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. 1d ago

    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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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!
  6. Aug 25

    IDS #323 - Too Fat To Macarena

    Send us Fan Mail 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 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 #323 - Too Fat To Macarena
  7. Aug 18

    IDS #322 - I Want To Be Touched By A Monkey

    Send us Fan Mail Darin bought a new car, saw John Mellencamp, took a tropical cruise—and somehow survived long enough to tell Mike about it. Episode 322 of Irritable Dad Syndrome is a vacation-heavy comedy adventure as Darin breaks down the new car, the concert, the cruise, and the surprisingly large number of moments when his relaxing tropical getaway nearly killed him. Mike also says a couple things here and there. This week on Irritable Dad Syndrome: Darin bought a new car, saw John Mellencamp in concert and went on a tropical cruiseJoin us as he breaks down all the details from his trip, that he says nearly killed him more than a few timesPlus Mike says a couple things here and there#IrritableDadSyndrome #ComedyPodcast #FunnyPodcast #DadHumor #PodcastComedy #JohnMellencamp #Cruise #CruiseVacation #TravelStories #VacationFails #GenXHumor #FunnyStories #Comedy #Podcast 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 #322 - I Want To Be Touched By A Monkey
  8. Aug 11

    IDS #321 - Just Put That Anywhere - The Best of Volume 6

    Send us Fan Mail Six years of Irritable Dad Syndrome. Hundreds of arguments, questionable observations, fast-food encounters, marital grievances, Kroger incidents, and stories that really didn’t need to be told publicly. And now we’ve gathered the best of Year 6 into one episode. In The Best of Volume 6, revisit Darin's painfully patient attempt to buy two strawberry pies from a Popeyes employee, Mike being interrogated by a stranger at Kroger about his choice of crinkle-cut fries, and the discussion that somehow turns the entire cereal aisle into a spectrum ranging from sexual repression to Fruity Pebbles.  You'll also hear Darin seek Mike's expert marriage counseling after Libby wears his good David Letterman hat outside, Mike explain why his wife was absolutely NOT allowed to remove a sticker from his pristine U2 concert program, and Darin's Thanksgiving encounter with a Tennessee state trooper who simply wanted him to “do better.”  And then there's “Just put that anywhere”—a stupid little phrase that escaped the podcast, infected their wives and children, and will someday follow Mike and Darin all the way into the nursing home. If you're a longtime listener, these are some of the moments that made Year 6 special. If you're new to Irritable Dad Syndrome, this is probably the worst possible introduction to Mike and Darin. Which makes it the perfect place to start. Episode 321: Just Put That Anywhere — The Best of Volume 6. #IrritableDadSyndrome #ComedyPodcast #FunnyPodcast #BestOf #GreatestHits #DadHumor #Comedy #PodcastComedy #FunnyStories #MarriageHumor #DadLife 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 #321 - Just Put That Anywhere - The Best of Volume 6
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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.