B&T Extra: Deviled Eggs, Josh's beard, & Wordle

Summary

The BOB & TOM Show Extra: Deviled Eggs, Josh's Beard, & Wordle

Date: December 18, 2025
Podcast: The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast (Cumulus Podcast Network)

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Episode Overview

This B&T Extra episode, recorded ahead of Thanksgiving, finds the Bob & Tom crew in classic form: riffing comedically on seasonal foods (notably deviled eggs), sharing laughs about facial hair rituals, and debating the intricacies and competitive rituals of Wordle. The show is a blend of quick-fire banter, playful accusations, and genuine friendship, peppered with recurring bits and multiple comedic segues.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Thanksgiving Prep – The “Furgler’s Hardware” Bit

• [02:21] The episode launches into character Ernie Fargler’s (from Furgler’s Hardware Store) annual Thanksgiving spiel, advertising turkey deep fryers while delivering a deadpan parody instructional (“Remember, always check every cavity... Slow and easy, in and out...”).
• Insight: Classic B&T parody – blending mundane advice with innuendo.

2. Deviled Eggs: A Sacred Debate

• [04:20] The "deviled eggs" discussion dominates early minutes as the team samples a tray provided by Chris, made by his girlfriend’s mother, Cindy.
  • Multiple gags about potential food poisoning:
    • [04:43] Tom Griswold: “Because now if I eat one of these, crippling diarrhea in my... Huh?”
    • [04:52] Pat: “Oh. Because they've been sitting out in Tom's car all night?”
    • [04:57] Chris: “No, they were in the refrigerator.”
  • Appetizer or Main Course?
    • [05:05] Chris: “Deviled eggs at Thanksgiving. Is it an appetizer or part of the main course?”
    • [05:11] Pat: “That's a very good question.”
    • [05:12] Chris: “It's appetizer.”
    • [05:17] Pat: “They were always part of the main course for us.”
  • Deviled Egg “Consumption Techniques”:
    • [06:24] Chris: “Just grab a toothpick and shove it in.”
    • [06:28] Tom Griswold: “Deep throat that baby.”
  • Lighthearted critiques and marital jokes:
    • [07:03] Tom Griswold: “Based on these deviled eggs alone, how happily married is Cindy?”
    • [07:15] Tom Griswold (joking about culinary envy): “That's a marriage that I'm going to break up.”

3. The Digital Photo Frame & Old Photos

• [07:31] The crew jokes about the new digital “Aura” photo frame in the studio:
  • [08:05] Josh Arnold recounts embarrassment at old photos: “Yeah. And while we were talking, I said, there's an old photo right now of me on stage... Look at how fat I am.”
  • [08:36] Chris encourages even non-techies: “If I can do it, that means a dog can do it, cause I'm not very technical.”

4. Josh’s Beard and Masculine Grooming

• [09:04] Discussion shifts to Josh sporting a winter beard:
  • [09:13] Josh: “Yeah. Every winter I have my winter's beard, and I do forget how big it gets.”
  • [09:24] Pat: “It does. Because when you trim your beard, you notice how... your face is cold.”
  • [09:47] Pat jokes to Tom about personal grooming: “Downstairs, too.”
  • [09:48] Tom Griswold: “Oh, yeah. You got to do that right down to the hardwood.”
  • [10:01] Tom offers, “If you use a trimmer on your scrotum, you can cut right through incredibly thin skin.”
  • [10:12] Chris: “Did you keep a styptic pencil handy?”
  • [10:15] Tom: “Yeah, I do. I bandaged it up.”

5. Wordle Rituals, Strategies, and Streaks

Pope Leo and Wordle

• [10:23] News that Pope Leo XIV varies his starting Wordle word each day sparks a playful debate.
  • [11:17] The Pope, per Jeffrey, warned that “technology can never replace real human relationships and added, quote, ‘make sure technology serves your life and not the other way around.’”
  • [11:44] Tom: “What was your streak? Honestly, what was your streak? Don’t embellish.”

