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#3712: Are You The Father?

Mike O'Meara, Robb Spewak, Josh Sroka

September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min

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The show begins with a heartfelt message for beloved TMOS family member Jolene White as she takes on the fight of her life. Mike then delivers the full report on Michael’s fish-hook emergency, featuring an urgent care that apparently does not “do fish hooks,” an ER metal detector, and three separate people asking whether Mike was really the father. The hook finally comes out after some lidocaine, a tiny scalpel, and several determined yanks—and, most importantly, both the son and the treasured lure survive. Robb unveils his unsettling AI family album, placing present-day relatives beside their younger selves and aging Michael decades into the future for a father-son golf photo nobody requested. Plus, the boys meet AI Chip, investigate a Florida drone-related murder plot, expose Belichick’s four-upright trick, mourn melting football cleats, preview the Norm Macdonald documentary, and watch a trumpet player rescue the national anthem when his instrument gives up.

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[SPEAKER_04]: This episode of the Michael Mery Show is brought to you by the TMOS Amazon Portal.

[SPEAKER_04]: Remember to click the Amazon link at TMOSpodcast.com before you shop.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's that easy.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now, on with the show.

[SPEAKER_06]: Cheers, Dave.

[SPEAKER_06]: Starsky goes into the ring to grapple with a killer wrestler.

[SPEAKER_06]: Michael Mery, radio entertainment.

[SPEAKER_06]: You can listen to the Michael Marasho at tmos.com or anywhere find podcasts or fun.

[SPEAKER_06]: Welcome to our show.

[SPEAKER_06]: We're going to start with the race.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's got to be fucking look at our phone.

[SPEAKER_06]: There's plenty for everyone.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's the Michael Marasho with Michael Marasho.

[SPEAKER_06]: Bye!

[SPEAKER_06]: Josh Rocha!

[SPEAKER_06]: And Rob Speedway.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's only the beginning.

[SPEAKER_04]: And now, here's Mike.

[SPEAKER_04]: That always amazes me that we have our chat group that hops on our YouTube channel each and every day and joins us for commentary and has become a regular part of the show.

[SPEAKER_04]: And always surprises me when they are like mine that we are and we have really been keeping it under.

[SPEAKER_04]: Rapps for a while, the fact that one of our really, really all-time superbestist listeners, Jolene White, is battling cancer right now and we wanted to take this moment out and send our very, very, very best wishes to her.

[SPEAKER_04]: She has been an integral part of the fan club that is participating in the

[SPEAKER_04]: activities of the show.

[SPEAKER_04]: We have met her a number of occasions at different live events that we have done and she has been an absolute delight gets the joke, supports everything we do and she's in the fight of her life right now and we just want to say we love you, Jolene, we want you to kick its ass and we're all thinking of you and sending you all but very, very best, she's a sweetheart and

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, Josh doesn't know couldn't pick her out of a line of no Josh You know when bad things have no Josh was on the something to Josh The only one who actually spoke to her and that's that's very very cool.

[SPEAKER_03]: I know that's wonderful Yes, Jolyne did welcome me at Vegas by there were chocolates in my room when I arrived Well, that's right creepy, but also very nice

[SPEAKER_04]: But that's her business.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that's okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: She's and we all know that's how well we know we know what the line of work she's in and she is a fighter She's a tough lady and we love you to call her beloved would be an understatement.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, yes, and it's just you know, we're all

[SPEAKER_04]: kind of not even kind of we are we're an extended family on this show and we really, really band together and we have tremendous support network which I think is probably something I will miss the very most when I'm done doing this show.

[SPEAKER_04]: I just, there are a few people that really do stand out as far as participants and people that have made arrangements for us and done things for us and organized different live events for us and Jolene checks all the boxes for that.

[SPEAKER_04]: So we love you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Go out there and just beat the crap out of that horrible disease that touched

[SPEAKER_04]: it's so so many people this is nothing like that medically but I do want to follow up on yesterday with a giant thank you to urgent care which you see everywhere in these united states you

[SPEAKER_04]: So even everywhere in yesterday, when we blew up the show, when I blew up the show, in midstream because my son had stepped on a fishing lure and driven it into his big toe.

[SPEAKER_05]: It wasn't the time to ask yesterday, but was the stepping on the lure was the lure in his bedroom?

