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Christopher (Producer)
Welcome back. It's another Bob and Tom Extra. This is Christopher. Not only is the Bob and Tom show live every weekday morning, but every afternoon. We'll give you a little extra in case you missed anything on today's show. Ace shaved his beard and listener letters coming up right after this.
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Bob and Tom Toys Advertiser (voice)
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Kristi Lee
Where'd Suzy. Goo goo ga ga. Uh oh, there she is. Ew. What's this?
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Who's that girl with the hair in the. For those of you who always need something extra, well, here you go. This is Bob and Tom. Extra.
Bob Kevoian
Noticed anything weird about the room?
Tom Griswold
I did notice more than usual. I, I, I like both.
Bob Kevoian
It involves personal hygiene, if you will.
Kristi Lee
What?
Chick McGee
Somebody smells bad.
Bob Kevoian
What is this? He shaved Ace shaved off the beard and and made himself look 10 years younger.
Tom Griswold
I'm in mourning. Oh, what are you mourning?
Bob Kevoian
Our best player got traded.
Tom Griswold
Oh, man. What are you gonna do, Max with two X's?
Chick McGee
Crosby? Yep, he's a Raven now.
Tom Griswold
Oh, boy.
Bob Kevoian
Bing's grandson, right?
Chick McGee
See? Let's see Bing try to spank his ass.
Tom Griswold
Get over here. Get
Chick McGee
bucket butt.
Bob Kevoian
Dean Martin.
Tom Griswold
Bing. Bing's got kind of a little.
Bob Kevoian
You were right.
Chick McGee
Bing actually did call Dean and come over. You Want to hit my kids with me? And actually. What. What happened?
Tom Griswold
Have you noticed how cold your face gets after you shave off your beard? It was getting away. Of food.
Kristi Lee
Oh.
Tom Griswold
It was getting in the way of food. Oh, okay.
Bob Kevoian
Is that the first. Is that the first time you've had a full beard? No.
Tom Griswold
No.
Bob Kevoian
Really? I don't remember you having.
Tom Griswold
So it was getting in the way of the food, but have you noticed how cold your face gets after you shave? Your beard was like that.
Bob and Tom Toys Advertiser
What are you.
Tom Griswold
Whenever I shave my beard, are you
Chick McGee
expecting a straight answer?
Bob Kevoian
Are you dialogue? No.
Chick McGee
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
I think I prefer you without the beard, Ace. Frankly, I think. I think you looked older with the. With the beard and I. I guess.
Kristi Lee
Or distinguished.
Tom Griswold
No.
Bob Kevoian
Would you call Grady and Sanford and Son distinguished?
Tom Griswold
That's your only reference. Let's go.
Bob Kevoian
So that's exactly who you look at. Yeah, it is.
John (John Williams)
If he's watching more. Bet we're all in trouble.
Bob Kevoian
Let's just leave it right there. It's a time to examine the world of letters.
Bob and Tom Toys Advertiser
Yes.
Bob Kevoian
We begin with a Chick McGee at the Originsouls.com sports desk.
Chick McGee
That's right. Dear Bob and Tom Show. This is from Steve. Walking out of Costco, the happiest moment of my life. I just looked to my left and saw a man in the food court. Just nondescript, regular looking gentleman. He took a hot dog, wrapped a slice of pizza around it.
John (John Williams)
Oh, yeah.
Chick McGee
And started to eat.
Tom Griswold
Really?
Chick McGee
All I could hear in my head was Josh saying, here's one of the fattest things I've ever done.
Tom Griswold
That is a fair thing to do.
Chick McGee
Hot dog wrapped in pizza at Costco.
Bob Kevoian
Do you leave it in the bun?
Kristi Lee
That's what I was thinking.
Chick McGee
No. No bun.
Kristi Lee
No.
Tom Griswold
Okay, that's.
John (John Williams)
Don't be. That's a pizza bread.
Chick McGee
Don't be crazy.
John (John Williams)
But now people do this. And there's other folks. They'll get the chicken bake, and then they'll stuff the dog in the chicken bake, which, again, fattest thing I've ever done. Does sound fantastic.
Tom Griswold
How are you aware of these Costco hacks, man?
John (John Williams)
TikTok and Instagram. Oh, you just get on your phone, you stare at it four hours afterwards, you have a sheen of oil over your face. You feel terrible.
Tom Griswold
It's the best.
John (John Williams)
You got to.
Bob Kevoian
Have you tried any of these?