Wordle-Playing Habits

• Streak Bragging and Comedic One-Upmanship:
  • [12:25] Tom Griswold: “732 days. Except for the three times I broke it and... it wasn’t my fault.”
  • [12:33] Pat: “Hey, the man’s a good spin doctor.”
• Starter Words and Gatekeeping:
  • [13:04–13:15] Tom & Chris treat their starter words like top-tier secrets.
    • Chris: “I’d give you my phone number before I’d give you my Wordle [starter].”
    • Tom: “Thank you. That’s the way I feel about it.”
  • [14:00] Tom offers a tip: “Can I tell you a secret word that I use?... P-L-A-I-T.”
• Inside Jokes about Wordle Rules:
  • [14:39] Chris: “You couldn’t begin with ‘Jesus.’”
  • [14:45] Tom: “You could. ‘Penis’ would be a good starter word because it’s got two vowels…”
  • [16:06] Chris: “I doubt if the Pope has seen that word.”
  • [16:20] Pat riffs, “By the way, he knows the word vagina if he’s seen conclave.”

The Wordle Song & Connections

• [19:18] Josh Arnold improvises a “Wordle song”:
  • “Wake up early, slow as a turtle. Check my phone. Do my wordle.”
  • [19:24] Pat: “Yeah. Worst opening lyric.”
• [20:46] The team discusses Wordle “getting it in one”:
  • [20:43] Chris: “I did a little research.”
  • [20:46] Jeffrey: “Getting it in one is basically just a guess.”
  • [20:47] Chris: “It’s total dumb luck.”
• [21:13] Pat champions brain games: “I think working out your brain like this is fantastic. And even necessary.”
• [21:20] Jeffrey and Pat joke about Sudoku; Chris makes an off-color pun: “You say sudoku, I say vagina.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

Deviled Eggs

• [04:43] Tom Griswold: “Because now if I eat one of these, crippling diarrhea in my… Huh?”
• [07:03] Tom Griswold: “Based on these deviled eggs alone, how happily married is Cindy?”
• [07:15] Tom Griswold: “That’s a marriage that I’m going to break up.”

Beards & Grooming

• [09:13] Josh Arnold: “Every winter I have my winter's beard, and I do forget how big it gets.”
• [10:01] Tom Griswold: “If you use a trimmer on your scrotum, you can cut right through incredibly thin skin.”

Wordle & Games

• [12:25] Tom Griswold: “732 days. Except for the three times I broke it and... it wasn’t my fault.”
• [13:04] Chris: “I’d give you my phone number before I’d give you my wordle [starter].”
• [19:18] Josh Arnold (Wordle Song): “Wake up early, slow as a turtle. Check my phone. Do my wordle.”
• [21:13] Pat: “I think working out your brain like this is fantastic. And even necessary.”
• [21:29] Chris (pun): “You say sudoku, I say vagina.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [02:21] Ernie Fargler’s holiday hardware call
• [04:20–05:54] Deviled eggs debate (safety, role at Thanksgiving, consumption)
• [07:31–09:04] Digital photo frame & ‘old me’ photo banter
• [09:04–10:16] Beard grooming, trimmer jokes, and personal hygiene
• [10:23–17:37] Deep dive into Wordle: Pope Leo’s start word, strategies, secrecy, and stats
• [19:18–21:01] The Wordle song & sharing “got it in one” odds
• [21:13–21:29] Brain games: Wordle vs. Sudoku (with classic innuendo finale)

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Tone and Style

The episode is quintessential BOB & TOM — irreverent, quick-witted, and loaded with recurring in-jokes. The hosts constantly rib each other and escalate trivial debates (deviled eggs, beard trimming, Wordle strategies) into comedic set pieces, never straying from their light, teasing, and familiar style.

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Summary Takeaways

• If you love friendly bickering and food debates, the “deviled eggs” segment alone is worth a listen.
• Beard maintenance is infinitely funnier when you’re afraid of the trimmer.
• Wordle is “serious business” with the BOB & TOM crew, combining secrecy, streak-bragging, and starter word espionage.
• Games like Wordle and Sudoku get the full “guy talk” treatment — part practical advice, part schoolyard comedy.
• The show flows naturally, with each segment smoothly transitioning to the next, so you never know if you’re getting genuine advice or a left-field punchline.