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_05]: Fairfoot, how did this go down?

[SPEAKER_04]: It was one of the, in first of all, I think any member of the family.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: at any time could step on a piece of fishing uh paraphernalia in this house.

[SPEAKER_04]: I picked up a fish and hook on the kitchen floor to that if you have a Florida kid, yeah, they are all fishing.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're all fishing.

[SPEAKER_04]: They love fishing.

[SPEAKER_04]: They love fishing more than anything in the whole wide world.

[SPEAKER_04]: And my son who gets fishing lures for fun and sport, he gets fishing lures for his birthday.

[SPEAKER_04]: He gets fishing lures for Christmas.

[SPEAKER_04]: He goes out to Bass Pro shops and spends an hour in the fishing lure section, which I have no interest in being in.

[SPEAKER_04]: He has tackle boxes.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a beautiful rack and he's got those and he is fish fish fish however

[SPEAKER_04]: He is also 13 years of age and these little fishing lures and hooks and weights and the leader and yeah all the stuff that's on there gets a you know strewn all over the place.

[SPEAKER_05]: Who was the buddy that came in yesterday to announce this was Kegan that was a little Kegan now Kegan.

[SPEAKER_05]: How did he handle it because he was pretty under control when he came in?

[SPEAKER_04]: Keegan's a tough kid, Keegan's a cool customer.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's the, he does color commentary on the, uh, he's brought kids.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he's also a, uh, on the golf team with Michael.

[SPEAKER_03]: He leaned into that color commentary for the fish hook.

