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Unknown Speaker (3:14): Mike O'Meara Radio Entertainment. You can listen to the Mike O'Mara show at mikeo'marashow.com. Well, what have we here?

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Mike O'Meara (3:27): It's the Mike O'Mara show with Mike O'Mara and Rob Spiwack. Now here's Mike. You know, you go away for a a weekend, and, every now and then, been doing this a very, very long time, when you go away for a weekend, everything happens on the weekend. It it was it was something to behold. I, I I was running around a hell of a lot this weekend.

Mike O'Meara (3:56): There was a lot of baseball. There was a lot going on in my life. I was not, I did not have my nose in my computer. I was not by the TV. I was on the road a lot.

Mike O'Meara (4:07): I was running around, and, you know, the only news story I thought that was really significant was going to be the, Boston red sox blowing out the, Baltimore orioles when lo and behold, after that, they fired the entire coaching staff. And and, you know, if that weren't enough Yeah. And I didn't know anything about it, then we had the, White House correspondence dinner. We'll talk about that in a second here. Let me welcome everybody to the Mike O'Meary show.

Mike O'Meara (4:33): We are down a man because, he has a, as of 05:40 this morning, a severe respiratory situation. And my only question would be, what did you do to, Josh to make him sick? I know you two were, dating over the weekend. So

Rob Spiwack (4:51): It's time you knew. I licked all of his Skittles.

Mike O'Meara (4:54): Do you think he got what you have? Do you think he No. I don't. You have you're not at carrier stage anymore, are you?

Rob Spiwack (4:59): No. No. I'm not a carrier. And I don't think asthma is a contagious thing, and that's essentially what Who has asthma? I have a little bit of asthma still.

Rob Spiwack (5:07): My bronchitis is gone because of the steroids. So, no, I don't think I'm patient one here.

Mike O'Meara (5:12): Why do I always think you just have, like, a bronchial infection? I didn't know did you I didn't know you had asthma. Have you ever talked about having asthma?

Unknown Speaker (5:20): Sure. Sure.

Mike O'Meara (5:21): I remember that. I I don't know. But, you know, the the way

Rob Spiwack (5:24): I feel with this weekend, though, I gotta ask. I know that when you were on the Don and Mike show, we would occasionally have a vacation, few days here and there, federal holidays mostly. Yeah. But when you were on vacation, huge celebrity deaths always happen when you are

Mike O'Meara (5:41): on vacation. It's, it it's weird. Rob is still up in the DC area. I spent a good portion of my career up in the Greg Klein says, I'll give you asthma. That's funny.

Mike O'Meara (5:55): That's right. That's a great poll. Thank you.

Unknown Speaker (5:57): Will Grandpa, what about my asthma?

Mike O'Meara (5:59): I'll give you asthma. The being from that area and knowing, the ropes as far as, Washington DC, just a strange, strange time. Again, we have now had more gun violence surrounding, the president of The United States, And, the correspondence dinner is where this all happened. We'll have a we'll have that in tidbits as far as, the very latest on, on what's happening. Fortunately, outside of one secret service member, nobody hurt, and thank god nobody killed during this particular situation.

Mike O'Meara (6:36): But, it's just we live in interesting times, and I am I I don't want to poo poo this, but I do I I feel it's my duty as an observer of the media to comment on the fact that you have a room full of journalists. Mhmm. And it there was no reporting of any significance. There there was plenty of, oh, we're scared. We got under the table.

Mike O'Meara (7:13): We did this. But as far as anybody racing around and getting sources and saying what happened, it's nonexistent. It doesn't

Unknown Speaker (7:22): make sense anymore. Mike. They're

Mike O'Meara (7:24): haircuts. They are haircuts.

Rob Spiwack (7:26): We saw some on local news. We saw a lot of shaky handheld iPhone video from, like, the second tier traffic people and, the features reporters.

Mike O'Meara (7:36): I I was stunned at the lack of information coming out of that room. I mean, when you're when you realize I watched, Wolf Blitzer who was on the phone and said he was feet away from the shooter. So, apparently, he was not in the ballroom when this all went down. He was out by, where they brought the guy down, which he was found innocent. Right?

Mike O'Meara (7:58): By the way, with all the diagrams they're gonna show Oh god. And by the way, nothing easier to decipher than a hotel room schematic a hotel schematic, I should say.

Rob Spiwack (8:08): Especially one that seems to have been built by the same people that built the clue house. I don't know if you've ever been to the Washington Hilton. It's insane. Insane. I mean, from parking on up, it's the worst.

Mike O'Meara (8:19): I start with this that when you're talking about something that, goes down, you would think when I'm watching the live feed on CNN, you would think that the number one priority would be to clear the room and put the people someplace else. Watched an hour of people casually chatting with their glasses still full, talking, laughing. It was surreal. That was my first impression when I saw this where I said to myself, what's the deal here? No.

Mike O'Meara (8:57): I understand that when there is a problem that people don't know what to do. Right. I wouldn't I wouldn't know what to do. That's the same thing. The the the idea of the first reporting that came out, I wanna find out if you were like me.

Mike O'Meara (9:15): Did you believe when you when you saw that that there was a guy in the ballroom firing shots at the president?

Rob Spiwack (9:23): Exactly. And what my first thought was, this is a scam.

Unknown Speaker (9:27): This something That's that's where you went first.

Rob Spiwack (9:30): Well, I mean, the first thing I thought I didn't even think there was really a shooting. It started, you know, vague things on Facebook.

Unknown Speaker (9:37): Yeah. Because you're up there too, and you're getting local news too out there.

Rob Spiwack (9:40): Right? And so I wasn't watching the news. I was just watching you know, I was probably watching the Netflix or something because I don't take a lot of the local channels. So it starts popping up on Facebook, and I'm thinking, well, this can't be. This can't be.

Rob Spiwack (9:52): Then it turns out it is. And I remember at least one headline from incredible news sources, shots fired at the president.

Unknown Speaker (10:00): Yeah. Which it couldn't

Unknown Speaker (10:02): be further from the truth.

Mike O'Meara (10:03): Because that's what they do. And and and it's just we have criticized media and news in particular for so long because there is, to and to give old Wolf credit where credit is due, he was there. He did see what was going on, but it was more like I was scared. I was this. I was that as opposed to what we saw, what we saw, what we saw.

Mike O'Meara (10:29): The long and short of it, he was in an totally different area, not near the dais, not near the the president. And then

Unknown Speaker (10:36): we had video. The overflow room.

Unknown Speaker (10:39): I don't know. They couldn't fit him in there. It was surreal. It it's it's happened again.

Unknown Speaker (10:46): The fur you know what I had to do? Don't look

Mike O'Meara (10:49): for anything. I think the point I wanted to make, Rob, they don't look for anything other than the sensational. No. No. No.

Mike O'Meara (10:53): No. Really. And I am somebody, and I think you're the same way, maybe because of what we do. I just want hard information. That's right.

Mike O'Meara (11:01): Wanna know who, what, where, when, how. That's all. Not not, oh, look at the way they grabbed the, vice president and the speculation of, well, did they did they pull the vice president off first before president Trump for some reason?

Unknown Speaker (11:14): Who cares?

Mike O'Meara (11:15): It was not it was just such we're speculating on everything that doesn't matter.

Rob Spiwack (11:21): Yeah. They're they're making up tales and telling stories.

Mike O'Meara (11:23): And then within days, we get the information about, the shooter and all that.

Rob Spiwack (11:27): Yesterday, and this is on me as much as anybody, I had to Google the first shooting to remember what the result of it was. I mean, I remember Trump getting hit in the ear and him standing up, but I forgot that the assassin was taken down. Right. It's just it's these things are so of the moment sensationalized and then gone.

Mike O'Meara (11:48): Yeah. And and if it's not if it's not some quirky, weird, conspiracy laden, It's almost like nobody knows how to report the, the hard facts. Now the Yeah. The situation, at the, at the Hilton

Unknown Speaker (12:02): And I gotta ask, have you ever been to the correspondence dinner? Because you were a big deal in DCM for a while.

Mike O'Meara (12:07): Have been, I have been to I always got confused, believe it or not. I'm sorry. I apologize in advance. I always I always got two invitations a year, And for some reason, I couldn't get to them. One was the correspondence dinner, and one was the bartender's ball.

Unknown Speaker (12:28): I've been to the bartender's ball.

Mike O'Meara (12:29): Or as Jimmy says, zin zy zy. Whatever the hell it is. The the the first horrible. This is number one, and this should be number one in everybody's mind. You're talking about cabinet members.

Mike O'Meara (12:43): Talking about members of congress. You're talking about senate. You're talking about cabinet. You're talking about the president. You're talking about the vice president.

Mike O'Meara (12:50): And, essentially, you should have the most secure environment in the world. Yes. It should be the most of the, you know, the capital and the White House, it should be. And it wasn't. And this guy got through a perimeter and then, you know, went nuts.

Mike O'Meara (13:09): But, you know, you that will the the the shoe will drop whatever way it's going to drop. I was frustrated that we weren't getting any information, but I should be used to it by now. You should. When something goes down, it's panic. It's all of this.

Mike O'Meara (13:26): Why they didn't clear the room? I think there are many, many questions. And, of course, we'll have hearings where people can pontificate, after the fact, long after the the fact. It's, you know

Rob Spiwack (13:38): The one thing that stuck in my head about the evacuation, and I've heard it from all angles, is that this yearly event, this White House correspondent's dinner, or as it's lovingly known as the Oscars for Washington DC.

Mike O'Meara (13:51): Which which way back when this whole thing started, that's what it was. It was an excuse for the talking heads on TV, the wonks inside the beltway that were on the in media, the Sam Donaldsons, the Koki Roberts, to put on their finery and act like it was the Oscars, then it got bigger and bigger and bigger. I don't think it's as big as it used to be. Well, it's certainly not as big as it used to be. Right?

Rob Spiwack (14:16): No. Well, the what it was always described to me as a bad hotel meal in a ballroom that's way too crowded to a point that your elbows are hitting the person on either side of you. And it's just they pack that room, and that's a hard thing to secure. And if it is a hard thing to secure, maybe don't do it.

Mike O'Meara (14:35): Here it is. The event has grown. I remember when it was for news media. That's when it started. As it grew, it became more of a glitterati event where Sure.

