Mr. Mom: Irv, We Don’t Need a Price Check

Can a dad truly master the delicate art of motherhood without turning the kitchen into an inferno?

 In this episode of Entertain This! Podcast, we revisit the 1983 comedy classic Mr. Mom, starring Michael Keaton as a newly unemployed executive thrust into the uncharted territory of full-time domesticity. We confront the persistent stigma that “dads can’t handle the job,” drawing pointed comparisons to our own family experiences with role reversals.  Along the way, we recount the uproariously chaotic day-to-day realities faced by a novice stay-at-home father—from culinary disasters to tactical diaper deployments—proving that parenting’s greatest challenges transcend gender and deliver equal measures of humility and hilarity. 

Tune in for a sharp, heartfelt, and laugh-out-loud examination of family dynamics that may just redefine who wears the apron in your household.

Transcript

Cold Open And Introductions

SPEAKER_02 0:04

Off to a thunderous start.

SPEAKER_00 0:10

Yeah, we really did. I had to go to the bathroom.

Social Media And Patreon Dust

SPEAKER_01 0:25

The music stopped. Oh, hello. And welcome. I forgot it wasn't to entertain this, a podcast about movies, TV shows, and video games. My name is Hayden. With me have Mitch and Tom. Hello. I don't have headphones. So what you're hearing, I cannot hear. But you can hear it later when you listen to it in your car. I could, and I'll be like, man, why did I say that? That's why I don't listen to our episodes. Today we're discussing Mr. Mam. Mr. Mam. But before we begin, social media time.

SPEAKER_03 0:59

Well, you can go to at Entertain this underscore. Wait, yeah. Oh, yeah. At Entertain This Underscore on X, Instagram, and TikTok. And EntertainThis59 on YouTube.

SPEAKER_01 1:11

Well done. We have a Patreon too, but it's got it's so it's got cobwebs on it. Yeah, it's so inundated with like dust and stuff. It's like in an anime where like you open up a wallet and like the moth goes right. Yeah, don't donate a dollar just to keep the lights on, please. Please. Alright. This movie that you guys like better than Fargo. Yeah. Because you're dumb. You're dumb. I need a better podcast for you.

SPEAKER_03 1:38

If you'd been here to review Fargo, you could have told us why. Oh why was I not here, Mitch? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

Something. I don't know. You had some lame excuse. Yeah. Lame excuse. Again. Army. Yeah, not much longer. A year and a half.

SPEAKER_03 1:52

That's what you said last time before you re-enlisted.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

Well, I mean, I have to reenlist to retire. I only got one more reenlistment and then I'm retiring.

unknown 2:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

You gotta do it all over again? Just for one year. Alright. So I can like, I don't know, keep my benefits and stuff.

Army Time And Draft Jokes

SPEAKER_03 2:08

With the way the world's going. Yeah, just one more year. That's all it is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:11

I can't tell. I can't. And it's just like breaking news. Do you know how it's diet tension? And you're like, damn it. Even if I got out.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

And you look at your phone, like, don't ring, don't ring. Yeah. No, I just turn it off. Even if I got out, there's still like three or four years I can call you back in. You like you can script it or whatever. So you're gonna storm the beach with like a walker.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

I guess. You're gonna put little camo tennis balls on it.

SPEAKER_01 2:41

No, my goal is to like start doing all my surgeries, you know, for on my knees and stuff, so I I can just be like physically disabled for everything.

SPEAKER_03 2:49

I saw that they were talking talking about trying to raise the the draft age to like 42. I'm like, dude, I'd never make it, even if I was in good shape, my knees will fall apart.

First Reactions To Mr. Mom

SPEAKER_01 2:59

You could do it, you just have to get through basic. Everything else after that, if you're not in a combat MOS, it's just it's like the office. You're just a bunch of people just complaining in uniform. But what are we talking about? Mr. Mama. Oh yeah. Uh yeah, I didn't like this movie. I had seen it once when I was a kid. It was on TV. And I don't I think even as a kid I didn't like it. Yeah. I can imagine you didn't like anything when you were a kid. No. You probably didn't like you know, mac and cheese, you probably didn't like Cheerios. I did like mac and cheese. Because Kevin McAllister ate mac and cheese. Actually, he didn't eat mac and cheese, and that really bothered me. It went to waste. It did go to waste. But yeah, so this movie I it it brought back a whole lot of nostalgia because it's early 80s. How early is it? What year? This one came out in 1983. Oh yeah. It almost feels like 70s.

SPEAKER_02 3:53

How it's like that bridge a few years where like you're transitioning decades.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

And I watched it, I found it on Pluto. It was on Amazon. Yeah, it was on Amazon. But it was on Pluto for high definition. So I just I I watched it and it's still like it had that early 80s TV, like crusty film kind of feel, you know. And I was like, ugh. You know what? It kind of made the movie better.

SPEAKER_02 4:17

Was it a made-for-tv movie or was it no theaters? Is it so 1983 directed by Stan Dragati, written by John Hughes? Oh, was it?

SPEAKER_01 4:26

Yeah. I bet he wrote all of 30 minutes of that script. It was probably a conversation like in a car. That's how he writes, you know, John Hughes. It's just basically just a elevator pitch of a script, and then everybody improvises.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

Starring Michael Keaton, Terry Garr, Martin Mull, and Jillian, and Christopher Lloyd. Who's in it for all of like three minutes? The uh he's one of the dudes who gets furloughed. Oh, okay. Yeah, he's the one. He starts strangling.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

Yeah, who we're not, you know, he's been me too. We're not allowed to say he's a good guy now. No, no. Jeffrey Tambour. Oh, okay. No, Christopher Loyce. He's he's he's a saint.

SPEAKER_02 5:10

But uh budget was five mil. And box office 64.8 million.

SPEAKER_01 5:15

Because it was such a novel concept, right?

SPEAKER_02 5:18

A guy has to stay at home with the kids. Oh my god. Wacky zany. That's what's that John Hughes guy gonna think of next? Stir up the paradigm.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

Yeah, yeah. Let them go to work. That Eve girl, the short-haired secretary lady that was like snooty to and it had like a British accent, kind of for no reason. Uh, she's Dr. Chak was in Mass Effect. So yeah, she's also a bunch of Star Trek characters. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:46

You're like Star Trek.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

Oh yeah, I I picked up on a bunch of stuff, but mostly she's most her most famous role because she was one of the first voice actors to break out into video games. Her most famous role is the the queen from Gears of War, the evil queen lady.

SPEAKER_02 6:00

Oh, really? Yeah, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

I can't remember the queen's name, but yeah, I think it was just like the locust queen or something. Something like that.

SPEAKER_02 6:07

It was queen something. You were you're mostly right.

SPEAKER_01 6:09

Yeah. Other than that, like besides Michael Keaton Martin Mole. Martin Mole. Yeah. Like nobody else, like uh Tar, whatever her name is. Oh, that's right, yeah. Other than that. Christopher Lloyd. Yeah, it's pretty much just Christopher Lloyd.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

And then the actor who will not name because he got me too. Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Who's in a lot of things. Yeah, yeah. I mean, but you know, if you want to see what life was like back in the 80s before internet and you know, so ruined your lives. Yeah, and everything was all regimented in how society expectation is the the weirdness of what it's like for a man to stay home while a woman goes out and wins the bread, and you know, that which was so unseen back then. He eventually does a good job.

Dad Shortcuts And Bedtime Wars

SPEAKER_03 7:08

Yeah, I can tell you he starts off rough, but it starts out real bad. In the end, he shows you how man gets things done.

