IDS #264 - I Think Devo Gave Me Pinkeye

Holy Crap! After last week's dismal episode, Mike and Darin have bounced back with a real banger!!

Mike tells you everything you want to know about goat yoga and Darin thinks DEVO gave him pinkeye. 

Plus, Darin confuses a prairie dog for a rabbit, Sheets is the best gas station ever to eat a hot meal and important news about our announcer, Dave Lay.

Seriously... this episode is so good, you'll wanna take it home to meet your parents.

#DEVO #GOATYOGA #SHEETS #comedy #podcasts #irritabledadsyndrome

Transcript

Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast

>> Mike: Now I'm excited. Now I'm all revved up.

>> Darin: I'm good to go.

>> Mike: All right.

>> Darin: What was. You punched yourself pretty hard.

>> Mike: I did. It hurt?

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: stop. Reset. Start. All right, hit it.

>> Darin: You can't be honest with them when they're little, you know? Dad, are they really monsters? I don't know. Probably. I feel it sometimes. Don't you feel it? Sometimes I think I hear it. Do you ever hear that in the attic? What is that?

>> Dave: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. I got nothing this week. Absolutely nothing. Here are your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Hi, I'm Darren.

>> Mike: I'm Mike.

>> Darin: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast. This is episode 264, and I'm telling you right now, this episode is gonna be so much better than last week's episode. That's not saying much, but tonight we have so many stories to talk about.

>> Mike: You're going to hear this episode, and you're going to be amazed that we've made it. You're going to be 264 episodes. When you hear the quality of this and you realize that this had to restart about five times before we got to the level of perfection that you're hearing that's, currently through your ear holes.

>> Darin: You know what? If you're going to do something, you do it right. Okay. So, yeah, we started the show five times. This is going to be the winner, number five. Mike and I, we went to see Devo twice. We're going to break down how great the concert was, and there were people that we met, and they told some great stories, and one of them features a word that I cannot say, and I have to work around that strategically. So I'm going to do my very best. So, stick with us for that.

>> Mike: We don't want to get canceled.

>> Darin: No, we do not. Yeah. I also did something on the Internet that went viral. I'm going to talk about that.

>> Mike: yeah, I'm going to talk about goat yoga.

>> Darin: It's about time.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: We have went this long without talking about Go Yoga, so it's going to be a great show.


Our announcer, Dave Lay, had a fall at his house

Before we get into the fun, I wanted to mention Die Hard fans of the show, and they're out there. There are people who've listened to us, since the very beginning, and we thank you so much for that. But Die Hard fans of the show might have noticed that over the past few weeks. You know, we have Dave Lay. He's our announcer.

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

>> Darin: And he does an intro for our Show, Right.

>> Dave: Welcome to Irritable Dad Syndrome. Do not listen while operating heavy machinery. Here are your hosts, Mike and Darren.

>> Darin: Past three or four weeks, we have been running repeats, different things, different intros that he has already said before. And you might wonder what's going on with Dave. Well, we had a scare. Our announcer, Dave Lay, a great friend of ours, he had a fall at his house. He fell down his steps. I'm not joking here. He broke his neck in four places. And he lived.

>> Mike: He's alive.

>> Darin: He is still. I don't know how you break your neck in four places and survive, but he managed to do it. And we are so happy that he's okay. I talked to him today, and by the time this episode airs, he will be home, but. But he's going home soon. He's in good spirits. He's feeling a lot better. And, I'm just telling you guys this because if you want to wish him well, if you want to send Dave a hey, we're very happy that you're feeling better message, you can do that by going to irritable dad syndrome.com, you can send us an email. You can wish him well on our Facebook page, on our TikTok, and all the places that we have it. So, Dave, we are so happy that you're okay. We look forward to you coming back. And, we want to put you on the podcast again, bring you in here and talk to you. But, so we're so happy that Dave's okay.

>> Mike: We'll get to Devo in a few minutes. But part of what Devo was kind of bookended a visit.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: By my sister in law and her husband Jim.

>> Darin: Jim Boyce is one of the coolest people I've ever met.

>> Mike: He is.

>> Darin: You know what, Laura? Your sister in law, she's super cool, too.

>> Mike: Equally cool. Equally super cool.

>> Darin: They're good for each other.

>> Mike: Yeah.


We had a week. What's four days? A bit more than half

We had a week. Not a week, like half a week. What's four days?

>> Darin: A bit more than half week. Seven days in a week. So four is more than half.

>> Mike: So we had activities planned. We had the first Devo concert and then, days of activities and then the last Devo concert, which ended the whole trip. But in between, in betwixt, we had to come up with things to do. So, me and Jim, Jim and me, Jim and I and Charlie and Andrew, went to Kings island because Jim is a huge roller coaster freak.

>> Darin: He's an enthusiast.

>> Mike: An enthusiast. and Kings Island, I mean, man, man, o. Plenty.

>> Darin: They have roller coasters.

>> Mike: They got the coasters. They have the Beast, as it were, and boy, that draws the kids.

>> Darin: And then have the Son of Beast.

>> Mike: And then what do you call that? The, the Orion.

>> Darin: They got the Orion.

>> Mike: They have thing for Orion, but they.

>> Darin: Got the one with the snake on it. They have Mystic Timbers, which is my favorite.

>> Mike: So Bess is not that excited about roller coaster. She will not ride Diamondback again. She rode it once during the Halloween haunt.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: She had her eyes closed the entire time. She was terrified. She's out of therapy. She's fine now, but she doesn't ever want to ride that again. About time she went, and she knew we were going to ride that and Orion and that we were going to ride the Beast and all these horrible rides that she wanted nothing to do with. So she and her sister Laura also was not that excited about those rides. So they planned another activity. They planned a morning, of goat yoga. Goat yoga is. A bunch of people were together one day, and they were doing. They were doing shrooms. They were doing some yoga. They were doing more than one of them. One of them looked over and said, you know what we need right now? It's a damn goat barnyard animal.

