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Unknown Speaker (1:01): Tonight's star movie on channel forty three, your favorite movie station will continue in a moment. Mike Radio Entertainment. You can listen to the Mike O'Mara show at mikeo'marashow.com. Wow. What have we here?

Unknown Speaker (1:16): It's a podcast. Fun. And what excitement we have today.

Unknown Speaker (1:19): It's the Mike O'Mara show with Mike O'Mara and Rob Spiwack. Now here's Mike. That

Rob Spiwack (1:28): music at the beginning of the show Yes. It it almost it's almost zen like. It takes me to a place that I really I mean, it just is so relaxing. It's weird. It was like my favorite.

Unknown Speaker (1:43): I just listened to it, and it made me calm, which is weird. I mean, I don't I that I hadn't heard it in a while because you hadn't played it in a while, and I put it through, my little AI machine and, pretty special. Pretty It

Carrie (1:59): has sort of a, it could be a top 40 hit. It reminds me of a band I used to like called Pomplamoose where it is I mean, it's Billie, but the voice is more like a band called Pomplamoose with the soft, very reassuring sounds of a female vocal. I think it's great. I love it.

Rob Spiwack (2:15): Pomplamoose sounds like, a character in, around the world in eighty days for your old movie reference there.

Unknown Speaker (2:23): That's part two, Mikey.

Unknown Speaker (2:24): That's faking two. Way to go. I knew you'd know that one.

Unknown Speaker (2:27): But, pamplemousse. Actually, pamplemousse with an a is the French word for grapefruit, and that's what they they took it and changed it. That's what they did with the band. And now everyone has turned their radios on.

Unknown Speaker (2:38): Oh, we have, Rob? You you're getting a call from Pamplamoose right now.

Unknown Speaker (2:41): Oh, good.

Unknown Speaker (2:42): Hello. Hello. Peace. Pamplamoose. That's all.

Unknown Speaker (2:47): That's all it is. That's all it is

Unknown Speaker (2:49): for you today.

Rob Spiwack (2:50): I just I don't know what's wrong. Welcome to the Mike O'Meary show, a little later taping today. We appreciate everybody joining us and, you know, dealing with our little flex schedule that we have. The reason today was, some teacher parent stuff, and, I I just can't say it strongly enough that lately, and I'm talking about the last couple of years, when I've had any kind of meeting with a teacher Mhmm. I I come away with this overwhelming feeling of we need to teach our we need to treat our teachers better.

Rob Spiwack (3:35): They're they're just I'm never not impressed. I'm never not thrilled. I'm never not walking out of a meeting with a teacher with just an attitude of, you know, this is this is really good stuff, and these people were they're they work so hard. And when you think of, you know, when I'm going nuts over my 12 year old and I'm realizing that, some of these teachers have rooms full of them. You know?

Rob Spiwack (4:01): Yes. Not not only the the papers, the lesson plans, the grading, and then having the knowledge that and I'm not mentioning any names. I just had a meeting with one of his teachers today, and we didn't go to the parent teacher meetings at the beginning of the year. And I wanted to meet this, this teacher. And it just it was a brief meeting, and I was the level of effort that is put forward in in most of these classrooms, and we just poop all over it.

Rob Spiwack (4:33): And we we we care about an influencer that wants to, you know, pull a prank on somebody in a grocery store. You know?

Carrie (4:40): I just it every day, Mike, with Carrie doing stuff where she's buying her own supplies and doing her own printing and doing stuff that is over and above what is actually asked of her, which is a lot anyway. It's incredible, Rob. It really is. It needs to be said. Parents love to complain.

Carrie (4:59): Oh, they love to complain about it. And if they had, you know, just ten minutes in her shoes, they would see see the whole thing a whole lot differently, I think.

Rob Spiwack (5:08): When you, I I I wrote an email, like, a short time ago, to this teacher because that's how in a twenty, twenty five minute meeting, that's how much I was

Unknown Speaker (5:18): one of those casino letters?

Rob Spiwack (5:21): It wasn't. It was a really nice letter that said, the word I use, I use it for you guys. I use it for my son when it comes to sports. I use it for a lot of people, and the word is engage and engagement. Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (5:34): And when you know that somebody within five seconds that someone is engaged, with with the class, with the behavior patterns, with the future. It's just I I never fail to get blown away. And, you know, I've my sister was a special ed teacher like Carrie, and it was it's just I I I don't know what. I'm almost speechless because I'm so impressed. I come into this just going

Carrie (6:04): I hope this teacher pays attention to that letter you wrote because when it comes to engagements, you're an expert.

Rob Spiwack (6:10): I am. I've done it a lot of times. I have done it multiple times over the years. I cannot tell you, lately, and it's been on my mind. Don't know why this happens at this stage of the game.

Rob Spiwack (6:22): When I'm, you know, a younger man slaying the dragon, doing what I'm doing, maybe I didn't, you know, stop and smell the roses. But if you have an opportunity to, you know, visit with a teacher and meet with a teacher, I think, I hope you come away like I come away from it. And, I've done it now with a couple of these educators that are just they don't get the credit they deserve. That is just everybody talks about that, but then when you experience it and I I think the fact that I'm experiencing it, at this age Right. Helps me with my perspective a little bit just to say, I I almost like the, you know, the unk as my, my son calls me.

Rob Spiwack (7:03): I can say to the younger parents out there, you know, pay attention to these. And and for if if there's something positive, make their day any way you can. Make their day by letting them know that you value what they do. And it might I don't doubt for a second that this teacher we met with probably didn't, you know, as far as, you know, being concerned about how she would come across, I don't think it's that at all. I don't I think she she just does her job in an exemplary way and, you know, answers the all the questions we had about Michael and his class and his classwork and where he needs to be and just bam, bam, bam, bam, and then mentioning the other kids and knowing how he responds when he's in his circle of friends and then knowing how he responds and and what she expects and blah, blah, blah.

Rob Spiwack (7:54): It just went on and on. And I was I I think I was probably just drinking it all in because it was so impressive, the the preparation. And that's not

Unknown Speaker (8:04): a nice little situation. Come up? Yes. Oh, really?

Unknown Speaker (8:09): Yeah. That's a distraction.

Unknown Speaker (8:10): I am

Rob Spiwack (8:10): telling you I am telling you everything came up. This was total preparation. That that is teacher that cares. That is a teacher that gives, it's just you know, I I'm not gonna you know, because I don't have permission, and I don't wanna, you know, go into the Right. But I just wanna say, you know, well, I said it in, an email.

Rob Spiwack (8:32): I I this is I'm fresh off of this meeting, and I come by. You know? I left my phone at home, and so my wife and I, she was going to work, and I was coming to work. And so we pulled up at the intersection. I had that's the only way I was able to give her a Phoebe.

Rob Spiwack (8:44): I said, I hope you feel as good as I do, and she said I do. I said, I just, you know, you're just in good hands. And we we drop off, and we pick up phones.

Unknown Speaker (8:53): For that. You don't have to talk out the out the window.

Unknown Speaker (8:56): I know. I I left mine. Yeah. Unfortunately. But Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (9:00): But

Unknown Speaker (9:00): he had his microphone. Right. Guys, Mike, I do have a question.

Unknown Speaker (9:05): Carla. Carla. Yeah. Go ahead. What what's your question?

Carrie (9:09): You're looking at this, which is great from your viewpoint, your lens, as the people say, as an older parent. When you think back to your 12 year old self and the years around that, do you have any teachers that really felt engaged with you that you remember Yeah. From, like, sixth grade?

Rob Spiwack (9:29): Yeah. I'm a teacher, mister McGovern in high school who, and a and a couple of professors in college. Well, professor Murphy who was, I hope it's Murphy. I don't remember.

Unknown Speaker (9:44): Was he Irish?

Rob Spiwack (9:45): He was he taught Irish history.

Carrie (9:47): Oh, and Murphy's a good guess.

Rob Spiwack (9:49): And I sat in this class and realized all the things my dad, who was a student of Irish history, had been telling me and Right. Listening to this validation by this educator. But mister McGovern, who took, you know, an eye rolling subject that we were all terrified of, Shakespeare, and made it, made it something that we could, you know, understand and get our heads around. And, they're they're just and, you know, and and our and our good friend who's now an administrator, Linda Hur, who is, you know, just so engaged with her kids. Yes.

Rob Spiwack (10:19): And, and and I don't know. I I am, I'm speechless. For all of you that are listening to my voice, if you are teachers and you're slat you're you're, you know, you're slugging in Mhmm. To work today and you're, you know, you're saying to yourself, nobody appreciates you. Let me just say this individual right here says to all the teachers that are listening to my voice right now, you kick ass and and keep it up and because it it matters.

Rob Spiwack (10:48): And and I I I really, really wish that society would place a monetary value on it. I really do. I really wish the teachers could get better compensation because, you know, they're they're there now. At a certain point, we turn our kids over to them for a big chunk of the year. You know?

Unknown Speaker (11:06): And many cities are begging for teachers. Oh, yeah. Because they just can't they just can't fill the spots.

Carrie (11:11): That's right. Well They will if you if you have any, like, any interest at all, Loudoun County is dying to pay your tuition to get your teacher's certificate. Yeah. They just want teachers, and you gotta find the right people. Mike, what you said was very nice there, and now to offer counterpoint is John.

Rob Spiwack (11:30): Well, there have been good experiences about I haven't had any like, on the on the parenting end, I haven't had any bad bad experiences to see. That's good.

Carrie (11:43): I am a student. I have

Rob Spiwack (11:44): a bad I had a bad experience when we went to a school to check it out. I think a charter school to check it out. And the that was just but I don't I also that was a bad first impression. Sure. Maybe because of the 84 inch, you know, cauldron of soda that was on the desk or something.

Rob Spiwack (12:11): I don't know what it was, but but it was but that maybe I was in a bad mood that day. Maybe that's, that's what it was. But boy, oh, boy, I think more often than not, you get a great experience with that.

Unknown Speaker (12:21): Something like this?

Unknown Speaker (12:22): Yes. It's not a mug. Yeah. Exactly.

Unknown Speaker (12:27): That's it. The size of my head.

Rob Spiwack (12:29): Now we have some business to take care of on the Mike O'Meary show today because, mister, Fleet of Foot Siroca has, produced for us in very short order. Excuse me. Drink Diet Coke.

Carrie (12:44): A new website. Produce you produce something for us

Unknown Speaker (12:47): just now. A new website. Yes. Take it away, Josh.

Josh (12:52): I got tired of michaelmerrittshow.com crashing every three weeks. So the point of I'd stopped putting effort into it and put the bare minimum on because I knew it was gonna crash at some point, and it did. And finally

Rob Spiwack (13:05): I I should say before you go on because you're too nice to say it that that particular website was arranged and developed by another administration.

Unknown Speaker (13:15): Yeah. A previous administration.

Unknown Speaker (13:17): The trouble is get that information.

Josh (13:20): Yeah. Mhmm. Maybe Mike O'Mara should own mikeo'marashow.com. Agree. Unfortunately, someone else does, and that person does not respond to legal letters or anything.

Unknown Speaker (13:31): Mhmm.

Josh (13:32): So we have moved on to tmospodcast.com.

Unknown Speaker (13:36): That is our new website.

