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Tom Griswold
Welcome back.
Christopher (Producer/Host)
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. Josh's intros. Plus birds in Home Alone 2 and the real 12 Days of Christmas. It's on the way in just a minute.
Pat Godwin
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Heather Brown
Uncle Murray, please tell me the story about Irving the Snowman.
Josh Arnold
Okay, honey, it's the perfect holiday story. And it goes something like this.
Pat Godwin (singing)
Irving the Snowman came to life one day. It said when a rabbi's son who.
Josh Arnold
Was having fun Put a yarmulke on his head?
Pat Godwin (singing)
There must have been some mag in that yarmulka he wore? Cause the average snowman doesn't talk or.
Josh Arnold
Run a retail storm?
Pat Godwin (singing)
Irving the snowman? With the children he would play? Every girl and boy would sing out with joy? When they heard him shout Oy vein. Irving the snowman had a Christmas bar mitzvah?
Josh Arnold
Ba la la la la?
Pat Godwin (singing)
Singing through his schnaz?
Josh Arnold
Havanagi la hey.
Pat Godwin (singing)
His eyes were made of bagels from the deli windowsill? His lips, they were guff filled?
Josh Arnold
Tough fish. And his nose was a kosher dill?
Heather Brown
The temperature was rising?
Pat Godwin (singing)
Irving didn't have a home? As he waved goodbye he said, don't you cry?
Josh Arnold
I'll be back someday. She shalom.
Pat Godwin (singing)
Irving the snowman melted into mushy goop? And the rabbi's wife said?
Josh Arnold
You bet your life this will make great chicken soup. If I were a snowman. FA la la la la la la la la la la la la la la. Happy holidays, everybody.
Tom Griswold
If you missed something yesterday, maybe you'll hear it now.
Josh Arnold
This is Bob and Tom. Extra.
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Heather Brown
Oh, hi.
Josh Arnold
Matching somewhat with Pat Godwin today.
Tom Griswold
Yeah. A light brown going on.
Heather Brown
Heather. Heather Brown.
Josh Arnold
You both look terrific.
Heather Brown
Thank you.
Josh Arnold
There's. My gosh. Look at him smiling. He's got a great mustache going on. It's Willie Griswold.
Well, good to see you, Josh.
At the prize pick sports desk.
Tom Griswold
Not to make it.
Pat Godwin
Not to cut in. I love when you do intros so much. It's my favorite thing.
Josh Arnold
And it always makes me smile and legitimately laugh.
Well, I'm happy. It broke me.
Tom Griswold
I was talking about it yesterday because Josh doesn't really have a plan. He thinks he's ready and then he starts doing it. And then you hear these long pauses. Okay. I gotta come up with something.
Pat Godwin
That's not what I was doing. I wasn't trying to laugh.
Josh Arnold
And it's okay.
Heather Brown
Positive.
Tom Griswold
Positive.
Josh Arnold
Your dad's perception of what I do is. Is wrong.
Tom Griswold
That's.
Josh Arnold
I just liked it because you called.
Pat Godwin
You said they look so nice and you got to meet. There was a Paul. I didn't know if a dig was coming.
Josh Arnold
Maybe he thinks I'm unprepared and.
Tom Griswold
Yes.
Josh Arnold
And Honestly ill equipped to do this. Sure, I'm not at all. I just like to have fun with it. There's Ace Cosby.
Tom Griswold
You sure that you got the names right?
Josh Arnold
I'm Josh Arnold at the I hate Steven Singer sidekick chair. And there's Tom.
Tom Griswold
Hello. How's everybody doing? We were talking about birds for some reason.
Heather Brown
Yes.
Tom Griswold
And you.
Heather Brown
We found out that Josh. Tom doesn't.
Josh Arnold
Oh, he has a limited appreciation for birds.
Tom Griswold
I really like the movie Home Alone. I don't care for the second one.
Heather Brown
Because of the pigeon.
Josh Arnold
If they removed the pigeon lady, would you care for the second?
Tom Griswold
That might help. Help me a little bit. It's a fine sequel.
Josh Arnold
It's the great Brenda Fricker.
Heather Brown
Brenda Fricker.
Tom Griswold
Irish actress.
Pat Godwin
That's just. It has the kids dream of unlimited room service and what you would do. I mean that could be the whole movie for me. There could be no conflict. A kid ordering pizza and burgers and wings. That'd be a perfect movie if you're a kid.
