B&T Extra: The Toilet, Gunsmoke, & Cool Names

Summary

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Episode: B&T Extra: The Toilet, Gunsmoke, & Cool Names
Date: May 8, 2026
Hosts: The BOB & TOM Show Cast (Tom, Chick, Josh, Ace, and others)
Podcast Network: Cumulus

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Overview

In this BOB & TOM Show "Extra" episode, the crew indulges in their signature blend of irreverent comedy, nostalgic TV banter, and playful debates. Today’s focus covers light-hearted mockery of the concept of a “Fart Museum,” a spirited discussion about the TV show Gunsmoke (especially the true nature of Miss Kitty), and letters from listeners with notably cool or unusual names. The crew also veers into topics like toilet safe spaces for men, appliance mysteries, childhood teasing, and the merits of hard-boiled egg gadgets.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Fart Museum Bit

• Segment Start: 00:56

• The episode opens with a fictional call-in and riffing about an "art" museum versus a "fart" museum, highlighting the cast’s signature toilet humor.

  • "If art museums are a little too stuffy. Art." – (E, 00:58)
  • "I'd go to a fart museum." – (A, 01:02)
  • "Farts through the ages." – (C, 01:04)

• A listener (in character) calls in, describing the Fart Museum in pungent (and hilarious) detail, including exhibits with "smell-o-vision," a concession stand renting raincoats, and rooms like the "SBD room" (Silent But Deadly).

  • "There's just like this big air compressor... blows farts at people." – (F, 01:41)
  • "We got to re-wallpaper. This is like the third time this month." – (F, 03:16)

2. The Toilet as a Male Safe Space

• Segment Start: 05:13
• Tom shares a surprising statistic that more men than women (1 in 4 men vs. 1 in 5 women) consider the bathroom their “safe space.” The group riffs on why dads historically claim the toilet as their private domain.
  • "More men than women consider the toilet their safe space." – (C, 05:19)
  • "That makes total sense." – (D, 05:44)
  • "You've never heard about dads going in there? I mean, that's their thing." – (G, 05:55)

3. Gunsmoke, Miss Kitty, & TV Nostalgia

• Segment Start: 06:02

• Listener letter (with a typo: “Fetus” instead of “Festus”) launches discussion of Gunsmoke, clarifying misconceptions about the character Miss Kitty. Chick repeats the often-cited rumor that she ran a brothel; a listener corrects, stating she was just the saloon owner.

  • "Miss Kitty Russell was the saloon keeper and co-owner, later sole owner, of the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City." – (C, quoting letter; 07:06)
  • "If you run the whorehouse, you gotta take some of the spillover now and then." – (D, 06:50)
  • "I'm a fan... could not sit silently and let Chick besmirch the name..." – (C, 07:03)
  • "She was a savvy businesswoman." – (C, 07:23)

• The segment morphs into a broader nostalgia for TV Westerns and their announcers:

  • "Gunsmoke starring James Arness. Boy, that was a golden time for announcers." – (D, 08:13)
  • "Do they do that anymore? It's Seinfeld with Jerry Seinfeld. They don't do it anymore." – (C & D, 08:26–08:27)

• Running adult jokes about what “Kitty” is a play on, with the usual Bob & Tom boundary-pushing innuendo.

  • "Kitty and the P-word is my least favorite children's book." – (C, 09:25)

4. Cool (and Odd) Names

• Segment Start: 12:32
• Listener mail brings up unique names, like 'Carolina' versus 'Caroline,' sparking memories about quirky family members and how childhood teasing centers on names—especially when someone’s last name matches their town.
  • "People whose last name is the same as the place they live..." – (C, 10:59)
  • Recollection of an aunt named Carolina, nicknamed "Liney," noted for her fondness for drink: "Drunk as a monkey most of her life." – (D, 13:05)

5. Appliances, Egg Gadgets, and Food Tangents

• Segment Start: 14:09

• The show briefly debates whether brown eggs or white eggs peel easier, with Josh swearing by a hard-boiled egg gadget and the cast trading pro tips on egg boiling and kitchen appliances.

