay? so I stand up and I said, hey, I don't know the kid. I was like, kid, hey, pool noodle. I yelled.

>> Mike: You yelled, pool noodle.

>> Darin: I yelled, hey, pool noodle.

>> Mike: Okay?

>> Darin: And the kid keeps walking.

>> Mike: I don't think that was his preferred pronouns. You've already got a problem.

>> Darin: So Libby says, honey, it's like a dollar for the pool doodle. I said, no, no, no, I'm getting my pool doodle back. So she says, I chased him down, but I, I didn't run after him. But I did walk after him. He walked into the building and I followed him into the building. And then I said, kid. And he turns around and I looked at him and he go, oh, you're noodle. I said, yeah. And I take it back. And then I walked away. Libby was thinking that maybe we should have just let the kid keep the pool noodle. But I'm thinking, listen, I loaned it to him. He's a kid. He should learn the value of, you know, somebody loans you something, you return it. So the question is, was I right or was I being an irritable dad?


Mike: I think you saved this kid from a life of crime

>> Mike: You want me to weigh in first?

>> Darin: Sure.

>> Mike: I have all kinds of problems with this story.

>> Darin: Okay?

>> Mike: One is the monetary value of the item that this kid, this brute, this

>> Darin: punk, this highwayman, snot nosed, stole. Yes.

>> Mike: And that's the word he was still.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: It's theft. It is removed from, from your possession with malice. The value, the monetary value is inconsequential. I asked you, Darren, a glass of water. Is it important to you now?

>> Mike: Is it more important to you when you're dying of thirst in the desert and it's the only Glass of water.

>> Darin: Oh my God, Mike, you're brilliant.

>> Mike: It's the same item. So the monetary value of the item doesn't matter. This kid, willfully and wantonly, he tried

>> Darin: to take one over on me. He,

>> Mike: I mean, what's next? He's gonna steal your car, start living in your house?

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Where does it end?

>> Darin: Where does it end?

>> Mike: I mean, I'm a charitable soul.

>> Mike: sometimes.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And what it's, you know, it's not the noodle, it's how you use the.

>> Darin: No, it's not the length of the noodle.

>> Mike: I think I've gone too far.

>> Darin: Okay, so you're thinking I was right. I'm chasing the kid down.

>> Mike: I think you were right, okay, when you said you chased him down. Hey, kid. Kid. You know what I was thinking? Harrison Ford.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Chasing down Short Round.

>> Darin: Oh, that's right, because that's.

>> Mike: Didn't that. What do you call. Hey, kid, get over here. Yeah, Kid, did you wag your finger?

>> Darin: Yeah, I think I did.

>> Mike: I think, I think as long as you stay within the Harrison Ford boundaries, you're good.

>> Darin: Okay, so you say I was good.

>> Mike: You could have ended the conversation with, I'll see you in hell.

>> Darin: That's right, Jim, what do you think?

>> Jim Timmerman: I am going to go with Mike on this?

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Jim Timmerman: I think you have done this kid a tremendous favor of, you know, noodle theft is a gateway to a life of crime.

>> Darin: I think so too.

>> Jim Timmerman: I can't imagine. Because he, when he was walking up those steps. Oh, he heard you.

>> Darin: Oh, I know he did.

>> Jim Timmerman: He heard you. There's no question. And he figured that old guy won't think about it. It's a dollar 99. And they're not $1.99.

>> Darin: They're more than that. Well, I mean, you can buy them like at the dollar store.

>> Mike: Well, they're in the dollar store, but that's a scam because you go in there now and, stuff is more than a dollar.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Jim Timmerman: They're easily 290. They're easily 299. Yeah, he heard you clearly when he was walking up those steps. And in his little pea brain, he was thinking, keep walking, keep walking. Once I get inside, that old guy ain't gonna follow me.

>> Darin: That old fat cast ain't gonna follow me. Oh, but I followed him.

>> Mike: Yeah, you did.

>> Darin: I did.

>> Jim Timmerman: And, you and you approached him and you say, hey, hey, kid, it's my noodle. And you took him to task and he's thinking, okay. And like I said, you have saved this kid from a life of crime. I mean, he was thinking he'd get away with it.

>> Mike: As skinny Pete would say, Church, yo.

>> Darin: That's right. I took him. I took him to church.

>> Dave: You did?

>> Darin: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Jim Timmerman: So I think Mike and I are right on, with this. I know in the future we'll disagree

>> Darin: on a lot of things, so. I was not being an irritable dad. Okay, good.

>> Jim Timmerman: No, you were.

>> Darin: Or maybe I was right and I was an irritable dad because it did kind of rub me the wrong way. I loaned it to him out of the kindness of my stupid heart. And then he tries to walk away with it?


Mike: I think you did the right thing regarding pool noodle incident

I don't think so. I'm not as dumb as I look. That would be.

>> Jim Timmerman: I think you did the right thing. Obviously the kid wanted to play with it. You were done using it for a while. That was a great thing. And hopefully as he gets older, like you said, maybe he'll start to pay

>> Darin: it forward, learn some pool noodle etiquette.

>> Jim Timmerman: Yeah. And just understand, you know, our society is built on rules, Mike, am I wrong? It is built on rules.