Josh (13:37): That's where new backend, new design, completely secure. It's not

Rob Spiwack (13:43): from crash. That's where you'll get all the information on, the TMOS shop and the cruise that we have coming up and anything special or new that's on there, not to mention all of our content that you can get, all the time, and and do that. So Oh, and you need

Unknown Speaker (13:58): to find this on out there.

Carrie (14:00): Yeah. If you need to find us on Facebook, YouTube, anything like that, the links are there. Just click it, you're there magically. It's like your

Unknown Speaker (14:05): home base. Look. Sometime I'm a namer. You know I like to name things. I'm big on that.

Rob Spiwack (14:09): I think naming is a Josh popped it up there. It's Josh's idea, and it was simple, and it was direct, and it was good. Tmospodcast.com. That's where you get your, content. Tmos.com is the mikeo'mara mikeo'marashow.com is no longer, what we're using.

Unknown Speaker (14:25): So Right. Be aware bottom of

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Unknown Speaker (14:29): Yes, please.

Unknown Speaker (14:30): Gotta update that.

Unknown Speaker (14:31): Thank you. What does the bottom of the screen say? I mikeo'marashowcom. You know,

Unknown Speaker (14:38): I focused yesterday on rebuilding the website and getting it up and running because without it, people can't

Unknown Speaker (14:43): Do we have it? Can we put it on the screen? Can we put, the new website on the screen? Is that possible? Sure.

Rob Spiwack (14:49): Let's, let's take a peek, have a little tour.

Carrie (14:51): When we lost mikeo'marashow.com or when we ceased the operation of it, it's like when you lose a dog. You're gonna get rid of the dog, but you're gonna find hair for a little while. And every now and then, you'll find a hair. And so we'll take care of the hairs as we find

Unknown Speaker (15:03): them. Right.

Unknown Speaker (15:03): Why is it so

Unknown Speaker (15:04): nice? Horrible.

Unknown Speaker (15:06): Try that again.

Rob Spiwack (15:06): That's alright. Don't worry. Take your time. We're we're we're not going anywhere. We're, we're just hanging out, saying hi to all the teachers out there.

Rob Spiwack (15:13): This is teacher Alright. Teacher Wednesday.

Unknown Speaker (15:16): Here it is. Here it is.

Unknown Speaker (15:18): And you're popping and clicking a little bit, Josh too.

Unknown Speaker (15:20): Yeah. I'm gonna have to restart after this.

Unknown Speaker (15:22): That's okay.

Josh (15:23): But get you straight to what you need. All the episodes on the front page. If you click on any episode, you've got the video or the audio links to your favorite podcast app. And on the front page, same thing, links to your favorite apps and PayPal donation and a button at the top for bonus show and commercial.

Unknown Speaker (15:46): Still a button for just pulling that together.

Unknown Speaker (15:48): It is so clean and nice looking.

Josh (15:50): Let's see. New thing. Alright. There's two new features on here that I have not told you guys about yet.

Unknown Speaker (15:57): Okay.

Unknown Speaker (15:57): The the dating feature.

Josh (15:59): Well, up here, you can click and leave a review. We always need new reviews for Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Okay. You can do that one click right here at the top. Bottom right hand corner, you see this microphone?

Unknown Speaker (16:12): Yeah. You can click on that, and you can send us a voicemail.

Unknown Speaker (16:16): Oh, wow.

Unknown Speaker (16:16): Not promising. We'll use it. Right. We always like interaction.

Unknown Speaker (16:20): Oh, I like that. I love that. I love, love, love, love, love that. Do it right now, somebody. Somebody do it right now.

Unknown Speaker (16:27): Come on. Come on. Come on. Let's do it.

Carrie (16:28): You know, Mike, you know our listeners. We won't get voicemails till after 12:00 eastern on Friday nights.

Unknown Speaker (16:34): No. Midnight. Leave voicemails today. I'll go through it this afternoon and have it for tomorrow's show if we have it.

Rob Spiwack (16:39): Very good. Leave leave us a a voicemail. That's a that's a

Unknown Speaker (16:43): wonderful voice mail.

Unknown Speaker (16:45): Alright. And there's a,

Josh (16:47): that's basically it. Follow contact. You can send us an email.

Unknown Speaker (16:51): Somebody says bear to AJ, to Oscar, to Josh. Who's AJ? You mean RJ? Is that what they're talking about?

Unknown Speaker (17:00): Yeah. That makes sense.

Rob Spiwack (17:01): Okay. Alright. Yeah. You know, maybe Yes. Maybe, going forward, maybe perhaps I don't ask questions about some of these messages.

Rob Spiwack (17:09): If you f it up, then I just ignore it. That might be Oh, and the best strategy that I do.

Unknown Speaker (17:15): And a person can take a guess of that list of names and who owns michaelmeroshow.com.

Unknown Speaker (17:20): Okay. And the correct answer is Bear. Bear. Hey, baby.

Unknown Speaker (17:25): I went, yesterday, very successful return, to Happy Yeah. We'll see you in a minute.

Unknown Speaker (17:32): Come back soon, Josh.

Rob Spiwack (17:33): Wanna talk to my my buddy Raj, Rob here. Anyway, I went back to Happy Valley. The arm felt great. I didn't have any pain.

Unknown Speaker (17:41): It was

Unknown Speaker (17:41): fun. However Uh-oh. Kind of a sad realization.

Carrie (17:48): Now just so we know this you've you haven't golfed in a month or so because of your injury. Doctor said let it heal. There's nothing you need to do. Uh-huh. I know you've taken swings.

Carrie (17:59): Is this the first time you went out to play 18?

Rob Spiwack (18:01): It is. It has nothing to do with playing. It has everything to do with the costs associated with playing. And down here, it's just like everything hobby. Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (18:15): It is like everything else. You know? It's it's getting to a point where, you know, hearing the plans that they have and hearing them talk about what they wanna do, and we just had to come up. I'm I'm wonder I well, I'm not wondering. I'm knowing that I can't sustain it, and it's really a But you're not you're

Unknown Speaker (18:38): not giving up the game.

Rob Spiwack (18:40): No. Not really, but maybe. You know? Maybe I certainly won't be playing as much as I have. It it just feels it's just and and here, I'm gonna give you the brutal truth of this.

Rob Spiwack (18:51): Alright? Okay. I have been, living a certain way for a very, very long time. Mhmm. There are realities that everybody faces.

Rob Spiwack (19:04): Mine began in 2009. Mhmm. I have, you know, with smoke and mirrors and duct tape, you know, tried to live a a certain way. And at a certain point, you just say, that ain't me. And, and that's kind of the truth.

Rob Spiwack (19:25): As much as I love this game, the game is pricing itself out for me. Mhmm. It really is in a in a private situation. I will I continue to play? Absolutely.

Rob Spiwack (19:37): Do I think it's sustainable? No. I don't. And and you know what? When it comes to recreation Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (19:46): It was the first thing to go way back when in Washington DC, and it may be the first thing to go, down here because it's just

Unknown Speaker (19:56): The Washington DC, that was that was a, that was a certainly a special privilege to play where you played up here. Yeah. I mean so I mean Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (20:04): And it's a special privilege to play at any, nice Yeah. Private institution or something a little step down? The no. It's really hard, Josh, down here because the they it's they have gone up and up and up and up and up, and it's just something where I have to be honest with myself, and I have to be realistic with myself. And as much as I love, love, love it, and it's a big part of my life, I have to figure out, another, way.

Carrie (20:34): What if you played twilight rounds?

Rob Spiwack (20:37): I think this is this is what I was gonna say the real reality. Yeah. I'm not in the same ZIP code as the vast majority of these people that do

Unknown Speaker (20:48): this. Right.

Rob Spiwack (20:48): Yeah. And I'm not I am the the the moment I felt like, you know, maybe I was being a poser, you know, is when I started thinking about about a year and a half, two years ago. And then I've kept it, you know, rolling. So I don't know. I'm thinking that Would

Carrie (21:06): you say after playing golf, the one of the biggest things about belonging to a country club is you go there and you can be comfortable and surrounded by like people Yeah. And and all that. And if that goes away, it's devalued.

Rob Spiwack (21:22): Well, when you think about the commonality that I have with anybody, I love the game. There that's where it

Unknown Speaker (21:27): is.

Rob Spiwack (21:28): And and so, you know, is it a bummer? Yeah. Is it, I'm gonna miss the relationships? To an extent, but not debilitatingly so. But it's still something where you just go, and you look the other way and you see.

Rob Spiwack (21:45): And think there's always gotta be a dynamic in your life. You always have to be willing to change things and shake things up and move on to different things. And, you know, I've been thinking for a long time about, my mom. And my mom who, passed away on this day god. How many years was it?

Rob Spiwack (22:08): It might maybe I mean, I'm not sure. It was a while back. I should bring her to you, but no. I don't think was that long. But, you know, she sustained herself through towards the end of her life, by, helping out other people and doing, doing things, with Newington, which soon became children's Hartford Children's Hospital.

Carrie (22:30): I I remember because, you know, I talked to her several times, met her at your wedding and all that, is that she started that when she gave up her sport, which was rugby. And she was she was playing a lot of rugby, and she said, you know, I can do better with great. I remember her in

Rob Spiwack (22:46): the scrum. Only, you know, she had, what, maybe eight broken noses while she was playing that sport. Mhmm. Yeah. But nobody nobody, nobody better in the scrum than Mary.

Carrie (23:00): And you know what? Whoever her guy was, I don't know, but that glass eye was so realistic.

Rob Spiwack (23:05): Yeah. And that that you know what? You gotta be aware of the thumbs. You do. Do when you're Josh, be aware of the thumbs, Josh.

Unknown Speaker (23:12): In in the rugby match. It was, very, very sad.

Unknown Speaker (23:15): It's where your dad met her.

Rob Spiwack (23:19): Thank you. Thank you. I'm trying to get her thing up so I can make sure I get I wanna mention the year. I feel like I'm totally blowing it by not

Unknown Speaker (23:26): knowing that. Blowing it, Mike, because what you're doing is you're remembering the lady and not a statistic. It's no big deal if you don't

Rob Spiwack (23:32): I know. I know. Mary e. And thank you for sharing, Racer PGT, one day after my mom passed. That's, I you know, it's great to share these things because, you know, we as we discussed this week, you you know these things that are going on.

Rob Spiwack (23:49): But she, I've told this, I've told this story before about, when they were space challenged because the hospital Yeah. Was, going through cutbacks. She said, well, I don't I don't need I don't need an office. And there is a great picture, I think my sister has it on her wall, of she was in it was called day surgery for the kids, and she would register people when they would come in. And because they were space challenged, she was literally out in a hallway, and her desk was a gurney.

Rob Spiwack (24:22): And it's the greatest picture in the world. She's got it organized, and you see her on top of this gurney because she's the person that the very first person said, I don't need an office. I'll do it, I'll do it out here.

Carrie (24:31): And I dealt with so many people with children's medicine and children's hospital in particular. When Robert had leukemia, it's a very special, very special type of person that can do that. And, you know, we're talking about teachers, but nurses too. Nurses are also I got it,

Unknown Speaker (24:48): by the way. I got it. Okay. So, 2016. So ten years ago today.

