Oh Great, This Show

Oh Great, This Show

Welcome to the show your group chat warned you about. Mike and Tom are two longtime friends with just enough brains, bad ideas, and hot takes to make things interesting. Each week, they dive into whatever’s blowing up — current events, gambling wins (and losses), business plays, fast cars, dumb trends, and money talk that may or may not get them canceled. With guest interviews, live call-ins, and zero regard for staying on topic, it’s the unfiltered, slightly reckless weekly ride you didn’t know you needed. New episodes every week — come for the chaos, stay for the questionable advice.

  1. 6d ago

    The Wild Story of Tampa Bay's US19 Sign Guy

    If you've spent any time driving US 19 through Pasco County, there's a good chance you've seen a giant painting, joke, tribute, advertisement or completely ridiculous message on the side of one particular building. This week, we finally got the guy responsible for it. Adonis — better known as the US19 Sign Guy — joins Mike and Tom on Oh Great, This Show for the story behind one of Tampa Bay's most recognizable roadside landmarks. And somehow, none of this started with him planning to become an artist. Adonis takes us from growing up as a preacher's kid to running labor companies, getting stranded in Kansas City after being fired, working in recruiting, selling batteries, opening Battery Viking locations and eventually deciding to start painting a building on US 19 despite admittedly knowing almost nothing about art. Naturally, it worked. We get into the viral Live PD sign that put him on a lot of people's radar, his Gabby Petito tribute, the Tiger King era, the business behind murals, how companies advertise on the building, creating huge artwork using Photoshop and VR, and the surprisingly complicated process behind something thousands of people casually drive past every day. But this is OGTS, so staying on topic was never a realistic possibility. We also discuss getting fired over jokes, the lead-paint conspiracy theory, why apparently some children CHEWED ON THEIR BUNK BEDS, waterbeds, Florida's US 19 chaos, a car crashing into Adonis' building, 7-Eleven blasting opera music, internet trolls, social media fame, AI-generated art, old-school software stores, Sierra, Electronics Boutique, Babbage's, Photoshop, CorelDRAW and the early days of the internet. Adonis also talks about where his art career is heading next, including much larger mural projects and commercial work around the country. Basically, we invited a local artist onto the show and accidentally got a crash course in entrepreneurship, Tampa Bay history, internet culture and the weird ecosystem surrounding US 19. #OhGreatThisShow #US19Sign #Adonis #TampaBay #PascoCounty #Florida #ComedyPodcast #Entrepreneurship #LocalArt #FloridaMan

    The Wild Story of Tampa Bay's US19 Sign Guy
  2. Oct 7

    Is Maserati Dying? Maserati Tampa Answers the Internet

    Is Maserati dying? According to the internet, apparently they sold roughly three cars, everyone's getting fired and the entire company is about five minutes away from disappearing. There's just one problem: that's not actually what's happening. This week, Mike & Tom are joined by Chris Rogers, General Manager of Maserati Tampa, and Ahmad from the dealership's finance team for a nearly two-hour conversation about Maserati, luxury cars and the insanity that happens behind the scenes at a dealership. Chris addresses the viral claims about Maserati's sales and future in the United States, explains why the brand is currently operating with fewer models, and talks about what's coming next — including a redesigned Levante and another sedan. Then Mike gets on his soapbox. As an MC20 owner, he wants to know why the automotive world seemingly refuses to give the car the attention it deserves. We get into the MC20/MC Pura's break-in programming, its ridiculous power delivery, exotic-car depreciation and why Mike would apparently fight someone in an alley over the car's styling. Naturally, Porsche enters the conversation. Mike explains his problem with GT3 “clout culture,” why nobody seems impressed by a regular 911 anymore and how the internet may have convinced enthusiasts that an amazing car isn't worth owning unless strangers at Cars & Coffee approve of it. Then we go behind the dealership doors. Chris and Ahmad tell some absolutely insane stories — including a prospective Porsche buyer arriving on a bicycle with a bag of chocolate gold coins, identity thieves attempting to finance a Maserati using someone else's information, and the dealership deliberately keeping suspected scammers occupied until police arrive. We also get into the stuff buyers actually want to know: how luxury-car financing works, why first-time buyers usually can't jump straight into a six-figure loan, how much money you should consider putting down, 84 and 96-month financing, and why leasing can sometimes make much more sense than people think. Plus: Maserati's future, the upcoming Maserati movie, Mike almost selling his MC20 during a new-dad existential crisis, and why Maserati Tampa apparently needs to hire Mike as an unpaid brand ambassador immediately. It's cars, money, dealerships, supercars and questionable financial decisions. Basically, an extremely on-brand episode of Oh Great, This Show. #OhGreatThisShow #Maserati #MaseratiMC20 #MCPura #CarPodcast #Supercars #Porsche #PorscheGT3 #LuxuryCars #CarDealership #AutoFinance #CarCulture #AutomotivePodcast

