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Tom Griswold
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Christopher
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Kristi Lee
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Tom Griswold
Welcome back.
Christopher
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. Uber ratings, a blind guy and wildfire. It's on the way in just a minute.
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Truck it never leaves me when I'm down on my luck it doesn't shop at fancy stores, have a lawyer who want a divorce. It doesn't care if I stay out late it doesn't bet you about the money I make we'll be together till the end it won't sleep with my best friend I'm gonna get down on one knee ask my truck if it'll marry me I'll never drive another car well, honeymoon at the top of this.
Tom Griswold
Bar.
Pickup Truck Song Singer
I'm gonna have the time of my life the exhaust pipes are tighter than my ex wife think I'm crazy but listen to this I can bring home a hooker and it won't get pissed cold wedding ring won't cost me a buck when I get married to my pickup pickup truck.
Tom Griswold
Now some more Bob and Tom.
Kristi Lee
You want it, you need it, you can't live without It.
Tom Griswold
This is Bob and Tom.
Vernon Davis
Extra.
Kristi Lee
We have another. This may end the topic letter.
Bob Kevoian
Okay. The letter to end all letters. On which subject?
Jeff
Topic?
Kristi Lee
Uber. And the Uber ratings.
Bob Kevoian
Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah. I think they're important. Drivers need to know. Need to let other drivers know, hey, this person's reasonable. They're safe.
Kristi Lee
They're right. So. So when you do call to get an Uber, if they look, you know, you got a five out of five, they're going to come get you.
Jeff
Right?
Bob Kevoian
Yeah.
Kristi Lee
And I had a five out of five until some episode apparently in Chicago and I dropped to a 4, 9 2.
Jeff
Yeah, you're still gonna get picked up.
Kristi Lee
Oh, I know.
Bob Kevoian
They charge you a little more as your rate goes down.
Tom Griswold
Yeah.
Kristi Lee
And then we. We've had a number of letters about this. This guy goes not to brag, huh?
Bob Kevoian
But I say brag.
Kristi Lee
And I'm not a cheap bastard most of the time, but I don't have the funds to tip a driver. But I still have a 4.98.
Bob Kevoian
Wow.
Kristi Lee
Suck it, Tom. And then, well, wait a minute. P.S. dictated by someone who was blind.
Jeff
Well, of course.
Kristi Lee
There you go.
Jeff
You're not gonna turn down a blind guy, right?
Tom Griswold
Who's gonna give a blind guy three stars or two stars? What the heck?
Kristi Lee
Yeah, well. So there you go.
Bob Kevoian
They're easy customers. You can just drop them off wherever.
Tom Griswold
Yeah, yeah.
Bob Kevoian
No, this is the airport.
Tom Griswold
Yeah.
Kristi Lee
I'm sure that that sounds like a bus. Dear Bob and Tom show.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kristi Lee
Now we have a theme. I am currently legally blind. I cannot see drive thru menus. I suggest let alone the road when I'm driving.
Jeff
Don't be driving through.
Bob Kevoian
What the hell are you talking about? Missing the obvious.
Kristi Lee
Here, throw that letter. What are you doing?
Bob Kevoian
What are they. What's the point here?
Kristi Lee
He says I'm got. I have surgery scheduled. I hope my eyesight is soon restored. Thank you, Brian. I'm assuming that he's a passenger and I'm glad that there's a surgical procedure that will bring his sight back.
Bob Kevoian
This is like the old joke that the drive up ATMs had braille on the buttons.
Jeff
Yeah, yeah, some of them did.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kristi Lee
Really?
Tom Griswold
Yes. Oh, yeah.
Bob Kevoian
And There were about 12 comedians talking about it.
Tom Griswold
Oh yeah. Over and over again.
Kristi Lee
That is distressing.
Bob Kevoian
I mean, they had a valid point like what the hell's that about?
Kristi Lee
But I guess they made kind of a one size fits all panel and drive through or not. I see. Christy, you got a letter over there.
