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Tom Griswold
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Christopher (Chris)
Welcome back. It's another Bob and Tom Extra. This is Christopher. Not only is the Bob and Tom show live every weekday morning, but every afternoon we'll give you a little extra in case you missed anything on today's big show. Letters, Josh's cat gravy and Tom McGooing. It's all coming up in just a minute. As a raider scavenging a derelict world, you settle into an underground settlement. But now you must return to the surface where arc machines roam. If you're brave enough, who knows what you might find. Arc Raiders, a multiplayer extraction adventure video game. Buy now for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S and PC. Rated T for Teen.
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Brian
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Christopher (Chris)
Miss something here you. We'll try to catch you up. This is Bob and Tom Extra. We like to open the show by talking to you via email. What have you got over there?
Brian
Dear Bob and Tom Show. My name is Brian from La Plata, New Mexico. I believe that means the Plata. And I was hoping that Josh Arnold could possibly do a conversation as himself and his cat Gravy responds. Josh looks like my older brother. And I have lost some cats this year.
Josh Arnold
Oh, sorry to hear it.
Brian
Makes my day when he talks like his cat.
Josh Arnold
Well, my cats, since yesterday was October 1st, they have been trying to scare me. Now because it's Halloween season, they always try to do that. And Gravy will come up to me and she'll say, I'm Dracra. She thinks she's Dracula.
Brian
Oh, okay.
Josh Arnold
And you don't catch. There's a lot of Rs and a lot of. So their English gets that way, too. And Gravy actually has a song. I'll go, gravy, what are you doing? And she'll go, I'm drag.
Brian
Ra.
Josh Arnold
No, you're not.
Christopher (Chris)
Stop.
Josh Arnold
And Halloween was on yesterday.
Brian
Oh.
Josh Arnold
And so now she tells me that she's McMyers because she doesn't know how to say Michael Myers.
Tom Griswold
Right.
Christopher (Chris)
She gets, I'm McMyers.
Josh Arnold
No, you're not McMyers. I'll stab you.
Christopher (Chris)
No, no.
Josh Arnold
She has a Dracula song.
Christopher (Chris)
Can we hear it?
Josh Arnold
Yeah. She'll go, drakra coming for you. Dracra gonna get you. Drakra gonna bite you. Dracra suck your bra. And I go, no, you don't. Stop that gravy.
Christopher (Chris)
It's kind of upbeat. Doesn't have that usual sort of luxurious organ sound. Dracula.
Brian
Yeah, it is. It is menacing. He's gonna. He's gonna get you. He's gonna suck your blood.
Josh Arnold
She has the whole story. He's gonna get you.
Christopher (Chris)
Yeah.
Josh Arnold
Or he's coming for you, which is scary. And then gonna get you. There's no escaping it. And then gonna bite you. Well, why Suck your bra.
Brian
Suck your bra. Kitty cats. You can't say the yells, right.
Josh Arnold
I'm McMires.
Christopher (Chris)
Oh, little kitty.
Brian
Dear Bob and Tom show is a listener of your show for the better part of 25 years. I often find myself questioning how Tom makes it through life, given his constant magooing. Thank you, Josh. I catch myself shaking my head in both confusion and bewilderment on almost a daily basis. This is word for word, this letter. Listening to Tom talk about. Well, anything, really. Keep up the good work, Tom. Josh, it always gets me hearing you yell at Tom off mic. Also, also the metal band I recommended a few Months ago. Orbit Culture has a new album coming out tomorrow.
Josh Arnold
Oh, I'll check it out.
Brian
This is Tyler from Portland, Oregon.
Christopher (Chris)
Thank you, Tom.
Brian
You guys make me laugh every day.
Christopher (Chris)
Now I want to ask young Shara.
Brian
Hello.
Christopher (Chris)
Are you familiar with the term magooing? Do you understand the origin of that?
Brian
I don't.
Christopher (Chris)
And of course is Mr. Magoo the, the iconic cartoon character voiced by the great Jim Backus? Jim Back is perhaps most famous for being. He was what, the dad in the James Dean classic?
Josh Arnold
Sure, but he's most famous.
Christopher (Chris)
Oh, he's Mr. Howell on Gilligan's Island. Did you ever see Gilligan's Island?
Brian
I mean, yes.
Christopher (Chris)
The great Jim Back.
Brian
Did you hear the resignation? What she thought was, how do I get out of this conversation?