>> Mike: Exactly.

>> Darin: Exactly.

>> Mike: And at the center of those rules, m, you have to begin with yourself and your personal property. What you own and what you have agency over.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: That was your pool noodle.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You bought it?

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: You worked.

>> Darin: I work hard for my money. We work for our money in this house and we don't give money away. The one question I have, okay, about

>> Jim Timmerman: the whole situation is. And I don't know how this plays into it.

>> Darin: Yes, I was shirtless.

>> Jim Timmerman: Hello. Okay, the second.

>> Darin: Second question I have, okay, I'm sorry,

>> Mike: I'd like to amend myself.

>> Darin: The rare moment where I was, where I made myself giggle, I was proud of that. Okay. Where were this kid's parents exactly?

>> Mike: Probably in the county lockup.

>> Darin: Exactly. Probably doing the drugs.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Jim Timmerman: After you took property of your property once again.

>> Jim Timmerman: Did you happen to notice where this kid continued to walk to? Did he walk towards adults or did he just go out the door? Did he. What did he do?

>> Mike: Did you stalk this child?

>> Darin: I did not, no. Once he went inside, once I obtained my pool noodle and I left, I believe he. There was a girl with him of similar age. It may have been his sister, but I don't know if the m. If like she went and said, you're not going to believe what Dylan did. He tried to steal this old fat guy's noodle. And then they're like, you did.

>> Mike: What did you ask the YMCA for? Their surveillance tapes?

>> Dave: No.

>> Darin: but I bet you they still have it.

>> Mike: They may still have them, and those are permissible in court. Their time and date stamp. And they'll show this little bastard absconding with your noodle.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Jim Timmerman: And the videos may show that this student, this kid's guardian. Uh-huh. Is nowhere around. Now, as many of us know at the ymca, you need parental guidance.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Jim Timmerman: At all times if you're under the age of 14.

>> Darin: It's true.

>> Jim Timmerman: Is this kid under 14 in your estimation?

>> Darin: Yeah. I bet you he is.

>> Jim Timmerman: Next time you go, if you see this kid, just walk up to him and say, hey, look at your parents right now.

>> Darin: Then I think I might want to ask him another question. What the hell is your problem?

>> Mike: Yeah. Citizens, arrest.

>> Darin: What makes you think you're so damn special?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Another question I can ask him.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Jim Timmerman: Yeah.

>> Mike: May I recommend that you say that loudly?

>> Darin: Can you imagine if his parents walked up and I'm like, hey, I want my $2. They pull me out kicking, I'll see you in hell.

>> Jim Timmerman: And when you walk up to those parents or that kid again, do me a favor. Take Libby with you.

>> Darin: Just the calm in the eyes.

>> Jim Timmerman: just so that it's not some old guy stalking this kid, trying to give him candy.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And it's situations like this, I like to think, what would Joe Pesci do? And I mean specifically the Joe Pesci from Casino.


Jim: I think you did the right thing. Thank you very much

Would he just let that go if he were laying by the pool and some kid took his pool noodle?

>> Darin: Kid would wake up tomorrow in a

>> Mike: trunk out in the middle, see the scene in your head. You could see it with those big sunglasses.

>> Darin: Huh?

>> Mike: Hey, just see what this effing kid just what, did that? And he'd come over and that would be it.

>> Darin: That would be it.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Jim Timmerman: I think you did the right thing.

>> Darin: Thank you very much.

>> Mike: and if he listens to the show, I. I hope that he would listen to the. This is your warning and share it.

>> Darin: Dylan is the kid's name I've chosen to give him, so. All right, Jim, thank you. We'll talk to you later.

>> Mike: Thank you, Jim.

>> Jim Timmerman: Thank you. See ya.


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WARNING: The following segment contains language that may sound inappropriate or offensive

Now back to the show. The following segment contains language that may sound inappropriate or offensive. Viewer discretion is advised.

>> Mike: Helicopter pilots, Hobos in a ditch. I'm looking at old.

>> Jim Timmerman: What?

>> Mike: Look at it. What the hell did you just say? I'm looking at old lines that I came up with when I was trying to work into the show. That's one of them.

>> Darin: What the hell is that?

>> Mike: Oh my God. If I die of a heart attack, that's just out there. That lives when Bess is going through my things. That's a sentence on a document that I have. Helicopter pilots, Hobos in a ditch. I think you were against me saying that in the show at the time. You thought it thought it might offend helicopter pilots. I thought it might offend hobos.

>> Darin: They're not hobos anymore.

>> Mike: Can that be a title? Helicopter pilots in a ditch.

>> Darin: What else do you have written?

>> Mike: Nothing that good. That's why I said that when that one stuck, that one just jumped out at me.

>> Darin: It's like the worst ad libs ever.

>> Mike: The look on your face, though, it's pure shock.

>> Darin: Why helicopter pilots?

>> Mike: I don't know. It made sense.

>> Darin: What's the helicopter pilot got to do with anything?


Mike: I have a problem with tipping at restaurants

>> Mike: Darren,

>> Darin: what are your thoughts on tipping?

>> Mike: Mike, I. You got a tip at a restaurant?

>> Darin: Always.

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: You're saying you always have to tip no matter what?

>> Mike: Yes.

