#3641: Ridonkulous

Unknown Speaker (0:00): Late night tonight.

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Unknown Speaker (0:05): Mike O'Mara, Radio Entertainment. You can listen to the Mike O'Mara show at mikeo'marashow.com. Well, what have we here?

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Unknown Speaker (0:16): And what excitement we have today.

Mike O'Mara (0:18): It's the Mike O'Mara show with Mike O'Mara and Rob Spiwack. Now here's Mike.

Rob Spiwack (0:27): You know, sometimes when I'm producing those, I, I really, really don't even know what they're gonna sound like the next day, and then it's fun. That's a a fun experience.

Unknown Speaker (0:36): I remember being in fourth grade and saying, wish someday I could be in the movie Tron. It was And

Rob Spiwack (0:41): now I am. It was exciting. I to the Mike Gomery show. Yeah. I hope you enjoy those.

Unknown Speaker (0:47): That was

Rob Spiwack (0:48): terrific. Fun for for Josh takes, yeah, takes what I give him and turns it into a thing.

Unknown Speaker (0:54): And it's

Unknown Speaker (0:54): a it's a lot of fun.

Josh (0:56): The music was so different and inspired me to just shake up all the graphics for a little bit.

Unknown Speaker (1:00): It's good

Unknown Speaker (1:01): to shake the You two are

Speaker 0 (1:02): like Rogers and Hammerstein. Right.

Unknown Speaker (1:04): And then and then, of course, the the the show opens with a the same tape you played for thirty five years.

Unknown Speaker (1:11): Yep. Thirty five

Unknown Speaker (1:12): years. There

Unknown Speaker (1:13): you go.

Unknown Speaker (1:13): And yet you still smile at it.

Unknown Speaker (1:15): I I do smile, but maybe you could come up with something new.

Unknown Speaker (1:18): Nah.

Unknown Speaker (1:23): Welcome to the Michael Barry Show, everybody. It's, great to see every one of you in the chat group. We have a new member. I love to see that green new member thing with That's neat. Jeffrey Sailor who is joining us here.

Rob Spiwack (1:36): Great to have him along. I

Unknown Speaker (1:38): bet he misses I bet he misses the pirate open.

Unknown Speaker (1:42): You like the pirate open better than that.

Unknown Speaker (1:44): But his name is no. His name is Sailor.

Rob Spiwack (1:47): Oh, Sailor. I get it. I I understand that. I wanna start today with my own absurd paranoia that that sometimes I am so glad that I keep it in check. Mhmm.

Rob Spiwack (2:05): And I think that working in the broadcast business probably didn't help, and it's probably something that I I had when I was very, very young, because a lot of this crap comes from our childhood. Yeah. And it's silly. But so How much of it do

Speaker 0 (2:22): you think is based in your childhood, which was ostensibly very happy, and your years in broadcast radio, which had its ups and downs?

Rob Spiwack (2:30): I think because I was the youngest, and I always say I didn't have seven siblings, but I had seven family members that were all close in age. Yeah. My cousins and my sister. And I think if if I if I was really to think about it, it would probably be from that era. That that, you know, now that I'm old, I can look back and say, that's kind of what happened.

Rob Spiwack (2:56): But it's weird because it made me toughened me up for the the business I was in. And so but it never changes. The the paranoia is always there. And in the in the broadcast world, you've got a situation where much like professional sports, you can be doing your your job at a high level and doing very well, and you never know when things are gonna change, and you're gonna be out on your ass. Right.

Rob Spiwack (3:22): And even though Don and I had a twenty year run, there were always moments of paranoia even within the show. Mhmm. And so but but I think because I felt that early on, I can't really blame that on my career. I have to go back to when I was younger than that. And then when you throw in the latter part of my career, which was the podcast Mhmm.

Rob Spiwack (3:50): And you have people that are coming and going on the podcast up until a couple of years ago. It's still the same. It doesn't change. That's just the the way it goes. So nothing has happened in my career to change the I will tell you there are moments when I know I'm being ridiculous, like right now, when I when I'm gonna tell you what I'm paranoid about right now.

Speaker 0 (4:14): Are you ridonculous? That's well, you know, I've heard that now. It's a ridonculous. It's beyond ridiculous.

Unknown Speaker (4:22): Ridonculous. Have you heard that one, Josh?

Josh (4:24): I have not heard that one.

Speaker 0 (4:25): Ridonculous. Maybe we can start it right here.

Unknown Speaker (4:28): Where did that come from?

Speaker 0 (4:29): I've heard it. I've heard it on TV. I've seen it on, things, like, the memes and whatnot. You know, the kids. They

Unknown Speaker (4:36): love it.

Unknown Speaker (4:36): They love rock and

Unknown Speaker (4:37): roll. You liked it, so you shared it because it, it it rolls off the tongue. Ridonculous.

Unknown Speaker (4:42): Ridonculous. Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (4:43): Is that is that kind of a combination of, ridiculous and being a donkey at the same time?

Speaker 0 (4:47): Would think so. Yeah. I haven't I haven't gone into the Merriam Webster to check the derivation.

Josh (4:51): Spending your mornings with the junkies?

Rob Spiwack (4:54): I have not been like Ridonculous would be something that the Yeah. Are now they're old too.

Unknown Speaker (4:59): They're old too. Isn't that a little too creative for them?

Rob Spiwack (5:03): They yeah. How about their career compared to ours, pal?

Speaker 0 (5:06): Hey. Listen, pal. I know. Some people are lucky. I I maybe they sold their soul.

Unknown Speaker (5:11): Don't know. Maybe they maybe they just played the game right. Maybe that's exactly what it is. Maybe they were, you know, nice paranoid? Nicer to people.

Speaker 0 (5:19): Do you think they're paranoid?

Rob Spiwack (5:21): Yeah. I've heard their show where they get that way Yeah. You know, with each other. But I think at the core, maybe not. I don't know.

Rob Spiwack (5:27): Those guys are friends for a very, very long time. Yes. And they transferred it into a living, and then a very good living for all those guys.

Unknown Speaker (5:36): I look at jumping really hard.

Unknown Speaker (5:37): Into this is true. That's true. Hi, Larch. Anyway, that's very tall. So here here it is.

Rob Spiwack (5:47): I mentioned the other day my kid got I got a phone call after the show. Guy says my kid's on an all star team. Right. And then he said, I'm gonna put out a little notice about it'll be on the the website that we all use for communication, this particular website, and I'll let you know, that that's how I'll be communicating from this point forward. I don't think about it.

Rob Spiwack (6:08): There's no discussion of when or or how or where or when it's gonna happen or anything, but I'm just I just get the call. And then this is what I turn it into. Because I was upset after the last tournament that he played in, and I I I was angry, and I posted something that was not really angry. I read it on the show. It was not super ridiculously angry, but I did I did talk to the the coach afterwards.

Rob Spiwack (6:38): And so I I but I'm not happy that I did. I even with being legit, feeling like it was a legitimate gripe. Mhmm. I should have shut up. I should have shut up online.

Unknown Speaker (6:47): I should have shut up at the game. Just move on. They're twelve. Yes. Go ahead.

Josh (6:50): I've I've told you how parents are taken into account.

Rob Spiwack (6:54): And Parent behavior. Yeah. And and so yeah. But it's not bad behavior in in as far as causing disruption. Yes.

Unknown Speaker (7:04): You know? Yes. Mean, it's an a

Josh (7:05): There's still a grade on that under parents. You know, you grade the swing, the contact, throwing the ball, the parents.

Unknown Speaker (7:15): Yeah. What would you say

Speaker 0 (7:16): the percentage of the parent is?

Unknown Speaker (7:17): I would say it can't be as

Rob Spiwack (7:18): high place. How about how does the does engagement get a grade?

Unknown Speaker (7:23): It does.

Rob Spiwack (7:23): Like like participation and being there and supporting.

Unknown Speaker (7:27): And and a lot of times for the parents, it's really a pass fail.

Unknown Speaker (7:31): Ah, okay. So it's on the right side of your report card.

Unknown Speaker (7:35): Yeah. I'd get a fail. I'd definitely get

Speaker 0 (7:36): a fail. I think that your enthusiasm is good, though, and your attendance is great. So, I mean, that stuff that's real tangible. That's on the table.

Josh (7:44): No. No. Fail is taking the kids out early. Constant negativity, which might be an issue that the that the team on the field can hear.

Rob Spiwack (7:53): It's not. It's not. It's not a I that that I can't. I have to be

Josh (7:57): honest, I you once coached the kid that I would always pull off the mound as soon as his dad would show up because his dad couldn't handle it.

Unknown Speaker (8:07): Meaning he'd be yelling at him?

Josh (8:08): Yeah. The dad would be yelling from behind home plate and then the kid would break down on the field, and he was a great pitcher except for when his dad showed up.

Unknown Speaker (8:16): Wow. And you

Speaker 0 (8:17): know what that also says? It says the dad was late. Yes. So that's not good either.

Unknown Speaker (8:23): No. No. So here it is.

Unknown Speaker (8:24): All fails.

Unknown Speaker (8:25): I'll tell you everything I don't know. I don't know when the, you know, the the announcement's gonna be made publicly. Mhmm. That's one. I'll give myself a little dink because there there's a list of these.

Rob Spiwack (8:35): I don't know that. Alright? I don't I don't know who's on the roster. Mhmm. I don't know who the assistants are.

Rob Spiwack (8:43): I only spoke to one coach. All this, I don't know. I don't know I know that the games, I think, were posted as as far as when it's gonna start, so I know that. So that's that I give them I give myself a buzz for that. No.

Rob Spiwack (8:59): I don't need that. Play the buzz, Mike. Go ahead. All of these things, don't know. In my mind, this is what I create.

Rob Spiwack (9:06): Alright. Yesterday, I said I sent a a text message that says I wrote I'll I'll read it because it's another one.

Unknown Speaker (9:15): Phone. Who it is?

Rob Spiwack (9:16): It's benign, and I I like to make sure that I'm doing the

Speaker 0 (9:22): You know, Josh thing here. Three times three benign. I was I was once asked to define benign in a class, and that's what I said.

Rob Spiwack (9:30): Hey, coach. Do you know when the full roster, for all stars is coming out? Michael wants to know, how many friends he has on the team.

Unknown Speaker (9:38): That's very nice.

Unknown Speaker (9:39): I saw him.

Speaker 0 (9:40): Mike, that's beyond benign. That's that's engaged right there.

Rob Spiwack (9:44): Okay. But at the same time, I'm saying to myself, is this too pushy to be doing it? And then he says he writes me back, it will be posted tonight. And then I say thanks. And then it it doesn't get posted, and suddenly I I I

Josh (9:58): I see it in game changer.

Unknown Speaker (10:01): What's that?

Josh (10:02): I see it in game changer.

Unknown Speaker (10:03): You do? You're lying.

Unknown Speaker (10:05): Shut up. Don't do that. Why would he have access? Because he's feeling better now, and he's being an ass.

Speaker 0 (10:11): Yeah. He reached out to make that hurtful. So are you thinking my initial thought, and I'm as paranoid as you, I essentially grew up as the youngest in the family too. I know the feelings. Does it even cross your mind that somehow it's been posted, but you're excluded from it?

