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TMOS Classic: September 5, 2025

Mike O'Meara, Robb Spewak, Josh Sroka

September 5, 2025 · 35 min

“The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.”Our Sponsors:* Check out Quince and use my code TMOS for a great deal: https://www.quince.com* Check out TruDiagnostic and…

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[SPEAKER_01]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment.

[SPEAKER_00]: I remember, by the way, Carla's twenty was this weekend and she did not go.

[SPEAKER_06]: Senate Bill High School and I did not go to that and you went to your thirty if yes this weekend and let me see in a few years I'll be going to my one hundred and fifty.

[SPEAKER_06]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_04]: You just went to your was it your forty if that you went to Italy.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, it was not too long.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're all in the same boat, but it's a long time.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know thirty years is a long time.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I will change dramatically.

[SPEAKER_06]: The class of the nineteen eighty nine James Madison high school and I was responsible for the music as you guys recall I got sort of sort of roped into it, but you know what at the end of it you didn't know you didn't know I was love being the man I was asked to be part of that you're in easy lay I mean you thank you having I mean no it's like rob wood yes

[SPEAKER_04]: But I will say this.

[SPEAKER_04]: It turned out that it was very rewarding because people really enjoyed the music and they came up and they thanked.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was nice.

[SPEAKER_06]: Nice to be a part of your work all night or did you socialize?

[SPEAKER_04]: No, what I was going to tell you what I did is with my music strategy is that I made blocks of music that were about half hour, thirty five minutes long.

[SPEAKER_04]: So about every half hour I went and hit a button and then played.

[SPEAKER_04]: And so when you talked

[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe three announcements all night, three or four announcements all night.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's it.

[SPEAKER_06]: Were they long?

[SPEAKER_06]: Were they lengthy?

[SPEAKER_04]: No, they weren't.

[SPEAKER_04]: They were not lengthy because I was not all into doing that.

[SPEAKER_03]: I wanted to, you know, socially seven, eight, nine, Toyota, Camry.

[SPEAKER_03]: Can you please move your car from the loading down?

[SPEAKER_03]: There was one lost key announced.

[SPEAKER_03]: There was.

[SPEAKER_06]: There was a lost key announced.

[SPEAKER_06]: Let me just see if I've got it right.

[SPEAKER_06]: So if you're doing the announcements, right, I would gather that the later announcements would probably be a little more lengthy than the earlier one.

[SPEAKER_04]: And maybe over the music, maybe not even stopping the music down.

[SPEAKER_04]: But yes, I would say you'd be.

[SPEAKER_06]: You'd talk when maybe the music wasn't in a break.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, you know, there was

[SPEAKER_04]: went from seven to midnight.

[SPEAKER_04]: And by ten thirty and no one was dancing yet because really a lot of people wanted to talk and catch up seven midnight.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's a lot of a drinky drinky.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I was there was some coaxing to get people on the dance floor.

[SPEAKER_04]: But the music earlier I was proud of this idea and if you are a disjockey for reunion, I recommend it highly.

[SPEAKER_04]: I did a segment of music for every year we were at school.

[SPEAKER_04]: So our freshman year, this block encompassed the fall of nineteen eighty five to the summer of nineteen eighty six.

[SPEAKER_04]: Number one records an order and this is where the beer helped Mike.

[SPEAKER_04]: I said, what about radio jingles from the year that we were in high school?

[SPEAKER_06]: They must have loved it.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was amazing.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that was very bad at school.

[SPEAKER_04]: So that was fun.

[SPEAKER_04]: And we had the big sound system.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was not shy with the volume.

[SPEAKER_04]: Big ball room.

[SPEAKER_04]: It was at Westwood Country Club in Vienna.

[SPEAKER_04]: And we had the ball room there and they did a great job.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I don't know how they're making any money, charging seven dollars for a bottle of bottle of ice.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know what, you got it all over me.

[SPEAKER_04]: I had readings.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, it was a cash bar.

