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#3669: Variety Packs Are Ass

Mike O'Meara, Robb Spewak, Josh Sroka

June 25, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

THURSDAY FUN! No Mo' Energy Drinks! Kirkland abuses their privilege. Kids will always be kids. We let the CHAT ROOM steer the show for a while... why? Because Guinness is good for you. Snake Church!Our Sponsors:* Check out Quince and use my…

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THURSDAY FUN! No Mo' Energy Drinks! Kirkland abuses their privilege. Kids will always be kids. We let the CHAT ROOM steer the show for a while... why? Because Guinness is good for you. Snake Church!

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[SPEAKER_04]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, what have we here?

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a podcast.

[SPEAKER_02]: I want to excitement.

[SPEAKER_02]: We have today.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's the Michael Mera Show with Michael Mera, and Rob Spiewack.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now, here's Mike.

[SPEAKER_07]: Hi everybody.

[SPEAKER_07]: Hi Mike welcome to the Michael Mary show for Thursday afternoon taping a great to have you a long I have made an editorial decision about today's show that I thought it would be fun to really Turn maybe we're taping two shows today.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, we may turn one over to the comments We may turn them all over to the comments and

[SPEAKER_07]: There's a reason for that.

[SPEAKER_07]: And it has to do with my day.

[SPEAKER_07]: And, you know, yesterday I had a day, right?

[SPEAKER_08]: You know what?

[SPEAKER_08]: I believe the first thing I wrote in the show description yesterday is Mike had himself a day.

[SPEAKER_07]: I had a day.

[SPEAKER_08]: So how's today in comparison to yesterday?

[SPEAKER_08]: Oh dear.

[SPEAKER_08]: It's a little early.

[SPEAKER_08]: You know, you're breaking your own Guinness record by having a Guinness when it's full daylight outside.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, today also ends in why.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it does, but I'm just shocked.

[SPEAKER_07]: I like to point out one thing.

[SPEAKER_08]: Only one.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'd be, I've begun to drink a little more.

[SPEAKER_08]: That's good.

[SPEAKER_08]: That always helped me.

[SPEAKER_07]: And the reason is summer.

[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that explains this weekend.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's that.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: That's a nice one.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: It might.

[SPEAKER_07]: No, has nothing to do with the weather has everything to do with the schedule in schedule here at home longer.

[SPEAKER_07]: Last night, another sleepover introduced the gentleman.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: Are they drinking kids?

[SPEAKER_07]: No.

[SPEAKER_07]: Good.

[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, no more beer.

[SPEAKER_07]: The most recent.

[SPEAKER_07]: Excuse me, second Rob.

[SPEAKER_08]: Of course.

[SPEAKER_08]: there we go guys I hope everyone learning no I hope everyone has headphones on because that sounds great Give it to you in there.

[SPEAKER_08]: Thank you

[SPEAKER_06]: I know there's someone listening to this thing and it's eight 15s a little early in the morning to be drinking.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's true.

[SPEAKER_08]: They might think we're just just know this.

