The BOB & TOM Show - December 4, 2025

Summary

The BOB & TOM Show – December 4, 2025

Overview

This episode of The BOB & TOM Show is a classic blend of comedic sketches, topical news, oddball sports stories, and group banter. The hosts are joined by musical guest Edwin McCain, competitive eating legend Joey Chestnut, and comedian Al Jackson. The show hits on everything from Christmas music parodies and holiday traditions to bizarre espionage gadgets and Guinness World Records, all in their signature irreverent and fast-paced style.

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Key Discussions & Insights

1. OJ Simpson Christmas Album Parody

(01:22 – 04:03)

• The show opens with an elaborate fake ad for an “O.J. Simpson Christmas Album,” featuring darkly comic parodies of Christmas standards, courtroom references, and OJ trial in-jokes.
• Notable moments:
  • “OJ really puts the sleigh in one horse open sleigh.” – Tom Griswold (02:37)
  • “Order now by calling 1-800% guilty.” – Tom Griswold (03:50)
• The team riffs further on OJ’s real killer search and makes playful jabs.

2. Smoking, Presidents & Humanizing Habits

(04:49 – 08:24)

• Banter about smoking as a vice among priests and Presidents.
• Discussion of Obama’s reputed secret smoking, Clinton’s “didn’t inhale”—with speculation and wit.
  • “Why not keep...just keep smoking?” – Josh Arnold (06:12)
  • “I think he snuck it.” – Pat Godwin (06:18)
  • “You get off the phone with Putin...somebody give me a Quarter Pounder.” – Tom Griswold (06:44)

3. Holiday Traditions & Pet Problems

(08:33 – 09:47)

• Christmas tree stories: Christy Lee’s family tradition with her daughters’ ornaments.
• Cat-proof Christmas tree innovations (teased for later), reminiscing about cats climbing the tree.

4. Shredded Cheese Recall & Weird Cheese Habits

(09:47 – 11:46)

• Breaking news: National shredded cheese recall for potential metal fragments.
• Hosts joke about snacking on shredded cheese, “cutting the cheese,” and cautionary tales about eating cheese in bed.
  • “He could have breathed through the holes.” – Jeff Davis, on choking on Swiss cheese (11:16)

5. Flatulence & Alzheimer’s Study

(11:46 – 12:42, 149:54 – 151:08)

• Preview of an upcoming news story tying “cutting the cheese” (flatulence) to Alzheimer’s research from Johns Hopkins.
  • “If you’re around a lot of old people, that’s all they do—so they should never have Alzheimer’s.” – Christy Lee (11:52)
• Later, the hosts circle back: smelling your own farts may help brain function, according to a (real) study.
  • “I knew it!” – Josh Arnold (149:57)

6. Holiday Songs & Cultural Controversy

(12:45 – 13:56, 42:27 – 43:50)

• Preview and then deep-dive into the “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” controversy: is it still banned? A station in San Francisco restored it per listener votes.
• Pat Godwin does a quick Sinatra-style joke rendition:
  • "I really can't stay—You're staying." – Pat Godwin (44:00)

7. Walkie Talkie Hijinks & Holiday Nostalgia

(16:51 – 22:28)

• Tom recounts getting walkie talkies for his daughter, leading to tales of eavesdropping on parents, picking up curse-laden radio signals, and baby monitors gone awry.
• Jeff Davis tells a story of using walkie talkies to learn Christmas presents as a child.

8. Animals, Pavlov, & Odd Canine Behavior

(22:10 – 24:27)

• Dogs’ Pavlovian response to UPS trucks/treats. More banter on animal quirks.
  • “He does not like the actor, Sean Penn.” – Pat Godwin (about a dog, Brody) (22:40)

9. Pringles Can Pooping Lawyer & Parody Song

(25:22 – 28:40)

• Recap of the Ohio attorney who pooped in a Pringles can, with a request for Pat Godwin’s parody song.
  • “He crapping the can / Chips on top / Threw it out / Now he's out on bail…” – Pat Godwin (parody) (27:41)
• Further jokes about “the mad shatter”—a serial Pringles can defecator.

10. Holiday Tree Trends: Spray-Painted & Cat-Proof Trees

(32:29 – 34:59, 63:14 – 64:50)

• Teasers for stories on colored Christmas trees and cat-proof “half-trees.”
• Full discussion: UK company sells trees with only the top half (pole below the greenery) to avoid pet mischief.
  • "It's almost like a Christmas tree palm tree...or a stripper pole Christmas tree." – Tom Griswold (64:32, 64:46)

11. Dentistry Advances & Laughing Gas

(29:30 – 31:28)

• Christy Lee doubts dental progress; listener Autumn (dental tech) writes in, touting dentistry's advances and laughs about “intimacy coordinators.”

12. Sports Banter: WNBA Troll Humiliation

(48:50 – 50:14)

• Story: WNBA player Sarah Ashley Barker trounces a male internet troll 11–2 in one-on-one.
  • "'Need you to tell the camera that you’re sorry to the WNBA and you’re sorry to all women.'" – Sarah Ashley Barker (49:44)
• The group riffs on male hubris, social media boosts, and “loser sports pundits.”

13. Guinness World Record: Dog With Longest Tongue

(51:40 – 54:36)

• French bullmastiff from Oklahoma’s tongue measures 7.83 inches; hosts joke about comparisons to Gene Simmons, rainbow poops, and other animal oddities.

14. Christmas Memories: Tinsel, Popcorn Strings, Cutting Down Trees

(65:17 – 70:39)

• Nostalgic tales: tinsel in dog poop, dangerous bubble lights, laborious popcorn strands, going to cut real trees with children and subpar saws.

15. Mailbag Moments: Dusty Plates & Family Dishes

(40:52 – 42:18)

• Recap of a social media moment about “dusty little plates” for desserts, sparking gentle group ribbing and stories of special-occasion dishes.

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Special Guests & Segments

Edwin McCain (Singer-Songwriter)

• Shares stories of embarrassing himself in front of Billy Corgan, touring, Christmas tree family disasters (“the big prick”), and making a New Orleans-funk Christmas record that nobody (but him) likes.
• Performs “Santa Needs a Christmas Chihuahua” live (84:11), to much laughter:
  • “Santa needs a Christmas Chihuahua!” – Edwin McCain (84:26 et seq)
• Duets with Pat Godwin on “Mele Kalikimaka." (143:28)

Joey Chestnut (Competitive Eating Legend)

• In studio for the Big Ten championship chicken wing event.
• Discusses technique for deboning wings “contest mode,” prepping (psylium husk, oils, fasting), and the misery of losing at wings:
  • “My technique with the flats—oh my God, it’s vicious.” (119:01)
• Demo of wing technique live on air; “poetry in motion.”
• Cheating scandals in eating (“pockets, dropped food”), the emcee’s elaborate intros, coping with “ring of fire” aftermath, and flubs in documentaries.
• Banters with Edwin about touring together with the Navy and shared adventures eating on submarines.

Al Jackson (Comedian, Street-Lingo Expert)

• Provides Tom with “street” language tips (“Put the fries in the bag, bro.”)
• Discusses what foods everyone could competitively eat (sweet potato pie for Al, spaghetti for Tom, egg rolls for Josh, rice for Jeff).

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Notable Quotes

• “Remember, Obama smoked, but he quit before he went to the White House—allegedly.” – Josh Arnold (06:08)
• “OJ really puts the sleigh in one horse open sleigh.” – Tom Griswold (02:37)
• “You could have one of those gas masks on, hooked up to a giant, giant hookah, huffing a pound of the greatest weed ever produced...no one's gonna care.” – Tom Griswold (07:40)
• “If you don't want to shred your throat, you might want to watch out for the shredded cheese.” – Tom Griswold (10:03)
• “Santa needs a Christmas Chihuahua—no, he doesn't! Yes, he does!” – Edwin McCain (84:26)
• “And now, Pat, you, you wrote a nice song about this [Pringles can]:” – Tom Griswold (27:33)
• “There's always some, you know, fringe group that finds some conspiracy about [‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’].” – Tom Griswold (13:25)
• “Smelling your own fart might be good for you!” – Christy Lee (149:54, 150:12)
• “Order now by calling 1-800% guilty.” – Tom Griswold (03:50)
• “Flatulence and Alzheimer's—this is from the National Academy of Sciences.” – Tom Griswold (11:46)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• OJ Simpson Christmas Album Parody: 01:22 – 04:03
• Presidents & Smoking Banter: 04:49 – 08:24
• Christmas Tree/Cat Stories: 08:33 – 09:47
• Cheese Recall & Eating Habits: 09:47 – 11:46
• Flatulence & Alzheimer's: 11:46 – 12:42, 149:54 – 151:08
• Dentistry Advances: 29:30 – 31:28
• Pringles Can Incident & Parody Song: 25:22 – 28:40
• WNBA Player Beats Troll: 48:50 – 50:14
• Dog Tongue World Record: 51:40 – 54:36
• Christmas Tree Fads: 63:14 – 66:07
• Mailbag “dusty plates” banter: 40:52 – 42:18
• Edwin McCain “Christmas Chihuahua”: 84:11 – 85:59
• Edwin & Pat “Mele Kalikimaka": 143:28 – 144:12
• Joey Chestnut wing eating demo: 122:01 – 123:22
• Al Jackson “fries in the bag” street lingo: 133:17 – 134:10

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Show’s Signature Tone

The BOB & TOM Show thrives on clever wordplay, quick-witted banter, and affectionate razzing—punctuated with musical comedy, topical parodies, quirky news stories, and a camaraderie that feels both improvised and finely tuned. Edgy without being mean, irreverent without being hostile, the show is a daily dose of absurd fun anchored by the genuine camaraderie of its cast.

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For New Listeners

This episode is jam-packed and moves quickly between topical humor, running gags, and deep dives into odd news. Even if you’ve never heard the show, you’ll get musical comedy, showbiz stories, pet peeves, sports curiosities, and outrageous “what if” scenarios—all in a loose, open-panel format. Whether you love offbeat news, sports parodies, nostalgia, or just smart-aleck humor, there’s something for everyone here.

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Note: This summary excises ads, introductions, and outros, focusing only on the comedic and conversational gold that fuels the BOB & TOM Show’s legion of devoted listeners.

Transcript

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[Edwin McCain]

It's the bob and tom show.

[Tom Griswold]

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[Jeff Davis]

O.J.

[Tom Griswold]

The Handsome Halfback and a very shiny knife. And if you ever saw it, you'd be fearing for your Life. It's the O.J. simpson Christmas album. With special guest prosecuting attorney Marcia Clark. It's beginning to look a lot like murder. Everywhere we look. The OJ Simpson. You've never heard anyone sing in a courtroom quite like Marcia Clark.

[Jeff Davis]

O D N A O D N A.

[Tom Griswold]

Too bad your blood type match.

The Bob and Tom show presents the O.J. simpson Christmas Album. And you'll hear from the man himself. Oj.

[Edwin McCain]

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[Sponsor Voice]

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[Tom Griswold]

La la la la la la la la. OJ really puts the sleigh in one horse open sleigh. It's the OJ Simpson Christmas album. You'll learn about OJ's life behind bars. A large and hairy gentleman will share a cell with you.

