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Pat
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Josh
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Mike Kaplan
How?
Josh
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Christopher
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 the big show today, comedian Mike Kaplan. He's on the way in just a minute.
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Narrator
When the shades of night are falling and you climb into your bed. There is no need for loneliness and crying. For there's always someone with you. Even in the darkest night. And though you cannot see them, I'm not lying. Teeny little dust mites, ultra tiny dust mites bout 2 million in the average bed Bunches of them dust mites munching little dust mites Snuggle warm and cozy neath your head. There are little eight legged daddy mites and mama mites and baby mites doing what a mite might like to do. You can wash the sheet or spray the mat or beat the bed with a baseball bat. But they will stay no matter what you do. It's those teeny little dust mites. Ultra tiny dust mites bout 2 million in the average bed. Bunches of them dust mites munching little dust mites snuggled warm and cozy neath your head. Well now each and every human being is shedding flakes of skin about 10,000 drift each minute by. And those dust might smack their bony lips and eat that skin like taco chips. It's a rain of mana from the sky it shows. Teeny little dust mites, ultra tiny dust mites about 2 million in the average bed. Bunches of them dust mites munching little dust mites Snuggle warm and cozy neath your head. Teeny little dust mites, ultra tiny dust mites about 2 million in the average bed. Bunches of them dust mites munching little
Christopher
dust mites snuggled warm and cozy neath your head. For those of you who always need something extra, well, there you go. This is Bob and Tom Extra. Joining us in the studio, comedian Mike Kaplan. You spell your name Mike M Y Q. Weirdo.
Christy Lee
Yeah. That's strange.
Christopher
Is that an actual on your birth certificate or is that a. Like a. A rebellious.
Mike Kaplan
I'm. I'm glad you asked. So my birth certificate says Michael. It's no secret. That's my legal name. I'm an outlaw.
Pat
It also says Kenya
Mike Kaplan
on the long form.
Pat
It's.
Mike Kaplan
Can you believe it? So when I was about 14, Prince changed his name to a symbol for reasons that we were not privy to because of the probably, you know, the contractual obligations that he was under to his record label. But at the time, to this impressionable youth. I just saw a cool artist doing a weird fun thing and I'm like, I'm not gonna go that far. So compared to What Prince did. I'm a pretty normal guy. You can still use a regular keyboard. You don't even need to get a new hieroglyphic stamp, you know? And so I was like, I'll be. I was at an artsy summer camp with some friends. I originally was like, I'm just gonna go, M Y K. I keep the K. And a friend was like, why not go full, you know, bananas, you know, go put a Q in there. I was like, I like that. I still got the mic for my. My monogrammed things. Obviously, I don't. I always wonder when. If your name's Robert, but you go by Bob, like, that's my father's name. I'm like, does he get an R? Does he get a B? I'm like, it's M all the way, but the rest of it, you can't see it coming. But yeah, then I found out a few years later, Prince had a reason for doing it for, you know, record label dispute reasons, and he changed back to Prince. And I was like, well, I'm out here alone now. You know, I'm.
Christopher
Can you imagine being his manager? You're going to. You're going to do what? You're gonna. You're gonna change your name to a symbol that isn't even on a keyboard.
Mike Kaplan
Unpronounceable.
Christopher
Yeah. The artist formerly known as Prince.
Pat
What is his real name?
Christopher
His name. Real name is Prince Nelson. Nelson Rogers Nelson or something.
Pat
Gotcha.
Christopher
Now, you mentioned initials.
Mike Kaplan
Yes.
Christopher
Why? Christy, I'll ask you this. No. Do you have initials on your towels?
Christy Lee
I do not. My husband has them on his cuffs of his shirts.
Christopher
Does he have his. Is the. Is his last initial the one in the middle?
Christy Lee
Yes. And then it's A and an R on the other side of it. Yeah.
Christopher
What. What's that tradition all about?
Christy Lee
I don't know why you have the last name.