[SPEAKER_04]: This episode of the Michael Mery Show is brought to you by the TMOS Amazon Portal. [SPEAKER_04]: Remember to click the Amazon link at TMOSpodcast.com before you shop. [SPEAKER_04]: It's that easy. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_04]: Now, on with the show. [SPEAKER_06]: Cheers, Dave. [SPEAKER_06]: Starsky goes into the ring to grapple with a killer wrestler. [SPEAKER_06]: Michael Mery, radio entertainment. [SPEAKER_06]: You can listen to the Michael Marasho at tmos.com or anywhere find podcasts or fun. [SPEAKER_06]: Welcome to our show. [SPEAKER_06]: We're going to start with the race. [SPEAKER_01]: It's got to be fucking look at our phone. [SPEAKER_06]: There's plenty for everyone. [SPEAKER_06]: It's the Michael Marasho with Michael Marasho. [SPEAKER_06]: Bye! [SPEAKER_06]: Josh Rocha! [SPEAKER_06]: And Rob Speedway. [SPEAKER_06]: It's only the beginning. [SPEAKER_04]: And now, here's Mike. [SPEAKER_04]: That always amazes me that we have our chat group that hops on our YouTube channel each and every day and joins us for commentary and has become a regular part of the show. [SPEAKER_04]: And always surprises me when they are like mine that we are and we have really been keeping it under. [SPEAKER_04]: Rapps for a while, the fact that one of our really, really all-time superbestist listeners, Jolene White, is battling cancer right now and we wanted to take this moment out and send our very, very, very best wishes to her. [SPEAKER_04]: She has been an integral part of the fan club that is participating in the [SPEAKER_04]: activities of the show. [SPEAKER_04]: We have met her a number of occasions at different live events that we have done and she has been an absolute delight gets the joke, supports everything we do and she's in the fight of her life right now and we just want to say we love you, Jolene, we want you to kick its ass and we're all thinking of you and sending you all but very, very best, she's a sweetheart and [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, Josh doesn't know couldn't pick her out of a line of no Josh You know when bad things have no Josh was on the something to Josh The only one who actually spoke to her and that's that's very very cool. [SPEAKER_03]: I know that's wonderful Yes, Jolyne did welcome me at Vegas by there were chocolates in my room when I arrived Well, that's right creepy, but also very nice [SPEAKER_04]: But that's her business. [SPEAKER_03]: So that's okay. [SPEAKER_04]: She's and we all know that's how well we know we know what the line of work she's in and she is a fighter She's a tough lady and we love you to call her beloved would be an understatement. [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, yes, and it's just you know, we're all [SPEAKER_04]: kind of not even kind of we are we're an extended family on this show and we really, really band together and we have tremendous support network which I think is probably something I will miss the very most when I'm done doing this show. [SPEAKER_04]: I just, there are a few people that really do stand out as far as participants and people that have made arrangements for us and done things for us and organized different live events for us and Jolene checks all the boxes for that. [SPEAKER_04]: So we love you. [SPEAKER_04]: Go out there and just beat the crap out of that horrible disease that touched [SPEAKER_04]: it's so so many people this is nothing like that medically but I do want to follow up on yesterday with a giant thank you to urgent care which you see everywhere in these united states you [SPEAKER_04]: So even everywhere in yesterday, when we blew up the show, when I blew up the show, in midstream because my son had stepped on a fishing lure and driven it into his big toe. [SPEAKER_05]: It wasn't the time to ask yesterday, but was the stepping on the lure was the lure in his bedroom? [SPEAKER_05]: Yes. [SPEAKER_05]: Fairfoot, how did this go down? [SPEAKER_04]: It was one of the, in first of all, I think any member of the family. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: at any time could step on a piece of fishing uh paraphernalia in this house. [SPEAKER_04]: I picked up a fish and hook on the kitchen floor to that if you have a Florida kid, yeah, they are all fishing. [SPEAKER_04]: They're all fishing. [SPEAKER_04]: They love fishing. [SPEAKER_04]: They love fishing more than anything in the whole wide world. [SPEAKER_04]: And my son who gets fishing lures for fun and sport, he gets fishing lures for his birthday. [SPEAKER_04]: He gets fishing lures for Christmas. [SPEAKER_04]: He goes out to Bass Pro shops and spends an hour in the fishing lure section, which I have no interest in being in. [SPEAKER_04]: He has tackle boxes. [SPEAKER_04]: It's a beautiful rack and he's got those and he is fish fish fish however [SPEAKER_04]: He is also 13 years of age and these little fishing lures and hooks and weights and the leader and yeah all the stuff that's on there gets a you know strewn all over the place. [SPEAKER_05]: Who was the buddy that came in yesterday to announce this was Kegan that was a little Kegan now Kegan. [SPEAKER_05]: How did he handle it because he was pretty under control when he came in? [SPEAKER_04]: Keegan's a tough kid, Keegan's a cool customer. [SPEAKER_04]: He's the, he does color commentary on the, uh, he's brought kids. [SPEAKER_04]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: And he's also a, uh, on the golf team with Michael. [SPEAKER_03]: He leaned into that color commentary for the fish hook. [SPEAKER_03]: I do. [SPEAKER_04]: I would have really understood what was going on when I've had the only one. [SPEAKER_04]: And I have to make once again another turbo supporter of what we do, I have to give a shout out to Mr. Dirk Fasterick who said, [SPEAKER_04]: that the barb went through. [SPEAKER_04]: He heard it. [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't. [SPEAKER_04]: And I have to say when I got out there, it was, you know, from what I could see, it was wedged in there pretty good. [SPEAKER_05]: It was the worst looking barb since season one of Stranger Things. [SPEAKER_05]: Do you remember the character of barb? [SPEAKER_05]: Anybody? [SPEAKER_05]: Do my my go out? [SPEAKER_05]: Hello. [SPEAKER_05]: Make a reference. [SPEAKER_05]: They're going to come by. [SPEAKER_04]: How you doing? [SPEAKER_04]: That's right. [SPEAKER_03]: That's the best barb you could come up with. [SPEAKER_05]: Can you come up with a better one? [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: Bar moody. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh. [SPEAKER_05]: Is she better though? [SPEAKER_05]: Is she really? [SPEAKER_03]: I think Barbara Walters. [SPEAKER_05]: Was that she's not a barb though? [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: And I say shut the fuck up. [SPEAKER_04]: I'll talk in the you. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh. [SPEAKER_05]: A new friend. [SPEAKER_05]: I survived but perhaps my insect friends would come by. [SPEAKER_05]: But this is a human friend. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's on the other one. [SPEAKER_04]: Anyway, so it's off to urgent care. [SPEAKER_04]: The good thing is, because there's so many of these places in any civilized area of the United States, we have urgent cares everywhere. [SPEAKER_05]: How close is yours? [SPEAKER_04]: I could walk to it. [SPEAKER_04]: It's in the Walmart shopping center, which is. [SPEAKER_04]: behind our house because I said when I was figuring out where I was going to live in the state of Florida. [SPEAKER_04]: I said, I don't need a view. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't need golf. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't need anything. [SPEAKER_04]: But can you get me a home that is as close as humanly possible to the, to the, to the mart of wall? [SPEAKER_04]: That's what I asked. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: We have three urgent cares in my neighborhood and one time I went to one and they had a power on it and they said, we really can help you, but you know there's one up by pizza hot if you want to go there. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, and it was so close. [SPEAKER_04]: This is a learning experience for me. [SPEAKER_04]: The learning curve was I, you know, thank God have not been a regular customer at the the urgent care. [SPEAKER_04]: I prefer to use my family doctor. [SPEAKER_04]: If there's anything that can wait, however, by definition, urgent, man. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, something urgent. [SPEAKER_04]: A medical urgency. [SPEAKER_04]: Which is really, you know, I always put my perception of urgent care. [SPEAKER_04]: What is one is something seriously wrong with you. [SPEAKER_04]: You need immediate medical attention. [SPEAKER_04]: You go there. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: I would say my emergency room. [SPEAKER_04]: Boy, I'm so wrong. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm so wrong. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm wrong, or than wrong. [SPEAKER_05]: The one exception would be, is say you know you have like a sinus infection. [SPEAKER_05]: And you know that antibiotics are is what you need. [SPEAKER_05]: then you don't need to go through the hassle of waiting a week to see how many times would you estimate in your lifetime. [SPEAKER_04]: How many times? [SPEAKER_04]: Because I, you know, as I was sitting here going, I'm not a real aficionado nor do I know the ropes. [SPEAKER_05]: How many times have I been there or how many times have I done the antibiotic dance? [SPEAKER_04]: How many times have you been to an urgent care for yourself? [SPEAKER_05]: I would say for me, the greatest one is when they said, it appears your liver is failing you're going to want to go to the hospital, and I said, but I would go, I would even say it doesn't times total, total, yeah, not more. [SPEAKER_05]: No, I don't think so. [SPEAKER_05]: Spread over 55 years. [SPEAKER_05]: That's not so many. [SPEAKER_05]: But don't wait for the round for 12. [SPEAKER_05]: Don't get involved, John. [SPEAKER_04]: If you want to invite it, uh, uh, my knowledge is exactly what we said. [SPEAKER_04]: And so here's the thing. [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't waste any time. [SPEAKER_04]: He's barefoot. [SPEAKER_04]: That's how he got the problem in the first part. [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, Granny. [SPEAKER_04]: And so you're there, man. [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, Uncle J. [SPEAKER_04]: Uncle J. I got a little lure of my foot. [SPEAKER_04]: And that is just a process, you know, this is like it looks so easy Uh, when you're a giant's quarterback on the football field when they're assisting you off the field. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, of course. [SPEAKER_04]: Or you're a football player like what's your, what's your guy's name, Jaden? [SPEAKER_05]: Jaden Daniels. [SPEAKER_04]: Jaden Daniels. [SPEAKER_05]: He had a great game this season. [SPEAKER_04]: There we go. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, this season. [SPEAKER_05]: So anyway, actually he didn't even. [SPEAKER_05]: He had a pretty good game and then our guy had one. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: We'll get to that later. [SPEAKER_04]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_05]: I really want to talk about it now. [SPEAKER_04]: But anyway, so it's in the car. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't put a shoe on his other foot. [SPEAKER_04]: It's just he's barefoot. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm like, well, I can't put a shoe on his foot. [SPEAKER_04]: We get him to the car. [SPEAKER_04]: He's hobbling out there. [SPEAKER_04]: Hopping. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: Hopping, hobbling, hopping, hopping, and we get in there, and then it's the process of having him hop out, and that's the biggest challenge. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: That's the biggest thing that we're going through. [SPEAKER_04]: I am not in any way scared. [SPEAKER_04]: overly concerned. [SPEAKER_04]: I, in my, in my situation that I'm in, I'm like, I've gotten them to where he needs to go. [SPEAKER_04]: You've done your part. [SPEAKER_04]: I have one overriding feeling, making sure I can see him if they call his name. [SPEAKER_04]: So I can call him to the show. [SPEAKER_04]: And I'm not going to, if it's something really