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#3687: Mr. Hand Pay

Mike O'Meara, Robb Spewak, Josh Sroka

July 30, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

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Mike lands his dream guest, slot superstar Mr. Hand Pay, and immediately starts auditioning for the role of new best friend. Jason Belkey takes us behind the jackpot curtain to talk real wins, brutal losses, casino math, fake gambling streams, and why a hand pay is considerably less sexy than it sounds. Elsewhere, a plastic bag defeats a fleet of robot cars, Powerball fever inspires a mile-wide chocolate pie, and some criminal cats pull off the purr-fect heist. We get wonderful news from Linda’s surgery, while Mike and the boys attempt to build a backyard pitcher’s mound without sacrificing any fingers—or misusing the pitcher’s rubber. Robb’s head becomes a studio lighting instrument, Kathy Hilton battles the basic rules of Wheel of Fortune, and the show closes by proving that people in 1985 had no idea how annoying pocket-sized video calls would become.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The night's start moving on Channel 43, your favorite group of stations will continue in a moment.

[SPEAKER_03]: You can listen to the Michael Mero Show at tmos.com or anywhere find podcasts or fun.

[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to our show.

[SPEAKER_02]: And we're gonna start with the race.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's got to be fucking look at our phone.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's plenty for everyone.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's the Michael Mero Show.

[SPEAKER_03]: With Michael Mero.

[SPEAKER_03]: Bye!

[SPEAKER_03]: Josh Rooka.

[SPEAKER_03]: And Rob Speedway.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's only the beginning.

[SPEAKER_06]: And now, here's Mike.

[SPEAKER_06]: Man, oh man, oh man, I am so proud of my little guy.

[SPEAKER_06]: He's got his buddy over for a sleepover.

[SPEAKER_06]: You know what they're doing, Rob?

[SPEAKER_06]: They're actually building a pitcher's mound in the backyard.

[SPEAKER_06]: Not inside.

[SPEAKER_06]: An artificial pitcher's momma, and out of wood, and I'll talk about that later on.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was a mic, you threw me when you said you're proud of your little guy.

[SPEAKER_04]: I thought you were talking about Josh.

[SPEAKER_06]: No, not Josh.

[SPEAKER_06]: I, uh, Josh will be joining us later on in the broadcast.

[SPEAKER_06]: I am so excited to bring our first guest on today because this is somebody that I have watched online for a very, very long time.

[SPEAKER_06]: And as you know, I am fascinated by, well, they're referred to as slot influencer.

[SPEAKER_06]: Right.

[SPEAKER_06]: People that do online gambling.

[SPEAKER_06]: Let's not waste any time and bring in Jason Belky,

[SPEAKER_06]: What the hell is that what that is something else my god, is that the championship belt?

[SPEAKER_08]: How many I think that's what happens when you reach a million out of YouTube?

[SPEAKER_06]: Thanks, Jason.

[SPEAKER_06]: Thanks for rubbing my nose in it right away.

[SPEAKER_06]: I appreciate it.

[SPEAKER_06]: Mike, didn't you get a handkerchief for 500 subscribers?

[SPEAKER_05]: I am so pathetic.

[SPEAKER_06]: Anyway, it's just so nice to have you on the show.

[SPEAKER_06]: And I have wanted to talk to someone in your line of work and I love what you do and you do it differently than a lot of people that are out there.

[SPEAKER_06]: And I don't even know where to start other than tell you.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna blow a little smoke.

[SPEAKER_06]: No, dear.

[SPEAKER_06]: And if people in my comments give me crap for that, I say, FU and your families, too, and the words of Charles Barclay, all right?

[SPEAKER_06]: I love what you do.

[SPEAKER_06]: I am, I admire it, I'm jealous of it.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's really cool.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's got to be an amazingly busy and frenetic existence, but Mr. Handpay, you gamble.

[SPEAKER_06]: for a living and you share it with us and I consume it and I love it and thank you for coming on the show with your championship belt.

