The Mike O’Brien Show

Jeff gets MMA lessons from a 15 year old, Mike goes over his trip to Florida to visit his mom, and explains his big show at a condo in Ft. Lauderdale with a magician and 16 people. Mike talks about cheering on his hometown high school at a basketball game with the governor of Massachusetts. The guys finish the show reading their first ever email. You can also email the show at [email protected]. Please like subscribe and share!

Today we have Chris Cillizza from “The Tony Kornheiser Show” and formally CNN. We talk about his relationship with Tony and the show itself, 90’s college basketball and how coverage of politics has changed over the years. We finishing up the show remembering The Hartford Whalers. Please check out Cillizza’s book Power Players: Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency and his Substack!

Jeff begins the show explaining his battle with a stomach virus, being a trooper, and going to his moms birthday. He tells us a long story about how he upset his mom, but never says what he did. Mike doesn’t like going to dinner when friends are in town, and starts breaking down the 48 jobs he has had in his 43 years on this earth.

Mike goes over his trip to California, how San Francisco was beautiful and not covered in human excrement. Mike talks about his trip to Los Angeles and how he left The Price is Right disappointed for a 2nd time. He killed it at his comedy show and talks about living with a 2 year old for a couple days. Jeff took the family to Disney World and stayed in a fancy hotel, and figured out how to navigate the parks by just listening to his child. 

Mike and Jeff solve the homeless crisis in America. Mike is planning a trip to San Francisco for his Lady Friends brother’s wedding, and then LA to try and become famous. We remember Jeff’s dog Bella, and we discuss how children become good at drawing so we look at Jeff’s drawing of a barn and an interesting silo he made when he was 14. Please like subscribe and share!

Mike and Jeff talk about Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) being the best Christmas song of all time. Jeff is disgusted that Mike lays down in the shower and plays candy crush on his phone. Mike tells the tale of going to the Patriots - Chiefs game while wearing an “I Love Taylor Swift” shirt and giving a child his Taylor Swift Friendship bracelet. Family pictures with Santa at the Mall, and school picture backgrounds. Jeff tells Mike that he should do his idea of “unboxing” and rating the Christmas Cards he has received. They end the show with Florida Jeff explaining that the only proper way to speak to an other man is while having a gun on you. Please like subscribe and share! Merry Christmas!

Mike was sick with the flu so Jeff and Mike back track the days to try and find out how he got sick. Mike went to a gun range and talks about how gun people love guns. This turns into a talk about the Charles Stuart Documentary and bussing in Boston. Mike then talks about going to the Celtics, Christmas parties, and entering a Christmas Parade uninvited and walking the whole route. Jeff thinks he could beat up Rhonda Rousey, and why are all documentaries that take place in Boston about horrible people?

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Mike and Jeff talk with Marc Bertrand about his rise to the afternoon host in one of the biggest markets in America. The best sports talk callers, and of course why everyone hates BC and how to make UMASS athletics better. 

Dan joins the show and tells of his comedy travels last week which all ended badly. Dan and Mike discuss why Doug Guertin doesn’t respond on their group text anymore. The gang then discuss one topic they love and one topic they hate. And end show the show sharing stories of interacting with mentally unstable people.

Mike and Jeff talk about children taking piano lessons, a fire truck appears outside Mike’s apartment. Jeff talks about his time working The World Series, and Mike rants about trash sneakers, his trip to the laundromat where he stopped somebody trying to overthrow the government, and how his sunroof he never uses almost destroyed his car. Mike rants about protests and Jeff’s inner Florida was coming out.