>> Darin: Okay, I'm going to ask you a question. Libby and I went to a place called the Shake Shack. We heard that this is great. They have great burgers. We were told they have great milkshakes. You got to try it out. So Libby and I were on a date. We were by ourselves for the day. We got a feeling of what it'd be like to be empty nesters. We went on a lunch date, we went to the pool by ourselves, and we went to dinner and we had a blast. So anyway, we're at the Shake Shack and you have to order your food at the kiosk. Okay.

>> Mike: Like okay, yeah.

>> Darin: So you order whatever you're getting at the kiosk. Now granted, somebody brings it to you.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: But you order it at the kiosk.

>> Darin: And this is where I have A problem with tipping.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Why am I tipping when somebody isn't coming and taking my order? All, ah, someone is doing is bringing it to you. I have a problem with tipping.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Now, we did tip when we ordered our meals. We ordered our burgers, and the burgers were okay. They're not worth the money that they charge at the Shake Shack. And the Shake Shack consume me if they don't like this type of advertising. But still, after we ordered our burgers, we decided we were going to go get a milkshake. I went up to the front. The guy now at the thing is taking my order like you would at McDonald's or whatever. And it comes up, and then the thing pops up. Do you Want to tip 10%, 15%, 20%, or no tip? And I'm trying to push the thing that says no tip, because why am I tipping the guy when I'm ordering a milkshake? When I'm walking up there, I'm ordering a milkshake, and then when it was ready, I walked up there and I got it and carried it back to the table. Why would I tip when the guy does absolutely nothing?

>> Mike: Well, he gives you the milkshake, right?

>> Darin: No, no, no. They said number 94.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And sat it there, and I walked up and got it.

>> Mike: Oh, no, I wouldn't tip. No.

>> Darin: So why. Well, here's the thing, though. Because I'm sitting there and I'm futzing around, and I'm trying to push the button that says no tip. And I'm pushing and I'm pushing, and he says, you're pushing the wrong thing. And he reaches over and kind of. He was not happy with me because I wasn't tipping him. He was not happy because he. I wasn't tipping him for not doing anything.

>> Darin: When I went to see the Offspring in concert, and, I got my T shirt at the concert, the guy reaches back, gets the shirt, and hands it to me, and then I put my credit card in the thing, and it asks if you want to tip.

>> Mike: I don't tip that. I don't.

>> Darin: Why would I tip somebody for reaching back, handing me a shirt? That's ridiculous.

>> Mike: Yeah. No, you don't tip in those situations. You don't, you don't. You don't. You know, not at all. where I get screwed up is you're supposed to, like, in hotels. I am watching everything that. Now, if you're going to big, Daddy's Barn and Grill. And grill.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: They're not going to have somebody that, like, Takes your luggage or whatever. Or tries to take your luggage.

>> Darin: Right, Right.

>> Mike: Big Daddy is just sitting behind the desk, and he could give a.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: But at a high falutin place, a fancy place.

>> Darin: We're talking like, a Motel 6.

>> Mike: Like the Quaker Oats Inn that Bess and I went to in Akron.

>> Dave: That.

>> Mike: Where all the rooms were shaped like Quaker Oats.

>> Jim Timmerman: What?

>> Darin: Yeah, like the oatmeal boxes.

>> Mike: Yeah, the oatmeal. The cylinder cylinders. Yeah.

>> Darin: The rooms were in a room that. Every room looked like an oatmeal box.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Did it.

>> Mike: It was a cylinder. No, no, no.


Shalant: We didn't have suitcases going to Oasis concert

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Not when we got there. But we. We didn't have suitcases.

>> Darin: I don't know why.

>> Mike: That's right. We didn't. We didn't have any suitcases.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: So we. We didn't want to buy a suitcase because we were just going to a concert. So we brought a laundry basket with our clean clothes in it. And this was a place that. Where a guy comes out to take your. To your room, and we're walking in with the laundry basket full of clean, clothes. Mine were on the one side, and hers were on the other. I mean, we're not animals.

>> Darin: No, do.

>> Mike: and they had uniforms, so, you know, it's a fancy place. And he brought one of those rolly things, you know, with the brass things, and we were supposed to put it down, and I'm like, no, I got it. I don't know that he did this, but in my. In my mind, he said, indeed, and then walked away. But I don't. I don't think he actually did that. We were somewhat embarrassed, but it was cool when we opened up the door, because it was a thought. It was all one room, and it was round. it's not there anymore. I looked it up because we were going to go back. it was in Akron. it was connected to this little outlet mall place. one. It had the. This fancy spice. This is back in the. In the early 2000s, I think, back when it was still kind of funny if you had hot sauce that said, I'm a. I'm a kick your ass. Now, they all say stuff like the devil's taint or whatever.

>> Darin: Oh, you know, go back to New Orleans, and there's 200 things of hot sauce there.

>> Mike: Yeah. Back then you had, you know, Jack's hot sauce and, Tostitos. And then you had I'm gonna kick your ass hot sauce.

>> Dave: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: But this place was, like, hundreds of hot sauce bottles. And so we. I Got some ass kicking. I'm gonna m. Beat your ass nuts or whatever it was. And I thought that was awesome. And then we went back and we put our nuts and Satan's armpit. Put those back in the hotel room. And then we went to the concert. It was an Oasis concert.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And another piece is we were seeing them in a theater. A theater theater. And like a theater where it's, tre at the end instead of not er. E. So we're going to see Oasis.

