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Welcome back.
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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 the show today, comedian Dave Dugan and candy and gum coming up in just a minute.
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Kevin Harlan here. This Black Friday prime is taking over with an incredible day of live sports. Black Friday football is at the center of it all with the Chicago Bears taking on the Philadelphia Eagles at 3 Eastern immediately after that. It's an exciting Emirates NBA cup doubleheader. The Bucs will take on the Knicks at 7pm Then the Mavericks will be in LA against the Lakers at 10. It's the final night of knockout rounds as teams vie for a spot in the quarterfinals. And the whole day starts on the Lynx with the Capital One skins game as four elite PGA golfers face off with $4 million on the line. Black Friday game day tees off with the Capital One skins game at 9am Eastern. Then it's Black Friday football with the Bears and Eagles at three. And it all culminates with the doubleheader of NBA basketball, the Emirates cup action featuring the Bucs at Knicks at 7 and the Mavs at the Lakers at 10. And it's all only on Prime.
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Tom Griswold was a ham yes, a big ham he was born with an.
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Ego that was big as a mountain.
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Was he.
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Tom Griswold was a ham yes, a big ham and he told all the ladies he was hung like a mighty oak tree with a mouth like a sewer and so full of manure was he. Now some more Bob and Tom. You want it, you need it. You can't live without it. This is Bob and Tom.
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Extra.
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Now. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Mr. Dave Dugan.
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How's it going? I am here a little earlier than last time. I haven't been up this early since I was buying live bait, but. Good to be back.
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So nice to see you again, Dave.
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Oh, thank you once again, Dave. We don't like to have guests that have better voices than we do. And as I said yesterday, get more head. What I meant was more hair. Sorry.
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Yes. He has more hair.
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Yes.
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Sorry.
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Than you and I.
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So I apologize.
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A good. Good head of hair. What's your secret?
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What's my secret?
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Yes.
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I don't. I don't have a secret. Is there a secret?
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Jeans?
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I guess so.
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Yeah.
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I guess it'd be just. It's probably a glandular problem. I don't know.
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Well, you look very nice. Now, a couple quick things. We've been reviewing candy bars. Of course. I bought a bunch of candy of the day. What are the things. What are the. Zinn tablets?
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Yeah, Zins.
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Zen pouches.
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Zen pouches. Are those pouches? Yeah, yeah.
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It's a nicotine pouch.
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Yeah. Have they done a candy version of that?
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I don't think so. I don't think that we need to just indoctrinate all children and using tobacco products immediately.
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Because there is Big League Chew. Of course there is. Which is the bubble gum that's made to look like chewing tobacco, but it.
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Tastes good for about three seconds.
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Boy, that three seconds was great.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Which is about twice as long as a Fruity Stripe.
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Man, right?
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Worst gum ever.
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Worst gum ever.
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Ever.
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Is that the Yipes Stripes gun? They still make that?
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Yeah. Do you remember bubble tape? That would come in there.
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I loved bubble tape.
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Six feet of bubble gum for you.
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Is that still out there?
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I don't know. I believe so. Yeah. I sure hope so. I've seen it in the last two or three years. Okay, good.
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There was this kid. He wouldn't pull. It would just take a bite of it like it was an apple. He's got to be in prison now. That is just. That is crazy.
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Trouble Child. Oh, for sure.
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And then we did some research. Remember we found a bunch of Clark bars? They're still out there. Remember what was number one?
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Number one in candy?
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Yeah.
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Reese's Peanut Butter cup?
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Yeah, yeah. We turned to Christy Lee at the Silac insurance news desk. What's happening?
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Well, we're not going to talk about candy. We're going to talk about tech items from the past that have become obsolete.
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Okay.
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All right. Rotary telephones.
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Sure. Yeah.
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That's been gone for a while.
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They've been gone for what, long time? 40 years probably.
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@ least. Public telephone booths.
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Are there any?
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There are, yeah.
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There's actually one in Illinois because I called my family from it. Just say, hey, I'm on a telephone.
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How'd you get the. How did you get the drug dealer in front of you to get off the phone?
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Is your ear still sticky? It was a bit weird.
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How did you pay for it?
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Yeah, it was a quarter.
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Was it a quarter?
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Well, 35 cents. I think it was a quarter and a dollar.
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Oh, wow.
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Okay. I put two quarters in. I told him, keep the change. You're kind of a big deal man. Pat and Dave, longtime stand up comedians. Did you ever experience the rotary phone in a motel or hotel that had the lock on it?
