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TMOS Classic: October 2nd

Mike O'Meara, Robb Spewak, Josh Sroka

October 2, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

A trip through the TMOS archives featuring Mike and Robb’s interview with Wayne Newton, Oscar’s visit with the Bush family in Kennebunkport, and a look back at the show’s eighth anniversary. Classic stories, familiar voices, and plenty of laughs.Our Sponsors:* Check out…

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[SPEAKER_09]: Hey, Americans!

[SPEAKER_09]: Exciting news for 2024.

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[SPEAKER_09]: It's the seamless way to snag that fifth hour and show love for your favorite podcast.

[SPEAKER_09]: Thanks a bunch, and Happy Holidays!

[SPEAKER_06]: It's the Michael Mery Show.

[SPEAKER_06]: And now, the best of all Mery.

[SPEAKER_06]: Here's Rob.

[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you, dude Walker and hello.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's me, your old buddy, Rob.

[SPEAKER_07]: I hope you survived Christmas.

[SPEAKER_07]: This is the best of the Michael Mery Show.

[SPEAKER_07]: And it is Boxing Day.

[SPEAKER_07]: So, today, only segments featuring Max Bayer's senior and Sugar Ray Leonard.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'm kidding, of course.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, today's the day after Christmas on the bot moss get together, episode number 31, 87.

[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you for taking the time to click and download and stream and whatnot.

[SPEAKER_07]: We've got a great, great best of for you today.

[SPEAKER_07]: Today is a, it's got a series of segments.

[SPEAKER_07]: that I love because I wasn't here when they first ran.

[SPEAKER_07]: So when we listen to these today, it's like the first time I heard them.

[SPEAKER_07]: We reference it a lot.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's when Oscar went up and hung out with the Bush family and Kenny Bunkport on Walker's Point in Maine, a great story and it's a lot of fun.

[SPEAKER_07]: Also, even though we just observed our

[SPEAKER_07]: Was it our 14th anniversary?

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, we look back on our 8th anniversary.

[SPEAKER_07]: But let's start with one of my favorite moments ever on the Michael Marishow because it happened out of the blue and very suddenly for years, I've been trying to get Wayne Newton.

[SPEAKER_07]: The King of Las Vegas to do the micro-marisho.

[SPEAKER_07]: I would send emails and contact his people and reach out constantly.

[SPEAKER_07]: And nothing ever came about until one morning, after we recorded the show, Wayne's people called and said, Wayne can do today.

[SPEAKER_07]: at like 3 p.m. your time.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's the only time he can do it.

[SPEAKER_07]: And I said, we'll make it happen.

[SPEAKER_07]: So I called Mike Mike went to his home studio.

[SPEAKER_07]: I was still in Washington, B.C.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oscar was doing his real job.

[SPEAKER_07]: So he couldn't even be part of this.

[SPEAKER_07]: So one afternoon, Mike and I sat down and talked to Wayne Newton.

[SPEAKER_07]: pretty damn cool.

[SPEAKER_07]: And you know what, a good interview, and I think you will appreciate it.

[SPEAKER_07]: So let's do a little Wayne Newton talk and right here on the best of the Michael Maris show.

[SPEAKER_09]: I have to be honest with you.

[SPEAKER_09]: I have seen this man twice.

[SPEAKER_09]: I have seen him in Las Vegas.

[SPEAKER_09]: I have seen him at the Birchmeer, along with my old radio partner, Don Geronimo and Rob Speedwack.

[SPEAKER_09]: Remember we got the suits and ties on and we went out to see Wayne at the Birchmeer.

[SPEAKER_09]: Do you remember that?

[SPEAKER_07]: We were the best dress crew in the crowd.

[SPEAKER_07]: I know that.

[SPEAKER_09]: Ladies and gentlemen, I am thrilled beyond words to, well, I funny words.

[SPEAKER_09]: I am thrilled to welcome the midnight idol Mr. Las Vegas, a legend, a true legend.

[SPEAKER_09]: And not many of those around anymore.

[SPEAKER_09]: I will tell you, Wayne Newton is on the Michael Maris Show.

