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It is big.
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It's 32 inches wide. But it's not the biggest, the tallest. Lego. Anyone want to take a stab at this Eiffel Tower is right. Oh, the Eiffel Tower is the tallest Lego. And there's also a Titanic Lego that's very large with lots and lots of 30, 38,000 LEGO pieces in the Titanic. Okay. That's. That's what it says. How do they sort that out at the factory?
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How do you take it apart and put it back together ever again?
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No, no. You ever put one together?
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No, not that big.
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You have to follow. You got to find the right pieces and put.
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It's.
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It's painstaking. You take it apart and put it back together in the dark. Then you're an expert.
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But there are people that just have Legos, like, on display. Okay. Yeah. Okay.
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One of them is right near here. My son Sam does this. He's huge.
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Does he have a whole bunch of them around his house?
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Yeah, he has the. The smaller version of the Death Star already. But this is the new Death Star.
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I know what you're getting them for Christmas.
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9023 pieces in that one, which is. I mean, but the Titanic, huge. Yeah. And we were talking about Legos because we had an odd sports story about a woman who has set the 100 meter dash record while running on some 600 pounds of Legos. Yeah, it looked painful. Yeah. Now the. Like I said, the Death Star doesn't come out until October. Christy, why don't we weigh in on a new store while we wait to get hooked up with Roy Wood Jr.
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I have news for you. Doctors are warning that if you use your phone on the toilet, it could significantly increase the risk of hemorrhoids. A study highlighted by CNN says extended time sitting on the toilet.
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What?
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Sitting puts added pressure, of course, on the veins in the rectum, leading to irritation and swelling. Smartphones encourage folks to sit longer than necessary, according to the researchers. And experts recommend limiting bathroom time to five minutes or less to reduce your risk. Maybe leave your phone in the den.
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There's also a huge risk of a pink eye if you poop right on your phone. Oh, God, yes. Yes.
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But that's.
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You don't wanna. You don't wanna do that. No, you don't wanna. So they're saying people are spending too much time because they're what, doing Wordle.
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Whatever you do on your phone?
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Apparently. I guess you could go on Amazon and order Preparation H. Yeah, yeah. Why? Look, while I'm. While I'm here, why not?
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Japan is well known for its wide variety of shrines, and each shrine serves its own purpose. There are some who people go to. To Pray for good health. There are shrines which people go to for prosperity. A shrine in Tochigi prefecture also caters to devotees praying for hemorrhoid cure. Kunigami shrine is frequented by people who want to be cured of existing and developing hemorrhoids. They squat around the so called butt washing stone with their butts facing the stone while reciting a chant.
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There's a photograph. There's a chant.
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It has not been proven if the stone indeed cures hemorrhoids.
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Clean my boss.
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But the chants believe it could help.
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Shows a guy, now he's wearing shorts. Scrub my. But he's kind of cozying up to this rather large stone. There it is. All right. What he's doing. All right. Well, that looks like a good old fashioned American boy there in his baseball cap and his shorts. They are an easy living culture. They live day bidet, day bday. It was funny. I think it's just. Yeah, the mood maybe. I don't care about your mood. No, no, not mine. I care about comedy. It was good. I thought it was well written. I liked it day by day.
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I liked all the little Shih Tzu.
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Statues around the thing as well. Oh, okay, that gets a bigger.
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No, it.
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It deserved nothing. What a weird thing to do. Yes, and I feel bad for the guy. They're all those people looking at him. Well, wouldn't you put a shrine to hemorrhoids in a nice private place?
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You would think.
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Nothing to be ashamed of.
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In fact.
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Should be discussed more often, shouldn't it?
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Maybe in a portalette.
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What's the.
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Don't suffer in silence, they say when it comes to hemorrhoids.
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Is that why truck drivers now have the cabs where the seats go up? Yeah. From getting hemorrhoids.
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Yes, it helps with that. Do you remember this story headline man suffers rectal prolapse after spending two hours on toilet using his phone. The old party favor. 2 hours. 33 year old man went to the hospital complaining of severe abdominal pain. Doctors discovered he had a grade three rectal prolapse. Oh, if I'm on there more than like 45 seconds, my legs go to sleep. Okay. Oh, we can switch gear here. I think we have a Roy joining us. There he is. I see him on the big screen. It's Roy Wood, Jr. Comedian. Hi Roy, can you hear us? Roy?
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Yeah. Erectile prolapse is a condition where all or part of the rectum turns inside out and protrudes through the butt. I was googling that right now.
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Yeah, Windsock.
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Why can't they just call it inside out booty? Why do the doctors have all of these extra words and syllables? We don't know what a prolapse is. Wow.
