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#3715: Soft Lunch

Mike O'Meara, Robb Spewak, Josh Sroka

September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

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At Mike’s new country club, a “soft lunch” apparently means everything goes in the blender. The boys turn a discussion of social-media “soft launches” into a menu for older golfers, while Mike confesses to driving jitters, school-pickup naps, and an orange-creamsicle detour that Robb was once denied. A Land Remembered rekindles Mike’s love of reading, and Robb explains why his upcoming cataract surgery can’t come soon enough. Then it’s time for Robb’s definitive diet-soda power rankings, featuring a Fresca disappointment and a vigorous debate over whether Coke Zero in a bottle deserves its own spot. Plus, British comedy gets wonderfully ridiculous, Red Sox–Yankees playoff nerves kick in, Trevor Lawrence’s goal-line decision gets scrutinized, and an original Oompa Loompa returns to the chocolate factory with his son.

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[SPEAKER_11]: Josh Rocha!

[SPEAKER_11]: And Rob's speedwack.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Rob!

[SPEAKER_11]: It's only the beginning.

[SPEAKER_11]: And now, here's Mike.

[SPEAKER_02]: I know what you want.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, anyway, so um... what are you doing?

[SPEAKER_02]: What are you doing here?

[SPEAKER_12]: So today's countdown was roughly thirty-two seconds.

[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, at one point of those thirty-two seconds Mike did you decide that was going to be your opening guy because I know you didn't plan that going in.

[SPEAKER_12]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_12]: I do love that one stuff pops up between when our faces go away and when they come back.

[SPEAKER_02]: Was really active like before the show today talking about how many minutes in all the discuss my thing I'm not gonna discuss and 24 minutes 24 minutes if for when I discuss it.

[SPEAKER_13]: Yes Well, discuss or mention take a gamble mention use though it used the the artwork.

[SPEAKER_13]: I won't mention it at all today

[SPEAKER_12]: I will say.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now that you're all being like that, we're not being like anything.

[SPEAKER_12]: You know what I will mention today?

[SPEAKER_12]: What's that?

[SPEAKER_02]: That I'm a huge fan of British television, Jimmy Carr in particular.

[SPEAKER_02]: I love his stand-up, and he's just a very unique comedian from the UK, and I think he also does a lot of television over Britain.

[SPEAKER_02]: This will not go away, this is the setup, and it's a very limited setup for this video that I sent Josh, all I can tell you about it is it seems to be a competition for people not to laugh.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I think we're looking at.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the lady that performs here her job is to make people laugh.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's really the only setup I can give it.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think there are panelists on it.

[SPEAKER_02]: And Jimmy Carr is one of the panelists, as well as other British celebrities.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's all I can really tell you.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then this lady who has a particular gift, or she's doing it with some mechanism, I'm not sure.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's just roll the tape and I'll get it over with.

[SPEAKER_02]: So our...

[SPEAKER_02]: listeners and viewers can enjoy this tape from British television, ladies and gentlemen, take it away.

[SPEAKER_02]: One one thousand.

[SPEAKER_13]: Did you get it?

[SPEAKER_13]: I got it and I can hear it.

[SPEAKER_13]: There it goes.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, can you start it from the beginning?

[SPEAKER_02]: Can you start it from the because she comes out with the

[SPEAKER_02]: She's opening a book.

[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.

[SPEAKER_02]: She says, yeah, I'm fine.

[SPEAKER_07]: Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas.

[SPEAKER_07]: Do not go gentle into that good night.