[Edwin McCain]

And if he wants you for his wife.

[Tom Griswold]

La la la la la. What's that sticky glass? Oh, no.

It's the O.J. simpson Christmas album. You'll learn about all of the exciting evidence.

He dropped a bloody glove that was dum dum dum and dumb.

[Pat Godwin]

Really dumb, really dumb.

[Tom Griswold]

The O.J. simpson Christmas album. Including the great Bing Crosby O.J. simpson tribute. I'm Dr. Of a White.

Bronco.

[Jeff Davis]

Just.

[Edwin McCain]

Like the one Al cowling stroll.

[Tom Griswold]

The O.J. simpson Christmas album, only from Bob and Tom Records. Order now by calling 1-800% guilty.

[Edwin McCain]

It's a killer.

[Jeff Davis]

Yes.

[Josh Arnold]

If you're still looking for that stocking stuffer, rewrite, recommend a stalking. Stalking stuffer.

[Tom Griswold]

They find the real killer yet? Oh, no.

[Josh Arnold]

And now that OJ's gone, we may never. Ah, he was really leading that whole.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Every day out there looking on golf courses. If the real killer had been maybe a maintenance guy at a golf course, he might have found him.

[Josh Arnold]

Yes, yes. If he was a greenskeeper, we would. Mystery solved. There's Christy Lee at the Silac Insurance Company news desk.

[Christy Lee]

Hi.

[Josh Arnold]

Pat Godwin's there. Hey, Josh. Jeff Owskay's at the prize pick sports desk today.

[Jeff Davis]

Howdy, Ace Cow.

[Josh Arnold]

Be across the way. Hey, Josh. I'm Josh Arnold at the I hate Stephen Singer sidekick chair. And there's Tom. And Tom, we all want to thank you very much for our Christmas party yesterday.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah.

[Edwin McCain]

A little bit.

[Tom Griswold]

A little bit of lunch. Yeah, it was fun.

[Josh Arnold]

It sure was nice.

[Tom Griswold]

Got the group together for some barbecue courtesy of the smoking pastor. And by the way, the smoking pastor, it's smoking as in barbecuing, not.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah. Not standing outside smoking cigarettes.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah.

[Christy Lee]

Cigars or something.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Although. What's that movie? Conclave. One of the only funny moments in that movie is when they. They focus on that giant pile of cigarette butts because all the priests are out there smoking. Very funny.

[Christy Lee]

Very stressful, Jon.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah. There are probably a handful of priests out there that still smoke. Not too many, probably.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Joey Chestnut]

Why not?

[Christy Lee]

Well, you don't see people smoking much anymore, do you?

[Tom Griswold]

No, they're out there.

[Christy Lee]

And when you do, you're like.

[Pat Godwin]

Yeah.

[Christy Lee]

It's crazy.

[Josh Arnold]

It's always such a great character device to have a priest smoking. It's like, okay, he's a man of the cloth, but he's still got his. He's not perfect.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah.

[Christy Lee]

He's human.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, there is something about that. I mean, he's got to give up a lot of stuff.

[Josh Arnold]

Right?

[Christy Lee]

Right.

[Tom Griswold]

It's like everybody. Well, you talk to someone who maybe they've given up alcohol, and they. They always have. It's like there's one thing left.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

I. Look, you know, don't. Don't take my Splenda. I've given up sugar, cigarettes, booze, whatever.

[Josh Arnold]

Remember, Obama smoked, but he quit before he went to the White House.

[Jeff Davis]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Allegedly. And I say that because. Why not keep. Just keep smoking.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. It's okay.

[Pat Godwin]

I think he did. I mean, I think he snuck it.

[Josh Arnold]

Right, right. Wouldn't you get off the phone with world leaders?

[Tom Griswold]

All right, all right. I got Putin again. You know, he's not giving up an inch. Give me some Camels.

[Christy Lee]

Do you think they make him go outside?

[Tom Griswold]

Absolutely. Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

I think he's probably cracked the window.

[Tom Griswold]

By the way, who's going to go? Mr. President, you can't smoke in here. Really. I know.

[Josh Arnold]

I guess Trump loves McDonald's. It's like, you get off the phone with Putin. Somebody give me a Quarter Pounder.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, it's okay. I gotta deal with this. Russian a hole. I want some fries. I knew a guy that had been part of the.

What do you call, Secret Service detail, and he said that Bill Clinton would occasionally, you know, grab a. Grab a smoke, a cigarette.

[Pat Godwin]

Really?

[Josh Arnold]

Okay.

[Tom Griswold]

Wow. And then there was, of course, the whole cigar thing. Right, that was.

[Josh Arnold]

And the old didn't inhale thing. Yeah, right. Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

No, was that him?

[Pat Godwin]

Yeah, that was him.

[Tom Griswold]

Oh, that's right. Jimmy Carter was the guy that lost it in his heart.

[Al Jackson]

Yeah.

[Pat Godwin]

In the Playboy interview.

[Tom Griswold]

My boy, they. Boy, they. When they follow politics, they really latch on to the dumbest crap.

[Pat Godwin]

One tiny little and.

[Tom Griswold]

Jesus. Okay, well, in that case, I mean.

[Josh Arnold]

Nowadays, I think it's different, but back when what Clinton should have. He shouldn't have done the whole. I didn't. I spoke, but I never.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, you could run for president now. You could have one of those gas masks on, hooked up to a giant, giant hookah, you know, huffing a pound of the greatest weed ever produced and. No, no one's gonna care.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, of course I smoked. I was a progressive in the 60s. It's all we did.

[Tom Griswold]

Well, let's see. I. We have letters to get to. We have. We actually have a. A couple really funny stories. One of them kind of involving not really politics, but I guess world.

Events involving spy work and some of the tools that were used by spies. Oh, real. Real spies.

[Josh Arnold]

In the world of espionage.

[Tom Griswold]

In the world of espionage. And one of them, I can give you a little hint. One of them involves a fake body part.

[Josh Arnold]

Interesting.

[Tom Griswold]

Which is kind of interesting. Yeah. Well, you hear what it is. Also, we have a couple controversies in the world of Christmas trees.

[Christy Lee]

Oh, and ours done yesterday. Finally.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, nice.

[Christy Lee]

All up and ready to go.

[Pat Godwin]

Trimmed?

[Christy Lee]

Yep.

[Pat Godwin]

Oh, very.

[Christy Lee]

Girls are still home. They're leaving today. So we got it all. I asked them if they wanted their ornaments because, you know, I have them all labeled from every year that they got one. I go I can box these up and you can take them. No, no, no, mom, we. We have to always do it this way, so. Oh, yeah, yeah. Keep them on the tree.

[Tom Griswold]

Absolutely. Josh, this one will interest you. It's a cat proof Christmas tree.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, okay.

[Christy Lee]

Does gravy get into the tree?

[Josh Arnold]

No, she likes to sleep under it.

[Christy Lee]

But she doesn't bat the ornaments around.

[Josh Arnold]

No, there was when she was young, Ira. You know, she's three now, but when she was a kitten, she would. And then I found her in the middle of the tree one time.

[Tom Griswold]

And we can do this story today because Chick's not here, right?

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

If he were here, we'd hear his tragic story about a cat in a Christmas tree.

[Pat Godwin]

I like that story.

[Tom Griswold]

You like that?

[Edwin McCain]

I do.

[Pat Godwin]

No, it's dark and crazy about it.

[Tom Griswold]

There's something dark and awful about it. We're not going to get. We're not going to discuss it.

Also today we have. We have one serious story. A cheese recall. A huge one.

It's a shredded cheese that may have metal fragments in it. Oh. And it's one of those cheeses that's sold under a variety of names, but stores include Walmart, Aldi, and Target that have this stuff. So if you're a shredded cheese person, go to the FDA website. I mean, there's a list of like 50 names of various cheeses that may potentially have metal in them. So if you don't want to shred your throat, you might want to watch out for the shredded cheese. Fda. Go to the FDA website and they'll.

[Josh Arnold]

And sometimes isn't it fun just to go in there and grab a pinch of shredded cheese?

[Pat Godwin]

Yes.

[Josh Arnold]

As a little snack.

[Pat Godwin]

I did that last night.

[Josh Arnold]

Isn't that great? Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. You kind of put it in your lip like, it's like.

[Tom Griswold]

It's like it's chalk.

[Christy Lee]

Does it dissolve?

[Tom Griswold]

I'll have to try that. Putting it in there. Like, leave it in there.

[Jeff Davis]

I think I told you, like two years ago I had this thing where I'd wake up in the middle of the night and go get a slice of Swiss cheese.

[Tom Griswold]

Huh.

[Jeff Davis]

And go back to sleep. And finally one morning I woke up with a mouthful of Swiss cheese and I was like, well, I'm done doing that before I choked to death in my sleep.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, that'd be. That'd be embarrassing.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Well, what happened to him? Well, he. It was the cheese.

[Jeff Davis]

Had he not chewed it up, he could have breathed through the holes.

[Josh Arnold]

But that's why I don't snack at night. How did he die? He choked on cheese. Of course he did.

I can't allow.

[Pat Godwin]

Found him with a Jimmy John's in his throat.

[Tom Griswold]

Also, speaking of cheese, we have more science about cutting the cheese. Oh, wait, and wait. Wait till you hear this one. It's the relationship between flatulence and Alzheimer's.

[Josh Arnold]

Really?

[Tom Griswold]

And this is from the National Academy of Sciences.

[Christy Lee]

I have a lot of problem with this story.

[Tom Griswold]

With this story?

[Christy Lee]

Yeah. Because if you're around a lot of old people, that's all they do. So they should never have Alzheimer's.

[Tom Griswold]

Well, you make.

[Josh Arnold]

It's a valid point.

[Tom Griswold]

You make a.

[Josh Arnold]

So is that if you huff farts.

[Tom Griswold]

Well, it's. You'll see. And this is from the distinguished Johns Hopkins University.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

So, you know, can you imagine if you're. You meet someone. Hey, you work at Johns Hopkins? What are you, a brain surgeon? No, no, I. I'm studying fart hoffing. Oh, okay.

They didn't cut off your grant money, but we'll find out. There is actually a relation involves something like sodium sulfide or hydrogen bombs. I forget what it is. Exactly something. Hydrogen or sulfide. That's all. That's all on the way, we have some sporting news. We have a great story in the world of the wnba. Really cool story.

[Christy Lee]

Oh, I'm anxious to hear it. I don't know this.

[Tom Griswold]

It's one of my pet peeves has always been these sports pundits who, you know, what a loser. Blah, blah, blah. And none of these guys could catch a baseball if you threw it at them. And this is a guy that was mocking the skill level of the WNBA players, and he's brutally humiliated. It's one of the great moments in sports this year by a terrific player from the wnba. We'll get to that coming up. And real quick, I do have an update on the baby. It's cold outside. Controversy.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, is that still.

[Christy Lee]

That's a controversy.

[Tom Griswold]

It's a little. I got just a little bit of an update. I wanted to find out if that was still a thing.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay.