Mike O'Meara (14:48): They would bring in, like, vanity fair, would bring in celebrities.

Rob Spiwack (14:52): They'd buy a table.

Mike O'Meara (14:53): And they would buy a table, and you would have different people come to the correspondence dinner. And it's just, and then then it was year after year of one comedian, another comedian. Some comedians would bomb. Some would not. Some would be controversial.

Rob Spiwack (15:09): It hasn't been good since they brought in Rich Little.

Unknown Speaker (15:14): Two three Canadian hunters.

Unknown Speaker (15:15): And that really was that really was

Mike O'Meara (15:18): a thing. Yeah. Was he in the that was in the w era. Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (15:21): Right? I think he was brought in because the previous comedian was, like, too outrageous. You know? He was outrageous like Mark Russell or something, and so they wanted to bring in someone safe.

Mike O'Meara (15:32): But they've also had edgy guys. They've had edgy guys that have insulted and, and all that. Look. The the the bottom line is so many questions about security that, maybe will, maybe will not be answered. And I think, you've got some tape.

Mike O'Meara (15:46): Right?

Rob Spiwack (15:47): And bringing up security, I'll go to this first. We'll watch these tapes out of order so it'll be a

Mike O'Meara (15:51): pulp fix. Yeah. Yeah. Hold off on the, Carolyn Levitt because I wanna see what she because people are already talking about what she said, which was very strange.

Rob Spiwack (15:59): Yeah. I mean but this is after the event transpired and after everything was under control. It was great to see the president do a press conference in a tuxedo.

Mike O'Meara (16:09): Mhmm.

Rob Spiwack (16:09): But this is one minute into his remarks, and this is his analysis of what went down. And

Speaker 8 (16:18): the vest did the job. I just spoke to the officer and he's doing great. He's great shape. Is has very high spirits and we told him we love him and respect him. And he's a very proud guy.

Speaker 8 (16:35): He's very proud of what he does, secret service agent. And we looked at all of the conditions that took place tonight. And I will say, you know, it's not a particularly secure building. And I didn't wanna say this, but this is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we're planning at the White House. It's actually a larger room, and it's a much more secure.

Speaker 8 (17:05): It's got it's drone proof. It's bulletproof glass. We need the ballroom. That's why secret service. That's why the military are demanding it.

Unknown Speaker (17:13): Well, that just drone proof is it made me laugh. I'm sorry.

Rob Spiwack (17:16): It was it. I'm joking. Is Mike, drone proof is usually, it has a roof. That's what drone proofing is about.

Mike O'Meara (17:23): It's just a case in two minutes to turn

Rob Spiwack (17:26): it into a talking point about his ballroom.

Mike O'Meara (17:30): His ballroom, which which a judge has temporarily put the kibosh on. Right? That they can't build that thing yet.

Rob Spiwack (17:36): Mike, it's gotta change after this.

Unknown Speaker (17:37): Of course.

Unknown Speaker (17:38): After this.

Mike O'Meara (17:39): Yeah. Yes. So I didn't see the clip that you're gonna play with, Carolyn Levitt, but apparently, lots of people are talking about this because she said this before the event.

Rob Spiwack (17:50): Yeah. On the red carpet, Mike, because when you have a press event, you need a red carpet. And, unfortunately, no Ryan Seacrest here. But What a shoot. By the way, if we build the, ballroom, we're gonna have the best red carpet in the world.

Mike O'Meara (18:04): Absolutely. The and it's and the red carpet will be drone drone proof.

Unknown Speaker (18:08): Drone proof. Yeah. Everyone will be issued a drone proof umbrella.

Unknown Speaker (18:12): Anyway Wow.

Unknown Speaker (18:13): Here is a a Caroline Lovett. Well, is he not?

Carolyn Levitt (18:15): He is ready to rumble. I will tell you, this speech tonight will be classic Donald j Trump. It'll be funny. It'll be entertaining. There will be some shots fired tonight in the room.

Carolyn Levitt (18:28): So everyone should tune in. It's gonna be

Rob Spiwack (18:31): Boy, she's never looked shinier.

Mike O'Meara (18:34): Yeah. Alright. So that's that's the way it was. Okay. That's see

Rob Spiwack (18:38): a little bit of the footage of when the shooting went down?

Unknown Speaker (18:41): Yeah. Absolutely.

Unknown Speaker (18:42): Okay. Here we go. This is gonna be in clips. This is when the gunshots are heard. He looks alert.

Unknown Speaker (19:06): The security is rushing Trump from the stage or carrying him.

Mike O'Meara (19:11): They're the SWAT guys. I believe those are your secret service, the SWAT division. JD being usher. Just a strange thing.

Unknown Speaker (19:19): It was.

Mike O'Meara (19:19): Yeah. When you saw that and that's the first video everybody saw. Right. Oh, there's Pete Hagsef. Look at that here.

Rob Spiwack (19:26): Huge commotion. Security forces. What they did to get RFK junior out of the room is they said, do you know there are vaccinated people in here?

Mike O'Meara (19:34): Go. Go. But looking at that, and that's what most people saw first, was the replays and replays and replays of them, clearing the dais. You would you would have thought there was somebody in the room. Right.

Unknown Speaker (19:47): But there wasn't, you

Rob Spiwack (19:48): know, so that's fine. A floor above. I mean, I'm no security expert, but once they have him down, lock people in the ballroom. Yeah. Because then they can't get out and hamper the operation that's going on.

Mike O'Meara (20:02): Isn't it amazing how we respond to things as Americans now? It immediately we are so cynical, and we are so completely trained to think of dishonesty first that when he mentions the ballroom Oh, cynical. Immediately says, oh, it was yeah. That's what they did. They shot a secret service guy and and manufactured the whole event so that he could get his no.

Rob Spiwack (20:31): Stop. This is not this is not manufactured like a a shot to the ear. This is a real one.

Unknown Speaker (20:38): And Now that's Rob Spiwack. Send your letters to him. I don't think that was fake either.

Unknown Speaker (20:43): I don't think it was fake either.

Mike O'Meara (20:44): But just that's the way our minds go. We don't think into we don't think normally.

Rob Spiwack (20:49): No. And then go to the media who once they realize that there was one injury and he's gonna be okay because thank god he was wearing a bulletproof vest, that's when they start thinking, did they get Vance out first? How did the order go down?

Mike O'Meara (21:02): And it and it completely right. The way this is the way it was explained briefly by, I I don't know who did it, but it was quick and it was easy to understand, and it made sense that you have two totally different details for the vice president and the president. Right. There are two teams that are responsible for each guy. So it was just simply a a situation.

Mike O'Meara (21:22): And by the way, when I saw a video of one of Trump's security detail, you realize what these guys are all about. Yeah. And you realize I mean, we where you do have to, tip the cap to the secret service. Don't care who is in charge of securing, every you know, the powers that be. Yeah.

Mike O'Meara (21:40): They'll be finger pointing. They'll be people that maybe, drop the ball. But as far as those guys that are on the detail, those brave guys that stand there was a guy no better example of somebody that's that jumped in front of the president on the dais was standing up, looking right, looking left, giving orders, and a big guy looked like a linebacker and standing there, and you realize that's what these guys are trained to do and what they do. And that is physical bravery that you can't you can't change any interpretation of that. There's a guy putting his ass on the line to protect the president of The United States, and I think that's what is truly amazing when you see the guys that do this for a living.

Rob Spiwack (22:21): The best of the best. And JD Vance is predicted by, two former American gladiators. That

Unknown Speaker (22:28): are dreamy. They are dreamy

Rob Spiwack (22:31): and Dreamy. Very, very, very effective. It's it

Unknown Speaker (22:36): is Taste is just

Unknown Speaker (22:38): a rule.

Unknown Speaker (22:38): You're a troll, and I don't like you being a troll. Stop it. Okay. Stop it. Anyway

Unknown Speaker (22:43): But tell

Unknown Speaker (22:43): you who really benefits from this. I gave him what just by mentioning his name. That's what I did.

Rob Spiwack (22:47): Tell you who really benefits from this is the Washington Hilton. Because now they can advertise as the home of the most presidential assassination attempts of any other hotel in the world.

Unknown Speaker (22:59): I would like to take this opportunity to say that the Margaritaville at sea Yes. Will be a secure boat. It will. Absolutely. It will be a very secure

Unknown Speaker (23:08): Are you bringing your own details?

Unknown Speaker (23:10): Yeah. No. I'm just packing. Oh, okay. Good.

Mike O'Meara (23:14): Good. Packing, what do they call it? A desert eagle.

Rob Spiwack (23:16): I'm so glad because I didn't wanna have to protect you again.

Mike O'Meara (23:20): Now I think we've pretty much covered that. Right? I mean, have we have we covered all that? Anything you anything up there that you're getting that we might, you know, we might not be getting?

Rob Spiwack (23:31): The, I think the most and I I was joking about the Washington Hilton, which, by the way, is lovely. Someone said that this is the biggest faux pas of the Secret Service since the Reagan attempt, and that was at the same hotel. So good luck, Washington Hilton.

Mike O'Meara (23:48): Well, no. I mean, I I don't think that, in a situation like that, one of the reporters for CNN was talking about the the lack of security, lack of questions that were asked, ability to get through. And, you know, he didn't out today goes as on.

Rob Spiwack (24:05): That the guy, the the assassin was checked into the hotel, which gave him the access to walk around the hotel because he was a guest.

Unknown Speaker (24:16): There that I didn't know that. I I did I did not know that.

Rob Spiwack (24:19): And that is I mean, it's clever if it works, but that should have been, like, the first thing they looked at. Who is not just coming in the building, but who is in the building? Who's checked in?

Unknown Speaker (24:32): I will tell you this that

Unknown Speaker (24:34): He was overwhelmingly radical according to the

Unknown Speaker (24:36): failed Let me you this. Do you feel the numbness that I feel?

Unknown Speaker (24:41): I feel

Mike O'Meara (24:42): so numb about everything nowadays. I just feel like what's gonna be what's the next event? What's the next tragedy? What's the next, you know, situation? Until this very

Rob Spiwack (24:53): weekend, I thought it was neuropathy, but, no, it is numbness.

Unknown Speaker (24:57): It's it's k it's just chaos. It's always chaos. It seems like

Rob Spiwack (25:01): it should be chaos. I should be so flipped out. You should be so flipped out. The world should be flipped out by a presidential assassination attempt, and we're not. No.