Christopher (Chris)
I think, I think the phrase, the phrase magooing is brilliant because 1964 is Mr. Magoo. Mr. Magoo had very poor vision, so he would often mistake people for other things. And then he had a, he had an Asian assistant that has been politically corrected out of existence, I believe. And I'm a big Mr. Magoo fan. For my money, the, the Christmas classic. Oh no, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. By far the best Adaptation is the Mr. Magoo version of it. I actually have the book about it and of course the video. I highly recommend it. It's a musical. It's brilliant. I, I, it makes me tear up every time I hear, But I'm being, I'm accused of magooing, meaning that I don't know what I'm doing most of the time.
Josh Arnold
Well, Mr. Magoo would leave a wake of destruction because he, he'd be driving thinking everything was fine, but meanwhile everybody else is swerving out of his way.
Brian
Not only, not only was he disconnected and distant, he had, he was near sighted.
Josh Arnold
He couldn't see, that was the main thing.
Christopher (Chris)
But I, I have, I have fine vision, don't, don't get me wrong.
Brian
But yeah. God knows what you'd be if you couldn't see.
Christopher (Chris)
Yeah. Oh boy, that'd be terrible. But I have a life of adventure. Yesterday I had to drop a car off at a distant land and I ubered back, hey, good job with my very nice Vietnamese driver. And he had his phone mounted on the dashboard.
Brian
Yeah.
Christopher (Chris)
Where he had his maps and everything coming off.
Brian
Yeah. Huh.
Christopher (Chris)
And the phone rang.
Brian
Did you find that fascinating? How did he get his phone up there?
Christopher (Chris)
He had some gizmo that had attached up there, which is fine. And then the phone rang and I encouraged him to answer.
Brian
Oh no.
Christopher (Chris)
And then, and then he said, and I will not try to emulate his imitate. I should say, his accent. No, Somebody affected it. My wife. And I said, no, no, take the call. Goes, no, no, no. He didn't want to take the call.
Brian
No, go first on. He's. He's at work.
Christopher (Chris)
No, I don't care.
Brian
Well, you should.
Christopher (Chris)
And they had a lovely wife. They had a very brief chat. Then when he dropped me off at my house, I invited him in.
Josh Arnold
Oh, God.
Brian
What.
Josh Arnold
What a maniac.
Christopher (Chris)
He said he didn't.
Josh Arnold
Second time this happened.
Christopher (Chris)
I always do this whenever I uber to my house. And then I off. He ended up. I gave him a nice lime soda water.
Brian
Oh, that's nice. This is so fascinating. You invite those people.
Christopher (Chris)
Would you like some rice pudding?
Josh Arnold
You didn't give him a chocolate bar to tell you where the good whores are. What?
Brian
I don't know why you wouldn't. Why wouldn't you?
Christopher (Chris)
I said, your wife may have done Josh's toes. He likes to get a pedicure.
Josh Arnold
Yeah, I do.
Christopher (Chris)
Yeah. Who doesn't? Well, let's. Let's move on. We have more letters. I have a couple over here.
Josh Arnold
How about I have a fatty fat, fat, fat letter?
Christopher (Chris)
Oh, good. I love these.
Josh Arnold
You guys were talking about Cool Whip. We're all fans, I believe.
Brian
Oh, yeah.
Josh Arnold
Take one tub of Cool Whip, thaw it, and one packet of Swiss Miss hot chocolate. Pour the Swiss Miss into the Cool Whip, then whip with your blender, and you'll have the best chocolate mousse you'll ever eat.
Brian
Wow, that is great idea. Yeah.
Christopher (Chris)
And then you eat the whole thing.
Josh Arnold
I. According to the. The title of this email is Fatty fat Fat.
Christopher (Chris)
That is so delicious.
Josh Arnold
Yeah, I know.
Brian
Like, I was trying to Alexander Graham Bell when he at the phone work for the first time. That's amazing.
Christopher (Chris)
Now, which of you doesn't like the squirter? Ready Whips the squirter one.
Brian
I like that one.
Josh Arnold
I do not care for it.
Brian
I don't care about the delivery system as long as it gets in my mouth.
Christopher (Chris)
I love that delivery. Nitrous at the end.
Josh Arnold
There's something. The flavor's off, the mix is off. Something's wrong.
Brian
I like the.
Christopher (Chris)
The artistic touch that it takes to apply it to, say, a cupcake, and you twirl and, yeah. Like it very much.
Brian
By the way, my. My oldest Golden Retriever, she's 12, and she's had some health problems recently, so. So dad has been really babying her. So I have started giving her whipped cream on top of her Food like a massive pup cup.