[Tom Griswold]

And, you know, of course, there's always some, you know, fringe group that, you know, finds some conspiracy about it. Whatever. We'll get to. We'll get to that because we love the fringe folks out there. We also have your letters. You can reach us, Bob and tomobandtom.com also coming in this morning, one of our favorites, I always want to say comedian and Singer songwriter Edwin McCain's gonna stop by. We've got our shoo in of the week with our Big winner from last week, Dan Frederick will be talking to Dan. Also, Joey Chestnut's gonna stop by and comedian Al Jackson.

[Christy Lee]

Big show, yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

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[Jeff Davis]

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[Tom Griswold]

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[Jeff Davis]

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[Tom Griswold]

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[Jeff Davis]

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[Josh Arnold]

Hey, it's the Bob and Tom show live from the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios. Christy Lee's at the Silac Insurance Company news desk. Hello, Pat Godwin's there. Hey, Josh. There's Jeff Oskay at the prize pick sports desk. Hey, man, Ace Cosby's over there. Hey, I'm Josh Arnold at the I hate Stephen Singer sidekick chair. And there's Tom.

[Tom Griswold]

Hello. Checking, testing. Okay, very good. I got home yesterday and we had purchased walkie talkies.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, that's always fun.

[Tom Griswold]

And but the walkie talkie technology, now we got three of them for 25 bucks and they were terrific. So you know, because you, when you start with walkie talkies, of course, you, you know, this is with my 9 year old daughter and you're standing right next to her.

[Christy Lee]

Right.

[Tom Griswold]

Are you there? Then you teach her the lingo. Roger that. That's a good one. And then, you know, over versus over and out, but you're standing right next to them. And then you go, okay. Then you, I'm going to go to the, to my room. You go to your room upstairs. And they still worked. And then I do, okay, I'm taking the dog out. And I figured for 25 bucks, these things I'm going to get to the end of the driveway. And it's no, this thing worked great.

[Jeff Davis]

Awesome.

[Tom Griswold]

Works better than this thing I've got over here.

[Christy Lee]

Really?

[Tom Griswold]

At the radio station. So I can talk to Mark back there.

[Josh Arnold]

Did you get them just for fun or.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, nice.

[Tom Griswold]

They were cool. They're so much, there's, it's, remember when you first got it when you were a kid?

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, we lost our mind.

[Tom Griswold]

And after course, you've got nothing to talk about. But it's I'm upstairs. Are you there?

If I start doing Roger this, Roger that, it does seem kind of silly to explain. Well, how come you say that? Who's Roger? No, no, no, no. This is, and at one point it's okay, what you, what's your 1020? And then she comes around the corner instead of doing it on the, she walks around. Dad, what's the 1020? Well, it was where you were standing a few minutes ago. So.

[Jeff Davis]

Yeah, when I was young we had walkie talkies and we loved them. And although Santa would bring us gifts every year. Our parents would also get us gifts.

[Christy Lee]

Sure.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah.

[Jeff Davis]

And so one year, they would always wrap them the night before Christmas. So one year we took some duct tape, we duct taped down the button on the walkie talkie. The talk button. And then duct taped it to the underside of the table where they would wrap the presents. And we went up and we were in our, you know, we had to go to bed because Santa's coming. And we were up there listening to what we were getting from our parents that year until we hit a button and a squeal. Went out throughout the house and tipped them off and we. That was a less than fun Christmas.

[Josh Arnold]

Eve, describing what they were giving you.

[Jeff Davis]

Oh, yeah. They're like, oh, Jeff's gonna love this remote control car. We got them.

[Christy Lee]

And I'm like, did they take it all back?

[Jeff Davis]

No, they did let us keep it.

[Tom Griswold]

Well, when I, we've, I. We first got the, the walkie talkies. You. You get them charged and everything. And then there's a bunch of different channels. And so you go. I first go to channel four. Just. Okay, go to channel four on yours. So you're both on the same channel.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

And immediately some guy, I don't know where he was, but cursing up a storm. No way. Yeah. Something you pick up some random. Who knows what it was. I don't know if it's picking up CB radios or if it's some baby monitor. Yeah. Some construction guy. And. And we had that baby monitor thing. Yeah. Or our baby monitor would pick stuff up. That was pretty funny.

[Jeff Davis]

Yeah, ours would.

[Tom Griswold]

And then my old house, when my girls were really little was built. I know this sounds crazy. My old house was made of poured concrete. Literally. The guy that had built it in 1932 was a concrete contractor. Whatever. So the walls, not. They were impenetrable. So we bought one of those high end things where you can put the camera in the crib for the baby, you know, from. From the Paranoid company. Yeah. And it didn't work because of the walls of my. You've been in my old house. So then we went out and bought the cheapest one. You know the one that's like 30 bucks, right? Worked like a charm. So what I'm figuring is the cheaper one probably uses some kind of irradiating device.

Oh, sure, the baby's fine until they turn 30, when the spores start, who knows? But in any event, we got to get to our mailbag. Ladies and gentlemen, do you guys have any letters?

[Josh Arnold]

Am I the only one yeah, I've got automism here.

[Tom Griswold]

Oh, good. What's that?

[Josh Arnold]

Kurt with a C.

I apologize for being Kurt. Yeah. You ever use that word?

[Jeff Davis]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

That's a good one. I'm an occasional hockey watcher, says Kurt. I don't know all the rules, but understand the concept of the game. There was a close play at the net and the puck got cleared. I told my daughter, oh man, he should have deflected it in the net off his ice cleat.

His ice shoe or boot.

My 13 year old daughter immediately said, his skate.

[Tom Griswold]

Do you know that I have strap on ice cleats?

[Christy Lee]

What?

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, they go on the bottoms of.

[Pat Godwin]

Your shoes for walking outside, for walking your dog.

[Josh Arnold]

They're.

[Christy Lee]

I'm.

[Tom Griswold]

I've seen like a rubber net thing with metal. Yeah, they're great. I've already got them out. Yeah, they're really good. Well, yeah, I mean, you can have really great boots on, but if you hit the ice the wrong way, you're going to kill yourself.

[Christy Lee]

Sure.

[Pat Godwin]

Extra protection.

[Tom Griswold]

I've broken enough bones, I don't need to break my skull because. Especially when you've got a big dog.

[Jeff Davis]

No.

[Christy Lee]

Do they pull? Do they?

[Tom Griswold]

Occasionally. You know, they, they'll see. What, what can they see? Oh, I know. Anything.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Then I had an interesting thing going on. The Pavlovian response. The dogs have.

[Josh Arnold]

Sure.

[Tom Griswold]

That guy's overrated. Why? Anybody? You have a cat?

[Josh Arnold]

Of course.

[Tom Griswold]

Do you have an electric can opener?

[Josh Arnold]

No.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay. If you have anyone that has electric can opener, a cat can tell you.

[Josh Arnold]

They, they can tell when I, When I start to open the tin can.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, yeah, they, that response. Yeah, they'll run in a.

[Pat Godwin]

Guess what. My dog Brody, Jimmy's dog Brody, guess what? He does not like the actor, Sean Penn. I watched a movie last night that had Sean Penn in it. The brand new movie. One battle after Another. Every time Sean Penn came on, Brody went. Not for any other act.

[Josh Arnold]

You know, people in the theater did that too. When I saw that.

[Pat Godwin]

Is that odd?

[Tom Griswold]

That's dog to do that.

[Josh Arnold]

Yes.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah, I've never, I've never heard of it.

[Josh Arnold]

Like, is there something in the register of his voice?

[Pat Godwin]

I don't know, maybe you'd bring that movie.

[Christy Lee]

Did you. So you saw this movie?

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Christy Lee]

Did you like it?

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, I loved it.

[Christy Lee]

Okay. Because it's winning everything.

One battle after another.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay.

[Christy Lee]

I mean it is. It's this week alone it has picked up a Gotham. It has picked up the best film at the New York Films Critics Circle. And then yesterday the National Board of Review Awards gave it best Picture, Best Director, best Actors. I mean, it's killing.

[Tom Griswold]

Well, my point was going to be one of the UPS guys carries dog treats with him.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

So now.

My dogs, they don't. It's not the guy, it's the truck.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, sure. Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

So if I'm out there and they see the truck, all bets are off. Especially if I've got both of them with me.

[Josh Arnold]

So you're saying anyone would have. Pavlov just was lucky enough to go, hey, this is.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, I mean, it's a moron would go, wait a minute. He sees large truck, associates it with this one guy. Every time he sees a big brown truck, he wants to chase it, hoping he's going to get a dog treat.

[Pat Godwin]

Do you carry treats with you when they go do their business?

[Tom Griswold]

No, no, I just praise them and.

[Pat Godwin]

Just give them a lot of love.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, I do that to everyone in my family.

[Josh Arnold]

Well, that's a good poop.

[Pat Godwin]

You do that to me when I.

[Josh Arnold]

Go down the hall.

[Tom Griswold]

We have a system here.

[Jeff Davis]

You know.

[Josh Arnold]

We could use that around here.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, great. At like. Yeah, the Russian only gave her a 7.

Like a skating tournament. This is a request, Pat. Kind of an odd one, too. As you know, we have rules about the Christmas songs. We don't play them till after Thanksgiving. We pretty much stuck to that, and now it's, we're okay to play Christmas song. But this one is kind of a Christmas song, but not really. And it's based on a very unusual story. But our request comes to us from CJ In Bloomington. I'm not sure if this is the Illinois Bloomingtons or the Indiana Bloomingtons. Sorry to bother you guys at work then. Perrin just said that to make Josh mad. I want to request one of my favorite Pat Godwin songs. It's not really about Christmas, but it has a Christmas vibe. Now, before you can play the song, I've got to read to you the setup on this, which comes to us from the distinguished newspaper, the Columbus Dispatch. Headline, ohio attorney suspended over pooping in a Pringles can.

[Josh Arnold]

Absolutely has a Christmas vibe.

[Tom Griswold]

An attorney who is disciplined for quite literally pooping in a Pringles can has had his law license reinstated. In November of 2021, surveillance cameras recorded criminal defense attorney Jack Blakesley dropping a poop filled Pringles can into the parking lot of a crime victim advocacy center. So I don't know what this guy's beef was or if there was one, but he was disciplined and lost his license to practice there for a while. After Serving, I believe it was a six month sanctioning period. What an unusual thing. And we were always kind of marveling at the skill level it would take to actually.

[Christy Lee]

Yes.

[Tom Griswold]

Effectively defecate into a Pringles.

[Josh Arnold]

No, I think it's fairly easy.

[Tom Griswold]

You think so?

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. You've always thought it was difficult. I. I think that mouth is wide enough.

[Joey Chestnut]

I agree.

[Pat Godwin]

Yeah, that's.

[Tom Griswold]

That's.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. Goes right in.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Well, I don't know.

[Christy Lee]

It's kind of like you have to hold it real.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, it's like. It's like a yoga position.

[Jeff Davis]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Or do you hover? Do you place it in the ground, Hover above and do the 30 seconds over Tokyo thing?

[Josh Arnold]

I can do it this morning if you want me. Just to prove how easy.

[Tom Griswold]

I've got a Pringle scan.

[Josh Arnold]

Right.

[Tom Griswold]

And we later learned that, sadly, one of our listeners explained this to us. There is a Pringles trick, which is to defecate into a Pringles can just. And then you put two or three inches of Pringles back in the can.

[Christy Lee]

That is a horrible trick.