  • "After you boil them, immediately submerge them in ice water." – (G, 14:38)
  • "My contention is the brown eggs just do not peel as well as white eggs." – (G, 14:47)

• Tom highlights appliance confusion:

  • "There's an appliance there. I have no idea what it is... an elaborate thing with stuff coming out of it." – (C, 16:09–16:16)

6. Social Etiquette: Arriving, Leaving, and Being Announced

• Segment Start: 17:37

• Tom muses on wanting grand trumpet “announcements” à la old TV shows but admits he hates drawing attention in real life.

  • "Those long trump... Six guys with horns come in three, three by three." – (C, 19:47)
  • "I’d go the exact opposite." – (E, 19:53)

• Chick and crew discuss the “Irish goodbye” (sneaking out of parties).

  • "That's my favorite thing. The Irish goodbye. Where did he... oh, he's gone. Don't worry about it." – (D, 20:36; C, 20:44)
  • Childhood memories of parents taking forever to leave family gatherings.

7. Listener Letters & Wrapping Up

• Segment Start: 21:29
• The cast ends by reading a few short oddball letters: one about kraut on hot dogs, one about finding a nickel—typical surreal BOB & TOM audience participation.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On the Fart Museum, Atmosphere:
  "Atmosphere...sounds thick, man. Humid and cloudy." – (C & F, 02:19 & 02:29)

• On Miss Kitty’s Reputation:
  "If it gets real busy...Well, how about you, Miss Kitty?" – (D, 07:37; jokingly implying she’d step in as needed)

• On The Power of Names & Childhood Teasing:
  "Kids find whatever they can." – (G, 10:25)

• On Egg Appliances:
  "I have a great hard boiled egg maker...it's awesome. You can put a dozen eggs in it." – (G, 15:29–15:40)

• On Social Announcements:
  "Would you like to have someone, when you arrive at a place, announce that you're there?" – (C, 19:37)

• On the 'Irish Goodbye':
  "That's my favorite thing...sneak out. Where did he...he's gone. Don't worry about it." – (D & C, 20:36–20:44)

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Timestamps of Key Segments

• Fart Museum Call/Bit: 00:56 – 03:41
• Toilet Safe Spaces for Men: 05:13 – 05:59
• Gunsmoke & Miss Kitty Discussion: 06:02 – 09:15
• Nostalgia for Classic TV Intros: 08:13 – 09:02; 17:02–17:40
• Unique Names & Childhood Teasing: 12:32 – 13:09
• Hard-Boiled Egg & Gadget Talk: 14:09 – 16:15
• Announcing Arrivals/Irish Goodbye: 17:37 – 21:13
• Listener Letters: 21:29 – 21:56

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Tone & Style

This episode is high-energy, packed with cheeky humor, playful jabs, listener interaction, and group nostalgia. There’s an underlying warmth to their teasing—even as the jokes border on the adolescent—or sometimes, the deeply nerdy (egg-peeling technique debates). Well-timed character voices, sound effects, and relentless riffing make the episode kinetic and fun, typical of the BOB & TOM Show.

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For New Listeners

If you’re new to BOB & TOM, this episode is a showcase of their mix: childhood memories, classic TV pop culture, lots of ‘dad humor’, and a joyful embrace of the absurdities of everyday life. If you needed a laugh or some offbeat company, you’d find plenty here—even if you never watched Gunsmoke or fought to peel a recalcitrant egg.

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End of Summary.

Transcript

[A]

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 the big show today. The toilet, gun, smoke and cool names. You'll hear that in just a minute.

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[E]

Oh, I can do one.

[A]

Oh, go for it.

[C]

You said you had one more.

[E]

If art museums are a little too stuffy. Art.

[A]

Oh, I'd go to a fart museum.

[C]

Hell yes.

[D]

Farts through the ages.

[E]

It's a little hard to document the dawn of fart.

[D]

How old am I?

[C]

Hold on a second.

[D]

Am I gonna be still making fun

[C]

of farts at 50? Good morning, Bob and Tom show.

[F]

Hey, Bob and Tom show.

[G]

Yes.

[F]

Call for the fart museum. Oh, yeah, chick, I just want to crack you. You don't want to come here.

[C]

I gather it's full dimensional. Smell o vision.

[F]

It stinks.

[C]

Really?

[F]

Oh, this museum is no good at all.

[C]

Whoa, whoa. What was that?

[F]

Oh, it's part of the multimedia display they got going on when you walk in. Right. Oh, it's unbelievable. There's just like this big air compressor there. It blows farts of people. Wow. Oh, it smells awful. The only way we really make money is through our concession area.