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For Listeners Who Haven’t Tuned In

This episode exemplifies the enduring charm of The BOB & TOM Show: everyday topics (snacks, facial hair, casual puzzles) are spun into comedic gold. It’s a playful, personality-driven romp, perfect for those who enjoy fast banter, running jokes, and a group that treats even a tray of deviled eggs like material for a prime-time roast.

Transcript

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[Tom Griswold]

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[Chris]

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[Tom Griswold]

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[Kevin Harlan]

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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, we have deviled eggs on the show today, plus Josh's beard and wordle and it's all coming up in just a second.

[Kevin Harlan]

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[Chris]

Morning, Bob and Topshaw.

[Ernie Fargler]

Well, good morning. This is Ernie Fergar, Furgler's Hardware Store calling.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Morning, Ernie.

[Ernie Fargler]

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[Chris]

Okay.

[Ernie Fargler]

It comes with every purchase of our fryer in hopes that people will watch it. And I understand lots of people want to talk to me about the video. Must be good. Let's hear it.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Okay.

[Ernie Fargler]

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[Tom Griswold]

All right.

[Ernie Fargler]

No, no, no, no. I'm Ernie Fargler.

[Chris]

For those of you who always need something extra.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Go.

[Chris]

This is Bob and Tom. Extra.

[Tom Griswold]

There's Josh Arnold having a deviled egg with a story.

[Pat]

I have a story, too, about one of our favorite things. You're already eating a deviled egg.

[Tom Griswold]

There's a.

[Jeffrey]

It's like the third one here.

[Tom Griswold]

Let me see.

[Kevin Harlan]

I guess you.

[Pat]

You did bring them. It's kind of a.

[Tom Griswold]

Dad, they smell interesting.

[Chris]

My girl Kelly's. My girl Kelly's mom made great deviled eggs.

[Pat]

Your old Kelly's mom's got it going on.

[Chris]

And so I brought some in. They're fantastic.

[Tom Griswold]

Because now if I eat one of these crippling diarrhea in my. In my. Huh?

[Pat]

Oh. Because they've been sitting out in Tom's car all night.

[Chris]

No, they were in the refrigerator.

[Tom Griswold]

Where were they?

[Chris]

They were in the refrigerator.

[Tom Griswold]

Which one? They weren't in this one.

[Jeffrey]

In the back.

[Pat]

In the back? Oh.

[Chris]

Because if I left them in the front, they'd all be gone by now.

[Tom Griswold]

You're right.

[Pat]

He's right.

[Chris]

We had a letter. Someone wanted to know. Deviled eggs at Thanksgiving. Is it an appetizer or part of the main course?

[Pat]

That's a very good question.

[Chris]

It's appetizer.

[Jeffrey]

Appetizing.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Have you ever eaten a deviled egg so fast? You ate the toothpick? Nobody? No.

[Pat]

They were always part of the main course for us.

[Jeffrey]

Yeah, they were an appetizer at our house.

[Pat]

But I'm making them this year and I'm gonna leave them out as an appetizer. A nice aperitif, if you will.

[Chris]

Not enough.

[Pat]

And a moose bouche.

[Tom Griswold]

I'm gonna say.

[Pat]

Not enough.

[Tom Griswold]

Mustard or mayonnaise?

[Chris]

I say the recipe's just right.

[Tom Griswold]

Heavy on the paprika. I ain't got no dog in this fight.

[Kevin Harlan]

I don't.

[Tom Griswold]

Hey, hey, Cynthia, bring it.

[Chris]

Jeffrey, remove the plate from Mr. Critical.

[Pat]

Half ass effort at best.

[Chris]

How many have you had?

[Tom Griswold]

I ate four before I realized.

[Pat]

Let me try one of these. I consider myself somewhat of an official egg.

[Jeffrey]

Either. Either.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Not at 7. 46.

