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Tom Griswold
Welcome back.
Christopher (Producer)
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 show. Letters, a confused listener, and Josh's cat. We'll have that for you in just a minute.
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Josh Arnold
I threw a monster party last Halloween night and invited all the monsters for a fun October fright. All the famous monsters would be making the scene. I figured that my bash would be the year's biggest scream. I put out lots of Chex Mix and some Rice Krispies treats. The skeleton band was kicking out some spooky meats. I headed to the duds floor ready to get down. But all the monsters just were sort of standing around.
Tom Griswold (reading poem)
It was a lame monster party.
Josh Arnold
Hey guys, come on.
Tom Griswold (reading poem)
It was a lame monster party.
Josh Arnold
Doesn't anybody want to dance?
Tom Griswold (reading poem)
The monsters were boring and the party really sucked. And nobody had any fun.
Josh Arnold
Nobody was spookying or acting very scary. The zombies kind of rolled around, texting on blackberries. Frankenstein showed pictures from his recent trip to France. Wolfman argued macroeconomics with Charlie Manson. When Jason wasn't droning on about Scientology, he talked in painful detail about his vasectomy. But Freddy Krueger took the prize for testing our endurance, trying to convince the ghost they needed life insurance. Anyone from Twister party. How about karaoke?
Tom Griswold (reading poem)
The monsters were boring and the party really sucked and nobody had any.
Josh Arnold
Damian wouldn't budge as she played this game Boy. The mummy was doing Sudoku. Dr. Jekyll went and ate up all of the brownies. And Dracula kept checking his MySpace account. Leatherface, who showed up drunk, kept hitting on the witches and cornered everybody with his Amway sense pitches. The creature from the Black Lagoon was out in the yard debating with Godzilla about Kirk and Picard. Finally, I knew that it was time to call it Qu. When Chucky started reenacting Monty Python skits, I learned my lesson. You can bet I won't do that again next Halloween. Just me and Igor down at Ben again. No, Igor. I don't want to see your Austin Powers imitation again. We'll put guacamole on the cat.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah, we know it's a repeat, but.
Tom Griswold
Things are always better the second time around. This is Bob and Tom Extra. Dear Bob and Tom Show. Long time listener, educated, and my question is, what the heck are you talking about? I'm 56 years old. I have no idea who any of these people are or what those references are you all made this morning. He gives me no examples.
Bob Kevoian
I. I think he meant, like, that.
Kristi Lee
Letter could be read any morning.
Tom Griswold
Yes.
Bob Kevoian
No, I think the most obscure one might have been Sid Sharice.
Kristi Lee
Yeah, that was obscure.
Bob Kevoian
Someone was.
Tom Griswold
She's a dancer.
Bob Kevoian
Mocking the way I dress. And I pointed out I was wearing a Sid Mashburn shirt.
Tom Griswold
Sid makes a nice product.
Bob Kevoian
Sid makes nice stuff. And. And then Josh said, you might as well have said Sid Sharice.
Kristi Lee
No, I said I was wearing Sid Sharice panties.
Bob Kevoian
Okay. Even funnier. I apologize.
Tom Griswold
Tom from Central Point, Oregon, continues. Honestly, it's not uncommon for me to have to look someone or something up when you guys talk to get the reference if it's not explained on the show. But I couldn't take notes fast enough or even figure out what to search for this morning.
Bob Kevoian
Oh, yeah, there were a lot of them. Thanks for the laughs, by the way, Ms. Hooker. Sid Sharice, great legs, famous dancer.
Josh Arnold
Okay.
Bob Kevoian
In the Fred Astaire era.
Josh Arnold
Okay.
Tom Griswold
A little later than that, I think, maybe.
Kristi Lee
Well, she was her biggest movie. She starred with Fred Astaire.
Tom Griswold
Is that right?
Kristi Lee
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
Okay.
Bob Kevoian
It was at Cyd, but she was an attractive lady.
Josh Arnold
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
Really threw it out, I understand.
Bob Kevoian
Oh, yeah. And as she was somewhat petite, so the fact that Josh is wearing her panties just shows he likes a nice, snug fit.
