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#3710: Comfort Men

Mike O'Meara, Robb Spewak, Josh Sroka

September 16, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

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Artificial intelligence may soon generate entire podcasts, but no machine could recreate the chaos of Mike ordering doggy diapers and receiving disposable male wraps instead. He straps one onto Winslow, confidently declares the problem solved, and is immediately confronted with a mysterious puddle that technology cannot explain. A discussion of golf-course comfort stations then takes one spectacularly unfortunate historical turn and hands the episode its title. The boys also explore parasocial grief, remembering Dolly Parton, George Harrison, Robin Williams, Prince, Norm Macdonald, and the celebrities whose passing felt surprisingly personal. Plus, Robb recalls his adventures aboard unstable advertising blimps, Mike warns against wine-powered golf carts, and a vintage milk party proves that teenagers of the 1950s were absolutely out of control.

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[SPEAKER_08]: Now on with the show.

[SPEAKER_08]: Hi.

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[SPEAKER_10]: Michael Mara, radio entertainment.

[SPEAKER_10]: You can listen to the Michael Merucho at tmos.com or anywhere find podcasts or fun.

[SPEAKER_10]: Welcome to our show.

[SPEAKER_10]: And we're going to start with the race.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's got to be fucking looking at my phone.

[SPEAKER_10]: There's plenty for everyone.

[SPEAKER_10]: It's the Michael Merucho with Michael Merucho.

[SPEAKER_10]: Bye!

[SPEAKER_10]: Josh Roca!

[SPEAKER_10]: And Rob's Speedway.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, Rob!

[SPEAKER_10]: It's only the beginning.

[SPEAKER_08]: And now, here's Mike.

[SPEAKER_08]: Did people in the chat room think we were starting at three today is that why we've got all this activity in the chat room today is that I like to imagine that the chat room is like this 24 hours a day whether or not we're in real you don't have to imagine anything They're all here starting at three o'clock and well, let's go to our executive producer to get an update on what's going on.

[SPEAKER_08]: What do you think the problem is producer person

[SPEAKER_08]: I don't see it as a problem at all.

[SPEAKER_08]: I don't, I think there's one feature.

[SPEAKER_07]: There is one person who showed up at 324, and that person was very loud.

[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, and I see a few other people that I talked in.

[SPEAKER_07]: I see some people confused about the start time.

[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, so there's a little mix of all that, but they're excited.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's Wednesday, and they're here for us.

[SPEAKER_08]: And then did they want me to do impressions of Jackie Stallone?

[SPEAKER_08]: Do I see that in here as well?

[SPEAKER_09]: Everyone is one of that for years, Mike, every day.

[SPEAKER_08]: Little little, I'm going to sproats.

[SPEAKER_08]: I don't think my husband is a doctor.

[SPEAKER_09]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_08]: I'm gonna take a big old shit.

[SPEAKER_09]: Now, I do have a question.

[SPEAKER_09]: I know you have two kids.

[SPEAKER_09]: Do you prefer Frank or do you prefer Fly?

[SPEAKER_08]: Always Frank.

[SPEAKER_09]: And why is that?

[SPEAKER_08]: Well, Fly doesn't love me.

[SPEAKER_09]: He doesn't call you.

[SPEAKER_08]: I didn't call me to love me anymore.

[SPEAKER_09]: That's sad.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's lies still home.

[SPEAKER_09]: Are you still reading fortunes?

[SPEAKER_09]: You did a thing where you were reading fortune by touching people in the ass.

[SPEAKER_09]: No, I just still looking my dogs.

[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, 30 of them.

[SPEAKER_09]: I thought many of them must have passed by now.

[SPEAKER_08]: Well, they dropped like flies.

[SPEAKER_08]: I think I have to go over to Sprouts and take a picture.

[SPEAKER_02]: Take a look?

[SPEAKER_02]: That's wrong with me.

[SPEAKER_08]: This is a dumb show.

[SPEAKER_08]: This is a dumb dumb show.