[Kevin Harlan]

It's breakfast eggs now, Tom is there.

[Pat]

I see some have tan toothpicks and some have green. Is there a difference?

[Chris]

No, not at all. No.

[Josh Arnold]

Joy.

[Pat]

No, no, no.

[Chris]

You can't.

[Tom Griswold]

You can't just eat one.

[Pat]

Okay.

[Tom Griswold]

All right.

[Chris]

Just grab a toothpick and shove it in.

[Tom Griswold]

Deep throat that baby. Okay.

[Chris]

That's a one bite and you throw the whole half in.

[Pat]

You don't.

[Chris]

You don't quarter it with a bite.

[Pat]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, you.

[Chris]

Man.

[Tom Griswold]

Eats it all at once.

[Chris]

I just heed the whole thing.

[Tom Griswold]

All right.

[Kevin Harlan]

You review.

[Chris]

All right.

[Pat]

I need a second. I don't mean I need a second of time. Right, right.

[Chris]

You mean another one? Okay, he's eating a second one.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay.

[Chris]

Cindy, thank you very much.

[Tom Griswold]

That's so good. Cindy, if that's your real name.

[Pat]

You know, maybe I shouldn't have had two. I'll explain in a second.

[Tom Griswold]

Oh, there's a problem. Yeah. Based on these deviled eggs alone, how happily married is Cindy?

[Chris]

Very.

[Kevin Harlan]

Very.

[Chris]

By the way, did you try the coffee cake?

[Jeffrey]

Coffee cake was great. I just.

[Pat]

That's not a Cindy creation too, is it?

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Are you kidding me? Yeah.

[Chris]

She made. Wow.

[Tom Griswold]

That's a marriage that I'm going to break up.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Yeah.

[Pat]

Destroy it, man.

[Tom Griswold]

I'm going in with both people.

[Jeffrey]

Get these eggs, please, Jason.

[Pat]

Oh, yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Christy's having trouble with her now. Good.

[Pat]

Well, why that. While that happens, we. Tom, you know, we have the new aura frame. We love them.

[Jeffrey]

Yes.

[Pat]

They're a picture frame where you can send digital photos from anywhere.

[Tom Griswold]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris]

And.

[Pat]

And multiple people can send them.

[Chris]

So I sent. I put nine. I posted 90 pictures on it yesterday.

[Pat]

Yes. And a bunch of us have sent photos to it. Jess Hooker sent photos from a bunch of shows, live shows that we've done, and it's behind me right now, flashing pictures.

[Chris]

It's great.

[Pat]

Pat, as we, as we all know, has been living a healthier life, and he's dropped quite a bit of poundage and. But the frame is bothering you a little bit because you keep seeing old photos.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. And while we were talking, I said, there's an old photo right now of me on stage.

[Kevin Harlan]

Huge.

[Pat]

Look at how fat I am.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Yeah.

[Pat]

Look how fat I am. And I turned around, it was a picture of me, and he didn't know.

[Josh Arnold]

I apologize.

[Pat]

Look at how fat I am.

[Tom Griswold]

Hey, Tom. What kind of a guy worries about how he looks in pictures? What kind of a guy is that?

[Chris]

Listen, look at that nice picture of Chick right there. Isn't that great?

[Jeffrey]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Sweet picture.

[Pat]

There's two of them.

[Chris]

I've loaded all those photographs on from my house yesterday. And if I can. If I can do it, that means a dog can do it, because I'm not very technical.

[Tom Griswold]

It's absolutely the truth.

[Chris]

It is cool. Very cool. Here's a nice picture of Josh. Very handsome man.

[Tom Griswold]

A baby out of the womb.

[Chris]

That's. That's Willie.

[Pat]

Sorry again.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

It happened.

[Pat]

Yes. Yeah. There's a nice picture of Josh. What a handsome man. Oh, no, that's Willie. This is my life.

[Chris]

I was going through some photographs, and there's one coming up of you in there where you had a huge, bushy beard like Jeff.

[Pat]

I.