Josh Arnold
Well, he has a small bottom, so he might be able to wear one. Panties.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah. Boy. I didn't think you were to say bottom. I was going to say, well, the secret's out. I've heard otherwise. I've heard that Josh is so modest and incredibly gifted, a thorough and generous lover. And the generous part is actually in footage, if you will. Oh, footage implies multiple feet, but as seen in various. By the way, this is a pedantic. Okay, I noticed I was reading something and they were talking about video and they mentioned footage and I obviously, I guess it's the same thing of talking about your call someone. You're going to dial their number when you don't dial anymore.
Kristi Lee
Sure.
Bob Kevoian
And there's no more footage because it's not film anymore. So a lot of this stuff sticks around. But it's no longer valid. It's all digital. We have more letters. And now you want me to get to one or do you have another one?
Tom Griswold
You go right ahead.
Bob Kevoian
Okay. Actually, you go, because I've got to get this one out of the way here. Sorry.
Tom Griswold
Dear Bob, at Top Show, I, along with many other listeners, my friends and I talked about this last night. I would love to hear more adventures of Josh's cat, Gravy. Oh, laughing my ass off in North Carolina.
Kristi Lee
Well, how nice.
Tom Griswold
I'm listening on the app that is also from Josh.
Bob Kevoian
Anything for anything from Gravy yesterday. Any big things?
Kristi Lee
Yeah, I mean, we're still celebrating Halloween. Halloween.
Tom Griswold
Now, the story you said yesterday was your cat thought she was a. A monster. Right.
Kristi Lee
She tries to scare me by pretending that she is a monster. Yes. Or that telling me that a killer from a famous movie is going to get me. So yesterday, the day before, she was telling me about how Mick Myers. Because she doesn't quite understand that it's Michael Myers. So she says, McMyers is coming. I go, no, no, he's not. And it's Michael Myers. Watch out for McMyers. Always trying to scare me. Well, she learned about A Nightmare on Elm street yesterday. Oh, and so now I have to watch out for the Krugers.
Tom Griswold
The Krugers, yeah.
Kristi Lee
Yeah. And she pretends because she has claws.
Tom Griswold
Oh, yeah.
Kristi Lee
So she pretends she'll lift one paw and go, I'm the Kruger. And I have to go, no, you're not, Gravy. Stop trying to scare me.
Tom Griswold
Do you remember the cat? Every now and there, there was a cat on Warner Brothers, the Bugs Bunny cartoons that would press his paw, the middle of it, and all of his.
Bob Kevoian
Oh, yeah.
Tom Griswold
Claws would pop out.
Kristi Lee
Which is funny because that is essentially how it works. Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
You pick up a. Press that little button. Okay. This letter involves the fact that Christie is on vacation in Europe. Although, no, she's. Is she just in England or is she going to the continent, as they say?
Tom Griswold
I don't know.
Bob Kevoian
She's in Scotland a couple days ago.
Tom Griswold
I thought she was buying a baby.
Bob Kevoian
I don't know. This is. It comes to us from Chris and Elizabeth down Kentucky. I just returned from a trip to Italy. Oh, I see. Hosted by the same group that Christie is on a trip with now. Oh, we took a tour of the Vatican, which ends at the Sistine Chapel. As you exit the chapel, there's a gift shop right there in the hallway.
Tom Griswold
I told you this this morning out there that there's so much Pope merch, you have no idea.
Bob Kevoian
And you think it's your last chance to get souvenirs, but no, you have to walk through two separate gift shops just to get outside.
Tom Griswold
Heck, yeah.
Josh Arnold
Right?
Bob Kevoian
The Catholics have the merchandise thing figured out. Now, this came up yesterday because we had a news story about a baseball signed by Pope Leo.
Josh Arnold
Oh, yeah.
Bob Kevoian
In blue ballpoint pen, it says Leo PP XIV there. We have just put a photograph up in the studio.
Tom Griswold
Now, who has. Whoever has this is selling it. Is that.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah, it seems kind of tacky to me.
Tom Griswold
Well, tacky. I mean, if it gets to six figures, it stops being tacky. And then it's a shrewd move.