Christopher
So if so, JFK would be J
Pat
small and a small F on the other side of the K. JKF.
Mike Kaplan
I'm on your side 100%. You know, it's like this as well. Do you ever look at a movie poster where it's like. Let's say it's like, you know, Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman, but their names are above the other. So if you don't know who they are, you're like, ah, look. Look at that. Like, you know, distinguished elder black man, Keanu Reeves.
Christopher
It's the cross mistake. It's the Crosby. It's the Crosby, Stills and Nash album cover. Yeah, that most famous.
Christy Lee
Not in order.
Christopher
They're not in order.
Mike Kaplan
Okay, well, what order are they in? Is it Crosby, Nash, and Stills, or Nash, Stills and Crosby? Nash, Crosby and Stills. There's only six possibilities. Which one is it?
Christopher
Well, the anal retentive hours ending, and as. As your host, I want to be stormed out.
Pat
I must know.
Christopher
I. I take. I take full responsibility.
Mike Kaplan
I have what you might call odc. The D is big in the middle, you know, O and the C around it.
Christopher
Yeah. That's our guest, Mike Kaplan. We're gonna go back to the news desk with Christy Lee. What have we missed?
Christy Lee
Do you have monogram towels? I'm. Do you have those?
Christopher
Tom just got married. Oh, yeah. You know something?
Pat
I. I think I have towels that just say Arnold.
Christy Lee
That's cool.
Christopher
Yeah.
Mike Kaplan
I love that. You don't. I. I also have things in my home that, if you ask me about them, I don't know. Like, things that I own. My girlfriend's like. I know more about that than. Than you do, so.
Christopher
At least the towels we have are absorbent. There was a time, going back many years I can remember, in one of the bathrooms, there was a towel you weren't allowed to use if you washed your hands.
Mike Kaplan
What?
Christopher
Yeah.
Christy Lee
What's the point of that?
Mike Kaplan
Status.
Christopher
It had all the absorbency of aluminum foil.
Mike Kaplan
Can I tell you, when I was a kid, I read a Mickey Mouse comic book, and there was a scene where Mickey goes to Minnie's house, and he goes to sit down in a chair, and. And she says, no, no, you mustn't sit in that chair. It's an antique. It's very old and delicate, and you. So you mustn't sit in it. And then she's like, and here's an antique mirror. It's like, I know it's very rare, and I mustn't look into it, you know, So I feel like that's what the towel is all about.
Christy Lee
There we go. A Domino's delivery driver in Missouri, as the police say, turned a routine pizza delivery into a violent encounter.
Mike Kaplan
Oh, boy.
Christy Lee
The driver allegedly using his car to strike a customer during a heated dispute over not receiving a sip.
Christopher
Oh.
Christy Lee
Mr. Zachary Walton, 36, was arrested in Fulton.
Mike Kaplan
You ran a guy over, facing multiple
Christy Lee
felony charges, including first degree assault, armed criminal action, and leaving the scene of an accident.
Christopher
I wish I were the judge. I would do a Domino's themed sentence. Well, you'll be delivering pizzas in 30 years or less. Good luck to you.
Pat
I'm on that guy's side.
Mike Kaplan
Here's a tip.
Christopher
You Run him over?
Narrator
Sure.
Mike Kaplan
I mean, people should tip.
Christopher
Yeah, I agree, but you don't run the guy over.
Pat
Well, I mean, bump. You don't want to punch him. You can get in trouble for that.
Christopher
So, Pat, you're saying it's okay just to ram him slightly? A little dent, a little break the femur?
Christy Lee
No. Here you go, Tommy. Police in Altamont Springs, Florida, have arrested a woman she's accusing of vandalizing her neighbor's properties with her. That's right. Feces.
Christopher
Oh.