John (John Williams)
No. I'm not really a big fan of the sort of food challenge stuff.
Chick McGee
Costco, though. If you're hungry when you know they shouldn't, they say, don't go to grocery store hungry because you Buy everything. Costco. You have to go there hungry because there's food around every corner.
Kristi Lee
Yep.
Chick McGee
And you just shovel it in your face.
Bob and Tom Toys Advertiser
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Bob Kevoian
What is the. So you've got the meatballs at ikea.
Chick McGee
Yeah, those are pretty good. And they have veggie meatballs, too.
Kristi Lee
Costco does samples, so you never know what you're going to get. It's different every time.
Bob Kevoian
What other places are doing the free food? There used to be a hardware store that had free popcorn that I love.
Chick McGee
I've always said Target. I don't know if the Target I used to go to had popcorn. You had to buy it. But it was that that was the key to their success, I think, gave people popcorn.
Bob Kevoian
They all have free food. If you have a big jacket.
Tom Griswold
Right.
Kristi Lee
There are places with free jewelry. There are places. That's right.
Bob Kevoian
You mean free diamonds? Yeah.
Chick McGee
What would they do if you go, hey, hey, you know, I. I thought this was free. What was it? What could they say? I'll put it back then. I'm sorry.
Bob Kevoian
Dear Bob and Tom. This is from Terence. Love that name.
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You would.
Bob Kevoian
In discussing the phenomenon of radio waves, I haven't heard you mention how several AM radio stations in the country were broadcasting at extraordinarily high wattage during World War II. As much as 500,000 watts, to put that. That's. That's a lot.
Kristi Lee
That's a lot. I think the most you can broadcast now is 50,000 watts.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah. Because I have often heard, he writes, that the radio tower in Mason, Ohio, which is where Kings island is for WLW radio, could be heard through the fence. The fence would actually pick up the signal. I have heard that as well. And that's. That's still there. The. The. I guess, the capability of popping that thing on to 500,000 watts, would that go. I guess it would go all the way to Europe at night. Bounce off the sky.
Chick McGee
Yeah, nighttime, I would think.
Kristi Lee
I have kind of a similar ladder about this.
Bob Kevoian
Go ahead.
Kristi Lee
This is from Alex in Jackson, Michigan. He said, I was practicing my bass guitar in my father's basement. For some reason, I had the impulse to unplug the guitar and put the receiving end of the cord under my tongue like a thermometer. When doing so, a radio program started coming out of the speaker that was attached to the cord. If I took it out of my mouth and under my tongue, the radio stopped. If I put it back under, the radio began again. I have no reason or explanation for this.
Bob Kevoian
That is amazing.
Kristi Lee
Isn't that amazing?
Bob Kevoian
I do know that There was a time when I could. With the old rabbit ears days.
Kristi Lee
Yep.
Bob Kevoian
I remember trying to watch one of the political conventions up in Harbor Springs.
Kristi Lee
Boy, you're fun.
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Chick McGee
to the house and watch a political convention?
Bob Kevoian
Well, that's because they.
Chick McGee
Where are you going?
Bob Kevoian
Because it used to be they would actually. They would actually elect a candidate, unlike it is today. But I could remember standing there with my aunt, and I would touch the antenna, and she was, that's perfect. And then I'd walk away, and it would go. It would go off. It would go.
Kristi Lee
Yeah, I remember those.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah. I don't know. That's interesting that. That guy. That guy, in effect, became some kind of weird antenna doctor. And I bet his. Who was upstairs? His dad was upstairs.
Kristi Lee
I don't know. He doesn't say.
Bob Kevoian
Okay. Whoever was upstairs was probably glad they didn't have to hear bass anymore. Unless, of course, they were playing the bass riff to the great song in Houston. We just started a new dance. It's our new dance in Houston to tighten up. This is the music we tighten up with. If you've never heard that song in its full glory, please. Oh, it's a great song. Let. Let that guitar fall in. Thank you very much. Who else has a letter over there?
Chick McGee
I'll go. Hello, Bob. And top show. Your discussion last Friday about cases of mistaken identity and hair loss reminded me of a personal experience. I was out shopping for clothes with my wife. I noticed a man who was significantly, follically challenged. While looking down at some shirts, I leaned toward who I thought was my wife, and I whispered, did you check out Uncle Fester over there? With the apparent roadkill stapled to his head. Worst rug I've ever seen. When I turned to accept the adulation from my wife about my snappy comment, I realized my wife was across the store. The person standing right next to me.
Bob Kevoian
Me.
