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TMOS Classic: July 31, 2026

Mike O'Meara, Robb Spewak, Josh Sroka

July 31, 2026 · 25 min

"You think grown-ups have it all figured out? That's just a hustle, kid. Grown-ups are making it up as they go along, just like you. You remember that, and you'll do fine."Our Sponsors:* Check out Quince and use my code TMOS for…

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[SPEAKER_05]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hiya, good to see you again.

[SPEAKER_00]: And now he'll be here quite with us.

[SPEAKER_00]: We will start the show.

[SPEAKER_05]: T-M-O-S, classic.

[SPEAKER_05]: Friday, flashback.

[SPEAKER_05]: This is, uh, Mera tonight will be, uh, going to a charity do.

[SPEAKER_05]: She's going to the charity dude.

[SPEAKER_04]: Just getting dressed, Ross.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're just dressing.

[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you, Ross.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, that's wonderful, Ross.

[SPEAKER_05]: One can you come over.

[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, she's going to a charity do with our babysitter.

[SPEAKER_05]: And, uh, I will be home with, uh, with boys night with man's night.

[SPEAKER_05]: Nice.

[SPEAKER_06]: We'll be, uh, What do men do when they're home alone?

[SPEAKER_05]: I might take him out to, uh, you know, a, uh, didn't it?

[SPEAKER_05]: I might take him out to the local diner.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you've been there.

[SPEAKER_04]: You've been there before he likes that place, right?

[SPEAKER_05]: He likes, uh, you know, stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_05]: And, uh, he also likes, uh, these new sneakers that we got him, which, uh, would have, which have the dial on the side, like daddy's golf shoe.

[SPEAKER_05]: They're the, they're shoes that you.

[SPEAKER_05]: Have you seen this season that have taken the dial?

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I think it's kind of and he likes that and one of the other kids his friend Donnie at school had those shoes, and he wants No, not that is it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you very much

[SPEAKER_05]: But he's got the, you know, so we'll hang out and I'll plan something special but what I said to Carla when she mentioned this to me this morning and we'll see each other obviously before she goes I said okay what's going to be what's happening at this little thing she said oh, they got a little cocktail and then no orders and then Carmen and I will be going into dinner and then they've got a silent and live auction.

[SPEAKER_05]: I said oh, oh,

[SPEAKER_05]: I said, hey, enjoy yourself.

[SPEAKER_05]: Remember one thing you're not rich.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's it.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's what I wanted to share because you know with you I think that the pressure sometimes of an auction can make people behave bad And then there's a true and there's a true reason they serve cocktails before the auction

[SPEAKER_06]: I've done the art auctions where people start fighting each other, but that's missing that in the auction side.

[SPEAKER_05]: The auctions are, if you're a hypercompetitive person, you're immediately at a disadvantage in an auction environment.

[SPEAKER_05]: You don't want to lose, and that's why, you know, I don't know what the, we used to have a place in northern Virginia called laws auction,

[SPEAKER_04]: I was near the psychic.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, and near the yantas us at us the use tires and near some of the the what was the place called Wapos.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh yeah, what by the way, we don't have down here and I would love to get a Wapos chicken.

[SPEAKER_05]: El Tago where Jimmy Serrito took me one time freeze.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, clients for now go no longer there.

[SPEAKER_05]: What's the other ice cream place, Rob, that's over off the 28th?

[SPEAKER_04]: I remember you took me to one.

[SPEAKER_05]: Is it one lens or something like that?

[SPEAKER_04]: Or sounds like it could be, I've only what there was because it was sort of one block off the beaten path.

[SPEAKER_05]: They used to carry cat a whale.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I wish I got the name of that.

[SPEAKER_05]: Carvac.

[SPEAKER_05]: I wish it.

[SPEAKER_05]: But it's in Manassus and it has, you used to, all summer it had a line.

[SPEAKER_05]: It had a line of fat people.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I would go in there after work.

[SPEAKER_05]: I would go in there.

[SPEAKER_02]: I would go in there.

