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TMOS Classic: August 22, 2025

Mike O'Meara, Robb Spewak, Josh Sroka

August 22, 2025 · 27 min

"Faith is believing things when common sense tells you not to. Don't you see? It's not just him that's on trial, it's everything he stands for. It's kindness and joy and love and all the other intangibles."Our Sponsors:* Check out Quince and…

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[SPEAKER_08]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment.

[SPEAKER_05]: Hi, Ed, good to see you again.

[SPEAKER_05]: And now he'll be a quiet winner.

[SPEAKER_05]: We will start the show.

[SPEAKER_12]: TMOS, classic.

[SPEAKER_12]: Friday, flashback.

[SPEAKER_12]: As we are taping this show, kids are out in the kitchen.

[SPEAKER_12]: Carla is back from working out and they are making obviously bacon.

[SPEAKER_12]: It's coming.

[SPEAKER_12]: I woke up this morning and I got on the scale.

[SPEAKER_12]: And I swear to God, I looked at the f***ing number and I went, how have you done that in forty it?

[SPEAKER_12]: How have you accomplished that in forty eight hours?

[SPEAKER_12]: And I've always thought it's a big, it's a frustrating thing for me that what takes months to come off.

[SPEAKER_12]: literally you can sniff it and it comes but I'm not sniffing it I was pouring food into my I gave earlier in the week yeah I gave you the list of the stuff with the with all the crap that I put in my body and I looked on it I said okay yeah this is a this is a turning point right here as my friends at noon would tell me this is just getting back on and paying attention

[SPEAKER_12]: And I knew that based on the eating that I had done yesterday, when I had, I took the kids out to a restaurant and I had the Monday special at the, at the, I was a full rack of ribs.

[SPEAKER_12]: Oh my God, which I, which I, what do you mean?

[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my God, never eaten a full rack of ribs.

[SPEAKER_09]: Come on.

[SPEAKER_09]: Not when I was trying to lose weight.

[SPEAKER_12]: Obviously, I fell off the wagon and I was having a problem.

[SPEAKER_12]: If they're not overly soft, it's actually not a bad option.

[SPEAKER_10]: It's not a bad option because it's all pro.

[SPEAKER_09]: He's coming off of one of the worst weekends he's had in months.

[SPEAKER_10]: weight that you gain fast, you can lose fast.

[SPEAKER_10]: Just get back on it.

[SPEAKER_10]: You can do it.

[SPEAKER_10]: All right.

[SPEAKER_10]: But also one thing.

[SPEAKER_10]: You got to choose your moments because I'd actually, you know, you were on my mind last night as I was driving home and thinking, if I was to really spin out, it wouldn't be on chocolate covered pretzels.

[SPEAKER_10]: It would be something better than that.

[SPEAKER_10]: And I think that you need to weigh your options against what's available.

[SPEAKER_10]: So to speak.

[SPEAKER_10]: But yeah, I mean when you have pies and gravies and and once a year stuff, that's the stuff.

[SPEAKER_12]: If you're not talking about the damn time about leading up to the day where I go out to the Costco and did one of those trips at Costco.

[SPEAKER_12]: We'd all like to do as I mentioned before, you know, and I ate it.

[SPEAKER_12]: It was stuff that I wanted to eat.

[SPEAKER_12]: By the way, last night, the stuff I had mentioned before, the toffee roasted cashews.

[SPEAKER_12]: That's got back into those.

[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, it's like sex.

[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_10]: It's a, you know, it's a, I mean, and now she was such a perfect nut to begin with.

[SPEAKER_10]: And when you talk, he coded, I can only imagine.

[SPEAKER_09]: Is there, I don't, but I'm trying to get back on it.

[SPEAKER_12]: It's still as the smell of bacon with with fifteen people in my house walks through the door of my studio.

[SPEAKER_12]: And I'm trying to focus on the show when, in fact, the little fact guy lives right down here behind my right ear is going, oh, man, I wonder if they're making power through it.

[SPEAKER_12]: And I mean, I'm sitting there Eastern time as we're taping right now.

[SPEAKER_12]: It is a twenty one minutes before twelve news.

[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, that's right.