>> Darin: Oasis.

>> Mike: A band famous for a couple of things. One, having beer thrown at their concerts. And they hate each other and hating each other and getting into fights and just. It's. It's not what you would expect to see in a theater. I can't. Theater.

>> Darin: Theater.

>> Mike: Yeah. so it's all carpeted and they had bartenders. M. And like, these little mobile bars. And they had, like, the tuxedo with a little bow tie. And they're doing shaken drinks and all this stuff.

>> Darin: We just wanted cocktail in it.

>> Mike: The cocktail. We just wanted a beer. And we didn't see those people at first. Typically when I go to a concert, I'm looking for the long line of people, disheveled people trying to get a drink.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I'm not looking for little packets of people around a mobile bar.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: So I didn't know where to get a beer. I see, this woman walk by with a beer. She was in, like a dress, like an evening gown with, like, necklace and all this stuff. And I said, excuse me, where did you get that? And she looked at me like I was a slug.

>> Dave: Ah.

>> Darin: yes.

>> Mike: And she just, like, did this with her. This is an audio podcast. It's gonna be great. She pointed over her shoulder. Yeah. Nonchalantly. Oh, I hate when they do it with disdain.

>> Darin: I never see somebody do something Shalantly.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Nonchalant.

>> Mike: It's always nonchalantly.


We went to see Oasis at the Quaker Oats Hotel

It always makes you think, it's a conspiracy brought up by Big Shalott. Anyway, she did that. We went over to the bartender and it felt kind of weird asking him for a beer. He looked like he was about to give James Bond something shaken, not stirred. Anyway, we took that and for a long time we thought we were in the wrong place. There's all these people, well dressed.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: They're, ah, getting like, drinks with, like, little umbrellas in them with their pinkies out. we go into theater and it is plush carpeting. M. And we're in the balcony and it's like a balcony. Balcony. And I remember I Asked, like, one of the people near us, I said, this is for Oasis, right? This is the band Oasis, Huh? And he looked at me with disd.

>> Darin: and said, sir, have you never been outside?

>> Mike: And said, yeah, it's. It's Oasis, dude. Okay. All right.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And sure enough, Noel Gallagher came out, and that was one half of Oasis.

>> Darin: And then you're like.

>> Mike: And then. And then Liam came out, and no, no one. He fought. It was. It was great.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then we went back to the Quaker Oats Hotel.

>> Darin: Okay, we'd like to thank you for listening.

>> Mike: In our defense, we literally just recorded an episode we just did a few days ago. Right, folks? Okay, here's the deal.

>> Darin: Look, sorry.

>> Mike: We're going to talk to the people. Uncle Mike's going to talk to the people. Listen, we're going on different trips now. We don't go the same places, usually at the same time, but it has happened in the past. But generally speaking, we made a promise early on in this endeavor that we're always going to have something every week. And damn it, it's been five years and we haven't broken that promise yet.

>> Darin: No, we haven't. Even if we do a repeat.

>> Mike: But what that means is that even

>> Darin: if we drop a repeat, I always put special never, before heard stuff in there.

>> Mike: What that means is that whenever something's coming up where we are going on vacation or we're going to be away for a while, we double up. We go through the workload. Darren has been editing like a beast. We have been recording more often than we normally do. Oh, Mikey's been making videos like a biatch. so we've been layering up content for y' all to listen to.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: And not all of it's going to be pretty, but every once in a while, something flies out of it. You know? It's true. It's like, we're mining, okay? And when you're mining for gold, you gotta beat through, a bunch of rock.

>> Darin: This is like. Some people's like, hey, do you guys ever run out of things that talk about. And I'm like, no, we don't. Tonight we have.

>> Mike: Tonight we did.

>> Dave: Yeah.

>> Mike: We ain't got to talk about jacks.

>> Darin: What? Thank God Jim Timberman was on the show.

>> Mike: But, yeah, here's the deal. Is that when I get back. And then you're going on vacation, you get back, those next shows are going to be jam bangers.

>> Darin: Holy crap. Did you see the Peewee Herman?

>> Mike: I didn't even know there was A Pee Wee Herman documentary.

>> Darin: Have you been under a rock?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Dave: Really?

>> Mike: Yeah.


Max: I still haven't watched the Bono documentary

>> Darin: Do you have the hbo, Max? I do, yeah. You've got to watch the.

>> Mike: I still haven't watched. I still haven't watched the Bono documentary.

>> Darin: Oh, I haven't watched the Bono documentary.

>> Mike: I've watched it. Ten minutes.

>> Darin: The Pee Wee Herman documentary. Two parter. It's great. It really is something else. And I thought I was a huge Pee Wee Herman fan. I mean, I am a big Pee Wee Herman fan. But there was a lot of things about him I did not know. Yeah. One of them, I didn't know he smoked cigarettes.

>> Mike: I did know that. I knew that.

>> Darin: I thought, how did he get his, He didn't have a. Ever have a smoker's cough.

>> Mike: Yeah. Maybe that's what that was.