Josh Arnold
Hers rubs it.
Brian
Do what?
Josh Arnold
She loves it.
Brian
Oh, she rubs it. Yeah. And so last night, I forgot to put the whipped cream.
Christopher (Chris)
Did you get the look?
Brian
And I put the food down and she went. Looked at the food, looked at me, looked at the food like, what is it? And I immediately. Oh, sor.
Josh Arnold
Sorry.
Brian
And I ran to the refrigerator. She runs. Never mind.
Christopher (Chris)
Yeah, she's in charge. And every time I get the dogs back from a walk, they have to get those dried liver treats. By the way, guys, I'm. I got the number. Ordering you all more bags.
Brian
Thank you. Thank you.
Christopher (Chris)
But if I don't give them, they. They sit there and look at me like, yeah, we're back. We did the walk. We both pooped.
Brian
We did the walk.
Christopher (Chris)
Where's the liver, buddy?
Josh Arnold
Have you tried one?
Christopher (Chris)
No, I've. I.
Brian
You always try your dog treats, right?
Christopher (Chris)
I suppose I could. Oh, it's just. It's. I love them. I think chicken. I are the only two in here that like liver.
Josh Arnold
No, we've also. I love liver. I don't sometimes ignore other us.
Christopher (Chris)
That's because I just wish a relatively meaningless.
Brian
I just wish Josh would. Joshua. Whether he likes chicken liver or not. I don't understand. You like beef liver, too?
Christopher (Chris)
Yeah.
Josh Arnold
Yeah. I probably have more liver than honestly, anybody in this. I have it three times a week.
Christopher (Chris)
Do you cook it at home? Because it stinks up the house big time.
Josh Arnold
I don't necessarily have that problem, but I also get what's known as an ancestral blend. All my beef and chicken are ancestral blends.
Christopher (Chris)
What does that mean? That means the animals have brother and sister sex with their brother and sister.
Josh Arnold
That's ancestral blend.
Christopher (Chris)
Is that tasty? Those are a little more expensive.
Josh Arnold
The ancestral blend.
Brian
You said it.
Josh Arnold
Sorry, my bad.
Brian
You said it.
Josh Arnold
We all have the livers and hearts and some other things mixed in with the meat itself.
Christopher (Chris)
Nice.
Josh Arnold
So I'm constantly getting it.
Christopher (Chris)
Yeah, but do you fry it or boil it?
Josh Arnold
No, I brown it on the. What are. You know, when you brown ground beef or you brown olive oil, it doesn't.
Christopher (Chris)
Stink up your house.
Josh Arnold
No, it's mixed with the regular meat, too, so it's all right.
Brian
Yeah.
Christopher (Chris)
I'm not allowed to cook liver when there are certain people in my house. That would be any other human being. No. We've got to get back to our letters. If you want to send us a letter, we'd love to hear from you, no matter what the topic. Bob and tomobandtom.com and I promise no more Frank Zappa poster emails, but you mentioned them. We got one. A lady who in high school decoupaged that poster onto a tray. Onto a tray. There's a photograph of it. We'll have to do.
Brian
What a lonely, lonely woman.
Christopher (Chris)
I'm still trying to find one of those posters so I can place it in here. But like I said, the one I found yesterday was 52 bucks. You know, a gag is a gag, but I think a bad a gag. I'd say my limit is 20.
Tom Griswold
Really?
Christopher (Chris)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. This. I love this letter, the way it begins. Thank you, Arthur. It starts out, sorry to bother you at work. You'll like this one chick. Arthur writes, I had to take care of myself from ages 3 to 11.
Brian
Okay.
Christopher (Chris)
From fifth grade on, while my mom worked, one evening I pulled out Jiffy Pop and began to make it on an electric stove. Now, Jiffy Pop is the one that comes with its own little frying pan. And you kind of rotate it over the. Over the stove, the cooktop, and it expands into this globular foil thing. It's really cool.
Brian
You shake it as it's cooking. Unless you're Polish. Then you. Then you shake the stove.
Christopher (Chris)
Why we would attack our Polish friends.
Josh Arnold
Many of them are done.
Christopher (Chris)
A Polish man just ski down Mount Everest. I'd like to see you do that.
Brian
Well, they're great.
Christopher (Chris)
American bigot. Arthur continues. I smelled something burning when I was in the living room eating my Jiffy Puff. Arthur. It was me.
Josh Arnold
Oh, no.
Christopher (Chris)
I had set the sleeve of my PJs on fire. They were smoldering. I went to the kitchen, put it in the sink. In the future. I rolled up my sleeves.