Rob Spiwack (25:12): We're not.

Mike O'Meara (25:14): I just, I I don't I don't get it. I I

Rob Spiwack (25:17): I don't know. Seems to me there was more urgency on the last one during in '24, but I could be wrong. I don't know.

Mike O'Meara (25:25): But I'm numb to everything. Much more of a dangerous event. I mean, it really was. But, yeah, we we get to we we've gotten so used to every other day. There is chaos, and everybody is, going nuts.

Mike O'Meara (25:42): And it's just and overall, the malaise is there. You know what I mean? The overall We

Unknown Speaker (25:48): are all

Mike O'Meara (25:49): so tired. Another. We're not nice to one another. My kids can't, you know, go fishing in their neighborhood. They can't ride an ebike through the neighborhood without literally being harassed by these old people down here.

Mike O'Meara (26:01): They really, really can't. That's where everybody's like I

Rob Spiwack (26:04): think we're all exhausted. And it's like, there's a saying that, you know, how did you handle this event? And then some very optimistic people will say, well, you're never given more than you can handle.

Unknown Speaker (26:17): Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (26:17): Well, I think we've all been given more than we can handle, and we're weary. We're feeling it, and it's depressing.

Unknown Speaker (26:24): It is. It's just it wears on you. It it really, really

Rob Spiwack (26:27): does. I I don't wanna say there's no end in sight, but I don't see it getting better before it gets worse again.

Unknown Speaker (26:33): It's sad. It's depressing. It's it's it makes me angry. It frustrates me. I heard you of cynics.

Mike O'Meara (26:40): We'll have a news story that's pretty interesting about, you know, why we might be acting the way we are. But, first, I wanna mention that, a little ray of sunshine over the weekend was that, our two boys, mister Soroka and mister Spiwack, actually got together. They are by the way, they have become very, very good pals. We really have. And, you know, I think that, they share one common thread, you know, which is working with me.

Mike O'Meara (27:08): And I'm sure that makes for many, many hours of, of laughter and joy, because who who wouldn't be filled with joy working having the the the pleasure of working with me.

Rob Spiwack (27:19): The when we met up, we met up at the Udvar Hazy Smithsonian where they have Did

Unknown Speaker (27:23): you meet at the museum? Is that where

Rob Spiwack (27:25): you met? Okay. We did. Alright. And it was not very attended that day.

Rob Spiwack (27:29): It was a Friday. And there was I think Josh and I were the only people 12 I mean, sorry, 12, but 75 in the entire museum.

Mike O'Meara (27:40): But a good opportunity for you two to steal away and whisper and chat.

Rob Spiwack (27:45): I've and we mostly talked I I know we were standing right in the shadow of the space shuttle, but mostly what we said is, isn't Mike great?

Unknown Speaker (27:54): Yeah. Sure.

Rob Spiwack (27:56): No. We actually I can't believe that I live twenty five minutes from this place, this hangar that has all these aircraft in it, and I've never been. Because I've been to the Smithsonian's downtown dozens of times. But to come into this building and immediately take a right hand turn and you're looking at the nose of the space shuttle, I believe it is the Discovery. It is extraordinary.

Rob Spiwack (28:22): Do you remember when the first space shuttle went up? I guess that was the Columbia, and they kept talking about how it's covered in tiles. That was the big thing about that if something gets damaged, you don't have to replace the whole part. You just replace the tiles on the on the ship. And it seemed sort of, you know, so what?

Rob Spiwack (28:40): Tiles. We were so close to the space shuttle. We could literally see the tiles. Yeah. I mean, I've

Mike O'Meara (28:46): been there. I've there with my kids couple of times.

Rob Spiwack (28:49): Amazed. The Enola Gay is just astounding. The whole thing is remarkable. And, Mike, they have watches.

Unknown Speaker (28:59): They sell watches in the kitchen.

Rob Spiwack (29:01): No. No. They have historic watches of aviators

Unknown Speaker (29:04): in this white case.

Rob Spiwack (29:05): Yeah. And I thought, Mike should be here for this.

Mike O'Meara (29:08): Well, I've been there. I've been there, and I've, and they've got an observation tower over there too Mhmm. I believe where you can go up and, you know, look at the at Dulles Airport or

Rob Spiwack (29:17): something like that. Dulles. Yeah. It's almost like one exit away.

Mike O'Meara (29:20): Let me address this with you, and and it'll be easier because, you know, you're less prickly than Josh is, so I'd rather do it with you. But it's the communication with my bride, which is interesting, which Okay. Carla you know, I I said, Carla, I'm gonna ask them about this because there does seem to be, an issue, with Carla and you and Josh. I I just, I feel it. So Carla on Saturday night pitches this influencer that's, that's an interesting guy that goes out and helps people that are on the streets.

Mike O'Meara (29:53): Fascinating guy. And, says, hey, Josh Robb. I have a lead for an interview. They will reach out. Whose info should I give them?

Mike O'Meara (30:01): And then she puts up a a little screenshot and a link of what this guy's all about and what what he does. Now, you know, with that, you would think that there would be, oh, thank you, Carla. That's, that's cool. You know, whatever. Mhmm.

Mike O'Meara (30:16): Looks like it might be some feedback might be might be, might be nice to get a little that sounds interesting. I I will budge it. So Rob responds right after that, after and she writes, hey, Josh, Rob, have a lead for an interview. They will reach out. Whose info should I give them?

Mike O'Meara (30:35): And then Rob responds, Josh is the point of contact for interviews.

Unknown Speaker (30:39): Which is true.

Mike O'Meara (30:40): And then but it's very it's very, like, cut and dry. Not hi, hello, thank you, whatever

Unknown Speaker (30:48): it's like. I mean, it depends on how it's it's it's received. It was not offered in

Unknown Speaker (30:52): that way. No. Wasn't

Unknown Speaker (30:53): offered that way.

Mike O'Meara (30:54): Carlos says, good to know. What info should I give? Email address, phone number, especially there's just no you know, it's just your your response is like, Kurt. Would that be the best way to describe it? Succinct.

Mike O'Meara (31:09): Then, you know, Carlos is good to know. Then Rob, writes for the first contact, it's always best for the guest to reach out to Josh, and then you give the the link. Yeah. And then, so that's another one. A little more information, which is nice.

Mike O'Meara (31:24): Then Carlos says, I'll send them, the info your Josh, I'll send them the your info tonight. I'm assuming there is no apostrophe in your email, because, Rob, when you put the email

Unknown Speaker (31:35): out Yeah. Because I was doing talk to text.

Mike O'Meara (31:37): So, please reach out to them and keep me in the loop. I'm here to, chat if you have questions. I hope things work out as he has 4,500,000 followers. How cool. Yeah.

Mike O'Meara (31:48): Josh's response? Mhmm. Yes. Dudes, fake it better. I don't know what's going on, but fake it better, please.

Mike O'Meara (32:05): My god. The woman now I mean, I look. It it just I don't know where this this all went south, but it's it's it's a little much. I don't know

Rob Spiwack (32:16): that it's gone south. I mean, if I was if if I come off as Kurt, it's only because time Well,

Mike O'Meara (32:22): you were I was I I stayed out of this, although I was following it. Right. And I

Rob Spiwack (32:27): I It's in our group chat.

Mike O'Meara (32:29): I refrained from putting my comment on, which would have been as follows to you. I would have wrote, what are you? His effing agent?

Unknown Speaker (32:39): I'm not his agent. No.

Mike O'Meara (32:42): This is, as you know, more of those two than you and me involved in this.

Rob Spiwack (32:48): Would that be accurate? Josh likes to do what Josh likes to do, and I think he likes

Unknown Speaker (32:53): to That's it.

Rob Spiwack (32:54): Yes. He likes to chase he likes to chase. He likes to tilt at his own windmill. And This is true. Yep.

Rob Spiwack (33:01): And you know what? I'm sure this this contact will bear out to be something interesting. I But because it didn't come from his pocket, maybe he wasn't as enthusiastic.

Mike O'Meara (33:10): Who knows? Hard to say. It's just Maybe he was sick already. She I would I can you understand me where I'm a little bit of, I certainly understand? I normally don't jump into these things, but this is one particular one where I'm like, okay.

Mike O'Meara (33:26): Well, are so but I but but I'll bring it up in the in the show because I don't You

Unknown Speaker (33:30): are so squarely in the middle of it. That's that's what's unfortunate.

Unknown Speaker (33:34): I am.

Rob Spiwack (33:34): Yeah. But, yeah, I can't answer for Josh. Right. Perhaps I should have been a little more flowery in my reply.

Mike O'Meara (33:40): No. It's just, you know, she gets she feels as though that she's, you know, she's tilting at Will Mills a little bit when she's doing this. So Well, also, I mean share that. It was kind of an interesting little sideline

Rob Spiwack (33:52): to do. Reaches out, and there are times that I reach out to her, you know, not on the show about copy or whatnot. Yes. I think we have a really good relationship, Carla.

Mike O'Meara (34:01): Think you do. And I well, I think there's no hesitation. And, I I think I often say, you know, talk to talk to Josh. Josh, talk to Carla. I just would like them to, communicate better.

Unknown Speaker (34:12): That's all. And, also, thank you, Mike.

Mike O'Meara (34:14): Desire. And I'm I'm so comfortable with it that you know the rules. When I bring it to this forum, it's because I don't wanna deal with it all.

Unknown Speaker (34:21): Real life.

Unknown Speaker (34:21): Yeah. I don't wanna deal

Unknown Speaker (34:23): with it. If I were to call you after the show today, you would not pick up.

Mike O'Meara (34:27): No. I don't care to discuss it. I like to get my, my laundry taken care of. I've got enough going on in the world right now because it's, you know, I had I'll simply suggest

Rob Spiwack (34:39): I'll I'll say I've known Carla a lot longer than Josh has too. Right. And he's never really spent much time with her except for the stretch when he set up your studio, I guess.

Mike O'Meara (34:50): I get it. And we all Rob, don't we all wanna be, acknowledged, and we all wanna be loved? Don't we all just pray

Unknown Speaker (34:57): why we're in this business.

Mike O'Meara (34:58): That's, that's what we want. As far as I will tell you this, I didn't wanna ever do this again, but I did it. Little league tournament over the weekend. Great lead. They left a pitcher in.

