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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 big show today, comedian Jim Gaffigan. He's coming up in just a minute. You've got weight loss goals, but hitting them is another story. That's why weight loss by HIMSS now offers access to the FDA appropriate approved WeGovy pill and the FDA approved WeGovy pen. With WeGovy at HIMSS lose up to 20% or more of your body weight. When combined with diet and exercise, it helps you regulate your appetite and eat less, so success is within reach. Plus, WeGovy is the first ever GLP1 pill for weight loss, so there are no needles needed. And it doesn't stop there. HIMSS makes hitting your goals seamless by offering access to 247 messaging with your care team and in app lifestyle and nutrition support like recipes, meal plans, fitness videos, sleep content and more. It's nice, simple and convenient. Just the way I like it. Ready to reach your goals? Visit himss.com bobandtom to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. That's H I M S.com bobandtom hims.com Bobandom Weight loss by HIMS is not available in all 50 states. WeGovy is the registered trademark of Novo Nordisk. To get started and learn more, including important safety information, WeGovy clinical study information and restrictions, visit hims.com
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Ladies and gentlemen, I got the blues. Well, actually I'm colorblind so I'm not exactly sure what I got, but I think it's the blues I gotta share. This is Tim's blues. Sing it, Tim. Yeah. People sometimes ask me, they say, tim, what gives you the blues? Well people let me tell you some of the things that give me the blues. Like going to the zoo the day the monkeys burst into flames. Been being questioned by the cops cause they found anti monkey literature in my car. Ordering chicken on a spit from a waiter who seems to get everything backwards. Finding out that my friends went behind my back and learned the metric system loan I'm down Marry me six feet under or about two meters I don't know the difference. That's not all I get the blues Every time I go to this bar run by manic depressives, they make the mistake of staying 10 minutes past the end of happy hour. Then overhearing some high school girls exchanging babysitting secrets discussing how many tubes of Glue. It takes to keep a two year old on the ceiling long enough. You can watch Melrose Place undisturbed. Then going to a barbecue where I'm the only. Only person there with hands. They expect me to open all the vinyls and cans.
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Come on, team.
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Blow your heart. Time for my harmonica solo. Play it, baby. You know they call me Fingers Kavanaugh. You the man. That's like a carpal tunnel syndrome from the way I play. Gonna whale on this thing for you. Now here we. Thank you. Scat for me. You the blues man. Scat for me, Tim. Just as I'm sinking into the depths of depression, one of my friends comes up to me and says, tim, you know, things could be worse. I mean, at least you're not related to Suzanne Summers or Sandy Duncan or Sandy Donaldson. Just as I begin to feel better about myself, I get a phone call from my Uncle Jim neighbor asking whether I'd found any copies of Dead Monkey Digest that maybe he left in the backseat of my car. I said, jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo, Jim. Bo. What you doing with those monkeys, Jim?
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, we know it's a repeat, but
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things are always better the second time around.
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This is Bob and Tom Extra.
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Joining us on the big screen from parts unknown, possibly an airport, it's the wonderful man, the great comedian Jim Gaffigan. Hey, Jim, where are you?
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I am. I'm your roving reporter. I'm reporting from jfk, a beautiful airport that, you know, everything in the airport is a little out of place. You ever notice that, like, you just walk into the gate near beep Beep, and there's a golf cart behind you. Like, why is there a golf cart in the airport? You know, like, am I. I'm sorry, am I. Are you playing through? You know, am I in the fairway?
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I. Jim, I was just looking at your schedule. You are everywhere this summer. You're going all over the place. A bunch of dates coming up in California. Have you looked at this schedule? You're going to be out of gas here pretty soon.
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Oh, you're gonna be. No, it's. It's a mistake. But my kids are home, so I had to. You know, all my kids, you know, they, they, they. You know, they. I had one graduate college, and. And, you know, they're home from college, and they're just. They're back, and there's just so much drama that's in my house. There's conflict and drama. And it's like, if my house were a neighborhood, it would be a bad neighborhood. Like, I wouldn't rec at night. Because it is. There's a lot of drama there.
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Who's tending your garden while you're gone?
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I know. That's the scary thing, right? I'm going on this. This ten day run. And as any gardener knows, it's like, you want. You know, it's nice to go on trips and I have to pay for all these unemployed people that live with me, but I also. My garden. It's. It's very exciting. And I understand some people listening don't consider gardening manly, but gardening is something I enjoy doing while my husband plays golf.
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Right.
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By the way, Jim, I keep this by my side. It's my bottle of Father Time Precious Batch Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey from Mr. Gaffigan. Now, are you still in this business?
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I am. We have our latest release. Is the Caboose. I'm not sure which one you have there. Is that firstborn or.
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This is the one. Yeah. This is Firstborn edition with the picture of your dad on the phone, on the COVID On the. On the bottle, I should say.
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Yeah, yeah, that's. It's my. It's actually my grandfather, but, you know, me, my dad, my grandfather. There's. The genetic pool. Was not. There was not a lot of variety there.