Josh Arnold
My problem with the bird lady is the end of the movie. He runs out, gives her an ornament and then runs back to his. Runs back to the Plaza Hotel.
Heather Brown
Yes.
Josh Arnold
And I guess I've always wanted her just to go. All right, well, I'll just stay here and be homeless then. Okay.
Tom Griswold
Yeah, I just. I just crapped on a rock over by the Essex house.
Josh Arnold
Yeah.
Heather Brown
Maybe a spot of tea, please.
Tom Griswold
Maybe got a clean pair. Clean pair of undies.
Josh Arnold
I don't know. Your rich dad doesn't have a contact.
Tom Griswold
But. But again, I do like. I do certainly do enjoy and enjoy home alone. But I'm not a fan of the bird thing. I again, I like birds from a distance. I have friends that have whatever. Parakeets and cockatiels and big birds. I just. I don't want them.
Heather Brown
That's fine. Every. That's why we live in America.
Tom Griswold
Yeah. Now, I had a bird feeder once.
Josh Arnold
I had a bird feeder once. That's as close as I'm gonna get.
Pat Godwin
It's because usually I do one chicken here. Because he can make you shut up somet.
Heather Brown
But if.
Pat Godwin
If chick gets in your way too much, if he plays too much defense. We don't get stuff like this.
Josh Arnold
Yeah, we don't get.
Pat Godwin
I had a bird feeder once.
Josh Arnold
Well, point.
Tom Griswold
I used to live in a house. They call it a walkout.
Heather Brown
Yeah. Basement.
Tom Griswold
Yeah. Where the house is built in the hill.
Heather Brown
Sure.
Josh Arnold
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
And the lower level is. You could walk outside from the one side of the house.
Pat Godwin
You describing the most regular things can sound so funny.
Tom Griswold
The point is there was a deck. The deck was like 20ft off the ground because the hill was kind of steep. So I spent an entire Sunday once rigging up a wire from the deck all the way across the backyard. There was a dam in the backyard kind of 100 yards from my house.
Josh Arnold
A damn what?
Tom Griswold
Thank you. It's a fair question.
Pat Godwin
Damn wire.
Tom Griswold
One time some drunk drove a boat over it. That was pretty funny. And he lived. The larger point here is. So I set up this giant wire, right? And then I had a whole pulley system, right. So I could put the bird feeder stuff in there and then keep the birds away from my house.
Heather Brown
Oh, you don't want them near you?
Tom Griswold
Well, no, because they crap all over the deck.
Josh Arnold
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
Which was a. And it was fairly effective. The day that I did it, my third trip to Home Depot, the guy look, I looked at me and he goes, you're inventing something, aren't you, sir? I'll never forget that. But. So I'm not anti bird, like I said, I just. That movie creeps me out. I don't want birds landing on me. I went to my FedEx store the other day and there was a guy there with a parrot on his shoulder.
Josh Arnold
Boy, that's slow delivery.
Tom Griswold
I went up to my buddy Sean. Sean who works there. I said, who's this guy? Oh, he comes in here all the time. So if you have a. Isn't the parrot gonna poop all over your shirt?
Josh Arnold
Yeah, yeah.
Pat Godwin
That's just probably price you have to pay.
Josh Arnold
It is.
Tom Griswold
I'm not paying that. Well, that leads to this, as Josh has called. This is a perfect so called comedy bit. This really is. Every word is in the right place. This is Randy Lubas and one of the absolute classics. It's. I think we call it the real twelve days of Christmas.
Josh Arnold
You know, you play that and I hate to sound like a Scrooge, but I used to work in a department store and I used to sit there for an eight hour shift and have to listen to that Muzak Christmas tape over and over. And they would play the single most annoying song known to man. You all know that song. I'm talking that song, the twelve Days of Christmas. First off, guys, I don't believe this song. I can't believe that anybody is this into birds.
Tom Griswold
Great.
Josh Arnold
Think about it, Tom. On the seventh day alone, this guy's getting seven swans, a swimming, six geese, a laying, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge. That's 23 birds. Who is this man? Alfred Hitchcock? By the 12th day, he's accumulated 42 swans, a swimming, 42 geese, a laying, 36 calling birds, 30 French hens, 22 turtle doves, and 12 partridges. Now, I hope this man's got a newspaper subscription. Cause that's 184 birds. And we didn't even take into consideration those geese are a laying. Some of those eggs will be a hatching. Hey, and if that's not bad enough, come the eighth day, they start sending in show business people. Yeah. Ladies dancing drummers, drumming pipers. Piper lords are leaping. All right, Bob, I'll accept that they're in show business. They're used to working around the holidays. But what about those po. Maids of milking? They ought to be home with their family on Christmas, not yanking on a cow. I can just see him sitting there on their stool. He brings in one more stinking bird, and I'll be damned if I'm picking those pears.