Mike O'Meara (35:14): Nobody understood why. To the ball game. All the parents were upset. I was upset. I asked the coach what he was thinking.

Mike O'Meara (35:23): I shouldn't have. I don't care if we moved on. Then I just put on a thread. This is my big mistake. Public thread.

Mike O'Meara (35:31): You know, within the within the group, I said, not sure what we're doing. I'm confused. That was that's how benign it was. That's how benign it was. I'll I'll I'll I'll look at it.

Unknown Speaker (35:41): Hold on.

Unknown Speaker (35:41): Yeah. I mean, did you say

Mike O'Meara (35:42): I can hear what

Rob Spiwack (35:43): I spell out why you weren't sure you were doing, or did you just put you see

Unknown Speaker (35:48): Alright. Let me see. Because You

Rob Spiwack (35:49): would a great vague post would be not sure what we're doing.

Mike O'Meara (35:54): Any ideas? Here's my Okay. Alright. I am relatively new to all of this. I'm trying to figure out after today what the mission of blank at this level is.

Unknown Speaker (36:03): We are confused. Any clarity would be appreciated. That's pretty benign. Right? Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (36:07): Pretty benign. And also, you know what?

Mike O'Meara (36:09): It still was on the public thread, and then it started an s storm where the, you know, the supervisor one guy said, call me, and then I said I called, and then it was just a thing. And then it went away as quickly as it started, but I just

Rob Spiwack (36:22): And, Mike, any helpful listeners pie jumping in?

Mike O'Meara (36:26): I don't have the chip, as you know, to just just let it go. I would this is a situation where I would love to be less of a confrontational individual. Mhmm. I would love to. I I I In the back of your mind, though.

Mike O'Meara (36:48): I fight it. I fight it. I was like, it doesn't really matter. It doesn't really matter. Please, Mike, get your act together.

Mike O'Meara (36:57): Don't say anything. Shut up.

Rob Spiwack (37:01): In the back of your mind

Mike O'Meara (37:02): as you're typing myself with that.

Rob Spiwack (37:04): I really do. Did you post it on your laptop or from your phone? Phone. Okay. So it was It was fresh in your mind.

Rob Spiwack (37:11): Yes. So even one quarter of 1% of your brain, did you think about this could be trouble? No. Oh, okay. So you were red hot.

Unknown Speaker (37:21): You were red hot.

Unknown Speaker (37:22): I was. And a couple of parents were some parents. It doesn't matter. Did you get any

Unknown Speaker (37:28): support in under it? Yeah. Yeah. From one from one

Mike O'Meara (37:31): from one other parent. Okay. Single parent. But that I too. I don't blame them.

Mike O'Meara (37:38): I wouldn't get into the fray. I wouldn't deal with it. And you didn't even resulted in? There's a meeting. There's a meeting.

Unknown Speaker (37:44): Hey. Everyone wants you now.

Mike O'Meara (37:46): Everyone wants you. Meeting on on Saturday with the, with the the coaches.

Unknown Speaker (37:51): You better bring donuts because people I'm not there.

Unknown Speaker (37:53): I'm not going there. I already talked to the the main I talked to the main Pooh Bob. We had a very nice conversation.

Unknown Speaker (37:59): You should send a video statement. But I see

Unknown Speaker (38:01): I just I didn't wanna be I can't I know.

Rob Spiwack (38:04): I can't. I know you can't. I mean,

Mike O'Meara (38:05): I'm I I just god, it's ridiculous. I have railed against parents that take it too seriously. Yeah. And I I and and now it's just You're not

Unknown Speaker (38:17): you're not at fault for taking

Mike O'Meara (38:18): it seriously. That may sound like a benign post. Right? And it was kind of a benign, but at the same time, just shut up, Mike. Just this is me talking to me.

Mike O'Meara (38:27): That because you know what? Ultimately, this is not for anybody else. This is for me. I will feel better if I shut the f up. I will be better if I just let the let the the moment pass

Unknown Speaker (38:39): and move on. Style.

Unknown Speaker (38:41): Yeah. But I sometimes my style, look, rubs me the wrong way.

Rob Spiwack (38:45): When you said that it was a benign post, if a post is ostensibly benign like that, don't bother with it.

Unknown Speaker (38:52): Yes. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (38:53): Let it go.

Mike O'Meara (38:54): If it's something important knew what I was talking about.

Rob Spiwack (38:58): Yeah. Well, you hit you fired something benign, and it hit in the, dead center

Mike O'Meara (39:01): of a lot of a sudden, I get everybody getting involved.

Rob Spiwack (39:05): And you didn't answer before because I know we were all

Mike O'Meara (39:07): Apparently, there the the this whole thing, it's it's like, got there some issues here, issues there, not just, this particular day yesterday, but I don't know. I still think that, you know, when he's when he's 18, this is not gonna be relevant at all.

Unknown Speaker (39:24): You know? Because you'll be planning your service.

Mike O'Meara (39:28): Yeah. For me more than most. Right? I'm not gonna be around. That's it.

Unknown Speaker (39:32): Oh my god. We're running out of time.

Unknown Speaker (39:33): Sorry about one that. Final question.

Unknown Speaker (39:35): Yes.

Rob Spiwack (39:35): Did any listeners jump in and stir it up? No. Because it when I say public,

Unknown Speaker (39:41): I mean, it was on the thread for

Unknown Speaker (39:43): all thread.

Unknown Speaker (39:44): Okay. All the bits.

Unknown Speaker (39:45): Thought it was on your wall. Well, that would you know what? No. Shows No. That shows logic.

Rob Spiwack (39:50): That's good. You weren't red hot because you didn't put it out for the world to see.

Unknown Speaker (39:54): But it's bothered me into today, not because of anything that happened that anybody else did.

Rob Spiwack (39:59): Go, man. Happy or just

Mike O'Meara (40:00): I did. Shut your mouth. Shut your mouth.

Unknown Speaker (40:03): If you take away a lesson, then then then it was bad. By the

Mike O'Meara (40:06): way, I don't give a damn how legit it is. It might very well be legit. I would say if you said was it was it a legit, feeling of frustration? 100% or was still Mike? I'm talking to Mike.

Unknown Speaker (40:19): Shut up.

Unknown Speaker (40:19): Okay. Shut up. Okay. That's it.

Rob Spiwack (40:22): Who felt more frustrated at the time? You or JD Vance?

Unknown Speaker (40:26): They'd whisked me away yesterday. Anyway, we have to take a break. When we come back, we'll have, tidbits, ladies and gentlemen. I love

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Rob Spiwack (49:43): What he was doing would help.

Mike O'Meara (49:46): Look. You never know what somebody's going through in their own brain and, you know, what causes somebody to become a monster and, somebody to go full rad. But I think we have all experienced, Rob, especially on this show, being someone who's on the left, people that are can have dialogue and people that are just filled and consumed with pure hatred. It can happen on both sides.

Rob Spiwack (50:15): And the extremist of that is that you know, that somewhere in his mind, he thought there's so peep many people in the world right now that I'm gonna be a hero.

Unknown Speaker (50:24): You know? It's I don't know what he thinks. I don't know whether not that's that point.

Rob Spiwack (50:28): Some of it, but, I mean, you're right. You can't say it because you don't know it. I look forward to seeing more about this guy because it was just totally it was so totally unexpected.

Mike O'Meara (50:38): End of the day, we can only, you know, say thanks that there was nobody that was killed and, and, you know, wishes for the secret service wounded. The member of the secret service that was wounded for a speedy recovery. Yeah. Just, insane. We we live in chaos.

Unknown Speaker (50:54): We really do. Chaos.

Unknown Speaker (50:55): Don't you wish we had that ballroom? You. Throne proof.

Mike O'Meara (50:59): He'll appreciate that you put that in there. According to researchers at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and the University of Arizona, in twenty o five, this goes back a little far, but I think it's relevant to today, we spoke about 16,632 words every day in 2005.

Unknown Speaker (51:20): Okay.

Mike O'Meara (51:21): But by 2019, that number had fallen to 11,900 words. That is a 20%, 28% decrease. For some reason, the study didn't have data more recent than that, but the thinking is that even fewer words are spoken now post pandemic.

Rob Spiwack (51:38): I can explain it if you want. It's that we went from a four hour show to a one hour show.

Unknown Speaker (51:43): I was I thought you were gonna bring your wife into it for some particular reason. You know?

Unknown Speaker (51:47): Would you like to speak to her?

Unknown Speaker (51:49): That would,

Rob Spiwack (51:51): lift the tone. Holding up her end. She's an outlier.

Mike O'Meara (51:54): She is indeed. Obviously, the biggest reason for this shift is technology, particularly text messaging. Some experts are concerned about this trend because talking requires you to pay attention to what the other person is saying, formulate a response, and control your physical reaction.

Rob Spiwack (52:12): Or, of course, just be like Jay Leno

Unknown Speaker (52:15): Yes. And move on

Unknown Speaker (52:16): to your next question without listening.

Mike O'Meara (52:17): By the way, you formulate the response, your physical reaction, about all that takes about two hundred milliseconds to do that.

Unknown Speaker (52:24): It's a

Mike O'Meara (52:24): lot slower for me. These interpersonal skills are important to learn, develop, and master. Each year, people 25 lost an average of 451 words a day because they got their noses and those devices. That's what that's all about.

Rob Spiwack (52:39): Screen time, buster.

Mike O'Meara (52:40): Those older than 25 lost 314 words a day. That could be because older adults are more used to talking in certain situations and using less technology. It's true. I mean, drive my 12 year old around if he's got a phone in his hand and try to have a conversation. You're not gonna be able to.

Unknown Speaker (52:56): No. You can't.

Mike O'Meara (52:56): Because that's it. Some experts say our shortened attention spans might also make it harder to hold a conversation, and that could eat into itself if you consider the attention spans could be decreasing because we're having fewer conversations, and I do believe that is the dumbing of America.

Unknown Speaker (53:14): I really believe

Unknown Speaker (53:15): in that.

Rob Spiwack (53:15): And, you know, we talked, last week about being engaged on this show, and I think that you and I are both totally engaged at all times.

Mike O'Meara (53:21): Mhmm.

Rob Spiwack (53:22): It's hard to have a conversation, even the smallest of small talk, with someone who is not engaged in it. So that distraction of the phone or anything like that is going to decrease it. Mhmm. And I don't like it. I, you know, I still call people on the phone.