SPEAKER_01 7:14

It prompts it like uh it reminds me of this like uh Instagram trend where it's like called like uh dad shortcuts or something like that. And I I thought it would be funny for us to talk about it. Like uh, what's one thing that your wife does a certain way that you absolutely just like like for instance, one dude said he feeds his kids in the bathtub, right? I mean, I get it because it's just probably so much easier to clean. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:39

You can just hose them off.

SPEAKER_01 7:40

Absolutely. Like one time, my son, I know that when you take a diaper off of a boy, once that cold air once the cold air hits the peen, watch out for the stream. That's right. So Hayden told me that when my son was born. Yeah, now you now you know. So, like what I what I did for my son one time was I took him outside and I ripped the the diaper off and just let him pee into the front yard, you know.

SPEAKER_03 8:08

Slimball like slimball. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

Well, I'm holding him in one arm and I got a diaper in my other arm, and like a car just kind of drives by, and they give me that like look out the window. Mind you miss that. So there's my my dad shortcut. Diaper's full.

SPEAKER_03 8:23

Hey, nothing to see here. My wife, my wife, she gets so aggravated because when it's time for bath time for my son, he will kick and fight and scream not to get in the bath. And then once you get him in, he doesn't want to get out. Yeah, he doesn't want to bathe though. Yeah. But then when I put him in there, I'll bathe him. I'll wash his hair like what she has to like just dump the water on him because he he just won't sit down for us. Yeah. I'll get in there, I'll be like, all right, sit down. Either sit down or I'm just gonna pour it in your face. I'll wash his hair and he's fine. Or when we go to bed, I'm like, all right, you got this much time to watch this show with me, and then we're gonna put on something and we're gonna go to sleep. When it's with her, I'll hear him in the other room.

unknown 9:01

No! I don't want to go!

SPEAKER_03 9:03

And me and my daughter are just sitting there watching TV going, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:06

That's right. There's something there.

SPEAKER_03 9:08

Mom's not gonna be putting you to sleep tonight.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

Yeah, like what I I do is my wife for a bedtime routine, she would read books and like go through the whole it'd be like a 45-hour long process, right? And I get I get in there and I'd be like, Hey, you want to watch a funny YouTube video? Yeah. So we do five minutes of that. I'm like, all right, go to bed, and I'll just roll over and I'll just like play on my phone until I hear him snoozing and I just get it. I I I'm I am a ninja at sneaking out of my kids' bedrooms. Like, I I'm so good at it, never been caught.

SPEAKER_03 9:39

But uh my wife, she'll close the door and you'll hear like the why are you turning the door down for?

SPEAKER_02 9:45

My wife, she's the stealthy one. I'm the one because like my ankles are popping my my shoulder, my knees, like my hip.

SPEAKER_03 9:51

And I'm like, I do have that. I'm quiet with everything except for my body.

SPEAKER_02 9:55

When I stand up, I'm like, I gotta get all the cracks and pops out of the way.

SPEAKER_01 9:58

You gotta like melt and like collapse in the floor and then crawl towards the door.

SPEAKER_02 10:03

My son's bedtime routine is resist at all costs. Like it's like if he goes to sleep, like it's over, like it's the end. Like he will fight until he is physically overcome in sleep. Yeah, you know, because the other night I was shaving my head and I'm standing there in the shower, and here comes my wife, and she's holding the baby, and she's just got this look on her face, and I'm like, what's wrong? And he's just like, woo! Like, hey, daddy. And uh she's like, look at his leg, and I'm like, what happened to him? And she's like, it's poop, and I'm like, well, stay out there. Like, I'm in the shower. Get it away from him. Like, I'm clean. Like, I just got done, like, she's like, You need to bathe him. And I'm like, What happens? Like, well, he crapped all over the playpen, and like it like shot out of his like side because he was getting prunes because he was backed up, mission accomplished, and then his like foot got in it. So she rescued him out of there. I bathe him, and I just like Alexa, play whatever. And like Z Z Top is playing, and he's just like a sharp dressed man, and he's like, My son's just covered in poop, and I'm scrubbing him down in the tub, and I'm like, What happened? And then he was just sitting there playing with this like banana tea there, and he just throws it, and then he just goes and passed out immediately. And I'm just like gently pouring hot water on him, and he's just like and then we get him out, feed him, and then he starts doing the thing where he does like the crocodile death roll. Oh, yeah, where he's just like, All right, I ate, woo, gotta go fast, and it's like, but he can't go fast anywhere. He just rolls around and then it upsets his stomach, and then he like ripped his binky out, looked at my wife, went and just like projectile, empied his stomach all over her on the couch. And I'm just sitting there like watching it happen, and uh like I didn't even get up. Like, I was just waiting, I was like, that was the first salvo. I'm like, he's got like three more. It was like flood the tubes, locking a firing solution.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

I do not miss all the gross stuff that babies did.

SPEAKER_03 11:51

So although my son, right now, he's to the age where he he wants to go to the bathroom himself. He's a big boy, he can do it. So he'll go in there and he'll pull him, pull his pants all the way down to his ankles and stand there, and instead of holding on to himself, he puts his hands on his hips and just stands there and like leans a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 12:09

Well that's kind of funny.

SPEAKER_03 12:10

Yeah, we'll go we'll go to like a restaurant and he refuses to go in the stall. He wants to use the urine. I'm like, oh, don't put your don't let your pants touch the ground.

SPEAKER_02 12:17

That's gross as other people's peas down there.

SPEAKER_03 12:20

I was like, he'll go to push them down. I'm like, no, no, keep him like on your calf, keep him right there.

Plot Breakdown And Best Gags

SPEAKER_01 12:25

Yeah, separate your legs a little bit. You know, you know, you need tension to keep them up. I took my son, we went camping one time, and uh I was like, hey buddy, the best part about camping is you can pee anywhere, right? He was like, Really? And I was like, Yeah, and he's like, I gotta go pee. And I was like, let's go. So he took his pants all the way down, and I was like, all you gotta do is just point it down, right? So he points it straight down in between his legs and pees into his pants. And I'm like, what are you doing? He's like, I don't know. And then he was like, let's go. And it's a fire fire hose going all the way. I I can't get it in to stop him. He's like, I don't want to get pee on me. You become acutely aware of your hygiene, you know, restrictions when you're camping. So that's funny. Anyway, what are we talking about? Talking about Mr. Mom. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:10

We already did who's in it and how much money it made and who was involved. So now we're gonna do the plot. The plot, I mean, it should be like a three-sentence plot, but but go ahead. Man stays home. Jack Butler lives with his wife Caroline and their children, Alex, Kenny, and Megan. Megan. In a Detroit suburb during the early 1980s recession, Jack and his friends Larry and Stan lose their engineering jobs at the Ford Motor Company. Caroline, having been a housewife for years, uses her college education and experience working in advertising to re-enter the workforce, leaving Jack to deal with the new and bewildering responsibilities of a stay-at-home dad.

SPEAKER_01 13:48

Yeah, so there is commercials in my movie when I was watching it. Yeah. So like they have the bet, and he's like, I bet you 100 to 1 or whatever that I'll get a job before you do. And the commercials happen. Next thing I know, she's going to work.

SPEAKER_04 14:02

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

SPEAKER_01 14:03

She like called, like, she like made a call and got a job.

SPEAKER_02 14:05

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:06

Like instant.

SPEAKER_02 14:07

Yeah. And I would have been like, You both could have been working. Right. And like probably hired a nanny.

