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Tom Griswold
Welcome back.
Christopher (Producer/Announcer)
It's another Bob and Tom extra. This is Christopher. Not only is the Bob and Tom show live every weekday morning, but every afternoon, we'll give you a little extra. In case you missed anything on the show today, another edition with Edwin McCain with the Christmas Chihuahua song. It's coming up in just a minute.
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Donny Baker (Character)
On the first day of Christmas, Donny.
Baker gave to me an autograph from Ronda Rousey.
On the second day of Christmas, Donna.
Baker gift to me two wolf T shirts and a subpoena for paternity.
On the third day of Christmas, Donny Baker gave to me three pairs of.
Zubas, two Woof T shirts and a check for disability.
On the fourth day of Christmas, Donny.
Baker gave to me four different hubcaps, three pair of Zubas, two wolf T shirts, and some Mountain Dew and beef jerky.
On the fifth day of Christmas, Donny Baker gave to me.
Tom Griswold
Thank you.
Edwin McCain
Five STDs.
Tom Griswold
Screaming, uh huh.
Donny Baker (Character)
Four different hubcaps, three pairs of Zubas, two woof T shirts, and a stripper pole next to the tv.
On the sixth day of Christmas, Donny Baker gave to me a sixth std. Crabs don't count. I already had them.
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I swear to God.
Donny Baker (Character)
If you're gonna accuse me of something, at least give me full cred. Blistered, it looks like bubble wrap.
Oh, that is it. I am not gonna have him color in my Property of Donny Baker tattoo.
You know what? Why do you waste money on tattoos when the hickeys are free, baby?
Cut the crap, Donnie. I gotta go make a payment on my Layaway or there ain't gonna be no Christmas. On the 12th day of Christmas Donny.
Baker gave to me 12 throbbing inches 11 truck nuts dangling 10 unemployed drummers drumming 9 nung chucks a ch 8 tapes of white snakes 7 shots of Jaegers 6 strippers stripping 9 std.
Edwin McCain
4.
Donny Baker (Character)
Different hubcaps, 3 pair of Zubas, 2 woof shirts and some ointment for your VD.
Ointment? I thought that was teeth whitener. Very precious, baby.
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Edwin McCain
This is Bob and Tom.
Pat Godwin
Extra.
Tom Griswold
I mentioned that with the case. He's there with his guitar. Who has a more expensive guitar, Pat or Edward?
Edwin McCain
He's got Johnny Cashwood from his farm, right? Yeah. This one.
Tom Griswold
This one's I Want a Price. I'm Josh Arnold of the I Hate Steven Singer Sidekick chair. And there's Tom AI.
Bob Kevoian
Edwin McCain likes coming on our show. He's a great singer, songwriter. We never let him do anything, but we just talked to him. He's been on the road doing all kinds of cool stuff just at a big charity event. And we're gonna once again, not let him play his fine guitar. Last time I saw Edwin playing, he was on stage at a beautiful outdoor arena and saying his great stuff. It was terrific. And at one point he goes, okay, for those of you that don't know who I am, this next one you'll probably remember. And you went into.
Edwin McCain
I think I introduced that as the only reason I'm not your favorite pizza delivery guy.
Bob Kevoian
That's such a great song. Do we have time for the song from Now? I understand this is a sing along. We have to participate.
Edwin McCain
Yeah, you're going to participate. We got it all coached up during the break.
Bob Kevoian
Okay, I'm ready to go.
Tom Griswold
All right.
Edwin McCain
I came home from tour and walked in to my house where everything was just as it was, except for there was an addition of a Chihuahua that I was not consulted on. And all the little traders were gathered around him. His name's Mandito. He speaks Spanish. So I was. For years, just every year, I was coming up with new ways that maybe Bandito could go somewhere else, you know, and, you know, like building great horned owl boxes out in the backyard.
Tom Griswold
Yes.