>> Darin: Huh? And they could.

>> Mike: We can deal with it. Or a sheep and pissing and being a goat everywhere. And, so I asked, you know, what does the goat do? Because Bess planned this activity. She paid for the tick. You pay for this. The goat doesn't pay. You pay.

>> Darin: I think that they would pay.

>> Mike: I would think the goat would pay.

>> Darin: Yoga with a goat.

>> Mike: So what you do is you go to this place, an undisclosed location, and.

>> Darin: Behind an abandoned Joanne fabric shop, and.

>> Mike: You bring a mat and. Because you don't want the goat's feet to get dirty.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: So. And then. But what I found out here in the stories later is there's a yoga person and there's a goat person.

>> Darin: that's probably because of union.

>> Mike: Let's just call the goat person. I don't think you can. In today's. The vernacular, the goat wrangler.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: That's what we'll call him. I don't want to offend goat people.

>> Darin: Goat people. Yeah.

>> Mike: So apparently the yoga instructor was getting annoyed by all these damn goats walking around and everywhere.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: Fun fact. Laura's goat pissed on her mat.

>> Darin: Oh, my.

>> Mike: Before she used it. So they had to replace her mat with a, quote, non goat piss mat. As if all the goat yoga mats don't have goat urine all over Them. So they got a wink, wink clean mat and set it down and said goat. And there's video of the goat peeing on it. Bess was right there.

>> Darin: I could just hear it, you know.

>> Mike: When we went on our trip out west. God bless Best. She was right there with the phone to record video and, and pictures. Every time a major event happened, she was right there. And the goat pissing on Laura's mat was no difference. She got it. We've got it in stunning. 4K.


If you're going to do goat yoga, consult your physician first

The yoga session starts now. You have bought a ticket to goat yoga.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Your assumption is that the goat wrangler and the yoga person have planned this out.

>> Darin: They worked together.

>> Mike: You don't normally go to an activity worked in tandem and then bring a barnyard animal with you unannounced. There are rules. Yes, but according to Bess, the yoga started and then half the people were watching the goat. Or I'm sorry, half the people were watching the yoga instructor. and the other half of the people were watching these goats walk around everywhere and annoyed because the goat wrangler kept coming in and wrangling the goats. So at times when there was some, what do you call that? Synchronicity would be when they were doing a particular yoga pose in which the body is in a position which would create a natural plane, like downward, for the, for the goat to stand on.

>> Darin: Wait.

>> Mike: And then while you're in that position, the goat wrangler would pick up the nearest goat and place it on you.

>> Darin: Hey, what happened?

>> Mike: So now you're doing, you're doing.

>> Darin: Okay, I don't believe any.

>> Mike: You're doing the whatever. The Burmese falcon.

>> Darin: Hm.

>> Mike: With a, with a goat on your back.

>> Mike: And it's banging and all that stuff.

>> Darin: Please. If you're going to do goat yoga, consult your physician first.

>> Mike: And then they remove the goat and they go on to the next thing.

>> Darin: Can somebody please.

>> Mike: I mean, I'm not my goat. I'm not a zoologist.

>> Darin: No.

>> Mike: But I would think that there's far more plausible animals to use what is for this activity than a goat.

>> Darin: What? I understand what yoga is supposed to. Yoga is supposed to work your body physically and mentally.

>> Mike: Correct.

>> Darin: Or nor is it, what's it called when you sit there and you. You don't fall asleep, but you also. Meditation.

>> Mike: Yeah, meditation with a goat. Go on. You were about to make a point.

>> Darin: What is the goat supposed to bring to this?

>> Mike: Well, the reason the goat is there, is because it's called goat yoga and you can't have goat yoga if you don't have a goat there, I believe.

>> Darin: Yeah. That makes the most sense of anything you've said in quite some time.

>> Mike: So you may be saying, Mike, why isn't there sloth yoga or sheep yoga. Yeah, or dog. There is puppy yoga. I found that out. You can do puppy.

>> Darin: I understand that. No, I understand, like, because there are, you know, some people have. They bring dogs with them because they help them, in their. Their mental state. What's it called? A. A support animal.

>> Mike: Support.

>> Darin: They're a support. So are these support goats.

>> Mike: I don't think there's such a thing as a support goat.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: and clearly having a. An animal. A support animal that would pee on the item that you're about to use. Just a minute. Would be considered unsupported.

>> Darin: I can only imagine what that smelled like.

>> Mike: Really. You're the one supporting the goat.

>> Darin: That's true.

>> Mike: He's not supporting you. He's not doing a damn thing but walking around and soiling the area.


We did yoga with a goat. We had goat piss on our mat

So when you balance the two experiences, on the one hand, we're riding some of the most famous roller coasters in America, and on the other hand, you're doing yoga with a goat. With a goat.

>> Darin: Uh-huh. I wish I had been there for the end of the day. And how was your day? Oh, fine. We rode blank, blank, blank, blank, blank. We had a goat piss on our mat.

>> Mike: M. Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay. Who had the better day?

>> Mike: My favorite.

>> Darin: Every day you get pissed on by a goat.

>> Mike: My favorite comment of the whole thing was, you know, when we. When we were doing a debriefing of the events around the kitchen table, they mentioned that they had to get a new mat. And Jim just looked over at me sideways and he's like, oh, I'm sure that was a completely sterile clean.

>> Darin: Of course.

>> Mike: goat piss.

>> Darin: Having Matt reminds me of Letterman. Whenever they would do stupid pet tricks and they would open up and Dave would say, of course. It's just, you know, it's exhibition, not a contest. Please, no wagering. And of course, since there are pets here, you notice that they brought out the urine proof carpeting.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Dave: well, now we're having fun, aren't we?

>> Mike: I just.

>> Darin: I can't. I can't imagine the. The smell and the sound because. Were they laying on the ground when this happened?