Chick McGee
Was the man I had just described. My stomach started to sink. I managed to stammer, oh, not you. I think I totally saved it.
Tom Griswold
Oh, man.
Chick McGee
I left the area. That's Todd in Wichita. Thank you, Todd.
Bob Kevoian
That's. That was. We were talking about how sometimes you'll be busy, whatever. You're in a store. I walked up into a store. I was. I walked up to this woman I thought was Kelly and said something if I thought was humorous yet provocative and turned around, it was somebody else.
Chick McGee
I'm surprised you don't walk up to mannequins and talk to them.
Kristi Lee
I'm surprised you said something provocative.
Chick McGee
I bet you do. I bet you do. And you just haven't shared it yet.
Tom Griswold
You know, I appreciate how you listen. You know, a lot of times I get right, I get smart.
Bob Kevoian
There is a place.
Chick McGee
Will you be my best friend?
Bob Kevoian
There is a place about, about 10 miles north of here. And they have all these statues in the street.
Kristi Lee
Oh, yes.
Bob Kevoian
And every once in a while, oh, look at those two kids playing over there. Oh, those. That's one of the statues.
Kristi Lee
They do catch you. I've had. Yeah, yeah, they're very good.
Bob Kevoian
It's a guy in a bench reading a newspaper. Oh, wait a minute. That's. That's a statue.
John (John Williams)
One of the statues is a little girl crossing the street. And I'll tell you, I stop at that crosswalk every time.
Kristi Lee
That's a good one.
Tom Griswold
Are they, like, painted to where they were?
John (John Williams)
I've sat at that intersect for two minutes going, no, it's okay.
Tom Griswold
Go ahead.
Bob Kevoian
What are they doing?
John (John Williams)
I, I, yeah, I think it's silly.
Bob Kevoian
No, it's great. And there's one that has a busker.
Tom Griswold
Oh, really? With a guitar?
Bob Kevoian
Yeah, the whole thing.
Kristi Lee
Wonder if he ever gets money.
Tom Griswold
We've got to go vandalize them or
Chick McGee
put, put hats on them or something. Yeah, exactly.
Tom Griswold
Well, that, Yeah, I mean, nothing, you know, hateful, just.
Chick McGee
No, just like a sombrero or a fez or, you know, whatever.
Bob Kevoian
Is there a practical reason to wear a sombrero?
Chick McGee
I'm sure there. I'm sure there is. The hot sun creeps to mind.
Bob Kevoian
That's not an insult if I ever heard one.
Chick McGee
No, it's a fun.
John (John Williams)
That's a fun time.
Kristi Lee
Have you not been to a Mexican restaurant and it comes in a big sombrero?
Chick McGee
Of course.
Bob Kevoian
It's interesting. You don't have a guy walking. Could we hire a midget to walk around with a sombrero? He can walk up and people can dip their guac into his hat.
Tom Griswold
I, that's interesting.
Chick McGee
He, he thinks what anybody else says is insulting.
Tom Griswold
It's the insulting thing in his head.
Chick McGee
He throws out insulting things all the time.
Kristi Lee
We were just having fun.
John (John Williams)
And your brain is so deeply problematic. You think there's a little person walking around with guacamole on a hat.
Tom Griswold
You know, I, I would like.
John (John Williams)
It would be a good time, actually.
Bob Kevoian
Yes. You do not have to speak Spanish. That is, open it up to more people short of Stan.
John (John Williams)
That queso one's got a lotte in there. Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
Oh, hilarious. Could you send over the, could you sit over the guy with the queso hat?
Kristi Lee
I Love queso.
John (John Williams)
What's up?
Bob Kevoian
I'll have you know. Yes, I be. Thanks. I can thank Greg Warren, comedian, for this. Greg and I are big fans of iced tea.
Kristi Lee
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
And we're also critics of iced tea.
Kristi Lee
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
Flavored iced tea. I will not attend your restaurant anymore. So he told me that the best iced tea out there is Chipotle.
Kristi Lee
Pretty good.
Bob Kevoian
So. Yes, I want to say. So I decided to go to Chipotle to get Finn some stuff. She'd been sick all week and all she wanted was that little bowl with brown rice.
Kristi Lee
Oh yeah. Chicken and.
Bob Kevoian
And queso. They had no brown rice and no queso. But I did get the tea, which was great. Thank you. So all is good with the world. Dear Bob and Tom show. This is especially, I think for you, John.
Tom Griswold
All right.