[SPEAKER_02]: This episode of the Michael Marasio is brought to you by the TMOS Amazon portal. [SPEAKER_02]: Remember to click the Amazon link at TMOSpodcast.com before you shop. [SPEAKER_02]: It's that easy. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, on with the show. [SPEAKER_06]: My dear guests, I am Mr. Rock. [SPEAKER_06]: You're host. [SPEAKER_06]: Welcome. [SPEAKER_06]: Fantasy Island. [SPEAKER_11]: Michael Mara, radio entertainment. [SPEAKER_11]: You can listen to the Michael Mero Show at tmos.com or anywhere find podcasts or fun. [SPEAKER_11]: Welcome to our show. [SPEAKER_11]: We're going to start with the race. [SPEAKER_03]: It's got to be fucking look at our phone. [SPEAKER_11]: There's money for everyone. [SPEAKER_11]: It's the Michael Mero Show with Michael Mero. [SPEAKER_11]: Bye! [SPEAKER_11]: Josh Rocha! [SPEAKER_11]: And Rob's speedwack. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Rob! [SPEAKER_11]: It's only the beginning. [SPEAKER_11]: And now, here's Mike. [SPEAKER_02]: I know what you want. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, anyway, so um... what are you doing? [SPEAKER_02]: What are you doing here? [SPEAKER_12]: So today's countdown was roughly thirty-two seconds. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, at one point of those thirty-two seconds Mike did you decide that was going to be your opening guy because I know you didn't plan that going in. [SPEAKER_12]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_12]: I do love that one stuff pops up between when our faces go away and when they come back. [SPEAKER_02]: Was really active like before the show today talking about how many minutes in all the discuss my thing I'm not gonna discuss and 24 minutes 24 minutes if for when I discuss it. [SPEAKER_13]: Yes Well, discuss or mention take a gamble mention use though it used the the artwork. [SPEAKER_13]: I won't mention it at all today [SPEAKER_12]: I will say. [SPEAKER_02]: Now that you're all being like that, we're not being like anything. [SPEAKER_12]: You know what I will mention today? [SPEAKER_12]: What's that? [SPEAKER_02]: That I'm a huge fan of British television, Jimmy Carr in particular. [SPEAKER_02]: I love his stand-up, and he's just a very unique comedian from the UK, and I think he also does a lot of television over Britain. [SPEAKER_02]: This will not go away, this is the setup, and it's a very limited setup for this video that I sent Josh, all I can tell you about it is it seems to be a competition for people not to laugh. [SPEAKER_02]: That's what I think we're looking at. [SPEAKER_02]: And the lady that performs here her job is to make people laugh. [SPEAKER_02]: And that's really the only setup I can give it. [SPEAKER_02]: And I think there are panelists on it. [SPEAKER_02]: And Jimmy Carr is one of the panelists, as well as other British celebrities. [SPEAKER_02]: That's all I can really tell you. [SPEAKER_02]: And then this lady who has a particular gift, or she's doing it with some mechanism, I'm not sure. [SPEAKER_02]: Let's just roll the tape and I'll get it over with. [SPEAKER_02]: So our... [SPEAKER_02]: listeners and viewers can enjoy this tape from British television, ladies and gentlemen, take it away. [SPEAKER_02]: One one thousand. [SPEAKER_13]: Did you get it? [SPEAKER_13]: I got it and I can hear it. [SPEAKER_13]: There it goes. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, can you start it from the beginning? [SPEAKER_02]: Can you start it from the because she comes out with the [SPEAKER_02]: She's opening a book. [SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: She says, yeah, I'm fine. [SPEAKER_07]: Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas. [SPEAKER_07]: Do not go gentle into that good night. [SPEAKER_07]: Old age should burn and rave at close of day. [SPEAKER_07]: Rage. [SPEAKER_07]: Rage against the dying of the light. [SPEAKER_07]: Because their words had fought no lightning day, do not go gentle into that good night. [SPEAKER_07]: Good men, the last wave by crying, how bright their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, rage, rage. [SPEAKER_07]: Against the dying of the light. [SPEAKER_07]: Wild men who caught and sang the song in flight and learned to late they grieved it on its way. [SPEAKER_07]: Ah. [UNKNOWN]: BAH! [UNKNOWN]: BAH! [UNKNOWN]: BAH! [SPEAKER_04]: Is that why I just got a get-up? [SPEAKER_07]: Do not go gentle, into that good note. [SPEAKER_07]: That is eyes of waterway. [SPEAKER_07]: Grave men near death. [SPEAKER_07]: Ah. [SPEAKER_07]: BAH. [SPEAKER_07]: Who see with blinding sight. [SPEAKER_07]: Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay. [SPEAKER_07]: Rage. [SPEAKER_07]: Rage against the dying of the, uh, sorry, light. [SPEAKER_07]: And you, my father, they're on the sad height. [SPEAKER_13]: I've gone. [SPEAKER_13]: I fully gone. [SPEAKER_07]: Bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. [SPEAKER_07]: Do not go gentle into that good light. [SPEAKER_07]: Rage, rage, against the dying of the light. [SPEAKER_03]: Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, [SPEAKER_02]: And she was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, [SPEAKER_12]: You know it would be a good panelist on that show, who never left, is Jimmy Fallon? [SPEAKER_12]: Jimmy Fallon, who laughs at everything? [SPEAKER_12]: Yes, that's for guy. [SPEAKER_02]: Have you gotten enough of the brits or would you like just a little bit more? [SPEAKER_12]: Well Mike, I would like to remind you that they are still our enemy. [SPEAKER_02]: They are. [SPEAKER_12]: They attacked us in 1812. [SPEAKER_02]: Well these young ladies didn't do it that are having glass of wine and sitting on some sort of device that's making him vibrate. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, it's a pack of crayons, it's really shown as true colors. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, my toddler, it's just not today, it's resisting, I'm right. [SPEAKER_12]: The only way to drink one is certainly what you're worried about. [SPEAKER_03]: wanted to draw the warmth and I simply need to draw a life somewhere. [SPEAKER_02]: So they're telling jokes as they're sitting on a vibrating device. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Wow. [SPEAKER_02]: I know. [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe you should be the guy we're talking about. [SPEAKER_02]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_02]: No, we can stop it now. [SPEAKER_12]: I enjoy the stick. [SPEAKER_12]: Okay. [SPEAKER_12]: What kind of sourd me on it is immediately, I thought, if I had to meet those women, I'd hate them. [SPEAKER_12]: I would really, really hate them. [SPEAKER_12]: I'm pretty sure. [SPEAKER_13]: I am starting to wonder with the whole setup of who got the idea of that's built wine on ourselves and giggle and it'll go well on YouTube. [SPEAKER_12]: I think that the first factor had to be the vibrations though, because I'm sure there was a lot of time. [SPEAKER_02]: And I just, you know, I'm a sharer. [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I had to share that's a good way to end the show on the cruise with a vibrating sea. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, with Robin Mike back to back. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, technically aren't you violating it by bringing up the, uh, the cruise. [SPEAKER_02]: Really isn't. [SPEAKER_13]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, [SPEAKER_02]: It's true. [SPEAKER_02]: The bed is you cannot. [SPEAKER_02]: That's right. [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not. [SPEAKER_02]: And I I suppose I'm dwelling on it, but it's still fresh in my mind. [SPEAKER_02]: So maybe that's what. [SPEAKER_12]: But anyway, what sort of vibrating device you suppose that was you suppose that was like a like a adult and adult product? [SPEAKER_13]: No, I have one. [SPEAKER_13]: All right, it's a question. [SPEAKER_12]: It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it [SPEAKER_02]: It's a workout machine, Rob. [SPEAKER_02]: That's what it is. [SPEAKER_12]: Something that vibrates your feet. [SPEAKER_12]: Isn't that sort of tantamount of a 1950s machine that was just about the job it is? [SPEAKER_12]: The maximum percent. [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, it's the new version of the belt. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, okay. [SPEAKER_12]: I'm better. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: Why would vibrating your feet be a workout thing? [SPEAKER_13]: It moves your entire body. [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, because you stand. [SPEAKER_13]: You stand on it. [SPEAKER_13]: So everything, everything shakes when you're standing on it. [SPEAKER_02]: You really have never seen it. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think so. [SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: I imagine that it would use a lot of batteries. [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's electric. [SPEAKER_02]: I think you plug it in. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_12]: You know what I wish you probably have to use. [SPEAKER_12]: You probably have to use a USB plug. [SPEAKER_12]: I hate that. [SPEAKER_12]: We don't get problems. [SPEAKER_13]: It's a normal big plug. [SPEAKER_13]: It's a big plug. [SPEAKER_13]: It doesn't come with a little remote. [SPEAKER_13]: So you can increase the vibration while you're standing on it. [SPEAKER_12]: Now could you give the remote to someone else and they could control the speed of your vibration? [SPEAKER_12]: Now then it's fun. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: Or that was done in the series. [SPEAKER_02]: Try to get more noise. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Where the vibration you could control it and that so weird energy. [SPEAKER_12]: It's a category. [SPEAKER_02]: Weird energy. [SPEAKER_02]: This show. [SPEAKER_02]: See that. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, shoot your wand with like Willy Wonka is that what happened? [SPEAKER_12]: No, not at all, not at all. [SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, [SPEAKER_02]: I don't give you shit why they're sitting on it just a stupid thing to do would be funny and all of us are doing Alan Kings the serious business. [SPEAKER_02]: No, I don't know. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think there's a series on that. [SPEAKER_12]: This is a comedy. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I don't expect anything from him, b

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