SPEAKER_01 14:13

Well, they tried that one like girl that should have got that's not even got. I don't think it was invented yet.

SPEAKER_02 14:20

It's like the punk rocker girl. Right.

SPEAKER_00 14:22

And the babysatter.

SPEAKER_02 14:23

And he's like, hold that thought. He just closed the door in her face.

SPEAKER_03 14:25

Well, I like how when the movie starts, he's like walking, he's all chipper and stuff in front of the family, gets in the car, he's like, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

He gets up and gets to the shower. He's like, damn it.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

I saw him doing that, and I was like, look, I've been tired and exhausted. I've never been that out of sorts before. And this guy like works on cars.

SPEAKER_02 14:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

He makes he's an engineer. Yeah. All right.

SPEAKER_02 14:49

He's not making them, he just designs it. Goes down there in a lab coat and a suit and just like yeah, that awkward exchange he has with those employees.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

He's like big gulps out there.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

But the guy's like grilling him about like which Rocky movie he saw. And he's like, and he like walks away. He's like, he didn't see Rocky.

SPEAKER_03 15:05

Well, I like it when he walks into like the boss's office, and then he's like, oh, that guy's getting fired. Oh yeah, man, must be tough out there.

SPEAKER_02 15:12

And he's like having like a monologue. It's just like he's like, you're fired too. He's like, what? He's like, I'll kill you. He's like, crap. And everybody just takes turns choking out Jeffrey Tambor.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

Yeah, I didn't understand the whole like side plot of I guess Jeffrey Tambor's character was like corrupt, or he was doing something, he had to fire everybody.

SPEAKER_03 15:32

Oh, I didn't notice that.

SPEAKER_02 15:33

Yeah, there was like they don't like say it, but it's it's just I think implied. Well, he kept his job.

SPEAKER_03 15:39

So but like he comes home in a taxi, he's like half drunk. Yeah. This is the first guy you do.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

You lose your job as you go blowing up.

SPEAKER_02 15:49

He's like, You're not fire me, I'm going on disability.

SPEAKER_03 15:53

And they're like, no. Good plan.

SPEAKER_02 15:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:58

But I do what you were talking about. I like how his wife instantly gets a job like on the first phone call.

SPEAKER_01 16:04

Well, so they like they kind of take it away from her a little bit because she she's attractive and she, you know, obviously that dude, the mustache guy's looking for somebody, yeah, you know, like that. And she's the staple, you know, consumer because she's a stay-at-home mom. They're selling tuna. What stay-at-home mom really cares about tuna?

SPEAKER_02 16:28

If you saw a commercial where I've never seen a commercial for tuna when I was like, I gotta go buy it.

SPEAKER_03 16:32

I have the fun kissed or the little funkist. I mean, I knew I was I knew something unkissed. The chicken of the sea. Yeah, I've seen that one. That's the only tuna commercial I've ever seen.

SPEAKER_01 16:42

But like, if a dude came on and was like, We're you know, suffering with you 50 cents off of our cans, I'd be like, uh But this is also like 1983, so that was probably like almost half off.

SPEAKER_02 16:54

Yeah, yeah. It's not like today, like 50 cents off doesn't mean anything. You gotta take five bucks off right for me to notice. Right.

SPEAKER_01 17:01

And it this inflation still coming to can, I don't even know. Yeah, it's still coming in cans.

SPEAKER_02 17:05

You can still get it in a canade. Okay, just for you.

SPEAKER_03 17:09

I like how I don't know if it's in the next part, but like where he's driving them to school for the first time.

SPEAKER_02 17:12

Oh, he's getting cursed out. Well, like the kids the next part.

SPEAKER_03 17:16

Oh they're like go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 17:17

Uh just when he comes home and the wife like gets like all the kids together. Yeah, it's like they already got the phone call, he was fired. And I'm like, did he call?

SPEAKER_03 17:24

And was the company like, hey, your husband got fired by good luck to you and your and your uh no-income family?

SPEAKER_02 17:30

He's like, You're not fired, you're furloughed.

SPEAKER_03 17:32

Yeah, it's like is that better?

SPEAKER_02 17:34

Jack discovers child care and house maintenance involve a complex juggling act, and his initial struggles and daily errands gain the attention and company of other neighborhood housewives. Eventually he hits his stride, and although somewhat distracted by the flirtatious Joan, he begins to feel confined by suburban domestic life. So because he goes to drop the kids off at school and they're yelling at him because he's like, You're not doing it right. Which is which is to me. That's real.

SPEAKER_03 18:04

The kids are always like, mommy doesn't do it like this. I know this is the way we're doing it today.

SPEAKER_02 18:08

It's like we're doing it dad's way.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

Because I I have dropped my kids off before, and they do have this like you know, Eastern European driving method of it. They're like Nazis.

SPEAKER_02 18:17

It's just like there's like uniforms, and they're just like, you know, you gotta it's like it's like going to the soup Nazi. Right. Like where you have like that bizarre order formation where like you have to do everything in sequence or you have no soup for you.

SPEAKER_01 18:27

Right. Well, and if I it like God forbid, you know, I drop my kids off. There's an open lane to my left, you know, a clearance all the way out to the main road. I can I can leave and get to my business, go to where I need to go. If I so much as set a tire on that line, I got like three Nazis coming after me screaming at me, you know, stay alive, you can run over a kid. What kids are gonna go away from the school? It's like you're driving them off at school.

SPEAKER_03 18:55

Yeah, we're not picking up. Well, like my daughters, they have their car rider lane or whatever, and then you have the teacher parking lot. Well, there was one day my mom, or my mom, my wife had to be there early, so she didn't take my daughter with her because they go to the same one. And as I got come pulled up in the teacher parking lot, there's people like, no, waving me down. Like her mom's right there, so it's fine. They're like, no, no, you have to go. And I just kind of like looked at her, I was like, just get out and go tomorrow. Now what? Now what? She's out of the car. Yeah, what can they do?

SPEAKER_02 19:27

What were they gonna do? Put you in detention. Exactly. It's like Mitch is just gonna be outside banging her racers to get what happened? I talked to the wrong spot.

SPEAKER_03 19:38

One lady, she she blew a whistle at me.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

That was a duh. Like, what what is banging erasers have? I remember having to do that when I was in the detention. Did that actually like help? I don't know. I think it was just like a meaningless task.

SPEAKER_03 19:51

Something to keep you occupied.

SPEAKER_01 19:53

Go take that pile of rocks and move it over there and then pick it back up and put it back.

SPEAKER_02 19:58

He goes uh grocery shopping, and that old lady's like, I have the right of way. Oh, yeah. And then he just like grabs a bag of chips and throws it in her car, and he's like, Here, we'll settle out of court.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

If anybody stopped me in a grocery store and said, I have the right-of-way, I'd probably tip their grocery card.

SPEAKER_03 20:15

I'd just be like, I like how when he goes up to the counter, he's like, Do you want ham? Yeah, I want some ham.

SPEAKER_02 20:21

Do you want, you know, all you want like cured taverns, salted, whatever? And he's like, he's like, How about salami? She's like, Genoa, hard, uncured, cheese. Super season. Cheese, like, and then you got the whole cheddar family. He's like, Can you run back the ham ones again?

SPEAKER_01 20:35

He says cheese and she starts like listing off cottage cheese. I'm like, who who would go go to the deli section and ask for cottage cheese?

SPEAKER_02 20:42

Like, can I get that sliced?