[SPEAKER_12]: I have not had and food is not touched my lips this morning at all.

[SPEAKER_12]: So I've done a bit of the fasting things.

[SPEAKER_12]: So that's how I start now the other thing.

[SPEAKER_12]: water water everywhere.

[SPEAKER_12]: That's doing drugs as much water as I possibly can and perhaps just have one meal today, which makes the fast even more effective and then maybe get back into a normal.

[SPEAKER_10]: What about like, I mean, I know that your your back is still.

[SPEAKER_10]: But can you walk?

[SPEAKER_12]: I might do a bike ride today.

[SPEAKER_10]: I might do a bike ride anytime you get that cardio up is good now Mike.

[SPEAKER_10]: There was a story out this week from a new service called SWNS that says we as a nation America expects to gain five and a half pounds from now until January first.

[SPEAKER_10]: Well, just accomplished already.

[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_08]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment. [SPEAKER_05]: Hi, Ed, good to see you again. [SPEAKER_05]: And now he'll be a quiet winner. [SPEAKER_05]: We will start the show. [SPEAKER_12]: TMOS, classic. [SPEAKER_12]: Friday, flashback. [SPEAKER_12]: As we are taping this show, kids are out in the kitchen. [SPEAKER_12]: Carla is back from working out and they are making obviously bacon. [SPEAKER_12]: It's coming. [SPEAKER_12]: I woke up this morning and I got on the scale. [SPEAKER_12]: And I swear to God, I looked at the f***ing number and I went, how have you done that in forty it? [SPEAKER_12]: How have you accomplished that in forty eight hours? [SPEAKER_12]: And I've always thought it's a big, it's a frustrating thing for me that what takes months to come off. [SPEAKER_12]: literally you can sniff it and it comes but I'm not sniffing it I was pouring food into my I gave earlier in the week yeah I gave you the list of the stuff with the with all the crap that I put in my body and I looked on it I said okay yeah this is a this is a turning point right here as my friends at noon would tell me this is just getting back on and paying attention [SPEAKER_12]: And I knew that based on the eating that I had done yesterday, when I had, I took the kids out to a restaurant and I had the Monday special at the, at the, I was a full rack of ribs. [SPEAKER_12]: Oh my God, which I, which I, what do you mean? [SPEAKER_09]: Oh my God, never eaten a full rack of ribs. [SPEAKER_09]: Come on. [SPEAKER_09]: Not when I was trying to lose weight. [SPEAKER_12]: Obviously, I fell off the wagon and I was having a problem. [SPEAKER_12]: If they're not overly soft, it's actually not a bad option. [SPEAKER_10]: It's not a bad option because it's all pro. [SPEAKER_09]: He's coming off of one of the worst weekends he's had in months. [SPEAKER_10]: weight that you gain fast, you can lose fast. [SPEAKER_10]: Just get back on it. [SPEAKER_10]: You can do it. [SPEAKER_10]: All right. [SPEAKER_10]: But also one thing. [SPEAKER_10]: You got to choose your moments because I'd actually, you know, you were on my mind last night as I was driving home and thinking, if I was to really spin out, it wouldn't be on chocolate covered pretzels. [SPEAKER_10]: It would be something better than that. [SPEAKER_10]: And I think that you need to weigh your options against what's available. [SPEAKER_10]: So to speak. [SPEAKER_10]: But yeah, I mean when you have pies and gravies and and once a year stuff, that's the stuff. [SPEAKER_12]: If you're not talking about the damn time about leading up to the day where I go out to the Costco and did one of those trips at Costco. [SPEAKER_12]: We'd all like to do as I mentioned before, you know, and I ate it. [SPEAKER_12]: It was stuff that I wanted to eat. [SPEAKER_12]: By the way, last night, the stuff I had mentioned before, the toffee roasted cashews. [SPEAKER_12]: That's got back into those. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh, it's like sex. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: It's a, you know, it's a, I mean, and now she was such a perfect nut to begin with. [SPEAKER_10]: And when you talk, he coded, I can only imagine. [SPEAKER_09]: Is there, I don't, but I'm trying to get back on it. [SPEAKER_12]: It's still as the smell of bacon with with fifteen people in my house walks through the door of my studio. [SPEAKER_12]: And I'm trying to focus on the show when, in fact, the little fact guy lives right down here behind my right ear is going, oh, man, I wonder if they're making power through it. [SPEAKER_12]: And I mean, I'm sitting there Eastern time as we're taping right now. [SPEAKER_12]: It is a twenty one minutes before twelve news. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, that's right. [SPEAKER_12]: I have not had and food is not touched my lips this morning at all. [SPEAKER_12]: So I've done a bit of the fasting things. [SPEAKER_12]: So that's how I start now the other thing. [SPEAKER_12]: water water everywhere. [SPEAKER_12]: That's doing drugs as much water as I possibly can and perhaps just have one meal today, which makes the fast even more effective and then maybe get back into a normal. [SPEAKER_10]: What about like, I mean, I know that your your back is still. [SPEAKER_10]: But can you walk? [SPEAKER_12]: I might do a bike ride today. [SPEAKER_10]: I might do a bike ride anytime you get that cardio up is good now Mike. [SPEAKER_10]: There was a story out this week from a new service called SWNS that says we as a nation America expects to gain five and a half pounds from now until January first. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, just accomplished already. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: So I did a part of that. [SPEAKER_12]: I've I've gained six pounds. [SPEAKER_12]: I have gained six pounds. [SPEAKER_10]: And I want to say they're okay with it. [SPEAKER_10]: So days. [SPEAKER_10]: And then here are my. [SPEAKER_10]: Forty two percent three admit to using the holidays. [SPEAKER_10]: They use the holidays as an excuse. [SPEAKER_10]: Here are some ways we go overboard. [SPEAKER_10]: Tell me if this applies to us. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_10]: Eating more than one dessert after a meal. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, that count what counts for me is the sugary fatty snacks that I dove into the holiday mix, which is which really is for a fat person. [SPEAKER_12]: You look at the packaging of this stuff. [SPEAKER_12]: And you know, it's there is there whoever invented putting the sugary coatings on popcorn, you know, the cracker. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: Congratulations. [SPEAKER_12]: So that's that. [SPEAKER_12]: And then the combination of the cashews, which are not just nuts, which would be bad in and of themselves. [SPEAKER_12]: Well, they put the toffee coating. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, it can't use or give you stick to the fourteen nuts serving, but no one does. [SPEAKER_09]: I think it depends on on the household. [SPEAKER_09]: Like my mom, like a drug dealer will push everything on you. [SPEAKER_09]: It doesn't matter if you're dying, if you're, you know, going into some sort of diabetic shock, if you don't lose those. [SPEAKER_09]: You're being disrespectful. [SPEAKER_12]: The bleach stuff. [SPEAKER_12]: Okay. [SPEAKER_12]: Yesterday, when I completely yesterday, I just. [SPEAKER_12]: Completely. [SPEAKER_12]: Sometimes you have to. [SPEAKER_12]: The my daughter got in yesterday. [SPEAKER_12]: Took him out to the the Yale house. [SPEAKER_12]: The special the Monday special was the ribs. [SPEAKER_12]: So the the mind which you know here over here over this part of the brain is the healthy part of the brain. [SPEAKER_12]: This part is the rationalization part of the brain. [SPEAKER_12]: So this part of the brain go whole ribs. [SPEAKER_12]: You can't eat ribs anymore. [SPEAKER_12]: There goes, well, it's the Monday special. [SPEAKER_12]: I suck that down. [SPEAKER_12]: Then Carla sent the kids home. [SPEAKER_12]: Now I'm alone. [SPEAKER_12]: No supervision all by myself. [SPEAKER_12]: No time commitment. [SPEAKER_12]: My job is to take some product that Carla, Carla has at her distribution center and bring it to her office. [SPEAKER_10]: So I love friends. [SPEAKER_10]: The ale house you were by yourself. [SPEAKER_12]: I loved by my son goes off with the two other with his sisters and the bows. [SPEAKER_12]: They're going back to the house and I I'm free. [SPEAKER_12]: And I'm free and all I was thinking of what is is it a left turn or a right turn that takes me past the dairy queen. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, but I though the disaster would have been I'm still on guard today. [SPEAKER_12]: Rest in today tomorrow and the holiday itself. [SPEAKER_12]: That's what I do. [SPEAKER_09]: What is the what is the what is the what is the what is the [SPEAKER_09]: For me, there's a level of, I know that I have to shut it down, or it's gonna be a disaster this holiday. [SPEAKER_09]: Because I already tell you what it is, right? [SPEAKER_10]: So it's gonna, you have a bigger appetite, a bigger problem. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: Last night, after I went to hit those cashews again, I'm gonna tell you, I felt like so, oh, by the way, dinner was pizza. [SPEAKER_12]: What about the rack of ribs? [SPEAKER_12]: That was lunch. [SPEAKER_09]: That was lunch. [SPEAKER_09]: Oh my God. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, oh my God, it's right. [SPEAKER_10]: And I felt like, [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, because you've probably been almost free of carbs for a long time, right? [SPEAKER_12]: Not as carbs as much as just I've been on two thousand calories a day. [SPEAKER_12]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: So this is just like, you know, it's like a jailbreak like my inner fat. [SPEAKER_12]: has escaped from a penitentiary and he's running through the field just like with reckless abandon not really carrying in last night was a first example where I'm sitting there going oh my god the front of my forehead feels like it's gonna explode yeah it sucked with that said and then you know just eating the idea when you when you stay on a low calorie program for a long time and by the way that's the way I should eat forever yeah when you do that you become intensely aware when you have a blip [SPEAKER_12]: of empty calories. [SPEAKER_12]: And let me give you the greatest example of empty calories. [SPEAKER_12]: The greatest example you could possibly have is a fast food hamburger. [SPEAKER_12]: You can eat it and it is like you have eaten nothing because you have put pure crap into your body. [SPEAKER_12]: TEMOS classic. [SPEAKER_12]: I digress there, Rob. [SPEAKER_12]: I know you wanted to do something else. [SPEAKER_10]: No, I was going to say more than one dessert after a meal, forty one percent of America say they'll do that. [SPEAKER_10]: I will do it on Thanksgiving. [SPEAKER_10]: We have to. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: Um, I'm debuting a new dessert at my house. [SPEAKER_10]: Well, have you seen on your feed? [SPEAKER_10]: And I don't know if I'm just targeted for it. [SPEAKER_10]: Uh, an outfit in based in New York called Milk Bar. [SPEAKER_09]: No. [SPEAKER_10]: It's a it is a really sort of specialty hit me too. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: I think there's a certain maybe above two, fifty is when they find you, but they have something called the Milk Bar pie, which used to be called the Milk Bar. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_12]: Is very popular. [SPEAKER_10]: And I got the recipe for it and I'll be making that from scratch for the foot is the milk bar pie it is basically and Assalted wise your hand on your forehead because I don't know I'm just excited yeah, I'm a little excited to be eating this stuff. [SPEAKER_10]: I can as long as I monitor my blood sugar and keep it down and if I exercise and I'm keeping on my blood sugar the milk bar pie slice is gonna go to his liver [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, I don't know enough about diabetes to know. [SPEAKER_10]: Do you got a minute? [SPEAKER_10]: You got a monitor your blood sugar. [SPEAKER_10]: That's a whole different thing. [SPEAKER_10]: But that's actually been in very good shape. [SPEAKER_10]: I've had a couple desserts along the way. [SPEAKER_10]: Okay. [SPEAKER_10]: And it's been, I'm doing okay. [SPEAKER_10]: I'm just asking. [SPEAKER_12]: But it's a great Debbie down or back to the milk bar pie. [SPEAKER_10]: I mean, this is, you want my friend true fat guy behavior. [SPEAKER_10]: I started planning for this three weeks ago. [SPEAKER_10]: I had an ordering ingredients online. [SPEAKER_10]: I just tell me what the pie is. [SPEAKER_10]: Come on. [SPEAKER_10]: It's a salted oatmeal cookie crust. [SPEAKER_10]: with a rich vanilla custard filling baked while it's still a little wobbly frozen than thought then served, dusted with powdered sugar. [SPEAKER_10]: That's it. [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_10]: It's a c

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