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#3714: Three Single Waffles

Mike O'Meara, Robb Spewak, Josh Sroka

September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

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Three people. Three waffles. Absolutely no side dishes. Mike’s baseball weekend ends at Waffle House, but not before another umpire showdown and a team dinner at WingHouse that turns out to be considerably less family-friendly than expected. The boys investigate baseball’s reality-TV moms, overpriced dreams of athletic glory, and the fine art of letting kids be kids. Robb’s Halloween spirit faces an intervention courtesy of black ranch dressing, while he and Josh unveil WonkaCast—and Mike would like to remind everyone that he hasn’t retired yet. Plus, a capybara café, an 86-year-old speed demon, Helen Mirren appreciation, Charlie Callas on Carson, and an Ace Hardware shoplifting story that puts electrical parts in a place they were never meant to go.

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[SPEAKER_09]: Ladies and gentlemen, Sunny and Share.

[SPEAKER_07]: Michael Merra, Radio Entertainment.

[SPEAKER_07]: You can listen to the Michael Merucho at tmosponcast.com or anywhere fine-puncaster fun.

[SPEAKER_07]: Welcome to our show.

[SPEAKER_07]: We're going to start the race.

[SPEAKER_10]: It's got to be fucking looking at my phone.

[SPEAKER_07]: There's plenty for everyone.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's the Michael Merucho.

[SPEAKER_07]: With Michael Merucho.

[SPEAKER_07]: Bye!

[SPEAKER_07]: Josh Rooka.

[SPEAKER_07]: And Rob Speedway.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's only the beginning.

[SPEAKER_09]: And now, here's Mike.

[SPEAKER_09]: John's key time and rhythm to the brain.

[SPEAKER_08]: Name a Josh, great hit record name.

[SPEAKER_08]: Not a lot of the.

[SPEAKER_09]: Not a lot of the.

[SPEAKER_09]: The peak goes on.

[SPEAKER_08]: Had to go records.

[SPEAKER_09]: in the intro that Rob played to start our show.

[SPEAKER_09]: That was their theme song because that was their biggest hit, Sunny and Share that did the beat goes on.

[SPEAKER_09]: The beat goes on.

[SPEAKER_08]: Very good trivia question because most people assumed that the theme to the Sunny and Share show was, I got you babe, but the theme is actually the beat goes on.

[SPEAKER_09]: And I would say I got you babe might be my favorite Sunny and Share song.

[SPEAKER_08]: One of my favorite songs ever, actually.

[SPEAKER_08]: I think it's a very good song.

[SPEAKER_09]: I got you, babe.

[SPEAKER_09]: You know we can you, babe.

[SPEAKER_08]: For classic duet, that's something we could prepare for the crews you're in high.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure there's a karaoke lounge.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, we could have a karaoke lounge.

[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, call it for us.

[SPEAKER_09]: Um, anyway, welcome to the Michael Mara show.

[SPEAKER_09]: Great to have you along here on Monday.

[SPEAKER_09]: It was a busy weekend of travel.

[SPEAKER_09]: Once again, I believe all the baseball tournaments that I attend are an hour and a half up the road in Sarasota and, uh, I don't know why, but that's where we go.

[SPEAKER_09]: We go to Sarasota.

[SPEAKER_09]: So, uh, it was drive up on Saturday, drive back on Saturday night, drive up on Sunday morning, lose a game and come right back on Sunday morning.

[SPEAKER_09]: No, if you

[SPEAKER_09]: No temptation to go watch the Red Sox on Sunday?

[SPEAKER_09]: No, no temptation whatsoever.

[SPEAKER_09]: We were too depressed to do that.

[SPEAKER_09]: And if you had been cruising along on the interstate, Ruth 75, somewhere outside of Fort Myers, Florida, and you had pulled your car off into a one of the finer chain eateries in America, a place with the initials WH, would you like to guess?

[SPEAKER_08]: Not the White House.

[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, God, one word, right?

[SPEAKER_08]: How awful house.