    Is Maserati Dying? Maserati Tampa Answers the Internet
  3. Sep 30

    Free Grills, Free Mopeds & Terrible Decisions

    Some people see garbage on the side of the road. Tom sees inventory. This week on Oh Great, This Show, Mike discovers that Tom's love of free stuff goes significantly deeper than expected. It starts with the studio's 3D printer. Mike brought it in thinking everyone could use it occasionally. Tom apparently interpreted that as unlimited manufacturing capacity and has been printing anything he can get his hands on—from shelves and WRX parts to accessories for the Tesla. That leads to an important discovery: Tom REALLY likes free stuff. He'll grab things from the side of the road. He searches Facebook Marketplace. He's rescued grills people threw away, replaced a few rusty parts and put them right back into service. And apparently this behavior runs in the family. Then we hear one of Tom's finest childhood stories: he was riding a moped his family had found and fixed when a group of guys started approaching him. Convinced he was about to get robbed, Tom decided to skip the robbery entirely, threw the moped toward them and ran away. Technically, nobody stole it. David joins the conversation and reveals his own trash-to-cash strategy: buying broken riding mowers and trailers, repairing them and selling them for significantly more. We also get into modified Power Wheels, questionable welding, ridiculously fast go-karts and Mike nearly killing himself after driving one directly into a stop sign. Mike, meanwhile, says he doesn't really like free stuff because taking strangers' discarded possessions feels gross. Then he remembers the used Volkswagen GTI he bought with a used condom underneath the seat. So maybe free isn't the problem. It's 17 minutes of free stuff, Facebook Marketplace, flipping junk, 3D printing, childhood stupidity and questionable financial decisions. Basically a normal episode of Oh Great, This Show. #OhGreatThisShow #ComedyPodcast #FunnyPodcast #FreeStuff #FacebookMarketplace #TrashToTreasure #Marketplace #Flipping #DIY #3DPrinting #FunnyStories #PodcastComedy

    Free Grills, Free Mopeds & Terrible Decisions
  4. Sep 23

    How to Become a Race Car Driver with Mario from GridSeat.co

    🏁 This week, Oh Great, This Show gets an actual race car driver — which immediately makes Mike & Tom the least qualified people in the room. Mario joins the show to tell the story of how a lifelong obsession with cars eventually turned into legitimate endurance racing, owning a factory BMW M4 GT4 race car, running his own team and launching Grid Seat, a marketplace designed to connect drivers with race teams that have seats available. His story starts with karting in Colombia, soccer, autocross in Nebraska, the old-school tuner scene, Slowboy Racing, DSMs, Hondas and eventually spending nearly every available weekend at a racetrack. Then things escalate. Mario explains how he went from renting seats in race cars to realizing there should be a much easier way for drivers to find teams, book racing opportunities and get behind the wheel. That idea eventually became Grid Seat — and ultimately helped lead him to buying a $100,000 factory BMW M4 GT4. Naturally, Mike immediately starts trying to figure out how to monetize the business for him. We talk about what racing REALLY costs, why many drivers pay teams instead of teams paying drivers, the difference between track days and actual competition, the insane cost of maintaining a factory race car, why Sebring destroys everything, and why every time a race car leaves pit lane you basically need to financially prepare for it to never come back. Then the conversation turns into a full-blown car episode: Honda vs. DSM, Porsche Cup cars, Corvette C7 vs. C8, the GT350R, manual vs. automatic transmissions, Tesla as a daily driver, EVs, government regulations, the death of small affordable performance cars and why the golden age of motorsports seems to be happening at the exact same time manufacturers have stopped building many of the cars enthusiasts actually want. We also discover that Mike & Tom could potentially enter an endurance race for a surprisingly attainable amount of money. Which is information they absolutely should not have been given. 🎁 $50 AMAZON GIFT CARD GIVEAWAY Head over to the YouTube version of this episode and leave a comment with your best car/racing story, your dream race car, or what YOU would want to race. We'll pick our favorite YouTube comment and the winner gets a $50 Amazon Gift Card. This is one for the racers, track-day addicts, old-school tuner kids, BMW people, Porsche people, Honda people, Corvette people and anyone who's ever looked at a race car and thought: "How expensive could this possibly be?" Very. #OhGreatThisShow #CarPodcast #Motorsports #BMW #BMWM4GT4 #EnduranceRacing #RaceCar #Sebring #Daytona #GridSeat #CarCulture #AutomotivePodcast #Porsche #Corvette #Honda #Tesla