Edwin McCain
Potato cannon. And then I, you know, I was thwarted at every. I. I took it. I was walking out of the house with him in the little kennel one night, and my wife was like, where are you going with him? I was like, we're going coyote hunting. Put him back. I was like, all right. And Then Christmas rolled around and I was like, I have. I have a perfect idea. So that's where this song came from. Here we go. I know that I should be in a good mood I should have a Christmas attitude But I just stepped in a tiny pile of poo Santa needs a Christmas Chihuahua no, he doesn't yes, he does no, he doesn't yes, he does no, he doesn't I'm sure Santa's tired of all the treats Milk and cookies on every street I bet he'd love a little bubble eyed treat Santa needs a Christmas Chihuahua no, he doesn't yes, he does no, he doesn't yes.
Edwin McCain (Singing)
He does no, he doesn't he loves.
Edwin McCain
Me, he hates me and I never know when I give him bacon and belly scratches but he still won't be my friend he will love it up in the North Pole he shivers anyway so he might as well be cold Singing this song will never get old Santa needs Christmas Chihuahua no, he doesn't yes, he does no, he doesn't yes, he does no, he doesn't this is the last verse. He'll leave lots of presents before he's gone Tiny little paw prints in the snowy lawn Santa le yamara un poquito rat on Santa needs a Christmas to Wa.
Tom Griswold
Wa.
Edwin McCain
No, I don't.
Bob Kevoian
Edwin McCain, ladies and gentlemen. That was great. I think this could be. That could be a hit.
Tom Griswold
Very nice. Yes.
Bob Kevoian
You mentioned that you did a Christmas album that no one likes.
Edwin McCain
It was summarily rejected by everyone.
Tom Griswold
And.
Edwin McCain
And. And at the time I was like, I guess we shouldn't put it out. And now it's like a. I'm planting my flag of defiance. I was like, you know what? You can hate it if you want to. I like my Christmas.
Pat Godwin
So we can. We get our hands on.
Edwin McCain
Yeah. It's on Spotify, so you can stream it all you want to.
Pat Godwin
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
Do you want to sample of it here?
Edwin McCain
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bob Kevoian
This is this. This the Frosty the Snowman song.
Edwin McCain
Yeah.
Pat Godwin
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
Okay. So this will be familiar with it reimagined. Okay.
Tom Griswold
Okay.
Bob Kevoian
Is there a band with you in this?
Edwin McCain
Oh, yeah. It's Ivan Neville and Eddie Bears and a bunch of my guys and.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah. Okay, here we go. Let's give it a listen and be kind.
Pat Godwin
Write a record.
Bob Kevoian
Okay, here we go. Ra. Okay, here we.
Edwin McCain (Singing)
A Frosty the Snowman was a jolly happy soul With a corn cup pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal A Frosty the Snowman was a fairy tale they say he was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day There must have been some magic in that old silk hat they found when they placed it on his head he began to dance around.
Bob Kevoian
The.
Edwin McCain (Singing)
Snowman was alive as he could be and the children say he could laugh and play Just the same as you.
Edwin McCain
And me that is great.
Pat Godwin
It is great.
Bob Kevoian
You know, I'm. I'm a huge horn guy. Take that.
Edwin McCain
No, it's. It's got the whole. It's got the whole New Orleans funk thing.
Donny Baker (Character)
You said people.
Tom Griswold
People don't like it.
Edwin McCain
No, my friends, I get that.
Tom Griswold
But the question I.
Edwin McCain
Like. So I think people are kind of used to me singing, you know, staring in my belly button, singing acoustic music. And then all of a sudden it's like, what is this?
Tom Griswold
No, it's good, dude. Yeah, it's really good.
Edwin McCain
And so now I'm like, my daughter loves Michael Buble. And I'm like, I put my record on and she'll put it back. Buble back on. And I got this.
Pat Godwin
I'm.
Edwin McCain
I'm battling for my daughter's attention with Michael Buble.