Christy Lee
Residents of the Spring Oaks neighborhood told WKMG that they have discovered what appeared to be fecal matter on vehicles, mailboxes and in yards. Several residents reported finding the material near a shared food pantry in the neighborhood. Over the weekend, a detective witnessed a 50 year old woman defecating in the front yard of her home before taking her into custody.
Christopher
What are you looking at? At her own. At her own place?
Mike Kaplan
Yeah, that. That you're allowed to do. Like, you're supposed to just do it on the porch and light it on fire and like, what am I, you know? Call me old fashioned, but.
Christopher
Oh, man, that's rough. There's something going on mentally there.
Christy Lee
Yeah.
Christopher
Oh, there's a picture of her. She looks more or less normal.
Pat
It doesn't look like your classic yard dumper.
Mike Kaplan
This just goes to show you can't judge a book.
Christopher
Exactly. Oh, I think Tom might be able to sway your opinion on that one. Maybe she owns a car wash.
Pat
I don't know.
Christopher
She's throwing poop on people.
Mike Kaplan
She's trying to drum up business for her car wash. She's pooping like a fox.
Christy Lee
I see we have a story from Snopes this morning. A Florida man arrested after trying to baptize an alligator in a waffle House has been debunked. Last month, you'll recall, maybe. Social media users began circulating a purported mug shot of a wild eyed man, along with the claim that he tried using a pitcher of iced tea to perform the baptism on the reptile.
Pat
Very odd.
Christopher
By gosh, he is wild eyed and
Christy Lee
is in desperate need of a show. The post appeared to have been shared by Florida news outlet wfor, but fact checking site Snopes determined that the rumor originated as a satirical post from a comedic social media.
Pat
Yes, but who is Snopesing Snopes? We need to know exactly who Snopes is.
Mike Kaplan
The Snopesman.
Christopher
Yesterday, my son Sam was telling me he was checking out us. Did you see the photograph or the video of the golden retriever being towed? It was amazing. The golden retriever is on, like, a sea doo. Yep. And he's being towed by a guy with a hovercraft, kind of a. What would you describe the thing? It. Oh, it. It's one of those watercraft.
Mike Kaplan
Yeah.
Christopher
That come out of the water. There's a hose in the back that makes it like a jet pack.
Christy Lee
Oh, yeah.
Christopher
It's like a jetpack. Yeah. The force of the water keeps it levitating.
Mike Kaplan
Yeah.
Christopher
It's like a jet pack shooting out water. And the guy's towing. Right. So he immediately thought, this has to be fake. So we spent an hour finding out that it's, in fact, real. So if you Google golden retriever, jet ski, jet pack, the golden looked like for every bit like the golden was steering the watercraft. It was on the jet ski. It was. It was. He's a golden retriever.
Mike Kaplan
He's a good boy.
Christopher
Yeah, he's a good dude.
Mike Kaplan
He's a good doggy.
Christy Lee
How do you practice that?
Christopher
I think the dogs just gets on there, and he's going, this is cool. And if the dog falls in. I don't know if. I can't remember if the dog had on a life jacket, because they do make doggy life jackets. I don't think he did. I think he did, but. Yeah, check that out. It's out there. Florida.
Mike Kaplan
He's like the evil knievel of golden retrievers.
Christopher
Yes. Golden retrieval.
Christy Lee
I don't know if he was wearing a sunscreen, but we do have sunscreen in the news, kind of.
Pat
Well, tell us all about it.
Christy Lee
Thank you, Josh. Researchers say beer waste shows potential as a sunscreen. This is a weird story. A study analyzed the photoprotective qualities of hops waste from the brewing process. Spent hops incorporated into sunscreen cream formulations offered more sun protection than hops that hadn't gone through the brewing process.
Christopher
Spent hops is what I call my knees.
Christy Lee
But scientists say there was a time. You see, the researchers needed to validate their findings. Now, why?
Christopher
Yeah, who cares?
Christy Lee
Who cares?
Christopher
Well, they're trying to find something to do with all of the upcycling.