[Tom Griswold]

And you'll leave it in the office somewhere.

[Jeff Davis]

What a monster.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

I'm just saying. One of our listeners pointed. So in any event, that is an actual genuine news story.

I don't know what this guy was so mad about, but. And then he said something like.

[Al Jackson]

He.

[Tom Griswold]

He had deposited these Pringles cans in several spots.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. This wasn't a one off. He did it a few. Yeah, well, it was a serial.

Shatter. Yeah. Yes.

[Jeff Davis]

The.

[Tom Griswold]

The match. The mad shatter, if you will. And pat you. You wrote a nice song about this.

[Pat Godwin]

He ate the Pringles. They're almost gone.

[Edwin McCain]

Now the litters off.

[Pat Godwin]

He's in the jar now.

[Edwin McCain]

This lawyer's nuts.

[Pat Godwin]

Flashing his butt. Pooping in an empty Pringles can. He crapping the can. Chips on top.

[Edwin McCain]

He threw it out.

[Pat Godwin]

Grabbed my P.O. he's out on bail. Should spend a night in jail for.

[Josh Arnold]

Pooping in an empty Pringles canoe.

[Pat Godwin]

In the prison, he can build a defense.

[Josh Arnold]

Defense.

[Pat Godwin]

He will say that he's just farting. Brown just says, are you crazy? He says, no, man. High poop and Kringle Pringles cans all over town. Pringles, not Kringles.

Cause Kris Kringle threw me.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, shit.

[Pat Godwin]

Christmas time license suspended. That dude is scary. Now he's got Pringleberries on. Next time you let loose dropping a deuce, don't poop in an empty Pringles can.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, by request. Wow. What was the his defense, I forget it was, if you don't defecate, you must reinstate something.

[Al Jackson]

Yes.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

How many lawyers do you think, since the old OJ Thing have tried using a brief poem?

[Josh Arnold]

You know, this guy could have also gone with a quit.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah.

Could have gone with a quit.

Wow. What was going through his head when he did that? What a crazy thing.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, that is crazy.

[Tom Griswold]

Well, a couple of other things. Oh, I got more letters. I'm sorry, before we get to that. And by the way, thank you for that. That was once again, from cj. We appreciate your taking the time to write. Now, yesterday. I think it was yesterday, maybe the day before we were talking about dentistry. We had an.

We had a thing about some company. They're trying to cut down on the sound the dental drills make.

[Christy Lee]

Yes.

[Tom Griswold]

Because there was a study associating the sound with pain levels and stuff. I don't know. I. I guess there's a correlation, but I. To me, it's. It's the. It's the.

[Christy Lee]

It's the anxiety of hearing the.

[Tom Griswold]

And also, it's the smell and the whole. But, Christy, you were saying you didn't think dentistry had advanced all that far?

I'm a big fan.

[Christy Lee]

Oh, I'm a big fan. I love my dentist.

[Tom Griswold]

You and I have the same dentist.

[Christy Lee]

I love Jen, the girl that cleans my teeth.

[Tom Griswold]

Autumn. Kind enough to write. She's a dental technician and she's been doing it for quite some time. And she goes, I love it. I'm sorry, Christy, dentistry has, in fact, changed greatly over the years. We're at a turning point. Kids finally like us. They're not terrified. We take a friendly approach in our office. By the way, if you're ever in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, need a great dental office. Come on by. Then she goes in all caps. I highly recommend the laughing gas.

[Christy Lee]

I've never done it. I'm gonna try it. I mean, does he have that at our.

[Tom Griswold]

Sure, he does.

[Christy Lee]

I don't know.

[Jeff Davis]

You can just go to a corner store and buy it now.

[Christy Lee]

What?

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

What?

[Jeff Davis]

You can buy it at gas stations.

[Christy Lee]

What?

[Josh Arnold]

Terrific. Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Is it. Is this the thing where you take, like, the Ready Whip and.

[Josh Arnold]

Yep, but they.

[Jeff Davis]

Well, they got rid of the. The Ready Whip. They just give you straight cancer.

[Joey Chestnut]

Nitrous.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, yeah.

[Jeff Davis]

The world's going.

[Josh Arnold]

I've seen them at concerts.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, but I mean, are. Outside in a dental office, they're mixing oxygen with the nitrous oxide. Because nitrous oxide has NO O2 in it.

[Jeff Davis]

Right, right.

[Tom Griswold]

So it could Kill you if you just. Okay, so. Yeah, that needs to be dealt with. Professional, right? Supervision? I think so.

[Christy Lee]

The laughing gas. I don't understand. You don't feel it or you don't know?

[Pat Godwin]

It's a buzzing. It's. It's very hard to describe, but it's a buzzing.

[Christy Lee]

Okay.

[Tom Griswold]

And they can.

[Pat Godwin]

They have different levels. They can set it on. I asked for mine to be set on abuse.

[Tom Griswold]

By the way, this Autumn continues writing. P.S. i finally figured out why Ms. Alzman is always on the Ali Breen show with you guys. She's like the intimacy coordinator for Ally. Know what an intimacy coordinator is?

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, it's one of those people on a movie set.

[Jeff Davis]

That help.

[Josh Arnold]

Hey, are you comfortable? Is everybody okay?

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. This is a smart thing because they don't want to get sued after by some actor or actress going, I didn't want to do it. I cashed the checks, of course. Did a big beaver shot, but I didn't want to do it.

[Josh Arnold]

He's going to kiss your neck now. Are you. Is that all right?

[Pat Godwin]

Okay, good.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Thing. So thank you.

[Josh Arnold]

Autumn's point still makes no sense though.

Don't confuse us knowing what intimacy coordinator is Autumn with your point being valid.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay, now coming up, we have more of your letters. We have some exciting things going on in the world of news today. I'm very excited about a bunch of them. And that would include in the sporting news a so called sports pundit getting his ass handed to him by a player in the wnba. Just a great moment. Also we have. Do you like. Would you like a spray painted Christmas tree?

[Jeff Davis]

Huh?

[Tom Griswold]

You ever heard about that? No, not the traditional so called flocking. Yeah. But you can buy trees in various colors at this one tree farm. It's quite controversial and only fans people. The IRS is going to be watching you. Somebody's watching you. I'll tell you why. What you got coming up in sports over there, Jeffrey?

[Jeff Davis]

Oh, man, lots of stuff.

[Christy Lee]

All right.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay. No specifics.

[Jeff Davis]

Oh yeah. I like to leave it hanging. Well, you already mentioned the wnba. We also have a stupid world record with a. With a puppy dog.

[Tom Griswold]

Oh, and it's a good one too.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Right now I want to say hi to my buddy Steven Singer from Steven Singer jewelers. You can peruse the inventory by going to I hate stevensinger.com. i will urge you right now to go to bobandtom.com contest if you'd like to win a $500 e gift card from Steven Singer Jewelers. Just pick the winners in Week 14 of the NFL. Those games begin this evening, so get those entries in today, please. It's just pick the winners. Don't worry about the spread. Steven Singer Jewelers. He's got something interesting going on. You probably heard the gold prices are way, way up. Diamond prices, same deal. Stephen Singer locked in his diamond studs at the same price as last year. Apparently, Stephen has lost his mind. So you can take advantage of the dementia that apparently has kicked in with Mr. Singer. How could he possibly be doing this? I don't know. He's the man. He's got those Anita diamond stud earrings starting at just 298 bucks. And of course, they go up and up and up in size. Say you got a pair last year, you want to get some bigger ones. You get the full value of the ones you got last year. Who does that? Also, Steven Singer, famous for free shipping and fast shipping. If you order some of these today, they'll be in the mail this afternoon. If you get your orders in before 2 o', clock, they go out the same day. It's I Hate stevensinger.com peruse the inventory. Lots of other cool stuff there, of course. And there's that special bracelet. Did yours on today, Chris?

[Christy Lee]

No, the at Last bracelet. I do not have it on.

[Tom Griswold]

That's a beauty.

[Josh Arnold]

I stole it.

[Tom Griswold]

And then coming up in the news, by the way, swallowing jewelry in the news, not advisable. And I don't want to be the cop that. Well, you'll, you'll find out once again on online. Go to I hate stephen singer.com get all the details and see what's happening. Coming up, we have a world record, of course. We also have flatulence. Flatulence. And in the news from the Johns Hopkins Medical School, we'll find out what they're all talking about. From the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios, this is the Bob and Tom Show.

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[Josh Arnold]

It's the Bob and Tom show live from the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios. Thank O'Reilly Auto Parts for all your car care needs. Get the parts and service you need fast from the professional parts people at O'Reilly Auto Parts. Christy Lee's at the Silac Insurance Company news desk.

[Christy Lee]

Hey.

[Josh Arnold]

Pat Godwin's at the keyboard and guitar.

[Pat Godwin]

Hello.

[Josh Arnold]

Jeff Osk is running the prize pick sports desk today.

[Jeff Davis]

Two on Wordle today.

[Christy Lee]

Whoa.

[Tom Griswold]

Haven't done it yet.

[Jeff Davis]

That's right.

[Tom Griswold]

Stand back.

[Christy Lee]

Look at you.

[Josh Arnold]

Ace Cosby running the show today. People don't realize he could shut us all down with one.

[Tom Griswold]

That was good.

[Christy Lee]

Very good, Ace.

[Tom Griswold]

You mean just by pressing that button?

[Christy Lee]

Okay.

[Josh Arnold]

I'm Josh arnold of the i8. Steven Singer, sidekick, chair. There's Tommy.

[Tom Griswold]

We'll get back to some more mail. Some sad news. One of the greats.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

In the world of soul, R B, rock and roll and everything else, Steve Cropper has died. The great guitarist and producer and songwriter.

[Christy Lee]

He was 84.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

He did some stuff with the Blues Brothers.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. He was along with Duck Dunn.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

The bass player. They. They were in the blues. I mean the Blues Brothers, but they were kind of recreating stuff that they had. He. Steve Crapper, wrote or co wrote. Sitting in the dock of the bay, man. In the midnight hour.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

And I. I queued up. This one. This. You'll recognize this one, I hope.

Oh, sure.

[Christy Lee]

And with that band, Booker t. And the MGs, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame in 1992. Eyes good.

[Tom Griswold]

It's hard to pin down why this is so great.

[Christy Lee]

It is.

[Tom Griswold]

It's so simple and it's so cool.

[Josh Arnold]

It's one of the coolest songs ever made.

[Pat Godwin]

Absolutely.

[Tom Griswold]

It shows up in movies and stuff. By the way, I. Are the MGs in the name Booker T. And the MGs, are they referenced? Referencing the car. The car.

[Christy Lee]

I don't know.

[Josh Arnold]

They're not. I asked Duke's organist.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

The great. The late, great keyboard player for Duke, Tomato. And he told me, and I cannot remember what the FG stands for.

[Christy Lee]

Let's look it up.

[Josh Arnold]

Because I asked Duke and he goes, oh, you gotta ask. What was that gentleman's name? James. Thank you. Because you gotta ask James. He knows everything. And I did. And James immediately knew it.

[Tom Griswold]

Is it some. Is it some like code word or something? Because it'd be these days.

For Memphis.

[Christy Lee]

Group, according to this.

