Irritable Dad Syndrome

Mike and Darin

Irritable Dad Syndrome is a comedy podcast about two longtime friends trying to make sense of everyday life — and usually making things worse in the process. Each week, Mike and Darin turn ordinary experiences into ridiculous conversations about marriage, parenting, pop culture, music, movies, getting older, questionable decisions, irritating people, and whatever else happens to derail the show. It’s funny, unscripted, occasionally inappropriate, and built around the kind of conversations you’d have with your funniest friend when nobody responsible is around to stop you. If you like comedy podcasts with real chemistry, hilarious stories, running jokes, pop-culture tangents, and absolutely no useful advice, you’ve found your people. New episodes every week. 🎧 Listen, watch, and find more at IrritableDadSyndrome.com In our defense, we thought it was funny.

  1. 4d ago

    IDS #331 - Would Your Parrot Like To Touch My Beets?

    Send us Fan Mail 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 Support the show Thank you so much for listening to this episode!  If you like what we do, please check out our other content! Follow our socials for announcements when we go LIVE and to become part of the show! All episode, videos, and more can be found on our website at: https://www.irritabledadsyndrome.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IrritableDadSyndrome YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@irritabledadsyndrome TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@irritabledadsyndrome Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/irritabledadsyndrome/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@irritabledadsyndrome Twitter / X: https://x.com/DadIrritable Tons of bonus and premium content (including archived, uncensored videos of episode recordings, unique merch, and more!) is all on our Patreon page! Join our Patrons today and support our show! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/irritabledadsyndrome

    IDS #331 - Would Your Parrot Like To Touch My Beets?
  2. Oct 13

    IDS #330 - I'm Not Drinking Wine Out of a Swisher Cup!

    Send us Fan Mail 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 Support the show Thank you so much for listening to this episode!  If you like what we do, please check out our other content! Follow our socials for announcements when we go LIVE and to become part of the show! All episode, videos, and more can be found on our website at: https://www.irritabledadsyndrome.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IrritableDadSyndrome YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@irritabledadsyndrome TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@irritabledadsyndrome Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/irritabledadsyndrome/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@irritabledadsyndrome Twitter / X: https://x.com/DadIrritable Tons of bonus and premium content (including archived, uncensored videos of episode recordings, unique merch, and more!) is all on our Patreon page! Join our Patrons today and support our show! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/irritabledadsyndrome

    IDS #330 - I'm Not Drinking Wine Out of a Swisher Cup!
  3. Oct 6

    IDS #329 - Tickled Pink and Sideways - Live at Sphere!

    Send us Fan Mail 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 Support the show Thank you so much for listening to this episode!  If you like what we do, please check out our other content! Follow our socials for announcements when we go LIVE and to become part of the show! All episode, videos, and more can be found on our website at: https://www.irritabledadsyndrome.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IrritableDadSyndrome YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@irritabledadsyndrome TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@irritabledadsyndrome Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/irritabledadsyndrome/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@irritabledadsyndrome Twitter / X: https://x.com/DadIrritable Tons of bonus and premium content (including archived, uncensored videos of episode recordings, unique merch, and more!) is all on our Patreon page! Join our Patrons today and support our show! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/irritabledadsyndrome

    IDS #329 - Tickled Pink and Sideways - Live at Sphere!
  4. Sep 29

    IDS #328 - Poppin' and Lockin' With Fat Bears

    Send us Fan Mail 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 Support the show Thank you so much for listening to this episode!  If you like what we do, please check out our other content! Follow our socials for announcements when we go LIVE and to become part of the show! All episode, videos, and more can be found on our website at: https://www.irritabledadsyndrome.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IrritableDadSyndrome YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@irritabledadsyndrome TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@irritabledadsyndrome Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/irritabledadsyndrome/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@irritabledadsyndrome Twitter / X: https://x.com/DadIrritable Tons of bonus and premium content (including archived, uncensored videos of episode recordings, unique merch, and more!) is all on our Patreon page! Join our Patrons today and support our show! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/irritabledadsyndrome