Tom Griswold
Randy Lubus. And an absolute gem. Thank you very much. Randy. Always loved that piece. And that was something every year that I find really irritating.
Josh Arnold
What's that?
Tom Griswold
Sorry, it's when the TV news guy comes on. Hey, we got Wilbur Smith. Now, the price. How much is the 12 days of Christmas this year?
Josh Arnold
Oh, I always like that.
Tom Griswold
Yes.
Josh Arnold
Yardstick for how the economy's doing.
Tom Griswold
Yeah, the. The one story where I'd like to see the newscaster picked off with a rifle is when they. When they. When they do the one every year about. Well, they say that people watching the NCAA college basketball tournament is gonna. The productivity of our country is gonna. We're gonna have a depression because, you know, and then it's Christmas with the companies, like Christmas Gray and Shafting or something, and they start talking about the lack of productivity. Hey, we have to have a little bit of fun.
Josh Arnold
Okay. No, I like that one too, because I. I think it's important to point out to menial workers that they're not doing enough.
Tom Griswold
How dare you take a break and watch a game for five minutes.
Josh Arnold
I mean, morale does a lot.
Tom Griswold
Yeah, productivity.
Pat Godwin
It would be so cool if the news anchor, while reading, I was like, you know what? Screw this. Lights a cigarette on here.
Josh Arnold
I don't want to work hard anymore.
Pat Godwin
Listen up, you guys.
Tom Griswold
What if an H caster lit a smoke, grabbed a beer and popped the game on? Yeah, you know, I could read about the latest murder downtown, but let's watch. Let's watch some poops. So now that I've said I hate the story, I just Found it here.
Josh Arnold
Oh, the 20th Christmas version.
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
Hear it and I'll read it verbatim.
Josh Arnold
It really is so arbitrary.
Tom Griswold
But now you can guess. Oh, Christie will know this one. What now? Think about what's on the 12 days of Christmas. It includes five golden rings.
Josh Arnold
Those have got to be up.
Tom Griswold
Yeah. As a matter of fact, 32.5% more expensive for the golden rings since last year.
Josh Arnold
Nice.
Tom Griswold
That's staggering.
Heather Brown
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
Overall, of course, the cost of celebrating Christmas is climbing again. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's apparently overall 4.5.
Josh Arnold
You know, when you read it like that, it is kind of annoying.
Tom Griswold
And I. When they do it, I want to know, are they leasing, like the.
Josh Arnold
Exactly.
Tom Griswold
The Maids of Milking. They go back to Civil war era human ownership. They're all having fun, man.
Heather Brown
Yeah, we were.
Tom Griswold
So anyway, do you change the channel if you're listening to one of those Christmas radio shows and the. That song comes on 12 days of Christmas?
Josh Arnold
You know, I. I don't. I don't hear it very often. No, I think they kind of know.
Tom Griswold
Yeah, they know.
Heather Brown
I was kind of surprised that there are so many different Christmas channels now. Yeah, I had no idea.
Tom Griswold
And every. Every city has at least two.
Heather Brown
Yeah. But there's like a soul.
Tom Griswold
That's a good one.
Heather Brown
That is a good one. Smokey Robinson.
Tom Griswold
That's a good one.
Heather Brown
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
But then there's also the. All instrumental ones.
Heather Brown
There's. Yes, there's the standard favorites, and there's.
Tom Griswold
The kind of solemn ones where they don't segue from Silent Night into Grandma Got run Over by a Reindeer.
Josh Arnold
You guys sing along, of course. Yeah.
Heather Brown
Why wouldn't you?
Pat Godwin
I'm like an annoying theater get. I'm harmonizing. I'm the worst.
Tom Griswold
Yeah, I'll go a third above myself.
Heather Brown
I actually listened to Christmas music on the way in today. I haven't done that.
Tom Griswold
Not fun.
Heather Brown
It was very fun. Here's some Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra.
Pat Godwin
That is adorable. I am so jealous of your little cartoon doll life.