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A lock?
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Yes.
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Oh, yeah.
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What?
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Absolutely.
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Like it's a shopping cart at Aldi. How did it work?
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Yeah, it was just a small lock.
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So that you could, couldn't move the.
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Like your finger would only go.
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Seriously, how did you get it to unlock?
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It was like a key type thing.
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That came with the bedbugs and vibrating.
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Wow, that's amazing.
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To keep you from making long distance phone calls.
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Yes.
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Wow. Obsolete. What else is obsolete?
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Wired landlines. Who still has a landline?
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I don't, I don't. Tom, I think does.
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Right.
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Yeah. But it's attached to the alarm. Oh, it's like a back up to the alarm.
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Now. I'm not a total. I'm still a little old. I still have cable.
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Yeah.
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Like an actual cable that runs from the green box in the yard to my home.
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That.
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That's got to be going away.
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It's. There are still people that do. I just got rid of it when I moved. I had cable. Dumb phones, which is a basic mobile phone. But I thought you could still get a basic cell phone that just called.
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Yeah, but the numbers are down, surely.
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Yeah. Is it me? As opposed to one that you can do texting on?
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Right.
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Access the Internet.
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Yeah. Because there are a lot of. Especially older folks that don't need all that. Don't want all that. They just want a phone.
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No, they need it.
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They need what?
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A high quality. Well, not all smartphone.
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Not all do.
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Yeah.
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Some are very close to death. And you don't want to, like, confuse them at the end. Yeah, you don't want to confuse them.
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Yes.
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Investing in a brand new phone for somebody who's like, really just holding the reaper's hand.
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You don't want to have a bloated blue. The number of steps that day. And it was zero.
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Or it's the number of steps they felt.
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Oh, gosh.
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Josh, how dare you make fun of the elderly. And dad, how dare you make fun of your peers. I just can't believe this.
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Pagers and beepers have gone obsolete. Do doctors still use them Occasionally?
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I don't. I was in a hospital not too long. I didn't see any. But a few years ago, I can remember a doctor walking by with a really elaborate pager.
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I just got a pager the other day at Outback. They give it to you and then like, you wait out in your car.
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You kept it, didn't you?
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Oh, yeah.
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And O' Donnie Baker had about 400 of those.
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You know, my.
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My grandma liked to loudly announce that she wanted to hold the vibrator at the restaurant.
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Did she know what she was doing?
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A little bit.
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She had no cl.
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Sit on it. Did she?
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Tachi, can I have the vibrator?
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No, Christy, she didn't sit on it.
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Table's ready. And I finished.
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She had some. We were. Grandma had another orgasm at Olive Garden.
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That's.
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They're unlimited, you know.
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Now that has to be.
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They treat you like family.
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They're not unlimited.
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They're endless.
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Okay, that has to be. That has to be a chapter title for your book. Gr. Grammy had an orgasm at Olive Garden.
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People are.
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People are going to turn the page. They want to know what happen.
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Other things that are absolutely.
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How many restaurants do you think do the vibrator thing versus now taking your phone number?
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It's kind of.
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I think Covid helped sort of kill the vibrator.
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I love the vibrator thing. And then as soon as it vibrates, I pick it up. I go, oh, hello. Oh, our table's ready. And then I go, oh, that's not a phone. Makes my little sisters laugh every time.
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Cheesecake Factory is good on you.
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It's a good.
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Like you got kids hanging out.
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The next time you and I go to a restaurant, I insist you do that for me, Josh. You're gonna love it. It's such a good time.
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By the way, I think we need to give awards for people in regular day to day jobs. People who do great things. They never get awards.
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Oh, I Like this? Yeah.
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How about an award for the people that are the cooks at. You just mentioned the place that still has the vibrators. The Cheesecake Factory. You ever opened their menu? You think, boy, there's some guy in the kitchen and some lady in the kitchen, they've got to make all this stuff.
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Yeah, right.
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There's a 19 year old immigrant with an Adderall prescription going to work back there.
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He knows, here's 400 things to make. What else is obsolete, Christy Lee?
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Let's see, fax machines.
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Yeah, sure.
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Yeah. And there's a bunch of really cool movies I think. Is it Bullet and Bullet?
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Yeah.
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In which, in which they do do that. There's an old fashioned fax type machine and they're, they're, I think it's. And they're sending a photograph of somebody.
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And it happens a bullet and the usual suspect.
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And the usual, and it goes line.
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By line faster in the usual suspects than it does in Bullet.