[C]

Really? What do you sell there?

[F]

Well, we rent raincoats for the back part of the tour.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. Whoa.

[F]

Oh, boy.

[C]

Now, does it have. What's the atmosphere like there? Is it real thick?

[F]

Atmosphere

[C]

sounds thick, man.

[F]

Humid and cloudy.

[G]

Have.

[C]

Is your fart museum primarily contemporary or is it modern or do you have classical pieces?

[F]

Mostly fart deco. Really style. And while I got. Excuse me. You work here? Yeah, I work here. My family and I would like to get our money back.

[C]

What was that?

[F]

That was our tribute to all the little people that played the munchkins. Let me take you into this one room.

[C]

Okay?

[F]

I want to show you what's going on here.

[C]

All right. What's in there?

[F]

Oh, God.

[C]

What Is it. Which room are you in?

[F]

Oh, it's the SBD room.

[C]

Oh, boy.

[F]

Silent but deadly. Okay, I gotta go. Cause, man, this is unbelievable. We gotta. This is like the third time this month already. We got a re. Wallpaper.

[C]

Oh, really? Say, where are you guys located?

[F]

We're at Brownsville, Texas.

[G]

Now some more Bob and Tom. This is Bob and Tom.

[D]

Extra.

[C]

Got a little treat for Josh coming up. Oh, boy. Kind of excited. A little something something from one of our listeners.

[D]

Of course. Josh is your favorite. Josh is your favorite.

[G]

Very sweet of you.

[D]

Than.

[C]

I got something for chick.

[D]

Mr.

[G]

Favorite.

[F]

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[D]

That can't be good.

[C]

And I've got a complaint letter.

[D]

Do you ever do that?

[G]

What did I say? You ever do that?

[D]

You look at somebody and go, hey, I got a little something for you. You take your hand out of your pocket, give him the bird.

[G]

You ever do that, man?

[D]

That's funny.

[C]

This will make you mad.

[D]

The bird is the word.

[C]

The phrase. The bird was actually in connections in the New York Times the other day. Day it. One of the. It was like. It was the bird. Pancakes, coin, things you flip. I think. I think that the New York Times is getting into flipping the bird. That. That tells us something about contemporary culture.

[D]

I think you're working at different connections than I am. I don't know.

[F]

Maybe.

[C]

Maybe it was pancakes.

[D]

I don't know. And then you said a couple days ago there was a trick, and I. I.

[E]

Did you get it? The connections?

[C]

Yeah, yeah. I. I obsess with it. If I don't. I haven't missed it.

[D]

He can work. He can. Connections all day. He will.

[C]

I will.

[D]

He will look at it all day.

[C]

Yeah. It would appear that I'm actually. Sometimes I'll get. I'll. I'll go into the bathroom.

[D]

Don't tell me about this.

[C]

Sit down. I'm not getting up till I get it. So. So it may appear I'm constipated. I am not.

[E]

You're gonna get roids doing that.

[C]

No, no, I'm not pushing. I'm just sitting.

[E]

All right.

[C]

And I bring that up because.

[D]

Waiting for a bus.

[C]

We have a great story coming up today. This is really interesting. More men than women consider the toilet their safe space. The bathroom at their home.

[G]

Sure, yeah.

[D]

Did you say more?

[E]

Surprising.

[C]

More men.

[D]

More men. Okay.

[C]

I believe we have the stat there.

[E]

It's one in four.

[C]

One in four men consider the bathroom in their home their safe space. And the stats are interesting. Whereas I think it's like 1 in

[D]

5 women or something that Makes total sense.

[G]

Oh. So it's not that huge of a difference. Okay.

[C]

But I'm surprised that. I was really surprised. I don't.

[E]

You don't use your bathroom as your safe space, but you've never heard about

[G]

dads going in there? I mean, that's their thing. Yeah, that's why they.

[E]

Those dad toilet books and. Yeah.

[C]

Odd typo on this letter. Oh, this. The. The. The subject heading says fetus. The vinyl lp. Anyone want to guess what it's about?

[E]

What?

[C]

Yeah, it was a typo. It's Festus, the actor we were talking about at this time yesterday.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[C]

From Gunsmoke. A show. Again, not my cup of tea, but it's apparent it's on some channel several times every day.