Bob Kevoian
Oh, yeah. I said to my 9 year old the other day, you know, you know, Harley said you're. I'm the coolest dad at the school. Right. And she just looks someone. No. Okay. I guess, you know, you've been on stage in front of thousands of people and your kids aren't impressed.
Edwin McCain
They couldn't care any less. Oh, gosh. I pulled up to the middle school when I was dropping my daughter off, and of course, I was on a first name basis with the principal because the other two had already been through there. And so I pulled up and I was like, hey, Jordan, Jordan. This one's the good one. This one's the good one. And she walked right past him and went, no promises.
Bob Kevoian
We're Speaking with Edwin McCain, a very fine singer songwriter. Is the whole Christmas album that kind of New Orleans funk?
Edwin McCain
Yeah, it's a whole on. Full on New Orleans take on. On. On Christmas.
Bob Kevoian
Did you do any of the heavier serious ones?
Edwin McCain
No, it's all light hearted.
Pat Godwin
All right.
Edwin McCain
Yeah, the whole thing.
Tom Griswold
What's it called?
Edwin McCain
It's I. It's called Merry Christmas, baby.
Tom Griswold
Nice.
Bob Kevoian
And it has. But no one's put it out technically.
Edwin McCain
Well, it's out. Yeah. It's on Spotify. It's everything. But we, We. We were not. We have no professional endorsements. This is a purely. This is. I've got. I went rogue. And this is an independent.
Bob Kevoian
Not when you. Have you done a Christmas show or you do any of them live.
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So we had.
Edwin McCain
We've been talking about doing a big Christmas show and like doing Dr. It all up and doing a whole big band thing. So that's been in conversation and I've gotten, you know, four venues that want to do it, but it's a huge. Yeah, I mean, we're talking about 20 pieces on stage and then the full on lighting and all the costuming and all that stuff. So that, that is. That is something we've been talking about, but I'm extremely lazy, so we'll see if that actually ever comes to pass.
Bob Kevoian
What if you. If you had to pick your top five Christmas songs that you like to hear? Not necessarily you'd like to cover. Do you have five that you really like?
Edwin McCain
Top five? Well, I mean, you know, if you put on the Bing Crosby Christmas record that entire. Just whatever. For whatever reason. I grew up with that one. That's the.
Bob Kevoian
How about the newer stuff?
Edwin McCain
That's the standard for me, though, the Bing.
Chris Vanvliet
I mean, I just.
Edwin McCain
I listened to that Bing Crosby Christmas record every time because you can tell on the first side of the record, Bing's like, he's on it. He got there. And then the second half of the record, he's kind of half in the bag and the Sweeney Sisters are kind of picking up the slack. And it's my favorite thing because you can feel the progression of the day because I promise you, they recorded that album in one day. Like he walked. He being rolled in there at 9am and walked out at 4.
Bob Kevoian
You always read about when they record these records, it's never at Christmas time.
Edwin McCain
Oh, no. When we made it, it was July. Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
So they. And sometimes you'll read about. Then they'll be in Los Angeles and they'll bring in fake snow and trees just to get everybody kind of in the mood.
Edwin McCain
We didn't have that kind of budget.
Bob Kevoian
Pat, what are your favorite Christmas. I love that one. This Christmas, the Donny Hathaway.
Edwin McCain
Mine is. Yeah, that's a good one. I like the Fairy Tale in New.
Bob Kevoian
York by the Pogues.
Tom Griswold
That's great.
Bob Kevoian
That's my favorite.
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Yeah.
Tom Griswold
Really Not a standard, but no. Excellent.
Pat Godwin
Etta James, Santa Baby Can't Be Beat.
Tom Griswold
Mine is Nat King Cole.
Pat Godwin
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah, those are all good.
Tom Griswold
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah. Jeffrey?
Tom Griswold
Oh, I. I don't know. Do you like Christmas music?
Edwin McCain
No.
Donny Baker (Character)
You don't care for.
Tom Griswold
Yeah, I could do without it.