Josh Arnold
Yeah.
Christopher (Chris)
Yeah. I spent a lot of time at my house when I was little by myself. I know you did, too.
Brian
Me, too. I set the back porch on fire when I was about 9 or 10. I was watching a Jerry Lewis movie marathon and making popcorn. And you had to light our stove. It didn't have pilot light. You had to light a match.
Christopher (Chris)
Wow.
Brian
So I lit a match, lit the stove, got the popcorn going. I threw the match out on the back porch. I thought it was out and it wasn't. So eventually I go, yeah. I was in one end of the house, the back porches. Yeah. I got down. It was fully involved when I got down.
Christopher (Chris)
Did you have a fire extinguisher?
Brian
No, I just kept throwing water on it. It finally put it out, and I had the black marks all over, so I had to wipe it down.
Josh Arnold
Yeah.
Christopher (Chris)
Did your. Did your parents find out?
Brian
Oh, yeah.
Christopher (Chris)
Oh, boy, was there a. Oh.
Brian
Exquisite beating.
Christopher (Chris)
Okay.
Brian
Oh, my gosh. One end of the house to the other. Every room. Now, on my ear. My left ear still rings.
Josh Arnold
I got caught setting the fire on my deck. And my dad. The classic punishment. Well, now you got to set the whole house on fire. Yeah. I'm gonna sit here while you set the entire house.
Brian
But it's out of your system now, isn't it? Isn't it? It worked. Yeah.
Christopher (Chris)
Okay. This is a lengthy letter, and I'm. I. This is part of. This is addressed to Josh.
Josh Arnold
I.
Christopher (Chris)
You were reading about the woman who wrote in saying, whenever she tastes chocolate, she sneezes.
Josh Arnold
Oh, yes.
Christopher (Chris)
Josh might know this. What song has sneezing in it?
Brian
Oh, someone sneezing.
Josh Arnold
Or the words Josh's style?
Christopher (Chris)
I don't know. It's the offshoot band from the Clash. Big audio. Dynamite. Oh, I love that.
Josh Arnold
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Christopher (Chris)
The song, the Globe.
Josh Arnold
Boy, if I've heard it, I don't remember it.
Brian
Yeah, that's like their big, biggest hit.
Christopher (Chris)
Yeah.
Josh Arnold
Mick Jones.
Brian
Yeah. I think down at the Globe. Yeah. You'll recognize it, I bet.
Josh Arnold
Yes, this is. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, yeah.
Brian
This is the Globe. Bless you.
Christopher (Chris)
Is that supposed to be sneezing?
Josh Arnold
Yes.
Christopher (Chris)
Play that again.
Brian
That's supposed to be sneezing. Sneezing.
Josh Arnold
I've never put that together.
Brian
No, me either.
Josh Arnold
The guy's saying bless you at the beginning of Should I stay or Should I Go?
Christopher (Chris)
Where the. He.
Josh Arnold
Right, right.
Christopher (Chris)
And he. He samples that.
Brian
Huh?
Josh Arnold
I think it's a song they're sampling and as a joke, he's saying bless you.
Brian
Yeah, yeah. I don't think that's.
Christopher (Chris)
No, but I think it. It.
Brian
It's.
Christopher (Chris)
It.
Brian
It implies it's a. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Artistically, it could be a sneeze.
Christopher (Chris)
Well, if you want to hear an artistic sneeze, I believe we have a audio of you presentation of me sneezing.
Brian
I don't.
Christopher (Chris)
While doing. Doing some commercials.
Brian
It's hanging in the air somewhere.
Christopher (Chris)
I had a conversation with my daughter, my 12 year old. We were in the car, and she's been playing a lot of country music lately. And of course, a lot of Taylor Swift, which used to Taylor was kind of country. Now pop. Whatever. In any event, have you heard the song Oklahoma Smoke Show? It's actually pretty good. Some of his stuff is amazing. But I'll play just a little bit of it for you.
Josh Arnold
Who is it?
Christopher (Chris)
Zach Bryant. And.
Brian
Yours.
Tom Griswold
Small town Smoke Show.
Christopher (Chris)
You're a small town smoke show. So I. I asked Finn do you know what a smoke show is? When she played the song for the 50th time, and it is a very good song. And she had, of course, had no idea. Then I explained. Shara, do you know what a smoke show is?
Brian
Oh, yeah, I know what a smoke show is.
Christopher (Chris)
Okay. And is that strictly a reference, by the way, to a lady that's incredibly attractive?
