TMOS Extra : Lost in Africa

The Mike O'Meara Show

Mike O'Meara, Robb Spewak, Josh Sroka

News, Comedy

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this special holiday edition of The Mike O’Meara Show, Robb Spewak hosts a gripping firsthand account of Matt Sroka’s terrifying experience after becoming lost on a remote island in Tanzania. Matt recounts a journey that began as a mission trip and turned into a life-threatening ordeal—complete with rising tides, jagged rocks, and painful encounters with sea urchins.

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0:00.0	Mike O'Mara Radio Entertainment.
0:10.0	Welcome to a very special edition of the Mike O'Mara show.
0:14.4	This is one of our holiday extras.
0:16.5	We told you we'd have content all throughout the holiday season for you.
0:21.9	And this is certainly the most recent one.
0:24.4	Rob Spiwak here with not Josh Sroka, immediately anyway, but his brother Matt Sroka.
0:29.9	And I don't know if you heard on a previous episode, Matt has a chilling story to tell of
0:36.5	a thrills and intrigue and mistaken identity.
0:41.4	No missing jewels or drugs or anything, but you certainly teased it on the show this week.
0:47.5	So we are joined today by Matt Sroka.
0:50.6	So Gary Cremble and Happy Rudolph and Matt, welcome to the show.
0:55.6	Hey, thanks. Glad to be here. I did. I mean, I teased it, so no, I have to do it. You got to
1:00.5	make good on it. You do. Yeah. However successful, unsuccessful that the tease was, I still
1:06.4	have to go through with it. I think it's not really a harbinger of doom. I think actually, I think, you know,
1:12.0	some movies are marketed poorly and end up doing very, very well. Yeah. Well, if I can just
1:17.5	briefly defend my tease, even if you didn't hear the tease, but you're allowed to pause and go
1:22.8	back, if you like, ladies and gentlemen, to hear this tease. It's something. But and then sometimes, and Rob, you know this, right? Sometimes something sounds really nice in your head and makes sense in your head. And then after you say the thing, it's like, oh, are you kidding? I've built a career on that, Matt. I mean, really, I'm, I mean, two for 10 would be great if I could pull that off. But no, I totally get it.
1:45.2	And also, you were playing an away game.
1:47.4	It's not your show.
1:48.3	It's not Section 336. It's a different arena. You don't always know what you're playing against. Yeah, it's true. It's true. And you do this every day. I don't do this every day. But the whole thing I was getting at is my getting lost in in Africa is kind of interesting, but all like the other people that were affected by it. And then after you kind of, because I was found, I'm here. And then after you get found. Sorry, I was just going to start it at the end. I was found. Just like Pulp Fiction or Citizen Kane.
2:19.3	All great stories are very circular.
2:22.3	Yeah.
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