>> Darin: Maybe. Yeah, maybe so. But that's something to look forward to.

>> Mike: You know what this is?

>> Darin: What's this, Mike?

>> Mike: I'll make you feel better about it. You work. You have a job.

>> Darin: I do.

>> Mike: That brings money home.

>> Darin: It does.

>> Mike: But you're trying to get things ready so that you can leave for vacation for a while. You pack it all in, you go, you go, you go, you go. Does last hour or two, you're just like, I'm just. I can't. I can't do anymore. I'm spent, you know? And then you go. You go home, go to bed, and then wake up. Next day, you're on vacation. When you come back, you're. Well, you have that day of darkness when the next day is, I have to come back to work. But after that, the day you're hitting it hard, hitting it, you're just, like, slamming it. You're commercialing, this and commercialing, doing that all left and right. So we are.

>> Darin: It's not getting any better. We're gonna go. We'll see you next week on Iron Will Dance Syndrome. Do you have anything to talk about?

>> Mike: I got all kinds of. Okay, I'm in a pissy mood today. This is gonna be. This is gonna be one for the books, bruh.

>> Darin: You said you have stuff.

>> Mike: I was just kidding.

>> Darin: I don't have anything, Mike. Then don't tell me you have stuff if you don't have anything.


This podcast is like a Bjork concert, okay? Walk with me down lane

>> Mike: All right. Okay.

>> Darin: You see, you get me all excited, and then you just walk away. Let me see, like, my honeymoon.

>> Mike: I had some things earlier today. I just didn't write them down.

>> Darin: Told me you had things.

>> Mike: I thought I had things.

>> Darin: You told me you did. You said, oh, I got lots of stuff.

>> Mike: I, I Lied. This is what Mikey sounds like. Get it, get it, get it, get it. What up, B?

>> Mike: What?

>> Darin: What do you. Stop that. Just.

>> Mike: I'm doing this. Have you ever.

>> Darin: Get it, get it, get it. What up, B? You have never watching checked your microphone like that.

>> Mike: Yes, I have.

>> Darin: Okay. Okay.

>> Jim Timmerman: I am feeling right now how George Martin felt the first time he met the Beatles.

>> Mike: The universe is working against this episode. He really does not want.

>> Dave: Thank God.

>> Darin: The middle of this episode is really good.

>> Mike: Petering out like a flaccid diesel engine. hey, I don't know what that sound was.

>> Darin: I hope to God we can do another podcast. I really do. This is one of those, like, I can't wait till next week because I

>> Mike: don't want to end on this one. No, we're not going to end on this one. Knocking it. We're not allowed to end on this. This is the one. If we tried to end on it, I would expect one of our fans to kidnap us and force us to make another episode like. Like Misery. I remember before we did a podcast, I remember thinking, that's easy. That's the easiest thing in the world. Yeah, it's not. No, this is not easy, people. Walk with me down this lane, okay? It's like a Bjork concert.

>> Jim Timmerman: Okay?

>> Mike: This podcast is like a Bjork concert. Okay. Okay, you've got.

>> Darin: Which one of us is wearing the,

>> Mike: No, don't think of it that way. Okay, you got the music, and then you've got the lady dressed like a penguin.

>> Darin: A, Swan.

>> Mike: Swan.

>> Darin: Swan.

>> Mike: Okay, Sometimes the music matches having a lady dressed as a swan. Okay, sometimes it's a lady dressed as a swan and just a bunch of noise. Other times, it's beautiful music and. What the hell is she wearing?

>> Darin: What does that have to do with this?

>> Mike: I don't know, but it's out there now. It's out there now. Kids, if,

>> Darin: Stay off the drive.

>> Mike: If I've been dead for years and you're watching this tape. I'm sorry. Yes. This is what dad did in the basement.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Do you hear a weird sound?

>> Darin: Just me talking.

>> Mike: You hear a weird sound? Am I turning into Chuck from Better Call Saul? Boy, that would suck, wouldn't it?

>> Darin: We have to throw away all this. You allergic to electricity, Mike?

>> Mike: It's like a whirring.

>> Darin: It's like a what?

>> Mike: A whirring. Like m. It's this thing that's not on. Boy, that killed the momentum, didn't it?


If you had millions and millions of dollars, would you buy multiple houses

>> Darin: Have a great day and stay cool.

>> Dave: Don't go anywhere Remember that bonus audio I was talking about? Well, that's coming up right now.

>> Darin: I don't know if this is gonna be a good episode or not.

>> Mike: It's a big topic.

>> Darin: Don't have a big topic. Sometimes, though, the little things we bring up spark. Big things. Please spark something big. This episod.

>> Dave: Are.

>> Mike: But what am I?

>> Darin: If you had millions and millions of dollars, would you buy multiple houses?

>> Mike: I think I would. And it's just. I would like to just be able to say I. I got another house.

>> Darin: Well, I can say that I've always.

>> Mike: I've had a recurring dream that I have a huge, not huge house, but like a house with a hallway that goes to a whole other wing.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: That I never go into.

>> Darin: I have that. Oh. Oh. That you just never go into.