Jeff
This is from Jeff in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Dear Bob, And Tom, you mentioned glass eyes this morning. It brought back a memory from a summer construction job during my college years. There was a bricklayer named Cowboy.
Tom Griswold
Cowboy.
Jeff
Cowboy that would find places to hide on the job site, pop his glass eye out, hold it around a corner and say, I've got my eye on you.
Bob Kevoian
I love when people are weirdos.
Kristi Lee
Pretty good.
Jeff
He would. Then he would put it in his mouth to clean the dirt and dust off during the day and pop it back in.
Kristi Lee
I have. I have witnessed this.
Jeff
Are you serious?
Kristi Lee
The in the mouth thing? Absolutely. I've seen it.
Bob Kevoian
Now, I didn't realize until. Boy, maybe, I mean, I was an adult for sure that glass eyes were not full round eyes, that they're just almost lens shaped.
Jeff
I didn't know that.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah. Like now, like they're not going to fall out and roll away. Oh, I thought they were.
Tom Griswold
Is that why they're lens shaped? So they don't fall out and roll?
Bob Kevoian
I don't know.
Kristi Lee
But at one point they were bowling pin shaped. But very odd. They were bucking out a little too much.
Bob Kevoian
They called them the Barty Feldmans. Christy, would you make love to Marty Feldman? Nah.
Jeff
I don't know. Boy, that'd be tough.
Bob Kevoian
I bet he was funny.
Jeff
Maybe if the lights were out, there's a chance.
Bob Kevoian
Also he was hung.
Tom Griswold
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
You know, he's one of those 13 inchers.
Jeff
Yeah.
Kristi Lee
Maybe like a show horse or perhaps charming.
Bob Kevoian
Oh, I bet he was charming.
Jeff
He was very charming. And he didn't always have his eyes bugged out. I mean, he could.
Bob Kevoian
Nobody had a unique look.
Tom Griswold
Yes.
Bob Kevoian
No matter what he was telling, he.
Tom Griswold
Always had that one eye. Oh, yeah.
Kristi Lee
What hump. One more letter. This comes to us from Richard. When my youngest child was young, we would ask him if he wanted to wear pants or shorts. He always said he wanted to wear his shirt sleeve pants.
Bob Kevoian
Shirt sleeve pants.
Kristi Lee
The sweet little guy. Congratulations.
Bob Kevoian
So short sleeve pants or shirt sleeve pants?
Kristi Lee
This is shirt sleeve pants.
Bob Kevoian
That to me would say long sleeve or long pants. Yeah, yeah.
Kristi Lee
Well, I'm just reading the letters.
Bob Kevoian
I don't know.
Kristi Lee
We now return to the sports desk. What's going on over there?
Tom Griswold
I don't know what you remember this from. I'm not. I forget what golf tournament this was in. But Scotty Scheffler was out on the course and someone had had some gas during his backswing. Do you remember that time?
Kristi Lee
Yeah. And then the nosters actually highlighted it. Shler.
Tom Griswold
Yeah.
Kristi Lee
Yeah. Oh, my word.
Tom Griswold
What are you laughing about?
Kristi Lee
There's so much to say. About that shot so lot.
Tom Griswold
Somebody has using Tom's laugh.
Kristi Lee
I told me, let's stick to the golf.
Bob Kevoian
I love the one guy, he totally calls his buddy out.
Kristi Lee
What are you laughing about?
Bob Kevoian
He wanted to see if he would explain.
Jeff
And then he goes, let's stick to the golf.
Tom Griswold
Well, we have admitted it was him.
Jeff
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
From Ryder cup champ Rider Cup. Practice. This is English golfer Terrell Hatton. He's getting ready.
Kristi Lee
Practice round.
Bob Kevoian
Oh, yes. No, I don't think that's him.
Tom Griswold
No, it's not him at all.
Kristi Lee
No backswing coming. He hears, here's the fart, and he does not follow through with the swing.