[SPEAKER_08]: Welcome to the Michael Mary Show, everybody.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, so I dive into the comments and I, and usually they start up right around the time.

[SPEAKER_08]: We start up in the day, there's a, there's just a little bit of snark, and I get the impression

[SPEAKER_08]: This episode of the Michael Marasio is brought to you by the TMOS Amazon portal. [SPEAKER_08]: Remember to click the Amazon link at TMOSpodcast.com before you shop. [SPEAKER_08]: It's that easy. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_08]: Now on with the show. [SPEAKER_08]: Hi. [SPEAKER_08]: Welcome to our show. [SPEAKER_10]: Michael Mara, radio entertainment. [SPEAKER_10]: You can listen to the Michael Merucho at tmos.com or anywhere find podcasts or fun. [SPEAKER_10]: Welcome to our show. [SPEAKER_10]: And we're going to start with the race. [SPEAKER_02]: It's got to be fucking looking at my phone. [SPEAKER_10]: There's plenty for everyone. [SPEAKER_10]: It's the Michael Merucho with Michael Merucho. [SPEAKER_10]: Bye! [SPEAKER_10]: Josh Roca! [SPEAKER_10]: And Rob's Speedway. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, Rob! [SPEAKER_10]: It's only the beginning. [SPEAKER_08]: And now, here's Mike. [SPEAKER_08]: Did people in the chat room think we were starting at three today is that why we've got all this activity in the chat room today is that I like to imagine that the chat room is like this 24 hours a day whether or not we're in real you don't have to imagine anything They're all here starting at three o'clock and well, let's go to our executive producer to get an update on what's going on. [SPEAKER_08]: What do you think the problem is producer person [SPEAKER_08]: I don't see it as a problem at all. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't, I think there's one feature. [SPEAKER_07]: There is one person who showed up at 324, and that person was very loud. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay, and I see a few other people that I talked in. [SPEAKER_07]: I see some people confused about the start time. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay, so there's a little mix of all that, but they're excited. [SPEAKER_07]: It's Wednesday, and they're here for us. [SPEAKER_08]: And then did they want me to do impressions of Jackie Stallone? [SPEAKER_08]: Do I see that in here as well? [SPEAKER_09]: Everyone is one of that for years, Mike, every day. [SPEAKER_08]: Little little, I'm going to sproats. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't think my husband is a doctor. [SPEAKER_09]: That's right. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm gonna take a big old shit. [SPEAKER_09]: Now, I do have a question. [SPEAKER_09]: I know you have two kids. [SPEAKER_09]: Do you prefer Frank or do you prefer Fly? [SPEAKER_08]: Always Frank. [SPEAKER_09]: And why is that? [SPEAKER_08]: Well, Fly doesn't love me. [SPEAKER_09]: He doesn't call you. [SPEAKER_08]: I didn't call me to love me anymore. [SPEAKER_09]: That's sad. [SPEAKER_08]: It's lies still home. [SPEAKER_09]: Are you still reading fortunes? [SPEAKER_09]: You did a thing where you were reading fortune by touching people in the ass. [SPEAKER_09]: No, I just still looking my dogs. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, 30 of them. [SPEAKER_09]: I thought many of them must have passed by now. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, they dropped like flies. [SPEAKER_08]: I think I have to go over to Sprouts and take a picture. [SPEAKER_02]: Take a look? [SPEAKER_02]: That's wrong with me. [SPEAKER_08]: This is a dumb show. [SPEAKER_08]: This is a dumb dumb show. [SPEAKER_08]: Welcome to the Michael Mary Show, everybody. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, so I dive into the comments and I, and usually they start up right around the time. [SPEAKER_08]: We start up in the day, there's a, there's just a little bit of snark, and I get the impression [SPEAKER_08]: Mike doesn't have other options. [SPEAKER_08]: Josh is the last resort, which is pretty obvious by the way, the show is gone. [SPEAKER_08]: What does that mean? [SPEAKER_08]: What does that mean? [SPEAKER_08]: What does that mean? [SPEAKER_07]: What does that mean? [SPEAKER_08]: Well, it's fun. [SPEAKER_08]: It's fun. [SPEAKER_07]: But sometimes they show up there just to pick. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I know. [SPEAKER_07]: And I like it. [SPEAKER_09]: I enjoy it because I'm that kind of person you feel like Josh is your last resort in any way. [SPEAKER_08]: Josh saved the show. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, yeah, you wouldn't have been able to produce it if with Oscar gone. [SPEAKER_09]: No, I'm Mike, I've proven many times. [SPEAKER_09]: I can't produce it. [SPEAKER_09]: No, but I many chances. [SPEAKER_08]: But you know, he was here and it was like the timing was perfection. [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, but I mean, but I don't think he was ever our last resort. [SPEAKER_09]: He was presented to us and that was great, but I don't understand what he mean. [SPEAKER_08]: He was presented to you. [SPEAKER_09]: Well, you have to admit that when we needed a producer, he kind of appeared. [SPEAKER_09]: He kind of appeared. [SPEAKER_09]: It came really fast. [SPEAKER_08]: And he was just right to the source. [SPEAKER_08]: Let's ask him. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: How did that all go down? [SPEAKER_08]: Because I don't remember. [SPEAKER_07]: We've talked about it. [SPEAKER_07]: It went down because I saw what happened. [SPEAKER_07]: And I reached out to Mike and said, Hey, [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_07]: All right. [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, that's the short answer. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: All right. [SPEAKER_08]: And yeah, I mean, it's it's it came out of a good time opportunity, but the fact is, you know, I mean when and then when people say that that I don't give a fuck about people show I don't I do give a fuck about this show I wouldn't be doing the show if I I didn't give a fuck [SPEAKER_08]: I know people just I have new I their haters, but I have a I have new sounds about the Baltimore Orioles Oh, that's good listen listen to this [SPEAKER_09]: So that's WC for you to say that's a great tape of fields like that is that. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, Rob, don't treat me like a moron. [SPEAKER_08]: Treat me like a moron. [SPEAKER_08]: There you go. [SPEAKER_08]: I won't. [SPEAKER_08]: It's very busy yesterday. [SPEAKER_07]: Have you been pulling your own sounds? [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm pulling all my own sounds. [SPEAKER_08]: That's what I'm doing. [SPEAKER_08]: I did it. [SPEAKER_08]: No, I've pulled sounds forever. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes. [SPEAKER_08]: No, what is that? [SPEAKER_08]: Well, why are you jumping and I'm just a right-wing friend? [SPEAKER_09]: Maybe he is the last resort. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm just a right-wing friend. [SPEAKER_07]: Hey Josh, let me tell you this. [SPEAKER_07]: Don't get me. [SPEAKER_07]: No. [SPEAKER_07]: Because many times, every few weeks, the show ends, and you say, Rob, I need new sounds. [SPEAKER_07]: Send me new sounds. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, you know, so I always tell you your sounds. [SPEAKER_07]: Me does. [SPEAKER_08]: He does. [SPEAKER_08]: I'll ask him that three times and out of three, I'll get one. [SPEAKER_08]: So that's good. [SPEAKER_08]: That works for me. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I've heard you ask. [SPEAKER_07]: I haven't heard you pull your own sounds. [SPEAKER_07]: So I was just, oh, I've done it in the past. [SPEAKER_08]: I've done that in the past and, you know, and sometimes Rob gives him to me and sometimes I give them. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, that was terrible. [SPEAKER_08]: That was terrible, Todd. [SPEAKER_09]: Could you play that that oriental tape again? [SPEAKER_08]: Because I've got to turn it way up though, because I'm trying to think what year that must be done That that has to be nearly 90 years old that tape But I love it. [SPEAKER_04]: So what's your podcast about what? [SPEAKER_09]: So what's your podcast about? [SPEAKER_08]: And it just turned all of that one. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you very much. [SPEAKER_08]: I appreciate that. [SPEAKER_08]: Let's see. [SPEAKER_08]: And then this one. [SPEAKER_09]: Do you think of your happy? [SPEAKER_09]: Don't get happy. [SPEAKER_08]: I would love to play my sounds without them being interrupted just once. [SPEAKER_08]: Did you realize you were about to play guilty party of talking over the sounds? [SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to rob. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to play it now. [SPEAKER_07]: three don't get happy yeah but in February when you are just pressing those sounds just to yourself all day you're going to miss Rob. [SPEAKER_09]: No I don't think you will. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah I'll miss you. [SPEAKER_09]: No you'll miss the show and I'm part of the show but I don't think you're going to miss how could I miss the show and not miss you. [SPEAKER_08]: How could I miss the [SPEAKER_08]: It would be impossible for me to reflect on what I've done without you being a massive. [SPEAKER_08]: huge, throbbing part of it and that looks to the truth. [SPEAKER_09]: I will I will totally miss the fact that I will no longer have someone that we can share one mind so clearly for one hour at a time every day. [SPEAKER_09]: The amount of times that we are on different, different planes is so rare. [SPEAKER_09]: It's weird, it is how we can think just alike and go to the same destination without even conferring about it. [SPEAKER_07]: Right. [SPEAKER_07]: It will be a problem. [SPEAKER_07]: I did read a comment today that Robin Josh have no chemistry. [SPEAKER_07]: So, you're not allowed to do that. [SPEAKER_09]: That's the magic. [SPEAKER_08]: What? [SPEAKER_08]: Do you find that when there's any change of any kind, people get unsettled? [SPEAKER_08]: Of course. [SPEAKER_08]: And we do have people that are trolls. [SPEAKER_08]: I know that. [SPEAKER_08]: And if they're trying to share for failure. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, but I enjoy the trolls too because that's fun for me because that gives me that gets me going that gets me all Riled up and I love being riled up. [SPEAKER_08]: I enjoy. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't like reading stuff on line on other forums that I can't respond to immediately, but here I won't miss this actual chemistry. [SPEAKER_08]: I wish we didn't have like two people that write buddy stuff [SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, but you know what? [SPEAKER_09]: It's okay because Rolando can also be a dick. [SPEAKER_09]: So he balance the balance in terms. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: He's a trunper. [SPEAKER_08]: Rolando is. [SPEAKER_09]: Yes. [SPEAKER_09]: I just thought he was an overall asshole. [SPEAKER_09]: No, I think he's a trunper. [SPEAKER_09]: Okay. [SPEAKER_09]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: Don't hear from Mike's failure. [SPEAKER_08]: What do you mean, Mike's gone? [SPEAKER_08]: You don't have to cheer for anything. [SPEAKER_08]: So just relax, you know. [SPEAKER_08]: Let's see if it were up to me. [SPEAKER_09]: Like the notion that you wouldn't be cheering for your failure. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: I'm counting on Josh to develop an AI mic to continue the show. [SPEAKER_08]: You know what? [SPEAKER_08]: That's a good place to start because I didn't get to it yesterday. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_08]: So in the last two days, last 48 hours, I and I might be late to the party on this because people have gotten it sooner. [SPEAKER_08]: I have seen on my feed not only, [SPEAKER_08]: put a script in and get a podcast like I guess you put it in some AI program and then it shits out a podcast voice and everything but a full link feature film put a script in and they will they will make a movie out of it. [SPEAKER_08]: That's where we are. [SPEAKER_09]: Well I remember it had to have been two years ago because Josh wasn't with us yet. [SPEAKER_09]: When AI was in its infancy, and I went into, I believe it was chat GPT, and I said, here is the show, and here are the three principles, write a bit, write a scripted bit, and what they gave me was not only useless, it was almost unreadable. [SPEAKER_09]: But you have to admit AI has made great strides in two years. [SPEAKER_07]: If you go in with that same prompt of make a bit for the three of us, it'll be stupid. [SPEAKER_07]: You have to hold a tan and