Speaker 0 (10:27): Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. And it

Rob Spiwack (10:29): can't that can't be the case.

Speaker 0 (10:31): Yeah. But it still enters your mind right away. What am I doing wrong? How did

Unknown Speaker (10:35): I screw this up? Yeah. It's ridiculous. It's Ridiculous. Well, if No.

Unknown Speaker (10:40): By the way, that was Adam Carolla. Team. He invented that word on I love

Unknown Speaker (10:45): don't believe that.

Rob Spiwack (10:45): Well, that's what Matthew Matthew Kiki

Unknown Speaker (10:49): I'll look it up.

Unknown Speaker (10:51): Kiki. You know, whatever it is. I don't know what it is.

Unknown Speaker (10:53): Maybe it's time to bring it back.

Unknown Speaker (10:55): I don't know.

Unknown Speaker (10:56): I don't either.

Unknown Speaker (10:57): But I think did I did did was there you know, has there been commiseration? Right. And they said, yeah. That guy's a that guy's kind of a a hothead. He's kind of a troubled

Speaker 0 (11:08): Did you think that a coach might have called an assistant coach who may have even called a parent and said, what do you think of this guy?

Unknown Speaker (11:13): Yeah. Maybe we should cut him out.

Speaker 0 (11:15): Yeah. Yeah. And that's what's going on behind the scenes in the Little League politics.

Unknown Speaker (11:20): What do know?

Josh (11:21): Yeah. Right. I selected him because he's a good ball player, but then he had sent this text. I don't know.

Unknown Speaker (11:26): Wait. Wait. Are you thinking so you guys think I'm being ridiculous with this? Yeah.

Speaker 0 (11:30): You're being ridiculous. You're overthinking it. And you know why I think? Because it boils down to this. And when I get in a situation like this, I think this way.

Speaker 0 (11:37): They don't care about me that much. I'm not I'm not enough to change the status. You know? They I'm one in a sea of a million, and they're not going to go to the effort to exclude me from a status because I'm and, also, you didn't do anything.

Rob Spiwack (11:51): I've had a lot of drama around this this game this game of ours. And, you know, I get it now. I get why the, you know, the temperature, run runs so hot. And, you know, it's here's the thing. This is the problem.

Rob Spiwack (12:07): It's silly. I need to grow up. I'm 66 years old. It's too important. I'm putting too much import on it.

Unknown Speaker (12:14): I doubt it.

Unknown Speaker (12:14): Really am.

Speaker 0 (12:15): I doubt it. Because you know what? It's your import is laced placed on the value of your son. It means the world to your son, so it should mean the world to you. Alright.

Speaker 0 (12:23): It becomes absolutely important, but don't beat yourself up because you think you're being too assertive when you're not. You just ask a question. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (12:32): Okay. Alright. We'll see.

Unknown Speaker (12:33): You're fine.

Unknown Speaker (12:33): I'll see.

Unknown Speaker (12:34): And you said thanks.

Unknown Speaker (12:35): Still checking.

Unknown Speaker (12:36): Yeah. We Redonculus

Unknown Speaker (12:38): first showed up. I said thanks.

Unknown Speaker (12:40): Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Good.

Unknown Speaker (12:41): Yes. Good. That's good. Yes. Redonkulous

Josh (12:44): first showed up in the book, The BFG by Ronald Dahl.

Unknown Speaker (12:47): Rod Dahl. Dahl. Whatever. Really? He wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Josh (12:53): That's okay. Appeared in some paper in 1815.

Unknown Speaker (12:57): That's where I saw

Unknown Speaker (12:59): it. That's probably where Donkey. Got it from.

Unknown Speaker (13:01): What a donkey. Donkey. Donkey.

Rob Spiwack (13:04): Hello. Donkey. Anyway, you're getting props for the look of the show, Josh.

Unknown Speaker (13:10): So that's good. Great.

Rob Spiwack (13:11): Welcome to all our chatters. We we involve you in the show. Right up at the front, because Josh took the time to do it, I want to share the voice mails that we have. Now will you explain how that works on the show if somebody wants to leave us one, please?

Josh (13:26): Yes. If you go to our new website, t m o s podcast dot com, there is a little microphone in the bottom right hand corner that you can click to leave us a voice mail. Also, lots of great you can go there and leave us reviews on the show, and we've gotten a lot of great reviews.

Unknown Speaker (13:43): Okay. And since this

Unknown Speaker (13:44): is to see.

Speaker 0 (13:45): This is sort of the new version of the mailbag, so I'd like to pose this as the theme again because we haven't played it in a long

Unknown Speaker (13:50): time. You hold on. You only get to play it if it's something new.

Unknown Speaker (13:54): Okay.

Unknown Speaker (13:56): Alright. So we've sourced some new music. You you're capable.

Speaker 0 (14:03): I found out how many? Five minutes ago that we were doing this?

Unknown Speaker (14:07): No. I'm just talking about anything.

Unknown Speaker (14:09): Like,

Unknown Speaker (14:10): generic. Play with it. Have fun. Yeah. I do.

Unknown Speaker (14:12): Fun.

Unknown Speaker (14:12): It's a

Unknown Speaker (14:13): fun no. You don't. It's a fun exercise. Okay. It's a fun it's a it's a fun exercise

Unknown Speaker (14:17): to find stuff. Know? New stuff, Mike. Come on now.

Unknown Speaker (14:19): No. You bring new stuff every day. I'm talking about the generic, like, music and intros and stuff. Let me let me hear what you were gonna play. Go ahead.

Unknown Speaker (14:26): I think you're gonna like it, Mike, because we haven't played it in a long time. That's the La Plata High School band.

Unknown Speaker (14:40): I think having a little retro is a is a good thing.

Unknown Speaker (14:43): Okay. But we won't use that.

Josh (14:46): No. I think, Rob, you can do better.

Unknown Speaker (14:49): Thank you, Josh.

Josh (14:49): These are no. No. These are voicemails. You can come out with a cool answer machine.

Speaker 0 (14:53): Like Yeah. I could. I just I didn't have time to think. Know.

Unknown Speaker (14:57): No. No.

Unknown Speaker (14:57): It's alright.

Unknown Speaker (14:57): It's alright. He would, know

Josh (14:59): I told you minutes ago.

Unknown Speaker (15:01): That's right. You can't do that that quickly. You know? But as far as, you

Unknown Speaker (15:06): know I just wanted to bring I wanted to bring an element to it as well.

Rob Spiwack (15:08): You are the audio creator as well as, yeah, I am now. And, you know, Josh is kind of the video producer who produces a lot of this stuff video. So, you know, with and by the way, I think this is something that now in the era that we have, you can produce on your own, that it doesn't require you to find it in other locations. Mhmm. Do you have other sources that you because I I'm not taking credit for anything that I generate.

Rob Spiwack (15:36): It's all I write down some lyrics, and then I plug in what kind of music I wanna use, and that's all.

Speaker 0 (15:41): Josh and I have collaborated on audio elements that have been generated by AI, although I don't think that they're I don't think that they're exactly what we need for that, though.

Unknown Speaker (15:50): Yeah. Think it's something more Get out of get out of the whole thing about, for the voice mail. Think in general

Speaker 0 (15:57): Oh, yeah. Of anything that AI is a buddy. It's a tool.

Rob Spiwack (16:00): Because we do we do audio for live reads. We do audio for Sure. Intros and, you know, stuff. Not as much as we used to because we go to video for a lot of that stuff, but it should be kind of fun. And by the way, for people who say, why are you talking about the business of the show?

Rob Spiwack (16:15): We do it here so we don't have to bother ourselves after we're

Unknown Speaker (16:17): done not like phone calls.

Rob Spiwack (16:19): I don't. I don't care for them. Let's go with the voice mail.

Unknown Speaker (16:22): First

Rob Spiwack (16:22): voice mail of today. And if you wanna leave one, just hit the microphone and go ahead and do it. Let's let's hear our first voice mail.

Unknown Speaker (16:29): Let's start with Kevin. Kevin.

Unknown Speaker (16:31): Kevin Scott.

Speaker 6 (16:32): And your little shout out for teachers the other day was a huge pick me up. I am a seventh grade teacher. I have 31

Unknown Speaker (16:41): 28

Speaker 6 (16:41): to 31 students in most of my classes, total of about a 150 kids. Wow. And we are in the stretch between spring break and Memorial Day, which seems like it goes on forever. So your words, your kindness, all of that was really appreciated, and I just wanted to send a quick note to say thanks.

Rob Spiwack (16:59): And I have to say deserved. You know? Once again, I mean, it's just I've had look. I know that I did the 12 year old late in life. I know that I have a 30 year old, a 28 year old, and a 12 year old.

Rob Spiwack (17:17): So perhaps this is me slowing down enough to pay attention more, and I I'm I wish that I had slowed down to pay attention. I have I go back and I look at teachers that I had interactions with with my daughters. It's the same thing when I reflect on it. I was the same way. I was there was a level of being impressed, and overwhelmingly, the teachers that I have come across in public school, in private school, in parent teacher meetings, in events and stuff are exemplary.

Rob Spiwack (17:53): And we don't, in any way, shape, or form, put enough value on them. And I and I and I, you know and by the way, that teacher taking time to do that Yeah. That's what a teacher does. That's right. The level of effort that a teacher, puts forward.

Unknown Speaker (18:08): And I I also have

Speaker 0 (18:09): to wonder sometimes if even the county is working against the teachers. I was talking to my, child.

Unknown Speaker (18:15): Rob's wife is a is a TA.

Unknown Speaker (18:17): My child is a TA. Yeah. Robert is a TA. My child.

Rob Spiwack (18:20): Getting his getting his certificate. Right?

Speaker 0 (18:22): Yeah. As soon as he had he has to be there, I think, six more months, and then they will pay for him

Unknown Speaker (18:27): to get his certificate. Okay.

Speaker 0 (18:28): That's all. That's two bites and a punch. Mhmm. But do you know that Loudoun County or the school has scheduled the prom, the senior prom, this week, and not just this week, but this Friday. Does that not seem way too early to have the senior prom?

Speaker 0 (18:45): Also No. Why? That's that's about right.

Unknown Speaker (18:48): No. It's about normal.

Unknown Speaker (18:49): Really? Is it? But then Yeah. Putting it on a Friday?

Unknown Speaker (18:53): Where would you put it on a

Josh (18:54): Thursday? On Fridays. Right?

Speaker 0 (18:56): No. No. It'd be a Saturday night dance. Right? It was always a Saturday for us.

Unknown Speaker (19:00): No. Mine was always a Friday because people would skip out of school.

Unknown Speaker (19:03): Well, it would be a weekend night.

Unknown Speaker (19:04): Right? Yeah. I mean, but I'm saying

Unknown Speaker (19:06): but I would say What's the problem with it, though?

Speaker 0 (19:08): Because everyone is so distracted thinking about prom. I would think you'd wanna move it later in the school year, but, also, they are expecting, like, zero attendance on Friday. And it just seems stupid

Unknown Speaker (19:20): to me.

Unknown Speaker (19:20): Yeah. It seems

Rob Spiwack (19:21): stupid to Oh, zero attendance for school itself?