[SPEAKER_07]: This episode of the Michael Merit Show is brought to you by the TMOS Amazon Portal. [SPEAKER_07]: Remember to click the Amazon link at TMOSpodcast.com before you shop. [SPEAKER_07]: It's that easy. [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_07]: Now, on with the show. [SPEAKER_04]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, what have we here? [SPEAKER_02]: It's a podcast. [SPEAKER_02]: I want to excitement. [SPEAKER_02]: We have today. [SPEAKER_04]: It's the Michael Mera Show with Michael Mera, and Rob Spiewack. [SPEAKER_04]: Now, here's Mike. [SPEAKER_07]: Hi everybody. [SPEAKER_07]: Hi Mike welcome to the Michael Mary show for Thursday afternoon taping a great to have you a long I have made an editorial decision about today's show that I thought it would be fun to really Turn maybe we're taping two shows today. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, we may turn one over to the comments We may turn them all over to the comments and [SPEAKER_07]: There's a reason for that. [SPEAKER_07]: And it has to do with my day. [SPEAKER_07]: And, you know, yesterday I had a day, right? [SPEAKER_08]: You know what? [SPEAKER_08]: I believe the first thing I wrote in the show description yesterday is Mike had himself a day. [SPEAKER_07]: I had a day. [SPEAKER_08]: So how's today in comparison to yesterday? [SPEAKER_08]: Oh dear. [SPEAKER_08]: It's a little early. [SPEAKER_08]: You know, you're breaking your own Guinness record by having a Guinness when it's full daylight outside. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, today also ends in why. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it does, but I'm just shocked. [SPEAKER_07]: I like to point out one thing. [SPEAKER_08]: Only one. [SPEAKER_07]: I'd be, I've begun to drink a little more. [SPEAKER_08]: That's good. [SPEAKER_08]: That always helped me. [SPEAKER_07]: And the reason is summer. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that explains this weekend. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: That's that. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: That's a nice one. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: It might. [SPEAKER_07]: No, has nothing to do with the weather has everything to do with the schedule in schedule here at home longer. [SPEAKER_07]: Last night, another sleepover introduced the gentleman. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Are they drinking kids? [SPEAKER_07]: No. [SPEAKER_07]: Good. [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, no more beer. [SPEAKER_07]: The most recent. [SPEAKER_07]: Excuse me, second Rob. [SPEAKER_08]: Of course. [SPEAKER_08]: there we go guys I hope everyone learning no I hope everyone has headphones on because that sounds great Give it to you in there. [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you [SPEAKER_06]: I know there's someone listening to this thing and it's eight 15s a little early in the morning to be drinking. [SPEAKER_06]: That's true. [SPEAKER_08]: They might think we're just just know this. [SPEAKER_08]: It's quarter after three. [SPEAKER_08]: Mike is fine. [SPEAKER_07]: He's fine. [SPEAKER_07]: The show, the boys were ready to go. [SPEAKER_07]: Everything's fine. [SPEAKER_07]: At three, I was delayed with some technical concerns that I had. [SPEAKER_07]: And I was also delayed because up [SPEAKER_07]: about 245 p.m. [SPEAKER_07]: I was having a come to God, come to Jesus meeting with my 12-year-old, who had had a fight with my wife. [SPEAKER_07]: A fight because of his attitude, which, normally, thank you, Joey Bagadon, I will go with Guinness. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: because of the fact that they had had an altercation. [SPEAKER_08]: Go with Guinness. [SPEAKER_08]: My name is Joey Bag of Donuts and you should go with Guinness. [SPEAKER_07]: They had had an altercation concerning whether or not he should have an energy drinking Carla rightly so said no, those aren't good for you. [SPEAKER_07]: And that's that's that. [SPEAKER_06]: And then we put our foot down on the energy drink as well. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, because it's the newest thing that's bad for them [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's what all parents have gone through. [SPEAKER_07]: It's what my parents went through. [SPEAKER_07]: What's it around? [SPEAKER_07]: Is it all is it? [SPEAKER_07]: What was your monster? [SPEAKER_07]: I don't think it was monster. [SPEAKER_07]: It was something where they say natural caffeine. [SPEAKER_07]: And it's like, oh, that's like Celsius. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: It's not Celsius. [SPEAKER_07]: It's one other thing. [SPEAKER_08]: I didn't even know what the name Robert has taken to ordering red bull. [SPEAKER_08]: Sugar was red bull online through our Amazon link. [SPEAKER_08]: So they bring it right to our home. [SPEAKER_07]: I do as well to buy what I don't do. [SPEAKER_07]: Three, two, one, just a second. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_07]: Nope. [SPEAKER_07]: What? [SPEAKER_07]: Just if the lady is called me from the place. [SPEAKER_08]: Do you ever do? [SPEAKER_08]: Obviously there is a right and a wrong side on this argument between your wife and your son. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, do you ever, there's not a right and wrong. [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, it's a wrong for a 12-year-old to That's what I'm saying. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm saying that it's obvious beverages. [SPEAKER_07]: It's probably wrong for a 67-year-old to do this. [SPEAKER_07]: This is our last taping of the week and you know, I've I have a Yeah, you got to get a chosen. [SPEAKER_08]: Don't they think this is good? [SPEAKER_08]: Isn't that another one of their clever models? [SPEAKER_06]: Guinness is good for you, Rob. [SPEAKER_08]: Guinness is good for you. [SPEAKER_08]: Well, then you're fine. [SPEAKER_08]: That's what I was. [SPEAKER_06]: But it's just a drink and you're not doing it in your space. [SPEAKER_06]: I have many times said no energy drink and then grab a red ball for myself. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and I get it, but you're an adult, and you're the father, and you have Responsibilities, and that's the that's the way it goes. [SPEAKER_08]: So, but my question was obviously this is an easy one to call You don't want someone his age having an energy drink. [SPEAKER_08]: That's no good. [SPEAKER_08]: I kind of look like I've been very good. [SPEAKER_07]: You do But I didn't need that immediately validated by you. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, but I will say during the countdown video. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you're in your little square You looked like the [SPEAKER_06]: Prototypical old man trying to figure out technology. [SPEAKER_07]: I didn't just struggle in with the computer screen I'm trying to do it all Digitally, yeah So you do have sort of like a dollop of hair up front. [SPEAKER_08]: I think that might be were you wearing a hat today? [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, that'll do it. [SPEAKER_08]: That'll do it But are there arguments that your son and your wife have had in the past? [SPEAKER_08]: Were you forced to pick aside and you might sometimes side with your son? [SPEAKER_08]: Nope. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, I do I do all this dessert [SPEAKER_07]: No, I don't. [SPEAKER_07]: I don't do that. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_07]: My son would come in here right now and tell you that I haven't done that. [SPEAKER_07]: That's not that's not the one. [SPEAKER_07]: The energy drinks bad. [SPEAKER_07]: Don't drink them. [SPEAKER_07]: What are you sucking on right there? [SPEAKER_07]: What is that? [SPEAKER_07]: Looks very festively green. [SPEAKER_08]: It's polar brand lime Seltzer and Josh and I were talking. [SPEAKER_08]: We both enjoy flavored Seltzer. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: And we both hate that we both hate the lime. [SPEAKER_07]: So we can enjoy the grapefruit, and we can enjoy the chair, I wish I could, and you know speak and we're speaking of the Kirkland company right now. [SPEAKER_07]: Well Josh is a Kirkland guy, I think Paul is a little better. [SPEAKER_07]: All right, this is fascinating because this is Kirkland. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_07]: Kirkland will produce something that people do love, the people consume a great deal. [SPEAKER_07]: And then they will, they will branch off and create something out of that good product that isn't quite as good. [SPEAKER_07]: In the, well, in the example of your uh, seltzer water, the orange flavor, much better than the lime, correct? [SPEAKER_07]: I don't know that they happen to have an orange. [SPEAKER_08]: What is the one, one of you were great for grapefruit, grapefruit is excellent. [SPEAKER_07]: Grapefruit is good, the other one. [SPEAKER_07]: Lemon, man, right? [SPEAKER_08]: Man is okay, cherry is nice, yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: But lime, no good. [SPEAKER_08]: No, I mean, it's not detestable. [SPEAKER_08]: I drink it, it's just I drink it first to get it over with. [SPEAKER_06]: But that's, yeah, but that's lime in any of the seltzer brands. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, lime is so strong. [SPEAKER_08]: It really comes flavor forward and it can taste a little fake. [SPEAKER_07]: But the bottom line is you get a big cases something where all the flavors are not go to flavors for you. [SPEAKER_08]: That be accurate. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, you get 24 bottles and there's six that no one wants. [SPEAKER_08]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: The lime is double in the Kirkland Seltzer box. [SPEAKER_07]: Because it's the, because it's the ship flavor. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, you got to look at, you got to look at polar them. [SPEAKER_08]: So it's not doubled. [SPEAKER_07]: It's a regular consumer of the Kirkland brand, protein bars. [SPEAKER_07]: Yes. [SPEAKER_07]: And they come equally with chocolate chip flavor and brownie flavor. [SPEAKER_07]: All right. [SPEAKER_07]: The chocolate chip flavor really, if you, you know, mix it with like a nice hot cup of coffee or something. [SPEAKER_07]: Or ice cream. [SPEAKER_07]: Might even approximate a real kind of chocolate chip product that would be a dessert item, all right cool. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, the the chocolate browning flavor tastes like it comes out of a boar's ass. [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, at any time you have sort of like a brownie that's constructed to be good for you. [SPEAKER_08]: The flavor leans towards clay clay is a perfect description of what it is. [SPEAKER_06]: But then I [SPEAKER_06]: a Brooklyn problem. [SPEAKER_06]: This is a variety pack problem. [SPEAKER_06]: Whenever there's a variety pack, they put a crap flavor in there that nobody wants to put it in. [SPEAKER_07]: And that's why, as my some would say, variety packs are ass. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_08]: They should not be used and they shouldn't be it's terrible. [SPEAKER_08]: But I'm trying to think of any variety packs that are actually valid. [SPEAKER_08]: Like, I mean, obviously you're going to stuff like popsicles and stuff like that. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, you know, various flavors. [SPEAKER_06]: That's okay. [SPEAKER_06]: But like Red Bull, the variety packed. [SPEAKER_06]: They throw like three coconuts in there. [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, that's that. [SPEAKER_08]: So the coconut is bad enough when it's real coconut. [SPEAKER_08]: When it's fake coconut, forget it. [SPEAKER_07]: Why not take the flavor that's real it? [SPEAKER_07]: Well, you would know because people buy both the brownie and the chocolate chip and they wouldn't know. [SPEAKER_08]: That there was as we've discussed in the pet you need to find someone somewhere who prefers the brownie flavor and do an exchange. [SPEAKER_07]: I don't think they're living. [SPEAKER_07]: I do. [SPEAKER_07]: That's true. [SPEAKER_07]: That's true. [SPEAKER_06]: That's true. [SPEAKER_06]: It's Costco that's got the best return policy. [SPEAKER_06]: So you just fill one box completely with crowning and go on it. [SPEAKER_08]: And you could say, this is entirely full of brown down. [SPEAKER_08]: I don't want to do it. [SPEAKER_07]: I'd go, come up with a chocolate chip pack of that I

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