>> Mike: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Darin: Did they get a backsplash?

>> Mike: I mean, it was so. I don't know if you guys noticed this, but it was hotter than hell.

>> Darin: It was stupid hot.

>> Mike: so, I mean, Everybody was sweaty. And then after the goat yoga extravaganza, we went to dinner because nothing works.

>> Darin: Up a hunger more than goat urine.

>> Mike: Yeah, there's. You wanna hear another I told you.

>> Darin: It'S already better than last week.

>> Mike: We. We also went to the Jungle gyms beer tasting.

>> Darin: I love Jungle gyms. Is a cool place.

>> Mike: It's an annual event and they give you a mug, a half size mug, and you go around these different vendors and you say, I want to try some of that. What is that?

>> Darin: it's a lot.

>> Mike: The John Wick Ale.

>> Darin: That's an ipa.

>> Mike: Yeah. And I noticed that they were pouring into Jim and Laura and Bess's mugs. They would pour like maybe an ounce or M less.

>> Mike: They filled mine at least halfway up every single vendor beer. And I wasn't the one. Like, I did. I did notice that I was getting at least three times more beer per vendor than anyone else.

>> Darin: Charlie, drive you guys home?

>> Mike: No, no, no, no. Well, we ubered over. We knew. We knew it was where. Yeah, yeah, that's smart.

>> Darin: You did something smart.

>> Mike: Yeah. But I got about halfway through and then Jim had noticed that. He's like, what do they. They think you're like a, like you own one of these breweries around here, they're trying to get on your good side or trying to.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Wean you over. Is that what you say? Weaning's a whole different.

>> Darin: Is when they cut you off, they want to woo you over, please, sir, no more goat urine tonight.

>> Mike: But I tell you, first I was like, this is pointless activity. But then about halfway through it, I noticed that some of these beers, they look like they would taste wonderful. And they did. And then other ones, I don't know how they have a license to put that stuff in containers. I know it tasted like. Like goat. Like goat urine through a yoga mat. Disgusting. But I digress.


We went to two Devo concerts, one in Cincinnati and one in Columbus

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: The other two activities were the two Devo concerts.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Two of them.

>> Darin: Yeah. And the reason we went to Devo twice, we mentioned this a few weeks ago, was that I heard Devo were coming to Cincinnati and I lost my mind because I've been a fan of Devo for 40 some years. Okay. Almost as long as they've been around. And I reached out to my. My buddy, my. My little brother here, Mike Odle, and I said, hey, you want to go see Devo? And he said, yeah. No, no, no, I don't. I said, okay, because I begged you to go to see Billy Idol with me, and I wasn't in the mood to beg him to go do an activity with me. So I reached out to my buddy Chris Newman, who loves concerts. hey, you want to go see Devo? He says, absolutely. So we get the tickets, and I mentioned it on Facebook. I said, I can't believe I'm going to see Devoid. And Mike calls me up, where are your tickets? and I told him. He says, oh, okay, we're sitting behind you. I'm like, what do you mean we? He goes, hey, I reached out to my brother in law. he and I are going to be sitting behind you. And I think Bess might be coming. And I think his, wife Laura might be coming. So it ended up being Mike and his wife Bess, Jim and Laura, and then me and my buddy Chris. So we're on like a triple date. Yeah, Two married couples, me and my buddy Chris Newman.

>> Mike: And see, back when, back when we got those tickets, I was going into Morgantown, by myself. It was for Jim Fancher's birthday.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: And, I blame the box wine for this. Laura had a box of wine.

>> Darin: Stop drinking.

>> Mike: Box freshly opened. And it might have been in the second, third glass. We realized that Devo is also coming to Columbus on the Friday before.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So the show we saw was on Tuesday.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: And the, the other show in Columbus was on the preceding Friday.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: So Jim said, I don't know, you want to go on, and go see Columbus? And I said, yeah, let's go see Columbus. Go to.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then we'd start talking about General Mission. Let's do General Mission. Do the whole thing. Ended up, you know, should I get Darren a ticket? Yeah, get Darren a ticket. He'll go.

>> Darin: Mike calls it, oh, we got you a ticket in Columbus, too.

>> Mike: Yeah. So it went, it went from, yeah, all right, we'll go see him on Tuesday. We'll sit behind Darren, too. Come on, we'll go meet you in Columbus on Friday. We'll do Devo. And then, you know, goat yoga followed from that.

>> Darin: I'm so glad that the Devo show didn't suck because. Really good, because then I'd have to sit through it twice.

>> Mike: Are we not men? We are Devo. Are we not man? Devi O.


So we went to Columbus. Columbus was the first concert. It was loud, I forgot earplugs

>> Darin: So we went to Columbus. Columbus was the first concert. And the people you would think would be in line for a Devo show or were the people in line at the dealership. We had the red energy domes. Those are the hats that look like, mop buckets. I don't know how to explain it. So we had the red hats. There was a girl, she had a purple mohawk that was like a foot tall off her head.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: She was a sweetheart. She had this tattoo on her calf of, Bob Devo.

>> Mike: And is she the one that they would not give a wristband to?

>> Darin: No, no, that was another lady.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: But the woman, the girl with the tattoo, I said I was creepy. I said, can I get a picture of your tattoo? Absolutely. Shit on these biker boots. That made her, like, six feet taller. but she was cool. And the other people in line were really cool. There was this woman in line, and they go through the line, and they say, if anybody's planning on buying alcohol, I need to see your ID and we'll give you a wristband. She did not have her ID with her, and he would not give her a wristband. And we're all like, seriously? She. She looks like she's. No offense, if you're listening, she looks like she's old enough to drink. Okay.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: and then some.

>> Mike: Yeah, okay.

>> Darin: But they wouldn't give her a wristband because she didn't have her id. And that was stupid, that. Anyway, so we. God, we got in line at 4:30. We didn't get in. They didn't let us into the show until 7:30.

