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Mike and Darin tackle airport chaos, Metallica, the State Fair of Texas, mint chocolate chip, Biscoff cookies, Supergirl, The Backrooms, The Blair Witch Project, and more—plus a musical tribute to Bo Bradley of Vibraflux.

Let the Bodies Hit the Floor... What a Great Song!

Mike and His Wife Have the Glare

Darin Went to the State Fair of Texas in Dallas

What Not to Say in Line for Security at the Airport

You People Who Complain When Others Stand Up After the Plane Lands Need to Calm Down

Who’s Metallica Talking to About Getting Political?

RJ Mitte Was a Great Guy, and May He Rest in Peace

Biscoff Cookies Have a Lot of Timbre, and We Might Be Using That Word Incorrectly

Mint Chocolate Chip Is Mint for Vikings!

Charlie’s Team Won a Track Meet

Denny’s Waitress Loves 57 Sauce

Another Installment of “How Stupid Is Darin?”

Changing Gates 4 Times at the Airport

Supergirl Sucks

The Backrooms Was Weird

The Blair Witch Project Was Not a True Story

RIP Bo Bradley of Vibraflux

Wow... The Bloopers

Musical Tribute to Vibraflux

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Mike and Darin discuss Metallica at Sphere, golf, My Sharona, Resident Evil, parenting voices, Halloween costumes, stubborn car doors, and proper etiquette when encountering a man with a parrot. Plus, Irritable Dad Syndrome welcomes a brand-new sponsor!

Our Thoughts on Metallica at Sphere

Irritable Dad Syndrome Has a Brand-New Sponsor!

Rowan Atkinson Is Not Dead

Mike Encouraged His Kid to Run Into Traffic

Turns Out the Guys Have Something Else in Common… Golf

Darin Learned Something New About His Favorite Song, “My Sharona”

Resident Evil Is as Long as It Needs to Be

Special Thanks to Steve Young for Contributing to a Comedy Segment

What Would You Say if You Saw a Guy at the Store With a Parrot?

How Effective Is Your Stern Voice With the Kids?

Good and Bad Halloween Costumes From Years Past

Why Is It So Hard to Lock a Car Door?

Bloopers

#IrritableDadSyndrome #ComedyPodcast #Metallica #SphereLasVegas #RowanAtkinson #MySharona #ResidentEvil #Halloween

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Mike and Darin explore Rush fandom, Star Wars, the Coen brothers, The Wizard of Oz at Sphere, unusual retirement plans, and the least sophisticated wine glass imaginable. Plus: Dave Lay’s crazy quilt, IDS fan art, plushie dolls, bathroom attendants, equal waffles, beets, and Uhhhh Volume 2!

Dave Lay Talks About His Granny’s Crazy Quilt

Are We Mike and Darin or Cricket and Tabbs?

Mike Read the Star Wars Book

When the Guys First Got Into Rush

The Equal Waffle Act of 2026

Kyle Slingo Made His Own IDS Fan Art

Repeat — Hey, You Wanna Touch My Beets?

Irritable Dad Syndrome Pull-String Plushie Dolls

We Don’t Need Bathroom Attendants

Deep Dive Into the Coen Brothers’ Filmography

Mike’s Unusual Plan for Retirement

Drinking Wine Out of a Swisher Cup

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere

Uhhhh Volume 2

#IrritableDadSyndrome #ComedyPodcast #Rush #StarWars #CoenBrothers #WizardOfOz #SphereLasVegas #PodcastComedy

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Mike and Darin celebrate U2’s 50th anniversary, consider taking Irritable Dad Syndrome live to Sphere, and debate bands touring without any original members. Plus: glasses, U-Haul rage, cross-country fees, office football talk, Conan and Jordan, Toy Story 5, questionable movies, classic jokes, and bloopers!

Do Wearing Glasses Make You Look Smart?

Mike Cussed Out the U-Haul Guy

Best Medicine Is Named That for a Reason

Mike Had to Pay Extra to Watch His Kid Run Cross Country

Darin Misses Talking Football at the Office

Conan and Jordan

Send Help

Toy Story 5 Was Better Than Toy Story 4

The Water Cooler Joke

Groups That Tour With Zero Original Members

Happy 50th Anniversary to U2!

Should Irritable Dad Syndrome Do a Show at Sphere?

Bloopers

#IrritableDadSyndrome #ComedyPodcast #U2 #SphereLasVegas #ConanOBrien #JordanSchlansky #ToyStory5 #PodcastComedy

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Mike and Darin celebrate fall by complaining about it, dive into Fat Bear Week, defend Rush’s new drummer, mark U2’s 50th anniversary, and reveal questionable plans for retirement. Plus: Emerson Drive, forgotten coffee creamer, bad movies, dancing celebrities, invading mice, and bloopers!

It’s Fall and the Guys Think It Sucks

The Time Darin Worked on a Video for Emerson Drive

Darin Forgot Libby’s Coffee Creamer

Fat Bear Week

Move Bitch!

They Should Make a Celebrity Version of Dancing With the Stars

Somebody Else Picked a Bad Movie This Week

U2’s 50th Anniversary

Stop Bitching About Rush’s New Drummer

Mike’s Plans for After Retirement

Darin vs. the Mice

Bloopers

#IrritableDadSyndrome #ComedyPodcast #FatBearWeek #Rush #U2 #DancingWithTheStars #EmersonDrive #PodcastComedy

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Mike and Darin tackle toilet-paper pranks, expensive saxophones, Swingline staplers, Stephen Root’s Emmy win, Halloween, Whalefall, concert-ticket frustration, neighborhood troublemakers, telemarketers, and one very unhappy diet.