[E]

Me, TV or something. Grit.

[C]

Yeah, but there's a letter about it. Apparently a Chick had pointed out that Miss Kitty was a working prostitute.

[D]

She was a. Well, she ran the whorehouse.

[C]

Dave in Iowa would beg to differ.

[D]

If you run the whorehouse, you got to take some of the spillover every now and then.

[G]

That's right.

[D]

If it gets real busy.

[C]

During your discussion about Gunsmoke, Chick referred to the character of Miss Kitty as the aforementioned More. He couldn't have been more wrong.

[E]

Oh, no.

[C]

I'm a fan of the show.

[D]

Are you sure?

[C]

I could not sit silently and let Chick besmirch the name of Amanda Blake's character of Miss Kitty. Here are the facts. Miss Kitty Russell was the saloon keeper and co owner, later sole owner of the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City.

[E]

Yeah, but you know what's going on in the saloon.

[C]

She was a savvy businesswoman. Again, this is a TV show.

[D]

I'll get me a bath, a bourbon and a woman. Yeah, that's what they do in the saloon. Oh, we don't have any women. They're all busy. Well, how about you? Ms. Kitty?

[G]

Right.

[D]

I don't think I could possibly. Here's $5,000. Let's do this.

[G]

She probably. Ms. Kitty prob. Probably charged a little more for herself.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was a retired.

[G]

I do. That's why she would still charge more for herself because she didn't really want to come out of retirement. But would for the right price.

[D]

Absolutely.

[C]

She was in that show for 19 seasons. Wow.

[D]

And it only looked like she'd been on it for 18 seasons.

[C]

Again, I can't criticize the show. I never sat through an episode.

[E]

That hasn't stopped you in the past

[C]

for criticizing a program. Yes, if I could object to you, I would. But I can't, because you're right.

[D]

You know what I did love about guns? Smoke is the. The intro there. Version. Announcer. Gunsmoke starring James Arness. Boy, that was a golden time for announcers. It came out. They don't. Rifleman with Chuck Connors.

[C]

Do they do that anymore?

[D]

I don't. I don't think so. It's Seinfeld with Jerry Seinfeld. Yeah, they don't do it anymore.

[C]

That's a shame because, I mean, there were. There were certain classics.

[G]

A fugitive?

[E]

No, thanks. Ace.

[C]

Ace. I was just looking for it. I wanted to surprise them with what

[D]

a great day this turned out to be, huh?

[C]

A QM production. Starring David Jansen as the fugitive. Oh, what a great show.

[G]

Now, the lady that Miss Kitty was based on, there's an actual person.

[D]

Oh, like at the Long Branch Saloon or something.

[G]

Her history does not show that she was indeed a prostitute.

[C]

You didn't think that Miss Kitty was a play on Miss Cliff Kitty?

[G]

I did. Not at all. No one thought that. If anything, Kitty and the P word go together.

[C]

And by the way, Kitty and the P word is my least favorite children's book. No, I always assume he does not

[E]

think like normal people.

[C]

No, I always assumed that.

[D]

What?

[G]

That's a.

[C]

There was some Hollywood guy and when

[D]

he assumed something, he builds an entire backstory and then he goes on the Internet now and has it verified, but

[C]

he thinks it's probably just some Hollywood guy that had been blacklisted as a joke. Said, I know what I'm going to do. I'll get these.

[G]

Mother, no, it's way closer to the other.

[E]

Closer to the other one. Tom, I would love to have a kitty cat.

[G]

Come on.

[C]

Sorry. Well, I'm sorry.

[D]

I know, Miss Clitty.

[C]

I'm just saying. I'm sure I'm not the first one that. That occurred to me.

[D]

No, no, no, no.

[C]

You're the absolute.

[G]

I think you're the first, the only and the last.

[C]

I better get to. I live in Arnold, Missouri. We haven't even got to the letter yet.

[G]

No, I used to live in Arnold for a little bit.

[C]

That's what he says. He says Josh's old stomping grounds. Yeah, that had to be weird, living in Arnold, being named Arnold.

[G]

Yeah, I remember. It was fine with. You know, we were. When I lived there, I was 30 or something, but my poor little niece got teased at school because she lived in Arnold. Her last name was Arnold. Kids find whatever they can.

[C]

It's true.