    How to Become a Race Car Driver with Mario from GridSeat.co
  5. Sep 16

    What Grinds Our Gears: BMW Bros, Bad Drivers & Fake Influencers

    Mike & Tom are back in the newly updated Oh Great, This Show studio, and instead of celebrating it like normal adults, they decide to spend the episode discussing everything currently irritating them. First up: fake humility. Why do successful people—and especially successful YouTubers—insist on pretending they're broke? If you're making millions and buying supercars, can we all just admit you're doing fine? Mike would actually prefer you flex honestly. That naturally turns into people who judge how other men dress, restaurant dress codes, expensive steakhouses and Mike's belief that achieving success should apparently earn you the right to wear whatever you want to dinner. Then we enter the automotive portion of the rage. Why has the BMW 3 Series become the new clout car? Mike & Tom try to understand why broccoli-haired teenagers are more excited about burble-tuned BMWs than actual exotic cars, whether the Porsche GT3 RS has become an Instagram personality trait, and why stock wheels are somehow cool now. From there, society continues collapsing. Apparently there's now an entire online world built around “LARPing” success—fake supercar keys, fake watches, fake cash, fake offices and courses teaching people how to stand next to somebody else's Lamborghini and pretend it's theirs. Mike & Tom have questions. Then Facebook Marketplace enters the chat: lowballers who don't actually have the money, random strangers messaging “nice car,” Meta's terrible seller tools and people apparently using Marketplace as a social network. Finally, David gets his moment and explains why drivers who stop when they DON'T have a stop sign are actually making traffic more dangerous. That opens the door to bad drivers, road rage, dash-cam accidents and the universal truth that trying to be “nice” in traffic often makes everything worse. It's a full What Grinds Our Gears episode. No solutions are offered. #OhGreatThisShow #ComedyPodcast #FunnyPodcast #BMW #CarCulture #PorscheGT3RS #SocialMedia #FacebookMarketplace #RoadRage #Driving #CarPodcast #YouTubeCulture #PodcastComedy

    What Grinds Our Gears: BMW Bros, Bad Drivers & Fake Influencers
  6. Sep 9

    The Truth About Performance Shops with SS Fabrication

    This week, Mike & Tom are joined by John Gaylord of SS Fabrication for what starts as a conversation about custom automotive fabrication and quickly becomes group therapy for anyone who has ever worked in the performance car industry. John grew up around Subarus, moved to Florida, started doing mobile fabrication and eventually turned that hustle into SS Fabrication, where he now builds handmade performance and turbo components. But getting there meant welding in people's driveways, learning TIG welding, dealing with impossible customers and discovering one of the most important lessons in business: Sometimes you should just say no. We get into Subaru WRX and STI builds, engine failures, $15,000–$20,000 rebuilds, oversized turbos, supporting mods, custom exhausts, performance-shop customers, internet car culture, RPF1s, Hellcats, Supras, Miatas, BMWs, turbo kits and why spending $30,000 on an engine while refusing to buy a $300 radiator might not be the financial masterclass you think it is. Mike also tells one of his ultimate performance-shop horror stories: a customer arrives with a dead Subaru, can't afford the repair, eventually gets the car rebuilt, has a minor issue corrected at the shop's expense—and somehow the situation ends with the customer's mother allegedly threatening Mike over a roughly $149 towing bill. Normal business stuff. John explains how SS Fabrication grew without spending money on advertising, why he's moving away from working directly on customer cars, and why handmade Subaru turbo parts have become such an opportunity. Then we get into the uncomfortable question: Are expensive name-brand performance parts actually better? The guys discuss parts arriving defective, rebranded overseas components, manufacturing costs, tariffs and the reality that some products carrying very different logos may have more in common than enthusiasts want to admit. And because this is Oh Great, This Show, we eventually discuss car-show clones, “broccolini” BMW kids, people who think Instagram Shorts are the entire podcast, Mike & Tom's early podcast days, their growing audience, and why installing race-car seats, harnesses and roll cages in your street car without understanding the safety implications might be a terrible idea. Come for the cars. Stay for three grown men slowly realizing that the biggest problem with car culture might be car people. #OhGreatThisShow #SSFabrication #Subaru #WRX #STI #SubaruWRX #SubaruSTI #PerformanceCars #CarPodcast #AutomotivePodcast #ModifiedCars #CarCulture #JDM #Turbo #Fabrication #PerformanceShop