Speaker 0 (19:23): Yeah. Because the the prom is on a school day. I think

Josh (19:27): it's done. But that's also why they do it three weeks before the end of the school year.

Unknown Speaker (19:30): Can I ask you a question?

Josh (19:31): And I'm away from exams.

Rob Spiwack (19:33): Excuse my ignorance here. You're saying that the the kids would take a full day off on Friday?

Unknown Speaker (19:39): They'll ditch. Yeah.

Josh (19:40): The girls take the day off to get their hair done.

Unknown Speaker (19:43): Yeah. They gotta get a blowout.

Josh (19:44): And go prompory, and so then the guys just skip out because why not?

Unknown Speaker (19:48): Okay. Alright.

Speaker 0 (19:49): It just seems and, also, I I mean, if it is first week in May, that's fine. It just seems early to me. I seem to remember prom being closer to the end of the year because it was something you look forward to when

Rob Spiwack (19:59): classes weren't. Florida, what is the end of your year? My kid's got a couple three weeks of school left Well right now.

Unknown Speaker (20:06): I think it's first week in June for us. Okay.

Unknown Speaker (20:08): Well, same kind

Unknown Speaker (20:09): of thing. Seniors? Yeah. Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (20:10): Yeah. I I I don't think that's I don't know. Is Terry not happy about that? Or

Speaker 0 (20:16): Robert is more disappointed because of the distraction in the kids. He says it's it's really it's making the it's making the job sound.

Unknown Speaker (20:22): He's engaged. He's in the he's

Speaker 0 (20:24): the Robert is extraordinarily engaged. He's he actually said, you know, I hate so many of these kids, but I'm really gonna miss them.

Unknown Speaker (20:34): Now is he still doing the special ed TA stuff? Or And also working with your your Same

Speaker 0 (20:41): same classroom as my wife primarily, but sometimes they farm him out to other things, like he'll assist in another class. But his primary job is in the special ed, and I think that this makes me so proud.

Rob Spiwack (20:54): Do they ever butt heads a little bit because they're in such close proximity to each other all day?

Speaker 0 (20:58): And Robert? Yes. Robert knows how to avoid it. He's lived with Carrie a long time. He knows how to

Unknown Speaker (21:05): play that game. Did he learn that from anybody you know?

Speaker 0 (21:07): Mike, it is it is not god given knowledge. It is learned behavior.

Unknown Speaker (21:13): That's cool if they're both doing You what?

Speaker 0 (21:16): What is awesome is when we come home and we have dinner and they start recapping their day because I'll it's like Rashomon. I'll get two versions of the same story. And it's I couldn't be any prouder of him and the fact that he is still drawn to special ed. It it warms my heart because it is it's it takes a very special person, and he's so empathetic from what he'd been through in his life. I think he's landed where he should be.

Unknown Speaker (21:44): So I just we'll see.

Unknown Speaker (21:45): I'm not gonna tell him what

Speaker 0 (21:46): to do or stop him from doing anything.

Unknown Speaker (21:48): Alright. We got a couple more

Unknown Speaker (21:49): voice mails. Sorry.

Unknown Speaker (21:50): Need to check on it. Go ahead, Josh. Hello?

Speaker 9 (21:54): Hey, Mike, Rob, and Josh. This is Steve calling from Dharan, Saudi Arabia. Yes. You truly have a global audience. Just wanted to say I'm listening from halfway around the world, usually while dodging sand, heat, and the occasional what day is it feeling.

Speaker 9 (22:09): Sign in traffic in Sharqiya, that's the Eastern Province, listening to the podcast, and suddenly I'm back in the old DMV stuck in traffic listening to the old radio show. Also, if you ever need an international correspondent for breaking news like man tries to grill in a 120 degree heat, which is quite frankly a regular occurrence here, I'm your guy. Keep it up, fellas. You've got at least one loyal listener out in the Arabian Desert. Steve out.

Rob Spiwack (22:36): That's cool. I love that. Very, very cool. And, you know, I we I am so uneducated when it comes to the Middle East as far as what it would be like, and there are so many people that are from our original starting point, the the Washington DC area who have spent time over there. And I just my mind starts to race as to what it must be like to exist in that society, you know, where

Unknown Speaker (23:02): people But also to

Speaker 0 (23:03): have a link back to Yes. How you were brought up. Up until, like, a few weeks ago, I thought The Middle East was Ohio.

Unknown Speaker (23:11): Thank you. Rob that's Rob Spiwack. Let's Yes. Let's play another voice mail,

Unknown Speaker (23:14): shall we? Let's go to Jimmy.

Speaker 10 (23:15): Hey, Mike, Rob, and Josh. This is Jimmy Hoffman. I was just calling to see if I could borrow a cup of sugar. Yeah. Give me a callback and let me know.

Speaker 10 (23:28): I'm I'm making cookies. Think.

Unknown Speaker (23:30): He's making cookies, Mike.

Unknown Speaker (23:32): Yes. That's Jimmy. Jimmy Hoffman. Jimmy Hoffa. No.

Rob Spiwack (23:35): No. No. Jimmy Hoffa. No. I like calling him Jimmy Hoffa.

Unknown Speaker (23:38): Okay. That's right.

Unknown Speaker (23:38): We we got another guy that's got some food on the mind. So here's Check it out.

Speaker 7 (23:43): Hey, Mike. This is Chris. I would like to order two small pepperoni pizzas. One thin crust, one large. I love our listener.

Speaker 7 (23:56): I prefer a little bit of sauce, not not too much. Just a little bit. And yeah. You know my address, obviously. It's mean, come on.

Unknown Speaker (24:06): And thank you very much. I hope they made me laugh.

Unknown Speaker (24:09): Very very Charles Grodensk.

Unknown Speaker (24:12): Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (24:12): We can't The late Charles Grodensk with that delivery.

Speaker 0 (24:14): Offer, though, because he didn't specify round or square pie. I'm sorry.

Rob Spiwack (24:18): Oh, that's right. Yeah. Well and we have and that's the thing that makes our pizzeria and by the way, that's a tribute to Danny Aiello for using all the old references today. Our pizzeria has both round and square.

Unknown Speaker (24:32): Yes.

Unknown Speaker (24:32): Mhmm. Hot and square. It's exactly how many more do we have today, Jim? I see two more. Six more, Mike.

Unknown Speaker (24:40): 60 more. No. One more.

Josh (24:42): Here is Alright. Russ who wants to talk to you, has some Red Sox advice.

Speaker 11 (24:46): Mike, if the Red Sox already have you down, just remember, the Giants season isn't that far away. And the good news is, they'll only let you down 17 times a year.

Unknown Speaker (25:02): Beautiful. Do you think

Unknown Speaker (25:04): that might I mean

Rob Spiwack (25:04): That is somebody who gets it and gets me in sports.

Speaker 0 (25:08): Had a lot of great we've had a lot of nice messages so far, but I nominate that so far as voice mail of the week.

Rob Spiwack (25:14): Brian Bayo yesterday, their their their crap pitcher, you had no right no right to throw a tantrum on the mound when your manager took you out.

Unknown Speaker (25:25): What's in it Brian Bayo?

Unknown Speaker (25:27): Brian Bayo. Yes.

Speaker 0 (25:28): Tell me. Please tell me. By god, please tell me that at Fenway, they play the Banana Boat song when he gets on the mound.

Unknown Speaker (25:35): Bayo. They they Do they?

Unknown Speaker (25:37): They have to.

Unknown Speaker (25:38): I They have to. Idea. Never been there when he's pitched. And usually he's not in the game long enough to

Unknown Speaker (25:43): Oh, I knew that. It is a three minute record.

Rob Spiwack (25:45): That. That's very frustrating. Another one. Yesterday was a day baseball. So up in up in Toronto earlier game, and I, you know, I was able to turn it off mid afternoon, which was great.

Rob Spiwack (25:58): You know? And that's what I do. I if Oh, yeah. They they now play the kind of baseball Josh has experienced this before where when your team is in a period of true suckdom as the Red Sox are, you can go to the third, fourth inning and know already what kind of game it's gonna be and turn it off. And if something changes, you watch the highlights if there was something special.

Speaker 0 (26:17): I think what might be needed if they could put a roof on Fenway, and they could call it the suctum,

Unknown Speaker (26:23): but it would be the suptum. The suptum. That's it. You can't put

Unknown Speaker (26:26): a roof

Unknown Speaker (26:27): on the suptum. What are

Speaker 0 (26:28): you talking about? That's just silly. John Henry

Unknown Speaker (26:30): would say no.

Unknown Speaker (26:31): Let's let's close this out with one more voice mail.

Unknown Speaker (26:33): I'm ready.

Unknown Speaker (26:34): This guy's got a question for you, Rob.

Unknown Speaker (26:35): Oh, great.

Unknown Speaker (26:38): Oh, helps if I unmute him.

Unknown Speaker (26:40): Yeah. No problem.

Unknown Speaker (26:42): Let's try that again.

Unknown Speaker (26:43): I would love to go. I would love

Unknown Speaker (26:46): to go

Unknown Speaker (26:46): on the TMLS.

Unknown Speaker (26:48): We have two talking. However,

Speaker 8 (26:51): I need to know if Carrie's is going to go. If she's going, I'll definitely be there. If she's not, I can't see a reason to be there. If I knew her when she was five years old

Unknown Speaker (27:10): Oh.

Speaker 8 (27:11): I would have swept her off her tricycle. So let me know or at least announce whether or not Carrie is going on a cruise. That'd be great.

Unknown Speaker (27:23): That would be great. What's this guy's name?

Josh (27:26): This guy's name is Tom.

Speaker 0 (27:28): I have to wonder if when Tom goes on vacation like the cruise, does he leave the signs in his yard, or does he

Unknown Speaker (27:33): Well, that is a very odd

Speaker 0 (27:36): It started very flattering.

Unknown Speaker (27:39): Sweeping at five years old Yes. Off the tricycle. Tricycle. Yeah. A little

Unknown Speaker (27:43): I like to think he meant he was also five years old. Not he's pulling up and

Unknown Speaker (27:48): Yeah. Well, I think

Unknown Speaker (27:49): Well, that he should specify.

Unknown Speaker (27:50): You're giving him the benefit of the doubt, which I think is is correct.

Josh (27:53): I'm putting into it start and sweep.

Rob Spiwack (27:56): But the fact that we have to give him a benefit of the doubt that he was there was not clarity on that. He also sounds like, you know, certain people have that sound that they are a person of larger carriage.

Speaker 0 (28:07): Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I think that he would have his own lifeboat. But I I will say this. Tom, she will be on the cruise, and I'd say you've got about a two in five chance of her sleeping with you.

Unknown Speaker (28:22): So come on. Hey. It'd be fun.

Rob Spiwack (28:23): How about that? Yeah. By the way, we don't talk about it enough. We gotta put, something out again about it. We haven't done it on

Speaker 0 (28:29): the Carrie's needs?

Unknown Speaker (28:30): No. We haven't done it on Carrie's percent chance. The, the Margaritaville cruise that's coming up, in January 2027. You asked for a long lead time. Jesus Christ.