[SPEAKER_02]: What are you going to get in there?

[SPEAKER_02]: Back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back.

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't want to tell the story unless I've got the right name for The Ice Cream in Manassus because this story is when I was really, really working on getting super fat Like like ridiculously fat.

[SPEAKER_05]: This is what I would eat Occasionally and really for a while not occasionally was my regular thing and it was a frozen kind of

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, Mike was it Nathan's Nathan's dairy bar, exactly Nathan's dairy bar in 1948, Mathis Avenue, Manassas, Virginia.

[SPEAKER_05]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment. [SPEAKER_00]: Hiya, good to see you again. [SPEAKER_00]: And now he'll be here quite with us. [SPEAKER_00]: We will start the show. [SPEAKER_05]: T-M-O-S, classic. [SPEAKER_05]: Friday, flashback. [SPEAKER_05]: This is, uh, Mera tonight will be, uh, going to a charity do. [SPEAKER_05]: She's going to the charity dude. [SPEAKER_04]: Just getting dressed, Ross. [SPEAKER_04]: We're just dressing. [SPEAKER_05]: Thank you, Ross. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, that's wonderful, Ross. [SPEAKER_05]: One can you come over. [SPEAKER_05]: Uh, she's going to a charity do with our babysitter. [SPEAKER_05]: And, uh, I will be home with, uh, with boys night with man's night. [SPEAKER_05]: Nice. [SPEAKER_06]: We'll be, uh, What do men do when they're home alone? [SPEAKER_05]: I might take him out to, uh, you know, a, uh, didn't it? [SPEAKER_05]: I might take him out to the local diner. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you've been there. [SPEAKER_04]: You've been there before he likes that place, right? [SPEAKER_05]: He likes, uh, you know, stuff like that. [SPEAKER_05]: And, uh, he also likes, uh, these new sneakers that we got him, which, uh, would have, which have the dial on the side, like daddy's golf shoe. [SPEAKER_05]: They're the, they're shoes that you. [SPEAKER_05]: Have you seen this season that have taken the dial? [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I think it's kind of and he likes that and one of the other kids his friend Donnie at school had those shoes, and he wants No, not that is it. [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you very much [SPEAKER_05]: But he's got the, you know, so we'll hang out and I'll plan something special but what I said to Carla when she mentioned this to me this morning and we'll see each other obviously before she goes I said okay what's going to be what's happening at this little thing she said oh, they got a little cocktail and then no orders and then Carmen and I will be going into dinner and then they've got a silent and live auction. [SPEAKER_05]: I said oh, oh, [SPEAKER_05]: I said, hey, enjoy yourself. [SPEAKER_05]: Remember one thing you're not rich. [SPEAKER_05]: That's it. [SPEAKER_05]: That's what I wanted to share because you know with you I think that the pressure sometimes of an auction can make people behave bad And then there's a true and there's a true reason they serve cocktails before the auction [SPEAKER_06]: I've done the art auctions where people start fighting each other, but that's missing that in the auction side. [SPEAKER_05]: The auctions are, if you're a hypercompetitive person, you're immediately at a disadvantage in an auction environment. [SPEAKER_05]: You don't want to lose, and that's why, you know, I don't know what the, we used to have a place in northern Virginia called laws auction, [SPEAKER_04]: I was near the psychic. [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, and near the yantas us at us the use tires and near some of the the what was the place called Wapos. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh yeah, what by the way, we don't have down here and I would love to get a Wapos chicken. [SPEAKER_05]: El Tago where Jimmy Serrito took me one time freeze. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, clients for now go no longer there. [SPEAKER_05]: What's the other ice cream place, Rob, that's over off the 28th? [SPEAKER_04]: I remember you took me to one. [SPEAKER_05]: Is it one lens or something like that? [SPEAKER_04]: Or sounds like it could be, I've only what there was because it was sort of one block off the beaten path. [SPEAKER_05]: They used to carry cat a whale. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I wish I got the name of that. [SPEAKER_05]: Carvac. [SPEAKER_05]: I wish it. [SPEAKER_05]: But it's in Manassus and it has, you used to, all summer it had a line. [SPEAKER_05]: It had a line of fat people. [SPEAKER_05]: And I would go in there after work. [SPEAKER_05]: I would go in there. [SPEAKER_05]: I would go in there. [SPEAKER_02]: I would go in there. [SPEAKER_02]: What are you going to get in there? [SPEAKER_02]: Back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back. [SPEAKER_05]: I don't want to tell the story unless I've got the right name for The Ice Cream in Manassus because this story is when I was really, really working on getting super fat Like like ridiculously fat. [SPEAKER_05]: This is what I would eat Occasionally and really for a while not occasionally was my regular thing and it was a frozen kind of [SPEAKER_04]: Well, Mike was it Nathan's Nathan's dairy bar, exactly Nathan's dairy bar in 1948, Mathis Avenue, Manassas, Virginia. [SPEAKER_05]: Mathis Avenue, the road paralleling 28. [SPEAKER_05]: So that's what it was. [SPEAKER_05]: So Nathan's dairy bar was up from the law's auction house, and they used to take, they had a mint chocolate chip. [SPEAKER_05]: Uh, milkshake and the way they accomplished this was they had mint ice cream that that soft serve Mint or I think they flavored the vanilla with mint right is somehow they had a They had a beer or no, they had the goo mint syrup Maybe it was a bit of crammed and meant that the drizzle on top I don't know what no because it had more minty sugary taste than that and then they took magic shell [SPEAKER_05]: and they would put the magic shell in the milkshake. [SPEAKER_05]: Magic shells wouldn't what they put on on a dip cone to make the hard chocolate cake to the chocolate certain that has a little bit of wax in it. [SPEAKER_05]: So I think it's hard. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: And I should really talk like this when I'm describing it. [SPEAKER_04]: So I would ask for extra chocolate chips. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, a double dish means they would double dip the chocolate in there. [SPEAKER_05]: So it was just really, it was ice cream in a candy bar. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: Ging the wish as you began as you began to describe it. [SPEAKER_04]: I I I Harkin back do you remember one time it was during a spring a spring broadcast from your living room that afterwards We we broadcast early and we all drove up to Baltimore and went to an Orioles game. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and we were pretty handy with the beer because you and I had a driver Was it an Orioles or Nationals? [SPEAKER_04]: I was an Orioles game. [SPEAKER_04]: I believe I believe it was Orioles Red Sox I think that's why we drove up there for it. [SPEAKER_05]: Would that make sense with us? [SPEAKER_04]: I know that RJ was there because he was a driver [SPEAKER_04]: And I think a former business manager might have been along. [SPEAKER_05]: You guys did a girl with a girl with this too. [SPEAKER_05]: Girl might have come. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: I think it was Nationals. [SPEAKER_05]: I think it was the Nationals. [SPEAKER_04]: But in the way home, I was hot. [SPEAKER_04]: Right? [SPEAKER_04]: Super hot. [SPEAKER_04]: It was hotter than it should have been for the springtime. [SPEAKER_04]: And on the way back, because you and I were properly prepped with beer, we started talking food. [SPEAKER_04]: And that's when you first described to me the Nathan's mint chocolate chip milkshake. [SPEAKER_04]: And he said, oh, I feel like I wish I could have one right now. [SPEAKER_04]: RJ, before we go home, let's go to Nathan's, and it was amazing. [SPEAKER_05]: It was so good. [SPEAKER_05]: And then the reason I bring that up is between shows we tape to today. [SPEAKER_05]: I went into the refrigerator and it's like, No, no, no, no, no fruit bar. [SPEAKER_05]: So I had an apple. [SPEAKER_05]: Ah, what kind of apple that is? [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, for I know. [SPEAKER_05]: That's either the fact that I don't know should tell y'all you