    The Truth About Performance Shops with SS Fabrication
  7. Sep 2

    The Car Market Is Getting WEIRD | Tesla, Corvette Z06 & Car Scams

    It's a CAR EPISODE! Which means Mike & Tom have approximately 14 automotive topics prepared and will somehow stay focused on none of them. First, it's officially the end of an era: Mike's last Subaru is gone. From there, we get into the Karmann Ghia project, Maserati MC20 attention, old-school NuFinish commercials and Mike's shocking realization that he absolutely LOVES his new Tesla Model 3. That leads to the important question nobody asked: Could Tesla-style self-driving technology be retrofitted into old cars? Mike has ideas. Elon, apparently we're waiting for your call. Then things get expensive. Mike is considering replacing the Fiat with a C7 Corvette Z06, but the yellow example they found has questionable modifications, an interesting history and a dealership seemingly uninterested in actually selling it. That opens the floodgates to horrible dealership experiences, missing second keys, Tesla key protection, Mike's Hellcat red-key nightmare and why buying a car somehow keeps becoming harder. Then the episode takes a darker automotive turn into stolen cars, “striker cars,” salvage auctions, VIN fraud and the bizarre schemes circulating around the automotive world. We also debate whether those social-media car giveaways are legitimate and why running a giveaway can become a nightmare even when it is. And because this is Oh Great, This Show, we eventually abandon cars entirely and finish with pregnancy, sonograms, OceanGate and the realization that we've once again completely lost control of the episode. #OhGreatThisShow #CarPodcast #AutomotivePodcast #CorvetteZ06 #C7Z06 #TeslaModel3 #Tesla #Cybertruck #Hellcat #Subaru #CarDealership #CarCulture #Supercars #CarGuys #Cars #NuFinish

    The Car Market Is Getting WEIRD | Tesla, Corvette Z06 & Car Scams
  8. Aug 26

    Casino Bros Have Officially Broken Mike

    Mike and Tom are flying solo this week, which means there is absolutely nobody in the room qualified to stop an innocent conversation about gambling YouTubers from becoming a 30-minute argument about casino bros wearing crossbody bags. Mike presents his theory that gambling social media now has three distinct categories: traditional casino channels, attractive-girls-playing-slots channels, and the increasingly powerful world of “bro gambling.” Naturally, this leads to Young Hot Slots, Vegas Matt, Lady Luck, baccarat, bubble craps, streetwear, casino etiquette, $25 bets celebrated like Super Bowl wins, and Mike demanding to know why nine grown men need to surround one baccarat player. Tom's response is essentially: Why do you care this much? And that's where everything falls apart. They also get into gambling influencers, misleading high-stakes videos, Las Vegas casino culture, casual gamblers, high-limit rooms, screen-touching slot players, the emotional trauma of watching your friend win while you're losing, and whether social media has actually changed casino behavior—or Mike has simply become less tolerant of everyone around him. By the end, we're debating whether Tom is getting replaced and whether this episode had any content whatsoever. Spoiler: it did. Unfortunately. #OhGreatThisShow #GamblingPodcast #LasVegas #CasinoPodcast #Baccarat #Slots #VegasGambling #CasinoLife #Gambling #ComedyPodcast #FunnyPodcast #SlotMachines #VegasPodcast #CasinoCulture

    Casino Bros Have Officially Broken Mike

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Welcome to the show your group chat warned you about. Mike and Tom are two longtime friends with just enough brains, bad ideas, and hot takes to make things interesting. Each week, they dive into whatever’s blowing up — current events, gambling wins (and losses), business plays, fast cars, dumb trends, and money talk that may or may not get them canceled. With guest interviews, live call-ins, and zero regard for staying on topic, it’s the unfiltered, slightly reckless weekly ride you didn’t know you needed. New episodes every week — come for the chaos, stay for the questionable advice.