Rob Spiwack (28:42): We've given you a year Yeah. To get ready for that. They are still selling cabins on, on our website. You can go to Mike O'Meary show. I'm sorry.

Unknown Speaker (28:52): Correct that. Tmospodcast.com. Yes. Sorry about that. We, never were able to get the the other one, you know, from certain people that have it and won't I

Unknown Speaker (29:02): like the new one better.

Unknown Speaker (29:03): Tmospodcast.com.

Josh (29:04): Yes. Well, and if that's not working, you can always go to oscarsantana.net.

Speaker 0 (29:09): Oh, doesn't that feed to our website. Right?

Unknown Speaker (29:11): Yes. A listener sent that over to our website.

Rob Spiwack (29:14): That's great. Appreciate that. Thank you very much. And, yeah, we will have it'll be a longer cruise. It's gonna be in a different part of the world.

Rob Spiwack (29:22): We're going to the Western Caribbean instead of just, off the coast of, Florida. Wait.

Unknown Speaker (29:26): You know where we're going, Mike.

Unknown Speaker (29:27): We're going to Cozumel. The Gulf Of America. Oh, that's correct. Yes. Josh will be wearing the T shirt.

Rob Spiwack (29:34): The gulf or golf? Gulf Of America. You know, I'm glad you so go to tmospodcast.com. Get your cabin. The prices are lower.

Rob Spiwack (29:42): The cruise is longer, and the lead time is more so you can plan it. The date again is January 21?

Unknown Speaker (29:51): Twenty third, I believe. Twenty third?

Rob Spiwack (29:53): We'll have to get that. I'll I'll get a regular one sheet for it. You know? I'll have it ready for next week. So we'll we'll be ready to go

Josh (30:00): for So the prices go call and at least get your deposit in because the prices will go up. Yeah. They flex so

Speaker 0 (30:07): you can lock in your price. Speaking of,

Rob Spiwack (30:09): the Gulf Of, America and politics in general, I would like to, urge everybody. If you get a chance, check out another podcast. It's Jon Stewart's weekly show. The weekly show with Jon Stewart, and he does I've talked about the senate candidate from Maine and a gentleman who has tapped a beer on my porch, mister Graham Plattner. Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (30:36): And I am gonna tell you something. If you wanna know what it feels like to be proud of the team you're on, I would urge you to take a look at these two lefties and their discussion that is a long form because that's why, Stuart does this. He does Mhmm. Long form interviews with, newsmakers, and he has a discussion. I if I had known I well, I didn't I I liked him because of his politics, and we talked politics.

Rob Spiwack (31:07): That's why we became friends, and he came over, and we we shot the ball, and he it's a small area up there. There are not a lot of people up there, so you, you know, you you rub shoulders with a lot of different folks. But let me tell you something. You show me a more genuine human being on that's running for major political office. I have not seen one.

Rob Spiwack (31:32): He is amazingly composed. He is amazingly knowledgeable, and he gets the joke, and he is just a you know, it's the reason why I liked him as a person. It's the reason why I like him as a candidate, and nobody, none of his friends knew that he would explode. This is an oyster farmer from Hancock, Maine, you know, from Sullivan, Maine. And to to hear him go back and forth with two people that that I've had the pleasure of rubbing elbows with, John Stewart and Graham Plattner, is stunning.

Rob Spiwack (32:10): So and Josh Sciroca, I know you probably won't like what they have to say necessarily, but I would say if you really wanna know my politics and what gets me excited about government and what I think it should be all about, I would urge anybody to take a look at the discussion these two guys have. And they are really they're they're it's fascinating.

Unknown Speaker (32:32): Think it's really came out yesterday.

Unknown Speaker (32:34): Yeah. It's a brand new

Speaker 0 (32:35): brand new. Lucky that we are in an age now where you can sit down and at your own discretion, grab a long form interview with someone you're interested in. Yeah. Because ten years ago, you wouldn't be able to this is why, Mike, this is I have the same feelings you have Mhmm. About Ted Cruz.

Speaker 0 (32:50): Just such a good guy.

Josh (32:53): Yeah. I exactly feel the same way about Lindsey Graham.

Unknown Speaker (32:56): Yeah. Are the entertainers Are there any long form are there any long form interviews with either one of those candidates?

Unknown Speaker (33:01): Well, they

Unknown Speaker (33:01): all seem long. They can't

Unknown Speaker (33:03): handle it.

Speaker 0 (33:03): You listen to them. But, yeah, I had Ted over to the house, and we sat on the pet not the deck, but the patio. And he brought a Hawaiian punch. It was nice.

Rob Spiwack (33:12): I tell you the gist of what they talk about? Please.

Unknown Speaker (33:15): Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (33:16): The gist of what they talk about is using government, ala Franklin Roosevelt. They make a lot of commentary about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and how the system was used

Unknown Speaker (33:29): Sure.

Unknown Speaker (33:30): To lift people up in a time they really needed to be lifted up. That's all. That's what it is. Most mostly.

Speaker 0 (33:36): So if I were say It's

Rob Spiwack (33:38): not wonky, really. It's more like help people out.

Speaker 0 (33:40): If I were to say using power for good, would that be would that be okay? Because that's really what I think we all should be doing. Yeah. Really?

Unknown Speaker (33:47): Yeah. I think we

Unknown Speaker (33:48): all agree with that. It's just how it's done.

Rob Spiwack (33:51): Well, I, you know, I I it's right now a situation where he is they don't just take shots at the right. They take shots at the members of their own party too who are kind of complicit in the you know, when you're talking about taxing super rich people to help with programs for people that are just trying to get by, I think that you'd be surprised to find that there are many people that are not necessarily moving quickly in government on both sides of the aisle.

Speaker 0 (34:23): Yes. And I'd like to tell everyone on the conspiracy bandwagon when Mike says taking shots at people has nothing to do with what went on at the at the I'm too

Rob Spiwack (34:33): small a potato to, you know, to get, canceled.

Speaker 0 (34:36): Wouldn't it be great if they did take a page from FDR and they brought back the Works Progress Administration and the government could support podcasting?

Unknown Speaker (34:43): WPA, Rob's P.

Unknown Speaker (34:44): W. Bring it back, man.

Josh (34:45): WPA. I don't know why all politicians don't do these long form interviews. I think I do. Probably because many of them can't handle it.

Unknown Speaker (34:53): That's true. But

Josh (34:53): I had the same feeling like two weeks ago or last week. Sometime when traveling, I was listening to Spencer Pratt who's running for mayor of LA. And Wasn't he reality star, though? Star, and I'm like, this is ridiculous. Why would a

Unknown Speaker (35:07): reality star think they could succeed in politics?

Unknown Speaker (35:10): Exactly. That might have been a little motivation. But you listen to him talk for two hours, and it's like common sense approaches.

Unknown Speaker (35:17): Okay. Yeah. Is he on your team?

Josh (35:19): I think I think he's on my team. I don't know. He's an LA mayor, so I assume he's on my team.

Unknown Speaker (35:24): Alright. Okay. You know, I mean, it's a he's running for LA mayor.

Unknown Speaker (35:27): Yeah. He's running for LA mayor.

Unknown Speaker (35:29): Okay. You know, I I'm not even I

Unknown Speaker (35:31): why is saying Mike. He's up against Richard Hatch from Survivor.

Unknown Speaker (35:35): No. I assume I

Unknown Speaker (35:36): think they should be. You know what? How about a gay what congressional district is Johnny Fairplay in?

Unknown Speaker (35:42): Oh, you mean John Dalton?

Unknown Speaker (35:44): John Fairplay Dalton. I think we should, definitely get him in there.

Unknown Speaker (35:47): Somehow think he's in Tennessee. Let me see.

Unknown Speaker (35:49): I see. Is he living there now?

Unknown Speaker (35:51): That's a good state for him. Checking right now.

Josh (35:53): He seems like a Texas guy.

Rob Spiwack (35:55): Texas. Hey. We gotta move along, everybody. But check out Jon Stewart's weekly show. He's always got something interesting to say.

Rob Spiwack (36:02): Very smart gentleman and a very funny guy at the

Unknown Speaker (36:04): same time. Yeah. Spoke. He living in Danville, Virginia.

Unknown Speaker (36:07): Still Danville. Alright.

Unknown Speaker (36:08): Still Danville. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (36:09): Yeah. Good way to go for your play.

Unknown Speaker (36:10): Vote for him.

Rob Spiwack (36:11): Yay. Yeah. Not again. If he cheated. Alright.

Rob Spiwack (36:15): More show coming up, but first, I wanna tell you, you know me. You know that I am famous for my breakfast hamburgers. That's right. If it's before noon, there are hamburgers on my grill. No.

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Rob Spiwack (37:21): You know that. I've got my Black grill out there. I put them

Unknown Speaker (37:24): on there, and I mean, right

Unknown Speaker (37:26): from the freezer to the griddle

Unknown Speaker (37:27): That's it.

Unknown Speaker (37:28): To get in my belly.

Speaker 0 (37:30): Is this the first time you've ever busted your buns?

Rob Spiwack (37:33): No. I I'm a I'm a well known bun buster, but I've never I've never been able to do it quite as easily with these perfectly round burgers.

Unknown Speaker (37:42): I hear that.

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Unknown Speaker (38:18): Terms apply. Seasight for details. Play the music, Slim. Here we go. Wanna start today with no.

Unknown Speaker (38:28): We we're not gonna start with that, Michael. Stop it. No. We're not.

Speaker 0 (38:31): Is this Tidbits? Are we back to Tidbits today?

Rob Spiwack (38:33): We're back to do you wanna call it tidbits, or do you wanna I completely screwed up all my organization here.

Speaker 0 (38:39): Let's call it tid let's call it random tidbits because they're in no particular order. Random tidbits. Random tidbits.

Rob Spiwack (38:47): God. I f'd up. I really did. I'm tired. I've been working very

Unknown Speaker (38:52): I know. And it's

Unknown Speaker (38:53): a bad time of year and all that.

Speaker 0 (38:55): But what did you did you did you stack them in the wrong order?

Unknown Speaker (38:57): I did. I did because, you know, I don't wanna lead with something funny. I wanna lead with something very, very serious. You know? To get to everything I wrote.

Unknown Speaker (39:06): I'm sorry. Yeah. Well, I do. I really really do. I alright.

Rob Spiwack (39:10): Let's start with maybe this is what we're starting with. It's just a very lighthearted show today. That's what it is. I like that. Lighthearted tidbits.

Rob Spiwack (39:18): Thank you. That was incredibly professional. Coors is launching its first nonalcoholic beer in test markets next month. Now, Ron Seaweck, know that you you wrap your tonsils around a good nonalcoholic beer once in a while, and a buddy of mine has not quit, but he's modified his intake, and he was raving about the quality of nonalcoholic beers.

Speaker 0 (39:42): They've really they've really stepped up. Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (39:44): And we are drinking less as a society, and so I think Coors is jumping on the trend. And this is gonna be called Coors 0%, and the rollout will begin in the Northeastern US. That's horrible name.

Unknown Speaker (39:58): It is terrible. Blutarski.

Rob Spiwack (40:01): Zero point zero. And then Belushi looks at me.