Rob Spiwack (53:39): Not you. Right. But I still do call people on the phone because I think it's a a more valid way to communicate.

Unknown Speaker (53:44): And I I I love talking on the phone.

Rob Spiwack (53:47): I know you do. And now what you open your phones every night at about 8PM. Just start call him.

Unknown Speaker (53:52): Yeah. Make the circuit.

Rob Spiwack (53:53): 1888 ask Mike.

Mike O'Meara (53:57): Look. We've talked about a lot of big news stories. I didn't even get to the red sox blowing out their whole coaching staff. This is a real news story. Great.

Mike O'Meara (54:05): A class action lawsuit alleges that Trader Joe's sold customers coffee with significantly less caffeine than expected. Man, start calling him Trader Joe with a t. This is just one product, Trader Joe's branded French roast low acid whole bean coffee. Hey. I'm low acid.

Mike O'Meara (54:27): But I'm whole bean. It apparently has half the caffeine of typical coffee blends, and it doesn't mention anything about reduced caffeine on the container. They do have other decaf coffee. Those are marked. The complaint says, quote, it is so common that it is now cliche that coffee drinkers depend on the caffeine contained therein to provide them with the energy they need to get through the day, and the amount of caffeine does affect a consumer's purchasing decision.

Rob Spiwack (54:57): It does. It's like, you know, when you go to a a brewery. This was some years ago for me, and they put the percentages up.

Unknown Speaker (55:03): Yes.

Rob Spiwack (55:03): I'm faster to try a six point o beer than a 2.5 beer.

Unknown Speaker (55:07): It's so hard.

Rob Spiwack (55:08): And I think that's about caffeine, isn't it?

Mike O'Meara (55:10): Yes. It is. Yeah. The suit is seeking unspecified damages, and they also want the misleading product to be removed from shelves. Trader Joe's hasn't commented.

Mike O'Meara (55:20): They're hiding in the the How's how's this? Bunker.

Rob Spiwack (55:23): Yeah. I have never been to a Trader Joe's. I have. And?

Mike O'Meara (55:29): Too much frozen product. I see. In my humble opinion. Too much too much frozen. Everything's frozen.

Unknown Speaker (55:35): It's fancy. It's But they have other stuff. You want my old man take on it?

Unknown Speaker (55:40): I do.

Unknown Speaker (55:40): It's fancy, frozen hippie food. That's what it is.

Unknown Speaker (55:45): But don't they got cookies?

Unknown Speaker (55:46): It's a I don't care. It's fancy frozen hippie food.

Unknown Speaker (55:51): You know?

Unknown Speaker (55:51): Do you shop, sir?

Mike O'Meara (55:52): I don't want I don't want my soy sauce lima beans frozen.

Unknown Speaker (55:57): Don't you have your wife Harriet make them from scratch?

Mike O'Meara (56:00): Yeah. I there's just if you look. You either like it or you don't. A lot of people swear by it. Think it's fantastic.

Mike O'Meara (56:06): Not I.

Rob Spiwack (56:07): Not a lot of people know it's owned by Joe Ortinger.

Mike O'Meara (56:10): We talked about the new movie about Michael Jackson's life. It made $97,000,000 over the weekend giving Michael the biggest opening of all time for a biopic. How about that? He's still got it. The previous record was held by Oppenheimer, which opened with 82,400,000 during the summer of, Barbenheimer back in July '23.

Mike O'Meara (56:31): In darker a family that had previously defended Michael during a 2010 interview on Oprah has suddenly reversed course and laid their own abuse allegations against him.

Unknown Speaker (56:43): How convenient. This weekend they did that?

Mike O'Meara (56:45): Yeah. Think they want some attention? Back in 2010, while Dominic and Connie Cascio were, doing press tours the year after

Unknown Speaker (56:54): Michael's the press tour. This is so good.

Mike O'Meara (56:57): I think it's not Casio. I think it's Cascio. Cascio. My bad. They were doing press tours.

Mike O'Meara (57:03): They describe themselves as Michael's second family, but now they claim that he abused four of their five kids. Well, what would that be? The kids getting older and just,

Rob Spiwack (57:13): I mean Well, no. There was there was a kid in the middle that was really ugly.

Mike O'Meara (57:18): They're supposedly worked out a secret deal with the Jacksons to the tune of oh, here it is. This is why they'd supposedly worked out a secret deal with the Jacksons to the tune of $16,000,000 in hush money years ago. But the New York Times says they stopped getting paid last year, so now they've gone public and filed a lawsuit. What a nice family.

Unknown Speaker (57:38): I wanna I wanna arrange a $60,000,000 hush money, but shush is a secret. Wow.

Unknown Speaker (57:44): It's a secret. Would you not still be curious to see what they have to say? Right?

Rob Spiwack (57:48): I would. I'd like to know what they think about the shooting.

Mike O'Meara (57:52): Journalism. You've probably seen that cover of the W Magazine with Rihanna holding her daughter Rocky. Well Yep. Jonah Hill was interviewed about his favorite many, memory of Riri, since they shared this, This Is The End, that movie together. Yeah.

Mike O'Meara (58:11): He says after they did the movie, he ran into her at a and by the way, is it Riri or Riri?

Unknown Speaker (58:17): Riri, I think.

Unknown Speaker (58:18): Riri. Right? For Riri. Riri.

Unknown Speaker (58:20): Yeah. Yeah.

Mike O'Meara (58:20): He says they, he ran into her at a bar on her birthday. Riri had a joint honor that she shared with Jonah and his friends, but it wasn't just any ordinary weed.

Unknown Speaker (58:31): Oh god.

Mike O'Meara (58:32): What would you do? He says, quote, Rihanna has that make your friends crap their pants weed. Jonas said one of his friends got so stoned that she pooped her pants.

Unknown Speaker (58:49): Well, that's nice.

Unknown Speaker (58:50): That's high.

Rob Spiwack (58:51): Now was Jonas complaining or bragging?

Mike O'Meara (58:53): I'm not quite sure. Have you had enough, gummies where you would, poop your pants at all?

Rob Spiwack (58:58): Mike, there is no harmful side effect that I have seen from the Soul Out of Office gummies. They all they do is they make me

Mike O'Meara (59:04): feel great. And I can say this. I'm Mike O'Meara, and I don't need weed to help me poop my pants.

Rob Spiwack (59:09): That's right. And if you wanna talk to Mike about that tonight at 8PM eastern, one eight eight eight Ask Mike.

Mike O'Meara (59:15): When I take all my calls. Thank you. Finally, today, people have different trust levels in machines. Some people in the office won't take their eyes off the coffee machine the entire time it's brewing. Other people are fine just passing out in the driver's seat of a car.

Mike O'Meara (59:31): A 37 year old woman in Florida named Kimberly Brown

Unknown Speaker (59:35): Kim Brown.

Mike O'Meara (59:36): Was found in a Tesla parked in the middle lane of a highway. Kimberly had apparently gotten hammered at twice the legal limit and then hopped into her Tesla with Autopilot on, thinking that it would get her home safely on its own. We've discussed this with Josh with his Tesla all the time. Press a button and maybe it drives you home. Let me see what happened here.

Mike O'Meara (59:58): It didn't happen in this case. There are monitors in self driving cars like this that ensure you're alert and following along. We've talked about that. We have.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:07): Got you

Unknown Speaker (1:00:08): on the road.

Rob Spiwack (1:00:09): You earned that by, you know, safe driving. You you there's like a a a scale system.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:14): So she may

Unknown Speaker (1:00:14): have it out.

Mike O'Meara (1:00:15): She was not responding. So the vehicle shut itself down right in the middle of the road. Now wouldn't you think that if it was a smart vehicle, it would maybe pull off to at least the side, the shoulder. Right?

Unknown Speaker (1:00:27): Yeah. I would

Mike O'Meara (1:00:27): think so. Detectives are still investigating the incident, determining where Kimberly was coming from and why she decided to get behind the wheel. It's pretty obvious that she's looking at DUI charges at the very least. In other Tesla news, it has now been proven that a Tesla cannot cure a respiratory infection being suffered by our executive producer,

Rob Spiwack (1:00:49): mister Subaru. Get the inhaler option. That's the problem.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:53): Did he have any of the grip when you were, you know, together at the No.

Rob Spiwack (1:00:57): But I last I saw him last, like, at 04:00 on Saturday. So it's been a while. So he coulda it coulda been maybe he had it, and it hadn't manifested

Unknown Speaker (1:01:06): himself yet. Just too much weekend.

Rob Spiwack (1:01:09): Yeah. I said it was a very thrilling weekend for you, Josh.

Mike O'Meara (1:01:12): Too much weekend. We'll take a break. When we come back, we have more thrills and more fun. I wanna talk about one of our all time favorite asses, David Lee Roth.

Unknown Speaker (1:01:21): You're gonna love this.

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Mike O'Meara (1:03:03): But, we are simpatico when it comes to his analysis on my beloved Boston Red Sox. I think the problem was not necessarily with the coaching staff or the manager, but the way the team's constructed. And I agree with, Portnoy when he talks about John Henry, the owner of the Red Sox, not showing up for the press conference after this, just getting out of town. He is detached. He is aloof, and, he's a pain in the ass.

Unknown Speaker (1:03:26): Is he

Rob Spiwack (1:03:27): is does John Henry have any fans in Boston? I mean, is he liked by anybody?

Unknown Speaker (1:03:31): He's he's definitely not.

Unknown Speaker (1:03:33): He used to be.

Mike O'Meara (1:03:34): Right? Well, I think they the the organization was very popular because they brought money in, and they brought money into Family Park, and they brought money into the Red Sox, and they, you know, got a championship, and they were engaged. And there seems to be less engagement over the last few years, and that frustrates people. And it really does because Boston is a baseball town, first and foremost. That's what they love.

Mike O'Meara (1:03:54): And, it's frustrating. We will see what happens. But, yeah, Alex Cora and a bunch of his coaches, got blown out, over the weekend, and, I blame Josh.

Unknown Speaker (1:04:04): I do too.

Mike O'Meara (1:04:04): We'll talk with, Josh about that tomorrow.

Rob Spiwack (1:04:06): I understand most of the people that were fired got sick over the weekend too.