[D]

Wouldn't you like to go back?

[C]

Anything to Start bowling. Anything to be mean.

[D]

Wouldn't you like to go back like second or third grade and have the sensibilities you have now pick on you?

[G]

I would ruin lives.

[D]

No. Oh, my God.

[G]

Yeah.

[D]

Make them cry in an instant.

[C]

And there's a. There's a topic. People whose last name is the same as the place where they live. Oh, yeah, I'm sure there's many of those.

[D]

Dixville Notch. Don't you have to move there? Dickville, Is that right?

[C]

Okay, I'm sorry. So to get back to our letter. This is from James, who lives in Arnold, Missouri.

[D]

Oh, my God. I'm.

[C]

He said Arnold, Missouri. We're talking about Gunsmoke yesterday in Festus.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

I have a vinyl record.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah. Get a load of this.

[G]

What's the final record?

[C]

It's. It's the record that Festus made.

[D]

Festus Sings.

[C]

It's called. Hang on a second Gun Smoke.

[D]

Festus in Red, White and Blue With Stars and Festus Sings and Talks.

[E]

There it is.

[C]

Songs of Dodge City. There you go.

[D]

There he is.

[C]

And look, he's got. He's. He's got that. Look how his. His legs. He walks kind of. Kind of crouched down like he's just had a prison sex session. He's getting ready to draw.

[D]

No, he's. He's posing. That's not how he walks.

[G]

Yeah, he's like drawing.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Once again, another made up story. That's how Festus walked. And Kitty means Clitty. That's right.

[E]

That's what you learned today. Take that to the water cooler.

[G]

This Kitty, please. The proper respect needs to be shown.

[C]

I guarantee I'm not the first person that thought.

[D]

There's no way anyone else thought that was the intent.

[C]

The care that. What's important is that was the intention. Well, I got another thing that you'll enjoy involving a word that I use that chick finds annoying.

[D]

Okay.

[C]

And for some reason we've got a.

[D]

I find a lot of your words annoying.

[C]

We have a number of letters today from people who have really cool names. Just like very slight variations on a. On what would be considered kind of a name you've heard a million times.

[G]

Nice.

[D]

Like waiting to be a private eye on a TV show.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Just like Spencer or something.

[C]

There's a letter I'll read in a few minutes from Carolina.

[G]

Oh, that's lovely.

[C]

Not Caroline, but that's a beautiful.

[G]

Yeah, Carolina.

[C]

And we've got a couple.

[D]

I had an aunt. I had an aunt named Carolina.

[G]

You did?

[D]

And we called her Liney.

[F]

Oh.

[D]

Yep. Drunk as a monkey most of her life. Yeah.

[G]

Did she have a drink of choice?

[D]

No. Whatever she ever did. Vitalis vanilla extract, lava lamp water.

[C]

She very odd cooking sherry.

[E]

Dad's dad drank aftershave. I was there for that.

[D]

Good old lighter flu.

[C]

At least he had fresh breath.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

I was putting brood on one time and she walked up and said, oh, what's that? And took a swig.

[C]

Wow. Well, that's a happier time. Oh, Brute.

[G]

She was happy.

[D]

Oh, she was very happy. I wish I was half as happy as she was.

[G]

You know they called her Liney because a vagina. You know that, right? Yeah. Yeah. I can't be the first person to think that.

[D]

You can't be. No.

[G]

When we.

[C]

When you were saying Gunsmoke, you loved it that they had that introduction starring James Arness. And then you said, why don't today's shows do that? Like it's Seinfeld with Jerry Seinfeld.

[D]

I don't see the joke in that. That's at best a commentary or maybe

[C]

so you can't even compliment the guy.

[D]

Inane comment.

[C]

I thought that was really funny.

[G]

You can compliment me. In fact, you can call me Cool Hand. Josh. I just had three hard boiled eggs in two minutes.

[D]

Whoa.

[E]

Good for you.

[C]

And I was in there watching him slurp those babies down and he had to. He had to peel them. I've never seen such desperation on a man's face.

[E]

I love it when he drops him. He just throws him on the counter.

[F]

Oh, yeah.

[G]

I realized that I lift it up

[C]

a little and they were not peeling proper.

[E]

And I knew this was coming.

[D]

Little protein load. Oh, you have peeling.

[E]

Not peeling properly.