Mike Changed His Name to Mickey Cricket

Was Halloween Really That Great a Movie?

Congrats to Stephen Root on His Emmy Win!

Darin’s on a Diet and Not Happy About It

Mike Isn’t as Good a Runner as He Thought

Wompers All Beef Foot Long Hot Dogs Has a Brand-New Product!

Darin Hates Buying Concert Tickets Online

Our Saxophone Just Got a Couple Hundred Dollars More Expensive

Whalefall Looks Like a Great Movie

Kids in Darin’s Neighborhood Got Busted Ding-Dong-Ditching Houses

Darin Shares a Legendary Story About Toilet-Papering a House Back in His Punk Days

UDF Employee Who Couldn’t Care Less About His Job

How Mike Handles Dealing With Telemarketers

#IrritableDadSyndrome #ComedyPodcast #StephenRoot #SwinglineStapler #DoorbellCamera #Whalefall #CollectiveSoul

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This week, Mike and Darin explore topics never before discussed on this podcast—or possibly any podcast. From putting a diaper on a dog and returning an Amazon book to Labor Day massages, disruptive concertgoers, risqué Hanes commercials, Egyptian pyramid theories, fighting chimpanzees, and public restroom etiquette, Episode 326 boldly goes where absolutely no one asked it to go.

Mike Feels Like a Karen for Returning a Book to Amazon

Darin Got Rubbed a Lot on Labor Day… and Not in a Good Way

Can You People Who Yap All the Time Shut the Hell Up During Concerts?

Darin’s Son Loves What We Do That Separates Us From Other Podcasts

Hanes Has Gotten a Little Too Risqué With Their Commercials

Mike Has Two Theories About Why the Egyptians Built the Pyramids

Should a Man Be Allowed to Fight a Chimpanzee?

Should a Man Be Allowed to Tell Other Men Which Urinal to Use in a Public Restroom?

#IrritableDadSyndrome #ComedyPodcast #DungeonCrawlerCarl #MichaelJackson #Hanes #PyramidTheories #FightingChimps #Urinals

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Mike and Darin break down their Rush concert experience, review Blind Date and Night Shift, debate emoji etiquette, and unveil Vanilla Ice Pest Control. Plus: grocery store chaos, Phineas and Ferb, suspicious flirting, fruit-related filth, and bloopers!

White Water Rafting With Keanu Reeves

Last Week's Audio Was Really Bad

2 Movie Reviews - Blind Date & Night Shift

Everything You Need to Know About Seeing Rush in Concert

Inappropriate Times to Send Emojis

Should You Be Arrested for Not Letting Your Kids Watch Phineas and Ferb?

They Need to Stop Rearranging Grocery Stores

Vanilla Ice Pest Control

A Mighty Wind

Mike Goes Blue Talking About Bananas and Apples

A Woman Was Flirting With Darin

Bloopers!

#IrritableDadSyndrome #ComedyPodcast #Rush #VanillaIce #MovieReviews #PhineasAndFerb #PodcastComedy

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Mike and Darin take Irritable Dad Syndrome on the road for a very special—and very questionable-sounding—episode recorded while driving to Detroit to see Rush. Along the way, they stop for gas-station cuisine and somehow find time to discuss celebrity deaths, puppy yoga, prescription apps, Transformers and John Larroquette.

The audio may be rough. The food may have been rougher. But for the die-hard IDS fans, Welcome to Wapakoneta!

This episode is for the die hard fans. Mike and Darin were driving to Detroit to see Rush and decided to record an episode on the road. The audio quality is almost as bad as the food they ate at the gas station on the way there.

The boys discuss, among other things, the sad deaths of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, puppy yoga, paying for prescriptions with an app, how to know if your car is not a Transformer and for some reason, John Larroquette.

Again, we acknowledge that the audio quality isn't great and we apologize. Please forgive us, enjoy this episode and give us another chance next week.

Sincerely,

Mike, Darin and Dave

#IrritableDadSyndrome #Rush #DollyParton #TimCurry #Wapakoneta #ComedyPodcast #FunnyPodcast #DadHumor #GenXHumor #RoadTrip #Detroit #PuppyYoga #JohnLarroquette

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Mike and Darin are dealing with kids moving out, social media going nuts, mysterious Lyft drivers, Kia paperwork, monkey waste—and the horrifying realization that some of us may have reached the age where the Macarena is simply too physically demanding.

Episode 323 of Irritable Dad Syndrome delivers another round of Gen X comedy, dad humor, music, movies, family life, and everyday situations that somehow become much more complicated than they need to be.

This week on Irritable Dad Syndrome:

•  Why does Mike not talk during the podcast? 
•  Great things about our older episodes 
•  Mike's son and Darin's son both moved out 
•  Too fat to Macarena 
•  Microcenter employees 
•  Dave Lay goes to the movies 
•  Recycling monkey waste 
•  Hey @$$hole 
•  Mike's Facebook page has gone nuts 
•  Trying to get the title for our Kia 
•  Mike and Mario, the mysterious Lyft driver 
•  Rush, the Eagles, Collective Soul and U2 
•  Spiderman, The Odyssey and The Empire Strikes Back 
•  Bloopers! 

#IrritableDadSyndrome #TooFatToMacarena #ComedyPodcast #FunnyPodcast #DadHumor #GenXHumor #GenX #Macarena #Rush #U2 #CollectiveSoul #TheEagles #StarWars #Comedy #PodcastComedy

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