>> Mike: And Jim. Jim is with Devo, like I am to you too. I was. I was proud of him.

>> Darin: We.

>> Mike: We raced to the rail. So we. We got. We got to the rail, which was a great place to be.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Yeah, it was fun.

>> Darin: Yeah. We were right in front of the speakers. It was so loud, I forgot earplugs. I'm so old. I mean, well, granted, for the past 10 or 15 years, every time I go to a concert, I wear earplugs because I don't want to lose my hearing. so I forgot earplugs, and I went into the bathroom. I got some tissue, and I'm stuffing tissue into my ear, and I accidentally stuffed it too hard into my right ear, and I couldn't get it out, and I. I was panicked. I actually started sweating a little bit because I'm like, I really want to get this out of my ear. And, And I was trying to be cool, and I was trying to, you know, enjoy the show and not freak out. I think I did pretty well. But after the concert, I'm driving back home to Cincinnati. It's like an hour and a half drive, and I, I couldn't find a place that Was open to buy a pair of tweezers. Anyway, I had this stuff jammed in my ear for almost three hours. You don't know how good hearing is until you pull tissue that's jammed in your ear out of your ear.

>> Mike: Did it come out in one go, or did you.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Were you afraid you were gonna jam through your eardrum?

>> Darin: well, I'm not gonna, you know, push the tweezers in.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: but no, I got it out. No problem.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Okay.


Mike had Irritable dad syndrome T shirt at a Devo show

So one of the things that happened at the Devo show in Columbus, Mike had on irritable, dad syndrome T shirt. And I said, hey, Mike, what's that T shirt you're wearing? Well, gosh, Darren, it's Irritable dad syndrome. Well, what's Irri. Dad syndrome, Mike? Irreligious is my podcast that you're a co host of. Wow. Why don't you tell me more about Irritable dad syndrome? We were being obnoxious and stupid.

>> Mike: Well.

>> Darin: And the couple next to us were laughing. They were having a really good time. They thought we were funny, and they. They downloaded the QR code on Mike's shirt, and then they checked out the podcast. Right. So we're talking to these people, this man and his wife, and she said to her husband, she says, hey, doesn't your friend whoever, have a podcast, too? And he says, yes, he does. And then she says, tell him the story about that guy's last name who wrote into the podcast. And he says, oh, okay. He says, I'll have to. I'll have to bring this up because I can't say his last name.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: I didn't know if it was a name that he just couldn't pronounce.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Turns out it's a word that you can't say.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And I can't say it on the podcast. This is a word that I never use. Somebody had written into this podcast and said whatever the comment was, and he signed his name Super. And then the N word.

>> Mike: What the hell did you just say? Super Nabisco.

>> Darin: Super Nabisco.

>> Mike: Okay. So.

>> Darin: And they're like, you see why we can't say the name? I'm like, oh, that does make sense.

>> Mike: I feel like I've matured in my marketing abilities because if you. If everyone remember, had it been a few years ago, my response to, hey, what's your shirt? Would, be, it's just a shirt.

>> Darin: Yeah. Yeah.

>> Mike: And then I give you a dirty look.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And then just turn around and ignore you the rest of the night. But. But that night I actually helped. I did a little bit of marketing there. Something that annoyed me during the show was that I felt like somebody put a heavy blanket on me at one point. Like something came, like, onto my back. And then I look and there's a phone right next to my face. And I look back and there's a woman on me, like, draped over me with her arm like this. And she says, I just need to record this song.

>> Darin: Well, you don't have to.

>> Mike: You don't have to be on me to do that. So I thought she had stumbled.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: And she was trying to get herself back to normal position. Like, not on me.

>> Darin: No, she's just blanketing you the entire song.

>> Mike: And I was just like. It was. I was extremely uncomfortable. And I looked back and I think she was maybe four, five or something. Like, she was short. So I get it. She needed to, like, be up, oh.

>> Darin: Four or five feet tall.

>> Mike: No, not age. Like tall. Good God. But I. I looked at her and she was. She was with somebody else. I think it was some guy. And I looked at him and they were just like, nothing had happened.

>> Darin: Like what? Like she's recording a song. Dude.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Chill.

>> Mike: But I see tons of concerts and, you know, I think people know by now I'm a Tool fan. And I've told enough stories about Tool where you're not allowed to have your phone out and all that stuff. I'm a bit more sensitive, I think, to phones being out because of that than I normally would be.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: But I've always been of the opinion you do what you want to with your phone during the show. It's your phone.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: You know, as long as you're not actively annoying someone else. And I've always thought, what would be my cutoff point to where I'm being actively annoyed and the person needs to stop and that's it.

>> Darin: That's it.

>> Mike: When you become a cape for another person, you have crossed.

>> Darin: You've crossed a line back up.


Jim: Prepare me for Devo and what I was going to see

Yeah. Devo were just amazing.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Absolutely amazing.

>> Mike: I caught some of their balls.

>> Darin: That's right. I caught some of their balls too.

>> Mike: They throw balls out.

>> Darin: Mark Mothersbaugh, at the end of the show, reached into his pants.

>> Mike: Hello.

>> Darin: And started throwing all these bouncy balls.

>> Mike: He reached into his pants and threw his balls out.

>> Darin: He did.

>> Mike: We caught him.

>> Darin: Yeah. so I have two of his balls.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: he did that as the character Boogie Boy, which is the answer to the question, how can we ruin this song? And this Show.

>> Darin: They ended with Beautiful World. Okay.

>> Mike: Which is amazing.

>> Darin: It's in a. It's a great song. It's off the album. New Traditionalists. It's one of my favorite Devo songs. So he. Mark had walked off stage, and, the bass player, Jerry, starts singing, and, he sings the first verse of Beautiful World, and then out walks Boogie Boy. Okay. Boogie Boy is in this weird costume. The costume look like, what you'd put on Jiminy Glick. Yeah.