Brian
I feel like I've used it in reference to men, but I like to, you know, use those terms, however, which way I can.
Christopher (Chris)
Yeah. So a smoke show. A friend of mine used to use it all the time, but he was kind of a country guy, so maybe that's why. But if someone's a smoke show, it's a super hot woman.
Josh Arnold
We are aware. Yeah. Were you aware of that? Of course.
Brian
Yeah, of course.
Josh Arnold
It's actually kind of dated. You don't hear it nearly as five years ago.
Brian
Yeah, I think it's very.
Josh Arnold
Yeah, very.
Christopher (Chris)
Really?
Josh Arnold
Yeah. Clayton Anderson had a country song where he smoke show was one of the main lyrics, and that was easily six years ago. Something like that.
Christopher (Chris)
I am so far behind.
Josh Arnold
Yeah, that's all right. But apparently.
Brian
Right, Zach, Brian, we'll be right back.
Josh Arnold
Doing country by way of Coldplay.
Brian
It sounded like a little bit.
Christopher (Chris)
Yeah, you know, now that you're mentioning it, that is.
Brian
We'll be right back after this from Tom. Oh, whoa.
Christopher (Chris)
Can you fit that into the other one?
Brian
Oh, I think it'll cut off the. Well, maybe not. I don't know.
Josh Arnold
Pretty close.
Christopher (Chris)
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.
Brian
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Brian
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Date: November 5, 2025
Hosts and Cast: Tom Griswold, Josh Arnold, Christopher (Chris), Brian, Shara
This episode of the BOB & TOM Show Extra is a classic round of lighthearted, improvisational comedy and listener engagement. The cast digs into an assortment of listener letters, spiraling into topics like Josh Arnold’s talking cat “Gravy”, Tom's tendency to “magoo” through life, culinary upbringings, and even the subtle cultural shifts in slang. Expect plenty of playful ribbing, tangents, and familiar warmth, all with the show’s signature blend of sharp wit and recurring inside jokes.
[03:40–05:36]
Quote:
“She’ll go, ‘Drakra coming for you, Drakra gonna get you, Drakra gonna bite you, Drakra suck your bra.’ And I go, ‘No, you don’t. Stop that, Gravy.’”
— Josh Arnold [04:53]
[05:39–08:19]
Quotes:
“I’m accused of magooing, meaning that I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time.”
— Tom Griswold [07:57]
“I always do this whenever I Uber to my house ... I gave him a nice lime soda water.”
— Tom Griswold [09:19]
“What a maniac.”
— Josh Arnold [09:15]
[09:55–12:03]
Quotes:
"Take one tub of Cool Whip, thaw it, and one packet of Swiss Miss. Pour it in, whip with your blender … best chocolate mousse you'll ever eat."
— Listener Letter, read by Josh [10:02]
“I don’t care about the delivery system as long as it gets in my mouth.”
— Brian [10:39]
[13:55–16:20]
Quote:
“I set the back porch on fire when I was about 9 or 10 ... I threw the match out [after lighting the stove], thought it was out... It finally put out, but I had the black marks all over so I had to wipe it down.”
— Brian [15:14]
[16:20–19:57]
Quotes:
"If you want to hear an artistic sneeze, I believe we have audio of you… me sneezing while doing some commercials."
— Christopher (Chris) [17:49]
“If someone’s a smoke show, it’s a super hot woman.”
— Christopher (Chris) [19:17]
“It’s actually kind of dated. You don’t hear it nearly as much anymore.”
— Josh Arnold [19:34]
“Drakra coming for you, Drakra gonna get you, Drakra gonna bite you, Drakra suck your bra.”
— Josh Arnold [04:53]
“I’m accused of magooing, meaning that I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time.”
— Tom Griswold [07:57]
“I always do this whenever I Uber to my house ... I gave him a nice lime soda water.”
— Tom Griswold [09:19]
“What a maniac.”
— Josh Arnold [09:15]
“I don’t care about the delivery system as long as it gets in my mouth.”
— Brian [10:39]
“If someone’s a smoke show, it’s a super hot woman.”
— Christopher (Chris) [19:17]
Consistently irreverent, spontaneous, and self-deprecating, the cast bonds through quirky stories, interjecting one-liners, and audience participation. The group dynamics thrive on in-jokes, comical misunderstanding, and a willingness to riff on any submitted topic.
For listeners who missed this episode, the recap above captures the essence, humor, and major touchpoints of the show, providing a flavor of what makes The BOB & TOM Show a staple of American comedy radio.