[Chris]

Are you going to do that again? Are you going to keep growing it?

[Pat]

I tell. Yeah. Every winter I have my winter's beard, and I do forget how big it gets.

[Tom Griswold]

Look.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Yeah, you got a nice.

[Tom Griswold]

I like it.

[Pat]

Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jeffrey]

I'll be your face warm.

[Pat]

It does. Because when you trim your. Your beard, you notice how.

[Jeffrey]

Really?

[Pat]

Yes.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Yeah.

[Pat]

It really does make a difference for like a week.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

It's definitely.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Pat]

You're like, oh, my face is cold. Yeah.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Yeah.

[Jeffrey]

How short are you gonna go?

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Probably like Chick.

[Jeffrey]

Wow.

[Tom Griswold]

What do you think?

[Pat]

That's pretty chicken Pat.

[Tom Griswold]

Wow.

[Josh Arnold]

Stubble look right?

[Tom Griswold]

I just trim mine up over the weekend. Had a great time. Oh, yeah.

[Pat]

Downstairs, too.

[Tom Griswold]

My. Oh, yeah. You got to do that right down to the hardwood.

[Chris]

Do you use the same trimmer?

[Tom Griswold]

Absolutely. I'm very clean. Ask anyone.

[Chris]

Okay. You put a little. What is it? A little guard on the. On the electric radio.

[Tom Griswold]

Yes. Because if you use a trimmer on your scrotum, you can cut right through incredibly thin skin.

[Pat]

It nicks.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, it nicks and cuts. I don't care what kind of razor you use.

[Chris]

Did you Just keep a styptic pencil handy.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, I do.

[Chris]

That's gonna hurt.

[Tom Griswold]

I bandaged it up.

[Chris]

Okay. Christy Lee is over there at the silicon.

[Tom Griswold]

You want to see the bandage now?

[Chris]

No, that's okay. What's going on over there, Christy Lee?

[Jeffrey]

Pope Leo XIV has revealed he changes his wordle start word every day. That's right.

[Pat]

Now, is this a good move? I don't play wordle. This is risky to me.

[Chris]

Yeah, it is.

[Tom Griswold]

You use the same wordle start word every. Every day?

[Chris]

Yep.

[Christopher]

Really?

[Tom Griswold]

I've never done that.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

I change mine every day.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, I'll have one pop into my.

[Chris]

Head because I. I broke my streak. Broke because I was doing it in line at a coffee shop, not paying attention. So now I got. I'm focused. I want to keep my street going.

[Jeffrey]

The pontificate divulged his strategy for the popular New York Times online game during the National Catholic Youth Conference.

[Pat]

Pontificate? I thought we were talking about the Pope.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, please. What was your.

[Jeffrey]

After the big reveal, Pope Leo spent an hour fielding prepared questions from a handful of the conference participants.

[Pat]

His name is Leo and he's in Vatican City.

[Jeffrey]

Who asked him specifically about technology's hold on young people?

[Kevin Harlan]

Duran Durray.

[Jeffrey]

The Pope warned that technology can never replace real human relationships and added, quote, make sure technology serves your life and not the other way around.

[Pat]

And then in parentheses said this speech written by AI.

[Chris]

So he doesn't say he. He wrote the way wordle works. What you need to know, you just. You have to come up with a five letter word in the beginning and then you start it. It eliminates letters. It's kind of hard to explain, but it's simple to play. Once you played it a couple times.

[Tom Griswold]

What was your streak? Honestly, what was your streak? Don't embellish.

[Chris]

No, I had a one year streak. One year more than a year. And then I went through 365. I went over the international dateline or something and it erased it. That was a drag.

[Pat]

You unplugged the Pac man machine.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Yeah.

[Chris]

And then.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Yes. Yes.

[Chris]

I think I was. I think I was like on 149 or something.

[Tom Griswold]

Well, that's not a year.

[Chris]

No, the other one, the previous one, the one that I just blew a few months ago.

[Tom Griswold]

That's your street chickster 44. A reasonable streak seems very. Yes.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Pat]

That means you have. You have successfully completed the puzzle. 44 days now.