>> Mike: And it's a. And Jim showed me a bunch of videos, and we'll talk about that here in a minute. Over the weekend, too. Prepare me for Devo and what I was going to see the second. Explain what I had seen on Friday, and prepare me for the. The viewing on Tuesday. And I loved it. It was great. But, before those viewings, during those viewings and after those viewings and after the second concert, my opinion stays the same. Boogie Boy's got to go.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's a beautiful. No. So he sings the whole rest of the song, like that thing, and then stops and has. And I'm allowed to say this as a YouTube fan, one of those Bono moments where every YouTube fan knows the music school, and all of a sudden, Bono says, you know. And then half the YouTube fans go, Ah, here we go.

>> Darin: So it's monologue. Yeah, here we go. Yep. Started monologuing and.

>> Mike: And it. But he does it as Boogie Boy, and he's, you know.

>> Darin: Imagine sounded like a ventriloquist puppet.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: If you like the Devo show, it's great.

>> Mike: Imagine going to see Devo and then having Mickey Mouse lecture you.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: On the state of the world.

>> Darin: Yes.

>> Mike: today. And then it just keeps going and going for an uncomfortably long. Yeah. It's. It's long enough. And I'm not kidding, it's long enough to where you're like, okay, I. I was on board, but you really, like. I. I'm having trouble understanding you.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Besides the fact that you sound like Mickey Mouse on Blue Method, you're doing it behind a mask in a concert.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: With all kinds of other sounds going on.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Plus, anyone around me was hearing me go, oh, my God, make it stop.

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

>> Mike: Right next to them.

>> Darin: I was like, what is going on?

>> Mike: So then I look over at Jim, because I was right next to him in, Cincinnati, and he's grinning, and every time I look over, and he just busts out laughing.

>> Darin: He's having the time of his life.

>> Mike: And at the end of the show. He told me. He's like, you know, a lot of Devo stuff is about, you know, suffering. And he's like, some of it, he's like, for old school fans like me, seeing someone suffer during one of their shows is. It just enhances the experience. And I. I said, okay, okay, okay.

>> Darin: Okay, okay.


So the Columbus show, they screwed up. Can't get no Satisfaction. And they had some sound issues

So the Columbus show, they screwed up. Can't get no Satisfaction.

>> Mike: And they had some sound issues.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: Which we never have.

>> Darin: No. Ever. Never ever. So they were getting ready to do I Can't get no Satisfaction, which is a cover of the song by the Rolling Stones. And they devo it up. And Mark Mothersball was about half a. Half a chorus ahead of the band. I don't know that he could hear them or what, but I didn't know what they were doing, and that was weird. And I thought, why did. Why did you guys do that to that song? Had to have been a mistake, because in Cincinnati, it sounded fantastic. So something about the Cincinnati show. We had dinner for the show, then we went to the concert, and the concert was great. I think the concert sounded better in Cincinnati.

>> Mike: It did. Very much better. The Andrew J. Brady venue. Such a second show I've seen there and in there. The sound quality is fantastic.

>> Darin: Ah.

>> Mike: And the visuals. The reds in those videos really popped. Yeah.

>> Darin: But. So we went to see them in Cincinnati and we drove home. I went to bed. I woke up the next morning, and my left eye is swollen. Like, I thought I might have had a sty in my eye, but I don't see any bump or anything.

>> Mike: You got the Boogie Boys.

>> Darin: And then I was afraid that I. I woke up and I thought, oh, crap. I think Devo gave me pink eye.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And my wife is a nurse. And so I go in, I'm like, honey, I think Devo gave me pink eye. And she says, why would you think Devo would give you pink eye?

>> Mike: They just whipped it right in there.

>> Darin: But I think they whipped it. They whipped it good. And I think Devo gave me pink eye. And she looked. And she didn't notice any, gooey crap coming out of my eye. And the white parts of my eye were white and not pink. And she says, honey, I don't think Devo gave you pink eye. I said, okay, so we're good. My left eye is still blurry, and the swelling is going down. But, I thought Devo gave me pink eye.

>> Mike: I think Devo might have given you pink eye.

>> Darin: I'm glad they didn't.


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>> Mike: Hello.

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On the way home from the Columbus show, I was starving

Now back to the show.

>> Mike: On the way home from the Columbus show, I decided I, was going to go through some fast, food joint. And I didn't. I actually just stopped at a gas station and I thought, what's the harm in just getting some snacks, right? And then just go home and go to bed. The problem is, is that when you're hungry after seeing Devo and you walk into a gas station and you don't care, you, ah, can do some horrible things.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: So I got some gummy bears, some Reese's cups, some combos, Doritos.

>> Darin: Mike.

>> Mike: and a monster energy drink.

>> Darin: Are you serious?

>> Mike: And a water.

>> Darin: I heard your dad went into a restaurant and ate everything in the restaurant. And they had to close the restaurant.

>> Mike: Restaurant. And I got halfway through.

>> Darin: That's enough snacks for Devo.

>> Mike: When I say Reese's, I don't mean the 2 cup pansy version. I'm talking the 6 cup mega king version. And I ate until it became glaringly obvious that I should stop.

>> Darin: You're like Louis ck. You eat until you hate yourself. Well, on my way home, I was starving. Every time I passed an exit, they had a place that had, like, a McDonald's. And I wasn't craving McDonald's. I wanted. I really wanted something else. So I'm driving and then I think I passed all the exits that had restaurants because I got nervous. I'm like, going 10, 15 miles and nothing. and I finally find a place that has an Arby's.

>> Mike: They got the meats.