Bob Kevoian
I am from a family of six writes bill to prevent fights. Our mother would collect all the prizes from cereal boxes. When they came with toys, she would put them in six unmarked paper bags and we would blindly choose which bag we wanted. This kind of sounds like your situation in which. Didn't your mother just take them all and give them to you at Christmas time?
Chick McGee
Yes.
Tom Griswold
Sad and sweet.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah. She also numbered Christmas presents and on Christmas morning we had the master list one through whatever. That way we did. That way we didn't know which box to shake. Trying to figure out what was inside.
Tom Griswold
My mom did a similar thing where she would not put the gifts that my parents would give us. Not the Santa ones.
Kristi Lee
Right.
Tom Griswold
They were not labeled.
Kristi Lee
She had probably different wrapping paper for each boy maybe.
Tom Griswold
Or she claims that she had some sort of marking on each that we never saw.
Kristi Lee
So.
Tom Griswold
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
Really?
Tom Griswold
Yeah. So she had it figured out.
Bob Kevoian
Maybe that's from her experience marking cards.
Tom Griswold
Marking cards, yes.
Bob Kevoian
Just playing with that deck of marked cards.
Tom Griswold
Yeah.
Chick McGee
She know your mother was a world class gambler? She was a shark.
Tom Griswold
Yeah.
Chick McGee
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
Cindy Jaws Arnold, they call.
Bob Kevoian
Did you know.
Tom Griswold
Do you guys say card shark or card sharp?
Bob Kevoian
Shark. Shark.
Chick McGee
Shark. I always said shark, but I understand it is sharp. I guess it can be either.
Tom Griswold
Maybe it started. I think it started as sharp and then and became shark and then. Yeah, both are totally correct.
Kristi Lee
I had no idea. Thank you for learning.
Tom Griswold
Is that weird?
John (John Williams)
Yeah, it is.
Tom Griswold
I didn't.
Bob Kevoian
Well, you'll finally on this show this year, the first thing we've learned.
Christopher (Producer)
That's it for another Bob and Tom show. Extra. Catch us on itunes, Google play and stitcher for Bob and Tom. Extra. This is Christopher. Take care everybody.
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The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
B&T Extra: Ace Shaves His Beard & Listener Letters
Release Date: April 2, 2026
In this B&T Extra episode, the crew dives into a lively discussion about Ace's decision to shave his beard—sparking playful banter about personal grooming and changing looks. The second half sees the group reading and riffing on listener letters, touching on topics from wild Costco food hacks, radio wave oddities, and embarrassing mistaken identity stories to quirky family holiday traditions. True to the BOB & TOM Show spirit, the episode is packed with humor, nostalgia, and off-beat camaraderie.
[05:03–06:41]
Notable Quote:
Bob Kevoian [05:32]: “I think I prefer you without the beard, Ace. Frankly, I think you looked older with the beard.”
[07:04–08:23]
Notable Quote:
Chick McGee [07:34]: "Hot dog wrapped in pizza at Costco."
John (John Williams) [07:58]: "TikTok and Instagram. You just get on your phone, you stare at it four hours afterwards, you have a sheen of oil over your face. You feel terrible."
[08:23–09:00]
[09:11–10:14]
[10:15–11:25]
Notable Quote:
Kristi Lee [10:49]: “Isn’t that amazing?”
[12:02–13:03]
Notable Quote:
Chick McGee [12:41]: “The person standing right next to me was the man I had just described. My stomach started to sink. I managed to stammer, 'Oh, not you.' I think I totally saved it.”
[13:40–14:27]
[14:39–15:15]
Memorable Moment:
John (John Williams) [15:19]: “Your brain is so deeply problematic. You think there’s a little person walking around with guacamole on a hat.”
[16:31–17:41]
Notable Quote:
Tom Griswold [17:41]: “Maybe that’s from her experience marking cards.” Chick McGee [17:43]: “Did you know your mother was a world-class gambler? She was a shark.”
As always, the BOB & TOM Show crew are quick with jokes, puns, anecdotes, and a touch of chaos. The conversational banter is playful and irreverent, always spinning listener contributions into comedic gold, while still making room for genuine moments of nostalgia and camaraderie.
For those who missed it:
Expect a fast-moving, joke-laden half-hour with everything from beard-shaving confessions to food court absurdities, and plenty of affectionate ribbing between longtime friends. Listener stories are the heart of the episode, sparking tangents that veer from historical radio engineering to awkward run-ins at the mall, delivering the signature blend of wit, warmth, and weirdness that defines the show.