[SPEAKER_08]: Wayne Newton, well, you guys.

[SPEAKER_08]: Hey, Wayne Newton.

[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, this is so we've been trying.

[SPEAKER_09]: Rob, how long have you tried to get Wayne Newton to come on the other micro marriage over three years now?

[SPEAKER_07]: I was so delighted to get the email last night that you had some time for us today.

[SPEAKER_09]: Hey, Americans! [SPEAKER_09]: Exciting news for 2024. [SPEAKER_09]: Introducing our brand new bonus show platform, accessing all the bonus content is now a breeze. [SPEAKER_09]: You asked us, we listen. [SPEAKER_09]: Visit tmoestore.com, click on bonus, and voila! [SPEAKER_09]: It's the seamless way to snag that fifth hour and show love for your favorite podcast. [SPEAKER_09]: Thanks a bunch, and Happy Holidays! [SPEAKER_06]: It's the Michael Mery Show. [SPEAKER_06]: And now, the best of all Mery. [SPEAKER_06]: Here's Rob. [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you, dude Walker and hello. [SPEAKER_07]: It's me, your old buddy, Rob. [SPEAKER_07]: I hope you survived Christmas. [SPEAKER_07]: This is the best of the Michael Mery Show. [SPEAKER_07]: And it is Boxing Day. [SPEAKER_07]: So, today, only segments featuring Max Bayer's senior and Sugar Ray Leonard. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm kidding, of course. [SPEAKER_07]: No, today's the day after Christmas on the bot moss get together, episode number 31, 87. [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you for taking the time to click and download and stream and whatnot. [SPEAKER_07]: We've got a great, great best of for you today. [SPEAKER_07]: Today is a, it's got a series of segments. [SPEAKER_07]: that I love because I wasn't here when they first ran. [SPEAKER_07]: So when we listen to these today, it's like the first time I heard them. [SPEAKER_07]: We reference it a lot. [SPEAKER_07]: It's when Oscar went up and hung out with the Bush family and Kenny Bunkport on Walker's Point in Maine, a great story and it's a lot of fun. [SPEAKER_07]: Also, even though we just observed our [SPEAKER_07]: Was it our 14th anniversary? [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, we look back on our 8th anniversary. [SPEAKER_07]: But let's start with one of my favorite moments ever on the Michael Marishow because it happened out of the blue and very suddenly for years, I've been trying to get Wayne Newton. [SPEAKER_07]: The King of Las Vegas to do the micro-marisho. [SPEAKER_07]: I would send emails and contact his people and reach out constantly. [SPEAKER_07]: And nothing ever came about until one morning, after we recorded the show, Wayne's people called and said, Wayne can do today. [SPEAKER_07]: at like 3 p.m. your time. [SPEAKER_07]: It's the only time he can do it. [SPEAKER_07]: And I said, we'll make it happen. [SPEAKER_07]: So I called Mike Mike went to his home studio. [SPEAKER_07]: I was still in Washington, B.C. [SPEAKER_07]: Oscar was doing his real job. [SPEAKER_07]: So he couldn't even be part of this. [SPEAKER_07]: So one afternoon, Mike and I sat down and talked to Wayne Newton. [SPEAKER_07]: pretty damn cool. [SPEAKER_07]: And you know what, a good interview, and I think you will appreciate it. [SPEAKER_07]: So let's do a little Wayne Newton talk and right here on the best of the Michael Maris show. [SPEAKER_09]: I have to be honest with you. [SPEAKER_09]: I have seen this man twice. [SPEAKER_09]: I have seen him in Las Vegas. [SPEAKER_09]: I have seen him at the Birchmeer, along with my old radio partner, Don Geronimo and Rob Speedwack. [SPEAKER_09]: Remember we got the suits and ties on and we went out to see Wayne at the Birchmeer. [SPEAKER_09]: Do you remember that? [SPEAKER_07]: We were the best dress crew in the crowd. [SPEAKER_07]: I know that. [SPEAKER_09]: Ladies and gentlemen, I am thrilled beyond words to, well, I funny words. [SPEAKER_09]: I am thrilled to welcome the midnight idol Mr. Las Vegas, a legend, a true legend. [SPEAKER_09]: And not many of those around anymore. [SPEAKER_09]: I will tell you, Wayne Newton is on the Michael Maris Show. [SPEAKER_08]: Wayne Newton, well, you guys. [SPEAKER_08]: Hey, Wayne Newton. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh, this is so we've been trying. [SPEAKER_09]: Rob, how long have you tried to get Wayne Newton to come on the other micro marriage over three years now? [SPEAKER_07]: I was so delighted to get the email last night that you had some time for us today. [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you for making the time, sir. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I got to say I've been looking forward to it and I'm looking forward to the concerts. [SPEAKER_01]: So guys are so real pleasure. [SPEAKER_09]: You can get all the information on Wayne at WayneNewton.com. [SPEAKER_09]: That's the official site of Mr. Las Vegas. [SPEAKER_09]: Before we start with anything, I want to get it right out of the way. [SPEAKER_09]: Wayne, before we get started, can you say anything about monkey gate? [SPEAKER_09]: You don't live a oxidation and do it anymore. [SPEAKER_09]: But oh my God, one of the monkeys bit a little girl. [SPEAKER_09]: What's happened since you left? [SPEAKER_09]: The monkeys are gone. [SPEAKER_01]: Have gone insane. [SPEAKER_01]: The truth of the matter is, I really don't know anything about it. [SPEAKER_01]: I've never served or anything like that. [SPEAKER_01]: And so I know less than you guys know, because I don't really read the internet a whole lot. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: You don't worry about it, Wayne. [SPEAKER_09]: I read a lot about it and it doesn't seem like it's going to be that big of a deal, but they're still associating you with the Accidation and it's Mr. Las Vegas still, Mr. Las Vegas after all these years. [SPEAKER_09]: What is the key, Wayne, to doing what you do and continuing to do it such an amazing run? [SPEAKER_09]: What keeps you going? [SPEAKER_09]: What keeps you [SPEAKER_01]: I got to tell you that when I was four years old, my parents took me to see a grandal upper road show in Rona, Virginia, and it was Hank Williams, Hawkshell Hawkins, and Kitty Wells. [SPEAKER_01]: And we were so far back in the area that I really couldn't see the performers. [SPEAKER_01]: I saw if I saw myself looking around at the audience around me, and I saw the happiness that those people brought them, and I looked at my mom and I said, that's what I want [SPEAKER_01]: And that's what has been for me is to try and bring some avenues into people's life that might be a little stressed out about everything that's going on. [SPEAKER_01]: So that's what's kept me going and is the look on the audience in space. [SPEAKER_09]: You know, when I think of you Wayne Newton, and I don't know how many years ago Vegas vacation was a big hit, a big film hit, but you seem to write the book on not taking yourself too seriously, of understanding that the man, the image at the Mr. Las Vegas thing, how important was that, not taking yourself too seriously in your career? [SPEAKER_09]: Because I think it opened a lot of doors for you, didn't it? [SPEAKER_01]: Like Lucille Ball in French and Afro and Bobby Darren and Jack Benny and those names Well, I love hearing those names because I learned from them not not any less in situation, but just observing them and all of them have a great dignity about them and [SPEAKER_01]: the reality of having some notoriety, the thing that goes with that most importantly is how you handle yourself in public. [SPEAKER_01]: So I think I learned it from the masters and it's always just simply going to part of my DNA. [SPEAKER_09]: I'm an impressionist. [SPEAKER_09]: I feel like I should send you royalty checks. [SPEAKER_09]: I've been doing it, you know, I'm a low level one. [SPEAKER_09]: I'm not one of the biggies. [SPEAKER_09]: So I mean, you know, I'm lucky to have this podcast to be honest with you, Wayne, but I've impersonated you for years. [SPEAKER_09]: Did it ever did anyone impressionist or impression of you get under your skin? [SPEAKER_09]: And is there anyone you enjoyed more than the others? [SPEAKER_09]: I mean, you've been impersonated forever. [SPEAKER_09]: Is there anything that stood out with that? [SPEAKER_09]: I mean, you have to have you have to take it as fun, I guess, right? [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you have