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I was gonna say that looks. It looks just like you.
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It is scary. And, you know, my youngest kid looks like me, and I'm like, I feel so. I feel sorry for the poor guy and. But he's a smart kid, so he'll be able to overcome the weakness when it comes to appearance. Hopefully. But yes. So that is. You know, we have the fifth edition. And, you know, I know that, you know, there's a lot of bourbon fans out there, and it's mainly available@fathertime-bounbon.com. you know, we're not a big brand. It's just me and a buddy from college, and it's an excuse for me to keep trying to drink bourbon. You know, it's kind of. It's. It's kind of like this whole thing prepping me to go to aa. I guess it's what you would call it.
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Yeah. I saw your last live show, and I would say a solid, hilarious, maybe 20 minutes on the origins of bourbon. And I learned a lot and I laughed a lot. It was very interesting. Are you still doing a bourbon hunk on this new tour? And by the way, does this new tour have a name?
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This new tour is Called the Everything is Wonderful tour. Because everything is wonderful, right? Laughing already because everything's just wonderful. You know, I actually, most of the bourbon stuff I did in a, in a, in a mini kind of YouTube set called Live from Old Forester. I shot it in Louisville and it's, it's also available on all the audio platform. I'm. I would say this hour of material, I'm mainly complaining about my kids in different ways. There's a lot of things to complain about. The great irony is when I started stand up, I complained about my dad. This is how long I've been doing. I complained about my dad and now I complain about my kids and my. Hopefully I'll get to the point where I can complain about my grandchildren. You know what I mean?
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B
How. What is the age of your youngest?
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My youngest is 13. My eldest is 22. And there's just, you know, there's. I understand it's developmentally appropriate for them to challenge boundaries, but they're stealing my stuff. That's what I don't like. There's a lot of just burglary occurring and I wake up, I'm like, that's my coat. Why is my 16 year old in my blue jeans? Where are my socks? Why am I sticking this gun in my mouth? It's just never ending thing.
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Now you live in New York City. Do your kids have any desire to drive and are they driving?
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It is interesting. You know, it was such a pivotal point of my teenage life was getting the driver's license. But it varies. You know, my eldest is a big driver, but, you know, my 20 year old and 16 year old, they really, they're just not that interested in driving. And in some ways I'm kind of like, that's okay, that's okay. Because in New York that's okay. You know, I'm not saying they're, you know, bad drivers, but they'd probably be bad drivers.
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Do you, do you keep a car in the city?
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I do, I do. And I pay for parking, which is what I probably paid for my first apartment. It was, it's just there's. There makes no. Everything I do makes no sense. I, you know, I have five kids. Makes no sense. I live in New York City. Makes no sense. I have a place in the suburbs where I have this huge garden. Makes no sense. Because I travel. It's. Everything I do makes no sense. But that's, you know, I'm a pale guy. I can't go outside. That makes no sense either.
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Yeah. What are you growing? May I Ask.
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I, you know, I, I, you know, being from Indiana, I feel compelled to grow corn, but I'm in the Northeast, and it never. I mean, we get a couple dinners out of it, but a lot of shishito peppers, you know, But I. I pretty much grow everything. Like, I have grapes, I have berries that. That the little critters in my yard love to eat, strawberries, where I might get, like, four a year. You know, it's. It's really a struggle, but. But it's, you know, like, you look, I spend a lot of time on social media because I'm a winner, right? Looking at reels. And every other gardener looks knows exactly what they're doing. You know, like, they go to their raised bed and you just see, like, just a bounty of produce. I go to my raised bed, it looks like it's like Sarajevo in the early 90s. It makes no sense, because I do try. I have a compost. I'm too afraid to get bees. But, like, I, you know, I wanna. I'm a total nerd when it comes to that. You know, I don't know if I can convince my wife I'd love to get chickens, but again, I travel too much, you know?
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Oh, yeah, One of our guys did the chicken thing. You don't want to do it. You'll be.
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You'll be smelly, right? Well, the raccoons like to eat them,
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and the coyotes and the chickens almost refuse to die sometimes running around headless and bloody. All your. All your friends don'. Want any more of your eggs, and it ends up costing you about $300 per egg. But, hey, Jim's here. Tell him we're not here. I don't want any more eggs. Haywood Banks has chickens. He always brings me eggs.
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Oh, that's fun.
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In the world of.
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I mean, it is. It's fun. The first time he brings you eggs, and then you're like, I'm at work. What am I gonna do with these eggs?
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Jim Gaffigan is our guest. Are you going to be driving when you're around here? Are you going to drive through the Midwest or you do have to fly everywhere?
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I'm gonna. I'm probably gonna do the most difficult thing I could do. You know, as I sit in this booth in the airport, it's just. You don't want to be recognized by a TSA worker, not because of your comedy, but because they see you so often.
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B
Jim Gaffigan is our guest. Do you get back to Indiana to where you grew up much?