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And not to mention a grade three prolapse. God knows what a grade four is. You got to study harder. The poor guy. Roy Wood Jr. Is a wonderful comedian and also a TV guy and soon to be a biographer. I understand you wrote a book about some guy. Who is it?
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Yeah, well, I wrote it about all the dudes other than my dad who helped keep me out of jail and make me a decent person. It's called the man of Many Fathers. It's pre ordered now. But yeah, man, I wrote a book. I'm officially an author now. That means I can tell people I know more than them.
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Yes. Yeah.
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Comedian. But when I say author, I don't know, documentarian.
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It gives you a certain gravitas, as they say.
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We'll tell the fun stories from the book. Like the first time I saw cocaine. Anybody? Y' all remember the first time you saw a hard drug?
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Yeah, I flipped. Yeah, yeah.
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In the same room with me. Like, wow, that is cocaine. Heard a lot about you, sir. Yeah, mine was in a hospital cafeteria. I had a co worker who snorted cocaine and was one of the most amazing dishwashers you have ever seen. Every. Every run in I had with drugs through my 20s, the drug made that person better at their thing. So I'm like, the police are lying. Like, these drugs are not bad. I saw this man, I was a food porter. So we would collect the food and we distribute food trays from floor to floor and then go back and collect them. This man would collect all of the food trays and then just eat stuff off the food tray on the way back to the dish. Psychotic behavior just half gnawed on stuff. And then we worked at a rehab hospital because, you know, Birmingham's like big on sports medicine or whatever. So we worked in the hospital where when the pro athletes come to get the knee or the elbow or whatever, we're the hospital where they go for recovery after surgery. So he would just come back in the dish room. Random days. Troy Aikman took a bite out this biscuit. I'm about to put this in the newspaper. No one, no one wants a nod on. Coughed on Troy Aikman with biscuit.
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Now. Hey, Roy, you're talking about your new book and we're speaking with comedian Roy Wood Jr. You're talking about your book that's coming out. Have you done the audiobook? Have you Read that for the microphone yet?
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Just speaking of cocaine, I need to do something to speed that up. There's nothing worse than hearing yourself read. I don't care how literate you are, it is a miserable experience to just be in a room reading words and then finding out later on in life. You've been saying that word the wrong way.
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Oh, yeah, we do that all the time.
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46 years of your life.
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Yeah.
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What do you mean? It's pronounced clientele clementail.
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Did you ever. Did you ever, as a joke, when you're reading it, go, well, that's a lie.
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No, it was. It was. It was fun to write, man. It really was. I didn't have anybody helping me with it, and I just really wanted to sit down. My dad passed when I was 16, and so I was trying to figure out a way to talk about my relationship with him and how we, as men, you sometimes find yourself maybe subconsciously just gravitating towards different people. And then when you really look back and put your life together, you can see you didn't get all of your wisdom from the house. You're not supposed to. So, you know, it was. It was fun to, you know, just recant a lot of stories. Got one in there from an old Bob and Tom favorite rip to Spanky Brown. Yeah, he got a mention in the book.
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Really?
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Yeah, man. I spent the night at Spanky Brown's house, and him and his wife got into an argument that I have never in my life. Like, you ever be around a couple when they arguing? Like, when it's like a. Knock them out, drag them out arguing?
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Wow.
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I'm just trying to sleep on the couch, bro. But, I mean, it's. It's no different than a lot of couples. They. They have money struggles. And Spanky goes, hey, man, we're gonna. We're gonna be okay. This gig I'm doing tomorrow will pay for the light bill. They. She thought the lights were gonna get cut off. And he was like, no, they're not gonna get cut off. I got a gig. We're gonna go do the gig, me and Roy. I'm coming back with the light bill money. We get on the freeway. The next morning, we're two exits up the freeway, the gig cancels on us. And he didn't want to go home to his woman. Spanky Brown asked me, I can say it now because he's dead. He goes, hey, man, can we just stop somewhere for the night? You mean pretend to have a comedy show, Spanky? Is that what you mean? Pretend to be going. So the importance of finding that partner that is supportive of you and like, really cares I think is something that we really, really underestimate. And, you know, it's nothing I was ever told, you know, because everything, I think as a man, I was always raised to be told, you know, make sure you treat a woman this, this, this. But you were never told to set your own list of needs and demands or to deprioritize those needs. And so, you know, it's just. It's a fun book, man. It really is. And I think people will get a kick out of it. And I'm just. I'm more excited to be touring live with it or whatever.
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By the way, I thought the Spanky Brown story was going to end with him getting paid and then putting the money on the Washington football team and losing it. If I remember Spanky, every time, every time, every time he came in here, he and Chick would get into what was then known as Redskins talk. That's right. Oh, yeah, a funny comedian. I'm so, so sad that he's gone. We're speaking with the very much Alive Roy Wood Jr. Roy's supposed to be talking about his. The return of his show on cnn. Have I got news for you with Roy Wood Jr's.