Unknown Speaker (24:53): Ten years

Rob Spiwack (24:53): ago. That's a Ted one decade she's been god. Time flies. I guess. And, you know, let's see.

Rob Spiwack (25:01): She she was educated in, Hartford, Connecticut. After high school, began a career in public relations at Aetna Casualty and surety company where she remained, until her marriage marriage to Joseph Lister. Joseph Lister was a World War two naval aviator, and, she was widowed at age 26 when he was flying off an aircraft carrier and went into the drink. And she, the war was over.

Unknown Speaker (25:31): After the war.

Rob Spiwack (25:32): Was gonna say. It's after after the, after the surrender of Japan, and she was, notified getting ready because he was gonna stay, in the navy because he was an officer, and he'd graduated the naval academy. And she was gonna stay, he was gonna stay in the navy, she was gonna be getting ready to go to The Philippines where they were gonna be stationed and, got the

Unknown Speaker (25:52): I never know about The Philippines angle.

Rob Spiwack (25:54): Yeah. They were, she was getting ready, getting her shots. Talks about getting her shots to, go overseas, and, that's it. So, let's see. Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (26:03): My dad passed away in 1993. She committed herself to a variety of volunteer and charitable activities while raising her two children. Her activities included leading the Heart Fund Drive in 1976, director of the Saint Francis Hospital Auxiliary, president of the Saint Augustine Church altar guild, and she served as a volunteer at Connecticut Children's Medical Center for more than forty years, retiring at the age of 90. So, that's it.

Carrie (26:31): She mentions two kids. Are you not mentioned by name in the obituary?

Rob Spiwack (26:35): I'm the one that I was fostered by her.

Unknown Speaker (26:39): Oh, I understand.

Unknown Speaker (26:41): Don't you And and thank you for four years. You better start, like, tomorrow if you're gonna catch up.

Unknown Speaker (26:47): Yesterday. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (26:48): Guess what? You know what I think it is? I know you were bragging about it yesterday, Josh. I think it might be your Timu microphone. I don't Rob, do you think it might be his Timu microphone?

Unknown Speaker (26:59): It's am I still clicking? It's probably this board. I'm gonna do a full restart again.

Carrie (27:03): Yeah. I got it, Mike. Because you know what? I've I've dealt with that before, and it's not microphone related. I think it's a

Unknown Speaker (27:09): new board. He's got the fancy ones we have. Right?

Carrie (27:11): No. But I think it's I think it's probably our streaming software because, you know, you've noticed in the past two weeks, I haven't clicked. Yes. It's because as soon as we go live, I leave the room and come back. And that's a glitch that is I mean, it's a stupid fix, but it seems to work.

Carrie (27:29): So I don't think it's his Timu microphone. And besides, Mike, isn't it a time we foster better international relations? There's no need

Unknown Speaker (27:36): to poo poo Timu. Yeah. Poo poo Timu. Don't peep don't poo poo Timu. We'll have a commercial for, our friends at Omaha Steaks.

Rob Spiwack (27:45): And, one of the things I realized I wanted, Rob, and I was on TMU earlier is the, what do they call, the burger tent, you know, that you put on the griddle on the Blackstone? Yeah. Sure. The metal thing. I, need those.

Rob Spiwack (27:58): I'm not sure. Do you, mister, Alton Brown, do you is there a place you could walk into, a retailer and walk out with those things? Would a would a

Carrie (28:06): home a good store? We have a restaurant supply company not far from here that I've gone in to browse, and I think they would have it.

Unknown Speaker (28:13): Okay. I don't think we

Carrie (28:14): have You know what? It's not great. I bet if you put restaurant supply into the Google machine, it one would pop up.

Unknown Speaker (28:20): Google machine. But, Mike, please. Yes. Don't poo poo timo. Poo poo timo.

Unknown Speaker (28:27): Hey. Look. It's Josh.

Rob Spiwack (28:28): Yeah. A brand new linebacker for the New England patriots. Rabe Poopoo Timo.

Unknown Speaker (28:34): Hey. And congratulations on the NFL on having another draft tomorrow. That's great. Isn't it

Unknown Speaker (28:40): exciting? It's a week long. Yeah. It's like four days.

Rob Spiwack (28:43): Yep. Do you remember when my sister came down here and met Stubby, our, our latest Boston terrier for the first time?

Carrie (28:52): And decreed he was not a Boston terrier.

Rob Spiwack (28:54): Do you remember the breed that she thought he might be?

Unknown Speaker (28:57): A pity.

Rob Spiwack (28:59): A pit bull. That's correct. Yeah. A pit bull. We have a new problem.

Unknown Speaker (29:04): Dog sites, you will see a billion pit bulls. And some of them look very sweet, and they're not all bred to fight, but that is a breed that is crazy popular out there.

Unknown Speaker (29:14): And last week, Mike, you mentioned Thank you, Doug. I appreciate

Rob Spiwack (29:17): the heads up. Yes. He is beyond aggressive. And you hear about these, Pitbull attacks where they they you you can do nothing to let them to make them stop. Right.

Rob Spiwack (29:29): And for the second time, one was on, I think there were three recently. One involved food. And when they're side by side and they wanna Oh, food is other's food, they'll that that's right. That's that's kind of a normal way for dogs.

Carrie (29:42): Standard and almost impossible to fight. I mean, it just

Unknown Speaker (29:45): Well, and that works for brothers also.

Carrie (29:47): I Matt was a hungry one, wasn't he?

Rob Spiwack (29:49): We turn in a late night game, with Michael's rec team.

Unknown Speaker (29:53): Mhmm.

Unknown Speaker (29:54): Good job, boys.

Unknown Speaker (29:57): Were they engaged, Mike? No.

Unknown Speaker (30:01): Not on your life. What a great statement. No. They weren't, Rob.

Unknown Speaker (30:08): Oh my god. What are we paying for?

Rob Spiwack (30:12): Alright. Josh will relate to this. Josh.

Unknown Speaker (30:15): Yes. Runner

Rob Spiwack (30:16): on second. Catcher has the ball. Guy goes late from second trying to steal third. Catcher responds quickly, throws the ball down to third base. Third baseman ain't even looking at it.

Rob Spiwack (30:32): Oh, no. Looking out to the right, like at a car going by or something. You know? Come on. You know?

Unknown Speaker (30:40): At what point did you yell,

Unknown Speaker (30:41): slow down?

Unknown Speaker (30:44): No. That that's when you wanted to just hit the kid in the head.

Rob Spiwack (30:48): Yeah. Like You just own fault. And and the by the end of the game, which was that eleven to three or something like that. The the the parents wanted to leave on both teams because they pay

Unknown Speaker (31:02): because Sure.

Rob Spiwack (31:02): Yeah. Because the parents on the winning team think, hey. If we get to 15 runs, the mercy rule kicks in, and we get to go home early. Umpires wanna leave early. The coaches on our side wanted to leave early.

Unknown Speaker (31:12): Everybody. So most people don't wanna be there.

Rob Spiwack (31:15): And it was cold because we got a cold front. And cold for us is when it gets down to, like, a wind chill of 55. You know? Oh, cold. No.

Unknown Speaker (31:24): The real temperature was, like, 73 when

Unknown Speaker (31:26): I got into the car. 73 and breezy is what we're dying for up here. And I said, oh,

Rob Spiwack (31:30): I have a chill. God. So, we we come back home. We get to bed early. The the dogs, are super cute, and sometimes they sleep on the bed.

Rob Spiwack (31:44): Sometimes they sleep in their crate. We go back and forth a lot. We have them both in the bed. This has never happened before. And in the middle, we had just I rarely can get to sleep rapidly when I get into bed.

Rob Spiwack (31:59): This time, I was able to. I put the computer down immediately. I roll over, and I'm like, good night. Good night. And it was and Carla turns the light out.

Rob Spiwack (32:08): It it had to be I'm at, whatever the stages are when you first fall asleep, and I'm really starting to go out. I'm starting to go deep, and you hear Jesus Christ. Carla is going, stop it. Stop it.

Unknown Speaker (32:30): Yeah. That

Rob Spiwack (32:30): works. Stop it. Don't don't. Carla gets one of their stupid untrimmed claw face rakes.

Unknown Speaker (32:38): I I don't know how

Rob Spiwack (32:39): it didn't leave a mark. Thank god. Right. And then

Carrie (32:43): Well, because her skin is so healthy. Thanks to Derma Glo.

Rob Spiwack (32:45): Carla stands up, puts Stubby in the crate, turns back to see if Winslow's okay, and says, Stubby. This is her favorite dog, by the way. What the f? What the f? And meanwhile, Stubby, the pit bull, and I'm I'm officially naming him the bull now.

Rob Spiwack (33:05): That's okay. Because the cheap ass pet store that charged a gazillion dollars, to for this dog who is cute. Don't get me wrong. But I'm I'm starting to be afraid of this dog because, like, hey. Did they

Unknown Speaker (33:20): give you papers with the dog?

Rob Spiwack (33:22): I you'd have to ask missus O'Meary.

Unknown Speaker (33:23): They gave him a newspaper. For the dog.

Unknown Speaker (33:25): I'm just thinking if they gave you

Unknown Speaker (33:27): You know what?

Unknown Speaker (33:27): They should've given me rolling papers based on that. Am I right? What, Josh? I'm sorry.

Josh (33:32): I'm just thinking if they gave you some false papers and you can do a DNA test and show that it's a pit bull True. You have an issue with the store. Mhmm.

Unknown Speaker (33:42): This is true.

Unknown Speaker (33:43): And it's not the same store where you buy your rats, is it? Because you don't wanna burn any bridges.

Rob Spiwack (33:47): No. But it's not the good place. It's the second to it's the one in the middle that's just a clip joint.

Unknown Speaker (33:54): Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (33:55): And why she went there, I have no idea. Place where I get my rat the the the place where I get my rats is super expensive as well, but you look at these. These are quality hounds. Well, I mean, that

Unknown Speaker (34:05): whole place is run like a ship. It's a great

Rob Spiwack (34:08): pet store. See it now. It got new management, and they're even nicer than they were before.

Unknown Speaker (34:13): And, gosh. Yeah. Wow.

Unknown Speaker (34:15): Including the Russian lady that sells me my rats.

Unknown Speaker (34:18): Hello. Is your rat for you?

Unknown Speaker (34:20): Have you tried a No.

Unknown Speaker (34:21): Not like that. Yeah. Go ahead.

Josh (34:22): Have you tried a spray bottle or, like, a squirt gun?

Unknown Speaker (34:24): Well, we didn't have it in bed with us last night. You know? Because might Those games are scheduled for Thursday night.

Unknown Speaker (34:30): And then they have a different meaning for the word squirt gun.

Unknown Speaker (34:33): No. It's craziness. My life is my life is very, very

Carrie (34:37): Have you ever done the DNA the DNA check on a dog, even if it doesn't prove your point, is always fascinating.

Unknown Speaker (34:43): You know what?

Unknown Speaker (34:44): Do that.

Unknown Speaker (34:44): If I tried to get blood out of that dog, he'd go

Unknown Speaker (34:48): I forget. How do you send in do you do is it a spit test, Josh? It's been so long since I did Linus. I forget what

Rob Spiwack (34:53): you say for that. You know, use a rectal thermometer. You know what the difference between a, oral and a rectal thermometer is? What is that? The taste.