Unknown Speaker (40:05): I know. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (40:06): Pencils in

Unknown Speaker (40:07): his nose.

Rob Spiwack (40:08): It won't be available nationwide until next year. Coors insists that 0% beer has the same flavor as Coors Light delivering a crisp mountain cold refreshment.

Speaker 0 (40:19): Well, Coors Light is a real easy go to for a lot of people, but as I recall, not particularly. I'd say its forward flavor is cold. That's what Coors Light tastes like.

Unknown Speaker (40:29): How does it smell?

Unknown Speaker (40:31): No. You don't do mouthfeel on

Rob Spiwack (40:32): a Is it a working six pack, or do you have another six pack in the refrigerator your garage?

Unknown Speaker (40:36): Whiteboard in front of you on all the things you wanna hit today?

Unknown Speaker (40:39): A whiteboard. I like working. The working half gallon. That's right.

Speaker 0 (40:43): Right now, I think the best money to flavor nonalcoholic beer is Budweiser. Budweiser zero. Really? Yeah. A lot of the ones that are like your Heineken even Beck's, they've overdone the hopping of it or the flavoring of it.

Unknown Speaker (40:56): It it tastes too strong.

Unknown Speaker (40:58): I I see the athletic everywhere.

Unknown Speaker (41:00): The athletic I've seen, but it's more expensive than Bud, I think.

Rob Spiwack (41:03): Really? So yeah. The athletic, is that is that one of the big breweries that's coming out with that one?

Unknown Speaker (41:09): It's made by Nike. Everywhere.

Unknown Speaker (41:12): Thank you. Thank you.

Unknown Speaker (41:13): They also wouldn't let me drink it,

Rob Spiwack (41:15): my kids. I love the pause when the joke is being written in the head. That's a there's a trend on TikTok of fart salads. Have you heard about this? I have.

Rob Spiwack (41:27): They are connected to the trend of everything. In this case, fiber. There's no one recipe for a fart salad, but the signature ingredient seems to be is it cruciferous vegetables? Is that the correct pronunciation?

Speaker 0 (41:42): I think it is. Like crunchy vegetables. Right? Cruciferous?

Rob Spiwack (41:45): Like crucified. Josh. Sorry.

Unknown Speaker (41:50): Don't know why I asked you to talk Cabbage,

Rob Spiwack (41:54): brussels sprouts. Some even use packaged coleslaw. That's the main gassy fiber part. Fart salads don't have to be super healthy. You can use pasta, cheese, pepperoni, onion, seasoning, and dressing, which, you know, sounds more like a a pizza.

Rob Spiwack (42:09): I I'm I'm not quite sure what

Speaker 0 (42:11): the part maximum fiber, and I I might call it stool salad, but I have a clip of a young good looking lady that is an enthusiast. Would you like to watch it?

Rob Spiwack (42:20): Yeah, please. I didn't know there was a video out there.

Speaker 0 (42:22): Yeah. She can make she can prep her own fart salad.

Unknown Speaker (42:24): A fart salad.

Unknown Speaker (42:25): Hi, baby.

Unknown Speaker (42:26): I cannot stop freaking giggling at that. If you wanna make the viral fart salad, here's what's in it.

Unknown Speaker (42:31): Gonna start with iceberg lettuce, romaine lettuce, green leaf lettuce, whatever your favorite is.

Unknown Speaker (42:35): Half a

Speaker 12 (42:35): cup of finely shaven brussels sprouts. Half a cup of bell pepper, green, red, yellow, whatever you like. Maybe like a fourth of a cup of finely chopped cabbage. One cup of finely chopped kale.

Unknown Speaker (42:46): Why is she doing it in her corn? I know. Now. Mean I'm

Unknown Speaker (42:48): just questioning. Why? I'm having a mess. She's like her.

Unknown Speaker (42:50): We're all engaged.

Unknown Speaker (42:52): Are you

Unknown Speaker (42:52): not doing it? I

Unknown Speaker (42:53): don't really like cucumber that much. I don't like the flavor that much. But the dressing that I make, the hummus dressing covers it up so well. A little bit of carrot and red onion. These little sprinkled tomatoes.

Unknown Speaker (43:03): I'm obsessed with these. They're so stinking cute. Go to hummus dressing. Be generous with it now. Everybody's favorite part.

Unknown Speaker (43:11): Watch your face. Last time I used grilled chicken, but I

Unknown Speaker (43:14): have some leftover salmon that

Unknown Speaker (43:15): I made last night, so I'm gonna put that in. And I have I've

Unknown Speaker (43:18): dived in today. The mallet.

Unknown Speaker (43:19): Yeah. It looks very good.

Unknown Speaker (43:20): So good, you

Unknown Speaker (43:21): guys.

Unknown Speaker (43:21): Why do you dislike her, Rob? She's lovely. Why is your problem?

Speaker 0 (43:26): She doing it in a car?

Josh (43:27): Because that's what everyone does TikToks now because the sound is better.

Unknown Speaker (43:31): Alright. They're

Josh (43:32): all using cars as for acoustics.

Unknown Speaker (43:34): I have one other clip of her mic that might change your your view of her.

Unknown Speaker (43:38): Okay. Alright. Let's

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Unknown Speaker (43:48): That's Mike. That's lulu pencil. Luna, I'm sorry. Not lulu.

Unknown Speaker (43:53): Lady. Anyway,

Unknown Speaker (43:55): let's see

Unknown Speaker (43:56): if you wanna

Unknown Speaker (43:56): Pencil for you.

Unknown Speaker (43:57): If you want a high farter fiber if want a high farter fiber salad that's healthier, sub out the pasta. The by the way, the one she made Yeah. Looked extraordinarily healthy, especially with hummus dressing, which I mean, but I would imagine you would just And float to bed.

Unknown Speaker (44:17): Oh my god. I want I would I'd suggest a seat belt on the commode after that salad.

Josh (44:22): But I also love those tiny tomatoes.

Unknown Speaker (44:24): Mhmm. Oh, do too.

Unknown Speaker (44:25): I put I put those in my salads.

Rob Spiwack (44:27): I am a a non cherry tomato of any kind enthusiast.

Speaker 0 (44:32): Mike, I've got the perfect solution for you.

Rob Spiwack (44:35): Campari tomatoes. Campari? Is that like the drink?

Speaker 0 (44:38): Well, it's the same name, but it doesn't have anything to do with the drink. They are bigger than cherry tomatoes. They are round unlike grape tomatoes, and they have a tender skin. If you quarter them in a salad, they're good all year round, and they taste perfectly like tomatoes.

Rob Spiwack (44:54): Thank you, Alton. I appreciate that. Let's see here. I have a question for all of you. Shoot.

Rob Spiwack (45:00): Do you have low effort family? Do you have a low effort family? A new article says low effort families aren't usually filled with yelling or drama. Instead, they are all about avoidance. There is yelling in my casa.

Rob Spiwack (45:18): We do not we do not suffer our problems. Every day there's, Babe it up. Take the shower. My

Speaker 0 (45:26): family has zero effort, and it goes back generations.

Rob Spiwack (45:29): It's quiet? Quiet. Okay. Usually, in these families, there's one person that does all of the emotional lifting. Who would that be in in your would it be you?

Unknown Speaker (45:40): I think it would be me.

Unknown Speaker (45:42): Yeah. You

Speaker 0 (45:42): know, it's funny you bring this up. I can remember being, like, four or five years old and one time seeing my uncles and my grandfather in a yelling match about politics, and it was so upsetting to me because I'd never seen it in my family before. Even a raised voice I'd never heard. And it's I mean, it's I'm I'm sure it's it's equally as unhealthy as any other lifestyle, but we are a quiet, non yelling family.

Rob Spiwack (46:08): Okay. The the emotional lifting person is the person remembering birthdays, sending texts, making plans, and keeping everybody connected. That does sound like you. That is me, Rob.

Speaker 0 (46:18): Yeah. I know it's not Robert who once wrote on a Mother's Day card, happy birthday.

Rob Spiwack (46:25): Here's what a family therapist had to say about this. Okay. It's not so much that the rest of the family opted out of caring. It's more that they they never had to practice Yeah. Because someone else was already doing it.

Rob Spiwack (46:40): It's important to remember that healthy relationships require mutual effort. So if you're always the one texting first planning holidays or checking in while everyone else stays silent, you might be the CEO of a low effort family.

Speaker 0 (46:56): It is a wearying principle at times because it sometimes feels unappreciated.

Unknown Speaker (47:01): That's why they shoulda had some kind of solution in there

Speaker 0 (47:04): for you. Because I've said it before. Say, you know, guys, I'm I'm tired of always being the cheerleader, and that's how I feel sometimes. Alright. And it's and it is.

Speaker 0 (47:12): It's a little wearying.

Rob Spiwack (47:13): You know where I get that story. Go find it and print it out and give it to the family. Both members of the family, the teachers. Give it to the teachers.

Speaker 0 (47:20): I'm not gonna do that for them.

Unknown Speaker (47:22): Okay. There you go. They have to make

Unknown Speaker (47:26): the effort. Yeah. Make the effort, please.

Rob Spiwack (47:28): Jimmy Cerrito, take note. Ozzy Osbourne Hey. Wore a signature cologne for over thirty years, but he Oh, no. He told now don't don't steal my stuff here, please. Over thirty years, but he told very few people what it was.

Rob Spiwack (47:43): Now we know that it's scent number 88 from a London based company called Check and Speak because they just released a limited edition version in his honor. Unfortunately, it sold out right away even though they changed. They charged $370 for a 100 milliliter bottle. That's, let's see, about $68 from every bottle sold is going to the Cure Parkinson's Foundation. Oh, that's January.

Rob Spiwack (48:12): That's a so it's over $300 they keep.

Speaker 0 (48:15): Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's it's business, Mike.

Unknown Speaker (48:17): Yeah. They they give a little cut to Ozzy's foundation in his honor. Ozzy's wife, Sharon, says, I'll never forget as soon as he smelled it, he said to me, I'd like to smell like this for the rest of my life. And he did. Everywhere he went, he was known for it.

Rob Spiwack (48:34): Everyone talked about it, his friends, his bandmates, his business colleagues, everyone. They would always say how good he smelled. Number eight is described as, quote, a fresh woody top note of bergamot. Bergamot is what I wear. Actually, that's that's the, oh, what the hell was the the sponsor?

Unknown Speaker (48:50): Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (48:51): Italian bergamot.

Rob Spiwack (48:51): Is crema. God. Cremo. That's right. Cremo.

Rob Spiwack (48:55): Let's see. Bergamot, geranium, base notes of vetiver and sandalwood, and in his younger days, just a hint of vomit.

Speaker 0 (49:06): You know, Mike, they say it's sold out. Right? Yes. I do have a video if you wanna make your own. This is like a a hack.

Speaker 0 (49:12): You can make your own Ozzy Osbourne cologne.

Unknown Speaker (49:14): A fart salad, and I cannot stop freaking giggling at that. You wanna make the viral fart salad, here's what's in it. More.

Unknown Speaker (49:21): We'll start with iceberg lettuce, romaine lettuce, green leaf lettuce, whatever your

Unknown Speaker (49:25): She has a cardinal on her shirt. Very pretty.