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Fine. That's fine. The book is the man of Many Fathers. I'll be discussing it tomorrow night on cnn.
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Now, have you ever done a bookstore?
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No, No.
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I hosted a gig with Jim Gaffigan when his book came out, and it was a little bit different because it was a bookstore, so there was no stage, really. We were kind of over in the corner and we start and some lady goes, shh. It's not a library. We have Mr. Gaffigan here.
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You didn't go where they read the kids books?
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No, we were right there by the front door. Yeah, it's a different gig. You might want to ask them for at least a chair to stand on.
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I was making out with a girl in the Lego section of Barnes and Noble once. That's the places I've come to putting on a show in a bookstore. But most of this book tour I'm doing in, like, regular stand up in theater venues. I'll do some book signings, of course, but bookstore, like, I don't know. I always feel like when I'm in a bookstore talking to people, it just feels like just a step above talking to people at a gas station. It's kind of. It feels very sidewalk timeshare. I'm glad you all are here. I'm gonna show you in 60 minutes how you can get rich like me. And then the first slide is a picture of me on a boat showing you how rich I am. So, yeah, I'll do it. It'll. And I'm sure I'll have a good time, you know. You know the people at Books, A Million and Barnes and Noble, they've been real kind, but it's definitely not a stand up thing. Anything with fluorescent lights ain't good for Comedy Bookstore or a gym or some weird. That snack area at Costco. So I saw the comedy happening in that little. That little, you know, like the little Ikea little area. It's just. It's not good. It's not good.
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Okay, well, the most important thing to remember at a book signing is be sure to ask everybody how they spell their name. You take a nice, very expensive book and you write jo, H N. And the guy's name is J, O, N. You go, well, I gotta eat that one. Remember, you're trying to make some money on this book.
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It's some names out there. My name is. There's a lot of new spellings of Erica starting to bubble up too. Apostrophes in there. There was no apostrophes in Erica when I was coming up. But I'm talking about. And this isn't a race thing, it's the white Erica's too. The black influence is sp. Oh, yeah, I know some white Erica's got a Y and an H in there. And I'm like, it's like that Ashley with the igh.
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I wanted to say real quick, when Roy talks about his dad, his father was a really, really cool guy. Very interesting. Really there on the forefront of broadcasting, quite literally marching with Dr. King and Roy's. We've been working with Roy a little bit, getting some of the audio from his dad being in the radio way back in the day. And when you're here, I want you to tell that great story about Soul Train. That's one of my favorite stories of all time that involves your dad.
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We'll tell it. You also have to let me say the N word one time on air to really make it. We'll talk and we'll get it cleared and then.
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Thank you, Roy. You're the best. 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. And Doug Limu. And I always tell you to customize your car insurance and save hundreds with Liberty Mutual but now we want you to feel it. Cue the emu music. Lemu Save yourself money today. Increase your wealth, Customize and save. We say that may have been too much feeling. Only pay for what you need@libertymutual.com Liberty Liberty Liberty Liberty Savings Ferry Unwritten by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and affiliates Excludes Massachusetts.
Date: October 14, 2025
Guest: Roy Wood Jr., Comedian and Author
Podcast: The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
This "B&T Extra" episode welcomes comedian Roy Wood Jr., highlighting his new book, The Man of Many Fathers, and discussing his comedic approach to life, influences, and unforgettable stories from his career and personal life. The hosts blend classic Bob & Tom irreverence—complete with banter about Lego sets, odd news, and health warnings—with an insightful, often hilarious, interview with Roy as he reflects on family, comedy, and the lessons that shaped him.
On the book’s theme:
“I wrote it about all the dudes other than my dad who helped keep me out of jail and make me a decent person.”
— Roy Wood Jr. [11:36]
On audiobook narration:
“There’s nothing worse than hearing yourself read. ... You’ve been saying that word the wrong way.”
— Roy Wood Jr. [13:58]
On life lessons and partnership:
“You were never told to set your own list of needs and demands or to deprioritize those needs.”
— Roy Wood Jr. [16:43]
On comedy in bookstores:
“Anything with fluorescent lights ain’t good for comedy—bookstore or a gym or some weird snack area at Costco.”
— Roy Wood Jr. [19:12]
The episode keeps Bob & Tom’s signature quick-witted and improvisational humor, seamlessly blending light news, personal stories, and irreverent banter. Roy Wood Jr. is candid yet comical, offering punchlines and heartfelt observations with a relaxed, conversational tone.
For comedy fans, fans of Roy Wood Jr., or anyone interested in witty discussions about life, comedy, and our most embarrassing bathroom habits—this episode is packed with both laughs and unique life insights.