[D]

Josh, I'm sure the ultimate way to

[G]

peel an egg, I was taught if you really want them to peel nicely, after you boil them, immediately submerge them in ice water.

[C]

Right.

[G]

And I did that. I do that. But my contention is the brown eggs just do not peel as well as white eggs.

[C]

No kidding.

[G]

Yes.

[D]

I thought it'd be.

[C]

Once again, once again.

[E]

Don't, don't.

[G]

No, no, I insist.

[D]

Please continue. What's the. What's the other difference between brown eggs and white eggs?

[C]

The brown eggs couldn't be served in major league baseball stadiums until 1940.

[G]

Has anybody else experienced that?

[F]

No.

[G]

Okay, well, maybe I'm still not doing something right.

[E]

Yeah, well, I don't eat hard boiled eggs.

[C]

I mean, is it. Does it depend how you cook them? If you cook them slower, I don't know. There's got to be a way to do this because it drives me crazy when I can't.

[G]

Oh, wait. And did I lie? Did I say I boiled them? I don't. I have a great hard boiled egg maker.

[D]

I have the same machine and you were on your recommendation. It's wonderful.

[G]

Yeah, it's awesome. You can put a dozen eggs in it.

[D]

Yep.

[G]

It's a little bit of a dome tower. And you set the eggs and you puncture a hole. It has a great little thing that you can puncture a hole with. You pour. Excuse me. A little. You can tell. I just. Can you put a little water in there? Because it steams. Essentially steams them.

[C]

I've got to see what one of these looks like.

[D]

12 at once. It's unbelievable.

[C]

Yeah, I got. I need a couple. A couple more appliances.

[G]

Okay. That's a good one.

[C]

That sounds good. I got one yesterday. I walked into the pantry and there's an appliance there. I have no idea what it is.

[E]

What's all that like?

[C]

Yeah, it's a elaborate thing with stuff coming out of it and it looks like. It looks like some kind of exotic coffee maker, but it isn't. I don't know what it is. I didn't.

[D]

Is it a plug in device?

[C]

Yes. I didn't have time to research it. It's the size of an old fashioned TV set. It's like.

[D]

Do you, do you have a brand name for me?

[C]

I didn't take the time, but I said, I wonder what that thing is. Never seen that before.

[G]

Interesting.

[C]

Yeah, I'm very busy.

[G]

Not your lady may know.

[C]

No, it's not a juicer. I have a juicer. It's not a juicer. It's got spigots and. But the larger point is I need to find out about this hard boiled egg machine. And thank you very much. How's your throat? Feeling better now?

[D]

Yes, it is.

[C]

I really enjoyed your commentary, which you don't want to call it a joke about how TV show should have an announcer like this. The Fugitive.

[D]

Absolutely.

[C]

QM Production. Starring David Janssen as the Fugitive. Why don't you let him say.

[G]

I think the last two.

[E]

He can't.

[G]

Jake, you know what shows I can remember with the voiceover where the Hulk in the 70s and the A team in the 80s.

[C]

The A team? Yeah.

[G]

Heart to Heart had. Had one of the characters. This is Mrs. H. Yeah.

[D]

Oh, that Lionel. Stan.

[C]

Do you ever see him in Cul de Sac?

[G]

Yes, I have.

[C]

That's a. That's a different Lionel Stander. That's one hell of a movie.

[G]

That's an unpleasant.

[C]

Yeah, that's a.

[G]

That's a weird. Donald Pleasant.

[C]

Yeah. Roman Polanski. Weirdo movie.

[G]

Yeah.

[E]

Most of you during the break didn't hear a question that you asked about the 250th anniversary of the United States.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Because 150, I think, is sesquicentennial. What's 250?

[E]

Semi quincentennial.

[F]

Whoa.

[C]

You are. Wow, that's really awesome.

[E]

That's a mouthful.

[G]

Semi quincentennial.

[E]

Yeah. So I think that's why they're going with just the 250th anniversary.

[D]

So in this and the logo I saw, it's really unimpressive, I think.

[C]

And the scent. Wait a minute. Centennial is 100.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

You know who centennial it is today?

[F]

Who?

[D]

Mel Brooks.

[C]

Hugh Hefner.

[G]

Oh, well, he's not with it, but he would be.

[C]

This would be the anniversary of his birthday.

