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#3543: A 5 Letter Word

Mike O'Meara, Robb Spewak, Josh Sroka

October 8, 2025 · 1 hr 28 min

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Mike's joy is doing this show... but his studio is NOT his happy place; he's just not wired that way. Famous Dave's is not so great. Should we be making AI Clips of the dead or is it profiteering? Mike gets a wellness check and Robb knows his jumpsuits. Weird. This Episode Is Sponsored By INCOGNI. Use code TMOS at the following link to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan: www.incogni.com/tmos

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[SPEAKER_12]: Late night tonight.

[SPEAKER_12]: We're a sheep.

[SPEAKER_12]: A fellow cop leads pepper into a trap on police woman.

[SPEAKER_12]: Michael Merra, radio entertainment.

[SPEAKER_12]: You can listen to the Michael Merra show at michaelmerrashow.com.

[SPEAKER_12]: Wow, what a happy year.

[SPEAKER_16]: It's a podcast.

[SPEAKER_16]: Fine.

[SPEAKER_16]: I want to excitement.

[SPEAKER_16]: We have today.

[SPEAKER_12]: It's the Michael Merra Show with Michael Merra.

[SPEAKER_12]: And Rob Spiewack.

[SPEAKER_12]: Now here's my...

[SPEAKER_06]: What a difference a day man.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, sir.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's only a couple of hours.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, guys cover for me yesterday, and I'm gone for from this space, this delightful space.

[SPEAKER_04]: Would you call it your hat?

[SPEAKER_04]: Jackie, I live in your happy place that studio.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you know what, F-no.

[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I wouldn't call my H-I-I-I will say this.

[SPEAKER_06]: I will say this, that I was discussing at the bus stop with my son this morning.

[SPEAKER_06]: The fact that the thing that brings me the most joy in my work is essentially looking at a blank page.

[SPEAKER_06]: And coming up with four, five, six things that I think will generate a content that will be hopefully stimulating in some way, whether it be amusing, whether it be thought provoking, that's what I do, and that to me,

[SPEAKER_06]: uh... sometimes early early early in the morning say five a.m.

[SPEAKER_06]: five thirty i'm looking at the page and i'm really starting from complete scratch having given it a tremendous amount of thought and then slowly but surely uh... through reading news and thinking about uh... the days that have gone by uh... things start to fall into place and then you know at the end when i realized that's enough

[SPEAKER_06]: That's the, that to me is my real contribution to what we do here more than anything else in my humble opinion and I really don't give a tremendous amount of thought to the technical end of things and that was rather soundly demonstrated.

[SPEAKER_06]: by immediately coming into the studio.

[SPEAKER_06]: And I have a very large 65-inch monitor in here, which I used to look at my pals, one from St.

[SPEAKER_06]: Augustine, and one from Leesburg.

[SPEAKER_06]: And when I came in today, the screen was on, and sometimes it is, and it was up and running in the windows that I have there, we're still there.

[SPEAKER_06]: I was gonna have to put different stuff in there.

[SPEAKER_06]: I have a teleprompter.

[SPEAKER_06]: I have lots of different stuff that I use.

[SPEAKER_06]: And then, by the time I came in and I sat down, it turned into a full-fledged estorn, and because, well, Rob will have a story about the human mind, probably the reason because of that.

[SPEAKER_06]: I suddenly was clueless as to how everything works, and all I knew is that I was unable to access everything I need to access to, you know, to throw this little thing on and talk to you guys and share our fine sponsors with you guys and, um,

[SPEAKER_04]: It was a big, you know, for us all of the fine sponsors, we have a starting time.

[SPEAKER_06]: I usually connect with the guys of 8 a.m.

[SPEAKER_06]: 8.05 and it was 8.05 and then 8.10 and then 8.15.

[SPEAKER_06]: Then a little about about 8.13, 8.14, the message goes out and let's see what I wrote because it was very, very, very, very, I was very cryptic.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, I was.

[SPEAKER_06]: I know I was.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's here somewhere.

[SPEAKER_06]: Come on.