[SPEAKER_08]: Waffle house.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_09]: Once again, my eating and the individual waffle.

[SPEAKER_09]: And that's it.

[SPEAKER_09]: Not one other thing.

[SPEAKER_09]: Carla had a waffle.

[SPEAKER_09]: Michael had a waffle.

[SPEAKER_09]: Daddy had a waffle.

[SPEAKER_09]: This episode of the Michael Meracial is brought to you by the TMOS Amazon Portal. [SPEAKER_09]: Remember to click the Amazon link at TMOSpodcast.com before you shop. [SPEAKER_09]: It's that easy. [SPEAKER_09]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_09]: Now, on with the show. [SPEAKER_09]: Ladies and gentlemen, Sunny and Share. [SPEAKER_07]: Michael Merra, Radio Entertainment. [SPEAKER_07]: You can listen to the Michael Merucho at tmosponcast.com or anywhere fine-puncaster fun. [SPEAKER_07]: Welcome to our show. [SPEAKER_07]: We're going to start the race. [SPEAKER_10]: It's got to be fucking looking at my phone. [SPEAKER_07]: There's plenty for everyone. [SPEAKER_07]: It's the Michael Merucho. [SPEAKER_07]: With Michael Merucho. [SPEAKER_07]: Bye! [SPEAKER_07]: Josh Rooka. [SPEAKER_07]: And Rob Speedway. [SPEAKER_07]: It's only the beginning. [SPEAKER_09]: And now, here's Mike. [SPEAKER_09]: John's key time and rhythm to the brain. [SPEAKER_08]: Name a Josh, great hit record name. [SPEAKER_08]: Not a lot of the. [SPEAKER_09]: Not a lot of the. [SPEAKER_09]: The peak goes on. [SPEAKER_08]: Had to go records. [SPEAKER_09]: in the intro that Rob played to start our show. [SPEAKER_09]: That was their theme song because that was their biggest hit, Sunny and Share that did the beat goes on. [SPEAKER_09]: The beat goes on. [SPEAKER_08]: Very good trivia question because most people assumed that the theme to the Sunny and Share show was, I got you babe, but the theme is actually the beat goes on. [SPEAKER_09]: And I would say I got you babe might be my favorite Sunny and Share song. [SPEAKER_08]: One of my favorite songs ever, actually. [SPEAKER_08]: I think it's a very good song. [SPEAKER_09]: I got you, babe. [SPEAKER_09]: You know we can you, babe. [SPEAKER_08]: For classic duet, that's something we could prepare for the crews you're in high. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure there's a karaoke lounge. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, we could have a karaoke lounge. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, call it for us. [SPEAKER_09]: Um, anyway, welcome to the Michael Mara show. [SPEAKER_09]: Great to have you along here on Monday. [SPEAKER_09]: It was a busy weekend of travel. [SPEAKER_09]: Once again, I believe all the baseball tournaments that I attend are an hour and a half up the road in Sarasota and, uh, I don't know why, but that's where we go. [SPEAKER_09]: We go to Sarasota. [SPEAKER_09]: So, uh, it was drive up on Saturday, drive back on Saturday night, drive up on Sunday morning, lose a game and come right back on Sunday morning. [SPEAKER_09]: No, if you [SPEAKER_09]: No temptation to go watch the Red Sox on Sunday? [SPEAKER_09]: No, no temptation whatsoever. [SPEAKER_09]: We were too depressed to do that. [SPEAKER_09]: And if you had been cruising along on the interstate, Ruth 75, somewhere outside of Fort Myers, Florida, and you had pulled your car off into a one of the finer chain eateries in America, a place with the initials WH, would you like to guess? [SPEAKER_08]: Not the White House. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh, God, one word, right? [SPEAKER_08]: How awful house. [SPEAKER_08]: Waffle house. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_09]: Once again, my eating and the individual waffle. [SPEAKER_09]: And that's it. [SPEAKER_09]: Not one other thing. [SPEAKER_09]: Carla had a waffle. [SPEAKER_09]: Michael had a waffle. [SPEAKER_09]: Daddy had a waffle. [SPEAKER_09]: And I don't know if you want to do dollars. [SPEAKER_09]: What was like five bucks was great. [SPEAKER_08]: This statistics are actually in for this fiscal year voted once again The stickiest restaurant in America. [SPEAKER_09]: It was sticky. [SPEAKER_09]: It was sticky, but sticky. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah Waffle house or the Charles town cell Charles town casino in Charles town was Virginia. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh waffle house. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, they're both very sticky though [SPEAKER_09]: I now you have been to one of my favorite places I used to call it the bad place. [SPEAKER_09]: That's where the term bad place came from. [SPEAKER_09]: You have been there far more often recently than I have. [SPEAKER_09]: So tell me is it still could it still use a good bath bathing? [SPEAKER_08]: Um, if you went in with a roll of paper towels and a bottle of wind decks, you'd be busy for a while. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't think that the problem I have is that, you know, I always find myself to the roulette table, which is stupid because you can't win really at roulette, but it's fun because of the spinning and everything. [SPEAKER_02]: When you stack your roulette chips, I thought roulette is pretty easy to win. [SPEAKER_02]: You just pick black or red. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, you can go for the numbers. [SPEAKER_02]: You can do black or roulette. [SPEAKER_09]: I think roulette of all the gambling activities roulette would probably have the most [SPEAKER_09]: series on how to win really I mean black tracks a lot and Crap's has it in Bacara has that tube but but roulette is always here's my system this is my can't lose the problem with a can't lose system in roulette is that you think that like let's say 22 black comes up and you want to bet red because why would two black spins land in a row right? [SPEAKER_08]: Every every spin is totally independent of each other. [SPEAKER_02]: So there's no way to find a rhythm. [SPEAKER_02]: What is your roulette strategy? [SPEAKER_08]: My roulette strategy is usually I mentioned it 22 black with the corners covered around That's what I like to bet because what it doesn't matter strategy. [SPEAKER_09]: That's a bad strategy. [SPEAKER_08]: That's a bet. [SPEAKER_08]: That is and you know what when it hits it's good, but let me get to the point. [SPEAKER_09]: Brett ski plays the numbers as he likes to call it the numbers, you know, so but go ahead. [SPEAKER_08]: uh... well when bretsky plays roulette i don't think it goes to a place that when you like try to move the chips one at a time they stick to each other you still that crappy sometimes yeah yeah how they would casino correct yeah yeah and also the other problem because of its proximity to the big money of this area the dc area if you go on in the evening the tables start like twenty five bucks was the money for this yeah i know [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, people can't wait to give them their money. [SPEAKER_09]: Um, yeah, I love it. [SPEAKER_09]: I love watching it online. [SPEAKER_09]: I, uh, I even do the, the little cheapo places down here now that you sneak into and that get rated every month and they'll always change locations. [SPEAKER_08]: Do they have table games? [SPEAKER_08]: That's mostly machine. [SPEAKER_09]: No, no, no. [SPEAKER_09]: They have, they have used old slot machines where you can see the screen burn. [SPEAKER_09]: Uh, yeah, from the characters that are on the screen. [SPEAKER_08]: I love that. [SPEAKER_08]: I love that. [SPEAKER_09]: but you know it is I have to ask you guys a question will not you Josh because you were in Florida with me but Rob speedwack how is the Northeastern how is the Northeastern that everybody was talking about was the way the most exciting part of it was the television coverage of what could happen okay we had rain. [SPEAKER_08]: Very little wind. [SPEAKER_09]: We have some rain. [SPEAKER_09]: New York got flooded a little bit. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, New York got hit bad. [SPEAKER_08]: The Jersey Shore got really slammed. [SPEAKER_08]: But I think we made out okay around here. [SPEAKER_09]: You do okay. [SPEAKER_09]: So yeah, I'm I'm I'm look. [SPEAKER_09]: I know that it was primarily a New England New Jersey and New York and he Rob would be able to tell me as far as Sterling Virginia what the weather was. [SPEAKER_08]: But no, you wouldn't be able to go any first. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, I mean, do you want me to go and cover New York weather? [SPEAKER_09]: I just figured being on the East Coast a little further up towards the city that you might know you know, whether it was a thing, whether it was a flood in D.C. No flooding in D.C. All right, then then I'm not going to worry about it. [SPEAKER_09]: I think it was okay, I think everybody, and I didn't call my sister. [SPEAKER_08]: However, there was flooding on the fifth street bay side in C-side Park, New Jersey. [SPEAKER_08]: I saw this. [SPEAKER_09]: Okay, so that's what I was talking about. [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I did not. [SPEAKER_09]: I was on the road so much. [SPEAKER_09]: I didn't have any news coverage outside of, you know, getting back to watch my beloved New York giant steal a win, which was fun fun. [SPEAKER_08]: I always used to go to c-side park slash heights when I was a kid. [SPEAKER_08]: That's where my dad would go to the beach. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: And it's always weird to see the same pears and the same docs that you saw like when you're 10 years old. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: But they're being covered with water now. [SPEAKER_08]: It's very wild. [SPEAKER_09]: All right, now for the way breaking news right before I came on today we have breaking news and I want to alert the chat room alert the chat room football fans football fans so football fans in the chat room My son not happy about this [SPEAKER_09]: Um, I don't have a strong opinion. [SPEAKER_09]: That's why I'm yielding to the participants of the show. [SPEAKER_09]: Each and every day, we value, we love you, we thank you. [SPEAKER_09]: It is our pipeline to the listeners and it's the people that get into the YouTube channel and they give us super chats and they make donations to the show and they help us out and they bust our balls. [SPEAKER_09]: It's wonderful. [SPEAKER_09]: I love it every single day. [SPEAKER_09]: My question. [SPEAKER_09]: What do you think of J. J. McCarthy as a football quarterback? [SPEAKER_09]: He is the back of quarterback for is it Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota I need to know I need to know what you think because we just got him sounds like he's gonna slide right into the quarterback position and replay You know why I miss Winston. [SPEAKER_02]: What you know why I'd be excited for him? [SPEAKER_02]: He's from Michigan. [SPEAKER_02]: He played with Jim [SPEAKER_02]: So you know there's been conversations before he came that he was harbore he played for Jim harbore He played Is it okay to just call him Jim? [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know that Jim was the first I thought he meant Jim Nantes I don't know I can't remember what it was Jim talking the Raven fans I think so And harbore and harbore and harbore and out there [SPEAKER_09]: And by the way, you know what, Josh, I hope you're aware of this. [SPEAKER_09]: Do you know what, Mr. John Harbaw does before every press conference? [SPEAKER_09]: He says, give praise. [SPEAKER_09]: That's that. [SPEAKER_09]: It praise to the man upstairs. [SPEAKER_09]: He's, uh, he's the owner. [SPEAKER_09]: He did about Christian. [SPEAKER_09]: No, no, he's a John Harbaw. [SPEAKER_09]: The coach. [SPEAKER_08]: I put the man upstairs. [SPEAKER_09]: What a, no, no, that's the, uh, from the end. [SPEAKER_09]: He's. [SPEAKER_09]: That's goose gosh. [SPEAKER_09]: He's getting pissed off. [SPEAKER_09]: He's taking upstairs to the fat man. [SPEAKER_08]: The fat man. [SPEAKER_02]: No, he prays and then he calls Donald right afterwards. [SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: That's a Donald Trump. [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_09]: It's a harbour. [SPEAKER_09]: No, the Trumper. [SPEAKER_02]: He might be him and Jim got had a little controversy last year because they went and visited the White House. [SPEAKER_02]: And it's just for fun on you there. [SPEAKER_08]: Just like a little AstraZeneca. [SPEAKER_09]: Can we just conflict in my world? [SPEAKER_09]: That is a big conflict. [SPEAKER_08]: Let's start using last names. [SPEAKER_02]: No, I like that you got irritated by GM. [SPEAKER_02]: That's why I chose to