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I, you know, I haven't. I. You know, we. We always go back to the Chicagoland area, usually around Christmas, but. And usually during the summer, I try and get back. It's just so beautiful up there. But I haven't been back for a while. I gotta figure it out. You know, some of it is I've got this place that I just, you know, once you have a place that's nice and I've got my garden, I'm. I'm less likely to want to go on trips, you know, but I do have my family come. My, My. My family comes one weekend, and then my wife's family comes another weekend. And, you know, I just drink bourbon. That's what I do.
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We're speaking. We're speaking with the comedian Jim Gaffigan. Any acting gigs in the offing?
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Well, I am. Right now, I'm the gilded age. I'm playing Grover Cleveland, really. You know, just doing a couple episodes on there and then. But otherwise, I mean, there's, you know, my short term memory. I don't know if it's just alcoholism or narcissism, but I can't remember anything. But I would say, yeah, you know, there's always some things in the air, and then, you know, like, I'll do a Bob's Burgers episode here and there. But, you know, I really rely on my creative fulfillment coming from stand up, and that's just, you know, I'm just so grateful that I can go out there and do these shows and, and it's. It's so awesome because I've, you know, I'm often returning to places I've been multiple times. So, like, people. I'm doing a show outside of Fresno, and so people will be coming back having seen me, you know, a handful of times, and they've seen what I'm complaining about at different moments in my life. It's a special thing we can share.
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Now you're a child graduating from college. Any career plans yet?
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Well, she majored in classics, which is classic, you know, and the job opportunities for people that have, like, a minor in Latin is not huge. It's so interesting because, you know, I studied finance and tell diarrhea jokes, so,
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you know,
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my daughter wants to be an actor, and I'm like, you know, you have to support it. And I also grew up in a family where no one was in the entertainment industry, and so I want to support it, but it is. I think it's possibly the worst time to go into acting. But you. You want to encourage someone to explore their Dre, you know, I mean, does she.
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Does she speak classical Greek?
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She.
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I think she did. Latin was. You know, you have to take a language, and it was Latin, which is, as you know, a dead language.
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Not all that handy for traveling. Better than fork.
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Not really. Not really.
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B
Once again, we're speaking with comedian Jim Gaffigan, and you got a whole bunch of hatch you wear. Author, an amateur farmer. I somehow feel that there'll be a whole gardening hunk coming up in a
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year or so with all of that, you know? Yeah, I would love to. I mean, my fantasy is to write a book. I've never really talked about this, but, like, a book where, like, one side is, like, how Bourbon Saved My Life, and then if you turn it upside down, you know, like, there's books that go two different ways. You turn it upside down is how gardening saved my life, you know, because they are completely different hobbies. But my kids make fun of me because during the summer, I'm always talking about my garden, and I'm like, here, you have to try this. I grew a cucumber, and my kids are like, that's great, dad. And so those are my two passions. So I. I would love to do something about gardening. It's a great community. That's the gardening community, because it's just, you know, it's a certain mental illness being a gardener. Right. You're just out there playing in the mud. There are a lot of. I love it.
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There are a lot of. Especially English rock stars that are very big gardeners.
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The English love gardens. Right. There is something. There's a connection there, and there's different zones for gardening. So I think England, I'm more of a vegetable guy, because I'm a macho guy. I like real vegetables. But the English, they're so into gardening, and they have some of the. The, you know, not ideal climate for it. Kind of limits what they can grow. It's not like, you know, San Diego, where you can grow just about anything. You know what I mean? It's like they're obsessed with gardening, and it's like people in the Philippines and Hawaii are, like, just throwing seeds out windows and growing forests. You know what I mean?
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Yeah. Of course. Of all the Beatles, by the way, for those that want to know, George Harrison was the gardener.
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C
Oh, he was?
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Yeah. When the Beatles broke up, he spent the next several years gardening. Seriously, I believe you. That famous shot of him on All Things Must Pass in front of the big mansion. He would go out with the gardening crew every day for 12 hours for years and just piddle around. Jim, it's always a great pleasure. I always appreciate the fact that you're kind enough to keep calling us in spite of your great success. We hope to see you soon live. And lots of shows on the way. We'll stick a link up. If you go to Jim Gaffigan's website, could you give me the name of the place to get Father Time bourbon again? What is it?
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Yeah, that's Fathertime. One word-bounbon.com. because it is. It's pretty much it's just sold online. I mean, there's a rare example here and there where it's available in stores, which is great, but. But it's mainly available online. And it really is a fun gift. I sign every bottle. So, you know, and it's a great gift for high school graduates. You know, that's right. The whole idea of Father Time is about how parents, you know, the tagline is a father's joy. But really, you know, as you know, Tom, you've got a bunch of kids. It's like parenting is a thankless task. And so, you know, you know, kind of some shout out for the parents is a nice thing and it encourages drinking, which is always.
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Okay. Well, thank you, Jim. Jim Gaffigan. Thank you, sir.
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Thanks you guys for having me.
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