Rob Spiwack (35:03): We have to, we have to break, ladies and gentlemen. And, when we come back, we've got tidbits. I know you like them, and that's what we've

Carrie (35:13): begun to name it. These are dog tidbits today that all focus on dogs.

Rob Spiwack (35:17): But first, I, would like to tell you about our good friends at Omaha Steaks. You know, listen. What's your beef? What's your beef, Jay?

Unknown Speaker (35:26): What's your beef?

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Rob Spiwack (35:35): I love Omaha Steaks so bad that right before the show today well, I have video of it, and I am not telling you a fib. This is in the morning. We're taping at 10AM. This was right before the show. Take a look.

Unknown Speaker (35:47): Roll the tape. Here we go. Look at that. Look at that beauty right there. Oh.

Unknown Speaker (35:55): Look at that. That's on your it's on your black stuff.

Unknown Speaker (35:58): Yeah. I love the sizzle. Yeah. Right out of the freezer. It's a burger.

Unknown Speaker (36:03): But That's an Omaha burger.

Unknown Speaker (36:05): And that's your that's your burger that you didn't, like, go to a neighbor's yard to tape it?

Unknown Speaker (36:10): That burger no. That's my griddle. Okay. That burger. That's Look at.

Unknown Speaker (36:15): Beautiful piece of burger. Okay. Calm down, Mike. Alright. Calm down, please.

Unknown Speaker (36:19): Mike

Unknown Speaker (36:19): is excited.

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Unknown Speaker (37:27): There we go. Everyone noted my birth records were lost, Mike. Who had recorded it also. For no gopher. Took a lot of letter writing.

Unknown Speaker (37:39): It's fun to love the Tonderosa. Boy. Oh, boy. A lot of letter. Hey.

Unknown Speaker (37:44): You know what today is, Rob? You understand what today is?

Unknown Speaker (37:46): Oh, you know what? I do know, and I'll let you say it because there's a great way to say it.

Rob Spiwack (37:51): Woody Harrelson came, on the old radio show a long time ago. They recorded him, at Earth Day celebrations in Washington DC. And, he said, can you have a message, for the radio station for Earth Day? And Woody Harrelson say, hey. This is Woody Harrelson.

Rob Spiwack (38:08): Thanks for supporting Earth Day.

Carrie (38:10): And he was, like, uncomfortable mentioning call letters or anything other than

Unknown Speaker (38:14): the fact.

Unknown Speaker (38:15): Yeah. So Yes.

Unknown Speaker (38:15): He was.

Unknown Speaker (38:16): But he ends up

Unknown Speaker (38:16): being one of my faves.

Carrie (38:18): Yeah. I think he's mellowed into a nicer guy. Do you think he's celebrating or observing Earth Day today?

Rob Spiwack (38:22): He sure is. Probably by sparking up, baby.

Unknown Speaker (38:25): Sparkling some tasty nugs.

Rob Spiwack (38:27): Thanks for celebrating Earth Day. It's celebrated every year on April 22. If you didn't know that, you'd be in the majority. Around 2,000 people surveyed last month. 23 of people said they were confident they could name the exact date of Earth Day, only 23%.

Rob Spiwack (38:44): Then

Unknown Speaker (38:44): they pointed

Unknown Speaker (38:45): the test.

Carrie (38:45): May. I always thought it was later. I thought it was in May.

Rob Spiwack (38:48): 57% rightly said that it falls in April. 26% did get April 22 exactly right, which apparently means that some people who were not confident, did guess correctly. Younger generations claimed a higher familiarity with Earth Day and its history. 42% of millennials said they're knowledgeable about it compared to just 28 of my people. The boomers and generation Jones, which doesn't really, become aware of anything that benefits anybody else except their fat asses.

Rob Spiwack (39:20): Earth Day has been celebrated since 1970. Millennials were also more likely to say they do something environmental or sustainable to celebrate Earth Day.

Unknown Speaker (39:31): I did today. Yeah. That, Mike, you did your traditional Earth Day breakfast hamburger.

Rob Spiwack (39:36): That's what I did. That's it. You beat me to the punch with the joke. Yeah. 44% of the millennials who do participate admitted that their Earth Day friendly change is only temporary.

Unknown Speaker (39:48): And and I prefer the United Nations name for it, which is Mother Earth Day.

Unknown Speaker (39:54): Mother Earth. I like Mother Earth Day better.

Carrie (39:56): Mother Mother Earth Day. Let's compromise and spell it m u t h a,

Unknown Speaker (40:01): Earth Day. Mother Earth. Mother. Mother. You're a bad mother.

Unknown Speaker (40:08): Hey. Shut your mouth.

Unknown Speaker (40:09): Thanks for celebrating Earth Day. We truly appreciate that. Thank you, Woody. Yourself. Thanks, Woody.

Rob Spiwack (40:15): I'm Woody Harrelson. Thanks for Alright then. Researchers just did a study in Norway where they looked at over 2,500 people living near a lake. They found that people who spent the most time around the lake reported less loneliness than the people who weren't connecting with nature.

Unknown Speaker (40:36): Now are you you have proximity to a lake. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (40:38): But I can't see it from where I live.

Unknown Speaker (40:41): Socialize Josh, you or a large puddle or anything?

Josh (40:44): The the the argument down here is always, is it a lake, or is it a pond? And we used

Rob Spiwack (40:49): say the same thing in my old house. Socializing with other people didn't make that much of a difference. The most important factor was feeling connected to nature itself. Oddly enough, being alone in nature actually made people feel less alone because they were focused on something greater than themselves. They felt like a part of something.

Carrie (41:07): You know, I can relate to that. Just ten minutes on the beach. I was in Miami, I did a couple of times where I just went down and put my feet in the sand and walked down to the water. It's it's healing. You do.

Unknown Speaker (41:17): You feel connected.

Rob Spiwack (41:18): And then the police came by and said, put the pants back on, mister Spear.

Unknown Speaker (41:21): That's right. Well, the pants were connected to the shoes.

Rob Spiwack (41:23): The, too much isolation can backfire. There has to be a balance. So the next time you're feeling a little lonely, a quiet walk in nature, just like Rob just said, might be better for you than a group hang. Yeah. I think you can feel, very lonely in a large group.

Unknown Speaker (41:38): Right?

Carrie (41:39): Absolutely. Presley once said that he feels the most alone in a crowd.

Unknown Speaker (41:42): Might be the way I kinda feel sometimes at the old, place where I hit the egg. You know? Sad.

Unknown Speaker (41:48): That's why Elvis gave up golfing.

Unknown Speaker (41:51): Well, yeah, it was hot out there with that outfit.

Unknown Speaker (41:54): Well, yeah, I mean, and also the rhinestone clubs. Forget it.

Rob Spiwack (41:57): Aubrey Plaza and, Michael Serra. I think they're both smart asses, aren't they? They're pretty good smart asses.

Carrie (42:03): And he's good, but I really like her because she was one of the last of the great talk show guests.

Rob Spiwack (42:08): Yeah. And deadpan deadpan, which is a traditionally funny thing to do. Yep. They dated after meeting on the set of the 2010 movie Scott Pilgrim versus the world. While they were only together for a year and a half, they almost took the relationship to the next level for a joke.

Rob Spiwack (42:25): This is what they did. They drove they drove across the country to Las Vegas while, quote, eating a bag of edibles. Their plan their plan was to get married then divorced immediately. Why? So they could call each other ex husband and ex wife forever.

Unknown Speaker (42:43): That's pretty funny.

Unknown Speaker (42:44): I like like it was born out of an edible, doesn't it?

Unknown Speaker (42:47): Yeah. A big fat gummy.

Unknown Speaker (42:49): Aubrey says, quote, we thought that it would be a really good bit. I love a girl that says a bit.

Unknown Speaker (42:56): Right? Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (42:57): Yeah. They they actually made it as far as the county office, but then the edibles took hold, they got paranoid. Wow. So they said we, we bailed, and they didn't do that, which is fantastic. I love that.

Unknown Speaker (43:11): That means Michael Serra's still available.

Rob Spiwack (43:13): He's single. Do you remember this name, Elizabeth Smart?

Unknown Speaker (43:20): I should. I Josh, how about you?

Unknown Speaker (43:23): Yes. Yes. But I don't know why. Some type of criminal thing.

Unknown Speaker (43:27): There you go. You're close, Rob. Does that jog your memory at all with criminal thing?

Carrie (43:31): She invented the candy Smarties.

Rob Spiwack (43:33): No. No. I give up. You give up. You you didn't even try.

Unknown Speaker (43:37): Try

Unknown Speaker (43:37): hard. Was it was it as a child?

Unknown Speaker (43:39): Was she a

Unknown Speaker (43:40): was she a child?

Rob Spiwack (43:41): Yes. Back in, she was 14 in twenty o two. Okay. She was abducted from her bedroom in Salt Lake City. She was held captive until police rescued her nine months later.

Rob Spiwack (43:53): This was all over the news back in o two where there's a very, very, very public kidnapping. She's 38 now and a married mother of three, and, she's also a a competitive bodybuilder. She entered her fourth competition over the weekend and won in the novice category. She also meddled in two other categories. Elizabeth was afraid to talk about her new venture until recently, but now says, quote, my body has carried me through every worst day, every hellish, grueling experience.

Rob Spiwack (44:24): It's created and nurtured three beautiful children. My body has risen to every single challenge life has presented it with and carried me through, so I refuse to be ashamed of it. I don't have any pictures of her, so I don't know whether she's a, you know, a turbo body bodybuilder or one of those fitness type, bodybuilder people. Yeah. But sounds body lady sounds like

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Unknown Speaker (47:04): She's one of the Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (47:06): I bet she could really move some furniture.

Rob Spiwack (47:08): I'd love to give her, an Omaha steak burger. I really, really love it.

Carrie (47:12): But, Mike, that's an Earth Day tradition.

Rob Spiwack (47:14): Yeah. Don't kidnap my steak. There you go. Moving right along. They say the armed forces can turn boys to men, but that doesn't mean it happens immediately.

Rob Spiwack (47:30): Finland. Oh, I love the Finns. Yes. I really, really Finland. Finland.

Rob Spiwack (47:34): Finland's air force admitted that several cadets on a recent training flight were using their flight patterns to create the shapes of male genitalia. Why do I think we saw that with one of those contrails that

Unknown Speaker (47:50): they had when they were signing you? Before. It's but, Mike, it's pilot thing. It's a classic gag. It's like a hot foot.

Unknown Speaker (47:56): You know? It never

Rob Spiwack (47:57): will die. Did you, hear about the hot coed that was taking biology? And, the professor said to her, Mindy, go up and, draw a picture of the male anatomy. And she goes up to the chalkboard and draws a, fully engorged

Unknown Speaker (48:13): Yes.

Rob Spiwack (48:13): Member. And, the professor says, no, Mindy. I'd like you to do it the other way. And she says, what other way? Thank you.

Unknown Speaker (48:26): Thank you all very much. So you couldn't actually see

Unknown Speaker (48:30): Which way did the pilots draw?

