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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 big show, comedian and friend of the show, Roy Wood Jr. He's coming up right after this.
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Pat
5.
Guest
My love is a butterfly floating sweetly through a summer field Spreading beauty and love under the midday sun and your love is an entomologist chasing me down, ensnaring me in your net and taking me home, Jabbing a pin through my guts and mounting me on your wall A pin. Your love is a p through my guts. My love is a sailing ship seeking out a friendly shore to cast out my anchor, happily never to sail no more. And your love is the ocean that drowns me, leaving my bones to be picked at by crabs and bringing settlers to the new world with smallpox and influenza and wiping out the indigenous population. Smallpox. Your love is smallpox. You are a giant redwood falling on a family of deer you are a soaring eagle landing in a minefield. You are a river rising over the downtown levees. You are Christmas in Iran. My love is a tiny puppy knowing only joy and trust, greeting each new day like a miraculous gift. And your love is an underground dog fighting ring, catching me and keeping me in a cage on the brink of starvation, torturing me daily until all that I know is hate and rage and death holds no meaning for me. Just like Christopher Walken in the end of the Deer Hunter. Christopher Walken, Christopher Walken. Your love is Christopher Walken.
Pat
Oh, my God, that was beautiful.
Chick McGee
The Bob and Tom show is still trying to wake up. In the meantime, more Bob and Tom. Extra.
Tom
Hello, Tom.
Chick McGee
Hello, Chick McGee.
Tom
Introduce our special guest, will you?
Chick McGee
Of course, I'm happy to. I'm just doing a little homework. Over here we have a comedian, Roy Wood Jr. Joining us, veteran standup comedian, now a television guy. And television guy, he's got a bunch of different hats that he wears on TV and he's a.
Tom
He's a property. I think he's. He's a sought after property.
Chick McGee
That's a nice.
Tom
Somebody wants to be in the Roy Wood Jr business.
Chick McGee
Except it's not Roy, which is weird.
Tom
I would. I would imagine that that only helps. The more distant he acts, the more they want him, man.
Chick McGee
We're going to talk to Roy in a matter of moments. But I was doing some homework during the break on. Well, I was talking. I just, I'm fascinated by the. These beautiful ships that are all over the world. But the United States, of course, has these incredible aircraft carriers.
Tom
These instruments of death. Yes.
Chick McGee
I'm glad they're out there. And thank you, warship.
Listener
They protect you.
Pat
Yeah.
Chick McGee
But knowing that it's there keeps the bad guys from going away. I think, I think we're screwing up with this country. Oh, wait a minute. You mean they've got planes on there that can annihilate us?
Tom
Am I being a pinko pansy? Yeah, I'm sorry.
Chick McGee
But yeah, there are gonna be these two aircraft carriers named and they tend to name them after recent presidents. As a matter of fact, they have.
Tom
To have really cool nicknames because, you know, the way they armed for. They have great nicknames for everybody. So it's gotta be like the Billy or the G Dub or something like that.
Chick McGee
Could be, could be. In any event, there is the USS Bill Clinton and there's also gonna be the George W. Bush. There already is an H.W. bush.
Tom
Why isn't there Herbert Hoover or the Coolidge?
Chick McGee
There probably has. But I googled this. This is really interesting. The first ship named Clinton was the USS Clinton, a Haskell class attack transport in the United States Navy in 1945.
Caller
Haskell class. Oh, that sure is a beautiful airship, Mrs. Cleaver.
Chick McGee
Little Eddie Haskell.
Pat
That sure is a wonderful.
Chick McGee
But the original Clinton in the United States Navy. This is true. Was used as a target in 1984 for target practice, and they sank it. Which means that, by the way, there was no one on board. So technically, Monica Lewinsky is still the only one to go down on a Clinton, which I think is very appropriate.
Tom
That's a long way to go.
Chick McGee
While we have Christy Lee at the Silac Insurance news desk. And once again, Roy's new special is called Lonely Flowers. And Roy, you're talking about your family, I gather.
Pat
You got me obsessed with this. Now, Andrew Johnson has no Navy vessel named after him, which I think is fair, because if you're on the money, you don't get a ship. Or am I thinking about Andrew Jackson? I don't know. Listen, I worked at the Daily show eight years. They gotta know these things. Obama has nothing either. So, like, it's. It's weird. George Washington had eight ships. Wow.