[Tom Griswold]

Oh, okay. That makes sense.

[Christy Lee]

Yes.

[Tom Griswold]

They were like the house band, Right.

[Christy Lee]

For Stacks. At the Stacks recording studio.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. They they're in the movie the Blues Brothers.

Crawford head is kind of his hair pulled back. He great player, obviously, for sure. Produced some music for John Mellencamp, among many other. Many other people. The famous Stacks sound.

[Josh Arnold]

Not a household name, but. But everything he did was pretty much.

[Tom Griswold]

He was. I read many, many interviews. And he would always say, look, I'm a band guy. He didn't want to be. Yeah, yeah. The guy out front.

[Jeff Davis]

Well, that's.

[Josh Arnold]

That's.

[Tom Griswold]

Remember the. In the Blues Brothers when Belushi goes, play it, Steve. And that famous, very economic, so economical solo that he plays. It's great stuff. We are going to get back to our. Our mailbag, if you will. You can reach us, Bob and [e-mail]. let's see. We covered laughing gas.

[Josh Arnold]

You ever call your scrotum your mailbag?

[Tom Griswold]

I don't.

[Josh Arnold]

M A L E. Of course.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Okay. I appreciate that. And I actually, believe it or not. Oh, God, you're like a psychic. Today, coming up in the news, we have a serious news story involving scrotes. Involving the scrotum.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, the old nutcase. Yeah, Satchel.

[Tom Griswold]

The scrotum and.

Spy work. Wow. Yeah, like real legit, not fake James Bond stuff.

[Josh Arnold]

Right.

[Tom Griswold]

We actually have scrotums in the news. You refer to it as the male scrotum. Is there a female scrotum?

[Josh Arnold]

No, no, I referred to it as the male bag.

[Tom Griswold]

Oh, I see.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Christy Lee]

Females don't have a scrotum. What, do you look down there lately?

[Tom Griswold]

I'm surprised you don't demand one, much like the orgasm demand.

If you have one, we get one, too. Okay. All right, calm down. Let's see now. Oh, this is really inside.

[Christy Lee]

Okay.

[Tom Griswold]

Sometimes these male. These. These get really obscure.

This is from Clint. He writes from the Journal of Now.

[Josh Arnold]

Women have that.

[Tom Griswold]

Thank you. Very helpful.

[Christy Lee]

And it's not as hard to find as you think.

[Josh Arnold]

You're exactly right.

[Tom Griswold]

You'll notice this is a very short one.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay.

[Tom Griswold]

You'll notice that. Okay. From the Journal of Josh's Loath of listener email.

This is from Clint. As I mentioned, he writes. This is the whole. The entire letter is as follows. Today I enjoyed a nice little piece of chocolate cake on my dusty little plate.

[Josh Arnold]

Raymond Carver esque in its efficiency.

[Tom Griswold]

That's referencing a moment on the show, I don't think. Really can't recreate it, but referencing a moment on the program.

[Christy Lee]

It's. It's been on social media.

[Jeff Davis]

Yeah. It's actually blowing up on our.

[Pat Godwin]

Josh had a salad plate at his house. And then you said it was probably dusty.

[Tom Griswold]

I didn't ask. I just. I was just saying before Thanksgiving, if you use. If you use.

We have. We have these regular. Whatever you call it every day.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, yeah. I asked what you call that and Tom said dusty.

[Jeff Davis]

Yeah. What do you call those? Small place.

[Tom Griswold]

At your house.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

We can't recreate the moment.

[Pat Godwin]

Yeah, you did.

[Tom Griswold]

But.

Yeah, we have. What do you.

[Christy Lee]

Just dinner plates and salad plates.

[Tom Griswold]

But we have these giant plates that we use once a year.

[Christy Lee]

Or the Changers.

[Tom Griswold]

But every year. I always. They won't. They.

[Christy Lee]

You can't even use plate on the plate. You put it on top, but you can't use.

[Tom Griswold]

You. They're. They've been sitting for a year. So you got to put them in the dishwasher. And to put them in the dishwasher, you've got to raise the top thing because they're so huge. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. They won't fit in a normal. Anyway.

[Christy Lee]

Yes.

[Tom Griswold]

So that's how we got the dusty. The dusty dishes. I want to do a real quick update. This involves the song we were talking about the other day. Baby, It's Cold Outside.

[Josh Arnold]

Ah, a good one.

[Tom Griswold]

You may recall there was favorites. There was a controversy in 2018.

[Christy Lee]

Yep.

[Tom Griswold]

Which you might call the height of the MeToo movement. A station, I want to say, in Cleveland, Ohio. I think it was Cleveland. They.

It was. They pulled the song. Baby, It's Cold Outside. It was. The station was called Star. Yeah. Star 102 in Cleveland. They removed the song from their playlist. They thought it was inappropriate.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, great job there. People really saved the world.

[Tom Griswold]

It had been labeled. It had been labeled the date rape anthem.

[Jeff Davis]

Right.

[Tom Griswold]

With lyrics such as, say what's in this drink, etc. Etc.

[Pat Godwin]

Yeah.

[Christy Lee]

Booze. Talking about alcohol.

[Josh Arnold]

Exactly. That was just. It was booze.

[Tom Griswold]

And we found out the other day that the song had been written kind of as a joke between this man and Frank Lesser.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah. And his wife. And they would do it at parties.

[Edwin McCain]

Yeah.

[Pat Godwin]

It's a cheeky little tune.

[Christy Lee]

And then John Legend and Kelly Clarkson felt like they had to redo it.

[Tom Griswold]

It's a great song. In any event, I wanted to see if it was still banned. So I did a bunch of research yesterday, and there are still a handful of stations that aren't playing it, but a station in San Francisco had their audience vote and they voted to put it back on. So the song is back on in San Francisco and I'm sure many other places, so feel free. But now, Pat you, you have your friend Frank Sinatra here with us.

[Pat Godwin]

Yeah, we all love the Dean Martin version, but I think Frank Sinatra says it best. His version is just incredible. Let's, let's do that for them. Christy, start us off, darling.

[Christy Lee]

I really can't stay.

[Pat Godwin]

You're staying.

[Tom Griswold]

Thank you, Frank. We don't even need the, we don't need the accompanying us. We'll will pay you on your way out the door. Coming up, speaking of music, great musicians going to be joining us. Mr. Edwin McCain will be stopping by along with Joey Chestnut will be our guest today, comedian Al Jackson and our shoeing of the week winner, Dan Frederick. I'll remind you real quick, go to bob and tom.com contest. Get your NFL picks in. You could win that, that special $500e gift card from Steven Singer jewelers. We're coming right Back to the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios. This is the Bob and Tom show.

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[Josh Arnold]

Hey, you found us the Bob and Tom show live from the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios. There's Christy Lee at the side like insurance company news desk.

[Christy Lee]

Hello.

[Josh Arnold]

Godwin's there. Hey, Josh. Jeff. Oscar at the prize pick sports desk for the next couple days. Hey, man, there's Ace Cosby.

[Tom Griswold]

Hey, dope. I am.

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[Tom Griswold]

Not sure what just happened, but we'll move on. Speaking of Steven Singer, make sure to get yourself online. Go to bobandtom.com contest. Pick your NFL winners, please. A week 14 begins this evening and we'd love for you to win that $500e gift card from Steven Singer Jewelers. Our winner from week 13, Dan Frederick, will be our guest coming up in about an about half an hour. And he's going to pick his picks against Christy Lee this week or.

[Christy Lee]

Oh, I get to pick again.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, we've got chicks picks posted. We can always grab those if we want. I don't know why we were talking about this yesterday, but we were talking about those saws they use to take off casts.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah, you were talking about that.

[Tom Griswold]

And I was always wondering how they didn't like slice your arm off.

[Christy Lee]

Right.

[Tom Griswold]

Got a letter about it. I've been listening for years, writes Angie from Rio Grande, Ohio. Oh, so it's apparently north of the river.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. Yes.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah, that's kind of unexpected.

[Tom Griswold]

She goes, we've worked for years in the orthopedic division. I've cut off thousands of casts. The saw blade is barely sharp enough to cut through the cast itself, let alone go through your leg or your arm. We actually stick it on our own arm to show people that it won't cut them. The blade moves back and forth in a sewing motion, but the actual blade isn't so sharp, so. Well, thank you.

[Josh Arnold]

I just think it's more about the vibration in that case.

[Tom Griswold]

And, and I believe they have circular saws now that have. They have some of them that you can stick your finger in. It'll blatal stop.

[Christy Lee]

Well, let's not try.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's.

I'll trust the booklet.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

[Jeff Davis]

Take your word on that.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. I keep my fingers as far away from. From the blade as I can. Now, if you'd like to write us a letter, it's bob and tomobandtom.com have we closed up our segment or do you.

[Christy Lee]

I have one from Carrie in Iowa. She listened to we're all gonna laugh at you. She listened to an older recording of the show and came across. I don't know if you remember this, but Chick was talking about using a potato to get rid of a wart. Do you remember him talking about that? She said, well, my grandmother swore by this old wives tale. I had a wart on my knee. She made me rub half a cup potato, spin around, throw the potato. A few weeks later it fell off.

[Josh Arnold]

Weird.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

[Jeff Davis]

How about.

[Tom Griswold]

I'm sure it's the spinning around that does it. Qualified scientists will tell you.

[Christy Lee]

She said it never came back. All right. You know, some of these Old wives tales.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay.

[Josh Arnold]

Old wives. Not dumb.

[Christy Lee]

No.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, they know a lot. A lot of knowledge.

[Tom Griswold]

A lot of dumb ones there too, though.

[Josh Arnold]

Well, you're skeptical of all this stuff, of course.

[Christy Lee]

Yes.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay, very good. I'll be more mindful of the.

[Josh Arnold]

Yes, please do.

[Tom Griswold]

That was the term yesterday. Also, we have some Christmas requests, but now we'll check into the sports page with Jeffrey Oscar over there sitting in for Chick McGee. What's going on?

[Jeff Davis]

Oh, you're going to love this. Los Angeles Sparks guard Sarah Ashley Barker took on an Internet troll on the court in defense of the WNBA.

[Josh Arnold]

All right.

[Christy Lee]

Okay.

[Jeff Davis]

According to AL.com, the former Alabama star was half of a one on one game against a social media booster, an Internet troll identified as Anthony.

[Josh Arnold]

Any idea what a social media booster is? I.

[Jeff Davis]

It's influencer. I would.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, it's the same.

[Josh Arnold]

All right.

[Tom Griswold]

Some jackass that has no business being. Having anyone read their material.

[Jeff Davis]

Well, this jackass said, I really don't think there's a single WNBA player who can beat me in basketball. Well, she went on to beat him 11 to 2 in the matchup that was shared online. After trouncing the troll, Ms. Barker said, need you to tell the camera that you're sorry to the WNBA and you're sorry to all the women.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

[Jeff Davis]

He concede saying, I've got nothing but respect for the wnba. They know what they're doing. They're the best at what they do. They deserve all the respect.

[Christy Lee]

Well, well, well.

[Tom Griswold]

The beauty of this is all of this guy's friends will never let him live this down. Nope. Gets trounced. Yeah, of course he did. Because they're incredibly skilled.