[SPEAKER_06]: We really appreciate that.

[SPEAKER_08]: Guys, no, this is only my second podcast ever.

[SPEAKER_08]: I was on the dog walk.

[SPEAKER_08]: Barstool sports.

[SPEAKER_08]: What was that about over a year ago?

[SPEAKER_08]: And that's the only other podcasts I've ever done.

[SPEAKER_06]: I, uh, well, that's, uh, all right, Rob, right, a letter to Josh, and, uh, and, and tell him, uh, he gets an extra $2.50.

[SPEAKER_06]: This episode of the Michael Meracial is brought to you by the T.M.O.S. [SPEAKER_06]: Amazon Portal. [SPEAKER_06]: Remember to click the Amazon link at T.M.O.S. [SPEAKER_06]: podcast.com before you shop. [SPEAKER_06]: It's that easy. [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_06]: Now, on with the show. [SPEAKER_03]: The night's start moving on Channel 43, your favorite group of stations will continue in a moment. [SPEAKER_03]: You can listen to the Michael Mero Show at tmos.com or anywhere find podcasts or fun. [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to our show. [SPEAKER_02]: And we're gonna start with the race. [SPEAKER_02]: It's got to be fucking look at our phone. [SPEAKER_03]: There's plenty for everyone. [SPEAKER_03]: It's the Michael Mero Show. [SPEAKER_03]: With Michael Mero. [SPEAKER_03]: Bye! [SPEAKER_03]: Josh Rooka. [SPEAKER_03]: And Rob Speedway. [SPEAKER_03]: It's only the beginning. [SPEAKER_06]: And now, here's Mike. [SPEAKER_06]: Man, oh man, oh man, I am so proud of my little guy. [SPEAKER_06]: He's got his buddy over for a sleepover. [SPEAKER_06]: You know what they're doing, Rob? [SPEAKER_06]: They're actually building a pitcher's mound in the backyard. [SPEAKER_06]: Not inside. [SPEAKER_06]: An artificial pitcher's momma, and out of wood, and I'll talk about that later on. [SPEAKER_04]: I was a mic, you threw me when you said you're proud of your little guy. [SPEAKER_04]: I thought you were talking about Josh. [SPEAKER_06]: No, not Josh. [SPEAKER_06]: I, uh, Josh will be joining us later on in the broadcast. [SPEAKER_06]: I am so excited to bring our first guest on today because this is somebody that I have watched online for a very, very long time. [SPEAKER_06]: And as you know, I am fascinated by, well, they're referred to as slot influencer. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: People that do online gambling. [SPEAKER_06]: Let's not waste any time and bring in Jason Belky, [SPEAKER_06]: What the hell is that what that is something else my god, is that the championship belt? [SPEAKER_08]: How many I think that's what happens when you reach a million out of YouTube? [SPEAKER_06]: Thanks, Jason. [SPEAKER_06]: Thanks for rubbing my nose in it right away. [SPEAKER_06]: I appreciate it. [SPEAKER_06]: Mike, didn't you get a handkerchief for 500 subscribers? [SPEAKER_05]: I am so pathetic. [SPEAKER_06]: Anyway, it's just so nice to have you on the show. [SPEAKER_06]: And I have wanted to talk to someone in your line of work and I love what you do and you do it differently than a lot of people that are out there. [SPEAKER_06]: And I don't even know where to start other than tell you. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna blow a little smoke. [SPEAKER_06]: No, dear. [SPEAKER_06]: And if people in my comments give me crap for that, I say, FU and your families, too, and the words of Charles Barclay, all right? [SPEAKER_06]: I love what you do. [SPEAKER_06]: I am, I admire it, I'm jealous of it. [SPEAKER_06]: I think it's really cool. [SPEAKER_06]: I think it's got to be an amazingly busy and frenetic existence, but Mr. Handpay, you gamble. [SPEAKER_06]: for a living and you share it with us and I consume it and I love it and thank you for coming on the show with your championship belt. [SPEAKER_06]: We really appreciate that. [SPEAKER_08]: Guys, no, this is only my second podcast ever. [SPEAKER_08]: I was on the dog walk. [SPEAKER_08]: Barstool sports. [SPEAKER_08]: What was that about over a year ago? [SPEAKER_08]: And that's the only other podcasts I've ever done. [SPEAKER_06]: I, uh, well, that's, uh, all right, Rob, right, a letter to Josh, and, uh, and, and tell