Bob Kevoian
No, he can't. And it's perfectly placed. It's noon and perfectly.
Tom Griswold
Yeah, right.
Kristi Lee
Is that considered bad form on the course?
Bob Kevoian
I would think so. But in this case, they're having fun. But. Yeah. Yeah, I can't.
Tom Griswold
It's a practice run during the actual competition.
Kristi Lee
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
That's when. Scotty shefflers.
Kristi Lee
You're the 18th at the end of the Masters. Right. You don't want the guy. It looks like Byron is lighting his farts. I hope that doesn't distract Jack.
Tom Griswold
I have never done that.
Bob Kevoian
Lit a fart.
Tom Griswold
Lit a fart. Never done it.
Bob Kevoian
I've seen it done a few times and it is done.
Kristi Lee
Yeah, I. I didn't think it was possible until I saw my college roommate do it. I. I thought that there's no way your body would contain something happens. Oh, it does. Yeah, it does.
Bob Kevoian
It's extraordinary.
Tom Griswold
What keeps it from going back up inside.
Bob Kevoian
It didn't for my friend Paul.
Jeff
Really Burned his hair and his butt.
Bob Kevoian
It went. Yeah. Oh, and now he didn't have to go to the hospital or anything, but he. Man, it sucked back.
Tom Griswold
So.
Kristi Lee
So embarrassing.
Tom Griswold
A little hot. Ever have that happen, though? One of those. One of those hot. You feel heat. Remember this?
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Tom Griswold
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Kristi Lee
What?
Tom Griswold
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Kristi Lee
Sure.
Jeff
No.
Tom Griswold
Oh, yeah.
Bob Kevoian
You ever have a fart where you. You smell it and you go, oh, I'm.
Tom Griswold
I'm.
Bob Kevoian
I'm gonna be sick. Like, I'm. Meaning I'm gonna. I have a flu or a cold coming on.
Jeff
No.
Bob Kevoian
Yeah, that'll happen too.
Tom Griswold
I've noticed mine has. The odor has changed dramatically the older I get. Oh, I don't know. Maybe it's what I'm eating or what I'm not eating or.
Kristi Lee
I don't know. I'm noticing more length and. And pitch. Really?
Jeff
This is what we're going to.
Tom Griswold
Now, the tone, if you will.
Bob Kevoian
I notice Mine are longer now.
Kristi Lee
No, no, that's what I just said.
Tom Griswold
I've got something that'll. That'll save the show. Really Stupid world record.
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Bob Kevoian
They say Johnny Cash's far. It's a perfect pitch, really. Ring of fire.
Tom Griswold
The World Stone Skimming Championships have been hit by a cheating scandal.
Jeff
Oh, boy.
Bob Kevoian
Oh, no. You don't say.
Tom Griswold
Yeah. The BBC reports over 2200 people from 27 countries attended this year's event. On the tiny, tiny island of Easedale off the west coast of Scotland. Rules state that stones must come from naturally occurring island slate. However, some were found have been ground into a suspiciously circular shape to help them bounce on water.
Bob Kevoian
Suspiciously circular.
Kristi Lee
I think you're missing out. 2,200 people went to watch this event. It's stone skipping in Scotland.
Jeff
Right?
Tom Griswold
He has every day, he has such high hopes that they're gonna really enjoy this world.
Jeff
Maybe there's not a lot going on in Scotland.
Bob Kevoian
I don't care about some backwards Highlanders watching rocks being thrown.
Tom Griswold
Organizer Dr. Kyle Matthews told a news outlet that offenders had held their hands up and apologized.
Bob Kevoian
Sorry.
Tom Griswold
He did not specify how many competitors out of the 2,200 were disqualified for stone doctoring.
Kristi Lee
No, no, no. Here's the good part here.
Bob Kevoian
All right, all right.
Tom Griswold
Jonathan, is there a reason you just don't read this and you make me do it? I don't understand.