Bob Kevoian
Really?
Tom Griswold
I love it.
Pat Godwin
Really?
Edwin McCain
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
You're kidding me.
Edwin McCain
You watch those YouTube videos of the Grinch? Scaring little Kids, don't you? Yeah, you love those.
Tom Griswold
I love Christmas. I just. I. I don't like that music.
Edwin McCain
Huh.
Tom Griswold
It was driving me nuts in the day.
Bob Kevoian
Well, if you work in a store, obviously.
Edwin McCain
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
You get to hear you real quick. I want to give Pat Godwin some props. So Spotify every year releases like they tell you what your top listeners were.
Pat Godwin
Right.
Tom Griswold
Who you listen to the most. And a listener posted his top artist was Pat Godwin. This year on their Spotify. Number two, Head East.
Bob Kevoian
Oh. All right.
Tom Griswold
Number three, Afroman. And number four was Crystal Gayle.
Bob Kevoian
Crystal Gale.
Edwin McCain
I was about to say, that guy wins the widest range of music.
Tom Griswold
That's amazing.
Bob Kevoian
But also, you gotta love a guy like that because he embraces his own opinions.
Tom Griswold
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
And we live in a culture where everyone's afraid to go, well, I really like this. Oh, no, you're not supposed to. So, you know, that's a great list.
Tom Griswold
Yeah. So Pat was number one on this guy's Spotify. Crystal Gail Wright, Natural Woman.
Bob Kevoian
No, that was Carol.
Tom Griswold
Okay. Crystal Gail, who am I thinking?
Edwin McCain
Long hair to the floor.
Bob Kevoian
She has the song Donut make my brown eyes blue. And she's what she's related to. Was she like Loretta Lynn's Yes.
Tom Griswold
Sister?
Bob Kevoian
Yeah, she's. Does she still have hair down to the floor?
Edwin McCain
Well, I don't know.
Pat Godwin
I don't know.
Tom Griswold
So I had her confused with Carol King. Okay.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah.
Pat Godwin
So my daughter did that, Ava, who's 27. And they said her listener age based on her playlist. 84.
Tom Griswold
84.
Pat Godwin
Because 84. I asked her about it. I go, why is it 84? And she said, I have a playlist that I play every single morning that has all these old standards, Frank Sinatra and everything. So the Spotify people think that she's like 84.
Bob Kevoian
Huh. Wow.
Pat Godwin
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
Interesting enough. I bet if we did it for this group, the youngest, they'd think Chick would be Chick.
Pat Godwin
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
He listens to more new music than any of us.
Tom Griswold
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
I'd be in there in the high 90s.
Tom Griswold
Mine just says dead.
Pat Godwin
I'm the only.
Tom Griswold
I never do that.
Pat Godwin
I'm not on Spotify.
Tom Griswold
Oh, okay. So, yeah, I've never done the. I know it's a big social media thing you post.
Pat Godwin
Yeah, right.
Edwin McCain
But.
Bob Kevoian
But it might be Paul.
Edwin McCain
Paul Cathan for you.
Bob Kevoian
Right.
Tom Griswold
Paul Cawthon, maybe.
Edwin McCain
Wrong.
Bob Kevoian
Oh, your favorite artist.
Tom Griswold
Yeah. Maybe Whiskey Myers. I don't know. I'd have. Maybe I'll do it just to see.
Pat Godwin
But I am an Apple Music. I just downloaded the Christmas album and I'm gonna listen to it later today.
Edwin McCain
I make no guarantees.
Bob Kevoian
Okay, so we'll get you to play one of your songs at some point this morning. I know you love coming on shows. I went in the show. I don't get to play anything.
Tom Griswold
Maybe you could do. I'll eat.
Edwin McCain
I'm happy with that. With planting my flag with Christmas Chihuahua. So that was awesome.
Tom Griswold
You'll do. I'll eat and like it.