>> Mike: Well, some dreams I do, but it's like, you know, like a lot of dreams you have, you're like. You're. You're in a dream, and there's a caterpillar sailing on a parasol, and that's a weird dream. And then you just never have that again. Yeah, this. I have this similar house dream, and it keeps happening, and I explore different parts of the house, and then every time I go to that room, it's getting water damage from something.

>> Darin: No, I've had the dream several times where I find a part of my home that, henceforth did not exist or heretofore did not exist? Yeah, you. Henceforth is after. Heretofore is before.

>> Mike: Have you ever.

>> Darin: It's like, what. What is this? And you push the. It's always a bookcase. Yeah, you push the bookcase, and there's this giant room. I'm like, oh, my God. Nobody knows that's in this room.

>> Mike: Have you had a. Have you had one where you have a basement that's, like, structured, kind of like the Batcave? Like a huge cavernous basement?

>> Darin: No, I have not. I have not had that one. I did.

>> Mike: Structurally Unsound.

>> Darin: I. I did. That's a stress dream. And I wonder why you're having that. Yeah, no, I did have a dream where our very downstairs bathroom. Our basement bathroom. We don't have a bathroom in our basement, but I was going to the bathroom in our basement, and I was. As I was opening the door, I noticed that the wooden, The thing around the awning. The. Yeah. Was, It's like, what. Why is this drippy? Why is this wet? And I opened it up, and there's all this water coming down from around the Light. I was like, Well, that sucks. And then I woke up. And I woke up because, Eddie and Gina and Ryan were staying with us and they have a, what's it called? One of them, noise, machines that gives the

>> Mike: very kid.

>> Darin: Okay, yeah, what's it called? It's not a noise machine.

>> Mike: It's a white noise machine.

>> Darin: White noise machine, yeah. And then I woke up and I was convinced that where they were sleeping in the movie room was flooded. That's a great story.

>> Mike: I thought it was good.


Somebody started a thread in the YouTube Reddit about going to Bono's house

Somebody started a thread in the YouTube Reddit about, you know, meeting the band and like, going to Bono's house.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Famously has a house. I mean, everyone has a. Well, homeless people don't have a. Bono has a house.

>> Darin: I'd like to think that he has a house.

>> Mike: He has a house.

>> Darin: Bono probably has several houses.

>> Mike: He does, but he has. He has one in Dublin that's like his house. It's kind of like, you know how we went to the tree? This would be like going to the house.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And the thread was people go to these places, like Stephen King's house and different houses.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Get pictures in front of them. But Bono is pretty known for, like, popping his head out and saying, hey, mate, you want some, tea? Can I. You know, coming out, he's invited people in. Yeah, They've had conversations. There was. There was a story about, he met a guy at a bar and found out the guy was a huge fan. And then, he sent the whole rest of the entourage onto the hotel or whatever, and he hung out with the guy and had a couple of pints. It's like. Well, he didn't do that with me in Louisville.

>> Darin: No, he did not.

>> Mike: I look like Uncle Junior from the Sopranos.

>> Darin: Uncle Junior, do you ever watch the Sopranos? I've watched a few episodes of the Sopranos.

>> Mike: Deal.

>> Darin: The one character I remember most on the Sopranos was Big.

>> Dave: Yeah.

>> Darin: And you can say that because it's his name.

>> Darin: But do I have to bleep that?

>> Mike: No, but it would be funny to do a bit where it's like we talk about Big being A and we have to bleep it when we're using it. Yeah. Hey, I joined the aarp.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah?

>> Mike: Are you an aarp? I am.

>> Darin: I get.

>> Mike: You get free.

>> Darin: You can get, like, did I sign up for it?

>> Mike: if you walk steps, you can get Amazon cards automatically.

>> Darin: Just start getting stuff after you reach a certain age.

>> Mike: I said you can join when you're 18.

>> Darin: That doesn't make any sense.

>> Mike: I'm gonna get Andrew to join.

>> Darin: That's a child.

>> Mike: What's it stand for? American Association. Perverts. People.

>> Darin: People. No, that's another.

>> Mike: Is it people or persons?

>> Darin: Retired persons.

>> Mike: My phone is a new feature. One of the updates turned it on. I can turn all the volumes down.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And it'll just turn them all right. Back up to the top. You just. So the next time that sounds. I mean, not like I have it quiet now. I just leave it there. It'll stay quiet. But if I pick it up and it turns on, all the volumes go. And that's fun. If you're at work.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And you decide, hey, I want to see what's going on.


You have two Funko Pops from Rogue One on your phone

And the last thing you had on your phone was TikTok. And then, you pick up your phone during a meeting. It's like, oh, look at that.

>> Darin: Flying through the air. His ass is on fire.

>> Mike: You know, that doesn't. It doesn't.

>> Darin: I have two Funko Pops. Yeah. Billy Idol that you gave me.

>> Mike: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: And K2. So that Cameron gave me from Rogue One. Yeah. The. He was the black droid.

>> Mike: What?

>> Darin: He was the black droid.

>> Mike: African robotic. Me and Bess make each other laugh all the time. One of the fun things that I've taken from the office that we do back and forth.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Is if one goes off the rails, just the Michael Scott.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay.