Kristi Lee
I want to see if we get this guy on the phone.
Bob Kevoian
Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no.
Tom Griswold
Certain. I have covet.
Bob Kevoian
You can't almost. I can't call Scotland.
Tom Griswold
Jonathan Jennings of Kentucky became the contest first American winners. USA. USA. Skimmed his stone. A cumulative distance of 580ft.
Kristi Lee
That's amazing.
Bob Kevoian
That is so far. But was he considered one of the cheaters or was.
Tom Griswold
No, they wouldn't have let him compete, Dumb ass.
Bob Kevoian
I mean, I saw the vitriol in his eyes. I did too. I, I, he got two words out of that sentence. And I, I, like I was genuine. I had my. My cold ran my blood.
Tom Griswold
I've always said this. I could leave today and get five parts in six different movies. I could do it today. And you go, oh, you knew him when he worked on the Bob and Tom show.
Bob Kevoian
That's right. Sometimes it's like walking in a minefield. Sometimes you make one step, you never know, you think it's innocent step and.
Kristi Lee
You hear a click. This guy, this is.
Tom Griswold
He's gonna kill me.
Kristi Lee
Okay, Christy, I'm gonna help you visualize this. This guy threw this guy. I don't wanna visualize this Guy skipped a stone 580ft. A football field is 300ft.
Tom Griswold
Very good.
Kristi Lee
This is almost two football fields. This great gentleman from the Commonwealth of Kentucky representing.
Bob Kevoian
That's a good question.
Tom Griswold
That's a great question.
Kristi Lee
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
A good reporter.
Bob Kevoian
That's gotta be 53 and a half. Like three big ones and then just dozens of tiny.
Kristi Lee
Oh, at the end. At the end. It essentially looks like a speedboat.
Tom Griswold
Yeah.
Kristi Lee
Going across the water.
Tom Griswold
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
Again, I thought. I. I know. You're getting. You're getting hammered.
Kristi Lee
This is a great world record. You've got 2200 people in Scotland. It's better than some golfer farting. Come on. I did that for you. I thought you were happy. I did enjoy it.
Tom Griswold
All right.
Bob Kevoian
Are you pretty good at skipping a stone?
Kristi Lee
I used to be excellent. Because I did it all the time.
Bob Kevoian
I used to be excellent.
Kristi Lee
Oh, yeah, we were.
Jeff
All the time, huh?
Kristi Lee
And they. They used to actually have the skipping stones.
Jeff
The Petoskey stones probably skip better than anyone.
Bob Kevoian
No, they're much more polished. You would never skip highly.
Kristi Lee
Petoskey stones generally don't skip very well. By the way, the shinola company now makes a Petoskey stone.
Tom Griswold
Watch you rub it on the head of your fans.
Bob Kevoian
You wouldn't know Shinola from this conversation.
Kristi Lee
They. There is a stone skipping competition up in Sault Ste. Marie, I believe, and they do have a category for measuring the way it works, etc.
Tom Griswold
Measuring the boredom.
Bob Kevoian
Do they have that level?
Kristi Lee
Yes, I think Skipping stones is. What's the song that mentions there's a famous.
Jeff
I'm not your skipping stone.
Kristi Lee
No, no.
Jeff
That was Stepping stone.
Tom Griswold
Would you find it surprising that you go fishing? The most time I've spent talking or listening or caring or about a skipping stone competition.
Kristi Lee
By the way, if things come full circle, there is a song called Skipping Stones from Michael Martin Murphy.
Jeff
What?
Kristi Lee
Yeah, yeah, there you go. We were just talking about him and the sad song Wildfire start crying, right?
Bob Kevoian
Oh, yeah. And you were going to tell us what this instrument is?
Kristi Lee
There are. No, it's a guitar.
Bob Kevoian
No, the hell.
Tom Griswold
That's what I said.
Bob Kevoian
It sounds nothing like any guitar ever made.