Rob Spiwack (49:27): She I like her. Don't pick on her.

Unknown Speaker (49:30): I should. I should.

Rob Spiwack (49:30): I hope she comes up with bat vomit. Oh. That's funny. Yeah. Quick, Nick.

Rob Spiwack (49:37): That is funny. Bat vomit. Just a hint of bat vomit. Yes. I'm young.

Rob Spiwack (49:43): Sinbad is returning to the stage for the

Unknown Speaker (49:45): first Yes.

Unknown Speaker (49:46): Yes. Whoo. Rob, he had a stroke back in 2020.

Unknown Speaker (49:50): I don't remember. I've been praying.

Rob Spiwack (49:52): He's playing two shows at the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena. That's exciting. Actually, one of them already happened in a video posted yesterday. Sinbad announced the dates were April 29, which was yesterday, and May 10, which is Mother's Day. He was scheduled for sold out show at the ice house last night.

Rob Spiwack (50:14): There's no word on how it went. Sinbad's speech isn't perfect, but it's more than good enough to do stand up. Although, maybe we shouldn't call it stand up, so he still can't walk, But he says, stop it. What's wrong with you today?

Unknown Speaker (50:29): So sadly written,

Unknown Speaker (50:30): though. I mean,

Speaker 0 (50:31): that is really not appropriate. You can't call

Rob Spiwack (50:33): it stand up. I am I'm the messenger. So, anyway, he says, I'm so looking forward to these shows. I got so much stuff to talk about. I'm gonna be talking more trash than I ever talked.

Rob Spiwack (50:44): His daughter, Paige, is opening the shows for him. I wanna review. If I get it, I'll share it with you. I'd like to know how he did. We don't have anything on that

Unknown Speaker (50:52): yet. Right? I would love if this means that he's able to do stand up. Certainly, he'll be back in strip clubs before you know it.

Rob Spiwack (50:57): I remember we saw him. I was in a strip everybody that I'm mentioning today, I've come in close proximity to. We were in a strip joint in Minneapolis during a Super Bowl, and Sinbad actually made it rain. I remember that. It was pretty cool thing.

Speaker 0 (51:12): His given name, Mike. And he was so good in jingle all the way.

Rob Spiwack (51:18): Hey. I love these stories, and I try to share them every time they come near me. I have to share that the Social Security Administration just released its latest baby name data, and there are some interesting trends. Here are some of the names. I'm trying to decide whether I go from worst to first.

Rob Spiwack (51:36): There's no particular order. Okay. The name Maverick is now more popular

Unknown Speaker (51:42): than I it the time.

Unknown Speaker (51:45): Maverick. What is with the western

Unknown Speaker (51:47): Well, no. I think that's No. No. That's Top Gun.

Unknown Speaker (51:49): It's also Top Gun. Okay.

Speaker 0 (51:51): Of course, if I named her child Maverick, it would be because of James Garner.

Rob Spiwack (51:55): This is fun because it's the names that are more popular than the other names. Sophie's always been a very

Unknown Speaker (52:00): nice name.

Rob Spiwack (52:01): One. Yeah. Guess what's more popular now?

Speaker 0 (52:03): I couldn't possibly. Genesis. For the band? For the Bible? Don't know.

Speaker 0 (52:09): I mean, I know it means beginning. It's a fine automobile.

Rob Spiwack (52:11): You know the name Grace? The lovely name Grace?

Unknown Speaker (52:13): Grace Kelly, one of the most beautiful people to ever walk through.

Rob Spiwack (52:16): This name is now more popular, Nova, like the Chevy. Or the community college. One of the fastest rising girl names is Iceland. Like the country? I C E L Y N N, and the fastest rising boy's name is Truce.

Unknown Speaker (52:38): God, we are stupid.

Unknown Speaker (52:39): Oh my god, we're stupid.

Josh (52:41): It's it's everyone is obsessed with coming up with a name that no one else has. And there are some other names the same name.

Rob Spiwack (52:48): That are picking up steam are Halo and Honey. And Honey, I miss you.

Unknown Speaker (52:55): Come here,

Unknown Speaker (52:55): honey. Hey,

Unknown Speaker (52:56): honey. Honey. Hey, honey.

Rob Spiwack (52:57): The name Messiah is more popular than Patrick.

Speaker 0 (53:02): I think perhaps if you name your child Messiah, you're asking a little much of it.

Rob Spiwack (53:07): Mhmm. Yeah. Sarah peaked in popularity in 1993 as

Unknown Speaker (53:11): Biblical name.

Rob Spiwack (53:13): As the third most popular girl name in the country. It has now slipped, I'm so sorry, Sarah, to 95.

Speaker 0 (53:20): Do you favor a Sarah with an h or without?

Rob Spiwack (53:23): I like the h because my sister's middle name is Catherine Sarah. I have no idea. She was married, it was Catherine Sarah O'Meara. That's great. So put that in your pipe.

Speaker 0 (53:33): And now we just call her maverick.

Rob Spiwack (53:35): The name Donald continues to fall. It ranked just six hundred seventy second last year behind the name sincere.

Speaker 0 (53:44): Well, I think Donald had its run when Ted Bessel was on television playing Donald Hollinger on that girl. But now that that's gone, forget it. There's no great Donalds anymore.

Rob Spiwack (53:53): Was Donald Hollinger in another famous sitcom, or was that, was that it?

Speaker 0 (53:58): I think that was pretty much it for Ted Bessel.

Rob Spiwack (54:00): Yeah. I always thought, that Ted Bessel would have been really good on Hogan's Heroes in some capacity. And finally today, a 50 year old woman in Florida named, oh, by the way, I'm gonna count them here. Let's see. Three.

Rob Spiwack (54:14): It's a three joke kicker today.

Unknown Speaker (54:15): Alright? Got it.

Rob Spiwack (54:16): By the way, if you wanna know my methodology, when I feel like the jokes aren't killers, I Quantity. I go for quantity over quality. A 50 year old woman in Florida named Alexis Weber. She was arrested on Tuesday after she, was linked to multiple incidents of let's see. It's called defacing by defecation.

Rob Spiwack (54:38): Okay. Local homeowners reported seeing human feces on vehicles, mailboxes, community food pantries, and private yards. It didn't take long for people to figure out Alexis was behind all the poop. She was caught on security cameras, and a detective even witnessed her popping a squad in her own yard in Oh, dear. It's unclear as to why she was doing this, but one homeowner said he was happy that the neighborhood worked together to get to the bottom of it and find this lady and, you know, bring her to the authorities.

Rob Spiwack (55:15): Sure. The weird thing is the woman the woman Mike,

Unknown Speaker (55:21): back up. Back up. Take a breath, and get a

Unknown Speaker (55:23): run start on it. Let's do it. Yeah. Somehow, it's just too long a newscast for me today.

Unknown Speaker (55:30): I understand. And it started out of order.

Rob Spiwack (55:32): The homeowners will not be canceling their plans for the greenest lawn competition. The good news is, there is now a clearance sale at the food pantry on Hormel Chili. Now that's bad. And finally, the weird thing is the woman owned a nail salon. Sack you.

Unknown Speaker (55:57): Sack you. We'll be right back, everybody, with more show. Woah. Woah. Woah.

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Unknown Speaker (57:30): The ASPCA is not an insurer and is not engaged in the business of insurance.

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Rob Spiwack (57:36): I will tell you there's so much that you brought to the table today, Rob, that, it's gotta be dealer's choice for you. But before that Okay. I do wanna mention that on the bonus show today, we will have a live report from the king's parade. Oh, great. In front of Virginia with Rob Spielak.

Unknown Speaker (57:52): Josh, are you excited that Rob's gonna go out there and broadcast live from the parade?

Josh (57:56): I'm so as soon as I saw him with the hoodie on this morning, I knew it's because he's leaving the door. Yeah.

Speaker 0 (58:00): And I was so excited that I finally got that press pass. It was very last minute.

Rob Spiwack (58:04): So you, said that the king was gonna be in Front Royal, Virginia yesterday, but that's not true. No. It's today. He's there today.

Speaker 0 (58:13): Yes. And, people Mike, this will shock you. At 5AM, people were already lined up in beautiful Front Royal to see the king. And it starts at ten, and it's going to be a total disaster. Because when they spoke to, I believe it was one of the councilmen of Front Royal, he said, this is really neat.

Speaker 0 (58:36): And then he went on to say, we have metal guards in front of the roads just like at the White House. It's almost like the big city has come here.

Rob Spiwack (58:45): If you were inclined Yes. To experience British royalty

Unknown Speaker (58:50): Mhmm.

Rob Spiwack (58:51): You know, and a British king who is long in the tooth and has had some health issues Yeah. It would be a, you know, a one shot deal here. Let me ask you this question. Yeah. Actually, there'll be another one because he's got a son.

Rob Spiwack (59:02): But if you were to as the crow flies or as Waze directed you by automobile, how how long a drive would it be for you to get to Front Royal?

Speaker 0 (59:12): Probably an hour fifteen, but also Really? I think an hour to an hour fifteen depending on traffic. That's what I did when I wazed it yesterday. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 0 (59:22): But, also, I can't if anyone has been blessed to be in Front Royal, having the king appear in Front Royal is like booking a Super Bowl in Herndon. They don't have the infrastructure to support it, and we've got a lot of excited people around here. It would have to be something pretty magnificent to make me go down there and try to battle all that, because I think it's gonna be horrendous.

Josh (59:47): You can go down and reuse all your signs from the no king protest.

Unknown Speaker (59:51): What? I

Unknown Speaker (59:52): think this

Unknown Speaker (59:52): is Should be fun. There's a lot of that, by the way, from Oh, course.

Unknown Speaker (59:56): There is.

Unknown Speaker (59:57): There's a lot of that from his team. Sure. Sure. No. But

Unknown Speaker (59:59): I've been

Josh (1:00:00): to London, and I've seen the changing of the guard twice. I've never seen the king. If it was within an hour of me, I would drive down and see the king.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:07): It's a big deal. It's a big, big deal.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:10): You know? To you, it might be, I guess. I mean, there's still the energy.

Rob Spiwack (1:00:13): No. It's not just to me. It's just, you know, noteworthy. And by the way, I'm Irish. I believe the British were the tyrants of history.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:20): So I Oh, so you go

Unknown Speaker (1:00:21): down there to, like I'm

Rob Spiwack (1:00:22): not I'm not a Henglophile. I'm not a Henglophile. But I still would be fascinated just to get a look at them, you know, in person If it was more convenient. If it was an hour away, I wouldn't go either.

Speaker 0 (1:00:35): And you know what? It takes me back to when the pope came to DC and just the massive hassle that it was to inconvenience everybody.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:42): I went to it.

Speaker 0 (1:00:43): I know. I know. I just I don't like that. I mean, they've you've got the the pope has his own country. Stay there.

Speaker 0 (1:00:50): The king has a palace. Stay in your palace. We've got our America. Stay where you are. I don't

Unknown Speaker (1:00:56): need your home to stay at

Unknown Speaker (1:00:57): your That's right.