Chick McGee
Eight.
Pat
Yeah. I mean, to be fair, he was the first president. There was like no other guy to name stuff after we got another ship.
Chick McGee
Well, almost made of wood, like his teeth.
Pat
8.
Caller
And Obama has none.
Pat
Yeah, I'm not give him a submarine or something. And I don't give him an aircraft here.
Caller
But does he swim?
Pat
I don't.
Chick McGee
Fair joke.
Tom
Hang on a second. Wait a minute, hang on. Okay, I want to.
Chick McGee
If I can answer that.
Caller
You can answer. If a President Obama swim.
Chick McGee
I can. He has to be able to.
Tom
Oh, because he graduated from the college he went to.
Chick McGee
You have to be able to swim to graduate. I know because I went there.
Tom
Oh, that's a. I didn't know Columbia.
Listener
Did he.
Tom
I didn't. I missed that.
Chick McGee
All right. Yeah, it's a weird thing, but at the college I went to. I'm totally serious. You had to be able to swim to gradually.
Tom
Let me ask you. Wow. When you were at Columbia and before you had. And you didn't have your swimming certificate or whatever you want to call it, did you think of a way to fake it so you could graduate?
Chick McGee
No, I know how to swim.
Tom
Well, I'm just asking. It seems like something that you'd try to skirt the rules on to be.
Chick McGee
Oh, yeah. That you report to the gym and that they.
Caller
Did you have a lot of classmates who were like, I've never done this.
Chick McGee
Absolutely I did.
Caller
And they were like nervous about it.
Chick McGee
You see, you're in New York City.
Caller
Sure.
Chick McGee
So.
Caller
But a lot of New Yorkers go to Columbia. It wasn't mostly transplant.
Chick McGee
I know there are people from all over the place, but why? One friend lived next door to me senior year. He did not know how to swim. He was. He was. He was from Queens and so he had to take swimming lessons.
Listener
Say. Did they offer lessons?
Chick McGee
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Pat
Get your ass in that water. Figure it out.
Chick McGee
It's like. It's the same thing.
Tom
There are a lot.
Chick McGee
There are a lot of. A lot of people that grow up in New York City especially don't know how to drive.
Caller
Oh, sure, yeah.
Pat
No license.
Tom
Yeah.
Chick McGee
My brother.
Tom
Was there a pool on campus?
Chick McGee
Yeah.
Tom
Was there a swim team?
Chick McGee
That's a good question. I don't think so.
Tom
Columbia is not big on competitions on the field of athletics, are they?
Chick McGee
We happen to win the defensing championship.
Caller
Look, we didn't mean to be.
Chick McGee
We were favored by 10 points Super.
Pat
Bowl of fencing, flaccid sword competition.
Chick McGee
As for there not being a ship named after Obama, I wonder if there's a certain waiting period because they just did the George W. He just did George W. And they just did Clinton. Right. And what about Carter?
Tom
What about Ford? What about. There's no Nixon.
Pat
It's got to be.
Chick McGee
The Ford is the class of. It's. That's. The entire class of aircraft carriers were called the Gerald R. Ford. Yeah. Seriously. I'm not.
Pat
Oh. Oh. That's what I came from. I thought it came from like Henry Ford or something.
Tom
Yeah. I thought Ford made him. Made him like they. They make.
Chick McGee
Yeah. I don't know much. I'm just. This is. All I know is what I'm reading in this article.
Tom
An Escort on one line and a playing on the other line.
Chick McGee
And I don't know if. I don't know if there is a Nixon ship.
Listener
I could look this all up or.
Chick McGee
I am not a doc.
Pat
So. My son is obsessed with aviation.
Tom
Yeah.
Pat
I didn't know this. Henry Ford tried to make airplanes for a while. There were Ford airplanes for a quick minute.
Tom
Yeah.
Pat
And then the depression happened and he had to fall back and just focus on cars again because the market had gotten weird. And then that's how Bowen and McDonnell Douglas like, gotten a guest.
Chick McGee
How old's your son now?
Pat
He's eight now. Man. Oh, my gosh. We went to space Camp down in Huntsville. Shout out to Space Camp.
Chick McGee
Awesome.