Unknown Speaker (1:04:11): Respiratory infection.

Unknown Speaker (1:04:13): Yep. Couldn't make the dinner.

Mike O'Meara (1:04:14): Breathe. Check by the way, check on him after the show. I don't like

Rob Spiwack (1:04:17): getting I did. I I I what I did is I I hit him with a corsage pin, he flinched, so that's good.

Mike O'Meara (1:04:22): Good. He can feel. David Leroth, you've told me you told me earlier this morning this is something that I will enjoy.

Unknown Speaker (1:04:29): You will.

Mike O'Meara (1:04:29): Yeah. He is one of the no noted asses. We found that out way back when when he was touring with Sammy Hagar, and we went backstage to drink a tequila shot with Sammy. And the way it was laid out, they had separate entrances. They actually had them separated by plywood.

Unknown Speaker (1:04:52): Yeah. Not even pipe and drape. It was like black plywood, like a hallway.

Mike O'Meara (1:04:56): So they didn't because they were touring together, but they were performing separately, and they didn't wanna have a the the and that's when we kind of be became aware of the fact that David Lee Roth was a little prickly. You know?

Rob Spiwack (1:05:08): Well, prickly is not the word. He is self important to a not a fan. Amazing, and I am not. And, you know, I should be. I'm at the perfect age.

Rob Spiwack (1:05:17): I was 13 when 1984 came out. Loved their hit singles. Mhmm. Loved David Lee Roth back in the day when he had long hair and he was cool and he didn't look like an old neighbor of yours. Not yours of anybody.

Unknown Speaker (1:05:29): He just looked like an old neighbor.

Mike O'Meara (1:05:31): Where I live again. He didn't say mine.

Rob Spiwack (1:05:32): So he says he finally feels rich. Why does David Lee Roth feel rich? Because he sold his publishing catalog, but he won't reveal for how much. The AP posted some sound bites. Let's look at David Lee Roth, not looking much like a rock and roller anymore.

Speaker 10 (1:05:50): I think we made that audience feel expensive.

Unknown Speaker (1:05:54): Yep.

Speaker 10 (1:05:55): Okay? And if I do it right, all the women walk out of here feeling eminently desirable

Unknown Speaker (1:06:02): Yes.

Unknown Speaker (1:06:02): Irregardless of structure or format. Right. Right. All the guys feel like the truck could hit him and hope I didn't hurt your truck. I

Rob Spiwack (1:06:14): think he's fooling everybody with that haircut.

Unknown Speaker (1:06:17): What do you mean?

Rob Spiwack (1:06:18): That he's so bald.

Unknown Speaker (1:06:19): Oh my god.

Rob Spiwack (1:06:21): Fake think hair? And I think a lot of it is combed forward. Also, Mike I forgot one of the better things. This is probably four or five years ago when he and a video crew for some reason busted into, like, a party in a hotel room, and no one in the hotel room knew who he was.

Mike O'Meara (1:06:38): Do you know what I just realized? I I think because it's a darker color, some of the, listeners might not have been paying a day. But if you're watching a video, I have my collar like old man for half Oh, is

Unknown Speaker (1:06:48): it twisted under?

Mike O'Meara (1:06:49): I I did. I had a anyway, speaking of old men. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (1:06:53): What's going saying what is his point? I mean You know, I've watched it five times. I don't know. Think I

Unknown Speaker (1:06:58): he's time. I wanna just look at

Rob Spiwack (1:07:00): saying he put a well, I'm gonna play you the second clip too, but let's see this. I'm sorry.

Unknown Speaker (1:07:05): Go ahead. Do it right. All the women walk out of here feeling eminently desirable.

Unknown Speaker (1:07:11): Eminently.

Rob Spiwack (1:07:11): Oh, listen how he says desirable. There's almost no consonants in it.

Unknown Speaker (1:07:16): You're feeling eminently desirable Yes. Irregardless of structure or format. Right. Right. All the guys feel like the truck could hit him.

Unknown Speaker (1:07:25): The idiot from the Associated Press says, right.

Unknown Speaker (1:07:29): Yeah. He doesn't know what he's saying either. Yeah. How about that? I mean, yeah.

Unknown Speaker (1:07:33): Hope I didn't hurt your truck. Okay.

Unknown Speaker (1:07:38): So on to the sale of kind

Unknown Speaker (1:07:40): of catalogs. Confusing. I'm not sure what he but, you know, he's a he's a a word salad guy. I always ask him. Right.

Rob Spiwack (1:07:45): Yeah. And, you know, so many people have sold their catalogs for millions and millions and millions of dollars. Mhmm.

Unknown Speaker (1:07:52): This is Eastern European

Unknown Speaker (1:07:55): Oh, now he's talking about the chords.

Unknown Speaker (1:07:57): They're not rock and roll.

Unknown Speaker (1:07:59): About venue.

Speaker 10 (1:08:00): Closer to opera. They're closer to legitimate theater. And Eddie and I wrote all the songs. I wrote everything I sang. Every note that I sang, every word, all the titles, I stacked the harmonies.

Speaker 10 (1:08:13): That was my job. If you're singing it, Roth was bringing it. Eddie and I were both trained by forearm from Eastern European teachers, very famous nonsmilers, that if you got it wrong, they'd smash the music off the table. Okay? For me, it was saxophone.

Speaker 10 (1:08:30): For Eddie, it was piano.

Unknown Speaker (1:08:33): Now Okay. Now here's the thought.

Mike O'Meara (1:08:35): Now see, that intrigues me right there. Because whether you like the guy or not Right. You you can't argue with the music and the musicianship of Van Halen. You can't. So That's right.

Mike O'Meara (1:08:46): When I hear that, as much as I can't get by the the whole self serving, self important David Lee Roth, I am fascinated. Were they truly in the same, group of, like, lessons? Did they still I mean, I don't know what he Thought

Unknown Speaker (1:09:04): I thought about

Mike O'Meara (1:09:05): Sally guy. I'd love to know who taught Eddie how to play piano. You know?

Rob Spiwack (1:09:10): I I I thought about this, and it occurs to me when he takes credit for writing all the words and the stacking and the sound of Van Halen, then why didn't he have any hit records per se after he left Van Halen?

Unknown Speaker (1:09:23): He had one that I can figure to Jigalow?

Rob Spiwack (1:09:26): And and, well, that's not I pass by that.

Unknown Speaker (1:09:28): Not his, though. He didn't write that. He didn't write that.

Rob Spiwack (1:09:30): And then he wrote just like paradise was a hit. Mhmm. But, you know, Van Halen hit after hit after hit after hit. Right. And he's become a punch line.

Rob Spiwack (1:09:38): Also, Mike, I realized in this one, he talks just a little bit like Wayne Newton. Listen to him one more

Speaker 10 (1:09:46): block chords. They're not rock and roll. They're closer to opera. They're closer to legitimate theater. And Eddie and I wrote all the songs.

Unknown Speaker (1:09:57): At the Sands.

Unknown Speaker (1:09:58): At the Sands, we

Unknown Speaker (1:09:59): wrote all

Unknown Speaker (1:09:59): the songs, which I did. If you if you bring it, Roth wrote it. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you so very much.

Rob Spiwack (1:10:06): Will say, don't hit my truck.

Mike O'Meara (1:10:08): By the way, he was interviewed in Rob's backyard.

Unknown Speaker (1:10:11): Because I was gonna say it looks like something in a Lowe's.

Unknown Speaker (1:10:15): Let's see. Ian teachers.

Unknown Speaker (1:10:16): Very

Rob Spiwack (1:10:16): thin. Okay. I'm sorry. Now let's move to

Speaker 10 (1:10:18): where he talks into it. K? You gotta rip it's you we all say, you know, I'll try anything once. Unusual for here. I'll try anything nine or 12 times because it's usually around number 10 or 11

Unknown Speaker (1:10:33): Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (1:10:33): That the shoe starts to fit right or the elbow's looking better. Yes. Curveball starts dropping a little better.

Unknown Speaker (1:10:40): Yes. Yeah. He's horrifying to look at.

Speaker 10 (1:10:43): And then the repetition. Like a monster. That Spartan repetition, six to one, twenty to one. But the only way that you can really trigger that without turning yourself into a you know, this is a job like anything else. No.

Unknown Speaker (1:10:57): It isn't. I've had other jobs. This is not a career. We tell our parents that this is a career to shut them up.

Unknown Speaker (1:11:06): At this ends. Okay. Here's the

Unknown Speaker (1:11:10): weird thing about me and David Lee Roth. I'm listening to him, and he he'll throw me a tidbit that's interesting. That that, like But

Unknown Speaker (1:11:18): then he won't expand

Unknown Speaker (1:11:19): on it. That career comment is kinda cool for people in show business. You know? I that it's I feel the same way when you say career. You know?

Unknown Speaker (1:11:29): I I career is a doctor. A career is a lawyer. When you talk about people in the in show business, it's kind of a different entity. It's like when you refer to acting as a craft.

Unknown Speaker (1:11:42): Yeah. Yeah. I I hate that.

Mike O'Meara (1:11:44): It's self important language, and I never believed in self important language. I I think it's smug, and I think it's, arrogant when people, do that. You know? Well, Mike, clowns. We're circles, and we try to make people laugh a couple of times a day.

Mike O'Meara (1:11:57): What we do.

Rob Spiwack (1:11:58): Right? If you're singing it, TMOS is bringing it. But but but also, he taught he won't reveal how much he sold his publishing for. Now just some statistics to, entertain you. Bruce Springsteen sold his publishing for $500,000,000.

Unknown Speaker (1:12:14): Mhmm.

Rob Spiwack (1:12:14): Bob Dylan for 300,000,000.

Unknown Speaker (1:12:16): Okay.

Rob Spiwack (1:12:16): Sting for 300,000,000. If he was anywhere close to spitting distance from the neighborhood of that money

Unknown Speaker (1:12:23): Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (1:12:24): He'd be screaming how much he got.

Unknown Speaker (1:12:26): Right.

Unknown Speaker (1:12:26): But he won't say how much he got. He won't.

Mike O'Meara (1:12:29): And, look. I So

Rob Spiwack (1:12:30): I'm guessing it's the same deal that they gave those that family from Michael Jackson.