Bob Kevoian
And then I was joking, saying, well, what's next to Pope Leo? Bobblehead. Well, guess what?
Tom Griswold
There are several.
Bob Kevoian
Oh, yeah, They're. Yeah, they're out there. So I. Hey, let it. You know, whatever. Whatever merch works.
Tom Griswold
You know, you can get bobbleheads. There he is. You can get bobbleheads of yourself. Of. If you're a couple, you can get it, but sure, yeah. Your office, you can get a bobblehead of everybody.
Kristi Lee
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
It gets a little pricey when you get above two people, but.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah, but I just. Who knew?
Tom Griswold
All you have to do, send them a picture and they send you back a bottle.
Kristi Lee
Pretty cool.
Tom Griswold (reading poem)
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
I mean, do they do a Jesus bobblehead?
Josh Arnold
Oh, yeah.
Tom Griswold
Heck, yeah.
Kristi Lee
Somebody probably does. Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
Marie Antoinette.
Kristi Lee
About before. Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
Or she's holding her head in there, the crook of her arm.
Bob Kevoian
That'd be funny. Okay, what else you got?
Tom Griswold
Is it Anne Boleyn? Is that the one that got her Dear Bob at Top Show? Specifically Chick, you ignorant son of a bitch. This is from Derek. Polish folks do not eat popcorn because the butter flavored topping prevents them from gripping light bulbs and bowling Balls. Thank you, Derek. We learned something new, we mused yesterday. The classic jokes about making Jiffy Pop on the. On a stove. And you don't shake the Jiffy Pop, you shake the stove.
Bob Kevoian
I thought it was one about the incredible Polish athlete that skied down Mount Everest.
Tom Griswold
Oh, yeah, that.
Bob Kevoian
Great news story he's got. Yeah.
Kristi Lee
He got up at the top and he said, hey, where's the boat?
Tom Griswold
I got my tow rope.
Kristi Lee
Yeah. What are we doing here?
Bob Kevoian
There's no light bulb. Okay. So sorry.
Tom Griswold
And I'm part Polish, so it's okay for me. Is that right?
Bob Kevoian
Yeah.
Josh Arnold
Yeah.
Kristi Lee
I'm 100%.
Tom Griswold
Is that right?
Bob Kevoian
We've been talking about whether or not certain phrases are out there, like right on. I determined I cannot say right on. Josh, you apparently are able to do it. From Leland, North Carolina, Laura writes, I'm sending you this message in regard to Tom, properly using the expression right on and quote, doing me a solid. I'm in my late 50s. I still use dig that.
Kristi Lee
Really?
Tom Griswold
I do not use that. That sounds odd to me.
Bob Kevoian
You use that, don't you, Jon?
Kristi Lee
Dig that.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah. Or dig.
Tom Griswold
Dig this.
Kristi Lee
Oh, yeah, I kind of dug it. Yeah. I'll say maybe every now and again, but I won't just go, hey, dig this yesterday.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah, I see. And then we also got into the really confusing world of 6, 7. And that is as confusing as anything of all time.
Kristi Lee
You know, I don't. It's just not for us.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah, That's.
Kristi Lee
That's. There's.
Tom Griswold
We just can't get a beat on it. Apparently math teachers are having a problem with students, and when they mention 6.
Josh Arnold
7, the kids lose their mind.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
In school.
Kristi Lee
That's so funny.
Josh Arnold
Yeah.
Kristi Lee
See, that's the thing. The kids. Part of the kick has to be. These people have no idea what we're doing.
Josh Arnold
Yeah.
Kristi Lee
But we're not really doing anything.
Bob Kevoian
But they. And it's. We think it's a secret code. And actually, if you Google what it means, it says it's intentionally vague.
Kristi Lee
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
And in. In some more or less meaningless.
Josh Arnold
Yeah. It's like Skibidi toilet used to be the last one that the kids did that. Was that. Was that. Did Jimmy say that?
Bob Kevoian
Absolutely.
Tom Griswold (reading poem)
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
And there's the origin. This goes real deep. It may be an NBA player who was 6 foot 7. It. You can read about it forever. It's a meme thing. But it's. Part of it is. You don't get it.