Bob Kevoian
We were talking about. There's a great commercial right now. I'm sure you've seen it because you watch football. The one with the three old ladies on the bench. And they order through Amazon. It's a commercial for Amazon. And they order. They order the seats for the. And they go. They show them sledding down the hill. And they're playing in the background. What is it? They're playing In My Life by John Lennon. It's not the Beatles. It's an instrumental version. It's really sweet. But I. One of. One of these days, someone's going to approach you about one of your big songs and say, hey, let's make this a commercial.
Edwin McCain
Listen, for years, I've been daring the automakers. Like, they're missing their big chance. Like, greatest van of your life. I mean, and I'm right there. I mean, they're. They're. I'm almost out of the minivan phase, but I could still do this commercial. Like, you picture it. Like, the sliding door slides open, and there I am singing greatest van of your life.
Bob Kevoian
Or you could do a hot dog.
Edwin McCain
Are you kidding me? Oh, beef. Yeah, there you go. And once you get to 55. Shame's not a component in my life.
Pat Godwin
I'll.
Edwin McCain
Whatever, Bring it on. I'll wear it. I'll wear a tutu. We can sit. We can do this. Toyota, Ford, Dodge.
Tom Griswold
Dignity be damned.
Edwin McCain
I got teenagers. They're so expensive to everybody. Everybody that has teenagers. It doesn't matter what humiliating thing you're doing for money. Everybody on Earth goes, yeah, you had to do that.
Bob Kevoian
I remember we were. We were talking with Peter Frampton once, and he had just released. I forget. It was like a. A quadraphonic something remix of. Of his great live album. And he goes, hey, look, I got kids at college.
Edwin McCain
And, like, it's never easy. Like, my. My daughter just had a flat tire. Oh, she had a flat tire. She said she hit a pothole. Well, I said, I'm getting all this on the phone. The guy at the shop is like, if she hit a pothole. I mean, that's the biggest pothole in the history. The rim's got a dent. She bent the a arm. It needs new struts. I was like, okay. I was like, hey, honey, will you go take a picture of that pothole for me? Because.
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The BOB & TOM Show | Cumulus Podcast Network
Episode Date: January 2, 2026
This BOB & TOM Show Extra episode is a festive comedic romp featuring singer-songwriter Edwin McCain. The crew brings holiday cheer via a twisted "Twelve Days of Christmas" parody by Donny Baker, a sing-along and origin story for McCain's original "Christmas Chihuahua" song, lighthearted banter about Christmas albums, and reflections on holiday music favorites. Laced throughout are the show’s signature humor, candidness, and the easy rapport with their guest, making this a fun, music-focused break from their usual morning routine.
[01:29 – 03:51]
[04:04 – 07:54]
Edwin McCain shares the humorous tale of how a new Chihuahua, Bandito, entered his family—without his consultation.
Inspiration for “Christmas Chihuahua” becomes a hilarious holiday sing-along with audience participation.
Notable quote:
Song includes a bilingual lyric: “Santa le llamara un poquito ratón, Santa needs a Christmas Chihuahua.” [07:40]
[08:02 – 11:44]
McCain reveals he made a New Orleans–style Christmas album—mostly for himself.
Sample played: an upbeat, horn-driven cover of “Frosty the Snowman” featuring Ivan Neville and Eddie Bayers.
McCain admits his own daughter prefers Michael Bublé’s Christmas album over his own.
[12:18 – 13:59]
[14:17 – 16:46]
[17:09 – 18:35]
[18:35 – 19:21]
Whether you’re a fan of Christmas music or not, this Bob & Tom Show Extra delivers a spirited mix of music, comedy, and authentic conversation. Singer-songwriter Edwin McCain brings original tunes, funny stories, and a willingness to rib himself and the holidays. From Donny Baker’s ridiculous 12 Days parody to discussions of favorite standards and Christmas albums, listeners get both laughter and some new tunes to check out—plus a reminder that when it comes to holiday family chaos, everyone’s in on the joke.