Mike O'Meara (1:12:35): And I was, and I know I disagree. I think the majority I think the majority of people are Van Halen people. I'm a Van Hagar guy. Yeah. I like Van Halen when they were fronted by Sammy Hagar, and I don't know if I'm in the majority of that because the biggest hits were, you know, oh, stop it.

Unknown Speaker (1:12:52): Shut up.

Rob Spiwack (1:12:52): Is that Sammy Hagar calling to say thank you?

Unknown Speaker (1:12:54): Sorry. That's me not

Rob Spiwack (1:12:55): being I, you know, I saw I saw Van Hagar, and they were good. But when I listened back to the records

Unknown Speaker (1:13:04): I like the keyboards, on Van Hagar. That's why I like the on that. Yeah. Like Eddie. I liked Eddie on the keyboards.

Unknown Speaker (1:13:12): I like that.

Rob Spiwack (1:13:12): But I just think if if you listen back to the albums, you're gonna you're gonna wanna be you're gonna wanna listen to Van Halen, especially 1984. What a stunning record. So but, anyway, good for you for selling all of your rights for $80.

Mike O'Meara (1:13:24): Alright. When we come back, I want to, get your presence open, and I want you to talk about the Chad Dukes, thing that you guys went to over over the weekend and ask you, you know, the only question I really have. I'll ask that when we, when we come back on the, Michael Murray show. Take it away, please. Friends, a quick warning.

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Unknown Speaker (1:14:41): I don't know what this is. I have to play it because I don't know why it's on my sound board.

Unknown Speaker (1:14:44): Your sound Whatever. Let me

Unknown Speaker (1:14:45): play it.

Unknown Speaker (1:14:45): Hold on. Now that's it.

Unknown Speaker (1:14:48): Oh, it's the pirate song.

Unknown Speaker (1:14:49): Yes. I don't know why I put that on my soundboard. I

Unknown Speaker (1:14:52): know why. Because you listen to it a lot.

Unknown Speaker (1:14:56): If you're hearing it, O'Mara wrote

Unknown Speaker (1:14:59): it. Yeah. He's bringing it.

Mike O'Meara (1:15:01): I by the way, I will take no credit for writing silly little lyrics to AI written songs that is done by

Unknown Speaker (1:15:08): a machine. I heard you were gonna say I heard you were gonna sell your publishing.

Mike O'Meara (1:15:13): No. Anyone can rhyme. Period. End of story. Listen.

Rob Spiwack (1:15:19): It I stacked the harmonies, and it's AI. It's great.

Mike O'Meara (1:15:24): Now I did I do not know what happened over the weekend. I unlike some other cast members on this show over the years, I do not have spies that so you are my you are my only connection to this. Alright. So I want I if and I'm desperate. You know me.

Mike O'Meara (1:15:41): I love I love to not get happy. So, if you I I hope that there's something. Did you went to what did you go to? It was another show for Chad.

Rob Spiwack (1:15:52): Right? Chad was launching a new beer at Fairwinds Brewery, which is near Lorton.

Unknown Speaker (1:15:57): Okay. What's I think it was. A live show there?

Rob Spiwack (1:16:00): There was. There was, like, not a meet and greet upfront, just sort of, like, you know, some cocktail action and people drinking beer, then a live show. They they opened another room where the live show was. There was a stage and chairs. And then I left after that, but it was my understanding that they were gonna

Mike O'Meara (1:16:15): You left after the live show?

Rob Spiwack (1:16:17): Yeah. That they were gonna because, Mike, there's not a lot for me to do at a brewery anymore.

Mike O'Meara (1:16:23): Guess you kinda wanna extricate yourself from that situation when

Rob Spiwack (1:16:26): you're there. And, I mean, I understand that the show regulars were gonna meet and greet and mingle after the show. I did get a chance to talk to Chad, of course. Chad's wife is great. I'd met her before at their store.

Rob Spiwack (1:16:38): GOAT was there. William Stillwell, my good buddy, sat next to him. Mhmm. And just former intern Matt Dotson from many years ago, ten years kid. Great kid.

Unknown Speaker (1:16:49): Really good there. 30. I remember him. Oh my god. Talking to

Unknown Speaker (1:16:52): him. Mhmm.

Rob Spiwack (1:16:53): Yeah. It it was crazy. And just so many nice people to to run into and and and talk to.

Unknown Speaker (1:16:59): It was Did anybody anybody say hi to me?

Rob Spiwack (1:17:04): Lot of people, Mike. I know this will disappoint you. Almost everyone that I talked to in the in the preshow, like, cocktail area, they all said, have listened to you and Mike forever. Still love the show. You guys are the greatest.

Unknown Speaker (1:17:19): Nothing to piss

Unknown Speaker (1:17:20): me off?

Unknown Speaker (1:17:21): No. It's not gonna piss you off.

Unknown Speaker (1:17:23): Nothing was said publicly to

Rob Spiwack (1:17:24): The only thing that when he did the show, he introduced me from the stage, and I was in the audience, and I waved. And he said, that's Rob Spiwag, the star of the Rob Spiwag show featuring Michael Barrow.

Unknown Speaker (1:17:38): That's funny.

Unknown Speaker (1:17:39): And Can't get mad at that.

Mike O'Meara (1:17:40): Damn it.

Rob Spiwack (1:17:41): No. And I'll reveal this. The big gag was that he's got on his show, I think, a 100 people because half of the live show, I kept leaning over to goat saying,

Unknown Speaker (1:17:52): what's the deal with this guy? What's what's this? Well, it's an entourage.

Unknown Speaker (1:17:57): Right? It is a very

Mike O'Meara (1:17:59): big entourage. Entourage. That's the that's part of the charm.

Rob Spiwack (1:18:02): And I know a couple people that are part of his show, and I got to say hi to them. But the big thing was they all took an IQ test to

Mike O'Meara (1:18:10): see That's right. And Josh took one. Right?

Rob Spiwack (1:18:13): Josh, I would have bet my house, especially after watching the show. I would have bet my house that Josh was gonna have the top score. He did not. He came in third.

Unknown Speaker (1:18:27): Third of how many?

Rob Spiwack (1:18:29): I think 12 or 16. Okay. That's okay. Knows it. Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (1:18:33): But I and, also, I mean, I do think there might have been a couple people in double digits, and that's fine. Mhmm. But, Josh, the

Mike O'Meara (1:18:42): top ones remember I know you don't know everybody associated with that show, but I you know, always emphasizing the negative. Do you happen to know who brought up the rear of the, IQ? There there's always the biggest dummy.

Rob Spiwack (1:18:53): Yeah. I think it was one of the guys that sits on stage and smiles a lot. I forgive me for not knowing your name.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:01): Alright. Let's let's open your presence there.

Rob Spiwack (1:19:04): Yeah. This Mike. First one I wanna show is this is comes from a great list stages,

Unknown Speaker (1:19:09): smiles a lot.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:10): That's He smiled a lot. That's wonderful.

Rob Spiwack (1:19:13): Yeah. I got a beautiful sympathy card from a listener named Philip Layton, and he's given us lots of gifts in the past. A lot of carved wood stuff. He made for Josh a pod the podcaster's warehouse sign that is really cool.

Mike O'Meara (1:19:27): Mhmm.

Rob Spiwack (1:19:27): But he remembered about my dad and wrote a beautiful sympathy card. And, you know, that's nice. But the gesture that matters is when he found out that Carrie canceled my queue in Amazon, He bought me the new Elvis epic soundtrack on vinyl. Oh, that's the

Mike O'Meara (1:19:44): one that she, vetoed. Right?

Unknown Speaker (1:19:46): Yeah. I had ordered it in

Unknown Speaker (1:19:48): That's a great album cover.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:49): Can I see that again?

Mike O'Meara (1:19:50): That's That is real. That's the boy. I mean, now I know that you you get excited when you see something like that.

Rob Spiwack (1:19:56): It's great. It's it's gonna be awesome. I haven't even listened to it yet because sometimes in my life, I like to have something to look forward to.

Mike O'Meara (1:20:03): Just to you ever have the desire to keep that in the shrink-wrap and not touch it to I have

Rob Spiwack (1:20:10): done that with a couple Elvis releases, but, ultimately, I know the stuff would Carrie's shirt won't touch her back when I die before she sells all my stuff. But God.

Unknown Speaker (1:20:21): That's so

Unknown Speaker (1:20:22): dark. It's true. It's true. So very dark. Yes.

Rob Spiwack (1:20:26): Which is why and you know what? I don't think I've announced this yet. The, executor of my will is Robert because he's the fairest guy I know. And so Wow.

Mike O'Meara (1:20:35): That's intro how things going up there?

Rob Spiwack (1:20:39): Swell. She was house sitting for much of the weekend.

Unknown Speaker (1:20:41): Oh, 10 weekend. Wow. Alright. So is that is that big win present?

Rob Spiwack (1:20:48): No. There's one more. But I do keep some stuff in plastic. But as a rule, if I buy an album, I listen to it. That's what they're for.

Rob Spiwack (1:20:55): You know, there's no pleasure in just looking at it.

Unknown Speaker (1:20:57): Mhmm. I get it.

Rob Spiwack (1:20:58): Mike, you know what this is. That's an arrow. Fun drawer. Yeah. But the problem with this little air horn

Unknown Speaker (1:21:05): fun drawer.

Rob Spiwack (1:21:06): Yeah. You we've been through it with all the sound effects in it. Now it's a shelf, but it used to be a drawer. It makes the good noise, but you hear it's running out of juice. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (1:21:18): It sounds like Rudolph's nose?

Unknown Speaker (1:21:19): Yeah. It's like the Rudolph nose. Absolute

Rob Spiwack (1:21:23): Okay. But, anyway, this is not gonna last forever. But Philip Layton says, you know, you need something better. So he gave me super terrific Tmu air horn that works with a plunger.

Mike O'Meara (1:21:35): Oh, so that doesn't require any gas?

Rob Spiwack (1:21:38): No. I don't know if this will carry as loud as it is in real life because there are some limiters on my microphone. Goddamn it. Stop it. But check this out.

Rob Spiwack (1:21:49): And this is just me hitting this this is just me hitting this plunger at the bottom. It's It's It is so loud. You

Unknown Speaker (1:22:03): need you need you need the toxic gas. You need the toxic gas.

Unknown Speaker (1:22:07): But anyway I

Mike O'Meara (1:22:08): mean, don't you think really just having the trigger mechanism? That's just a little bit too much effort.