Mike Kaplan
Sunscreen is very important. I started wearing it just actually about five years ago during. During the pandemic lockdown phase when I wasn't going outside at all. And just after my grandmother, who worked for a dermatologist, died. So all through my life, never wore sunscreen. But Rini, my wonderful partner, she's done a lot of research into it. She's. There's going to be. This is all the truth. And also, there'll be a quick joke. You know how, like, so she very has a skin care regimen. And, like, very. You know, so she's helped me know, like, after my shower, I do this and then put these things on. And so you know how, like, if you like the. The Grateful Dead, you might be called a deadhead. You know, you might. You like metal. You're a metal head. And so she's really into skincare, so we don't know what to call her.
Christopher
Yeah.
Mike Kaplan
But, yeah, sunscreen. I wear it. I wear it every day now, even. Even when inside. Even. Because when they say.
Christopher
They say I should do that, but through the windows. I can't stand it. Through the walls. No, I don't like the greasy on your face.
Christy Lee
Yeah, well, there are. Holy. There are.
Mike Kaplan
There's some that aren't greasy.
Christopher
Yeah.
Mike Kaplan
Oh, y.
Christopher
But they're making it out of beer. Yeah.
Mike Kaplan
Then you.
Christopher
So you're. Wait a minute. I figured this out. Your IPA has an ABV and a good spf.
Mike Kaplan
Yes.
Christopher
We live in a world of letters. Thank you very much.
Pat
Well, and that. That leads us to Mike Kaplan's upcoming.
Mike Kaplan
I feel so welcome.
Christopher
Now you can let. You can do. Now you. You have a new piece you're working on, and each piece is centered around a letter of the Alphabet in order. I give you the option. You can do an ipa, an abv, or an SPF letter. Feel free. Which one would you like to do?
Mike Kaplan
Oh, absolutely. I is for incel. Now, as you may know, incel is short for involuntarily sell a bit. And I just feel like if you're an incel, you can say the whole thing out, because what are you doing with your time?
Christopher
You know what I mean?
Mike Kaplan
You've got plenty available. And I was doing this joke in New Jersey a few weeks ago, and a guy said, what is that? And I was like, oh, incel is short for involuntarily celibate. And he said, no. What is celibate? I was like, oh, you know. And he's like. Then, as if to explain it, he says, I'm an electrician. I was like, I feel like you're still allowed to know what words mean if you're an electrician. And I was. So I explained it in terms that he could understand. I'm like, it's when sparks don't fly.
Christopher
Very nice. Thank you very much. Sold that bit.
Mike Kaplan
Thank you.
Christopher
I enjoyed that very much.
Mike Kaplan
I really appreciate my favorite joke.
Christopher
Mike Kaplan is our guest. And once again, Mike, you're Special. You've got a few of them actually out there. The one that I mentioned earlier is on YouTube called Reenie. And the other one is where Small,
Mike Kaplan
dork and handsome is on Amazon. And then I also do have a dry bar half hour special that's on YouTube now as well.
Christopher
Excellent.
Mike Kaplan
Oh, I have a question for you. Yes, hang on a second.
Christopher
Thanks, Mike. It's a calendar question.
Mike Kaplan
I'm ready now.
Christopher
What do you remember approximately when you filmed your dry bar special?
Mike Kaplan
I could tell you exactly.
Christopher
Please do.
Mike Kaplan
Go ahead. Yes, I filmed it in September, early September of 2021.
Christopher
And then when did it air?
Mike Kaplan
I believe it came out exclusively on the dry bar platform. Not yet on YouTube. Only available for dry bar, you know, plus customers and such. That was in mid 2023.
Pat
Oh, okay, then Pat's on track.
Christopher
Yeah, Over a year ago, I filmed it.
Mike Kaplan
Oh, yes. It was absolutely, like about a year and a half for me. And then it didn't come out on YouTube until November of 2025.
Pat
All right, so they know what they're doing. They've got a whole release schedule.