SPEAKER_03 20:44

I just know I would be like him. I'd be like, uh, ham. Ham. Just ham.

SPEAKER_02 20:48

Well, I'm the one that goes and orders at the deli, so I changed.

SPEAKER_03 20:50

Yeah, I know. You're super sophisticated with your culinary.

SPEAKER_02 20:54

No, because I'm taller than all the women, so I get noticed first. Like I like breeze like around, like I like I'm not cutting the line, but like I come out wide so they catch the peripheral. And they're just gonna ride for the pass. Yeah, like there's like the direct line, and then like, yeah, you gotta sneak in on the side. Like it's a flanking move. And they just go, Oh, sir. And I'm just like, yeah, I was like, Can I get and then like these like old women in cars are just like a piece?

SPEAKER_03 21:17

I'm just picturing Tom standing there with all these all these women with their bags and Tom Cups rolling into the camouflage, flanking them.

SPEAKER_02 21:23

I know I got face paint on.

SPEAKER_03 21:25

Just rolls across the floor. Uh sorry.

SPEAKER_02 21:28

It's because they can't see over the counter. None of the people who work behind can see over the counter. The ladies in front can't see over it. I'm like a foot taller. So there's just like, oh sir. And I'm like, yeah, can I get the uh blazon buffalo chicken? Can I get a pound slice then, please?

SPEAKER_03 21:41

Well, and then while he's in the grocery store, he's also walking around with a list. Have y'all been sent to a grocery store with a list?

SPEAKER_02 21:47

Absolutely. My my wife sends uh she sends me a picture of what it what of what it is. I I I have that too. Because she's like describes it, she goes, It's in a blue container with white, and every container is blue and white with different, and I'm just standing there like.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Man, because how many brands are there? God forbid you get like the wrong detergent or something like that. But like how in the 1980s did men do the honeydew lists, like shopping and stuff back then? I mean, it would be impossible because I have to call my wife for basically every item on a list. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:20

Because it's like the one you get, and like you, it's like the last one you need, and you go and they don't have it, and you're calling, and she's arguing with you that they have it, you're just not in the right spot. And it's like I went up and down every aisle in this store looking. It's not here. I will say it's surrounded by the brand, but of different things. I bet you if she was there, she could find it.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

Well, I will say that a lot of the times they put they group things together, but then they don't put things logically where other things would be.

SPEAKER_02 22:47

No, because then you got like the front of the aisle things facing like out, not where they're facing each other.

SPEAKER_01 22:52

Like if I need to get stringed cheese right, I go to the cheese section. No, it's in the dairy section. Well, forgive me for trying to use my brain cells, idiot. I know.

SPEAKER_03 23:03

Well, like, because I would think like cookies and sweets and stuff would all be on one aisle. They have cookies and stuff, but there's a label thing, it's like cookies, snacks, and crackers.

SPEAKER_02 23:10

It's like everything I want should be down there except for chips, which are on another aisle. But then my kids, I like the little Debbie like brownies that have the little colored sprinkles or whatever. And those are by the damn frozen section. Oh, yeah, and the bread. It's like, why is that down there and not a day? Outfacing aisle.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

They should do a remake of Mr. Mom, but with like today problems, to today dad problems. You can't afford all the stuff your wife told you to go to. That's true.

SPEAKER_02 23:33

Yeah. It's like, did you BOGO? What does BOGO even mean?

SPEAKER_01 23:37

I do like how he's playing poker with coupons. That was hilarious. That was pretty funny.

SPEAKER_02 23:41

Because even when he's in the store, like all the spills, it was like instant Irv cleanup and produce. That was annoying. He's like running to go find the kids because he like has like a different kid. He's like, Oh, I'll trade you. And he takes his kids back and she's like, Oh, thanks.

SPEAKER_03 23:55

She goes, I don't have a kid. Well, I did like she was like, Irv, do you have on a check on tampons? He's like, No, Irv, we don't have a check. As soon as she popped up, I was like, Grace!

SPEAKER_01 24:05

Yeah, it was Irv, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I uh I I mean I've bought lady stuff for my I oh yeah, I'm not Irv, can I get a price check on tampons?

SPEAKER_03 24:15

I just thought it was funny because he immediately grabbed the mobile.

SPEAKER_02 24:17

He's like, Irv, we don't need a price check. 19 cents off on the tampon. Because when he goes to buy it, he's like kind of like looking like he's like gonna like buy drugs. Right. He's like looking around. He's like, uh somebody walks by, he's like covering his face.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

Yeah, if you saw a dude carrying some like maxi pads, you'd be like, okay, he's getting in first. You're not gonna be what would it be? Who thought they were for you? What deviant would do something with that, anyways?

SPEAKER_02 24:38

You know, I mean, unless you saw like a disheveled looking lunatic, like in a trench coat in summer.

SPEAKER_01 24:46

Maybe, maybe he he he leaks, he's gonna put it in his underwear, and he's like asking like somebody like, are these the really important ones?

SPEAKER_03 24:53

And you're just like, it's really hot out there.

SPEAKER_01 24:56

Yeah. Alright, where are where are we now?

Work Life Power Plays

SPEAKER_02 25:01

Simultaneously, he feels threatened by Caroline's responsibilities and work life as a fast climbing ad executive. Meanwhile, Caroline contends with challenges in the workforce. Her maternal and housekeeping instincts jeopardize her position as a sophisticated executive, and her boss, Ron Richardson, is intent on having his way with her. Is that what it says? Yeah, yeah. I will have my way with you. During a pitch to a hard-to-please client, Caroline's insight as a budget conscientious housewife proves invaluable. The client's president wants to fly her to Los Angeles to help shoot a commercial. Because like during she goes in like the first meeting and it's just smoke-filled. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:38

Yeah. Well, because you used to be able to smoke in the game.

SPEAKER_02 25:40

Yeah, it was 1983. You just smoke indoors back when you know America was a free country.

SPEAKER_01 25:44

And they have to fly to LA to shoot a commercial from Detroit to LA. They couldn't just do some sort of local studio. It's it's LA. Whatever. And then like the amount of work that went the the whole movie, I I feel like takes place around six months long. And like she on her first day, she pitches this commercial. All six months it takes for them to like plan and prep and do this commercial. Yeah. Maybe it was like production windows back in the day, but I don't know. Not today, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_03 26:14

Well, I like I was telling you earlier, I like how when her boss shows up to get her, he comes walking in with a chainsaw, like, oh yeah. Yeah, he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:23

And he's like, yeah, we're redoing the whole thing. He's like the wire, and he's just like, he's like, you're gonna use 220, he's like 220, 221, whatever it takes to get the job done. He just like looks at him.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

I I wouldn't know.

SPEAKER_02 26:35

Well that's wire gauge.

SPEAKER_03 26:37

And then when she gets ready to leave, he's like, Yeah, if you call, I might be at the gym or at the gun club.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

Which I just thought that was funny. It was funny.

SPEAKER_01 26:46

She's like, nice outfit.

SPEAKER_03 26:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:49

Hey, worked for Thirsty Joan. Yeah. Joan was she was crying.

SPEAKER_03 26:54

He's like hitting on him at the supermarket. She was parched. And I I guess I missed something. And then when he was having like the dream later, I was so confused at first. I was like, what happened?

SPEAKER_02 27:04

Yeah. Because he kind of starts like letting himself go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:07

He like gets obsessed with the soap operas.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

He's like, I can't believe people watch this, and he's like cleaning, and he's like sitting there and he has like a bucket with beer in it. Yeah. And he's just like pulling it. He's like, Victor, she's cheating on you. Yeah. He's like getting like all into it. Also, who schedules all three repairs at once? That's a you gave the kid chili?