Rob Spiwack (1:00:58): And by the way, not leaves.

Speaker 0 (1:01:00): No. That's not true. You know this. You know this.

Unknown Speaker (1:01:04): That would just be kinda cool, kind of interesting.

Speaker 0 (1:01:07): No. I'm not gonna do it. And also the fact that it's starting at 10AM. By the time I got there after posting the show, it'd probably be pretty much over.

Unknown Speaker (1:01:16): Okay. Alright. So it's do they know how long it's gonna be? How long the It's gonna

Speaker 0 (1:01:20): be a forty eight hour party. There's gonna be foam and bubbles. No. It's a it's a day trip for the for the camp.

Josh (1:01:28): He's going to Arlington Cemetery and then going down there.

Speaker 0 (1:01:32): Alright. And a lot of people don't know this. He's going to Arlington Cemetery. Yes. To for shopping.

Speaker 0 (1:01:37): He's looking for a place.

Rob Spiwack (1:01:40): Wow. He does not like the royals. Alright. You dealer's choice. You have you have you have passports.

Rob Spiwack (1:01:47): You have the movie Michael. That's the one I think I wanna

Speaker 0 (1:01:50): talk about. Let's talk about Michael. I went and saw it on Tuesday, and it was one of those movies that when I went into it, I was just gonna get through it because I did not have high hopes for it. The media hated it, and it's a it's a not a short movie. It's two hours and six minutes.

Speaker 0 (1:02:07): And I went in. I I don't like going to the movies by myself, so I my mom lives right by Alamo. I So said, if I pick you up, will you come see the Michael movie with me? And she says, you wanna see that? I said, yeah.

Speaker 0 (1:02:18): So we went and we saw it, and it began. And I gotta tell you, I wanna tell you, it's fantastic. It is really, really good.

Josh (1:02:29): I am fascinated by the Rotten Tomatoes for it. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (1:02:32): What what is that?

Josh (1:02:33): The critics have it at 37. The audience has it at 97.

Unknown Speaker (1:02:38): That's crazy. Okay. What makes it an audience What makes

Unknown Speaker (1:02:41): it that 97? The

Speaker 0 (1:02:44): abuse and this is a little bit, I guess, little bit simplistic of me. The use of his music and sounding that good in the theater, it reminded me of what it was like hearing the records for the first time.

Rob Spiwack (1:02:58): Alright. I think that I can understand that. I and I think that people are I think everybody, at least I was, everybody was conflicted when all this crap about Michael Jackson came out.

Unknown Speaker (1:03:12): I hate the fact that Yeah.

Rob Spiwack (1:03:13): But I mean, we are torn because it almost feels like all of the people who were fans of his music, and there were so many of us, and he was so incredibly popular. You feel as though when allegations are thrown at somebody that they're throwing them at you. And I think ultimately, the people that, you know, that that just love the music so much, I think if they went music heavy with this movie, I completely understand how people would like it, and they ignore everything else.

Speaker 0 (1:03:46): They well, they didn't have to really because and this is what surprised me. They stopped right as he released promoting the LP Bad, which is, like, 1990.

Rob Spiwack (1:03:59): I think They could have addressed his behavior during all of that, that there was, you know, weird stuff going on, you know, right up

Speaker 0 (1:04:07): until that. A lot of stuff. He hadn't even built Neverland when or bought Neverland at the end of this movie. Okay. I think, and I will say this with all sincerity, when they do the Oscar nominations, the best supporting actor will not only be nominated, but will go to a guy.

Speaker 0 (1:04:23): His name is Coleman Domingo who played Michael's father.

Josh (1:04:26): But there's there's no way if the critics hate this that much. Aren't they the ones that vote for the Oscars too?

Unknown Speaker (1:04:32): Well, it's the committee.

Speaker 0 (1:04:33): The committee and all people that make Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (1:04:36): The Academy.

Speaker 0 (1:04:36): He is as horrifying as any Frankenstein or Dracula movie you've ever seen. They Does

Rob Spiwack (1:04:42): he the father? Does he play the father?

Speaker 0 (1:04:44): Oh my god. It is just sinister the way he is and the way he works behind Michael's back. And I know that some of this stuff was glamorized. I know that some of this stuff was conveniently written out.

Unknown Speaker (1:04:56): Like His siblings, some of his slim siblings were not included.

Speaker 0 (1:04:59): That's right. Which me, I know Janet wasn't, so Latoya was always there. But I think two or three siblings weren't mentioned, so the house and Gary did not seem what?

Unknown Speaker (1:05:09): Are you looking at Daniel Thurber's comment?

Unknown Speaker (1:05:12): No. What does he say?

Rob Spiwack (1:05:13): Elvis, MJ, the king, and sweet lips.

Unknown Speaker (1:05:16): What does that even mean?

Unknown Speaker (1:05:18): Did you get ChapStick yesterday?

Unknown Speaker (1:05:19): I ordered it yesterday. Okay. Go ahead. I'll stop.

Unknown Speaker (1:05:22): I'm not doing anything.

Unknown Speaker (1:05:23): Your lips look better today than yesterday.

Unknown Speaker (1:05:26): Your hair looks better today. Yeah. I think we all look great. I think we all look great. Not seeing anything.

Speaker 0 (1:05:32): I wanna, you know, I wanna get my lips good in case I see his majesty. I don't want it to be distracted by my lips. He is he looks just like him, and he is so just evil incarnate. And I'm thinking, wow. Some of the siblings actually signed off on this.

Speaker 0 (1:05:50): So he must be a terror. But, yeah, he

Rob Spiwack (1:05:54): will win. Still have to acknowledge the fact that they did gloss over some of the Yeah. Real issues. And I guess, But

Speaker 0 (1:06:05): you can say the same thing about the most recent Elvis movie. Mhmm. The epic, it stops at 1972, and it reminds you of how good he was in that moment.

Rob Spiwack (1:06:17): Right.

Speaker 0 (1:06:18): And the music was fun. The one thing that totally surprised me, I didn't know Mike Myers was in it. Austin Powers.

Rob Spiwack (1:06:27): Is he is he in it like he was in Inglourious Basterds where he's just got a cameo?

Speaker 0 (1:06:31): No. It's a little more than a cameo. He's the president of CBS epic, and they put a lot of makeup on him.

Unknown Speaker (1:06:39): Al Teller?

Unknown Speaker (1:06:40): I believe that's it. Believe that's it. Al Teller? It might be.

Unknown Speaker (1:06:44): But he's gotta find that out because Al Teller I was in a I was in a suite with Al Teller.

Speaker 0 (1:06:48): I don't know. They don't focus on his name, but at one point, he says, and I'll try to do an approximation of his voice that he uses in this. And he's unrecognizable in the makeup. He says, thriller, greatest selling LP of all time. What is Can I do for you?

Speaker 0 (1:07:14): And it turns out that the the story, if it's valid, is that at that time Thriller came out, MTV was real hesitant to use black artists on MTV. They were very white skewing. So CBS Records called them and said, if you don't put beat it in your rotation, we're pulling Bruce Springsteen. We're pulling the police. We're pulling Cindy Lauper.

Speaker 0 (1:07:34): You don't get any CBS record artists if you don't run my but And I think also I'm sorry, Josh.

Josh (1:07:39): Myers is playing Walter Yentikov.

Unknown Speaker (1:07:42): Oh, my bad. Okay. Sorry about that.

Unknown Speaker (1:07:44): Yentikov. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 0 (1:07:46): It is I spoke stupidly that it was stunt casting to have his nephew play Michael. This kid is great, and I wanna show you a comparison video. I can remember where I was when I saw the Motown '25 and Michael first did the moonwalk, and everyone saw it. As a matter of fact, the next day, I had a nephew a cousin born. And at the hospital, we're all looking at a a one day old baby, but the conversation is, how did he do that thing with his feet?

Speaker 0 (1:08:14): In the hospital room, I remember this. But take a look at this. I believe it's on the left side is gonna be Michael at Motown twenty five, and on the right is Jafar Jackson recreating. Oh my god. Doppelganger.

Speaker 0 (1:08:31): It's crazy. Now watch the dancing here. Okay. I totally get it. And you know what?

Speaker 0 (1:08:46): I get it. So stupid watching that. I just got a little I got some chill bumps. Is that good?

Unknown Speaker (1:08:51): It's a musical piece kind of a tribute to Michael Jackson, and

Unknown Speaker (1:08:56): you Celebration of Michael Jackson.

Rob Spiwack (1:08:58): You have never been burdened by celebrities who are really horrible in real life. You know?

Speaker 0 (1:09:05): That's not how I would phrase it. What I would say is I can

Unknown Speaker (1:09:08): separate Elvis.

Speaker 0 (1:09:09): I can separate the performance from the artist. Yeah. Mhmm. The art from the artist.

Unknown Speaker (1:09:15): And You know what? I think you I think it's a great review, and I think I I completely understand it. I really do.

Josh (1:09:20): And I think it's one you have to see in theaters to really get that full sound system.

Speaker 0 (1:09:24): I agree. And we only had

Unknown Speaker (1:09:25): see that.

Speaker 0 (1:09:26): Two other people in the theater with us because it was a Tuesday morning showing. I'd like to see it with a full theater. Mhmm. Although, Josh, you mentioned something about the people on opening night making it about themselves.

Josh (1:09:36): Yes. I saw the first weekend was a lot of people getting up and dancing during the movie.

Unknown Speaker (1:09:40): Oh, no. Well, god. Go home. Go home, AOL.

Josh (1:09:43): The little kids that go to Minecraft and ruin it. I know. You don't need that.

Unknown Speaker (1:09:48): That sucks.

Speaker 0 (1:09:49): But it is really a fine movie, and I think Some

Unknown Speaker (1:09:53): of it really fine.

Speaker 0 (1:09:54): I think the two best performances are the father and Michael. However, I will say this. It's not a very well made movie. There's some clunky parts in it. I wish the movie was a little slicker in the storytelling.

Speaker 0 (1:10:07): There's some shots, like, camera shots that were really questionable.

Unknown Speaker (1:10:11): Well, that's because of the cover up. And also I'm really not being I'm being they they they probably had to make it a little clunky in order to kind of get through the awkward crap.

Speaker 0 (1:10:21): Yeah. You're probably right. I can do without AI monkeys because they literally made Bubbles smile. That made me sigh

Unknown Speaker (1:10:29): Oh, Bubbles is in it?

Unknown Speaker (1:10:30): Of course.

Unknown Speaker (1:10:31): Then I'm all in.

Speaker 0 (1:10:32): And Rufus. That was weird. And I don't know if it's true. Even after he totally broke ties with his dad, he continued to live at home. How awkward is that?

Unknown Speaker (1:10:42): Yeah. Maybe he cramped after Robert.

Unknown Speaker (1:10:44): Yeah. Now that's not funny.

Unknown Speaker (1:10:47): That is we have to take a break. Oh, and also, I

Speaker 0 (1:10:49): didn't like the fact that he was driving around in a Mercury monarch. I think if you're the king of pop, you should at least have a Fairmont.

Rob Spiwack (1:10:56): But otherwise, what, how many spewax do you give it?