[Christy Lee]

Yes.

[Josh Arnold]

I. I think this guy knew that.

[Tom Griswold]

Oh, you think he wanted the attention?

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

He wanted to be humiliated and embarrassed.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh, maybe. Maybe there are men who like that.

[Jeff Davis]

Or a lot of money.

[Josh Arnold]

A great way to be.

[Jeff Davis]

Great way to meet her if you wanted to.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, it's the one.

[Christy Lee]

And everybody's talking about him. Boosts his numbers on his social media.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

And she was a.

Star in Alabama.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

And what I thought was funny was the name of the. The website is a al.com.

[Josh Arnold]

Right.

[Tom Griswold]

And it reminded me of the Gary Goleman piece ever. I love that comedian Gary Goldman. Where he talks, he taught. There's a. You can find it online. He talks about how they. Whatever it was 40 years ago, they had to give all. All of the states had to have two letter identifiers.

[Jeff Davis]

Yes.

[Tom Griswold]

For the post office.

[Christy Lee]

Sure.

[Tom Griswold]

And he's got it. I can't recreate it. It's brilliant. If you get a chance, google Gary Goleman, former tight end at. Where was he? Boston College. Great guy. It's a long show.

[Josh Arnold]

No, no, no, no, no, no. It is a long show. It's four hours show. We can, we can still do good the whole time.

[Tom Griswold]

I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan of Mr. Goldman. I want people to.

[Josh Arnold]

What you want people to do is Google Gary Goleman states.

Factoid. You know about him.

[Tom Griswold]

I know many factors. I know that he's taller than you.

[Christy Lee]

Oh, my goodness.

[Tom Griswold]

Has more hair on here.

[Pat Godwin]

More.

[Tom Griswold]

Sure. We have more Sporting news. What do you got over there?

[Jeff Davis]

Well, we have a Guinness World Record. A dog named Ozzy is officially in the record books for having the world's longest tongue on a dog, according to the Guinness World Record. The French and bull Mastiff mix from Oklahoma has a tongue that measures 7.83 inches long, beating the previous record of 5 inches. We have a shattered.

[Tom Griswold]

We have the picture of this doggie. By the way, I took out a word in this story. I don't know why they always do this. It said, the world's record for the longest tongue on a dog, parentheses, living. They always do that.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah, but. Because you're not going to measure a dog's tongue if it's dead, are you?

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, I guess they mean there. There may have been a dog in 19, you know, whatever 40 that was. Oh, right. Yeah. Oh, I just. It's just so depressing.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

And as we, you know, all dogs, when they do die, they go to heaven.

[Christy Lee]

Of course they do.

[Tom Griswold]

Guaranteed.

[Christy Lee]

Of course.

[Jeff Davis]

Ozzy's owner, Angela Picks, said the family was delightfully surprised to find out their dog was a record holder. They'd brought him in for a routine nail trim, and his veterinarians took the opportunity to measure his giant tongue from the end of a snout to the tip.

[Tom Griswold]

Give a better picture than that. That one is. They're showing the dog from 3,000ft away. Dog.

[Jeff Davis]

He's always had a tongue that sticks out of his mouth, she said, ever since he was born. But there's nothing medically wrong with him. We had him looked at a couple times by a vet. There's no dental issues or anything. It's just abnormally, awkwardly long.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah, I can't keep it all in his mouth.

[Tom Griswold]

It's always hanging out of his mouth.

[Christy Lee]

Mouth. Oh, God.

[Jeff Davis]

I loved in the cartoons when they would roll up like a fruit roll up and then the tongue would, like roll out of the Mouth.

[Christy Lee]

Oh, yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Have a holy jowly Christmas. I'm just singing until we get the other picture here, but cute little guy. Not that little, actually.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah, Long old tongue.

[Tom Griswold]

But his name is Ozzy.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

I'm surprised they didn't go with Gene.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Oh, right, yeah. Gene Simmons. Oh, yeah. His. His brother. His dog brother would be Pa. Stanley.

Get it? Ace. Paw. Stanley. I heard you.

Wow. Great audience talking to a can of paint over there. References? Favorite band. I get nothing. Coming up, Edwin McCain is going to be joining as the great singer and songwriter. There you go. Look at. There's a picture of that. Look at that tongue. It drops down below his neck.

[Pat Godwin]

Well, that looks.

[Edwin McCain]

Whoa.

[Christy Lee]

That looks disgusting.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, Josh, if you had a tongue picture. Get a tongue like that, you could.

Lap up the gravy.

[Jeff Davis]

Oh, it also says here he has the world record for the happiest balls on a dog.

[Tom Griswold]

One lick and he gets to the center of the. Of the Tootsie Pop. Man, what a sweet guy. What do you got? Coming up from the news desk?

[Christy Lee]

Coming up, we have a cat proof Christmas tree. We have a Faberge pendant in the news. Yesterday, we talked about the Faberge egg. Now we have a pendant in a very weird place. And smelling your own farts might be good for you. We'll talk about that.

[Tom Griswold]

Boy, that is a.

[Christy Lee]

That's a weird story.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah, yeah. Does it have to be your own?

[Christy Lee]

I would think, yes.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay. Just wondering. This is. It's in the medical realm. It would be very odd, be very odd if your doctor said, well, go smell your wife's ass and call me in the morning.

[Josh Arnold]

Right now.

[Tom Griswold]

Sorry. You'll see what. It's a medical thing. This portion of the Bob and Tom show brought to you by Simply Safe was a decade or so ago. That chick Magee walked in one morning and said, I spent about 45 minutes over the weekend installing a security system. Did it myself. Simplisafe, the home security system. And they've been really making a lot of advances of late. You can install yourself, you can have them help you out. But Simplisafe is different. It's proactive. They have a double layer of defense that'll stop crimes before they start. If you get this one system, it's got AI powered cameras that can spot potential threats outside. Live agents can talk to the lurker out there and let them know that they're on video and that the police have been dispatched. Get all the details by visiting Simplisafe. Tom. And by the way, this month only take 50% off any new SimpliSafe system. This is one of the best prices you'll ever see for SimpliSafe. So check it out right now by going to simplisafetom.com lock in your discount. 50% off. Like they say, there is no safe like SimpliSafe. No long term contracts, no hidden fees. You can cancel anytime. And they were named the best home security system by U.S. news & World Report. And you can tailor the system to fit your particular needs. And don't forget those carbon monoxide detectors, smoke detectors, cameras, et cetera, et cetera. There's no safe like Simplisafe. Visit [e-mail] Coming up, we also have would you rather go to a concert or have intimate relations with your sweetie? Well, we're going to find out what the result of a survey was on that topic. From the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios, this is the Bob and Tom.

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Here.

Hey, it's the Bob and Tom show live from the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios. Christy Lee is at the Silac Insurance Company news desk. Hello, Pat Godwin. Everyone's.

[Pat Godwin]

There. Hey.

[Josh Arnold]

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[Tom Griswold]

Ours. And now we have to behave. We have a guest in the.

[Josh Arnold]

Studio. Yeah, well, I don't know about that.

[Tom Griswold]

Edwin. Are you a meat.

[Edwin McCain]

Eater?

[Tom Griswold]

Yes. Okay, good, because I'm gonna send you a case of Omaha.

[Edwin McCain]

Steaks. Right.

[Tom Griswold]

On. Yeah, but I was expl I every Christmas this is one of my favorite gifts because like my brothers, for example, live in different places than I do by choice and but I'll send them mistakes. But you gotta the trick is you got to make sure they're.

[Edwin McCain]

Home.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay. You know, so. Hey, John, are you going to be in Florida? Are you going to be in Michigan? You don't want to send them because the stakes, they last a while, but they're not going to last forever on the.

[Al Jackson]

Porch.

[Edwin McCain]

Yeah. Some drunken raccoon is going to.

[Tom Griswold]

Show up, run off with them.

[Edwin McCain]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. So I'll find out what your schedule is. And are you doing some road work or are you just hanging.

[Edwin McCain]

Out? So I went up to Chicago a couple of nights ago to do a benefit for the Concussion.

[Tom Griswold]

Foundation.

[Edwin McCain]

Oh. And we did it at Billy Corgan's place in Holland Park. And I, I, I exercised my superpower of embarrassing myself in front of extremely famous people. It's like my, My superpower is. I can say the exact wrong thing in front of famous people. And I. Billy Corrigan has now joined the.

[Jeff Davis]

List. Oh.

[Edwin McCain]

Yeah. Of someone I've completely said something stupid in front.

[Tom Griswold]

Of.

[Pat Godwin]

So.

[Edwin McCain]

Wow. Sorry.

[Pat Godwin]

Billy.

Can you repeat.

[Edwin McCain]

It? Yeah, well, no, he was just being nice. He didn't know who I was. He came there after I had played or whatever, and so he was totally being nice. I was leaving as I was saying thank you, and he. He literally was like, yeah, I heard. I heard a lot of good things about your guitar playing, which tells me he doesn't know anything about me because no one's ever said anything nice about my guitar.

[Jeff Davis]

Playing.

[Edwin McCain]

And. And all I had to say was, thanks, man, and just leave. Not this guy. I was like, well, I'm actually known as more of a singer.

And then there was this pregnant pause where he's just staring at me and I'm just staring at him. And I was like, okay, I'll see you later. Oh, God. I now add that to the list of the things that. While I'm brushing my teeth in the morning, staring in the mirror, and.

[Tom Griswold]

I have to go, oh, God, you said that. It's amazing. Those moments cringe. Moments I'll remember them for, from 40 years.

[Christy Lee]

Ago. Yeah, we all have.

[Edwin McCain]

Them. But now, you know, I'm just like, who's.

[Joey Chestnut]

Next?

[Edwin McCain]

Who's. Who's gonna be next? Somebody here in this room today. I feel probably.

[Tom Griswold]

Good. Yeah. Look forward. Edwin McCain is a distinguished singer songwriter. If you're not familiar with his work, Number one song a few years back, which is, I think, more than Billy Corrigan can.

[Edwin McCain]

Say. No, it was probably. I think it was three. It was.

[Tom Griswold]

Four. Three or.

[Edwin McCain]

Four. You know, who would know is my middle son because he doesn't let me get by with any.

[Tom Griswold]

Fibbing. Oh.

[Edwin McCain]

Really? No, no, no, no, no, no. He, he actually ran into my room. He's like, hey, you know how your song was like the longest in the longest running in the Hot 100. Just got.

[Tom Griswold]

Beat. Hey.

[Edwin McCain]

Thanks. Like, yeah, they had like a tab open or something on his computer. I was like, thanks.

[Tom Griswold]

Buddy. Like a Google search. When you drop from 1 to 2, that's I'll be very famous song. Did Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins have a number.

[Edwin McCain]

One? I'm sure I would have to say, without fear of contradiction that he was probably as culturally significant as an artist in the 90s as anyone. And so he just came off of like a three night run at one of the opera houses in Chicago where they did 100 pieces, 100 piece orchestra and opera. And they, they all of his music. And it was sold out for three.

[Tom Griswold]

Nights. I just read.

[Josh Arnold]

That. Yeah, if they don't have a number one, they at least have 15. Two threes and.

