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#3595: Barn in the USA

Mike O'Meara, Robb Spewak, Josh Sroka

August 17, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min

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Mike starts the week with swimmer’s ear, a questionable bottle of drugstore drops, and a seventh grader who has finally retired his summer-long “shitty witty” attitude. A doctor explains what is really floating around in public pools, so naturally the boys celebrate their upcoming cruise by discussing every bodily fluid known to science. Mike walks off the golf course with two holes left, discovers that Chili’s baby back ribs remain undefeated, and gives both decisions the thoughtful analysis they deserve. Robb recommends a celebrity sex-pass movie, while Josh reveals that McDonald’s may know your lunch order—and your future—better than your own family does. Plus: runaway goats, a suspicious man who agrees he looks suspicious, and the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair committing the slogan crime of the summer: “Barn in the USA.”

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[SPEAKER_08]: This episode of the Michael Mery Show is brought to you by the TMOS Amazon Portal.

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[SPEAKER_09]: Now, on with the show, hello, hello.

[SPEAKER_05]: Michael Mery, radio entertainment.

[SPEAKER_05]: You can listen to the Michael Merucho at tmos.com or anywhere fine, podcast or fun.

[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome to our show.

[SPEAKER_03]: And we're going to start with the race.

[SPEAKER_09]: It's got to be fucking looking at my phone.

[SPEAKER_05]: There's plenty for everyone.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's the Michael Merucho with Michael Merucho.

[SPEAKER_05]: Bye!

[SPEAKER_05]: Josh Rooka!

[SPEAKER_05]: And Rob's Speedway.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's only the beginning.

[SPEAKER_05]: And now, here's Mike.

[SPEAKER_08]: My partner, Mike, my equilibrium is off.

[SPEAKER_08]: Off today, I am dealing with... You got the vertigo?

[SPEAKER_08]: Swimmers here.

[SPEAKER_08]: We, that's sad, right?

[SPEAKER_08]: Well, it happened, it's been, as hot as it gets down here, it's been silly.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's been, it's been at a point where it's,

[SPEAKER_07]: buzzily your your thermometer's down to the felt it is terrible what does that mean the thermometers down to when you're felt it it means you got no chips left you're down to the felt yeah yeah it's a bad thing yeah all the felt yeah it's uh is that poker or blackjack or i think any table game

[SPEAKER_07]: I have to ask Jonathan all of them to be sure.

[SPEAKER_07]: Just straight junkies.

[SPEAKER_08]: I don't think it's used outside of their show.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's down to the, I got, I've always had like, cavernous holes in my head where the water goes when I get into the water.

[SPEAKER_07]: Like, under your hair, I know there's one.

[SPEAKER_07]: It's just a giant besides your ears.

[SPEAKER_08]: Be said, no, the, the, this is the earhole.

[SPEAKER_08]: And, you know, and the do call and all that, you know, uh, it did.

[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_07]: But amazing.

[SPEAKER_07]: We all have three of the year's miles.

[SPEAKER_07]: They've remained mostly watertight.

[SPEAKER_08]: mostly watertight, but in this particular case, case over the weekend, two, three, maybe four times in the pool, including the whole fan-damly yesterday, which was a lot of fun.

[SPEAKER_08]: But, and then I ended up going to the local drugstore, the certified very special drugstore.

[SPEAKER_08]: Get it?

[SPEAKER_08]: I do.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's a good one.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_08]: And then, and put the drops in, and then,

[SPEAKER_08]: went in the pool again and didn't get my head into the water and then the ear Resolved itself like while it was in the pool, which was really cool.

[SPEAKER_08]: So, uh-huh.

[SPEAKER_07]: 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

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, like it pops.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's a great feeling for the ten jewels racer PGT.

[SPEAKER_08]: We appreciate that.

[SPEAKER_08]: That's a great way to start the week.

[SPEAKER_08]: Welcome to everybody on the YouTube page in the comments.

[SPEAKER_08]: We appreciate that.

[SPEAKER_08]: So then when I woke up this morning,

[SPEAKER_08]: After a very festive Sunday afternoon with the family and then going out to a very special restaurant that I will review later, a really unique place.

[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know if you have them where you are, but I don't think it's a chain.

[SPEAKER_08]: I think it's a mom and part of the stand alone.

[SPEAKER_08]: A stand alone.

[SPEAKER_08]: And we'll go up this morning with the same thing.