Rob Spiwack (1:22:12): I don't know. I I I think I like it because it's just and it's forever, Mike. It's forever.

Unknown Speaker (1:22:20): I get it. I totally get it. I understand, Bruce.

Unknown Speaker (1:22:23): Broke, but I will put it back together.

Unknown Speaker (1:22:25): Did it really break?

Unknown Speaker (1:22:25): Yeah. The piece fell off the bottom. I wonder if I can blow and make a No. Nope. You can't.

Unknown Speaker (1:22:33): No. Too much air.

Unknown Speaker (1:22:34): But Phil Phil gave you all that stuff?

Rob Spiwack (1:22:36): Phil did, and he remembered he remembered Josh as well. And he's just historically a great listener.

Mike O'Meara (1:22:42): That's wonderful. Thank you, Phil. We appreciate that.

Rob Spiwack (1:22:45): And I should say that in addition to people talking about their love for the show, they also, to a person, all offered me sympathy, which which felt nice. It was the first time I'd been out among a crowd of listeners of any sort since my dad passed.

Unknown Speaker (1:22:59): Good for you.

Unknown Speaker (1:23:00): And it was great. It was nice.

Unknown Speaker (1:23:01): It was very, very nice.

Mike O'Meara (1:23:02): You know? And and, really, to everybody up there, we share a lot of listeners with Chad Dukes. And I one of these days, wanna make it to that that dry goods store. I think I've been in there maybe. I maybe I don't think I've ever been in there.

Unknown Speaker (1:23:15): I wanna

Rob Spiwack (1:23:16): see It's it's pretty cool. That's it's two store faces down from the sucker that bought my mom silver.

Mike O'Meara (1:23:22): What's that, what's that soda pop he sells there that you like? Is it Oh,

Rob Spiwack (1:23:26): I I love Is it Cheerwine? Cheerwine. From and I think Cheerwine is a North Carolina product.

Mike O'Meara (1:23:31): That's a that's a cherry flavored soda pop. Right?

Rob Spiwack (1:23:34): Sort of. Yeah. I mean, you know, cherry, when it's not a real cherry, doesn't taste like a cherry. Mhmm. And it's but it's just got this distinctive flavor.

Rob Spiwack (1:23:43): And, also, it's one of the best diet sodas out there. If you have to have a sugarless soda, that's pretty good. So, yeah, that's that was fun. And, maybe when Josh comes back, we can tell you more about Udvar Hazy. Okay.

Unknown Speaker (1:23:57): I I think I got during that discussion, I'm sorry to be distracted. I got a little league call.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:02): Oh, do you wanna take it?

Unknown Speaker (1:24:04): No. No. You know, we're doing a show. We gotta do a show. You got some, beautiful video

Unknown Speaker (1:24:08): coming beautiful video.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:09): But Play the thing and then play

Unknown Speaker (1:24:11): the thing.

Mike O'Meara (1:24:11): No. I'll just I'm I'm I'm I'm conflicted. I shouldn't care about any of that. I didn't do anything. Well, maybe.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:19): But, anyway, I you know?

Rob Spiwack (1:24:20): Also, Mike, the owner of the brewery loves you and would love to ever if he wanted to if he ever wanted to host an event out there, he said he'd love to do it. Give him a plug. Him a plug. Yeah. Fairwinds Brewery.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:31): Fairwinds Brewery. Thank you.

Rob Spiwack (1:24:33): Thank you very much. Mike, the lead singer of the pie tasters, great band. Great. I had no idea. Came up, hugged me.

Rob Spiwack (1:24:41): It's been a listener for, like, twenty years.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:43): Pie tasters rock.

Rob Spiwack (1:24:44): Oh my god. They're a great band, and it was so cool to just sit. And, you know, we talked about the Elvis movie. It was so great to talk to a real rock and roller about the Elvis movie.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:52): So Very cool.

Rob Spiwack (1:24:53): Hi to the pie tasters, and, thanks for everybody. And, yeah, beautiful video coming up as soon as you give me the go ahead.

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Unknown Speaker (1:26:25): Hit the music. Hey. I like that. Some beautiful video. Cherry time.

Rob Spiwack (1:26:30): Are you ever embarrassed about some of the things that pop up on your YouTube feed as a suggested thing? Every day.

Mike O'Meara (1:26:38): Yeah. Yeah. Like, I'll I'll be sitting there and, especially, like, when I'm checking Facebook. Sure. And, they they have a lot of those Facebook shorts, and some of them I, you know, missus O'Meara will come out from another room, and I'll

Unknown Speaker (1:26:50): Yeah. A lot of dancing. It's great. Yes. Mhmm.

Rob Spiwack (1:26:54): I watch a lot. This will shock you, I'm sure. I watch a lot of YouTube videos about amusement parks. I think they're fun. I like to learn about amusement parks and the business.

Mike O'Meara (1:27:02): Because you do, it continuously feeds you what you what you crave.

Rob Spiwack (1:27:06): Exactly. But sometimes it'll go just a little astray from amusement parks, and it recommended a wax museum. And I because that's another amusement issue. And I looked at I said, hey. This is about the Washington DC madame Tussauds.

Rob Spiwack (1:27:20): It's gone now. Mhmm. But I'd spent the night there. I've been there a couple times. It was right opposite the Warner Theater downtown.

Rob Spiwack (1:27:26): But this guy is doing a tour of it. I have never seen this influencer before, Mike, and I think you'll enjoy his take on the wax museum. His name is Bupinder, and, we'll watch a couple clips of him at the wax museum now.

Speaker 11 (1:27:39): During my trip to US capital Washington DC, I had the wonderful opportunity to visit Madam Tusaad Museum. I had never been to Madam Tusaad before. I was really excited to see what it would be like. It was uniquely interactive and immersive experience that allows visitors to take a journey Are you creeped out? History.

Unknown Speaker (1:28:01): What's that? Are you creeped

Mike O'Meara (1:28:03): out by that? I can see how you get creeped out by wax museum.

Rob Spiwack (1:28:06): A little bit, but I'm enjoying the narration so

Unknown Speaker (1:28:08): much, Mike. Miley's good. I like Miley.

Speaker 11 (1:28:10): Miley is separated into six man exhibits. The president gallery, the civil rights room, behind the scenes, the glamour room, the sports zone, and finally, the media room.

Rob Spiwack (1:28:25): Mike, they have Fascinating. Every US president represented there, and Bupinder shows all of them. One more clip from him because he really had a great time in our state capitol. You've been

Unknown Speaker (1:28:36): there. You slept there.

Rob Spiwack (1:28:37): Our nation's capital, and this man, he got it all done. Right. Oh, there's Lincoln. Yeah. Washington.

Unknown Speaker (1:28:43): Lots of opportunities for cool pictures, like sitting in the Oval Office or next to the Lincoln taking in a show at Fox Theater.

Unknown Speaker (1:28:54): What?

Unknown Speaker (1:28:56): I'm just so sorry it's gone.

Unknown Speaker (1:29:00): Take a tour. Take a tour or so. Enjoy yourself. Have fun.

Unknown Speaker (1:29:04): Take a picture or so. Mike, are you familiar in North Carolina with Pineville?

Mike O'Meara (1:29:12): Never had the pleasure. Pineville sounds like a lovely, lovely bucolic little, hamlet.

Rob Spiwack (1:29:17): That's giving it all the best of it. And like any good town, they've got a great Chinese restaurant, the China Queen Ah. Which is a buffet styled restaurant.

Mike O'Meara (1:29:25): Oh, okay. Alright.

Rob Spiwack (1:29:27): And, maybe not go there after you see this.

Unknown Speaker (1:29:31): Alright. Go ahead.

Rob Spiwack (1:29:32): But also 10 points for the outfit on the anchorman.

Speaker 12 (1:29:35): Local Chinese restaurant is at the center of a viral social media post making ways across the state. After police found evidence of roadkill being stored in the restaurant's freezer. Oh. Rob Lapro has been looking into this. Rob, what have you found so far?

Speaker 12 (1:29:49): God.

Rob Spiwack (1:29:49): The anchor's arms are moving less than the wax figures. Roadkill? Roadkill. Now this guy this guy that we're about to talk to, he's a little too cool about

Unknown Speaker (1:30:00): it. Wow.

Unknown Speaker (1:30:00): Well, Jay, one thing is for sure. Both the State Departments of Health and Wildlife and Fisheries are looking into this matter. Now I stopped by the restaurant, the China Queen buffet, to speak with the owner, but they couldn't go on cam with me. However, I was able to get a sweep of the dining room, and it was largely empty.

Speaker 13 (1:30:18): It was a busy lunch hour at the business plaza over in Pineville as people head inside their local stores for groceries. The China Queen buffet next had door to a polar opposite experience. And it all started with this social media post calling out a worker at the buffet for reportedly skinning roadkill in the back alley of the restaurant. Pineville police caught wind of that incident and began investigating. Officers say they believe the animal in question was a deer found on the side of the road.

Speaker 13 (1:30:47): My god. Was found inside the restaurant's freezer. But that's not all.

Unknown Speaker (1:30:52): This guy. Officials more than just deer meat may have made it into this restaurant.

Unknown Speaker (1:30:56): Jeez. What are the dangers involved in meat found on in roadkill, essentially?

Unknown Speaker (1:31:02): Well, the the main thing is

Unknown Speaker (1:31:04): Yeah. Okay. Okay. Mike, I I'll the next time you're in Pineville, just make sure you try the deer rangoon.

Unknown Speaker (1:31:12): Oh my god. Delicious. Wanna do a deeper dive on that tomorrow. I wanna find out about that road kill.

Rob Spiwack (1:31:22): I would love to have that story covered by boopinder now that he's done the wax music.

Unknown Speaker (1:31:26): You're right about that reporter. Too cool.

Unknown Speaker (1:31:28): Are you kidding

Unknown Speaker (1:31:30): me? Yeah. You

Unknown Speaker (1:31:31): saw a

Unknown Speaker (1:31:31): animal being skinned

Unknown Speaker (1:31:33): out in the alley. And, dude, never ever put your hand in your pocket. Oh my god. Don't do it.

Unknown Speaker (1:31:39): Thank you, Rob. That's it. We gotta get out of here. Josh Sharoga under the weather. We hope you feel better, and he'll be back with us tomorrow.

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