[SPEAKER_06]: camera.

[SPEAKER_06]: No, you said camera is.

[SPEAKER_06]: I say.

[SPEAKER_06]: Sorry.

[SPEAKER_06]: Video is down.

[SPEAKER_06]: Now that to me that word that's used and when you say that.

[SPEAKER_06]: But down.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it to me, it's.

[SPEAKER_06]: abdicating the responsibility that you have video's not down.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_06]: I can't get the video up or get the video.

[SPEAKER_06]: It's not down.

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, you're not a young man anymore.

[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_07]: It was explained like the internet's out.

[SPEAKER_07]: Like I can't control this video.

[SPEAKER_12]: Late night tonight. [SPEAKER_12]: We're a sheep. [SPEAKER_12]: A fellow cop leads pepper into a trap on police woman. [SPEAKER_12]: Michael Merra, radio entertainment. [SPEAKER_12]: You can listen to the Michael Merra show at michaelmerrashow.com. [SPEAKER_12]: Wow, what a happy year. [SPEAKER_16]: It's a podcast. [SPEAKER_16]: Fine. [SPEAKER_16]: I want to excitement. [SPEAKER_16]: We have today. [SPEAKER_12]: It's the Michael Merra Show with Michael Merra. [SPEAKER_12]: And Rob Spiewack. [SPEAKER_12]: Now here's my... [SPEAKER_06]: What a difference a day man. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, sir. [SPEAKER_06]: It's only a couple of hours. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, guys cover for me yesterday, and I'm gone for from this space, this delightful space. [SPEAKER_04]: Would you call it your hat? [SPEAKER_04]: Jackie, I live in your happy place that studio. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you know what, F-no. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I wouldn't call my H-I-I-I will say this. [SPEAKER_06]: I will say this, that I was discussing at the bus stop with my son this morning. [SPEAKER_06]: The fact that the thing that brings me the most joy in my work is essentially looking at a blank page. [SPEAKER_06]: And coming up with four, five, six things that I think will generate a content that will be hopefully stimulating in some way, whether it be amusing, whether it be thought provoking, that's what I do, and that to me, [SPEAKER_06]: uh... sometimes early early early in the morning say five a.m. [SPEAKER_06]: five thirty i'm looking at the page and i'm really starting from complete scratch having given it a tremendous amount of thought and then slowly but surely uh... through reading news and thinking about uh... the days that have gone by uh... things start to fall into place and then you know at the end when i realized that's enough [SPEAKER_06]: That's the, that to me is my real contribution to what we do here more than anything else in my humble opinion and I really don't give a tremendous amount of thought to the technical end of things and that was rather soundly demonstrated. [SPEAKER_06]: by immediately coming into the studio. [SPEAKER_06]: And I have a very large 65-inch monitor in here, which I used to look at my pals, one from St. [SPEAKER_06]: Augustine, and one from Leesburg. [SPEAKER_06]: And when I came in today, the screen was on, and sometimes it is, and it was up and running in the windows that I have there, we're still there. [SPEAKER_06]: I was gonna have to put different stuff in there. [SPEAKER_06]: I have a teleprompter. [SPEAKER_06]: I have lots of different stuff that I use. [SPEAKER_06]: And then, by the time I came in and I sat down, it turned into a full-fledged estorn, and because, well, Rob will have a story about the human mind, probably the reason because of that. [SPEAKER_06]: I suddenly was clueless as to how everything works, and all I knew is that I was unable to access everything I need to access to, you know, to throw this little thing on and talk to you guys and share our fine sponsors with you guys and, um, [SPEAKER_04]: It was a big, you know, for us all of the fine sponsors, we have a starting time. [SPEAKER_06]: I usually connect with the guys of 8 a.m. [SPEAKER_06]: 8.05 and it was 8.05 and then 8.10 and then 8.15. [SPEAKER_06]: Then a little about about 8.13, 8.14, the message goes out and let's see what I wrote because it was very, very, very, very, I was very cryptic. [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, I was. [SPEAKER_06]: I know I was. [SPEAKER_06]: It's here somewhere. [SPEAKER_06]: Come on. [SPEAKER_06]: camera. [SPEAKER_06]: No, you said camera is. [SPEAKER_06]: I say. [SPEAKER_06]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_06]: Video is down. [SPEAKER_06]: Now that to me that word that's used and when you say that. [SPEAKER_06]: But down. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it to me, it's. [SPEAKER_06]: abdicating the responsibility that you have video's not down. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: I can't get the video up or get the video. [SPEAKER_06]: It's not down. [SPEAKER_07]: Well, you're not a young man anymore. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: It was explained like the internet's out. [SPEAKER_07]: Like I can't control this video. [SPEAKER_06]: There's no provider who's buying me today. [SPEAKER_06]: There's no lightning. [SPEAKER_06]: There's no anything. [SPEAKER_06]: They're they're they're not calling misutility because they've they've cut a [SPEAKER_06]: That was just my dumb ass. [SPEAKER_04]: Well, and let me ask a question about the process. [SPEAKER_04]: When you send us the video is down, obviously there's a problem. [SPEAKER_06]: What percentage of you want it to be like an issue that is internet wide is opposed to something that you think that you think I'm aware that it isn't I would know all of the you know that Oh, automatically I would never connectivity to the internet all right of any kind and I know I have that so that that's out of what I'm doing is I'm trying to do it on my own and then at a certain point I [SPEAKER_06]: contact Josh, who prior to doing what he does now, he was a smart home operator where he would install everything that you would have in a smart home, everything technical and you know. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not dumb or phone calls. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, like let's thank you Josh I don't know now from you. [SPEAKER_07]: I'm saying I have multiple times been paid hundreds of dollars to go to someone's house to plug something in To be like oh your TV is not plugged in Yeah, that's right. [SPEAKER_07]: I unplugged it to use the vacuum [SPEAKER_07]: somehow. [SPEAKER_04]: It's not working. [SPEAKER_06]: And Rob's clicking again. [SPEAKER_06]: Rob. [SPEAKER_06]: That's that. [SPEAKER_06]: And there was a was a click there. [SPEAKER_04]: You could. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you could look out and come back. [SPEAKER_06]: It could be you. [SPEAKER_06]: Or do we want me to goodbye to Rob briefly or what? [SPEAKER_07]: Well, that's what I'm going to be adding. [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_07]: Whatever. [SPEAKER_07]: Because I have bad internet now. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, you do. [SPEAKER_06]: And you're now, you're, you're, you're video. [SPEAKER_06]: It's made is is way behind the synchronization. [SPEAKER_06]: So I think maybe you're going to have to, and then I think you're clicking too. [SPEAKER_06]: As a matter of fact, both of you duck out and come back in. [SPEAKER_06]: All right, and I'll take it from here. [SPEAKER_06]: All right, because I think I wouldn't mind having that opportunity to do that. [SPEAKER_06]: So we'll see in a bit, hi everybody, it's me. [SPEAKER_06]: Hi, I believe we're still recording. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, this is the way I always wanted to be. [SPEAKER_06]: Just you, just me looking into this camera. [SPEAKER_06]: I'm kidding, of course. [SPEAKER_06]: So I contact our man, Josh Sroke, because at a certain point, I realize that, I might want to, that was too quick. [SPEAKER_06]: I really liked my intimate moment. [SPEAKER_06]: We really did. [SPEAKER_04]: I can go. [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, you want me to like give you to like the top of the hour? [SPEAKER_07]: Well, you haven't left yet. [SPEAKER_07]: I thought it was a rape. [SPEAKER_07]: No, he left it. [SPEAKER_07]: I thought it was came back like ridiculously quickly. [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. [SPEAKER_07]: See, I thought it was a race to see who could get back faster. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm not your brother. [SPEAKER_04]: We don't need to compare it with that competition. [SPEAKER_06]: I know, I know. [SPEAKER_06]: So as I was saying, at a certain point, when I'm convinced of the fact that I am unable to fix this problem, I call the person with engineering experience and Josh has a lot of, [SPEAKER_06]: experience with hooking PCs and Macs and TVs and everything you would need. [SPEAKER_06]: So as we go through a very relevant identification of cable, seemingly was lost on me. [SPEAKER_06]: And I know this cable. [SPEAKER_06]: I know this cable. [SPEAKER_06]: I've run this cable a thousand times. [SPEAKER_06]: I know, but for some reason, I was talking about what he was talking about. [SPEAKER_07]: There was a moment where I wondered if I was going to have to send you a picture of the proper cable. [SPEAKER_06]: That cable, as we went back and forth and back and forth, we went into the computer. [SPEAKER_06]: We said, and the computers give me these different screens about connecting and things. [SPEAKER_06]: I've never seen this before, never seen this before. [SPEAKER_06]: I've never clicked on that, but I know I can't put that up because that source has never been used before. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't, that, that, that goes on and on and on. [SPEAKER_06]: Be a bit of a job, a bit of a bit of a, and [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, I said, uh, well, there are two HDMI inputs. [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know which one I've been using. [SPEAKER_06]: He said, and then at this point is we're winding down identifying the program, uh, the problem. [SPEAKER_06]: Josh said, well, there shouldn't be two. [SPEAKER_06]: There should just be one and I said, uh, no, well, and I looked down on the floor. [SPEAKER_06]: And on the floor, in red, yes, it's a red cable. [SPEAKER_06]: It's got a red end to it. [SPEAKER_06]: It's very, very easy to see. [SPEAKER_06]: There is an HDMI cable. [SPEAKER_06]: on the floor in my hastily sloppily thrown together studio, and I said, and this is what the idiot says to Josh, I said, I thought that was just disconnected, well, I thought that didn't need to be connected. [SPEAKER_06]: I wouldn't realize at some point when I was stumbling, hobbling, barely amulatory. [SPEAKER_06]: getting into the studio, and I'm wearing uphos today, those soft sandal things that are called uphos, and I drag my feet with them a little bit, and I think I caught the cable and dislodged it from the computer. [SPEAKER_07]: What's great with troubleshooting Mike is when I'm explaining that he's moving USB cables around not HDMI He doesn't say oh, that's it and figure it out. [SPEAKER_07]: He just switches to I think I know the problem He doesn't say what he did the mess up. [SPEAKER_07]: He doesn't say that he was wrong. [SPEAKER_07]: It's just all right. [SPEAKER_06]: I solved it Yeah, yeah, and I didn't but but I did I mean you did let's be honest. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean ultimately [SPEAKER_06]: if I was completely without clue this way, you know, nothing would happen. [SPEAKER_06]: It would be panic city and you would have to send pictures and stuff like that. [SPEAKER_06]: Right. [SPEAKER_06]: But I mean, I still feel like a complete blithering idiot because if you saw, you know what, I'll take a picture and I'll send it to Josh right now. [SPEAKER_06]: Let me do this. [SPEAKER_04]: all right, but you know I will I'll you know what I agree with you might when something goes wrong invariably it's something simpler than you thought thought or hoped it would be and when it's discovered you can't help but feel foolish because you didn't noodle it through I mean we always start with like and it invariably pisses me off when someone says [SPEAKER_04]: Is it on? [SPEAKER_04]: Did you turn it off and turn it on? [SPEAKER_04]: And, you know, even at our level, we know to do that. [SPEAKER_04]: But sometimes that's what fixes it. [SPEAKER_04]: And it's just the simple stuff. [SPEAKER_06]: But I know that I have to tidy up in here. [SPEAKER_06]: And I think that when you're talking about, if you were to roll into CNN, [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, or you were to roll into even Channel 4 in Washington DC or any of your local stations your TV stations. [SPEAKER_06]: There are cameras, there are, you know, there's an open space where cables have to be on the open, but everything's becoming wireless. [SPEAKER_06]: And, you know, this studio, it would not, you know, I know that there are other stud

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