Josh Arnold
You in just listening to Christmas music.
Tom Griswold
Have you. Have you heard the. I know you like Dean Martin. I do, too. But if you're Dean Martin, his version of Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer. He calls him Rudy.
Josh Arnold
Yeah, he does.
That's hilarious.
Tom Griswold
Nobody else could get away with that.
Pat Godwin
He had three beers. He was having fun. Let him go.
Heather Brown
I loved it.
Tom Griswold
Yeah, apparently he kind of breezed through almost everything. I guess for that TV show, he'd show up five minutes before it started.
Heather Brown
Good for him.
Tom Griswold
And read up. Read. Just read the Cards.
Josh Arnold
Yeah. They were all kind of Sinatra the direct. Any movie director would be like, let's get another take. You go, no, no, we got it. They were just like, damn it.
Tom Griswold
Even in the recording studio, can you.
Heather Brown
Imagine having that kind of cool being that cool?
Tom Griswold
It's hard. It's a burden.
Josh Arnold
I bet, dude. Yeah.
Tom Griswold
It's more the curse, isn't it?
Pat Godwin
Look at you over there with your Bahamas canvas hat on.
Tom Griswold
Mr.
Josh Arnold
Cool.
Tom Griswold
Sinatra screws up in New York. New York. And they kept it. He repeated a line at the end famously. Yeah, he doesn't. He doesn't get the end right. And they didn't fix it. Imagine that.
Josh Arnold
Tell him he didn't get the end right.
Tom Griswold
Yeah. I don't think Willie's heard Sinatra's version. We were talking yesterday about that controversy. It started, I think, six or seven years ago.
Heather Brown
I can tell you exactly when it was. 2018.
Tom Griswold
Yeah, it was. And it was a radio station in Ohio made a real big deal out of not playing Baby It's Cold Outside, the song Baby, It's Cold Outside. And they went into this whole thing about date rape and got real serious. Yeah. And Frank Sinatra did a famous version.
Heather Brown
Of the song with Ann Margaret.
Josh Arnold
There's such a better way to say that.
Needles into our ears with those two.
Tom Griswold
Words.
Josh Arnold
Before the setup for a bit.
Heather Brown
Thanks.
Tom Griswold
See, this is all me under the date rape. Plus, this is. Yeah, this is Pat. They can't appreciate the warm water. Go ahead, gentleman, take him the cold water.
Josh Arnold
Go ahead, Pat. Make light of date. Right.
Tom Griswold
This is.
Josh Arnold
You've got a hilarious song about this topic. Yeah, it's only.
Tom Griswold
We only talk about roofies for about 30 seconds, but go. Go ahead. How would. How would it go? Well, Sinatra and Anne Margaret, of course, did a version, and it goes something like this.
Heather Brown
I really can't stay.
Josh Arnold
You're staying.
Tom Griswold
Thank you very much. Well, glad to have you here. Thanks for coming along. Yeah, I sing along, too. Although there's. I've been having some issues with my. Especially my left ear from wearing headphones all these years. They did that one song. Do you hear what I hear? No, turn it up. I can't hear anything in this. What a drag. Do you have a good ear and a bad ear?
Heather Brown
Yes. In fact, I'm going to the doctor. My right ear is really bad. Real bad.
Tom Griswold
Now, do you find. And I don't want to get too.
Josh Arnold
Personal, actually, there's music going on right now. There is. It's been a while.
Tom Griswold
Is that me?
Heather Brown
Yeah.
Josh Arnold
That's your bad ear.
Tom Griswold
There is that it?
Josh Arnold
Yes. You fixed it.
This show is a real team.
Tom Griswold
Tell Eddie that this.
Josh Arnold
Hit you with a hammer.
Tom Griswold
Tell Eddie, our engineer, that apparently the potentiometer number five is leaking.
Josh Arnold
Oh, not number five.
Tom Griswold
I was jamming to some Ray Bryant. The Ray Bryant Trio. Highly recommend.
Heather Brown
You certainly were. This morning, it was love. The ray broke.
Pat Godwin
You love getting here early and just rocking out a little bit, doing some homework.
Heather Brown
Oh, no, it's not rocking.
Pat Godwin
Oh, really?
Josh Arnold
What is it?
Tom Griswold
It's jazz. It's meth. Jazz. Jazz. Oh, it's just great. No, it's the kind of. The kind of stuff you'd hear in a Woody Allen movie. Nice jazz piano.