[SPEAKER_06]: As you got it all over me.

[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I had, you know, my first reunion, I had we had forty plus affiliates.

[SPEAKER_06]: And, and I, you know, I walk into the reunion kind of.

[SPEAKER_06]: And I get, you still are doing the DJ thing?

[SPEAKER_01]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment. [SPEAKER_00]: I remember, by the way, Carla's twenty was this weekend and she did not go. [SPEAKER_06]: Senate Bill High School and I did not go to that and you went to your thirty if yes this weekend and let me see in a few years I'll be going to my one hundred and fifty. [SPEAKER_06]: Wow. [SPEAKER_04]: You just went to your was it your forty if that you went to Italy. [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, it was not too long. [SPEAKER_04]: We're all in the same boat, but it's a long time. [SPEAKER_04]: You know thirty years is a long time. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I will change dramatically. [SPEAKER_06]: The class of the nineteen eighty nine James Madison high school and I was responsible for the music as you guys recall I got sort of sort of roped into it, but you know what at the end of it you didn't know you didn't know I was love being the man I was asked to be part of that you're in easy lay I mean you thank you having I mean no it's like rob wood yes [SPEAKER_04]: But I will say this. [SPEAKER_04]: It turned out that it was very rewarding because people really enjoyed the music and they came up and they thanked. [SPEAKER_04]: It was nice. [SPEAKER_06]: Nice to be a part of your work all night or did you socialize? [SPEAKER_04]: No, what I was going to tell you what I did is with my music strategy is that I made blocks of music that were about half hour, thirty five minutes long. [SPEAKER_04]: So about every half hour I went and hit a button and then played. [SPEAKER_04]: And so when you talked [SPEAKER_04]: Maybe three announcements all night, three or four announcements all night. [SPEAKER_04]: That's it. [SPEAKER_06]: Were they long? [SPEAKER_06]: Were they lengthy? [SPEAKER_04]: No, they weren't. [SPEAKER_04]: They were not lengthy because I was not all into doing that. [SPEAKER_03]: I wanted to, you know, socially seven, eight, nine, Toyota, Camry. [SPEAKER_03]: Can you please move your car from the loading down? [SPEAKER_03]: There was one lost key announced. [SPEAKER_03]: There was. [SPEAKER_06]: There was a lost key announced. [SPEAKER_06]: Let me just see if I've got it right. [SPEAKER_06]: So if you're doing the announcements, right, I would gather that the later announcements would probably be a little more lengthy than the earlier one. [SPEAKER_04]: And maybe over the music, maybe not even stopping the music down. [SPEAKER_04]: But yes, I would say you'd be. [SPEAKER_06]: You'd talk when maybe the music wasn't in a break. [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, you know, there was [SPEAKER_04]: went from seven to midnight. [SPEAKER_04]: And by ten thirty and no one was dancing yet because really a lot of people wanted to talk and catch up seven midnight. [SPEAKER_06]: That's a lot of a drinky drinky. [SPEAKER_04]: So I was there was some coaxing to get people on the dance floor. [SPEAKER_04]: But the music earlier I was proud of this idea and if you are a disjockey for reunion, I recommend it highly. [SPEAKER_04]: I did a segment of music for every year we were at school. [SPEAKER_04]: So our freshman year, this block encompassed the fall of nineteen eighty five to the summer of nineteen eighty six. [SPEAKER_04]: Number one records an order and this is where the beer helped Mike. [SPEAKER_04]: I said, what about radio jingles from the year that we were in high school? [SPEAKER_06]: They must have loved it. [SPEAKER_04]: It was amazing. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that was very bad at school. [SPEAKER_04]: So that was fun. [SPEAKER_04]: And we had the big sound system. [SPEAKER_04]: I was not shy with the volume. [SPEAKER_04]: Big ball room. [SPEAKER_04]: It was at Westwood Country Club in Vienna. [SPEAKER_04]: And we had the ball room there and they did a great job. [SPEAKER_04]: And I don't know how they're making any money, charging seven dollars for a bottle of bottle of ice. [SPEAKER_04]: You know what, you got it all over me. [SPEAKER_04]: I had readings. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, it was a cash bar. [SPEAKER_06]: As you got it all over me. [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I had, you know, my first reunion, I had we had forty plus affiliates. [SPEAKER_06]: And, and I, you know, I walk into the reunion kind of. [SPEAKER_06]: And I get, you still are doing the DJ thing? [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, really, really, really, really, really. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't. [SPEAKER_03]: So doing that weird thing that no one understands. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, well, [SPEAKER_04]: It was weird because a lot of these people hadn't seen them since the twentieth. [SPEAKER_04]: The twentieth reunion happened between the time that we got fired and we started the podcast. [SPEAKER_04]: So the last time I talked to these people, I didn't have a job. [SPEAKER_04]: And so it was, and luckily, because many of them are local, and you're last reunion, you were unemployed. [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_04]: And it was not a great, I'd said, if we had done a nineteen year reunion, I would have been skinny and employed. [SPEAKER_04]: But the twentieth caught me fat and unemployed. [SPEAKER_05]: That is hilarious. [SPEAKER_03]: So it was, it was, last year would have been a great year to do that. [SPEAKER_04]: That's what we were, but for the thirty of fat, but employed so that you know, we're big and stuff and big and stuff and there are some great things. [SPEAKER_04]: Boy, the thirty of boy do you need the name tags? [SPEAKER_04]: Because, you know, we all have name tags with big font with our name and our senior pictures. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: And there was people people become right. [SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god. [SPEAKER_04]: It's like, I said this to my mom. [SPEAKER_04]: She said how to go. [SPEAKER_04]: I said, do you know how if you like look at a picture of Elvis when he's like young and on the Ed Sullivan show and he'll look at picture of Elvis when he's big and fat and bloated on stage. [SPEAKER_04]: And you can't draw a parallel line and figure out how this became that. [SPEAKER_04]: I'm looking at people that I remember their name, and I remember their senior picture, and I'm wondering, are they wearing the right name tag? [SPEAKER_04]: There's one guy named Tom that I just kept looking at, and like, tilting my head said, how did that happen? [SPEAKER_04]: You don't, not like, was there a surgery? [SPEAKER_04]: Was something happened? [SPEAKER_06]: What I found with mine, and I want to ask you if you found it with yours, too. [SPEAKER_06]: Were there the people that were perfectly preserved? [SPEAKER_04]: Yes. [SPEAKER_06]: Because it's all about fitness. [SPEAKER_06]: It's all about, you know, maintaining your look and looking good. [SPEAKER_06]: And there was one guy, I think his name was Spencer. [SPEAKER_06]: And I could be totally wrong because I don't really hang out with the cops. [SPEAKER_05]: But he looked really, he died his hair too. [SPEAKER_05]: So he looked exactly the same. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm very, very looked so everything was black and then he was wearing black and he was fit. [SPEAKER_04]: It's it was weird. [SPEAKER_04]: There are some that people that have not changed at all. [SPEAKER_04]: And then there was people that when you look at him across the room, there were people. [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, there were people that looked exactly the same. [SPEAKER_04]: And then there were times when I looked across the room, is that it? [SPEAKER_04]: Is that a teacher? [SPEAKER_04]: Who is that? [SPEAKER_04]: And then I'm thinking, well, he must be a little older than us. [SPEAKER_04]: He said, no, he's not older. [SPEAKER_04]: We're all in the same class. [SPEAKER_04]: We're all within twelve months of each other. [SPEAKER_04]: And they look like there's sixty-five years old. [SPEAKER_04]: You went with that snow-weight