him, uh, he gets an extra $2.50. [SPEAKER_06]: It'll be a cool picture. [SPEAKER_06]: Something in his envelope. [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, this week. [SPEAKER_06]: Mr. Handpay is, uh, Jason Belky, and, uh, he has been doing the, uh, the slot influencing on Mr. Handpay. [SPEAKER_08]: Honestly, so that's a funny question. [SPEAKER_08]: There was a guy at Heal of River, the other day, and I said, hey, I've been watching you since 2018. [SPEAKER_08]: And I go to him, I was like, you must've been watching me through my windows because I didn't start until 2021. [SPEAKER_06]: that's that's a little odd right there for those of you that are not in the know we he is a youtuber he is a slot influencer he films high steaks casino gambling and for those of you that don't know any of that role the video Josh and let's get a couple of examples of what Mr. hand paid does so our listeners can understand you know what I'm submitting [SPEAKER_08]: 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 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_06]: my man we're gonna go ways with this because you gotta see what happens here okay it's kind of a bit of all around you it's gonna blow you out of the friggin water here stop that's it okay you see these games you know we're talking about I will take that all brick start and have to stay with it because you gotta go to the end with it all right it's okay yeah for stealing your content for my show right last one of that please [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, none of them turn up created, I think, but that's okay. [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, you are three more wood. [SPEAKER_06]: Now they're gold. [SPEAKER_06]: You look down in the lower corner. [SPEAKER_06]: You will see the bit amount is $225. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_08]: Two more gold. [SPEAKER_08]: One more of the... All right. [SPEAKER_08]: Skip a head, Josh. [SPEAKER_08]: Skip a head to the end. [SPEAKER_08]: $1,000. [SPEAKER_08]: Just like that. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, there you go. [SPEAKER_06]: And that was what over $30,000 that you know, I don't know. [SPEAKER_08]: 50, that was like 50, 56. [SPEAKER_06]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_04]: That's not exactly a quarter pull on double diamond. [SPEAKER_06]: That's kind of a level. [SPEAKER_06]: It's fantastic. [SPEAKER_06]: You know, this is to me. [SPEAKER_06]: I, and I don't know if people have said this to you, but when you, you love to do this. [SPEAKER_06]: And for me, it's someone said, maybe one of my many therapists said to me one time. [SPEAKER_06]: It's like self hypnosis, where you get into it. [SPEAKER_06]: It's not for you though, because you are generating content in your an entertainer when you're doing this. [SPEAKER_06]: But for me, when I log hours and hours with this, I, it's zen like, and, well, it's the reason you have, I'm not alone. [SPEAKER_06]: People love to watch this kind of content, right? [SPEAKER_08]: Very true. [SPEAKER_08]: So a lot of people will, you know, people's famous line is I go to bed with you every night, right? [SPEAKER_08]: So they listen to me, they'll wash me's your all the night. [SPEAKER_08]: They wake up to the video being on it's wild to me. [SPEAKER_08]: I love it and I never thought it would turn into this. [SPEAKER_08]: So that video where I hit 56,000. [SPEAKER_08]: I can't find bigger hand-pays this year. [SPEAKER_08]: And if you look at last year, I had a dozen that were bigger than that. [SPEAKER_08]: So it's a good hit, but we've had much larger, actually. [SPEAKER_08]: And that sort of been a lot bigger. [SPEAKER_06]: now you go to uh... casinos all over the united states uh... you seem to at least to have from my viewing uh... your home base would be uh... foxwoods in my home state of Connecticut with that be right yeah definitely that's where i go most often which is crazy because i live in Wisconsin so yeah yeah that's interesting to the best of me and uh... and honestly i i love the fact that [SPEAKER_08]: They