Josh Arnold
Right. My favorite one was the band director, Aaron Burkhart, that was here. He said his niece is having a six, seven themed birthday party because she's six and she's turning seven.
Tom Griswold
Ah.
Josh Arnold
And so that's the theme. This word, this term is the theme of her whole birthday. Which I think is adorable.
Bob Kevoian
But. And it's kind of like saying I'm in on the joke.
Kristi Lee
Right?
Bob Kevoian
If you just say.
Tom Griswold
It's like if you know, you know.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah, yeah. Six, seven and then you just move on. Just say it out like that.
Josh Arnold
Dear girls.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah, we know. I heard it for the first time a couple weeks ago. I had no. And I said what are you doing? What does that mean?
Tom Griswold
But I know you and you're not going to rest until you get a definitive answer on what it means. I can see it in your eyes and.
Bob Kevoian
But by the time I know what it means, it will no longer be cool to you.
Kristi Lee
No, no, it's, it's, it does it. But it doesn't mean anything ever.
Tom Griswold
Right. It means nothing is what it means.
Bob Kevoian
Right. Right.
Tom Griswold
So. So sometimes, sometimes silence is an answer.
Bob Kevoian
Right. Right on.
Tom Griswold
Can you dig that?
Bob Kevoian
I can dig. I can dig it.
Tom Griswold
Dear Bob and top show. Oh, Tom writes Jeremiah. Tom, Tom, Tom.
Kristi Lee
With his forearm against his forehead.
Tom Griswold
Yes. As a self proclaimed sailor, how can you be unawares of the phrase going around the horn?
Bob Kevoian
Okay, porn.
Tom Griswold
Ugh. U g h h H. Cape Horn. Cape Horn. Not. I thought you said Cape Horn.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah. You're going around the Horn. Yes.
Tom Griswold
As any real sailor can tell you, going around the Horn refers to passing under Cape Horn.
Bob Kevoian
Well, in saline. But we were talking about it in baseball.
Tom Griswold
Well, I think that's where they.
Kristi Lee
Right.
Tom Griswold
It started sailing shore about going around.
Kristi Lee
The Horn pre Panama Canal.
Tom Griswold
Right.
Bob Kevoian
Well sure. I mean, duh. But I mean.
Tom Griswold
Well, you didn't say it yesterday. All of a sudden you got 2020 hindsight.
Bob Kevoian
No, my question was no. Someone asked what's around the horn in baseball and that's where the catch.
Kristi Lee
What? Somebody asked. This is the one. This is the biggest problem with his letters segment.
Tom Griswold
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Kristi Lee
I'm coming in at seven. Oh yeah. I will take a.
Bob Kevoian
What is it? What is it what?
Kristi Lee
I will take a 40% pay cut.
Bob Kevoian
To come in itself. 50.
Kristi Lee
I'm considering it.
Bob Kevoian
Catcher throws it to the third baseman. You see. No, I'm aware of Cape Horn. I didn't know. I don't understand the connection between that and baseball.
Tom Griswold
That's where the phrase came from was Cape Horn. And then they just used it in baseball. Let's go around the horn here. It didn't come from Baseball going around the horn is.
Bob Kevoian
It was famously dangerous. Throwing the baseball around after the guy's out isn't all that dangerous. I don't understand the connection.
Tom Griswold
You know what, Tom? If you keep paying me, I won't come in at all.
Bob Kevoian
How about that 50?
Tom Griswold
I would really enjoy that. And oh, by the way, Pat, if you could, would you please play the rectum of Ella Fitzgerald?
Bob Kevoian
Did you have to read that?
Tom Griswold
A salute to. Who's this from sailing? Jeremiah. All right, thank you, Jeremiah. Thanks crew. Keep up with the laughs. Oh, and then he sent. He sent us a photograph of the northern lights which are.
Kristi Lee
Oh, that's cool.
Tom Griswold
Incredible.
Bob Kevoian
Where does he live?
Tom Griswold
What's his address?