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And it's. Obviously that's, that's gone away, but remember an almost famous.
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The. Oh, the dude who was running Rolling Stone, he was the main editor at the time.
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John Winter?
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No, Asian dude.
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Oh, right. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I forget his name.
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His name was. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I think it's Fong. I do.
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It's been Fong. Tory.
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Yes, thank you. Yeah, he was great. He. But he's talking on the phone, he says, hey, fax me your pages to the young journalists. In fact, your pages. It's this new thing. It only takes 20 minutes a page.
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It's like, dude, I can just read it to you at that pace.
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Now, Christy and Acel back me up on this. During the Gulf War, the fax machine was still going on. Every two minutes we would get a fax of the sledgehammer on the camel's balls launching the missile Scud missiles. We papered Dean's office with them. We had, you know, constantly.
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Don't they still fax over prescriptions though? Sometimes?
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That was one of my, that was my, one of my jobs when I worked for Express Scripts.
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Yeah, I mean, still to this day I think they, they'll call them in or fax them over and what, what.
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They end up doing is you, you fax, but it ends up being a. Going to a computer like an email.
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Oh, okay.
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But it still really works that way. Yeah, it's wild. Well, back in the day they used to fax memes. Really? Yes, they did exactly what that was.
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Why would you guys just send them on your phone though?
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It's right there. You know, Willie, our phones now they're.
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Like mini computers.
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Things that have gone obsolete. Floppy disks. Yeah, those are gone. Dial up Internet.
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That just what AOL announced what, two or three weeks ago that they were done.
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Yeah.
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But they're still. I. What did it say? There were still like several thousand people that still had it and there's a couple of small companies that are now serving them. I'm not sure why, but I'm sure they're. As I mentioned, I need Starlink or whatever. Various. Various people that. That's sort of part of their Pavlovian. Erection inducing.
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Sure.
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They're pre game. They hear that sound and it reminds them of how they would access porno back in the day.
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When's the last time you were in a pay toilet? A pay toilet?
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I was.
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Not that long ago.
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Yeah, in the uk at the train station.
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Really?
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Really? Yes.
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So annoying.
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Yeah, that should be.
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How much was it?
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I don't know. What are they done by weight? You had coins. It was a coin.
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Yes.
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It's like when you check out at the grocery store, you have a serious event, they lock you in.
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They don't. But Brexit, they don't use euros, they.
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Use pounds and pounds or whatever.
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I don't remember how much it was.
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That's.
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That's not.
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Same James Park. The same thing. They had to pay to go there too.
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But that's just. That's just encouraging. Some, you know, hobo to deuce right there in the stairway.
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The cathode ray tube. The CRT monitor gone away. Calculators are now on your phone. You don't need those typewriters. Of course, we all know have gone away. The vhs. The vhs. Except for at Ace's house. Betamax, that went out long.
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You know what that is, Willie?
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Betamax.
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Yeah.
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It's like they were like big. It looks like a vinyl record, but it was more like a dvd.
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Right, That's a laser disc. Those have gone away.
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Betamax was the competing technology to VHS that lost out in about the early 80s.
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It was smaller version of VHS tape. In fact the TV stations used.
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It was the superior technology.
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You guys know so much. My goodness.
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Yeah, well, you mentioned calculators the kids are still using. What are they? Scientific calculators.
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Oh, are they?
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Because I just had to buy one and they're $147.
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Are you kidding me?
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That T93. If you give me that thing, I'll show you how to play games on there. It's pretty fun.
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Oh yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's this instrument I had the T1000 and I. Oh, no, you got this. It just kept telling me it wanted to kill Sarah Connor. That is a nerdy joke. But I remember my parents scrambling to scrape together money to buy all of us calculators.
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Yeah.
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And they were pissed because four boys. But we were far enough apart to where they needed the next generation. Each kid needed the right calculator.
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If it doesn't have scientific notation, it's a piece of.
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Of crap.
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Just silly portable DVD players.
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And they, by the way, they're making a comeback.
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Are they?
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Well, at least. And I know portable CD players now. There's some of them that have Bluetooth and you can hook speakers up to them and stuff. So that's kind of nice to know. At least something's coming back.
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Yeah. Slide projectors. Those are gone. Overhead projectors, boom boxes and Walkman. The boombox, though. You're kind of talking about that because that is one of those. I have one of those altogether things where.
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Yeah.
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I love the boombox.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Did you walk around with it on your shoulder? No.