Pat
Where you spend the night and you do the whole astronaut training and stuff. And then the more I thought about it after I paid money, and then you sleep in the actual. Like they have like barracks or whatever. And it's great for an eight year old, I bet. I'm 46. My spine is. There are better mattresses in jail. And that's not a joke because I've been to both places.
Chick McGee
Well, you and Pat have something in common.
Caller
What do you think? Uncomfortable. I'd like to see that Venn diagram of people who've been to space camp and jail.
Pat
Yeah, it's a 3 inch mattress with that weird. No urine can get through. What's the Billy Mays commercial where the guy's floating on a screen door? It's a flex seal. It's a mattress coated in flex seal. And then you just wake up every day and for like 14 hours you walk around this beautiful campus and they teach you everything there is to know about space travel and blah, blah, blah. And then at the end of it, we're riding back to Birmingham to my mama's house and I'm going, there's no space shuttle. Like, where are you? Like what? Like the. The waiting list for astronaut to do it. Like, astronaut is a job. You train and then they go, you are an astronaut. And they are great. When do I get to do it? We do not know.
Tom
Maybe never.
Pat
Seriously.
Caller
Right.
Pat
Or you are an astronaut and then you get to go up there and then you're stuck like those two that are up there. There's not enough conversation about the fact right now that there's two people stuck in space and they don't have an aircraft capable enough to go and get them.
Listener
Yep.
Pat
And we act like it's cool because, oh, they're on a space station. There's other people up there. They have. Just because I have friends does not mean that I'm not stranded.
Chick McGee
She. She did a spacewalk a couple days ago.
Caller
Get out of the capital.
Listener
Yeah, yeah.
Tom
If I don't leave this capsule, I'm going to kill you. Okay.
Chick McGee
I'm gonna go have a smoke.
Listener
Gerald Ford, by the way, does have an aircraft carrier.
Chick McGee
Yeah.
Listener
Yeah.
Chick McGee
Let's see.
Tom
Oh, it's the USS Clumsy. Right.
Listener
Oh, thank you very much.
Chick McGee
Is the latest. Here we go. The latest line of US Care is named after Gerald R. Ford.
Tom
Incredible athletes.
Chick McGee
There's a John F. Kennedy.
Listener
Yeah.
Chick McGee
Aircraft carrier.
Tom
Anyway, yeah, plug that leak in the John F. Kennedy and they have a hole in that.
Listener
We have any aircraft, thank you very much.
Tom
Named after women Ironically, the John F. Kennedy is referred to as a her. Isn't that interesting?
Chick McGee
Yeah, they're all referred to as they. And I'm not kidding. They. In this press release, least they say she will be done by. Yeah. Yeah.
Pat
That's all.
Caller
I mean, that's been.
Chick McGee
That's just. I have. I have a friend that's a maritime lawyer, and he. He'll be going, yeah, I've got a flight of so and so. And then, you know, the she went bound, blah, blah, blah. And it's. It's always the she.
Tom
Ladies and gentlemen, What Tom just said was, I have a friend who's a maritime lawyer.
Chick McGee
I do.
Tom
Henry Billingsley's a maritime. Yeah, Billingsley and I have a feud. And I didn't even know it started, but, by gosh, I'm gonna finish it.
Chick McGee
Okay, fine.
Caller
Oh, really?
Pat
Yeah.
Tom
He looked at me, talk to me for 10 seconds. He goes, well, I would never pick you for a jury. Kiss my ass, Billingsley. How about that?
Chick McGee
Wait a second. Let's be realistic. If you're a lawyer, would you pick.
Guest
You for a jury?
Tom
God, no. No, I don't think.
Chick McGee
I take it seriously. We're ignoring our guests. Have you noticed that we're hanging out with comedian Roy Wood Jr. And I have not seen your special. It's called Lonely Flowers on Hulu. It just debuted, so you got to check it out this weekend. And I don't know. I haven't seen it, so I don't know much about it. But I did hear you talking briefly in another interview recently, and you picked up a topic that we've been talking about a lot, which is. I mentioned this earlier. For example, I had an aunt that was kind of lonely, and she would go out shopping, and she'd go, I've got to go buy a new lamp. And she'd be gone all day, so she could go to 10 different stores so she could talk to human beings. Yeah, and I heard you. I just heard you briefly mention the. The. What do they call it? The self checkout.
Pat
Not a fan. Not a fan.
Chick McGee
Not a fan.