    IDS #328 - Poppin' and Lockin' With Fat Bears
  5. Sep 22

    IDS #327 - Toilet Paper, Saxophones, and Swingline Staplers

    Send us Fan Mail 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 Support the show Thank you so much for listening to this episode!  If you like what we do, please check out our other content! Follow our socials for announcements when we go LIVE and to become part of the show! All episode, videos, and more can be found on our website at: https://www.irritabledadsyndrome.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IrritableDadSyndrome YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@irritabledadsyndrome TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@irritabledadsyndrome Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/irritabledadsyndrome/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@irritabledadsyndrome Twitter / X: https://x.com/DadIrritable Tons of bonus and premium content (including archived, uncensored videos of episode recordings, unique merch, and more!) is all on our Patreon page! Join our Patrons today and support our show! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/irritabledadsyndrome

    IDS #327 - Toilet Paper, Saxophones, and Swingline Staplers
  6. Sep 15

    IDS #326 - He Put The Diaper On The Dog

    Send us Fan Mail 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 Support the show Thank you so much for listening to this episode!  If you like what we do, please check out our other content! Follow our socials for announcements when we go LIVE and to become part of the show! All episode, videos, and more can be found on our website at: https://www.irritabledadsyndrome.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IrritableDadSyndrome YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@irritabledadsyndrome TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@irritabledadsyndrome Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/irritabledadsyndrome/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@irritabledadsyndrome Twitter / X: https://x.com/DadIrritable Tons of bonus and premium content (including archived, uncensored videos of episode recordings, unique merch, and more!) is all on our Patreon page! Join our Patrons today and support our show! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/irritabledadsyndrome

    IDS #326 - He Put The Diaper On The Dog
  7. Sep 8

    IDS #325 - Vanilla Ice Pest Control

    Send us Fan Mail 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 Support the show Thank you so much for listening to this episode!  If you like what we do, please check out our other content! Follow our socials for announcements when we go LIVE and to become part of the show! All episode, videos, and more can be found on our website at: https://www.irritabledadsyndrome.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IrritableDadSyndrome YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@irritabledadsyndrome TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@irritabledadsyndrome Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/irritabledadsyndrome/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@irritabledadsyndrome Twitter / X: https://x.com/DadIrritable Tons of bonus and premium content (including archived, uncensored videos of episode recordings, unique merch, and more!) is all on our Patreon page! Join our Patrons today and support our show! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/irritabledadsyndrome

    IDS #325 - Vanilla Ice Pest Control
  8. Sep 1

    IDS #324 - Welcome To Wapakoneta!

    Send us Fan Mail 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 Support the show Thank you so much for listening to this episode!  If you like what we do, please check out our other content! Follow our socials for announcements when we go LIVE and to become part of the show! All episode, videos, and more can be found on our website at: https://www.irritabledadsyndrome.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IrritableDadSyndrome YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@irritabledadsyndrome TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@irritabledadsyndrome Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/irritabledadsyndrome/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@irritabledadsyndrome Twitter / X: https://x.com/DadIrritable Tons of bonus and premium content (including archived, uncensored videos of episode recordings, unique merch, and more!) is all on our Patreon page! Join our Patrons today and support our show! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/irritabledadsyndrome

    IDS #324 - Welcome To Wapakoneta!
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About

Irritable Dad Syndrome is a comedy podcast about two longtime friends trying to make sense of everyday life — and usually making things worse in the process. Each week, Mike and Darin turn ordinary experiences into ridiculous conversations about marriage, parenting, pop culture, music, movies, getting older, questionable decisions, irritating people, and whatever else happens to derail the show. It’s funny, unscripted, occasionally inappropriate, and built around the kind of conversations you’d have with your funniest friend when nobody responsible is around to stop you. If you like comedy podcasts with real chemistry, hilarious stories, running jokes, pop-culture tangents, and absolutely no useful advice, you’ve found your people. New episodes every week. 🎧 Listen, watch, and find more at IrritableDadSyndrome.com In our defense, we thought it was funny.

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