Rob Spiwack (48:32): I I probably if they're, you know, if they're doing the flight pattern, probably would have to be the, you know, detergent way. Yeah. Do you

Carrie (48:40): think the pilots you could tell probably if you saw it. Were the pilots Jewish?

Rob Spiwack (48:46): Thank you, Rob. You couldn't you couldn't actually see the twig and berries as contrails in the sky from the ground. They popped up on the flight radar tracking service.

Unknown Speaker (48:55): That,

Rob Spiwack (48:55): so it's an inside joke, that documents the roots of the aircraft online. At least four planes followed flight patterns that created the shapes of, well, you know, twig and berry. Yeah. If you

Unknown Speaker (49:07): wanna see those contrails on the big service, you need to pay extra for, you know, for the plus the all adult one. You have to.

Unknown Speaker (49:15): Did that subject make you uncomfortable a little bit

Unknown Speaker (49:17): right there? No. No. Not at all. I just lost my words.

Rob Spiwack (49:19): Sorry about that. Lost the words, for Twig and Berries. I love my my all time favorite. Thank you, Austin Powers. Finally today, the Iran war hasn't been good for people's pocketbooks, and it's not just gas and food that are going up now.

Rob Spiwack (49:36): Oh, dear. The price of condoms is pointing upward.

Unknown Speaker (49:40): Oh, dear. Mike, that's not the best way to write that.

Unknown Speaker (49:44): A, oh, yeah. Pointing upward. Seems to

Unknown Speaker (49:48): be a theme of the last

Unknown Speaker (49:49): two stories. This

Unknown Speaker (49:50): is the Iran war. I think this is the fact that the World Cup is this summer.

Unknown Speaker (49:54): Yeah. Really? And then what they're having a run on them? Is that what

Josh (49:57): it is? They, apparently, they use more than the Olympics.

Unknown Speaker (50:00): And they, they price gouge them, you think? Is that what they're doing?

Unknown Speaker (50:03): I assume so.

Unknown Speaker (50:04): Well, instead of a condom, they should cool down and wear a World Cup. Right.

Rob Spiwack (50:07): The company is called Carex, and, it's a big player in the condom industry. They produce one out of every five condoms worldwide. That's about 5,000,000,000 condoms a year. Ew. Why does that gross me out a little bit if you put them all, like, in a pile?

Carrie (50:23): Like, no. That's not just think of the landfill.

Rob Spiwack (50:26): They, do it for, brands like Durex. Yes. I I really was never, you know, involved in, those, but I bought a few in my day, and that was one of my the Durex was my go to.

Unknown Speaker (50:39): The extra large?

Unknown Speaker (50:40): Magnum. Yeah. And did they ask you if

Unknown Speaker (50:42): you want them gift wrapped?

Rob Spiwack (50:44): They're Durex One condoms. Is that is that a brand name? One condoms?

Unknown Speaker (50:48): I guess.

Rob Spiwack (50:48): You know? And Carex, c a r e x. Not Trojans?

Unknown Speaker (50:53): They don't make those?

Rob Spiwack (50:54): They didn't say no. I think Trojans is its own entity. Like, stand alone. They're raising prices by up to 30% due to increased costs and supply chain disruptions Yeah. And and tears.

Unknown Speaker (51:08): Okay.

Unknown Speaker (51:08): What's the matter with you?

Rob Spiwack (51:09): Supply chain disruptions caused by the Iran war. The condom price hike will take place within the next few months. So if you are active in the scene, man. Yeah, man. You might wanna keep that in mind, and stock up now and risk, getting that raised eyebrow at checkout.

Unknown Speaker (51:28): That's all it I will I'm we've all gone through that, right, to buy them when you thought you might need them. So

Carrie (51:34): so great when you were you run a check stand and someone comes through. And, I mean, it'll be like condoms and whipped cream, and I'm like, have a great night.

Rob Spiwack (51:42): A big, box of extra small Durex condoms that we need a price check. Durex condoms for the lady in Aisle 4.

Josh (51:54): But it's gotta be easier for kids now with self checkout.

Unknown Speaker (51:57): I would think so.

Unknown Speaker (51:58): Yeah. Yeah. Self checkout.

Unknown Speaker (51:59): But Yeah.

Josh (51:59): Mhmm. It's also a good time with these two stories to tell people, don't waste your time with Mark Wahlberg's new movie on Amazon.

Unknown Speaker (52:06): Bad?

Josh (52:07): It's bad. It is very balls up. It is him and Paul Walter Howser who invent a condom that wraps everything.

Unknown Speaker (52:17): Like a body condom?

Unknown Speaker (52:18): Like, twigs and berries.

Unknown Speaker (52:20): Twigs and berries.

Unknown Speaker (52:21): Yes. Okay.

Unknown Speaker (52:22): Yeah. And he and he was in the who is the the Atlanta bomber? Richard Jewell.

Unknown Speaker (52:28): Paul Walter. Yeah. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (52:29): That's right. That's the guy that played Richard Jewell.

Josh (52:31): He's very good. This movie was very bad.

Carrie (52:33): And, Mike, speaking of Netflix, I did take time to binge the Sam Bateman show last night, and you're right.

Unknown Speaker (52:39): You did. Bateman show. Sam Bateman is a good way of referring to it. What do you think?

Unknown Speaker (52:45): I thought that that guy is the worst.

Unknown Speaker (52:48): And and Rive and riveting.

Unknown Speaker (52:49): Right? Riveting. I would've you know what?

Rob Spiwack (52:51): We're always the same on these things. Did you hate the lady at the beginning and then come around at the end?

Carrie (52:55): Yeah. And, also, do you think they should have spent more time in the first three episodes leading up to the sting? Because I thought they really stretched out the sting operation in the fourth episode.

Rob Spiwack (53:05): I thought they did. You're absolutely right with that, and they could have gotten to that a little bit sooner, but then it would have been four episodes probably.

Unknown Speaker (53:11): Right? Exactly.

Unknown Speaker (53:12): Boy oh boy.

Josh (53:13): That's every documentary. Every documentary on Netflix is one episode too long.

Unknown Speaker (53:18): Absolutely. I would have cut out

Carrie (53:19): that niece with the scary eyes. What's her name? Moms or moles or something like that? She

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Carrie (54:04): That guy, he went straight to, like, the financial responsibility and not about, like, you know, procreation. Yeah. I don't think that he's he he's insensitive. That's his deal.

Rob Spiwack (54:13): Well, I'll find out more because I plan on, you know, calling my condom expert Howie Mandel. I'll be, checking in with that today. Thank you for remembering that. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (54:23): Is this is why I only use lambskin.

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Unknown Speaker (56:09): Come back, Mike. I was

Unknown Speaker (56:10): We need you.

Rob Spiwack (56:11): I was mocking myself. Anyway, Rob Spiwack? Yes. You got bad eyes. Right?

Unknown Speaker (56:18): Yeah. It turns out I have cataracts.

Rob Spiwack (56:20): You have cataracts. Know about. Talking about it last week. By the way, before we get to, talking about Rob's terrible eyesight, up in the upper left hand corner, there's something also new along with the, new website tmospodcast.com. There's our QR code.

Rob Spiwack (56:33): If you'd like to support the show, you just, put your old camera on that and, check it out, and we would appreciate any donation that you can send our way. So Rob said we wanted to talk about his trip to the eye doctor. I thought you already talked about your trip to the

Carrie (56:48): eye doctor. This was I wanna talk about where I got referred to the surgeon that's gonna do the cataract surgery because I went to VisionWorks originally just to get glasses because I just thought my eyes were going.

Rob Spiwack (56:59): You go to a local guy or a chain?

Carrie (57:01): No. This is a local practice, and, you know, my mom worked for many years at, Innova Health Services, and this is a guy that comes recommended. He's known.

Unknown Speaker (57:09): Oh, you're not going to Costco to get it done?

Unknown Speaker (57:12): I'm not, Mike.

Unknown Speaker (57:13): Okay. Just checking.

Unknown Speaker (57:14): Yeah. Yeah. It's it's backed by the tires is where they do their laser

Unknown Speaker (57:17): And the hearing aids.

Unknown Speaker (57:18): I got hearing

Rob Spiwack (57:19): aids at Costco one time. They sucked. Yeah. Well, you get what you pay for. Well, no.

Unknown Speaker (57:24): They they were I thought you raved. This is

Unknown Speaker (57:26): your store. They they sucked, but you got 12 of them.

Unknown Speaker (57:31): Big box.

Unknown Speaker (57:32): Yeah. Huge box of hearing aid.

Unknown Speaker (57:34): Yeah. It resembled the whole box resembled that, dishwashing detergent, those little pods that you get there.

Carrie (57:39): My father's hearing aids were thousands of dollars.

Unknown Speaker (57:43): And,

Carrie (57:43): so I've I mean, there you can get good ones. Suppose you pay, like, 200.

Rob Spiwack (57:48): It was reasonable, but it was less it was more than 200 at the time. I just don't do well with hearing aids because of the frequency. It just doesn't work for me. But, anyway, you're we're talking about your eyes, not

Carrie (58:00): mine. Not mine. I had this cataract. The cataracts were spotted by X-ray at the, first place. So I got referred to a vision center in in the Loudoun Medical Campus right by the hospital.

Carrie (58:11): And I go in, and the first thing I noticed you know when you go into a doctor's office and it's just simply a doctor's office? It's carpeted, some chairs, some magazines. Mhmm. This place is opulent. I mean, money.

Carrie (58:28): Yeah. We're talking sculptures. We're talking plants. Yeah. And so I give my info, and they walk me back to the examination area.

Carrie (58:37): It's like a I guess, like a PA for eyes, because it's not the doctor. And it's a long walk. Mike O'Meara.

Unknown Speaker (58:44): I have a question, Rob. Yeah. Along with the opulence, were there any pictures of the doctors on the wall?

Carrie (58:52): There were. And there was also pictures of money. I thought that was on No.

Rob Spiwack (58:57): It's ego. It's ego. The ones that want the real, like, Ritz Carlton style of office building are the usual the ego boys. How about degrees?

Unknown Speaker (59:06): What is on the wall or awards?

Unknown Speaker (59:08): Mhmm.

Carrie (59:09): No. I think it's sort of assumed they have those. I think that's more of a old fashioned thing to put the degrees up. I went to an ENT in McLean, Virginia that used to put up framed newspaper articles about himself.

Unknown Speaker (59:19): There you go. So so as he walk you down the hallway of the four seasons, what happened?

Carrie (59:24): They asked if I want a hot towel, some lemon water. No. They don't. So they put me down in the examination area, and he starts he does, like, four tests real quick. One was a pain where I had to keep my eyes open for a full scan and not blink.

Carrie (59:42): And the hardest thing is to not blink for ten seconds if someone tells you, don't blink.

Unknown Speaker (59:47): Alright. Ray, I'll try. Do a countdown. Do a two do a countdown.

Unknown Speaker (59:50): K. K. One, two, three, four.

Unknown Speaker (59:55): They couldn't do it. Yeah. It's tough.

Unknown Speaker (59:57): That with the was that, like, the red

Unknown Speaker (59:59): or blue scan. Uh-huh. Let me try it

Unknown Speaker (1:00:01): one more time because I'm under too. I'm under a fan. I'm under a fan. Alright. Go ahead.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:06): 12345678. No. You would have made it. You would have made it. And don't call me that.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:23): That's all. That's a horrible thing.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:25): That's tough to do.