You mentioned a feature of AI where you can ask AI to summarize a book

>> Mike: Speaking of books, and you mentioned a, feature of AI That I talked about previously on the show where you can just, like, put a book aside and then ask AI to summarize up to a point.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And that has enabled me to continue to suck more at reading. Because I have. Right now, I have the problem. And I've had it for a couple years, and I'm kind of concerned about it is I'll read three or four chapters of a book, and then I'll put it down, I'll start reading another book I have. That book has a cool cover syndrome, right?

>> Darin: Yes. Well, they say don't judge a book by its cover. Well, I mean, I really. Because it looked like it's a good book.

>> Mike: Well, I found a book that. That is impervious to that, and it bothers me because I've gotten impervious. Impervious. I got halfway through this book. It's an excellent book. And then I set it aside because another book had a better cover, and I started reading it, and now I can't go back because the book that I was reading is called There is no Anti Mimetics division. Right. Which is not important.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: That's the name of it. The book is about entities like the scp. Secure, Contain, protect. If you're an Internet nerd like me, you know what that is.

>> Darin: Are there any liminal spaces?

>> Mike: Yeah, it's. It's along the same vein of that, but it's about entities, that refuse to allow you to remember that they exist. They erase your memory.

>> Darin: What happened.

>> Mike: Even if you bring someone along as a witness to talk with them.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: Something. Or. Or you record them. Something will happen. The tape will tear apart in the machine. Or your person will suffer an injury where they can't remember. Something will happen where you can't remember them. So that's all background into the way the book is written. It's. You remember the movie Memento?

>> Darin: Oh, I love told backwards and forwards.

>> Mike: Yeah. So you don't know what he doesn't know.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: That's how this book is written.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: So you're reading a chapter, never understand it, and just this wild happens, and then you get a couple more chapters down, which kind of explains what happened back in the. So you can't. Like, what's A.I. I don't even want to know what A.I. would do with that because it can't explain forward and backwards. So now I'm stuck. I got halfway through this book and now I have to start all the way back over because I have no idea what's going on. But I want to finish the book. And here's what's going to happen. I'm going to get to the halfway point. I'm going to see a shiny new cover, and I'm going to go over and I'm going to read it.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: So I'm going to try to discipline myself and read this book. But I will tell you all, if you have any interest in that type of torture read, there is no.

>> Darin: Well, if they're listening to this podcast, this book's perfect for them.

>> Mike: There is no Anti Memetics division. It's. It's an intense book, that I can't finish.

>> Darin: Right.


Weather Channel said there was a tornado sighted east of seven Mile

>> Mike: Another thing that annoyed me about it is, and this is a dig on the Weather Channel, it said that there was a tornado sighted.

>> Mike: And it said east of seven Mile.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: And I'm like, what the. Is that. Is that what that is?

>> Darin: Yeah, it's a mile. It's a. It's a location. it's a, what's it called?

>> Mike: we're in the.

>> Darin: It's A place.

>> Mike: We're in the greater Cincinnati metropolitan area. Right. There's towns around us.

>> Darin: There's.

>> Mike: There's Hamilton, there's Fairfield.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: There's Westchester. There's whatever.

>> Darin: Like, if they said 747. Do you know what that is?

>> Mike: I know what that is.

>> Darin: Okay, well, Seven Mile. It's similar to. To that.

>> Mike: In that it just sounded like, There's a twister up there by the old McCullough. Take a left at the Cow, and

>> Darin: there's where Old Man Johnson's barn used to be.

>> Mike: Yeah. And when I looked at it, I was like, okay, you guys could have just said near Hamilton.

>> Darin: Yes. Yes, they could have.

>> Mike: I've been watching the James Bond. Yeah, Those are hard to watch, the early ones.

>> Darin: Oh, yeah. Some of them were painful.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Bond. Have you tried.

>> Darin: Shut up, Miss Moneypenny. Show me that smack in the ass.

>> Mike: I can't. I can't hear. You're talking over the,

>> Darin: Your ash. Moneypenny, he's got some fancy. I guess she got the point.


Roger Moore was in more James Bond movies than Sean Connery was

Which Bond movie was it where Roger Moore is fighting the guy on the wing of the plane as they're, like, 4,000ft?

>> Mike: I don't know.

>> Darin: Well, because I remember as a kid going, right, so Sean.

>> Mike: Sean Connor gets all the press, but Roger Moore was actually in more James Bond movies than Sean Connery was. Yeah, he was in Six. Sean Connery was in five. The one that. Nobody knows who he was. The, It was in Her Majesty's or whatever they're called. Timothy. Timothy Dalton was into.

>> Darin: That was.

>> Mike: That was a. George Lazenby and Pierce Bronson Piccho.

>> Darin: He was in four.

>> Mike: Four of them. And then Craig Kilbourne was in.

>> Darin: Craig C. Nelson. Please. Please, Mike.

>> Mike: I prefer Craig Kilbourne.

>> Darin: He did more than Sean Connery, didn't he? No, he did five. Or did he do four?

>> Mike: Dennis, Did Dennis,

>> Darin: Quaid.

>> Mike: Dennis Quaid did Casino Royale. Quantum of Solace.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And Specter 3. He's only been in.

>> Darin: No, I think he was in another one. What was his name? Craig.

>> Mike: Fat. He was in that one.

>> Darin: right. No. Time to Die. Casino Royale. Spectre. Skyfall.