[Tom Griswold]

Fours. I just read that. The Smashing Pumpkins band name. I always thought it was. Hey, that's, you know, funny. From Halloween smash. Apparently he says, no, it's. He was over in England and someone said, oh, that's a Smashing Pumpkin. Yeah, she takes all the fun out of.

[Josh Arnold]

It. Corgan will occasionally take all the fun out of things. I've seen plenty of.

[Tom Griswold]

Interviews. Okay.

[Edwin McCain]

Really? I saw, I saw. He's actually kind of experiencing a bit of a reckoning because he said that part of that him sort of being prickly was their inside joke and him kind of pulling an Andy Kaufman on people. But now he's got this reputation for being. And he's not really like these. He's a lovely, lovely guy. Oh, good, good. But he, but he's had to kind of backtrack that a little bit. And I totally get that because we used to do stupid stuff like that in our 20s. Like everybody in the band would give me a word that I had to work into an interview and there would be. It would be ridiculous. Like I'd be in the. But it couldn't be non sequitur. It had to go with the flow. And it was. And if I didn't get their word in, I owed him 20 bucks. And so, yeah, there were a lot of times where I'm sure people.

[Pat Godwin]

Were like, what is up with this.

[Edwin McCain]

Guy? How is he comparing his music to a washing.

[Tom Griswold]

Machine? And what is.

[Pat Godwin]

Dildograph? Yeah, why did he mention.

[Tom Griswold]

Yogurt? What does dildography have to do with songwriting? The man I was tearing up during his tune have we covered, have we covered the sports.

[Jeff Davis]

Pages? Oh, yeah, we're all.

[Tom Griswold]

Done. Okay, good, good. Let's move over to the news desk, the Silac Insurance news desk with Christy Lee, see what's going on. Then we'll get a song if we can out of Mr. McCain. What have you.

[Christy Lee]

Got? It's the holidays and we're all gearing up for Christmas. We have a couple of Christmas stories for you today. If you have a tack attack, if you have a cat that's attacking your Christmas tree, there is a British company out there selling the so called cat proof Christmas tree. Argos half tree only features the top half of an artificial Christmas tree, which the company said is perfect for keeping baubles, bows and bells out of reach of curious crawling kids or your cat's playful paws. Now, we all know cats can jump into a tree, so I don't know how this is going to prevent a.

[Tom Griswold]

Cat. It's just the upper half of the tree and then there's essentially a.

[Christy Lee]

Pole. Yeah, they added that. The six foot tall tree also provides plenty of room to stack presents underneath. That'll look.

[Tom Griswold]

Ridiculous. Yeah. Okay, so you could make one of.

[Christy Lee]

These. Yeah, just don't put, put your.

[Tom Griswold]

Tree. Put the tree up. Then just take some, cut a cutting tool and cut off the bottom half of the.

[Christy Lee]

Tree.

[Tom Griswold]

Right. It's going to look ridiculous. Do we have a photograph of this.

[Josh Arnold]

Thing? If your cat wants to get at the ornaments, it.

[Christy Lee]

Will. That's right. It'll jump right up.

[Josh Arnold]

There. I mean, you're almost better off having them at the bottom. So you just bat them off and that's.

[Christy Lee]

It. And they don't knock your.

[Tom Griswold]

Whole. There's.

[Christy Lee]

One. Oh, look at.

[Tom Griswold]

That.

They got, they got stacks and stacks of presents. Now the cattle just climb up.

[Josh Arnold]

There and it doesn't look terrible. You guys think it looks.

[Pat Godwin]

Terrible? I do.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah. Terrible.

[Josh Arnold]

Silly. It kind of works. It's almost like a Christmas tree. Palm.

[Christy Lee]

Tree.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Oh, I see. That's a good point. Or a stripper pole Christmas tree.

[Josh Arnold]

Dude. I mean, they could do.

[Edwin McCain]

This.

Every time I see something like this, I think there was like a, you know, there was a meeting. There was a meeting. There was a people around a table and somebody went, you know, I have an idea. And they all went.

[Christy Lee]

Yes. What's up? Set you back. Do we know the price point on that.

[Tom Griswold]

Thing? It was not.

[Josh Arnold]

Expensive. Okay. Better be a third of a Christmas.

[Christy Lee]

Tree.

A Christmas tree farm in New Jersey is making news. They're under fire for spray painting fir trees. Wyckoff's Christmas tree calls itself New Jersey's original colored tree farm. They offer trees in nine different shades. Pink, purple, dark blue, light blue, blue, turquoise, magenta, red, and.

[Tom Griswold]

Black. And these are real trees, by the.

[Christy Lee]

Way. They're.

[Tom Griswold]

Not. They're not fake.

[Christy Lee]

Trees. While it may be the 12 time winner of the New Jersey Christmas Tree Growers Association's Grand Champion Award, not everyone is a fan of this rainbow grove. According to the New York Post, one social media user complained that the farm is spraying poison.

[Josh Arnold]

Everywhere. Oh, yeah, yeah. Don't poison the trees. We're going to cut.

[Tom Griswold]

Down. They're okay. There's a photograph. They're. They're very odd.

[Edwin McCain]

Looking. Come over here, Sizzleneck. I got blue, magenta.

[Tom Griswold]

Purple. I called this one Spruce Sprin Springsteen. He's from Jersey, you.

[Josh Arnold]

Know. God, I think I look.

[Christy Lee]

Cool. I do look kind of cool. I have to.

I mean, if you do.

[Tom Griswold]

The. I'm from Hoboken, I gave my three a spray.

[Christy Lee]

Tan. If you do the themed Christmas tree deal, it's.

[Edwin McCain]

Perfect. Have you ever thought that your Christmas tree wasn't quite flammable.

[Tom Griswold]

Enough?

What is that? Flocking Is.

[Christy Lee]

The. Yeah, Flocking is when you just spray that white stuff on it so it looks like.

[Tom Griswold]

Snow. So what's the trick to that? Do you have to. You have to do that before you put the ornaments on.

[Josh Arnold]

It? I think so.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah.

[Pat Godwin]

Otherwise.

Yeah, I know that's gone.

[Josh Arnold]

So.

[Edwin McCain]

Yeah. You ever notice.

[Tom Griswold]

That?

You know why tinsel is gone? Do you have a.

[Edwin McCain]

Dog? It did.

[Tom Griswold]

Suck. If you have a dog and your dog eats tinsel. I have been.

[Josh Arnold]

There.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. If your dog will eat the tinsel and then about a day later, you're doing this surgical procedure where.

[Christy Lee]

You'Re.

My mother. Did your mother or your father spend hours putting those little icicles on the tree? Every.

[Jeff Davis]

Year. Furious. If you didn't do them one at a.

[Edwin McCain]

Time. And the little bubble.

[Christy Lee]

Lights. Oh.

[Edwin McCain]

Yeah.

They got to be the temperature of the.

[Tom Griswold]

Sun.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah. I have one of those nightlights. The bubble light. Nightlight. I love it. I love.

[Tom Griswold]

It. If your dog eats the. Well, same thing is true. You want sidewalk.

[Christy Lee]

Chalk?

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Your dog eats the sidewalk chalk and then a couple days later you've got these rainbow turds all over you. But, yeah, I recall this sort of dangling thing from a golden retriever. Dangling by a little bit of silver. Yeah. We no longer do.

[Christy Lee]

The. I don't know any. I haven't seen a tree with. I. I called them.

[Edwin McCain]

Icicles.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah. Because tinsel, to me, you could still.

[Pat Godwin]

Wrap. You know that I haven't seen one.

[Tom Griswold]

Since. Yeah, I think it's gone out of.

[Christy Lee]

Fashion. Yeah, I think.

[Tom Griswold]

So. Some. Some. The. The tinsel king of Hoboken. How about that.

[Josh Arnold]

Happened. I don't have any.

[Pat Godwin]

More. How about pop Popcorn string. Is that being.

[Josh Arnold]

Done? I've never actually seen.

[Christy Lee]

It. I have never seen.

[Josh Arnold]

It. I take that back. We did it in elementary school.

[Tom Griswold]

Once. Huge.

[Josh Arnold]

Mistake. It was like all day we.

[Edwin McCain]

Had to do it and everybody either they made us do it with cranberries and you end up like with holes all in your hand using these giant sewing.

[Josh Arnold]

Needles. The next year we ended up doing green and red construction paper strips we had to glue in the rim. We did those.

[Pat Godwin]

80S. So monotonous, labor.

[Edwin McCain]

Intensive. I love telling my children stories like this because they just, they, they look at me like, like, like we were suffering abuse, you know, like they had us. They had us locked in a cave making.

[Tom Griswold]

Popcorn.

Oh, I wanted to do the popcorn.

[Christy Lee]

Thing. You.

[Tom Griswold]

Did. That was. I mean, when I was a kid, we did it one.

[Christy Lee]

Time. Doesn't the popcorn fall.

[Tom Griswold]

Apart? Yeah, it was. It smelled awful and it was.

Yeah.

[Pat Godwin]

Yeah. So younger brother would eat one and get.

[Tom Griswold]

Sick. Now are you doing. I. We have a real tree in the living room. Then we've got a bunch of fake ones in other places. But do you have a real tree or a fake.

[Edwin McCain]

One? Not anymore. So we, we had real trees for a while and. And then one year my wife got this great idea that we should go out to our farm and cut a tree down and do it like super old.

[Jeff Davis]

School.

[Edwin McCain]

Yeah. And then the tree the kids picked was a cedar tree. And I don't know if you've ever been around a cedar tree. You might as well just go over to a briar bush and cut down a briar bush because you're going to be cut up and bloody because cedar trees are gnarly. And the kids called that tree the big prick.

And then after that we've had a fake tree ever.

[Tom Griswold]

Since. I did that once and it was freezing cold and you have to lie down under the tree and they give you a relatively dull saw. And what I didn't think of was all the stuff falling into my eyes from the tree. So. And. And it gets it like. So I was getting all gum up from the SAP and. Yeah, that was. That's a one time.

[Edwin McCain]

Only. It was a fun family thing to do.

[Tom Griswold]

Once. Yeah. But I still have real trees. I've been going to the same tree place for. I don't know, 30 plus years, whatever. But I like having the real.

[Christy Lee]

Tree.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. And then just before we go on our trip, the thing is crispy and ready to come down, down and.

[Christy Lee]

Somebody takes it down for you while you're on vacation. That's a nice thing to.

[Tom Griswold]

Have. I've taken it down on occasion.

I have.

[Christy Lee]

Help.

I think next year we're gonna do a real tree. My husband's real into that and now we have a space. We can put.

[Tom Griswold]

One. But it is a great family event. But I'm sure the, now that I think about it, my, my youngest, they were so. They don't even remember. They were so little. They were, they were sitting in the, in the snowmobile, freezing while I'm on the ground. This is a great idea. This is a tradition we're gonna do forever. But I, I like to support the tree farm. So if you're going to do that, I'm just saying wear, Take your goggles from. Take your swimming goggles and a.

Face mask.

Oh. I mean, what else. What other goggles do I.

[Josh Arnold]

Have? Safety.

[Pat Godwin]

Goggles? Safety.

[Tom Griswold]

Goggles. No, but they're yours. Them, it's got to fly in from the sides, the swimming goggles, at least to protect your eyes and put a.