to, and you have to also realize that some of the people present company excluded, but some of the people did not handle themselves well in public. [SPEAKER_01]: And we had a when an impersonator in Vegas some years ago, that was just rude to everybody. [SPEAKER_01]: And it would come back to me that, uh, [SPEAKER_01]: When it was at a barbershop in at the Riviera, he was rude to everybody. [SPEAKER_01]: So I had to send the guy a note and I did because it wasn't only my persona that he was messing with. [SPEAKER_01]: the importance of his own career. [SPEAKER_09]: You know, I'm thinking I'm hearing you say this, and I asked you a question based on me doing an impression of Wayne, and then I realized you're so big, and we're so thrilled to have you on this show. [SPEAKER_09]: You have, there are Wayne Newton impersonate. [SPEAKER_09]: Yes, exactly. [SPEAKER_09]: This impersonate. [SPEAKER_09]: That's what he was talking about. [SPEAKER_09]: Rob, I know you're, you're thrilled. [SPEAKER_09]: You've been trying to get Wayne on the show for a long time. [SPEAKER_09]: It's Rob's B-Wack Wayne. [SPEAKER_07]: Wayne, there's such a pleasure to chat with you. [SPEAKER_07]: You brought up some amazing names there. [SPEAKER_07]: I can't imagine sharing a stage with Jackie Gleason or Lucille Ball, but when you say Bobby Darren, I must ask. [SPEAKER_07]: I've heard that the song, Donkishane, which by the way, now it's 56th anniversary of being a song that everyone knows. [SPEAKER_07]: Congratulations on one of the greatest hits of all time. [SPEAKER_07]: Is it true Bobby Darren brought Donkishane to you? [SPEAKER_01]: He did, what he did is he saw my first television show, National Television Show, which was Jackie Glyson. [SPEAKER_02]: The Jackie Glyson Show! [SPEAKER_01]: He saw that, and he checked around the sea, where I was working. [SPEAKER_01]: We were at the Lounge at the Copacabana, just so we could stay in New York and do more Glyson shows. [SPEAKER_01]: And so he came to my opening, which was the next night after the first Glyson Show. [SPEAKER_01]: and he sat in the audience and I walked off and I looked back because it was a small room and I saw Bobby Darron sitting there. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I went into temporary paralysis. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember what I sang or said or anything like that. [SPEAKER_01]: But when I finished the first set, I went to walk off stage and there was a waiter standing there and he said Mr. Darron wants to meet you. [SPEAKER_01]: And [SPEAKER_01]: And I said, I know, he said, well, I saw you on a jacking leash and show last night. [SPEAKER_01]: And he said, I came here asking a question. [SPEAKER_01]: And I said, yes, I don't go ahead. [SPEAKER_01]: And he said, you're recording. [SPEAKER_01]: I said, no, so I'm not. [SPEAKER_01]: He said, well, you are now. [SPEAKER_01]: You and I will be in the studio next week. [SPEAKER_01]: And I will be producing your records from this point forward. [SPEAKER_06]: Wow. [SPEAKER_01]: And then someone had an ex-week, it was studio, the song he handed me was Donkishan. [SPEAKER_01]: So while I was learning it with the pianist of the session, Bobby was working with the rest of the band to make sure that the arrangement was exactly the way he wanted it. [SPEAKER_01]: And I found out about a year after Donkishan had been relieved and became a monster of a head. [SPEAKER_01]: for Bobby Darren to record and follow his head of Macnamak with him. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, and it was your signature sauce, it makes all the sense of the whip. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you for all the joy and pain But you show second balcony Was the place with me, second seat Go that street, you are sweet [SPEAKER_09]: Wayne, you're so nice to join us, and we want to make sure that we get our plugs in. [SPEAKER_09]: Your show, the ongoing engagement up close and personal, is that that's a different kind of show than your normal show that you do in the bigger theaters? [SPEAKER_01]: Well, actually our normal show is a small part of the up close and persona

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