Pat
We really underestimated how much small talk plays a role in keeping crazy people calm.
Chick McGee
You are just. You're so right about that.
Pat
Look, I'm just saying, man, like the retail. When retail start. The degradation of retail in this country was the. The beginning of disconnection in our society. The idea of just. Hey, how you doing? How's it going? Your waitress has twice the tables and has no time. I miss. Just a regular Southern way. Well, how you Doing. Oh, the catfish. Well, let me tell you about the catfish. It's like that's gone. And now the only time you see a employee is when you do self checkout wrong. You want an employee to appear, make a mistake, and then the self checkout machine shoots a flare up to let everybody know you're stupid. And then the beacon light goes off. You don't know, please step aside, wait for an associate, you moron. And then the employee appears out of nowhere, and then they're rude to you because you don't know how to do their job.
Tom
Exactly.
Pat
You scanned it wrong. That's the QR code. That ain't the barcode.
Chick McGee
Get out the way.
Pat
It's not my fault, man. I don't, I don't like that. I, I really, I like. I joke about it, but I really do feel like having that friend. When you were in the store and this is my section. Let me know if you want to try on anything. And that's. It's gone. It is a ghost town. And if you're somebody who is disconnected and a lot of people in this country live alone, they ain't got nobody. And that cashier might have been the one person. I'm the only. Am I the only person that felt like I liked it when the cashier would comment on my groceries as they came down the belt?
Listener
Oh, look what you're having for.
Pat
Ooh, I like this flavor.
Chick McGee
Maybe they should program. Program the machines to do that.
Pat
It's coming. I'm sure when you have your AI cashier bot that's gonna be there in.
Chick McGee
Another two, three years, it'll probably remind you of what. Hey, you probably are out of ketchup.
Caller
You bought it six weeks ago.
Listener
Amazon does that.
Pat
Someone's having a party tonight.
Caller
I had a cashier one time. I was. It was. I was trying a new health kick, and she scanned the celery and she scanned the salad mix and she scanned the radishes and she looked at me, she goes, trying something different.
Chick McGee
Oh.
Pat
Geez.
Caller
And she didn't know me.
Chick McGee
I'd never seen her.
Tom
Good old fashioned folksy conversation.
Chick McGee
That's fantastic.
Pat
You gotta throw an oatmeal cream pie on the bill. Couple boxes of Little Debbies.
Chick McGee
You're joking, but you're. There is a profound statement in there, which is. I can just remember my aunt. She'd be gone all day and she'd go to 10 different places and come back with nothing. And it was all about just talking to people.
Pat
There are very few places where you still get that my son is. We talked about the planes. So we go get them die cast model planes and we go to hobby shops. And the people who work in hobby shops have not left that building since 1983.
Chick McGee
They live there.
Pat
And the, the attention to detail and conversation about the craft and what you're doing like that I just love like that I still love and I still like buying condoms from gas stations.
Caller
Oh, okay.
Pat
Because there's no self checkout at a gas station. Like when you get and like condoms, you have to ask for them. Most of the time they're back there like ye give me those.
Listener
Yeah, we have a story about that.
Pat
And then the guy brings them over. Oh, yeah, man, this a good one. Like every now and then when you buy condoms at a gas station, the cashier, especially if it's a male cashier, will just give you kind of a like a thumbs up lane. Good luck. That makes you feel good.
Chick McGee
We're talking with Roy Wood Jr. Roy Wood Jr. Is a longtime friend of the show and his newest special is.
Pat
Called just get the condoms. Get the Vicks vapor rub. The Vicks vapor rub condom.
Roy Wood Jr.
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The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast Episode: B&T Extra: Comedian Roy Wood Jr. Release Date: March 11, 2025
In the March 11, 2025 episode of B&T Extra, hosts Tom, Chick McGee, and Pat sit down with veteran stand-up comedian and television personality Roy Wood Jr. The segment delves into a mix of humor, societal observations, and personal anecdotes, showcasing Roy's sharp wit and insightful commentary.
[05:14] Chick McGee:
"Of course, I'm happy to. I'm just doing a little homework. Over here we have a comedian, Roy Wood Jr. Joining us, veteran standup comedian, now a television guy. And television guy, he's got a bunch of different hats that he wears on TV and he's a..."
Roy is celebrated not only for his stand-up prowess but also for his roles on television, making him a sought-after personality in the entertainment industry.