>> Darin: Yes. I'm so hungry, I could eat at Arby's. Oh, my God. I'm like, okay, so I, pull off and I'm getting ready to go into this Arby's, when lo and behold, there to the left of Arby's is a sheetz. Holy mother of God. If you've never been to sheets, sheets gives Buc EE's a run for their money. Because you can go into a Sheetz and you can order almost anything, and they make it for you back there in their kitchen. You go to what's called, the kids called a kiosk. Okay? You go to the kiosk and you punch in what you wanted. I ordered a bagel breakfast sandwich with, with egg, with cheese, with a sausage patty and with a tomato. And then they said, do you want tater Tots on the side? Hell, yeah, I want tater Tots on the side. And I could have put them on the burger on the thing, but I was like, no, I'm gonna eat them because I don't want to unhinge my jaw to eat this thing. it took like five or 10 minutes or whatever to get it. Oh, my Lord. I couldn't eat it fast enough. And I'm sitting there like this pig scarfing it down. But at least I didn't get gummy bears. Reese Cups, Combos, Doritos.

>> Mike: Yeah. If you've never been to a sheets, I'll back up what Darren is saying. They have a menu that includes everything.

>> Darin: Yeah. You can get a burrito, a burger, a hot dog. You can get breakfast.

>> Mike: Nachos.

>> Darin: Yeah, Sandwiches. Load the nachos up.

>> Mike: pasta, hot dogs. Like when I say they have a menu that has everything.

>> Darin: They have everything.

>> Mike: Those Coke, in the movie theaters, they have them now where it's like one big Coke machine. And you can. Any combination of Coke you can make. And you're like, how do they do this all in one machine? They have that at the AMC theater.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: It's like this at the sheets you go in, you're like, it's food from a gas station. Yeah, right. They've got your normal gas station stuff, and then they've got what looks like a small kitchen. And you look at it like you can't possibly order an egg McMuffin, a hot dog.

>> Darin: A burrito.

>> Mike: A burrito. And a baked potato and spaghetti at the same time, can you? Oh, yes. Yes, you can. And you'll have it within 3m minutes.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It's eerie.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And when I say a burrito, I don't mean just touch a burrito. Do you want it on a tortilla? Do you want it on a corn tortilla? A flour tortilla? Do you want sour cream? Do you want rice?

>> Darin: What kind of rice do you want guacamole?

>> Mike: Do you want this chicken? Do you want that chicken? Do you want salsa?

>> Darin: Hot or mild sauce?

>> Mike: Barbacoa rice? Salsa. Hot salsa?


Mike: You can still put tots in your burrito

Medium salsa, light salsa, cilantro. Would you like some pepper?

>> Darin: Garlic?

>> Mike: Would you like some chutney? Do you want some oregano?

>> Darin: Do you want black beans?

>> Mike: Do you want some kale in your damn burrito? Anything that you think you could get, they have it there.

>> Darin: That's right.

>> Mike: Tater tots.

>> Darin: And you can put your tater tots in your burrito.

>> Mike: They actually ask you twice.

>> Darin: Uh-huh.

>> Mike: If you want tots on your burrito.

>> Darin: Are you sure you don't want it on the burrito?

>> Mike: Yeah, it was an option when you went through. And you're like, there's no way in hell. I just saw tots as an option for my burrito.

>> Darin: But as soon as you pass, they come back around.

>> Mike: It's like, did you know that you could have had tots?

>> Darin: You can still put tots in the burrito. And you're like, maybe I do want tots in my.

>> Mike: You think you only live once.

>> Darin: How you don't live until you go to she.

>> Mike: How many places are you ever going to be in your life where you can put tots on a burrito?

>> Darin: Not many.

>> Mike: every gas station in West Virginia, apparently, because they're all over. I gotta go check on the meatballs.

>> Darin: Let me summarize.

>> Mike: Go to sheets.

>> Darin: You gotta go to sheets. Yeah, go to sheets.

>> Mike: Go to sheets to get to sheets.

>> Darin: Don't say that.

>> Mike: Well, that's. That's what it says on one of the side of their trucks.

>> Darin: Hey, do you remember a couple weeks ago or a month ago when I said you can't take somebody seriously who uses the word besmirch? Do you remember that, Mike?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay, well, there's another word. It was a news source, a local news source. And they said this bear had been extirpated.

>> Mike: And I'm like, is it legal in Ohio?

>> Darin: It had been. What? And so I. My actual comment was, let me go to dictionary.com and then I'll read the.

>> Mike: Rest of your circumcision with a can opener.

>> Darin: No, no.

>> Mike: Extirpate means I was constipated, but now I'm extirpating.

>> Darin: Extirpation is the complete disappearance, elimination of a state species. Okay. And so I don't think it's conversational at all to say this bear was almost extirpated.

>> Mike: So extirpated is not when you're really, really constipated. No, I'm not just constipated. I'm extirpated.

>> Darin: No, you're extirpated.

>> Dave: you are Listening to Irritable dad Syndrome, Cincinnati's comedy podcast, that is without.

>> Darin: Question the funniest story I've ever heard. So my mom had somebody come and clean out all her. Clean out the side of her house and all her gardens and her bushes and her shrubs and. And they mulched and they pulled out all the weeds and they cleaned up everything, and her yard looked amazing. And then, like, two or three weeks later, she had a bunch of new weeds grow up. And so Cameron went over there and helped her, and he pulled all the. The new weeds. And mom was like, what do I got to do to stop these weeds? And so I went online and I'm looking at weed killers and went, to Tractor Supply and looked at one of their most popular weed killers. And then I went and I looked at the reviews for this weed killer, and here is, in exact words, this is what customers like. It's an effective weed killer. Quick results, easy to use, no strong odor, convenient battery operated sprayer.

>> Mike: What more could you possibly want?

>> Darin: This is what customers dislike.

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: Heaviness of the sprayer, ineffective on crabgrass. Sprayer issues, lack of noticeable results, and a lingering smell.

>> Mike: It's like the opposite.

>> Darin: So, so they like that it's an effective weed killer, but they don't like that it's ineffective on crabgrass.

>> Mike: And it has.

>> Darin: They like that it's easy to use, but they don't like that it has sprayer issues. They like that there's no strong odor, but they don't like the lingering smell. Yeah, like, what the hell?