[Tom Griswold]

Ask me is trying to live my life like Tom.

[Pat]

Are you.

[Tom Griswold]

What's my streak for wordle?

[Pat]

What's your streak for Wordle.

[Tom Griswold]

732 days.

[Pat]

Except for the three times I broke.

[Tom Griswold]

The three times I broke it and.

[Chris]

It wasn't my fault line.

[Pat]

Hey, the man's a good spin doctor.

[Tom Griswold]

Oh, he sure is. Okay, the next President of the United States is Tom Griswold. I'd vote for you.

[Chris]

So. But the point is, you begin with a five letter word, right? So you can. You couldn't begin with Jesus.

[Tom Griswold]

You could. Penis would be a good starter word because it got two vowels and it's not bad. Three really nice consonants.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

You don't want Jesus. Two S's.

[Jeffrey]

Why can't you start with you got.

[Pat]

Your two S proper now two S's.

[Jeffrey]

Oh, you can't use a proper noun.

[Chris]

So I was trying to think.

[Jeffrey]

What's your start word?

[Unidentified Male Caller]

All right.

[Chris]

Are you.

[Tom Griswold]

Are you. Hang on a second. How rude.

[Pat]

You never ask.

[Tom Griswold]

My God. Now, Tom, this is how you ask that. Tom, are you willing to share your wordle? Starter word.

[Chris]

I'd give you my phone number before I'd give you my wordle.

[Tom Griswold]

Thank you. That's the way I feel about.

[Chris]

It's top secret.

[Tom Griswold]

I've got like 25. It's sugar. Everyone knows it.

[Chris]

He could. Well, see, he wouldn't want to use Bible because it's two Bs.

[Tom Griswold]

Yep.

[Pat]

It's a do. Right? You're using a do.

[Tom Griswold]

Alter.

[Chris]

I know, I'm. No, no, those are the hack words.

[Pat]

Alter. The hack words. All right.

[Chris]

90. 90 of people.

[Pat]

There are two types of alter.

[Jeffrey]

Are alter.

[Pat]

Well, you're both right.

[Tom Griswold]

Can I tell you a secret word that I use?

[Pat]

If you alter something or you go to the altar.

[Tom Griswold]

It's not my. It's not my starter word. And I hesitate to mention it, but I want to help people out. Younger Wordler solvers. Plate. Not P, L, A, T, E, but P, L, A, I, T. Oh, yes, it's out there.

[Jeffrey]

Good one, huh?

[Tom Griswold]

It's readily available. Go ahead.

[Jeffrey]

I'm glad I don't play that game.

[Tom Griswold]

Enjoy it.

[Chris]

That's fun.

[Tom Griswold]

You know what? Speaking on behalf of Wordlers, we are too good. Good, good, good and fine.

[Pat]

Yeah, you'll have to subscribe to the Times.

[Tom Griswold]

No, no, there's something you have to do to get all the benefits, but.

[Chris]

Yeah, I see a tone. That'd be a good one.

[Pat]

Be good for all of us to do, I think.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Yeah.

[Chris]

I wonder if he does because he's from Chicago. Pope Leo.

[Jeffrey]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Guilt would be bears. No, no, it's got an S. There's no plural.

[Chris]

It only ends In S. If it's a double S, it does occasionally.

[Pat]

Oh, okay. So you could use.

[Tom Griswold]

That's not a plural, is it?

[Pat]

Yeah. Trash is a noun that ends in a double S. Trust.

[Tom Griswold]

Trust would also.

[Chris]

I'm just saying. No, my point was Bears. Because he's from Chicago, he'd be a Bear fan.

[Pat]

We knew your point.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Bears is he's.

[Kevin Harlan]

He's the pup.

[Chris]

You think God's gonna let him lose?

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Well, I'm surprised he doesn't have all ones. I mean, it's the Pope. It should be.

[Chris]

It's like Kim Jong Un, whatever his name is playing golf.

[Pat]

What if his starter word is devil?