Pat Godwin
You love Woody Allen, man.
Tom Griswold
What was I gonna mention?
Josh Arnold
Just the way he's chosen to live his life.
Tom Griswold
Oh, I know. Now, Christy, in the bedroom.
Heather Brown
Yes.
Tom Griswold
If you have one. If you have. If you have one year, that's better. Better than the other.
Josh Arnold
Oh, yes.
Tom Griswold
I may have to lobby to switch sides. I.
Heather Brown
It's so funny. You bring this. I. I just love making last week.
Tom Griswold
When I go, pat, imagine that you had a woman you were sleeping with, as opposed to someone you'd paid a fee to to come over for a brief fling.
Josh Arnold
I thought that was Josh's territory.
Pat Godwin
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
I do have a great Josh insult coming up. I'm so excited about it.
Heather Brown
You've been sitting on it all day.
Tom Griswold
No, I thought of it while listening to some cool jazz this morning. I'm so excited for it. It is such a stretch. It is such a terrible joke.
Pat Godwin
Josh, how does that make you feel, knowing that while you're not here, he thinks of an insult so good, and he writes it down, and it makes him smile a little bit.
Josh Arnold
Well, he. There are moments, mornings, we're in the green room, we'll run into each other, and he'll go, oh, boy, do I have a good joke for you later.
Tom Griswold
I originally wrote it for Pat.
Pat Godwin
Oh, yeah. I lost too much weight, so now you got to send it Josh's way.
Tom Griswold
No, I just thought it was. I thought Josh will be as angry because it's. Clearly, I'm joking. But my point was going to be if I was going to make one, I always sleep on as. As if you're lying down on your back in the bed, I'm always on the right side.
Heather Brown
Me, too.
Tom Griswold
In a hotel, wherever it is, Kelly's there. I'm here.
Josh Arnold
Oh, all right.
Tom Griswold
But my left ear is the bad one, so. Oh, if she's talking to me. Thank you, Josh. Do we have that on tape?
Pat Godwin
I can't believe you didn't make that joke. I can't believe you waited for him.
Christopher (Producer/Host)
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.
Josh Arnold
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Heather Brown
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Tom Griswold
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Josh Arnold
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Episode: B&T Extra: Josh’s intros, Birds in Home Alone 2, & the REAL 12 Days of Christmas
Date: December 31, 2025
Hosts: Tom Griswold, Josh Arnold, Pat Godwin, Heather Brown, Willie Griswold
This B&T Extra delivers an entertaining blend of holiday-themed humor, classic Bob & Tom banter, and light-hearted music chatter. This episode revolves around Josh Arnold’s famously unplanned show intros, a comedic takedown of “Home Alone 2’s” pigeon lady, and a satirical look at “The 12 Days of Christmas,” complete with riffs about birds, department store Muzak, and soaring gold ring prices. The crew’s stories, jokes, and singalongs are delivered in their signature playful, sarcastic style.
On Bird Overload in the “12 Days of Christmas”:
“By the 12th day, he's accumulated 42 swans, a swimming, 42 geese, a laying, 36 calling birds, 30 French hens, 22 turtle doves, and 12 partridges. Now, I hope this man's got a newspaper subscription. Cause that's 184 birds.” – Randy Lubas (11:00)
On Living with Birds:
“I have friends that have whatever. Parakeets and cockatiels and big birds. I just...I don't want them.” – Tom Griswold (07:11)
On Dean Martin’s ‘Rudolph’:
“If you’re Dean Martin, his version of ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’—he calls him Rudy. He had three beers. He was having fun. Let him go.” – Tom Griswold & Pat Godwin (15:34–15:47)
On Annoying Holiday News Stories:
“The one story where I’d like to see the newscaster picked off with a rifle is when they do the one every year about...how much is the 12 Days of Christmas this year?” – Tom Griswold (12:19)
The episode is a masterclass in Bob & Tom’s signature cocktail of absurdity, warmth, and rapid-fire repartee. Quips and playful jabs are delivered with quick wit and good-natured sarcasm, making it feel like joining a lively, slightly irreverent family holiday gathering. Musical parodies and vintage standup keep the episode punchy and nostalgic, while contemporary references (like radio bans) provide a dash of timely satire.
Whether or not you’re a holiday music lover, this B&T Extra offers a fun window into the chaos of Christmas pop culture with enough laughs, riffs, and relatably cranky holiday banter to make it a festive must-listen—even after December.