The conversation kicks off with Chick McGee discussing the tradition of naming U.S. aircraft carriers after presidents.
[06:10] Chick McGee:
"The United States has these incredible aircraft carriers. I'm glad they're out there. And thank you, warship, they protect you."
They humorously debate the naming conventions, referencing ships like the USS Bill Clinton and the Gerald R. Ford.
[07:26] Chick McGee:
"This is true. Was used as a target in 1984 for target practice, and they sank it. Which means that, by the way, there was no one on board. So technically, Monica Lewinsky is still the only one to go down on a Clinton, which I think is very appropriate."
[07:48] Tom:
"That's a long way to go."
The hosts and Roy explore the historical significance and occasional oddities in ship naming, blending factual information with humor.
Chick McGee brings up Roy's latest special, "Lonely Flowers," hinting at its themes and encouraging listeners to check it out.
[16:14] Chick McGee:
"Have you noticed that we're hanging out with comedian Roy Wood Jr."
[20:32] Chick McGee:
"We're talking with Roy Wood Jr. Roy Wood Jr. Is a longtime friend of the show and his newest special is..."
Roy briefly mentions aspects of his special, providing listeners with a glimpse into his creative endeavors.
A significant portion of the discussion centers around the shift from human-led retail interactions to automated systems, such as self-checkouts.
[16:23] Pat:
"Not a fan. We really underestimated how much small talk plays a role in keeping crazy people calm."
[17:42] Tom:
"Exactly."
[17:43] Pat:
"You scanned it wrong. That's the QR code. That ain't the barcode."
The hosts lament the loss of casual human interactions, sharing personal stories about the importance of small talk in everyday life.
[18:27] Chick McGee:
"Maybe they should program the machines to do that."
[18:31] Pat:
"It's coming. I'm sure when you have your AI cashier bot that's gonna be there in another two, three years, it'll probably remind you of what. Hey, you probably are out of ketchup."
They discuss future possibilities, pondering whether AI could replicate the friendly exchanges lost with automation.
Throughout the episode, hosts and Roy share various personal stories and comedic observations:
Space Camp Memories:
[12:05] Pat:
"We went to space Camp down in Huntsville. Shout out to Space Camp."
He humorously contrasts the structured environment of space camp with the discomforts of jail.
Maritime Legal Jokes:
[15:06] Tom:
"Ladies and gentlemen, What Tom just said was, I have a friend who's a maritime lawyer."
The conversation turns playful as they joke about legal feuds and maritime terminology.
Retail Experiences:
[20:08] Listener:
"We have a story about that."
Pat shares a funny encounter with a cashier during a health kick, highlighting the awkwardness of automated retail.
The episode weaves together humor with poignant observations on modern societal changes:
Technology's Impact on Social Interaction:
The shift towards automation in retail is not just a technological advancement but also a societal one, reducing everyday human interactions that many find comforting and essential.
Nostalgia for Human Connection:
Hosts and Roy express a longing for the days when small talk with cashiers and friendly store employees was a norm, emphasizing the emotional benefits of such interactions.
Balancing Efficiency and Humanity:
While automated systems offer efficiency, there is an underlying message about finding a balance where technology doesn't completely replace the human touch that enriches daily experiences.
Chick McGee on the USS Clinton:
"[07:26] Chick McGee: ...Monica Lewinsky is still the only one to go down on a Clinton, which I think is very appropriate."
Pat on Space Camp vs. Jail:
"[12:05] Pat: ...the more I thought about it after I paid money, and then you sleep in the actual. Like they have like barracks or whatever."
Chick McGee on AI Cashiers:
"[16:27] Pat: ...the only time you see an employee is when you do self checkout wrong... beacon light goes off. You don't know, please step aside, wait for an associate, you moron."
Tom on Maritime Lawyers:
"[15:12] Tom: Henry Billingsley's a maritime. Yeah, Billingsley and I have a feud."
In this engaging episode of B&T Extra, Roy Wood Jr. and the hosts navigate through a tapestry of topics, from military ship names to the erosion of everyday human interactions in retail. Through humor and relatable anecdotes, they provide listeners with both laughter and food for thought, highlighting the subtle ways technology reshapes societal norms. Roy's presence adds a layer of comedic depth, making the conversation both entertaining and insightful for those tuning in.
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