Mike Kaplan
Whether or not they know what they're doing, they're doing the same thing to everybody.
Christopher
Pat, by the time it comes out, you're going to weigh 100 pounds less than you did. Yeah, I was bigger in that. Yeah. I mean, I'm not trying to be mean, but.
Mike Kaplan
No, no, you're not.
Christopher
You've lost a significant. I tried to be mean. There's very little effort to put into it. I hate to hear you trying to be mean.
Mike Kaplan
In fact, the only thing that was mean about that was you saying, I'm not trying to be mean.
Christopher
Yeah, you try to be. Are you a. An XL or a double xl?
Pat
Maybe the nice way would be, what size would you like?
Christopher
Yeah, yeah. Instead of.
Pat
You can even say, what size would you like?
Mike Kaplan
How large is your shame? Yeah.
Pat
How gross are you?
Christopher
He said there's this. What do you weigh, about four bills?
Christy Lee
If he says, I wear a medium, I will.
Christopher
No, no, he's. He's not a weightlifter, by the way. When are the gym guys gonna cut it out? We know you're jacked. Don't wear a medium when you're a triple xl.
Pat
Oh, I say, you did all that work. Show it off.
Christopher
Oh, no. I saw a guy bursting out of his shirt.
Pat
He works hard for that.
Christopher
Let people know anyway what size shirt he wears. He looked ridiculous. But. So anyway, my friend said, it's Emma, double xl, but he looked at me, he goes, I'm a fatty fat, fat, fat. Just see? Quoting you, Josh.
Pat
Yes.
Christopher
Yeah, but he was a very nice guy. Very helpful.
Pat
Can you believe he was nice and fat?
Mike Kaplan
I mean, that's actually why he's so nice. You're supposed to be jolly is the rule. Yeah.
Christopher
Who likes a mean fat guy? 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. Did you know if your windows are bare, indoor temperatures can go up 20 degrees? Turn the temperature down with blinds.com and get up to 50% off custom window treatments like solar roller shades and more during the Memorial Day mega sale. Whether you want to DIY it or have a pro handle everything, we've got you free samples, real design experts and zero pressure. Just help when you need it. This is your last chance to shop up to 50% off site wide during the Memorial Day mega sale@blinds.com rules and restrictions apply.
The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast, May 28, 2026
This Bob & Tom Extra episode features comedian Myq Kaplan, known for his clever wordplay and observational humor (and for spelling his name "M Y Q"). The discussion flows from playful banter about names and monograms, into odd news stories (both real and debunked), before Kaplan debuts a new stand-up bit and talks about his current comedy specials. The show maintains its signature lighthearted, conversational tone, packed with quick wit and chemistry among the hosts and guest.
On Changing Names (05:39):
"Compared to what Prince did, I’m a pretty normal guy. You can still use a regular keyboard." – Myq Kaplan
On Domino's Incident (10:09):
"Well, you’ll be delivering pizzas in 30 years or less. Good luck to you." – Christopher
On Beer Sunscreen (16:09):
"Your IPA has an ABV and a good SPF." – Christopher
On Incels (16:39):
"I is for incel. As you may know, incel is short for involuntarily celibate. And I just feel like if you're an incel, you can say the whole thing out, because what are you doing with your time?" – Myq Kaplan
On Fat and Niceness (20:10):
"That's actually why he's so nice. You're supposed to be jolly is the rule." – Myq Kaplan
The episode is lively and spontaneous, packed with puns, banter, and the signature BOB & TOM blend of quick-witted commentary and comedic observations. Myq Kaplan blends seamlessly with the cast, bringing his cerebral, punny style to each topic.
You'll come away entertained by the playful deep-dives into topics like monograms, new (and debunked) viral news stories, and the process behind modern stand-up comedy releases. Myq Kaplan’s humor stands out, especially in stories about language and quirks of daily life, while the ensemble keeps the laughs coming with riffing and quick asides.