SPEAKER_03 27:28

Another thing that when uh the boss comes in, I love how he walks up to him and he's just like 10 in the morning. He's like, You want a beer? It's 10.

SPEAKER_02 27:34

Or he's like, he's like, he's like, he's like, it's eight o'clock in the morning. And he's like, Scotch?

SPEAKER_03 27:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:39

And then they're like first class, but like Terry Garz, like cutting his state. And he's like, I I could do that. She's like, Oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_01 27:47

I think I would be kind of upset if my wife was cutting. Does it does she do that for him? Is he that much of a loser? Michael Keaton's character. I think she would probably lose.

SPEAKER_02 27:55

Yeah, okay. Because like they're at like the meeting, like there's like just trash on the table. She's like grabbing stuff and putting like the McDonald's like big wrapper, like the pack. And they're just like, we have people for that. She's like, Oh, she's like, have it.

SPEAKER_03 28:06

But it was fun like to see like his day one of the struggle, just like the vacuum cleaner. Mom calls it Jaws.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

Did anybody recognize the TV repair lady?

SPEAKER_03 28:16

She looked familiar.

SPEAKER_02 28:16

She looked familiar, but I couldn't remember.

SPEAKER_01 28:18

I tried to find her online and I couldn't see. She's got a weird IMDB that doesn't seem like it fits, but her face is familiar from something. She's got like a German accent. Yeah. I just don't know what it is. I can't remember what it is either. Well, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

Listener. Like dancing, and he's like, huh.

SPEAKER_03 28:38

I like how the vacuum starts coming in. He just like rips it apart.

SPEAKER_02 28:41

He's like, he like comes out, like picks it up with like choke slips and jaws.

SPEAKER_01 28:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:47

He's like, dang.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

It's funny that they got the rights to do the Rocky theme song, but they couldn't get the rights to do the Chariots of Fire theme song. So they did some knockoff brand. Yeah, they do.

SPEAKER_02 28:58

Because they go to like that like field day thing. Yeah, whatever. Like the corporate like Olympics for like their comfort. It's just a feel-good thing. And he's just like, you know, we're gonna pull an Anne Emily like after 15 minutes, and then it's just like, all right, and then like everyone's just like, What are you doing? Like he's gonna compete, compete. And it's just like he's the boss. Yeah. Because like the whole time they're doing this like bizarre triathlon, like like grabbing at his ankles and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 29:21

I like how they were trying to stop him the entire time. Please no.

SPEAKER_00 29:24

He tells his kids, go get my sweats out of the car. Who takes their sweats everywhere they can?

SPEAKER_02 29:29

He was ready, like he brought equipment just in case.

SPEAKER_00 29:33

Stupid.

SPEAKER_02 29:34

And it's just like he's like, oh, he's like, he's a he's an old jock. And I'm just like, no, he's not. Look at him.

SPEAKER_03 29:39

We should definitely bring back these random worth work athletics. I don't want to compete. I just want to watch people compete.

SPEAKER_01 29:44

Yeah, I just want to watch them laugh. We used to there used to be a softball tournament at work.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

I remember we used to play football. I had flag football.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:51

I did that before I even worked there.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

We did we did a uh last minute softball tournament, and it was like put together last minute, like, hey, you are all going to do this tomorrow. And so they like gave us jerseys and we went, and we it was against like a bunch of other like blue-collar kind of jobs and stuff, and like a bunch, like the only team we beat was a group of dentists, which we felt really awesome about. We beat them, we beat them by one run, everybody else just smoked us. You know, I kept trying to steal. They're like, You can't steal stuff.

SPEAKER_03 30:23

What's the point? Let me live my life. Well, I just I like how like I was working for another area, and then when I when I came here, before I actually got hired, where we work now, they they had me come play on the flag football team with them. And we were playing, and I was in shape at the time, and we we would just run, and it's flag football, but we were just shoulder checking people off their feet. Take a map. Callahan, like he would just run across the middle of the field and just get laid out a couple times.

SPEAKER_02 30:53

I believe it.

SPEAKER_03 30:53

Well, because we were playing like the fire department stuff.

SPEAKER_02 30:56

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:56

That's what they were really taking that stuff serious, too.

SPEAKER_01 30:59

Yeah, those those guys are in shape. Sliding down their stripper pole.

SPEAKER_03 31:05

I want to say that well, I won't tell me. There was a there was a bunch of people that used to work with us that they were on that team that was funny.

SPEAKER_02 31:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:11

Britt.

SPEAKER_01 31:14

Yeah.

unknown 31:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:15

He's been on the podcast before.

SPEAKER_02 31:17

Yeah, he's been on. He runs weird.

SPEAKER_01 31:19

Is he got a Stephen Segal run? He's got like the crazy run, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:25

Like his arms like really far out. It's like when uh Hayden has had too much and he just busts in. He's like, he's like that wide walk for no reason. But he throws like the triathlon because like his wife's just giving him like the uh like look.

SPEAKER_00 31:41

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:42

And he's like, You did that on purpose. Like he winks. And I looked at Rachel and I'm like, if we're ever in this scenario, I am not throwing it.

SPEAKER_03 31:49

I was like, I'm winning. Yeah, wait, what?

SPEAKER_02 31:51

I'll sacrifice your career for my pride. Yeah, that ain't happening. I'm like, I'm in it to win it, baby. See, in the meantime, Jack's former employer invites him to interview for his old job, but his former supervisor, Jinx Latham, betrays his reputation. I know. Jack lectures them on dirty practices and storms out. Ron tries to convince Caroline to leave Jack and marry him while Joan continues to try to seduce Jack. After a commercial shoot in LA, Caroline relaxes in her hotel bathtub. Ron sneaks into a room with champagne. Back home, Jack tries calling her so the kids can talk to her, but Ron answers. He hangs up, leading Jack to think his wife is having an affair. Caroline fends off Ron and quits her job.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

Yeah, it might be the 80s, but like Oh, you'd be arrested for that now. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:40

Prison, he'd lose the company, disgraced.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

Like he's just like, hey, divorce your husband and let's let's hook up and be the dream team.

SPEAKER_03 32:50

She would own that company.

SPEAKER_01 32:54

Honestly, that's not a bad strategy. The quote unquote divorce. Uh-huh. Like marrying the guy, then immediately divorce him, own half the company, then get back with Jack.

SPEAKER_02 33:04

Yeah, me too him, get him out of the way.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:08

Well, I like how right. I like how right before this, like he she comes. I think she's either she's getting ready for work or she comes home from work and he's just doing really well with the kid, you know, getting everything together, and she just like gets mad at him. She's like annoyed that he's doing well.

SPEAKER_01 33:22

Yeah. Yeah. Look at you succeeding.

SPEAKER_02 33:24

Because he's like, has like the flannel shirt on. Yeah. And she's like, and she's like, you should be wearing the same shirt for three weeks. It can walk around on its own. And he has like the beard going, and he's like, she comes home and he's having poker with all the housewives. And they're like, instead of chips, they have coupons. And he's like two dollars off. And they're like, uh. And he's just they're all smoking, they got cigars, and all the kids are just in the other room watching TV together. And I'm like, you know what? That was America. That was back in the day.

SPEAKER_01 33:52

And then they all grew up fine, right? Well, they grew up to be us.

unknown 33:56

Yeah, yeah. They're good.