[SPEAKER_08]: This episode of the Michael Mery Show 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_09]: Now, on with the show, hello, hello. [SPEAKER_05]: Michael Mery, radio entertainment. [SPEAKER_05]: You can listen to the Michael Merucho at tmos.com or anywhere fine, podcast or fun. [SPEAKER_05]: Welcome to our show. [SPEAKER_03]: And we're going to start with the race. [SPEAKER_09]: It's got to be fucking looking at my phone. [SPEAKER_05]: There's plenty for everyone. [SPEAKER_05]: It's the Michael Merucho with Michael Merucho. [SPEAKER_05]: Bye! [SPEAKER_05]: Josh Rooka! [SPEAKER_05]: And Rob's Speedway. [SPEAKER_05]: It's only the beginning. [SPEAKER_05]: And now, here's Mike. [SPEAKER_08]: My partner, Mike, my equilibrium is off. [SPEAKER_08]: Off today, I am dealing with... You got the vertigo? [SPEAKER_08]: Swimmers here. [SPEAKER_08]: We, that's sad, right? [SPEAKER_08]: Well, it happened, it's been, as hot as it gets down here, it's been silly. [SPEAKER_08]: It's been, it's been at a point where it's, [SPEAKER_07]: buzzily your your thermometer's down to the felt it is terrible what does that mean the thermometers down to when you're felt it it means you got no chips left you're down to the felt yeah yeah it's a bad thing yeah all the felt yeah it's uh is that poker or blackjack or i think any table game [SPEAKER_07]: I have to ask Jonathan all of them to be sure. [SPEAKER_07]: Just straight junkies. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't think it's used outside of their show. [SPEAKER_08]: It's down to the, I got, I've always had like, cavernous holes in my head where the water goes when I get into the water. [SPEAKER_07]: Like, under your hair, I know there's one. [SPEAKER_07]: It's just a giant besides your ears. [SPEAKER_08]: Be said, no, the, the, this is the earhole. [SPEAKER_08]: And, you know, and the do call and all that, you know, uh, it did. [SPEAKER_08]: Okay. [SPEAKER_07]: But amazing. [SPEAKER_07]: We all have three of the year's miles. [SPEAKER_07]: They've remained mostly watertight. [SPEAKER_08]: mostly watertight, but in this particular case, case over the weekend, two, three, maybe four times in the pool, including the whole fan-damly yesterday, which was a lot of fun. [SPEAKER_08]: But, and then I ended up going to the local drugstore, the certified very special drugstore. [SPEAKER_08]: Get it? [SPEAKER_08]: I do. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a good one. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: And then, and put the drops in, and then, [SPEAKER_08]: went in the pool again and didn't get my head into the water and then the ear Resolved itself like while it was in the pool, which was really cool. [SPEAKER_08]: So, uh-huh. [SPEAKER_07]: 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 [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, like it pops. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a great feeling for the ten jewels racer PGT. [SPEAKER_08]: We appreciate that. [SPEAKER_08]: That's a great way to start the week. [SPEAKER_08]: Welcome to everybody on the YouTube page in the comments. [SPEAKER_08]: We appreciate that. [SPEAKER_08]: So then when I woke up this morning, [SPEAKER_08]: After a very festive Sunday afternoon with the family and then going out to a very special restaurant that I will review later, a really unique place. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't know if you have them where you are, but I don't think it's a chain. [SPEAKER_08]: I think it's a mom and part of the stand alone. [SPEAKER_08]: A stand alone. [SPEAKER_08]: And we'll go up this morning with the same thing. [SPEAKER_08]: So I have it there and then I had [SPEAKER_08]: I had Carla put another four drops of the certified very special drugstore drops and I think the fact that I used the brand name from the drugstore might be the reason it's not resolving itself. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, I like my brand names. [SPEAKER_07]: That's all I could share. [SPEAKER_07]: Is that I'm trying to remember what that would be? [SPEAKER_08]: Would that be a Walmart? [SPEAKER_08]: Maybe that is a smart Walmart. [SPEAKER_08]: Trying to think with that house brand is not quite sure what it's equate and great value at Walmart. [SPEAKER_07]: It's maybe it's the same brand that makes that ketchup that you had at your restaurant house house recipe house recipe ear drops now the address or are it seems to me When I was a boy if someone had that situation, we just use peroxide is it essentially peroxide it's essentially rubbing alcohol. [SPEAKER_08]: That's what it smells like you know when they put it It's like and that's what I am so I [SPEAKER_08]: It's a couple of drops in the ear, couple of drops in the coffee, but we'll see what happens for the gurgling to stop tomorrow on the show a major announcement you want to be here on Tuesday for major announcement tomorrow on the show that's all I'm going to say right now. [SPEAKER_08]: uh... be there or be square and uh... we look forward to that uh... and uh... yet it's gonna be something you don't want to miss and it includes it involves the cruise and it involves uh... a lot of special stuff so uh... no no no no how about this really martyred skater [SPEAKER_07]: that's not okay really has passed away and we have someone in our chat room pretending to be really marty and that's a tension not a very respectful way I say remove yourself no come back as you're regular really was too good of a guy to be mocked even generally and also he's being mocked [SPEAKER_08]: Do you think he's being mocked? [SPEAKER_07]: A very fact that his name in the chat room is Rudy Martzki 69. [SPEAKER_07]: Yes, he's being mocked. [SPEAKER_08]: All right, okay, all right. [SPEAKER_07]: That's disrespectful to him and the mouse. [SPEAKER_08]: Congratulations to my son who begins the first day of seven the grade today. [SPEAKER_08]: Nice little round of applause. [SPEAKER_08]: And I guess your kid going today, too, right? [SPEAKER_06]: For the first day of school. [SPEAKER_06]: We started seventh grade last year, last week. [SPEAKER_07]: Last week, okay, and Rob Spiewak, you're soon going to teach for the first day today. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, first day was students, so we had two teachers going to meet their classrooms today, and it was just so calm and nice this morning in the house. [SPEAKER_07]: Are you lying? [SPEAKER_07]: I'm lying like a rug. [SPEAKER_07]: It was, it was go hide in the basement day, but I will say this. [SPEAKER_07]: And this is very sweet. [SPEAKER_07]: Is, uh, I told the guys before the show, uh, since Robert wasn't kindergarten, uh, every day for the first day of school, I take a picture of him in front of our fireplace. [SPEAKER_07]: and it's actually it's spanned two houses now in two different fireplaces and I jokingly as I was coming down this way I said don't forget to come down for your fireplace picture and he did right before he left he came down and he posed for a fireplace picture for that sweet which means he said don't post it I said okay you got it but it's just very he'll be off that rose if he's still doing it when he's like 40 [SPEAKER_07]: I don't know, don't you like if you haven't ever seen the like the person there's a teacher that wore the same sweater for his yearbook photo for like 35 years in a row. [SPEAKER_07]: And they put it all and it's the same sweater every year. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, that's maybe that's what we got with the with the fireplace. [SPEAKER_08]: That was that that that that's of course until that teacher was the rest. [SPEAKER_07]: Yes. [SPEAKER_07]: Show me on this sweater where he touched it. [SPEAKER_08]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_08]: And hopefully Robert out of the house by 40. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, he can still come by to the fire place or maybe I was on fire place, you know. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: And then you can go over there and take the picture over there. [SPEAKER_08]: So surprisingly, there was no tension at all. [SPEAKER_08]: None. [SPEAKER_08]: Zero. [SPEAKER_08]: Bagel. [SPEAKER_08]: There was no tension. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, he was excited. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, there was not excited for sixth grade at all. [SPEAKER_08]: And sixth grade was a totally different vibe last year. [SPEAKER_07]: Because that's middle school, sixth grade is your middle school start down there, right? [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: And well, he started middle school. [SPEAKER_08]: They do it differently in my kid's school. [SPEAKER_08]: They started in fifth. [SPEAKER_08]: So they kind of transitioned into middle. [SPEAKER_08]: But I was running a little late today, because I have to drive my wife, follow my wife to her brick and mortar store. [SPEAKER_08]: pick her up and then we had to go down to school then I had to take her back to her car at her shop because she wanted to be there. [SPEAKER_07]: For Carl, what time to her classes start? [SPEAKER_08]: Her classes started. [SPEAKER_08]: 9 a.m. baby. [SPEAKER_08]: 9 a.m. she's got to be in the driver's seat where she's waiting for what I can business I can absolutely relate to Michael because when I was his age middle school was 7th and 8th grade elementary school stopped at sex and there was 7th and 8th that's what we did to me so at Gideon Wells so I don't even know who Gideon Wells was but I think he was a figure from the year old New England Gideon Wells. [SPEAKER_07]: I think he's been bandia. [SPEAKER_08]: If you look up Daniel, I think he did something. [SPEAKER_08]: I think he was yield in glass and Barry, but I got no idea. [SPEAKER_07]: But I remember the hardest night before school I ever had was seventh grade. [SPEAKER_07]: It really flipped me out. [SPEAKER_07]: So it's probably the equivalent for him going into six. [SPEAKER_07]: So now he's got the whole system down. [SPEAKER_07]: He knows what he's doing. [SPEAKER_07]: He's going to be the king of the school. [SPEAKER_07]: So he's going to have a blast, at least until the work starts. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, here's what [SPEAKER_08]: But I don't know, I'm not going to attribute it to this, but I will tell you the attitude for a good chunk of the summer was shitty witty. [SPEAKER_08]: It was not fun, it was not really fun at all, I did not like it. [SPEAKER_07]: He was a cartoon character, he was low budget, it was actually, it was a penguin, it was like chilly willy, but it was shitty witty. [SPEAKER_07]: And it was not fun. [SPEAKER_08]: Then, in the last two, three weeks, Mrs. O'Mara has been taking him to burn, to work out. [SPEAKER_08]: And it has, I don't know. [SPEAKER_08]: First of all, he looks different, and he seems to feel different. [SPEAKER_08]: asking me about some of his stuff that he has to do like batting lessons and pitching lessons and stuff like that. [SPEAKER_08]: And he, uh, you know, in the pool, he's pretty much kick in my ass now. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, he's always with you. [SPEAKER_08]: He's well, that's yeah, he has to get me right. [SPEAKER_08]: These tossing me around, that's it. [SPEAKER_08]: Thanks for bringing that up. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, that was the best way to do that every week on the and and recall that. [SPEAKER_08]: I really hope you can do that. [SPEAKER_06]: That's very well. [SPEAKER_06]: Kid needs motivation on taking it to the next level. [SPEAKER_06]: And you can write to him. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: You focus, Tim, like you wanted. [SPEAKER_06]: I can absolutely tell. [SPEAKER_07]: I can tell when Robert's been working out. [SPEAKER_07]: He's he's more pleasant. [SPEAKER_07