Carrie (1:00:27): So yeah. And he was, he was growing, dissatisfied with me because apparently it was taking a long time. And I didn't realize speed was so important.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:35): Well So he finishes all this stuff. Possess speed.

Carrie (1:00:39): Well, don't you think that, Mike, a doctor, would be, a little indulgent in taking a moment just to get things right? You're only talking about my vision.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:49): It's not about speed. It's about that you keep failing the test.

Carrie (1:00:53): Yeah. I I ultimately succeeded, though. I was able to succeed.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:56): I listen. Did you have to

Unknown Speaker (1:00:57): hold it open?

Unknown Speaker (1:00:58): Yeah. I thought about it. Eye eyelids are muscles. You know? It's, it's still it's still an athletic exercise.

Carrie (1:01:07): Yeah. But with the amount of time I spent with them closed, I would think maybe I build up something.

Rob Spiwack (1:01:11): Anyway Is he really getting annoyed at you?

Carrie (1:01:13): He was. And he says, no. It's fine. No. It's fine.

Rob Spiwack (1:01:16): How did how did that man manifest itself? Just his tone?

Unknown Speaker (1:01:20): Yeah. And he says because when we sat down, the first thing he did is you're going to see a house and just go blink blink and look at the house with your right eye. And I did that. And he said, now go blink blink and look

Rob Spiwack (1:01:30): at him. What do you mean go blink blink?

Unknown Speaker (1:01:31): That meant he wanted me to blink my eyes twice. Go blink blink.

Unknown Speaker (1:01:36): So And

Unknown Speaker (1:01:36): and and was his attitude when I sat down.

Unknown Speaker (1:01:38): Wait. Hold on. I just wanna find

Unknown Speaker (1:01:39): out what's

Unknown Speaker (1:01:40): going on.

Unknown Speaker (1:01:40): They always have you blink your eyes a few times before the stare. Yeah. So you

Unknown Speaker (1:01:44): clear anything out. So you wanted so you had to blink your eyes twice and then close your left eye and look at at the house with your right eye?

Carrie (1:01:51): There was a thing where you set your chin in, and it blocked off one eye. So you would just so you could see the house. Okay. And so he was real upbeat with all those. And then we get to the retinal scan, and it goes from blink blink, and now don't blink for ten seconds.

Carrie (1:02:04): And then through the end, it's like, alright. That one didn't take. He foreign? Try again. Yes.

Unknown Speaker (1:02:11): He is.

Unknown Speaker (1:02:11): Alright. Alright.

Unknown Speaker (1:02:12): And and he ends up with, I think we got it this time. He's very, very dis disenchanted with

Rob Spiwack (1:02:19): me. Based on, you know, casual observations with nothing being etched in stone, what part of the world would you, estimate he's from?

Carrie (1:02:30): Do you remember that George Harrison did a concert in 1970 for Bangladesh?

Unknown Speaker (1:02:36): Okay. You win. Alright. I won't ask anymore.

Carrie (1:02:39): Great great album. So he says, alright. Let's get those eyes dilated, and we'll move on. I said, great. So I sit in the chair, and he dilates my eyes.

Unknown Speaker (1:02:48): With the drops?

Unknown Speaker (1:02:50): Yeah. But here's the thing.

Unknown Speaker (1:02:51): Did you drive yourself? Yeah. Didn't know there'd be dilation. Drive after that. Right?

Carrie (1:02:55): Tell me about it. And especially with cataracts, when I walked outside after this appointment, it was, like, the day after.

Unknown Speaker (1:03:00): They told No. They did not. No.

Unknown Speaker (1:03:03): They not.

Unknown Speaker (1:03:04): They should have told you ahead of time.

Carrie (1:03:06): No. They gave me a checklist what said, you know, you need to bring this and this and this and all. Nothing about dilation. And so he puts the drops in.

Unknown Speaker (1:03:15): And then she voted yesterday. Congratulations.

Josh (1:03:17): I get both. The dilation. He doesn't know what he voted for.

Carrie (1:03:21): It had worn off by then. Okay. By the way, Loudoun County, beautiful I voted stickers this year.

Rob Spiwack (1:03:27): Nice job. And congratulations, Virginia. Yeah. The Virginia to the Virginia Democrats.

Carrie (1:03:32): So as my eyes begin to lose focus, he hands me an iPad. He says, here's a brief twenty minute video about the procedure, and he leaves. So instead of being talked to about the procedure, I'm watching a video that has all the production quality of, the the safety video of, like, Southwest Airlines. And they're talking about And your eyes are blurry. Getting worse and getting worse and getting worse.

Carrie (1:03:58): I'm holding the iPad further and further and further and further away. And, basically, what the video is, it's propaganda to talk about the more expensive procedure and how great the most expensive lenses are.

Unknown Speaker (1:04:11): It's a sales pitch.

Carrie (1:04:12): It is absolutely a sales pitch. Yeah. Because in the old days, they would actually cut and remove it by hand, and they can still do that by the chin. That's right. The face.

Rob Spiwack (1:04:24): But It would remove the eyeball by hand.

Carrie (1:04:27): So what he's talking about and this video he's talking about is that we can do the whole thing with a laser, and,

Unknown Speaker (1:04:33): you can get Francis Adam Gummy once says cataracts are the result of a weak pelvic floor.

Unknown Speaker (1:04:41): That's true. That's very true.

Unknown Speaker (1:04:43): Sorry. So

Carrie (1:04:45): Thank you. I'm watching this blurry video, and then it gets into the and for this amount, you know, you can start with any number of lenses. One lens will give you the vision you had before the cataracts. The second will focus on near vision. This the third lens will give you near and far.

Carrie (1:05:00): And the fourth lens and you can almost hear the volume go up. And the fourth lens will let you see near, far, and middle.

Unknown Speaker (1:05:08): So they're selling you the most expensive

Unknown Speaker (1:05:10): one. Selling you.

Carrie (1:05:10): Yeah. So the doctor comes in, and right now, I've got zombie eyes because my pupil I took a picture of myself. My pupils are all black. It looks like I'm a a character in a horror film. Okay.

Unknown Speaker (1:05:21): And he sits

Unknown Speaker (1:05:22): down send that to us, or do you that did you put that

Carrie (1:05:24): on Facebook? It is my status picture right now

Rob Spiwack (1:05:27): because it's pretty good. Page.

Carrie (1:05:29): Yeah. So this guy comes in, and keep in mind, I haven't lost optimism yet because my mom said he's a highly regarded eye surgeon. That's enough for me. And he starts talking, and here's the thing that really threw me. When he talked, he closed his eyes.

Unknown Speaker (1:05:47): I do that when I'm really

Carrie (1:05:48): trying to make a point. But he was remembering his pitch. His sales pitch was so dead on that at one point, I tried to ask a question, and he stopped. He says, questions at the end. And then he picked up exactly where he was at.

Carrie (1:06:03): So he's got a practice pitch, and I had, like, two questions for him.

Josh (1:06:07): Probably draw some eyes on his eyelids so it's not distracting.

Unknown Speaker (1:06:10): The three stooges used to do that, gang. Have you seen this man in your neighborhood? If you have, please call crime solvers. Look at that.

Unknown Speaker (1:06:21): I asked him two questions. And by

Unknown Speaker (1:06:23): the time doesn't say get in the van, I don't know what does.

Josh (1:06:27): And and we found your doctor's degrees. They're all behind you.

Unknown Speaker (1:06:30): Oh, that's true. I hadn't even noticed that. But you know what? That's in a back back room, so they weren't in the lobby for display.

Rob Spiwack (1:06:37): So you are Have you gotten the number yet?

Carrie (1:06:40): Not yet. Because after I try to ask the second question, he says, all of that will be explained by the ladies. And I said, what? The ladies. Okay.

Rob Spiwack (1:06:49): Yeah. The people out the closers, the the the salespeople.

Carrie (1:06:53): And he said, do you have any questions about the video? And I said, well, I certainly know you want me to get the laser procedure with the most expensive lens, don't you?

Unknown Speaker (1:07:02): Does it say does it say the most expensive one that

Unknown Speaker (1:07:05): you implied because it's you know, you can go further and further and further with that.

Rob Spiwack (1:07:10): Say when you made that snarky comment?

Unknown Speaker (1:07:12): He said, the ladies will help you with all figures.

Rob Spiwack (1:07:15): He just totally divorces himself

Carrie (1:07:17): from it. And, again, eyes closed when he talked like he was trying to recall something from a previous life. So then he walks me out to the ladies. I can barely see. I sit down, and she has all these papers.

Carrie (1:07:28): And even with my excellent health care coverage and this is not a vision issue. This is a health care coverage issue. It covers up to getting the lowest tier lens, and everything beyond that is extra. And I was talking to my mom. I talked to Terry.

Rob Spiwack (1:07:48): Come on. You're talking about your vision. God.

Carrie (1:07:50): I said, if we cheap out here and do the cheap option, which is still in excess of a thousand dollars out of our pocket

Unknown Speaker (1:07:58): Right.

Carrie (1:07:59): I'm gonna regret not having my eyes fixed because he said, you can go from not being able to read to reading the front of a pill bottle and maybe the back.

Unknown Speaker (1:08:10): Well, alright. Let me ask you this. What were the increments? How how what each lens went up by, what, a couple $100?

Carrie (1:08:16): Free if you get the base model lens. This is in addition to health care coverage. So what about of my pocket?

Unknown Speaker (1:08:23): From the video says this is the way you saw before. You'll go back. You don't want that. You want better vision if you're gonna go under the lights.

Carrie (1:08:29): And I'm saying if I'm gonna and I'm not gonna spend a thousand dollar anyway. So for the base, it's nothing out of pocket. Okay. For the first lens, about $1,500, and that will help me with near

Rob Spiwack (1:08:39): vision only. 500 increments. Half of alright. Yeah. Alright.

Unknown Speaker (1:08:45): I got it.

Carrie (1:08:45): Third lens, $3,200.

Rob Spiwack (1:08:49): So they're just they're just effing you anyway.

Unknown Speaker (1:08:52): That's near and far, but not middle. And the fourth one, Mike, a nice even $4,800.

Unknown Speaker (1:08:59): Are they are there are you gonna look elsewhere? Are you gonna try to find

Unknown Speaker (1:09:04): something I would, but I can't see.

Unknown Speaker (1:09:06): Okay. No. Because of the dilation or your cataract?

Carrie (1:09:09): No. No. I I was just doing a joke there. I Okay. I I think that it is actually pretty competitive.

Carrie (1:09:14): I will look around and see because that seems a lot of money out of pocket, and I like the fact that he's well regarded even though he's running a money machine. So they sit me down with the clothes and the ladies.

Josh (1:09:26): But it it sounds reasonable. I think when I got LASIK, like, ten, twelve years ago, I think it was, like, $6,000.

Carrie (1:09:33): Yeah. But, also, this is not LASIK. This is a brand new lens. This is not correct.

Rob Spiwack (1:09:37): This is good ride. True. Like, shoving a number two pencil into my balls sounds reasonable.

Josh (1:09:43): Medical stuff is never reasonable.

Unknown Speaker (1:09:47): Yeah. But it's BS.