[F]

Okay. Okay.

[C]

A man probably responsible for more masturbation than. There's nothing that anyone in history.

[D]

I'm rooted in the 60s more than the name Hugh Hefner.

[F]

Boy.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Interesting guy.

[D]

He was a Ol.

[G]

Hef.

[D]

Very important. At one point.

[G]

Did you guys speak to him?

[C]

Yes.

[G]

I would think that you would talk to him.

[C]

We did interview him at one point. Yep.

[D]

I don't.

[C]

Sure did.

[G]

There's no way you guys get away with not talking to him at least once.

[C]

Then we have the song I Want to be, like, half.

[G]

Oh, sure, yeah.

[C]

It's a classic, but. But I. One of the few. You know, people always say, oh, I used to, you know, buy it for the interview, you know, because they'd have Edward Teller.

[G]

Oh, sure, yeah.

[E]

We believe you only want Norman Mailer.

[C]

Yeah. No, no, no. I didn't buy it for the interview. I bought it for the nudie picture.

[G]

But the interviews were pretty good.

[C]

Oh, yeah. And the roster of writers. Hilarious.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Back when we, you know, that Norman Mailer.

[G]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Albert Camus.

[G]

Sometimes it'd be like an Updike short story or something.

[C]

Right. Right next to you, by the way. We're not glaring at big bouncy boobs. I like to read. It's like the New Yorker with porno in it.

[D]

Interesting fact about Norman Mailer. He had the first fax machine.

[G]

Oh, that is interesting. Did he change his name?

[D]

No, he didn't. He just kept Mailer.

[C]

Would you like to have someone, when you arrive at a place, announce that you're there?

[D]

No, no, not at all.

[G]

You have gone on record as saying you would like those big horns.

[C]

Yes.

[G]

Those Long trump.

[C]

Six guys with horns come in three, three by three. And I'd go the exact opposite.

[E]

Yeah, that's weird because you don't like being out sunglasses.

[C]

That's true. I'm kidding.

[E]

Oh, okay.

[C]

Remember the. The guy that used to run the Olympics? Like Juan Antonio Samaran, whatever his name was.

[D]

You know, king of the kickback.

[C]

He had a rule. He had to be the last person to arrive at any event and the first one to leave. Once he got there, no one was allowed to leave.

[E]

Oh, my God.

[C]

Think he had a big ego. How does that work?

[G]

Once he got there, no one was allowed.

[C]

That's true.

[G]

That's wild. That's like Putin. That sounds like something Putin would do.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

You know, I'm.

[C]

What happened to Kalistinikov? Kill him.

[D]

I might be going somewhere this week and weekend for a thing, and guess what I'm looking forward to.

[G]

What are you looking forward to?

[D]

That's right. The Irish goodbye. Yeah, until I sneak out. That's my favorite thing. Where did. He's going. Don't worry about it.

[C]

Yeah, he's gone. It depends on the situation.

[D]

I would imagine you never do that. Sometimes I bet you're a bad lever. No, it starts out with, well, better get on down the road.

[C]

No, I used to.

[D]

All right, thanks for.

[C]

I used to know someone who. There's a bad lever.

[D]

I bet. So it would. I think we were all married to bad guys.

[C]

I'd say the phrase, do not introduce me to anyone at all at this event as we are leaving, do not stop and say hello to anyone.

[G]

That's. My parents were terrible at that. Yeah, they would load us in the car. Well, if we were at my grandparents or something. And we'd sit in the car freezing our asses off for the better part for 40 minutes.

[D]

Yeah, absolutely.

[C]

I'm pretty good at the Irish goodbye.

[F]

Boom.

[C]

Depends on the size of the event and whether or not the main people are being bothered. But it's time for us to check out some letters.

[G]

Here's a quick letter for Chick. I just put kraut on a hot dog. Yum. Kurt in Iowa.

[D]

Nice. Thank you, Kurt.

[E]

I found. I have one Kraut.

[C]

No sour. Just kraut.

[D]

You hear people say, perfectly acceptable for sauerkraut.

[E]

Chick, I found a nickel in the grocery store parking lot. Steve from Lima, Ohio.

[F]

Nice.

[C]

Thank you, Steve. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to write.

[A]

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.

[G]

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[C]

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[F]

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[G]

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[C]

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[F]

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[G]

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