[Tom Griswold]

What?

[Pat]

That's not a bad one.

[Chris]

Why would I.

[Tom Griswold]

Why would I think talking to Tom about wordle would be anything else? Any different than talking about him. Talk about anything. Right. It's not a conversation in circles and.

[Jeffrey]

Right.

[Josh Arnold]

What about saints?

[Pat]

You like this reputation you have?

[Chris]

I don't.

[Josh Arnold]

Saint.

[Tom Griswold]

Right. Bears. You're gonna stick with Bears because it's a good joke.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

That's why I love you.

[Chris]

What a good joke. I'm. It's not a joke at all.

[Tom Griswold]

The Pope.

[Chris]

I'm just. If I'm his Chicago heritage and maybe.

[Tom Griswold]

Maybe he's not a Bears fan. Maybe he's a Packer fan.

[Pat]

Oh, we know he's a Sox fan.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah.

[Pat]

So he could be a South side Sox.

[Chris]

Would be a bad starter. X almost never appears in there.

[Pat]

Well, you couldn't. You have to use the full socks. Right.

[Jeffrey]

You can't use that because it's got an S on the end. Right.

[Chris]

You can use it. It's just very unlikely to be there unless it's a double S, which I tried to explain to you.

[Tom Griswold]

You can't use.

[Pat]

Fox can use short words to have a starter word like.

[Chris]

No.

[Pat]

Can you have no.

[Tom Griswold]

V. No.

[Chris]

I doubt if the Pope has seen that word.

[Jeffrey]

Well, all right.

[Pat]

I wasn't talking Pope.

[Chris]

Hello.

[Josh Arnold]

Very uncompliment.

[Chris]

Welcome to destination.

[Pat]

By the way, he knows the word vagina. If he's seen conclave.

[Kevin Harlan]

Devil.

[Tom Griswold]

Devil is a great starter word.

[Chris]

Yeah. Absolutely not really.

[Pat]

Anvil.

[Tom Griswold]

Yes, it is a great starter.

[Chris]

V is not that complicated.

[Tom Griswold]

Now, is that true? The origin story of.

[Chris]

Isn't it true it was a guy for his girlfriend?

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. It made up, like, the six guesses.

[Chris]

And five words made up the game for his girlfriend.

[Tom Griswold]

That's what. That's the legend.

[Chris]

And sold it to the New York Times for, I think, a million bucks. Good deal.

[Tom Griswold]

I think he got short changed.

[Chris]

I've played it 1621 times.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay, how many have you gotten? Right.

[Chris]

Whatever. A 99% win streak is.

[Tom Griswold]

99.

[Pat]

Pretty good.

[Chris]

Yeah, but it. The thing that in the beginning, I was. Wasn't focused.

[Tom Griswold]

Now I'm. Now it's. Now you're focused.

[Chris]

Part of my ritual.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Now, I would say that next to that, you should have to have an asterisk because you play on easy mode.

[Chris]

Yeah, we were talking normal.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

It's not a real win, but I.

[Tom Griswold]

Think they've got that backwards. I think harder mode is easier than the easy mode.

[Chris]

No, harder mode. No, that's stupid. Harder mode involves. Involves guessing.

[Tom Griswold]

You see my 88%. That's.

[Jeffrey]

The whole point of the game is guessing.

[Chris]

No, the whole point of the game is winning.

[Pat]

You guys know the whole point of this show is comedy. I don't know if you knew that, but are we lacking?

[Tom Griswold]

What about your connections? What's your streak on that? Let's let. Sorry.

[Chris]

By the way. By the way, I understand, Jeffrey, you're a student. You're a student of the Pope. What did he say about connections?

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Oh, I forget. I have no idea what I wrote you.

[Chris]

You play Connections, right?

[Unidentified Male Caller]

I do play connections.

[Chris]

That's another New York Times.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

The. If the Pope say anything like me, he doesn't play Connections because it's bs. It's a bunch of crap.

[Chris]

It's a great game.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

It's a horrible game.