Unknown Speaker (1:09:49): It is you

Unknown Speaker (1:09:49): when other countries are doing this stuff for their people Well, that's they get taken care of.

Unknown Speaker (1:09:55): That's a good idea. Have you looked at going overseas to get it done?

Unknown Speaker (1:09:58): Turkey. I have not.

Unknown Speaker (1:09:59): Turkey. A little vacation to Turkey.

Unknown Speaker (1:10:01): Turkish eyes. So the lady

Josh (1:10:03): eyes at the same time.

Carrie (1:10:04): My hair is fine.

Rob Spiwack (1:10:07): We'll go over together. I'll get my veneers while you get your eyes done.

Carrie (1:10:11): When I sit down with the lady, I think she's really pretty, but I can't see because my eyes are dilated. And she goes over all the numbers and all the stuff, and this is not medical at all. This is all financial. Hi, baby. She's like

Unknown Speaker (1:10:26): Hi, baby.

Carrie (1:10:27): He's here every Thursday if you wanna book today or, once a month at this location if you wanna book today. I said, this is pretty expensive. I'm gonna think about it. And she goes, okay. Can you sign here?

Carrie (1:10:40): And she hands over some papers.

Unknown Speaker (1:10:42): They're rude. F them. Go somewhere else. A factory.

Carrie (1:10:46): And I asked her. I said, do you dilate my eyes so I can't see what I'm signing? Because at that moment, it occurred to me no one looked at my eyes after they were dilated. They were dilated for no reason.

Unknown Speaker (1:10:58): Get out of there. Yeah. If they're they're if they're that way, if he's copping a tube with you because you can't keep your eyes open for ten seconds, which is hard to do, And then he's not mentioning the money, and then they upsell you with a video. They don't even take the time or care. One minute video.

Rob Spiwack (1:11:14): I would run. Tell your mom she's dead wrong about that physician.

Unknown Speaker (1:11:17): And the dilation and never looking at it is

Unknown Speaker (1:11:20): so I'm walking around

Unknown Speaker (1:11:21): like walking dead in the office there.

Unknown Speaker (1:11:24): Typical Northern Virginia BS.

Carrie (1:11:26): Really? So they had at the desk little sunglass inserts. Like, they're, know, like plastic, plastic, cheap, cheap, maybe a nickel. And so I put those inside my sunglasses, and I go outside, and still it looks like they're taking a nuclear attack on the water the water towers in Loudoun.

Unknown Speaker (1:11:44): Were they were they were they in Leesburg?

Carrie (1:11:47): They are in Loudoun, which is, sort of a land you know where Lansdowne is. It's very close to Lansdowne.

Rob Spiwack (1:11:53): Yeah. Get out of there. Drive across the bridge. Go to Maryland. Get some real medical care.

Rob Spiwack (1:11:58): All the good doctors are in Maryland.

Carrie (1:12:00): What about is there any good doctors in DC? Are there any good doctors in

Rob Spiwack (1:12:04): But not in Virginia? City. You really wanna get the best? Go up to, Baltimore.

Carrie (1:12:10): You're probably right.

Rob Spiwack (1:12:11): Yeah. Absolutely. And say see if you can get in on a clinical study or something like that. There are ways around it. Help Rob out.

Rob Spiwack (1:12:18): Ladies and gentlemen, listen to me. This is this is this just sucks. I want Rob to get the best.

Josh (1:12:24): And he he can't went I met with the eye doctor earlier this week as well. Uh-huh. And he is in Baltimore. He does a he has a virtual lab down here, so you could go see my eye doctor.

Unknown Speaker (1:12:35): Wow. How about that?

Unknown Speaker (1:12:37): But then ultimately, he does his surgeries in Baltimore. Right? He doesn't do that, like, over the computer with

Unknown Speaker (1:12:42): his No. Like, someone else did the surgery.

Unknown Speaker (1:12:44): Oh, okay. Don't know. I was jump

Unknown Speaker (1:12:45): when I went.

Unknown Speaker (1:12:46): Wherever he does his surgery, you can rest assured Josh is gonna drive to it. He's got another road trip. He's got he's got another road trip plan.

Unknown Speaker (1:12:55): To come and make sure I get through it. Hold my hand.

Unknown Speaker (1:12:57): That's all. Exactly. Clip joint. Let me sick me on those people. You know?

Rob Spiwack (1:13:02): Just walk in. Walk in like when it's a crowded day when you know it's gonna be crowded, and then just walk in going, I can't see. He's burned my eyes.

Unknown Speaker (1:13:11): I wanted to they couldn't minimize the image on the iPad and and watch YouTube, which is what I wanted to do when I had been in there for ten minutes. And so it's it's just the whole fact that the majority of the appointment was

Unknown Speaker (1:13:22): on an iPad. It help.

Josh (1:13:27): It would have been great if he comes back and you're just watching mister beast.

Unknown Speaker (1:13:30): That would be great. It would be great.

Unknown Speaker (1:13:33): Is that gonna give me a million dollars?

Rob Spiwack (1:13:34): Yeah. Well, we have to take a short break. We'll talk about Josh's road trip when we come back on the Mike O'Mara show. Woah. Woah.

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Rob Spiwack (1:15:11): He has a hell of a work ethic, and he's always going. There is no off switch. But when it comes to, like, charisma, salesmanship, I don't know how good until he bought a Tesla. And he comes in here one day, and he starts talking about his Tesla. And, you know, I I would you tap him to be the pitchman of the show?

Rob Spiwack (1:15:31): He has got me, you know, in ten minutes wanting to drive to the Tesla dealership and buy one because that's how much he was talking about it. But, you know, it was just a you you were really into it. You know?

Unknown Speaker (1:15:42): He believes in the product. Yeah.

Josh (1:15:44): I mean I'm not sure which has lowered my blood pressure more, the medicine or the Tesla to just sit and let it drive.

Rob Spiwack (1:15:50): It drives the the whole way. So but you have your first official mega road trip. Right?

Josh (1:15:55): Yeah. I I am going to Northern Virginia this weekend. So I or immediately. So I canceled my flight for today and decided I'm gonna drive. The TSA's issues and Orlando Airport stresses me out enough.

Unknown Speaker (1:16:08): Right.

Josh (1:16:08): That I wasn't gonna deal with the delay and said, I'm just gonna drive, save some money on a rental car and everything. So today is the first test. I'll leave in about probably forty five minutes. And I think with stops and charging and stuff, I think it's like twelve hours.

Unknown Speaker (1:16:22): And you're gonna be,

Rob Spiwack (1:16:24): you're gonna be up there on a 95. Now here's the thing. Are you able to, you know, close your eyes when this thing is, you know, rest your eyes as it were?

Unknown Speaker (1:16:33): Not yet. Okay. I think they will be by the end of the year be able to do that. Right. But what I can do is put on a put a movie on, put the ball game on, lean back, and just relax.

Unknown Speaker (1:16:44): Enjoy.

Unknown Speaker (1:16:44): Yeah. That is so cool.

Unknown Speaker (1:16:46): Why

Unknown Speaker (1:16:46): not? Does the Tesla actually take your blood pressure as you drive?

Unknown Speaker (1:16:50): I'm sure it could.

Unknown Speaker (1:16:52): The so you are going are you going up for you've got the the Chad thing this weekend. Right? I've the I've got

Josh (1:16:58): the Chad event this weekend, and so we're

Unknown Speaker (1:17:00): Give them a plug. We we should do that for Chad.

Josh (1:17:02): Fair winds on Saturday, 2PM for, Chad's beer release and a little little live show and just hanging out.

Unknown Speaker (1:17:09): And Okay. Alright. So check that out there. Where is it? Where where is it if people wanna

Unknown Speaker (1:17:14): Brewery. Okay.

Unknown Speaker (1:17:15): Fairwinds Brewery. Lorton?

Unknown Speaker (1:17:17): I think it is near Lorton.

Unknown Speaker (1:17:18): I think

Unknown Speaker (1:17:18): it's Lorton.

Unknown Speaker (1:17:19): Near the prison. They don't have the prison

Unknown Speaker (1:17:20): there anymore. Prison, Mike.

Unknown Speaker (1:17:21): Excellent. That was a great prison, by the

Carrie (1:17:24): great. And you know what? People always talk about, you know, the old times are only old when you miss them. Yes. I love that place.

Rob Spiwack (1:17:31): Just so good. Next to you know, there are some by the way, if you're a prison connoisseur, and I I there's I love to look at the outside of a great prison. And, Joliet, I remember when I saw that one. That was a special, prison. And then I think it was called Greenhaven.

Rob Spiwack (1:17:49): And, we I took a bus from Poughkeepsie, New York to Hartford, Connecticut, and they stopped by Greenhaven prison. And it was I'm a sneeze. Pollan. Pollan.

Carrie (1:17:59): It was a pleasure trip. And you know what, Mike? It really Mike's allergic to prison. It really stacks up to something I've always thought. Prisons look better from the outside Yes.

Rob Spiwack (1:18:10): Than they do from the inside. I remember it being so scary because it was just a solid concrete wall that I looked up at, and it was nasty. And, there was a there was a, like, a person that was dressed a guy that was dressed, like a woman who wanted to go out for an evening, and he he was at the front. I'm sorry. I'm just telling you what I saw.

Unknown Speaker (1:18:31): This is a personal experience. I'm not making any comments

Unknown Speaker (1:18:34): about it.

Carrie (1:18:34): Jail? He's star of a popular television show right now. His name is Sam Bateman.

Unknown Speaker (1:18:39): Sam Bateman. Samuel Bateman.

Unknown Speaker (1:18:41): He's a he's a star of the Sam Bateman show.

Rob Spiwack (1:18:43): Yeah. The prophet see him. The prophet Samuel. So, well, good luck. What are leaving right after the show,

Unknown Speaker (1:18:49): and leaving right after the show.

Unknown Speaker (1:18:50): Okay.

Unknown Speaker (1:18:50): So I'll be up there a few days.

Rob Spiwack (1:18:51): And your ETA, to get from point a to point b, twelve hours.

Josh (1:18:56): Twelve hours, maybe a little longer if I take my time. I'm considering I'm debating between grabbing a hotel on the way up or just sleeping in the back of the car.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:06): Are you? How are you bringing snacks?

Josh (1:19:09): I have You know you well. I have a cooler of drinks. I have a bag of snacks. Got candy. I've got Doritos.

Josh (1:19:16): What

Rob Spiwack (1:19:17): kind of candy are you bringing on your trip?

Josh (1:19:21): Let's see. I have I have some Starburst.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:25): Oh, fruit flavors.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:26): Some Skittle mini Skittles.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:30): But the problem with Starburst is the unwrapping of the individual pieces of candy.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:36): Not if you get the Starburst minis, which are already unwrapped.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:39): Might might I recommend a confection that might be a little more acceptable to you, especially if you want something to last a little longer on a long journey.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:53): Is it a round candy?

Unknown Speaker (1:19:56): Surprisingly enough, it is round.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:59): That's weird. I wonder if it has a hole in it.

Unknown Speaker (1:20:03): It does indeed. I think you've outed me already on the candy I'm recommending because it is known as a lifesaver.

Unknown Speaker (1:20:14): Available in window green.