have a fair return to player. [SPEAKER_08]: You can see what the return to player is at a lot of casinos in Illinois. [SPEAKER_08]: And Wisconsin in the 90s, the governor passed something that stated that Wisconsin casinos have to pay between 80 and 100%. [SPEAKER_08]: And do not have to be transparent with any of their return to player. [SPEAKER_08]: And it's very difficult for me to push casinos that I feel [SPEAKER_08]: really can take advantage of the player and you don't know anything about it. [SPEAKER_08]: Foxwoods, you know, they're, you know, slogan motto is winters make players and they do, right? [SPEAKER_08]: Let these people play win and enjoy themselves. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, you only can, you know, [SPEAKER_06]: skin and pig once or whatever they say like I have so many questions I don't know where to begin with it because I think that this is born I would assume this was born out of a enjoyment of doing this anyway you were a gambler before you decided become an influencer was it always slots for you were slot machines [SPEAKER_08]: And I was more Blackjack, I would say. [SPEAKER_08]: So the reason I actually started this, I've had different businesses my entire life, and that's why I started this, right? [SPEAKER_08]: I saw a business opportunity and like, hey, I can make a little bit of money. [SPEAKER_08]: So Lady Lock put out a video. [SPEAKER_08]: This might have been six years ago. [SPEAKER_08]: And she showed how much she was making on YouTube. [SPEAKER_08]: She's making like 30,000 a month, and I was like, wow. [SPEAKER_08]: If I made $30,000 a month, I would be sad. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, little did I know I would be able to lose that [SPEAKER_08]: moving forward. [SPEAKER_08]: But the reason I really did this is because I saw what other people were doing and I just thought I could do it better. [SPEAKER_08]: That's it, right? [SPEAKER_08]: And people can say you can see that stuck up whatever. [SPEAKER_08]: I mean that was the truth and we've really taken off. [SPEAKER_08]: We've made some mistakes along the way, but we definitely fixed them and do whatever we can to continue to push forward and be innovative and just be different, right? [SPEAKER_08]: Because that's the only way you're going to make this. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, when you have 1, 2, 3, 4,000 of the same video, you have to do something different to keep people's attention. [SPEAKER_08]: Because, you know, I'm not going to be able to bet the most. [SPEAKER_08]: And when, you know, nonstop 100 to 400,000 jackpots every video, it just doesn't make sense. [SPEAKER_08]: You'll never make it back on the platform. [SPEAKER_08]: And again, this is a business. [SPEAKER_08]: We employ almost 20 people. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm just going to mention that your team, you have a team as far as editing as far as marketing as far getting into the people keeping track. [SPEAKER_06]: One of the things I love about your videos is that you're constantly saying, what are we in for? [SPEAKER_06]: What are we in for? [SPEAKER_06]: There's one particular focus of video where he's in Foxwoods and I love old school slots. [SPEAKER_06]: Love them love them love them. [SPEAKER_06]: I like the top dollar. [SPEAKER_06]: I like it when you've got the double diamonds I just I love those kind of things. [SPEAKER_06]: There are wheels rolling right that I love that and he's going around What are we in for it? [SPEAKER_06]: And he's got four slots going at the same time and he's running around doing all this and he's at fox What and I'm screaming at this I want to be you I want to be you and I and so because I mean I might you wouldn't run [SPEAKER_06]: I would not let me tell you why I would not be in it and if we ever do this thing on a very very low level Carla would be the face of it. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't have the temperament leads me to another question if I sound excited about this and my listeners go oh you're finally excited about something yeah well fuck