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No. Take it out in the yard and fire it up, Willie.
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There was a time when we would refer to those as ghetto blasters without blinking.
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Didn't think a thing about it.
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Yeah, we had no clue. It's perfectly acceptable written ghetto blaster, buddy.
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I graduated high in 2011. We were saying it too. We weren't great.
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There was no malice behind it. But on paper you kind of go, oh, wait a second. Yeah, I got one with detachable speakers.
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Oh yeah, that.
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The cord was about a foot and a half. You're exactly right. I would take it outside and take the speakers off, move them a foot and a half each, like it's doing something.
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And then you have them face each other. And then you give your little brother a hearing test. You put them right in the middle. You hear anything, you hear anything.
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But see, ghetto can mean much. There can be all kinds of different things. Various ethnic. Ethnicities.
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Well, of course. But they're. But admittedly it was not.
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Didn't mean various. Thistle's. It meant exactly one thing.
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In that case. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Kind of a United States of America urban. You know where I'm going with it?
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Oh, yeah, of course.
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Yeah.
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Into the. Into a hole that you're not going to rescue me from, you sops.
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We're gonna wrap this up with paper maps and phone books.
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Paper maps and phone books, you guys.
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You gu voice to text very much.
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I don't at all. And I probably.
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It's.
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I've lost quite a few friends doing the voice to text. Oh, yeah, you should proofread that. I got a hurry though. Well, I got an appointment with our plumber that I'd said his name's Carl. He's been our plumber for years. And I texted him and. And sent it and then I looked down and it said, hey, Carl. I said, hey. Hey, girl. Are we still on tomorrow for 2:30? So that's a toilet that never got plunged.
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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. What's up, guys? David Pollack here, former Georgia Bulldog, former analyst with college game day and host of my new show, C ball, get ball.
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Episode Title: B&T Extra: Comedian Dave Dugan, & Candy & Gum
Podcast: The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
Date: November 24, 2025
This lighthearted Bob & Tom Show "Extra" centers around nostalgia—from the joys and misgivings of childhood candy and bubblegum to the retro tech and traditions that have disappeared from daily life. Comedian Dave Dugan joins the lively panel to riff (and roast) on everything from hair envy to ancient communication tools. The episode is a funny, wide-ranging look at things we used to love (and loathe) before smartphones, streaming, and modern conveniences.
“Big League Chew... tastes good for about three seconds.” — Dave Dugan ([04:40])
“That three seconds was great... which is about twice as long as a Fruity Stripe.” — Bob ([04:43])
“He would just take a bite of it like an apple. He’s got to be in prison now. That is just... That is crazy.” — Panelist ([05:12])
Christy Lee introduces a walk down memory lane with relic tech:
“Rotary telephones... gone for what, 40 years?” — Christy Lee ([05:48])
“There’s actually one in Illinois because I called my family from it... just to say, hey, I’m on a telephone.” — Bob ([05:57])
“I still have cable... it runs from the green box in the yard to my home. That’s got to be going away.” — Bob ([07:13])
“Pagers and beepers have gone obsolete. Do doctors still use them? Occasionally.” — Christy Lee ([08:25])
Jokes on Aging and Tech:
“It’s this new thing. It only takes 20 minutes a page.” — Bob, quoting “Almost Famous” ([11:28])
“Floppy disks. Yeah, those are gone. Dial-up Internet... AOL announced they were done.” — Christy Lee ([12:41])
“Betamax was the competing technology to VHS that lost out in about the early 80s. It was the superior technology.” — Christy Lee ([14:41])
“Kids are still using scientific calculators... had to buy one and they’re $147!” — Bob ([15:01])
“If it doesn’t have scientific notation, it’s a piece of crap.” – Panelist ([15:39])
“There was a time when we would refer to those as ghetto blasters without blinking...” — Bob ([16:22])
“But on paper, you kind of go, oh, wait a second.” — Bob ([16:43])
“I texted our plumber, and it said, ‘Hey, girl, are we still on tomorrow for 2:30?’ So that’s a toilet that never got plunged.” — Dave Dugan ([17:44])
Tone: Upbeat, irreverent, affectionate about old tech, always ready with a punchline.
Even as the world moves on from Big League Chew, pagers, fax machines, and rotary phones, the Bob & Tom crew (and Dave Dugan) prove the humor and fondness for old relics never gets obsolete. Their quick wit and playful banter make for a nostalgic and laugh-heavy listen—whether you ate bubble tape by the chunk or never sent a fax in your life.