SPEAKER_02 33:57

They're good. Yeah, they're good to be us. That's what happened. Look how well that turned out. Was he doing that? And like the Joan lady, like, you know, when the suggestively cut as well, suggestively cut as 1983 would allow you. Like shows like her cards and she's like, What do you think? And he's like, Two pair, huh? I was like, Yep. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 34:17

And then like, oh Caroline, you're home. Yeah. Meanwhile, Caroline like walks behind him, sees him staring at her like that. Yeah. And she just like just like shakes her head. My wife would kill me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:28

There would have been an immediate double homicide. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

So.

SPEAKER_02 34:33

Literally.

SPEAKER_03 34:34

Well, I like how because he's been watching all the soap operas, he starts like hallucinating as a nightmare or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

Yeah, he shoots, you get shot, and he's like damn!

SPEAKER_02 34:45

And he's like, and he like falls down, and like there's like the outline, and he's not in it. And he's like, looks and he goes, he like spoots back over.

SPEAKER_01 34:54

Is that 38? 38, 39. 38, 39.

SPEAKER_02 34:57

Wherever gets the job done. Yeah. And then Ron shows up and he's like, alright, Jeff. And he's like, it's Jack. He's like, you betcha.

SPEAKER_03 35:03

How do you forget Jack? On purpose. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:07

Because I think he calls him like the wrong name, like he retired every time.

SPEAKER_03 35:12

Well, I like how after, like, I guess it's the next more after he's she makes fun of him for his flannel shirt and all that stuff. They have the Rocky montage. That's when it starts playing. He's cleaning up the whole house. Getting stronger.

SPEAKER_02 35:25

And he's like, he shaves. They're like, although I stayed around for like the funeral for the flannel, and like he throws it in the fireplace. Yes. The whoobie. And the whoobie. Yeah. So next thing you know, he's like, you'd be strung out on Pets.

SPEAKER_01 35:37

It's funny that they call it a Whoobie because the military we have like field blankets, which everybody calls Wobbies. Is that like a is that like Binky? Is that like a kid's name for the new? I don't either. So I just thought uh I was like, wait a minute, is that like a joke or is it actually Well he was supposed to have been in the army because he mentions it. He was he was bluffing it.

SPEAKER_02 35:57

No, he's like back when I was in the army.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

I do remember him saying that. I didn't know if he was I think he was bluffing it because there's no ships in the army.

SPEAKER_02 36:03

He's like, we ran a tight ship as he's like doing laundry and he's making this like full on like 16 ounce concoction of laundry detergents.

SPEAKER_01 36:11

He's just basically gonna gas out of his house.

SPEAKER_02 36:16

And then they have Braun breaking into her hotel room. And then she just gets he just she just decks the dude in the face. She just KO's and he like rolls back, hits like the armchair, goes over it. He's like, hard to get, huh? Yeah. It's like, yeah, that's exactly what happened.

SPEAKER_01 36:34

Yeah, then the list of A through Z of why he he uh should or shouldn't get with Joan.

SPEAKER_02 36:41

She's just like laying on his badge. She just makes herself at home. Because he's like talking to, or I think it was like the dream sequence, and she's just like, Yeah, she's like, she's like, I'm on my way. And he like hangs, like like the phone comes down. She's like, I got here as fast as I could. And it's like, would you sprint? The next day dawns with repair people in the home to fix a broken television set. The lady comes in and goes, I found the problem. Shoe. Yeah, there's a shoe in your television.

SPEAKER_01 37:06

Because he just kicks it.

SPEAKER_02 37:08

Spraying for bugs, Caroline arrives home unexpectedly, and she and Jack talk over their misunderstandings, reuniting as a stronger couple. Ron stops by begging Caroline to come back to work as the client thinks only she can properly handle their account. However, Caroline says she intends to get a better job and has missed her family. Although she finally agrees to stay with the agency after Ron agrees to offer her the chance to work from home two days a week and reduce her workload in order for her to have the chance to spend more time with her family. Which is like funny because the TV lady and like the bug dude are like negotiating it for them. Right. Because like the bug ladies standing there and she's just like, she gets to work from home for two days. And it's like, he's like, all right, yeah, yeah. You're making a deal with that.

SPEAKER_03 37:50

Who are you?

SPEAKER_02 37:52

Then Jinx Latham shows back up, comes begging for Jack to return to work. Jack punches Jinx in the face for being rude to Jack's son and says he won't come back to work unless Larry and Stan do also. Jinx accepts the conditions.

SPEAKER_01 38:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:05

Because the bug guy is just like, you know, he's like, asked for the guys to come back too.

SPEAKER_01 38:08

I would have asked for his salary. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:11

And I want to raise. Yeah. On the newly paired re TV, the national commercial, Caroline helped produce is broadcast.

SPEAKER_03 38:18

I'll be honest, I didn't even notice that part either. I I read that and I was like, was it?

SPEAKER_02 38:22

I remember that, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:25

Could you imagine having a TV repair man? I mean, that had to be a job with a shelf life. Could you imagine like you're apprenticing for that?

SPEAKER_02 38:32

And like the guy's just like, this is gonna be around for a long time. This is job security.

SPEAKER_01 38:37

It sure is. Now people are just like, my TV flickers. Well, flat televisions, plasma.

SPEAKER_02 38:44

Time to buy a new one. It'll never catch on. The plasma leaks, it stains your carpet. That was the thing people said. It's just like, don't break the glass, like the plasma will leak.

SPEAKER_01 38:55

I I sold TVs at Walmart when I was a kid, and I like they pushed us to sell plasmas. And they were a sharper image. I can picture you just like, you know, oh you got a TV? You want a better one? Yeah. You could turn this one on and off. I'd push plasmas, and like those things were just not existent five years after I was doing that job. No, those things they they burn out too. Oh, yeah. And they weighed a ton. Yeah. They did weigh a lot. They were really heavy.

SPEAKER_02 39:24

So quite a broad in the wave of high depth flat screen monitors and 4K, now 8K.

SPEAKER_03 39:31

My granddad had one of those like big, big screen, like the tube projector screen kind of big boxes.

SPEAKER_01 39:37

Okay, like kill somebody.

SPEAKER_03 39:39

Takes like four people to move.

SPEAKER_01 39:40

I remember those.

SPEAKER_03 39:41

And like four men. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:43

You know you're old if you remember your TV was encased in wood. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:48

We I I want to say that we had one of like the largest glass tube TVs that you could have. Yeah. It took me and my dad to lift it.

SPEAKER_01 39:56

Do you ever have to demagnetize your TV before? Oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:59

The color gets off, you have to move it around.

SPEAKER_01 40:02

Yeah, like that's why the Simpsons are yellow, because they were playing pranks on their audience, like, oh, the color's off. So they they put a magnet on their TVs and screwed up.

SPEAKER_03 40:12

Funny!

SPEAKER_02 40:13

Yeah, it's like the TV's out. Like I remember like I was a little kid, my mom's like, the TV's out. My dad'd be like opening the back. It's like all these things. He's like, Don't touch anything. Yeah, because it's like radioactive. Yeah, it's like don't for the love of God. And I'm like, I'm in like my feetie pajamas with my Whoobie. And I'm like looking over and just I'm just like, Where's Bugs Bunny?

SPEAKER_03 40:34

Yeah, is he in there? He's in there somewhere. Well, I was trying to explain to my kids while we were on vacation because we went there and they had to watch what was on TV. They couldn't just turn on. So I was explaining to them as we were driving back and forth. When when I was little, we had a TV that had two knobs. It was like one to twelve, and then it was like, I guess it was 13 to 24.