Unknown Speaker (1:20:16): Pippo Mint. And traditional five flavors. Been years, and we still remember it.

Unknown Speaker (1:20:23): Yeah. We do. Absolutely. And, Josh, you should tell him about our field trip we're gonna take Friday.

Unknown Speaker (1:20:27): Yeah. Rob and I are gonna meet up. And I believe on Friday, we are gonna go to the Udvar Hazy. I believe that's how you pronounce it.

Unknown Speaker (1:20:34): Oh, I remember that. What is that?

Carrie (1:20:36): It's the Loudoun County branch of the Air and Space Museum where they have all the actual spacecraft. Yeah. It's a huge, like, facility.

Josh (1:20:43): Huge aircraft care or not aircraft carrier. What's the Space shuttle. Enclosure.

Unknown Speaker (1:20:49): Yeah. It's wonderful. I've taken aircraft carrier.

Rob Spiwack (1:20:52): I've taken go look at the, the stealth, spy plane, which which even back in

Unknown Speaker (1:20:58): the space. I couldn't find it.

Rob Spiwack (1:21:00): We have to break. God, you're an ass. We will come back with a you do have video, some beautifuls for us We

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Rob Spiwack (1:22:14): We will be, interviewing a, gentleman who's been on the show, before. He's, it's doctor Happy. That's his name, isn't it? Oh, no. It's gratitude.

Rob Spiwack (1:22:23): Missus Greenthumbs.

Unknown Speaker (1:22:24): Oh, this great. No.

Unknown Speaker (1:22:25): She's dead. Doctor gratitude? Is that what it is? What what's the name of the guy, Josh? Do we remember?

Rob Spiwack (1:22:31): Does anybody on this show know the guy that

Unknown Speaker (1:22:33): we're gonna interview tomorrow? Okay. Joel Zucker, man. Joel language. Sorry about that.

Josh (1:22:39): You you remember him from gratitude tiger.

Rob Spiwack (1:22:41): Gratitude tiger. Here's the interesting thing. I will be in the car line waiting to pick up my son. Josh Soroka will be driving up to Northern Virginia. Right.

Rob Spiwack (1:22:56): Rob Spiwack, you're gonna be at home. Right?

Unknown Speaker (1:22:58): Yeah. But having eye surgery.

Rob Spiwack (1:23:00): And we're going to do the interview with him all on our phones. What could possibly go wrong?

Unknown Speaker (1:23:07): I tell you what, that's one more thing to be thankful for.

Unknown Speaker (1:23:09): Yeah. So that'll be on tomorrow's show. But before that, we have to finish this show. Yes. Let's do that.

Unknown Speaker (1:23:14): Hey. I like that. Some beautiful video. Cherry time.

Carrie (1:23:18): Two deaths to deal with, Mike. Dave Mason. Do you know the name?

Rob Spiwack (1:23:23): Yeah. Yeah. I'm a music, musician.

Unknown Speaker (1:23:25): Right. His biggest hit, you'll know this.

Unknown Speaker (1:23:27): Because we can't see eye to eye. There ain't no good guy.

Carrie (1:23:42): But he is a rock and roll hall of famer because he was a founding member of Trafic. And Trafic was in so he worked with Steve Winwood back then, but a long storied career. He was 78, I think.

Unknown Speaker (1:23:55): I don't

Carrie (1:23:56): have I don't yeah. Very young. Very young. And also too young and

Unknown Speaker (1:24:00): Not really very young. I mean, you know, not too young for that.

Carrie (1:24:04): I'm sure there are the he probably has family that thinks it's too young.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:07): The Mason family too.

Carrie (1:24:08): Yes. Mister and missus Mason, his parents, of course, and little Billy and Betty Mason.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:14): And the

Unknown Speaker (1:24:15): twins Oh.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:16): Mason and Dixon.

Carrie (1:24:19): Alright. Go ahead. Sad one for me. Jesus Christ. This is a song I genuinely love, and it's the Osman Brothers before Donnie became his own breakout star.

Carrie (1:24:29): Donnie was a part of the band then. And this is you'll see in here Alan Osmond. He was the oldest of the Osmond brothers. He died at 76. He'd been battling MS for about forty years.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:40): Oh, that's too bad.

Carrie (1:24:41): This is this is really sort of out of the ordinary for an Osmond record.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:48): Great. Great song.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:49): A great song. Crazy horses. There's Donnie on the keyboard. Is so not typical of them.

Unknown Speaker (1:25:00): But they did a good job with

Carrie (1:25:01): it. It's a great song. They all kinda look like they're trying to look like Donnie. Now, Mike, this is why I chose this video. That's Alan.

Unknown Speaker (1:25:17): Is he the guy that died?

Unknown Speaker (1:25:19): Yeah. He just died. He was a lead guitarist, but you can see his name above him there in the video. So say more.

Unknown Speaker (1:25:24): Thank

Carrie (1:25:25): you. Now slightly related to this, what Osman might what Osman brother that you know actually rode in a Wiener mobile?

Unknown Speaker (1:25:35): Donnie.

Carrie (1:25:36): Exactly. Mhmm. And the Wienermobile stopped in Topeka, Kansas this week, and some students got a lot of pleasure from it.

Speaker 2 (1:25:44): Well, students from Seaman High School celebrated prom tonight, but

Unknown Speaker (1:25:48): Don't laugh at Seaman High School, Mike.

Unknown Speaker (1:25:49): It's not funny. You didn't warn me. You didn't warn me.

Unknown Speaker (1:25:55): Mike, you know, Seaman High School. They encourage everybody to come and visit. Okay.

Speaker 2 (1:26:00): Well, students from Seaman High School celebrated prom tonight, but a few students rolled up in style in one of six Oscar Mayer Wiener mobiles. Twenty seven news reporter Millie Favella met with the students earlier today.

Speaker 6 (1:26:11): The Wiener Mobile made an appearance in Topeka yesterday for a pre race NASCAR celebration. Brecken Andrews, a junior at Seaman High School, and his friends were at Sonic when they saw the hot dog on wheels and had to stop by. They took some pictures, but then another idea came up.

Unknown Speaker (1:26:28): They took some pictures. Wait. Do you see the pilot of the weiner?

Unknown Speaker (1:26:33): Hold on. Let me ask one question. Yeah. Do they interview the guy with the white tuxedo? Do they

Unknown Speaker (1:26:37): probably they do. He's like the leader of the clique.

Unknown Speaker (1:26:40): Yeah. Of course he is. Alright. Let's And

Unknown Speaker (1:26:42): but, Mike, what you gotta do is you gotta wait to see the, wiener engineer.

Speaker 6 (1:26:46): Driver of the Wiener Mobile and brand spokesperson, Maggie Dawson, couldn't resist.

Speaker 7 (1:26:51): One of my buddies was like, can we rent this thing? And I

Unknown Speaker (1:26:55): was like Brecken.

Speaker 7 (1:26:56): Bro, what if we just ask about prom? What if they take us? It's tomorrow. Like, that'd insane. Right now.

Speaker 7 (1:27:01): Little light bulb. And we were like, well, what time is prom? And from there, we checked our schedule, and we were able to make an

Unknown Speaker (1:27:08): That lovely lady spends her life driving a hot dog.

Unknown Speaker (1:27:10): She's a hot dogger. She is a hot dogger. Yeah. She's a hot dogger at Seaman High School.

Carrie (1:27:16): Mike, they arrived to prom in the Wienermobile.

Rob Spiwack (1:27:19): Very ex I hey. It would be fun if it wasn't for that guy.

Carrie (1:27:22): Yeah. You're right. Listen. Do you care about where they're going to have the Super Bowl in 2030? I found it to be a surprising choice.

Unknown Speaker (1:27:30): Wouldn't give it a thought.

Unknown Speaker (1:27:31): Couldn't care Then let's move to our closer. Have you ever But been

Unknown Speaker (1:27:35): I wanna know now. You set it up.

Carrie (1:27:37): Come on. Okay. Oh, I just wanna know if you care. Dan Patrick has the insight, and I didn't think this would be considered a Super Bowl city.

Speaker 8 (1:27:44): Twenty thirty Super Bowl, I was, informed by a source on Saturday that, it is signed and ready to go in his opinion that Nashville is getting the twenty thirty Super Bowl. I haven't seen any reports on this, and if there is a report on it, I'll I'll acknowledge that.

Carrie (1:28:04): Thanks for not taking it too seriously.

Unknown Speaker (1:28:07): Because they they just got a new stadium.

Unknown Speaker (1:28:09): New stadium.

Unknown Speaker (1:28:09): A roof on the stadium or something.

Unknown Speaker (1:28:11): That where the titans are gonna play?

Carrie (1:28:13): Yeah. But not in the Super Bowl.

Unknown Speaker (1:28:15): No. No. But Yes. But that was a pretty good sports stadium.

Unknown Speaker (1:28:19): The new stadium does not open up until 2027.

Carrie (1:28:22): Okay. But they they got it. And I know that that is, like, the destination for bachelorette parties now, but don't know if they've got the infrastructure to hand. Super Bowl is a big undertaking, and I'm surprised the NFL is taking a chance on a place they've never

Unknown Speaker (1:28:35): been before. I'm not

Unknown Speaker (1:28:36): worried about it. They've they've gone much worse places.

Rob Spiwack (1:28:39): I'm hey, Rob. Yeah. I'm not worried or concerned about it.

Unknown Speaker (1:28:43): That's good, Mike. That would keep your blood pressure down. You wanna close this thing? Because I got a I got a corker to finish with.

Unknown Speaker (1:28:50): Okay. Let's do it. Let's wrap it up. Absolutely.

Unknown Speaker (1:28:52): Ever been to Whataburger?

Unknown Speaker (1:28:54): I have not had the pleasure.

Unknown Speaker (1:28:56): I do all the time.

Unknown Speaker (1:28:58): It's right down the street.

Carrie (1:28:59): Is it is the service at your Whataburger like the service that was experienced at the Waco, Texas Whataburger where they seem to have some dissatisfied clients Uh-oh. In the restaurant.

Unknown Speaker (1:29:11): She's a lady.

Unknown Speaker (1:29:25): Woah. Woah. Woah. She's a lady. A little lady.

Unknown Speaker (1:29:33): Oh my god.

Unknown Speaker (1:29:35): Scary. Get physical. Physical. The hair gets physical.

Carrie (1:29:41): You only saw it for a moment, but I like the person who did a classic nineteen thirties fight technique where they pulled someone's coat over their head so they couldn't see.

Rob Spiwack (1:29:49): Also used in the NHL. Congratulations, ladies. Hope you enjoyed your food.

Unknown Speaker (1:29:54): I want a Whataburger with extra sauce.

Unknown Speaker (1:29:56): Yeah. We're getting, what's the one we're getting down here? Oh, man.

Unknown Speaker (1:30:01): No. You're getting In N Out.

Unknown Speaker (1:30:03): In N Out burger. We're getting an In N Out burger down here. I'm excited

Unknown Speaker (1:30:06): about that. I've I've never tried it. Do you have five guys down there?

Unknown Speaker (1:30:09): Does it go that far south? Yeah. We yeah. We have five guys, and then the, they're putting the In N Out burger right next to Seaman High School. We will see you tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen.

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