>> Mike: Oh, Sky. Skyfall's good.

>> Darin: Quantum of Solace.

>> Mike: I couldn't get through Quantum of Solace.

>> Darin: I'll tell you what, though. I liked,

>> Mike: I'm Going Live, by the way, so.

>> Darin: Okay. Yeah, I like. I liked Craig T. Nelson better in the Knives Out Movie movies.

>> Mike: Those are a good movie. I've only seen. I've only seen one of them. I've saw the, the onion fields or whatever.

>> Darin: The last one was fantastic.

>> Mike: When someone farts in your car, do you have a rule that they have to own it? Like they have to announce it?

>> Darin: He who smelt it dealt it.

>> Mike: No, no, I'm just saying it, it's, it's rude. I consider it rude to in someone's car, and then not claim it.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Just let that out and just let it be in the air.

>> Darin: Oh, so you should. That was me is what you' not. Yeah.

>> Mike: Okay, well, just all needs to leave. That segment ended with the turtle

>> Dave: and

>> Mike: then we'll go to the next thing. That's all needs to go away.


Cameron Cox had orientation at the University of Cincinnati

>> Darin: I mentioned that Cameron had orientation at the University of Cincinnati. Well, he had to fill out a bunch of forms online. the, the waive your insurance thing. It's like if you already have medical insurance, you have to waive the insurance that you UC provides. If you need to have a parking spot, then you have to fill out this form. And if you need, financial, aid, you fill out this form. And there's form after form after form after form. He comes downstairs today and he says, dad, can you help me with something? And twitch. I looked at him like, Do you want my help or do you want the problem solved?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: So he comes down and he's got to fill out this thing about, hey, God. He's got to fill out this form about hazing. And it's a questionnaire how he feels about hazing. And so how do you feel about, this situation? And it gives them five things to click.

>> Mike: Either it's like, I fully support it. I'm hazing someone right now.

>> Darin: But the thing is, none of the options were visible. There was like five, five dots. And Cameron comes in and goes, dad, is this like worst to best? Best to worst? And he goes, I don't want them to think that I'm on the grounds of hazing is amazing. I'm like, dude, you just made the Cameron Cox quote of the day. I, ah, don't want them thinking hazing is amazing. That's like an after school special. Ah, by the way. So how did I fix the problem? I said, just pick the middle option. No, I said, no comment. Don't do it on your phone. See if you can take this survey on your laptop. And, he went and tried it on his laptop. You know what I fixed?

>> Mike: Was it one of those things where like four of the options were horrible and one was, I don't like it. Like, I'm hazing someone right now.

>> Darin: I didn't see any of these.

>> Mike: I'll haze you. You know, it could be.

>> Darin: Damn right. I'm like, and by the way, we do not support on Irritable dad syndrome. But still, he just looks at him like, what am I supposed to do? There's literally five circles with, no options next to him. I've never seen anything like it before in my life.

>> Mike: Stupid. That was pretty good.

>> Darin: Thank you.

>> Mike: Yeah, you almost got a face full of water there.

>> Darin: When. When I was a kid, I went into the kitchen, which is, in the next room there, and my mom was watching tv, And I went and went. And mom said, hey, will you pour me some of that? I said, mom, I'm not pouring anything. And she's like, yeah, you did. I know I didn't. And I fooled her. Yeah, because that's. That's the, I'm just a prankster.

>> Mike: Yeah. Such a. It's my goal.

>> Darin: It was Paul McCartney.

>> Mike: I'm gonna mention Loose Moose every episode. That's the comedy gold mine. That is the best. I want to believe, because every time when you open a business, you have to write the name of it down. and I'm sure that they got a loan and they had to, like, meet at a bank. And I just. In my mind, whoever owns the loose moose was cackling when he was filling out the paperwork and handed it to the loan manager. And the loan manager laughed, and they probably just both laughed themselves silly and said, okay, let's make that happen.

>> Darin: I wonder if you can get, like, loose. Let's see if. Can you get a Loose Moose T shirt now? I want one.

>> Mike: If you can't, we'll make one available.

>> Darin: Huh?


Irritable dad syndrome is a Mike Odel Darren Cox production

>> Mike: All right, we're on.

>> Darin: Okay. Irritable dad syndrome is a Darren Cox. Wait, is it my codel? You say Irritable dancers of my codel, and then I'll say Darren Cox production.

>> Mike: Irritable dad syndrome is a Mike Odel Darren Cox production. Wait, I didn't. I sounded like I was ending.

>> Darin: Okay.

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

>> Darin: Then I'll turn. Irritable dad syndrome is a Mike Odle Darren Cox production. Irritable dad syndrome is a Mike Odle, Darren Cox production. Now we both say the whole thing.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Irritable dad syndrome says a Mike Odle.

>> Mike: Darren Cox production.

>> Darin: One more time. Irritable dad syndrome.

>> Mike: We gotta do a countdown.

>> Darin: 3. Irritable death syndrome is a. Irritable death syndrome is a Mike Odle. Darren Cox production.

>> Mike: Should we do 70 more times, you think?

>> Darin: No, no, no. We're fine.

>> Mike: All right, we gotta go. Daddy gotta go sleep.

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