[Tom Griswold]

Sometimes what they're talking about is sometimes the connect. There are four words that are connected somehow, right? And there are 16 words to choose from. So the fourth one, if you're guessing. Yeah. Does kind of solve itself. After you get the first three.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

No groups. It's 16 little riddles. And it's dumb because if you don't know the riddle, then you're out.

[Chris]

Sometimes it'll be like in the middle of each word there is a part of a vegan diet, or the end.

[Tom Griswold]

Of the word is a color of all these four words.

[Pat]

Or have you guys played the gay version? Rainbow. Connections.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Oh, yeah.

[Pat]

Someday you'll find it.

[Unidentified Male Caller]

Thank you.

[Tom Griswold]

Those are the lyrics.

[Chris]

Pat's got his guitar out. Do we have a story that's gonna lead two?

[Josh Arnold]

The last time I didn't know which way to go, where do I go? I had Wordle. I had the Pope.

[Chris]

Leo.

[Josh Arnold]

I had two songs. What do you want?

[Tom Griswold]

You pick one. I want the Wordle song. Right. I want the Wordle song. Put your.

[Kevin Harlan]

If I can get my chair back in time.

[Tom Griswold]

Put your money where your mouth is. Wordle guy.

[Josh Arnold]

Wake up early, slow as a turtle. Check my phone. Do my word.

[Tom Griswold]

All the.

[Pat]

Yeah. Worst opening lyric.

[Josh Arnold]

Got it in five.

[Tom Griswold]

Got it in five.

[Pat]

Slow as a turtle.

[Josh Arnold]

Pour me a coffee hope the cream doesn't curdle Got nothing to do. Already did. My word. What else rhymes with maybe go for a drive. Right around seven, I go to Bob Evans with my breakfast crew.

[Tom Griswold]

Uh oh.

[Josh Arnold]

I tell the boys my favorite story that time I got word all into Wordle. What are the other bad rhymes? Keeps my mind fertile. My morning mental hurdle.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Should I put. Should I post today's score? Yesterday it was 4. I'll text my daughter and son if.

[Pat]

I get it in one, you know?

[Jeffrey]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

I believe your girl Myrtle, right? Rhymes with wordle. Add that you. You could add that.

[Kevin Harlan]

Spurtle.

[Pat]

Spurtle.

[Chris]

I'm going to come up with a game. A turtle with a D. Yes. But it's all four letter words.

[Jeffrey]

If you guess the same word every. If you use the same start word every day, you never get it in one Right.

[Pat]

Unless your start word is the word.

[Chris]

I've gotten it in one three times.

[Tom Griswold]

Maybe you want, but then you have.

[Jeffrey]

To change your start.

[Chris]

Yeah, I. I switched it up.

[Jeffrey]

Okay.

[Pat]

Okay.

[Chris]

I did a little research.

[Jeffrey]

Getting it in one is basically just a guess.

[Chris]

It's total dumb luck.

[Pat]

Can you post? Can you share?

[Chris]

Oh, yeah, absolutely. I don't.

[Pat]

Can you imagine a person sharing their.

[Chris]

I think we have to get Josh playing just so we can.

[Tom Griswold]

I've got it in one twice. Like Tom. You say twice.

[Jeffrey]

Three times.

[Tom Griswold]

Three times. Okay. I've got it in two 12 times. Oh, and three. I've got 126 times.

[Pat]

All right. I'm all for these kind of things. I think working out your brain like this is fantastic.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah.

[Pat]

And even necessary.

[Jeffrey]

But yeah, I do the numbers. I do the sudoku thing. That's my thing. I'd rather do that than the wordle or sudoku.

[Tom Griswold]

Whatever.

[Jeffrey]

Sudoku. Sudoku, whatever.

[Chris]

You say sudoku, I say vagina.

[Pat]

You know I have vagina. That's way wrong. You're way off.

[Christopher]

That's it for another Bob and Tom show. Extra. Catch us on itunes, Google Play and stitcher for Bob and Tom.

[Tom Griswold]

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[Christopher]

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[Pat]

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[Tom Griswold]

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