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: What would you like about Irritable Dad Syndrome? We like the show because it's really funny, but you won't like it because the guys aren't funny.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Really.

>> Mike: I mean, on an episode by episode basis, both statements are true.

>> Darin: That's. Yeah, that's true.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Pick and choose.


My dad convinced me that David Bowie's name was pronounced David Bowie

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>> Darin: SiriusXM Channel 6, which is pop Rocks, which is great music from the 90s and the 2000s. There was a popular artist who they called Lady Gaga.

>> Mike: Gaga.

>> Darin: I'm like, really? You, called her Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga.

>> Mike: My, my dad convinced me that David Bowie's name was pronounced David Bowie.

>> Darin: Bowie.

>> Mike: For a long time.

>> Darin: David Bowie.

>> Mike: I was a small, marginally stupid little kid, and I. I didn't know any better because who. Whomst amongst, any. Anybody that I talked to would ever use that word.

>> Darin: Buoy. And he invented the buoy knife.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: and it wasn't even up until A couple years ago, I was like, does he even know to how to say his own name? Because you never really heard him on interviews say his own name. He's like, I'm David Bowie.

>> Darin: No, no, you sound exactly like him.

>> Mike: He was eerie. He's always talking about music and all this other stuff, but you never hear him talk about himself in the third person.

>> Darin: David Bowie doesn't like this, which I.

>> Mike: Would love, by the way. I would absolutely love to hear him do that. But.

>> Darin: Well, it's.

>> Mike: It can't. Yeah, it'd be really creepy to hear him say that now. But the point is, is rest in peace, David Bowie. Yeah.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: It really made me question everything that I learned as a kid. Like what?

>> Darin: Well, your dad tells you something, of course you're going to believe him.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Dad told me his name is David Bowie.

>> Mike: Yeah, Well, I remember arguing with him and I was. I was like. I said I was just a little dumb. Dumb little kid.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: I was like, that's. People don't say it that way. And he's like, well, that's the way you say it.

>> Darin: Yeah. Okay.


You like to do things to piss people off on the Internet

Okay. I've mentioned before that I like to do things to piss people off on the Internet, to rouse their attention.

>> Mike: And you're good at it.

>> Darin: Thank you very much. You've gotten pretty good at it, too. something that you mentioned. We posted a video three or four weeks ago where Mike is talking about how he likes to put pepper on his sand.

>> Mike: A 20 second video. And the whole point of the video is not the pepper. The point that I thought was hilarious. The reason I put it up there is because I make a statement and look at you for confirmation and you completely disagree with me. Yeah. And it's just right.

>> Darin: Dead right. And Mike's like that topic. I like to put pepper on my sandwich. And pepper's economy.

>> Dave: Right.

>> Darin: Don't you think?

>> Mike: Pepper, it's an ingredient. Isn't a condiment an ingredient after the fact? I thought that was an astute observation.

>> Darin: Right. You said it's, And I said, I don't know. It's not. Right. Well, this guy chimes in. His exact words are, pepper is a spice, not a condiment.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: Genius.

>> Mike: I crafted the perfect response to him. And as soon as I posted it, I thought, ah, maybe that was a little too harsh. He was on the Tiktoks.

>> Darin: It was on the Tiktoks.

>> Mike: TikTok. In their infinite wisdom, I guess they decided to lose my comment in the ether.

>> Darin: Oh.

>> Mike: But I called him a, brainiac in My response, yeah, but so I.

>> Darin: Was thrilled because usually the trolls come after me and this time they came after you.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: something else I commented on. There's this great video of this, I think it's a guy and he's laying on the ground and there's all these mountains and stuff. This animal, it's a prairie dog. Okay, I know what it is. This prairie dog walks up and climbs between this guy's legs, right? And then he's like trying. The dude is trying to pet the prairie dog. Okay. And my comment was, you better watch out and make sure that rabbit doesn't bite you in your. No, no. Region. I don't think so. And you would not believe how many people commented, rabbit, question mark. And then do you really think it's a rabbit or are you that stupid? And then there's, I don't think that's a rabbit. And then there's since when is that a rabbit?

>> Mike: Okay.

>> Darin: And then there's, dude, that's a prairie dog, not a rabbit. And then somebody says, I thought it was a marmot.

>> Mike: A marmot, yeah.

>> Darin: And then the only other person corrected me was, actually, that's a yes, yes. Region.

>> Mike: Oh.

>> Darin: And then someone says, do you really think it's a rabbit or are you that stupid? To which I replied, never underestimate me.

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: So that was fun. But I mentioned at the beginning of.

>> Mike: The podcast, Let me. If I, if I may, if I may.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: There was, there was one time you got me with one of those.

>> Mike: I posted a picture of pink.

>> Mike: And it was one of those, like, this isn't the right picture, and claimed it was Billy Idol. and then you made a comment on it, just ignoring completely that it was pink. And I was like, ah, that's pink. And you're like, I, know. And I felt like such a dip.

>> Darin: Because I made another joke. Yeah, because you made a joke. I commented with another joke that you didn't get. So you thought I didn't get your joke.

>> Mike: That's right, yeah. yeah. And I will tell you if you're ever wondering if it actually pisses the other person off. It does. It does. It does.

>> Darin: It does.

>> Mike: It makes them feel a little, a little smaller.

>> Darin: Yeah. I teased at the beginning of the podcast that I did something that went viral kinda on TikTok. This may pop up in your algorithm, but have you seen those videos where the people take the clear plastic stuff and push it through the press?


A question about color changes on YouTube has gotten over 3000 likes

>> Mike: Yeah, yeah. Rolls it through and it makes it changes the color.

>> Darin: Yeah, they, they'll put two or three colors in it and then it's like what color will it turn out to be? Right. And so there's one where it's, it looks like it's white and there's this little, little, very small speck of black that they put in the middle.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: It pushes through and they roll it up and they push it through again. Roll. It pushes again. I'll be damned if that little 5% square of black didn't change the whole thing to black.