Kristi Lee
That's how good the player.
Bob Kevoian
It's a flute.
Tom Griswold
It's not flute.
Kristi Lee
I've got the flute. I have the entire personnel. The entire personnel. This is Jack Murphy on the piano.
Tom Griswold
Oh, nepotism. Nepo baby.
Kristi Lee
Sam Rossard on guitar. And Richard Dean on guitar. Drums.
Bob Kevoian
And other stuff too, in bass.
Kristi Lee
Right. This part.
Tom Griswold
About traffic and weather coming up, home of the hit right here, Madison. Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
Every Bit. A flute or whistle or something.
Jeff
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
You guys are in recorders.
Tom Griswold
Absolutely. A guitar. 75.
Kristi Lee
There's no.
Tom Griswold
Somebody get Michael Murphy on the phone.
Kristi Lee
This says that. It says it's.
Bob Kevoian
I don't believe it says.
Kristi Lee
The only instruments on here are mandolin, drums, bass guitars and piano.
Bob Kevoian
I don't care what it says. I trust my own organs, you lunatic. Yeah, it's a recorder or a flute or something. There's no guitar synthesizer that did that. You can show me video of somebody playing a guitar and that noise coming out and won't believe it. Why would you choose that? You're a skeptic. Why would you choose that sound to come out of a guitar if you wanted a piccolo play? There's no flute guitar pedal.
Kristi Lee
This is why.
Tom Griswold
Back to you, Tom. You know, music is passionate.
Bob Kevoian
That's all there is to it.
Kristi Lee
Hey, it's good that we're arguing about. Arguing about the important things in contemporary culture. A great song by Michael Martin Murphy, and we're concerned about what it's. I apologize for asking. It's still a great song.
Bob Kevoian
I want to buy a guitar.
Kristi Lee
What kind?
Bob Kevoian
Anyone? The one that sounds like a fluke.
Kristi Lee
That just shows the artistry of this. Of this great guitar player.
Bob Kevoian
He's playing it so wrong. He's blowing into the.
Tom Griswold
Anybody? If anybody out there knows Michael Murphy or his. Evidently his brother is in the band or whoever the hell it is. Get a hold of us. We need to find out.
Jeff
I'm. I'm trying to find.
Tom Griswold
It's a guitar.
Kristi Lee
All right, we'll retire from this discussion.
Christopher
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Episode: B&T Extra: Uber ratings, a Blind Guy, & Wildfire
Date: October 23, 2025
Hosts: Tom Griswold, Bob Kevoian, Kristi Lee, Jeff
Producer/Announcer: Christopher
This episode of The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast dives into classic B&T territory: listener letters and offbeat conversation, combining comedy with relatable topics. The hosts riff on the intricacies of Uber ratings, share stories involving a blind listener and glass eyes, explore a scandal in the stone skipping world record scene, and debate the instrumentation of the classic song "Wildfire." The tone is light, irreverent, and peppered with the hosts’ signature banter.
Starts at 03:00
Importance of Uber Ratings
A Blind Listener’s Perspective
Blindness & Everyday Life
Starts at 05:41
Cowboy and the Glass Eye
Childhood Humor
Begins at 07:50; Stone skipping at 11:02
Golf Course Gags
Stone Skipping Scandal
Hosts’ Personal Experiences
Begins at 15:14
The episode is classic BOB & TOM: quick-fire, friendly jabs, and personal anecdotes. The gang transitions effortlessly between hilarious listener mail and riffing on oddball news and pop culture. Their chemistry—light teasing, mock outrage, and inside jokes—keeps the mood buoyant, with each topic building on the last for spontaneous laughs.
For listeners who missed the show:
This B&T Extra gave fans a dose of offbeat humor, listener engagement, and the zany group dynamic the show is known for, covering everything from Uber etiquette to the anatomy of a glass eye, a world-class stone skipping contest, and the eternal mystery of what makes “Wildfire” sound so magical.