Bob Kevoian
I mean. No. Did he take up me? If he took a picture. That's amazing. They just put the picture.
Kristi Lee
Hell of a shot of wow.
Bob Kevoian
Aurora. Does it say where this guy's from?
Tom Griswold
It doesn't say in the letter.
Bob Kevoian
No.
Kristi Lee
He might be lying. He says he's from Topeka, Kansas.
Tom Griswold
He just said went out and photographed the northern lights the other morning. Heard a bull moose on the prowl.
Bob Kevoian
Oh, right.
Tom Griswold
And he has a trail camera set up for motion. So the trail camera got a picture of the bull moose.
Kristi Lee
This guy send you his journal.
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Tom Griswold
Oh, here we are. He's in it's way down at the bottom. He's in Homer, Alaska, everybody. Homer, Alaska.
Bob Kevoian
Jeremiah. Thank you very much. Wow, that's great.
Kristi Lee
That's pretty.
Bob Kevoian
Speaking of mooses.
Tom Griswold
Yes, that's. And that is correct. Go ahead.
Bob Kevoian
Is mooses the correct plural of moose?
Tom Griswold
Yes.
Bob Kevoian
Is it? You know, I saw three deers out there today.
Tom Griswold
Three deers?
Kristi Lee
Oh dears, oh dears.
Bob Kevoian
Oh dear. Now if you have three tractors, is that three John Deere's or three John Deere? I'd like an answer.
Kristi Lee
Yeah, we need to hear.
Bob Kevoian
Yes, John Deere. I hear the sound of the carpenters building. Building something for Josh. What's that? A gallows?
Tom Griswold
Three. We'll cover that on Monday.
Kristi Lee
Is it three John Deere?
Bob Kevoian
That's a fair question. That was funny. We should call the Dear John Deere. Platt, how many John Deere's do you have there? You mean John Deere illiterate.
Tom Griswold
And what do you order? Chocolate mousses for the table. Oh yes, yes you do.
Bob Kevoian
And these things.
Tom Griswold
This is fun. We could do this all morning.
Bob Kevoian
These handheld things for your computer are mouses, not mice.
Tom Griswold
Oh, this is.
Bob Kevoian
Oh, this is like. Somebody have any weed?
Tom Griswold
You're off and running. Why don't you try the edibles? And I still contend you had an edible a couple weeks ago, but you didn't tell us. No, because you were really.
Josh Arnold
He could have had one and not known.
Tom Griswold
Oh, that's true.
Josh Arnold
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
No, I don't eat candy. I don't know about a candy.
Tom Griswold
Do you have a Tums or anything?
Bob Kevoian
No, no, no. I. I can barely get through life sober. The last thing I need is to be to be stoned. This is hard enough for me to find my car. Once again. I walked up to the wrong car the other day.
Kristi Lee
Oh, man.
Bob Kevoian
It was white, though.
Kristi Lee
Well, still.
Tom Griswold
Do you.
Josh Arnold
Was it an suv?
Bob Kevoian
Sort of. I came from the front and wasn't really paying attention.
Tom Griswold
Do you forget what car you drove sometimes when you come out of the store?
Bob Kevoian
On occasion, yeah.
Christopher (Producer)
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.
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Podcast: The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
Episode Title: B&T Extra: Letters, a confused listener, & Josh's Cat
Release Date: November 7, 2025
The BOB & TOM Show’s “Extra” takes a lighthearted deep-dive into the day’s listener letters, explores the confusion around pop culture references, shares stories about Josh’s quirky cat Gravy, and banters about generational slang and cultural trends. The episode is characterized by the group’s signature irreverence and quick wit, keeping the tone playful while riffing on everything from obscure dancer references to the plural of “moose.”
The episode is brisk, self-aware, and full of friendly ribbing, inimitably channeling the show’s tradition of playing off each others’ jokes and listener input. If you enjoy spontaneous comedy, playful banter, and cultural nostalgia (sprinkled with just the right touch of absurdity), this episode is classic BOB & TOM. Whether you're here for monster jokes, confused listeners, or stories about cats who act like Freddy Krueger, you’ll find the group’s chemistry and humor in full form.