>> Mike: Yeah.

>> Darin: And my question was how did that one little piece of color change the whole thing? And it didn't make it like a faded black. It made it like a dark, dark black. And that question has gotten over 3000 likes and there's nothing entertaining or funny, unusual, interesting, nothing about that comment, but 3,122 people have commented on that. We have liked it.

>> Mike: We really don't understand the comments or anything because we will post a video that I think is going to be the ultimate that something has me giggling and cackling and we'll get marginal views and then I'll just post something random. Something that has no beginning, no middle or end. Just random fluff from one of us and we'll get thousands and thousands of views.

>> Darin: Yeah.

>> Mike: And I don't know why I know. I do not know why I know.

>> Darin: I can't figure out what the.

>> Mike: I thought it was because of who were mentioning because on occasion it's been. When we talked about AC DC M it skyrockets. So then I told Darren this past weekend we, we have a snippet of one of our shows where person is singing like Johnny Cash singing Dio. And I told Darren just a couple days ago, Johnny Cash. This is going to be the video that goes crazy.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: Because we always do well with Johnny Cash. This is going to add in Dio.

>> Mike: It's gonna be great.

>> Darin: Yep.

>> Mike: Nothing crickets.

>> Darin: We can't find the rhyme or reason behind what's going on. And it's like it kills me because I'll put, when we release an audio episode, I will put five or six hours into crafting that 45 minute to an hourong episode. Right. And then you know, we get however many downloads that we get. But then I mentioned, hey, how did that change the whole color of it? And 3,000 people like it? Like I. I don't know.


My son Cameron works at a Culver's drive through

>> Dave: Time now for the Culver's story of the week.

>> Darin: I mentioned a few weeks ago that my son Cameron works at Culver's now. and Cameron goes out and his job is to bring people food to go through the drive through. He comes home and says, dad, you won't believe who I saw in the drive through today. And I'm thinking, David Bowie. it would be a goat peeing on a mat. No, he said that a guy comes through the drive through and he has a collar around his neck that has a bunch of bells on it. Did you ask him if people were tired of him sneaking up on them? And he said, I didn't think about that. I said, dude, you need to start calling me. You see something like, dad.

>> Mike: Ah, this is the situation I'm rolling up on. M. Exactly what's a good thing to say?

>> Darin: I need to call dad for a comeback here.

>> Mike: So as many Chick Fil A stories as I have, I think the next time I go through Chick Fil A, when they ask me, because I've noticed on the mobile, when you do a mobile app order, they ask you if there's anything else you like. And I always say no, because there's nothing else that I would like. I've already taken care of all that business on the app. That's why I do that. So I don't have to talk to somebody. But your son.

>> Mike: His story that we featured on our podcast a few weeks ago gave me the perfect answer to that is, no. Maybe a fat girl to keep me warm.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: I could ask for that.

>> Darin: Good.


This week's episode was marginally better than last week's. I think we barely crossed that threshold

>> Dave: This has been the Culver's story of the week.

>> Darin: Guys, we're gonna go. You know, I promised that this episode would be better than last week's. I think it was marginally pretty good. Marginally. I think we barely crossed that threshold. So, hey, we want you to go to irritable dad syndrome.com and we also want you to go, if you, if you watch our videos on TikTok or Instagram, YouTube Reels, please like those and share those and help us get the word out. We'd really appreciate that. If you want to become a patron, if you want to help, us out financially, you can do that by going to irritable-center.com go to Patreon. Right. Hey, I mentioned Dave Lay. If you want to reach out and send him a get well message, you can certainly do that. So all those things to do, that's your homework for next week. And speaking of next week, we hope to see you next week. Bo on Irritable Dad Syndrome.

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

>> Darin: Last week's episode was one of those. It's almost like an ugly dog. It's so ugly that it's cute. I was trying to tell a story for the cold open, but that's.

>> Mike: Oh, oh, go ahead, go ahead.

>> Darin: Okay. No, I'm not in the mood now.

>> Mike: Okay. Best and I. I think we took a picture of it. I got the sheets. Sheets or something like that. It's beautiful. And we said it. And then we all laughed at how stupid an idea that was. Did they do whip it? Yes, they did whip it. Yeah.

>> Darin: Okay.

>> Mike: You know, it's. It's a good prophylactic measure, Darren. That means covering a penis.

>> Darin: I. I know what prophylactic means.

>> Mike: On Wednesday, the constipated bear was extirpated.

>> Darin: Yeah. I went to the pharmacy and they asked what's a good address? Just ask me my address.

>> Mike: Mikey had to go pot cuz it was a separate venue. And I said yeah, but I. I just need to go pot. Pot. And they said, well, we can scan your ticket. Did you tell them you needed to go pot? Yeah, well, I don't.

>> Darin: I got to go winky.

>> Mike: Let it go potty pot. So. And they said, well, you can come in, but you can't leave.

>> Darin: That sounds like a prisoner. Yeah, you know, thing that you say.

>> Mike: I'm just saying I've seen this movie before.

>> Darin: Right.

>> Mike: And it ends with me at the bottom of a well with a dog and a basket with lotion. And I, I said nay. Right. So I went, I went, I went back over to the crew.


I'd like one of our listeners to find if there's ever been a coherent story

I'd like one of our listeners to actually find if there's ever been a time that I've told a coherent story from beginning to end. Like you had a start, a middle with some conflict and a villain and all that. A hero's arc to the end.

>> Darin: I think you did with the buying your mother in law birthday years ago. Golden eagle birthday.

>> Mike: Been downhill ever since.

>> Darin: And I've gotta work around it very strategically. So hang, on to that. Hang on to that. The hell does that mean?

>> Mike: I don't know. Yeah, yeah.

>> Darin: Irritable dad syndrome is a Darren Cox my codal production.

>> Mike: It's been a good.