Speaker 0 (1:10:58): When I was about halfway through, I said this is three out of five. Now it's four out of five after I've thought about it. I will go see it again.

Rob Spiwack (1:11:05): Alright. Very good. We'll take a break, we'll come back with a reco, that I will not give a total rave to, but it did make me think, and maybe it will make you think as well. Documentary on Netflix. We'll take a break and be right back on the mic.

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Rob Spiwack (1:12:17): Okay. So really quick, I just wanted to cover this documentary

Unknown Speaker (1:12:21): Okay.

Rob Spiwack (1:12:21): Because it really makes you think it's a you just never people's capacity for evil, you just never get enough. It's just constant if you're looking at all these streaming services. So many documentaries about murder and deception and corruption and all the the latest one is called should I marry a murderer? And it is a study in moral confusion and just how evil people can be, and I think it was fascinating. It's a mini miniseries.

Unknown Speaker (1:12:59): I think three episodes, and you can knock it out. You can binge it in one night as I did. Supposed to

Speaker 0 (1:13:05): be four, but the lead was killed.

Rob Spiwack (1:13:08): It's essentially you know what? I'll roll the trailer because

Unknown Speaker (1:13:13): I don't think you're gonna you're

Rob Spiwack (1:13:14): not gonna lose anything by rolling the trailer. Okay.

Speaker 0 (1:13:16): Is this a Netflix joint?

Rob Spiwack (1:13:18): It's a Netflix joint. Take a look at the trailer for this movie. This is fascinating to me. Really.

Unknown Speaker (1:13:22): Imagine you fall in love with someone who made you feel accepted, wanted, seen, who made you feel whole and loved and special, and you are just so happy. And then they say to you, I've done a horrible, horrible thing. Something so vile, it flips your entire world upside down.

Unknown Speaker (1:13:50): Mountain rescue teams are searching for a man who's been missing for more than a week. There was not a single trace of him alive ever again.

Unknown Speaker (1:13:57): He's effectively disappeared into Finir.

Unknown Speaker (1:14:00): To remain in love, you have to keep this secret that you know is gonna destroy you. But if you reveal it, then you destroy everything. I mean, what would you do?

Rob Spiwack (1:14:17): It is as compelling a documentary about and what makes it the best thing about it is just how incredibly intelligent she is Mhmm. And how she unravels based on this.

Unknown Speaker (1:14:31): She's intelligent.

Unknown Speaker (1:14:32): She's incredibly what to do? She is incredible. No. No. No.

Rob Spiwack (1:14:36): No. No. Hold on. Don't judge yet. Don't judge.

Rob Spiwack (1:14:39): It's if when when it's laid out, you get it. You understand what's happening.

Speaker 0 (1:14:43): And To be fair, people say that the super intelligent have hard times making decisions because they don't see things in black and white.

Rob Spiwack (1:14:50): She's very educated. She's a doctor. She's a pathologist.

Josh (1:14:53): And I could see if he if he explained it like I had to. One thing

Rob Spiwack (1:14:58): the one thing that would that really ultimately does not make sense to me, and I'll be curious to how people feel about it, is why the crime that that they discuss in this documentary happened in the first place, because it really didn't need to. So if you wanna check that out about what would you do in a circumstance like that, but don't jump to any conclusions as far as what she does because it's it's complicated, but it's fascinating.

Speaker 0 (1:15:26): Compelling is is a good word, and I'm looking for something to watch just ten seconds. I I happened on a movie that I watched yesterday, and I don't know that I'd ever even heard of it. Have you heard of a movie called Babylon? It's also on Netflix.

Unknown Speaker (1:15:37): Yeah. I'm not a fan. Not a fan. It's crazy.

Speaker 0 (1:15:39): It was wild for the first half hour, and then it turned into, like, a right good movie. Yeah. But it was really over the top and almost upsetting, so I would say away from it.

Unknown Speaker (1:15:50): Yeah. I didn't like it. We gotta take a break. Do you have some beautiful video for us today, Raj?

Unknown Speaker (1:15:54): Do want? And I have a little bit of MJ video that I think you

Rob Spiwack (1:15:58): would enjoy. Yeah. We will, do that when we come back right after this, everybody. Hey, fudge cutters. Mike O'Meara here.

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Rob Spiwack (1:17:21): She's got so much great stuff there. Let's jump right into the beautiful video portion Yeah. I like that. Of the program. Beautiful video.

Unknown Speaker (1:17:28): The cherry

Speaker 0 (1:17:29): time. Last thing about the Michael Jackson movie. They do an amazing job. Even if it's exaggerated of when his head caught on fire, you'll cringe. It's so well done.

Speaker 0 (1:17:41): But Okay. Also, I think one of the reasons I liked it so much is, you know, I'm an audio nerd and a production nerd.

Unknown Speaker (1:17:46): Mhmm.

Speaker 0 (1:17:47): And they go into a little bit of how the records were made. That's in the movie. This is real life. This is when they were mixing down a record, and Quincy Jones stuck his head in. I love this story.

Speaker 0 (1:17:58): This is the engineer that's talking right now.

Unknown Speaker (1:18:00): Bruce Swadian reflects on how meticulous Michael was about mixing this song.

Speaker 14 (1:18:04): Then he would say, Bruce, that's perfect. But let's try one more. And this is like miss mix 80. And so I say, no problem. So we did it.

Speaker 14 (1:18:15): And then finally we got up to mix 91 and Quincy came in the control room and said, what are you guys doing in here all this time? And and so we told him, Quincy, we're mixing Belly Jean and we got a fabulous mix. And Quincy Jones cuts right to the chase and he says, let me hear it. Let me hear this POS you think you're making so perfect. So we played it for him, came to the end, got real quiet in the control room.

Speaker 14 (1:18:56): Quincy said to me and Michael, he said, okay guys, let's listen to mix two. So we played mix two, it blew it all away.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:09): So that's the cut that's Yeah. On thriller is cut two. When you live yeah.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:15): When you live with it, you you can screw it up if you Yeah. Yes. If you overdo that. That is I love stuff like that.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:22): Ain't that cool? And then

Rob Spiwack (1:19:23): he said the engineer said, and

Speaker 0 (1:19:25): you won't get any order, and you won't ever die. Mike, this comes courtesy of the Schrokophile. Josh sent me this from the Brewers. I think this was yesterday's game.

Speaker 15 (1:19:35): Sheets flying out the window. Hopefully, you don't need to read that one, Marty, because it is up against the netting behind home plate.

Speaker 0 (1:19:41): This copy. One of their their promo copy pieces blew out of the booth and into the netting.

Speaker 15 (1:19:47): See if we can read it from here.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:50): What's that? My scorecard. Is that our disclaimer? It's copyrighted telecast. Let's do it.

Unknown Speaker (1:19:57): We could do it. To a great broadcast. Yeah. Ahead. Copyrighted telecast presented by authority of Milwaukee brewers may not be reproduced, retransmitted in any form.

Unknown Speaker (1:20:07): Accounts and descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without the expressed written consent of the Milwaukee brewers. Well,

Unknown Speaker (1:20:13): isn't that great?

Unknown Speaker (1:20:14): Hey, folks. We all write the same way. Okay? That's so true. Absolutely.

Unknown Speaker (1:20:19): So cool.

Speaker 0 (1:20:20): This is not AI, but they do reveal something at the end. I think you will enjoy this. I watched this. I couldn't believe what I was watching. This is fancy dunking of buffalo wings.

Unknown Speaker (1:20:39): Amazing. Right? Real? No. But watch how they do it.

Speaker 0 (1:20:46): It's a guy dropping wings.

Unknown Speaker (1:20:50): That's great. That's

Rob Spiwack (1:20:54): fantastic. Roll that one again from the top.

Speaker 0 (1:20:57): I love that. Great because only on the second time did I realize every time they throw the wing, it goes out of frame. Right. And then there's just this idiot in a raincoat dropping the wing into the sauce.

Unknown Speaker (1:21:07): It's so funny. I really like that. Think that's good. And movies do that. That's movies.

Unknown Speaker (1:21:28): Course. That's movie magic. Do it. Yes.

Speaker 0 (1:21:30): Montgomery County, Mike. Have you ever lived there?

Rob Spiwack (1:21:32): Montgomery County? No. I've worked there, but I've never lived I worked on Jennifer Jennifer Avenue.

Speaker 0 (1:21:39): Now in Montgomery County, there is a young four year old piano prodigy that is going to play at Carnegie Hall

Unknown Speaker (1:21:46): Okay.

Speaker 0 (1:21:46): Which is a big deal for anybody, but especially if you're four. See if you are annoyed as I am with this news coverage because they don't do one thing they might wanna do, which is let the kid play the piano.

Unknown Speaker (1:21:58): And in your morning cup of joy, a pint sized piano prodigy from Maryland headed to the Big Leagues.

Speaker 3 (1:22:03): Look at this cutie. Four year old Michael Griggs. He will take his talents to none other than Carnegie Hall.

Unknown Speaker (1:22:09): Okay.

Speaker 3 (1:22:10): This young man yes. Michael is set to become the youngest pianist to play at the famous May Manthan Goodreading. This Manhattan venue. He started playing piano last September in and at that time, and since that time, he's earned dozens of first place awards. That includes the top honor at the International Music Competition.

Speaker 0 (1:22:32): They don't show him playing piano. They just talk about

Rob Spiwack (1:22:35): it. And how about the yelling all that personality with that morning show, but not an ability to actually communicate?

Speaker 0 (1:22:43): And a word to the parents of the prodigy is don't make him wear a hat. You're right. Let's close with this because I just I still haven't gotten enough.

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Unknown Speaker (1:23:12): I'm gonna have a house full of pencils based on Luna alone. That's right.

Unknown Speaker (1:23:16): Mike, may I recommend the number two? The number two.

Rob Spiwack (1:23:19): Well, that was that lady from Florida. We don't wanna go back on that story. We gotta get out of here. We'll be back tomorrow with a brand new episode. It's the bonus show.

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Josh (1:23:35): Check your email. It's also always in the community tab on tmos.supercast.com.

Rob Spiwack (1:23:41): There it is. Check it out. We'd love to have you, and, fun, fun, fun. We'll see you, live stream this afternoon, 4PM. Get it.

Unknown Speaker (1:23:49): Forget it. Enjoy it. I don't know what that means. Set it. Forget it.

Unknown Speaker (1:23:54): Enjoy it. Set it. Forget it. And kick it upstairs.

Unknown Speaker (1:23:58): To the fat man. To the

Unknown Speaker (1:23:59): fat man. You know, sometimes I have to get really sincere.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:04): Oh, should I kill the music?

Rob Spiwack (1:24:06): No. Oh, okay. I'm Mike O'Mara, and I guarantee this show's good. We'll see you next time for Josh Sirocchi, Rob Stewart, Mike O'Mara saying bye bye everybody.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:19): I love you, pop.

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Unknown Speaker (1:24:31): Come on. Come on, man.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:33): Nice beaver.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:34): Thank you. You must have been the class clown. And I say, no, I wasn't. But I sat beside the class clown and I I studied him.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:45): He can't keep getting away with it. He can't keep getting away with it.

Unknown Speaker (1:24:51): He won't.