SPEAKER_02 40:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:55

And I don't know how that all worked anymore. And then volume. But then you had the rabbit ears.

SPEAKER_01 40:58

Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_03 41:00

You get three channels.

SPEAKER_01 41:01

I had I had a little box TV that I I got when I was like, I don't know, 10. I had that thing forever. And it was in my room, and I had my Super Nintendo hooked up to it. And every day I would turn on the TV by pushing the button because there's no remote to it. Uh-huh. And I and you had to dial like a little, you know, thing that you had to clunk it to like whatever channel. I kept it on channel three. Yep. I turned on the TV and I saw a scramble of Indiana Jones for a second. And I was like, wait a minute. So I started banging on the TV and you know, moving the rabbit ears around. And it was so funny. I found that if I got a hanger in my right hand and then touched the top of the last of the TV, I could I could watch it. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:45

My parents like they would tell us like they would have to stand there. Like it was like you're just like you're gonna stand there. And like they would have to like take shifts for like 15 minutes apiece to like be able just to watch something. It's just like it's like hold it up! It's like we're losing the picture.

SPEAKER_03 41:59

It's like my arms getting tired, dude. Well, that's what we had the rabbit ears, and then I we had me and my brother had taken a thumbtack and put it by the window frame and had just a wire that strung out to it, and we could get like an extra channel. Nice. I think it was like PBS or something.

SPEAKER_01 42:13

I could watch Arthur.

SPEAKER_03 42:14

We watch Wishbone.

SPEAKER_01 42:15

Kid Kids will never understand the struggles. Not I mean my dad struggled. He's like, you kids with your remotes.

SPEAKER_02 42:21

He's like, when I was I was the remote. He was. He's like, I get called, like he'd be in the basement, and like his like my grandpa would call him upstairs, and my dad's like, I come upstairs. Like, what is dad? He's like, change the channel, and he's like, he's like, next one. Shh. And my dad would go back downstairs, and then my grandpa called him back up. He's like, make it louder.

SPEAKER_03 42:40

I mean, it wasn't like this too long after you know, in our childhood, but I remember there was at one point TV turned off.

SPEAKER_02 42:46

Oh, yeah, yeah, like TV stopped. Like TV went night night program.

SPEAKER_03 42:51

It would just be like the American flag waving after midnight or something.

SPEAKER_02 42:54

Or like the color thing.

SPEAKER_03 42:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:57

Or like that weird thing with like the Indian.

SPEAKER_03 42:59

Yeah, I remember that for that.

SPEAKER_01 43:00

From like Smallville. I remember the uh national anthem and then the they would do the color thing. So this has been a broadcast by PBS.

SPEAKER_03 43:08

TV just turned off. Good night, America. It's the time to go to bed. Yeah.

unknown 43:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:13

What a bizarre time it was.

SPEAKER_01 43:14

It was, you know. Like just to watch TV, you had to do all these like you know mystic seances to have it work, and then you know have the time to be there. And you never plan it appropriately. You're like, oh, my show's on at 3 30. So then 15 minutes after getting your TV freaking working, you know, to get catch the last half of whatever. And then but your kids nowadays they can just watch.

SPEAKER_02 43:39

You used to have to like write stuff down because you get to like the guide channel and you wait for it to scroll together. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:46

They still have 'em.

SPEAKER_01 43:47

They do for what?

SPEAKER_02 43:48

Old people who won't change.

SPEAKER_01 43:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 43:53

Like you go to like the guide channel. Like I remember like when that was like a thing, it's just like the guy like you could like see what was coming on, like you didn't have to. like the the next generation of of cable yeah like the guide channel and stuff and you can my dad be like huh jeopardy's on at seven and I'd see like something I wanted to watch was on seven I was like all right well I guess I'm not watching it dad wants to watch Jeopardy then you could record things yeah we get TiVo yeah Tivo everybody I use tapes I would record on cassette yeah I mean as you can see we had plenty of tapes yeah but but when TiVo became a thing it condensed that you put in like the VHS it was like and like it would be like it would come on and you like the gray like lines going up and you're like how's that why's that happened I always like the sound you know like the the warble of like the the when you recorded a movie on TV it would be like the my grandparents they had HBO like on accident and this is when the Sopranos was like this was probably like season two this was like 2000 2001 yeah and my grandpa would tape it the episodes for my parents and like they come and visit and like he'd like drop it off in like a like a package like it was contraband that they were supposed to have it. He's like I got a brick of VHS and it was like one time they did something with the cable with the intent with the wires outside and we got like 10 new channels on accident.

SPEAKER_01 45:19

Nice that like it took them a year to figure it out but like we got like we got HBO all of a sudden we had all these channels you know how they did ratings back then the Nielsen ratings yeah for old school before streaming stuff and all that you had like apply you had to apply to be a Nielsen fan they put like basically a like you know like a water meter for your cable on on your thing I think you got a discount on your cable package. Huh? Yeah but you had to watch you had to watch you had to give them data you couldn't just like sit there. So like you know you were a slave to your TV.

SPEAKER_02 45:50

It's just like a job it's like you had to punch in it's like I gotta watch Family Matters I gotta watch you know all in the family I gotta do something.

Real Dad Chaos And Roadside Drama

SPEAKER_01 45:58

Yeah it was weird times you know how stuff like that worked back in the day. But yeah anyways what are we talking about?

SPEAKER_02 46:06

We were talking about Mr. Mom and then we finished that but we talk about our trials and tribulations as dads who sometimes have to Mr. Mom.

SPEAKER_01 46:15

Yeah yeah I'm trying to think of some other shortcuts I did with kids. I would like watch documentaries that would get my kids sleepy and put on boring things like that. And usually I fell asleep before my kids did but trying to think of stuff.

SPEAKER_03 46:32

Nothing bores my son if like the TV changes he's like he's like I gotta look I gotta see well right now to to go to bed me and my son he always wants to watch Batman versus Ninja Turtles the anime or the animated movie that they have so we watch that and he quotes everything now I was like you're four but he'd be like oh gross like copying Michelangelo and my daughter right now we've been watching like we watched all the Lord of the rings so I'm introducing her to I guess kid friendly enough movies that you know that doesn't have a bunch of blood or cussing and all that yeah and but uh she she recently people dying in orcs getting their heads cut off yeah it's it's not blood it's it's black goop yeah but uh oil my daughter she saw me watching the Expedition Unknown which uh the Evan Stone guy that we talked to he's part of that well she saw me watching those and she's like that's kind of interesting so she wants to watch him like hunt Sasquatch and all those nuts she's the only one she doesn't like she's like I just don't want to watch him hunt the ghost I was like you don't see anything ghosts don't really like I don't care it's night you never do yeah I got my son we just finished uh well we did Dragon Ball Z we did the the all the way through super and then we did uh My Hero Academia and now we're doing Demon Slayer okay yeah so I I'm trying to get my son into Dragon Ball Z because we uh I have the Dragon Ball Sparking Zero on my PlayStation and he's kind of getting into games where like he can do a little more than just like drive smash buttons yeah so we were playing that and it's like four on four so we had all these characters. I showed him how to like power up your character like where he does the energy and then use a move so that's all he does he holds down that button and tap so you gotta either dodge or just get out of his way.