beard? [SPEAKER_04]: I did. [SPEAKER_04]: I did not die my beard. [SPEAKER_04]: Wow. [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_04]: And I think you know what? [SPEAKER_04]: In comparison, granted, as I said, fat and employed. [SPEAKER_04]: But I'm holding up pretty well. [SPEAKER_04]: I think you're a pretty good. [SPEAKER_04]: So what about the hottest in school what about the you know the bells of the ball there was a few bells of the prom and you know what there's the bells of the ball were the same bells of the ball from back then some things never change where your mean girls there were mean girls there I'm not gonna name any names but I know that one girl was found crying in the bathroom and we're all dying to know what [SPEAKER_06]: I'm pretty sure if I can just get this out the David Carroll through a nice cube at the back of my head at my forties. [SPEAKER_06]: So cute Dave. [SPEAKER_04]: Thanks, don't change, right? [SPEAKER_06]: You back then and I need you now. [SPEAKER_04]: Yep, people that were told, I'm sorry, Tony, I didn't mean to say that. [SPEAKER_04]: People that were A holes then were A holes that night, but it seems to have softened and then there are the people and this is a phenomenon that I do enjoy that are dying and they must not get out a lot. [SPEAKER_04]: Dying to tell you about all the bad things in their life. [SPEAKER_04]: There was a young lady who opposed for a picture and she said, this is great. [SPEAKER_04]: Please don't tag this until Tuesday. [SPEAKER_04]: I said, okay, why? [SPEAKER_04]: She's, well, you know, after the hearing. [SPEAKER_04]: What? [SPEAKER_04]: She said, wow. [SPEAKER_04]: Whoa. [SPEAKER_04]: And I quote, yeah, when he held the gun to my head, I realized things were really over. [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, we got to take a break now. [SPEAKER_06]: I want to, I want you to laugh at it when we come back. [SPEAKER_06]: Really. [SPEAKER_03]: It's terrifying. [SPEAKER_03]: It is Ben. [SPEAKER_03]: And that's the tone she said. [SPEAKER_03]: And white-hearted. [SPEAKER_03]: It's terrifying. [SPEAKER_06]: Well, we'll ask all the other questions wrap this up with Rob's a thirty-year high school reunion. [SPEAKER_06]: And, you know, the big questions ask her, like, whether it's wife attended. [SPEAKER_06]: And that's a great question. [SPEAKER_06]: That's a great buzz, but great question. [SPEAKER_06]: Hold that answer. [SPEAKER_06]: We'll do that when we come back on the Michael Mary's. [SPEAKER_06]: Now back to the wrap-up, so did you go spouse free or did you go so well? [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, well, we, you know, carry and I each went to each other's ten three onions. [SPEAKER_04]: Right. [SPEAKER_04]: And we realized back then, this is ridiculous. [SPEAKER_04]: Why are we spending this much money to go into a certain room with people that we don't know? [SPEAKER_04]: So we've not been to each other's reunions for twenty years. [SPEAKER_04]: And I think that I saw spouses and guests up there and they looked every bit as miserable as they should. [SPEAKER_04]: It's a horrible thing to bring a spouse to a reunion. [SPEAKER_06]: I've been to two. [SPEAKER_06]: And I, here's where I am. [SPEAKER_06]: I just think that there are people that, especially as they continue, that are going to get. [SPEAKER_06]: Forty was cool. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, just to be alive and that to be alive. [SPEAKER_06]: But to be honest, I'm all about something that works out schedule-wise. [SPEAKER_06]: Yep. [SPEAKER_06]: And so it's great to have something where I'm traveling or it's close and or I'm up in New England and so. [SPEAKER_06]: But I find that there is a group of people that really get into it. [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: They're usually very local. [SPEAKER_06]: You're pointing at him. [SPEAKER_06]: He's on the committee. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_06]: There are people up on my comment. [SPEAKER_06]: I went to my last one. [SPEAKER_06]: I won't be going anymore, but it's just a local town. [SPEAKER_04]: You know, I talked to my mom into going to her fi

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