need to read or green. [SPEAKER_05]: It was a red apple. [SPEAKER_05]: It was a red apple in March. [SPEAKER_05]: That's all you need to know. [SPEAKER_05]: It's genetically engineered apple. [SPEAKER_05]: That's what I was going to say. [SPEAKER_04]: It's a braper-nid apple. [SPEAKER_05]: Right, it's a braper-nid apple. [SPEAKER_05]: It's hard as a, like, cubal. [SPEAKER_06]: It's a safe thing you have in the last night. [SPEAKER_06]: I got so mad, so mad. [SPEAKER_06]: And Shannon was sleeping already. [SPEAKER_06]: It was like 11.30 at night. [SPEAKER_06]: I was like, [SPEAKER_06]: You know, why can't we just buy food that we all want to eat? [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: That's right. [SPEAKER_06]: Wouldn't it be great? [SPEAKER_06]: Wouldn't it be amazing? [SPEAKER_06]: Wouldn't it be phenomenal? [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: I see in the berries. [SPEAKER_06]: No, that's what you said. [SPEAKER_06]: What am I living with? [SPEAKER_06]: Can squirrel hear what's going on? [SPEAKER_06]: If I see another almond, and I don't mind them, but if I see them in every pantry, what are we gonna do with those? [SPEAKER_05]: And by the way, when you go to my mother-in-law's house, there are seeds and my sister's house, there are seeds and nuts in the freezer. [SPEAKER_05]: So like, God, don't want them to perish. [SPEAKER_05]: You know, I mean, if a squirrel can put a dig it on, dig a hole on a tree and put it in there, what's a weird old tree. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, there's a tree. [SPEAKER_05]: That tree, that tree, that tree, that tree. [SPEAKER_06]: I throw my sneakers on, drains and a shirt and I say, so hot, I'm going to walk to wall. [SPEAKER_05]: There you go. [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah, T. M. O. S. Classic. [SPEAKER_05]: All right, can we do something before you tell you, I'd like to do this. [SPEAKER_05]: You may have trouble with it, Oscar, and I wouldn't be surprised. [SPEAKER_05]: I know Rob won't, but we've done variations on this. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm just in the mood because this helps me compensate for not putting stuffing my face with bad food, and I'm having a real tough time this week. [SPEAKER_05]: So I want to just let's do this. [SPEAKER_05]: Let's in be, let's be reasonable and realistic. [SPEAKER_05]: Okay, as far as space is concerned, okay? [SPEAKER_05]: Refrigerator and pantry. [SPEAKER_05]: All right, pantry being the little claws that you have across but your food stuff What do you want to start? [SPEAKER_05]: Because I know you'll be probably good at you know why you're gonna be good because you probably be the one that has the closest to You know what you'd want to know all though But in the in your dream refrigerator right where where you've got everything you want what would be in there [SPEAKER_04]: Dream refrigerator the the things I have of course you have to have milk butter eggs. [SPEAKER_05]: I would say two kinds of things The staples I'm talking about the the food stuff that you would have as a treat But also as a go to if you were hungry and you wanted to eat you know a meal or something Well, we've talked in the past about my emergency ham, and this is the air time of year for the emergency ham [SPEAKER_05]: And it needs to be heard of emergency. [SPEAKER_04]: I don't have one now, but the next time I go to Costco, I will pick up at least one and maybe two. [SPEAKER_05]: And here's the strategy for us and one toast and emergency. [SPEAKER_04]: No, it is what I believe the ride will might be EZ Carve, capital E, capital Z Carve. [SPEAKER_04]: And you see a ham that has been packaged and ready for omnis. [SPEAKER_05]: So it's red like you put in the refrigerator where you can just carve a slice of ham on but it's sealed and so it keeps and You check what do you mean it's sealed? [SPEAKER_05]: How is it sealed? [SPEAKER_04]: It's wrapped in a vacuum packed in plastic So it can stay in your fridge sometimes for a month, a month and a half. [SPEAKER_05]: Well, what do you do when you want to carve a slice off and then you get to reseal it? [SPEAKER_04]: no you don't what you do is this is the emergency ham that primarily it's first tour of duty will be a dinner where you unseal it and bake it and it's a littl