SPEAKER_02 48:16

Yeah he's in the he hasn't walked on his own yet he's got his walker which he the walker he is fast in that thing. He's taken my ankles out so many times or my wife's and the other like Tuesday I was taking apart the kitchen table to move it upstairs and take the table upstairs and bring it down to swap them out because my wife wanted that done and I got the table upside down and I'm like taking off like the wing nuts for the legs and he's just crashing into the table and he's just like laughing like cackling madly to himself. He's like as he's doing it and he looks like I'm like I'm like you're the worst assistant ever I'm like you haven't even started on your side of the table. Hold the flashlight steady. And I'm like go crash into the trash can well and he went woo and then he just sounds like R2 D2 he just makes these high pitch noises but his new thing is to like plant his feet and like throws his arms down like he's flexing and he just like looks at you and he's like and you're like are you pooping?

SPEAKER_03 49:20

We went to the beach me and my family last week and on our way down there well while we were there my wife was like you know a mom's job is very very time consuming and complicated. I said yeah but what about a dad's job? And she goes it can be dangerous on the way down there our one of our tires blew out on I-95 and I had to go all the way from the left lane all the way over to the side had to change the tire and I'm like hey can you do me a favor stand out here at the front of the car so I don't die because some of the 18 wheelers decided they didn't want to get over and there was like four feet between the tire that I'm changing and them.

SPEAKER_02 49:56

Yeah screw that that was a a little nerve wracking because some of them would move over but some of them just blow by and you're like rocking to the wind and you're like that was a pain that was 300 extra bucks that I didn't plan on spending money money remember when tires were like 80 bucks yeah America what a time it was well these were at least 100 and they weren't even the good ones yeah they were just ones that could get us down there back because you gotta replace that one and you gotta replace the other side so it's even yeah I did or you can just be like hey to probably just drive on the donut no I've I've put money into my cars um I got all new stuff and warranties and all that well my wife she was like well if you change the the donut you can put that on there and we can just drive down there and then when we get done with vacation and come back we can get I said I'm not driving because she thought the spare tire was an actual tire that was no that's to get you to a service in the station when I got up and held it out she goes what is that I was like that's the tire yeah because we were only like 400 yards from the exit so once I got that changed we went to Walmart and but I was like I'm not driving all the way to Florida on this geez no you wouldn't make it very far my sister did that she was just like she thought she could just drive on it on a donut yeah because she's got she has like the worst luck with her tires and it was like she was like driving on it and then got it like got it fixed and then like something happened to the other so we just put the donut back on it's like if you check the air on the donut or like replace the donut because this is like the eighth time it was like nah it's fine. It's like that's like the the nighttime it's just like a deflated tube. Yeah well my son did projectile vomit on me last week that was nice. Well it happens it hasn't peed on me in like a month and a half I was gonna say that will happen.

SPEAKER_03 51:43

He's getting rid of like the construction worker uh labels I can handle puke and pee the poop though no the poop especially there was one day it was just so bad like I went upstairs and I got my gas mask yeah and I put like the visor shield on it so I feel like the tinted and like I came down I had like latex gloves on and I was like arm rudder and my wife is just like looking at me like go upstairs she's like get out I was like you know I don't want to deal with poop but I can deal that better because then I can't puke because vomit I smell it I'm like I start I start gagging myself I'm like nah I can't do it when kids vomit it's not it doesn't stink no it goes everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 52:21

Yeah because there was months ago he had the flu and you know he was just like it was like just syringes of petiolite to just keep him hydrated and then like I got adventurous and I was like let me give you like just two ounces of formula because at that point he was up to like six and he had it and he's just hanging out and then he just looks at me and just goes all down my shirt and I'm like hey like that dad let me give you two ounces and I'm like you jerk because I I normally I do his bathtime stuff now so we've got a good system he knows we're not you know dawdling because like when it's time for him to get out like my wife will be standing there with like the towel wrap thing with the hood yeah to put him in and I'm like whatever toy he has like I'll swat it right out of his hand and I was like playtime's over and I pick him up and he's like doing his like flex thing and he just he's like I'm just holding him up and he's buck naked and he's just standing there like flexed out he's like and then he like curls in he looks like a little rotisserie chicken.

SPEAKER_01 53:18

Yeah your little boys like challenge you get he's starting to with like going into the dining room because he gets to the threshold stops and like just throws his head back to look at you with this like just you know crap eating grin and you're like no and he like takes a step forward and I'm like no I was like you back that bus up and then he's like because he got mad in his walker one day and he's just like crying he's like yeah and he's like throwing his arms up like Willem Defoe in Platoon and I'm like you want to get out and he's like yeah and I go to get him but he starts backpedaling and he just keeps backpedaling the whole way of the kitchen I'm just walking in front of him my arms out I'm like stop walking my my son I told him to we were cleaning up stuff before bedtime yesterday and I was like here go put your fire truck up and he goes that's that fire truck's heavy I was like yeah you you can pick it up he picks it up he goes I'm stronger than you I was like oh okay as you grab him pick him up and the truck go what were you saying I couldn't hear you let him have it let him build let him build that false sense of security I told him as he was putting it up I was like yeah you sure are you're strong buddy you're a big boy every once in a while like once every year my son's like yeah yeah let's let's let's wrestle let's let's let's see what's see what happens and then like you know I'll let him kind of get a little bit of uh an an ego let him think that he he can kind of you know wrestle me to the ground or whatever like I'm just going along with the motions and then you know I flat him out on his back and and make him say uncle before I let him up or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 54:49

I clotheslined my son. He was sitting on the bed and he's like you know we're playing kind of like rough house and he thinks it's funny and I just went and I just forearmed him like I mean not hard like it was it was the slowest clothesline of all time. But I like I clotheslined him into the pillows and my wife's like you just and he's like and he's like trying to like fight his way out. It's good for little boys like they gotta know well we had like an old boxer gonna throw out and I put pillows in his blanket and I sat him in and I just started sliding them across the market and into the couch and he was just like he like he like stopped and he was like and he looked at me and he's like like I'm ready like go again yeah it's fun yeah pretty soon he's gonna be like because he's 10 so my son will be a teenager and I'll be 40 something then I'll just let him beat me up never hit his body be too broken to fight back.

SPEAKER_03 55:43

I was teaching him how to do like the figure four and the ankle lock from wrestling his little bitty legs off trying to get him around my leg just so he could do the move to me.

SPEAKER_02 55:51

He couldn't even get his leg around mine I would do like I'd do like the pin like with the legs up and I'm just like he'll kick you off yeah like if you like because I would like pretend to fall on him and his like little legs would come up and he's got he's got some good leg strength and he like pushes like you know I'm like you know exaggeratedly throwing myself back and he's like nah like I did it yeah all right well we have killed an hour.

Ratings And Next Episode Tease

SPEAKER_01 56:17

So there you go Mr. Mom I don't know six out of ten.

SPEAKER_03 56:23

Yeah I mean I I enjoyed watching it it's not the greatest movie but it was fun to watch because I'd never seen it before weird I don't know like how modern audiences would interpret that movie to be honest with you.

SPEAKER_02 56:33

I'll just succeed that a dad can't be a mom and like raise with Chal run. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:39

And then they would be offended that he does succeed that well only a mom can do that she could have done it better.

SPEAKER_01 56:44

Yeah Sam says deadhead that's all we said deadhead yeah that's all we do nowadays we get offended by everything so that's all we can do these days I was offended by it's terrible super upset. Alright well tune in for our next episode where we're discussing news and reviews a menagerie of things. Yeah a menagerie goodbye from Mitch goodbye from Tomby from me hating goodbye see you at the grocery store let's get it on I'm here for poker poker canceled I don't think it's not bad