[Josh Arnold]

Face. Where are your swimming.

[Tom Griswold]

Goggles? You do you, you do.

[Jeff Davis]

You.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. I mean you're not going to look ridiculous with a face mask on and swimming goggles lying down in the snow with a crappy saw that won't cut through as you're.

[Christy Lee]

Cursing. Why don't you bring your own.

[Tom Griswold]

Saw? Yeah, I didn't think to. I thought it was part of the deal. Here's there's 200 bucks. Now you're going to drag me out there in a tractor to freeze the deck death. But I highly recommend it. It was.

[Christy Lee]

Fun. Yeah, it sounds.

[Tom Griswold]

Great. Yeah. I don't wanna, I want to encourage people to support all the Christmas tree.

[Christy Lee]

Farmers. Of.

[Tom Griswold]

Course. It's a, it's a fun thing. As opposed to the, you know, factory in Japan where there's a river full of some kind of toxic waste so you can have a nice, nice holiday pre.

[Christy Lee]

Lit. Oh my gosh, I love my pre lit.

[Tom Griswold]

Tree. Okay. Well, I'm just saying I'm sure there's many, many kids out there that have an extra finger.

[Josh Arnold]

Because. Yeah, but they're in Japan. We don't have to look at them. Yeah, yeah. That just helps. The mitten.

[Tom Griswold]

Makers. Do you suppose they wonder like what the hell they're doing in these factories in.

[Josh Arnold]

China? I don't.

[Tom Griswold]

Know. Why are we doing.

[Josh Arnold]

This? I like to think there are TVs everywhere showing, like, us enjoying the products they're.

[Tom Griswold]

Making. How about the places where they make those adult toys? That's gotta.

[Josh Arnold]

Be. Hopefully they don't have.

[Tom Griswold]

Children. Hopefully.

[Edwin McCain]

Yeah. Well, there's probably a direct correlation to how much they wonder to how many of those big nets on the outside of the building there.

[Tom Griswold]

Are.

And while we're doing the size 10 scrotums today, I'm not coming in. I told Mondor I will not do the size tens this year. That's on him. Okay, well, we have a guest in the studio. He's very talented, but we're not letting him do anything. He's Edwin McCain. Are you touring at all this.

[Edwin McCain]

Winter? I don't think.

[Christy Lee]

So. But you have a Christmas.

[Edwin McCain]

Album? Yeah, that's, you know, this is. This has been the running joke. So this album, I did this in, like, 2009 or something, and it was universally rejected by every record label in the country. And so it sat on a hard drive in a. In a drawer for years. And then a few years ago where I was like, don't we have a Christmas album somewhere? And I dug it out and I kind of dig it. And it was like, there's some really great players on it. We kind of did this New Orleans kind of thing for Christmas record, but even my friends don't like it, and I like it. And so it's kind of become this thing. It's like my little misfit toy of a Christmas record. Like, most. Like 80% of the people that I know that like my music hate this record. And so it makes it even better for me. I just. And now it's a running joke because my daughter loves. It loves Michael Buble's Christmas.

[Christy Lee]

Album. Yeah, I gotta. I gotta side with her on that. That's a pretty good.

[Tom Griswold]

One. But is it traditional Christmas songs, or do you have any.

[Edwin McCain]

Originals? Yeah, it's all Christmas songs. Well, there's. There's one original that my guitar player Larry wrote. And then the rest of them are just standard Christmas songs. But it was, you know, Ivan Neville's on there, and Eddie Bears is playing drums. And it's a. It's a funky.

[Tom Griswold]

Christmas. Maybe you'd play one of.

[Edwin McCain]

Them. Well, I, I. Yeah.

[Al Jackson]

Maybe. I.

[Edwin McCain]

Don'T. Yeah, Jason put one up. Pot, pot. One up. Pot up. Frosty. Frosty's a good.

[Tom Griswold]

One. Is that the traditional.

[Edwin McCain]

Frosty? Yeah, but it's funky. Okay.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. Send us the mpeg.

[Edwin McCain]

Yeah. There you.

[Josh Arnold]

Go. We'll get a.

[Edwin McCain]

Place. Yeah, I can send you the 2 inch reel.

With all the grease pencil notes on.

[Tom Griswold]

It. Also coming up, the shoeing of the week. In fact, that's up next. We'll talk about our NFL winner and chicks.

[Christy Lee]

Picks. So.

[Tom Griswold]

I'll. Oh, you.

[Christy Lee]

Do? Okay, good news.

[Tom Griswold]

Those. And then we're going to talk with professional eater. The legendary Joey Chestnut will be in the studio with us. Plus, comedian al Jackson and Mr. Edwin McCain is hanging out with us right now. We are in the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios and this is the Bob and Tom.

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[Edwin McCain]

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[Tom Griswold]

Fast. And.

[Christy Lee]

Breathe. Oh.

[Announcer]

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[Christy Lee]

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[Josh Arnold]

1-800-Contacts.

Hey, it's the Bob and Tom show live from the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios. Christy Lee's looking great today at the. Where the heck are you? Oh, yeah, the sign like insurance.

[Tom Griswold]

Company. Should we explain to our guests that whenever you do this, you get lost in.

[Christy Lee]

Thought? No, he doesn't. He does a very nice.

[Josh Arnold]

Job. And you stop Edwin McCain. Sometimes I like to try to shake it up a little bit for the listener and forget where I.

[Jeff Davis]

Am.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. And oftentimes it comes out awkward and sloppy. But that's life. Yeah. Life is awkward and.

[Tom Griswold]

Sloppy. Interrupted by awkward and sloppy is my favorite thing.

You know, Christy, High school, back of the.

[Josh Arnold]

Car. I like to think that Pat or that Tom thinks it's kind of.

[Joey Chestnut]

Cute when I do.

[Edwin McCain]

This. Yeah, it's wabby.

[Josh Arnold]

Sabi. It is Wabisabi. There's Patty Godwe. Hi.

[Tom Griswold]

Josh. Now I hate.

[Josh Arnold]

This.

Jeff, okay. At the prize pick sports.

[Jeff Davis]

Desk. Yes.

[Josh Arnold]

Sir. We'll be talking a little football action here in a second with our guest on the phone. There's Ace Cosby. I mentioned Edward McCain. He's there with his guitar. Who has a more expensive guitar, Pat or.

[Pat Godwin]

Edwin? He's got Johnny Cashwood from his farm.

[Edwin McCain]

Right? Yeah. This.

[Josh Arnold]

One. This one's I want a price.

I'm Josh Arnold at the I hate Steven Singer sidekick chair. And there's Tom.

[Tom Griswold]

AI. Edwin McCain likes coming on our show because he's a great singer songwriter. We never let him do anything, but we just talked to him. He's been on the road doing all kinds of cool stuff just at a big charity event. And we're gonna once again not let him play his fine guitar. Last time I saw Edwin playing, he was on stage at a beautiful outdoor arena and sang his great stuff. It was terrific. And at one point he goes, okay, for those who don't know who I am, this next one you'll probably remember. And you went.

[Edwin McCain]

Into. I think I introduced that as the only reason I'm not your favorite pizza delivery.

[Tom Griswold]

Guy. That's such a great song. Joining us on the phone, we have Mr. Dan Frederick, the winner of week 13 of our Pigskin Pig. Stan. How are you, sir? Doing all right. Well, good. Now, Mr. Chick Magee is not here today, so you have the.

You scared him. Dan got, let's see, 14 of 16 correct last week and you tied a five way tie. But you had all the tiebreakers. So you get to pick against Christy Lee Christie, what have.

[Christy Lee]

You. Actually, I'm going to use chicks picks, so they're actually chicks picks. But I'm going to let Dan select the games. Dan select. Do you have games.

[Tom Griswold]

Ready?

Not really. I picked them all.

[Christy Lee]

So. Okay, you pick them all. All right. I know you're. I think you're a Browns fan, is that.

[Tom Griswold]

Correct? Yes. Born and raised in.

[Christy Lee]

Cleveland. Okay. The Browns take on the Titans this week. Do you. They are minus three against the Titans. Which do you.

[Tom Griswold]

Pick?

Definitely the.

[Christy Lee]

Browns. Okay. Chick picked the Browns as.

[Tom Griswold]

Well. I think they're.

[Christy Lee]

Due. You.

[Tom Griswold]

Think? And their. Their new quarterback is going to shine. It's going to be.

[Christy Lee]

Great. What about the Bears and Green Bay? They're at Green.

[Tom Griswold]

Bay.

Definitely the.

[Christy Lee]

Packers. All right, Chicago, are you going.

[Tom Griswold]

To weigh in on this? Dan, you need to know that Christie's husband is a huge Green Bay fan. He even drives up to the game.

[Christy Lee]

Sometimes. He.

[Edwin McCain]

Does. Does he have the cheese.

[Christy Lee]

Hat? Oh, he does. Yes. He's got the cheese.

[Tom Griswold]

Hat. Do they do cheese for all? Do they have like cheese shirts and underwear? And can you.

[Josh Arnold]

Get. Yes. Is it only the.

[Pat Godwin]

Hat? Does he have cheesy.

[Tom Griswold]

Underwear?

Oh, cheese slippers would be.

[Christy Lee]

Awesome. Yeah, like the wedgie slippers. But they're still.

[Josh Arnold]

Talking. It would be.

[Pat Godwin]

Wedges.

What they call that cheesehead not getting laid tonight.

[Christy Lee]

Hat. So you took packers plus.

[Tom Griswold]

Seven. Oh, you know, there's a guy out there that has insisted on having the cheese head on during the most intimate of.

[Josh Arnold]

Moments. Oh, yeah. It's bad luck if I take it.

[Tom Griswold]

Off. Honey, remember, they won last time I wore.

[Christy Lee]

This. Man, I'm glad he's in a meeting right.

[Tom Griswold]

Now. It's.

[Christy Lee]

Halftime.

Chick actually took the Bears on this one. He took the Bears minus.

[Tom Griswold]

Seven. Bears are.

[Christy Lee]

Good. Yeah, the Bears are really good right.

[Tom Griswold]

Now. Your thoughts, Dan? Nah. Packers still. It's.

[Christy Lee]

At. It's at Green.

[Tom Griswold]

Bay. Green Bay. And they always perform in Green.

[Christy Lee]

Bay. There you.

[Josh Arnold]

Go.

[Christy Lee]

Okay. Jacksonville and the Colts play this weekend. The Jaguars are getting to. So who do you like in that.

[Tom Griswold]

Game?

I hate to go against the Colts, but the Jaguars.

[Christy Lee]

Okay. He's taking the Jags plus two. So did.

[Tom Griswold]

Chick. I'm taking the referees after last week. Yeah, the referees. That was some of the worst officiating. I was there in person. Embarrassing for the.

[Christy Lee]

NFL.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Now you're from Cleveland. Dan, who's your favorite musical artist out of Cleveland, Ohio? Oh, God, so many.

I don't know. The Raspberries they'd be getting. Actually know somebody that plays with them today. What, are they still out there? Because, I mean, sadly still going all the way. Yeah. Oh, that's that. That first Raspberries album is.

[Josh Arnold]

Brilliant. Yeah, it's.

[Tom Griswold]

Great. It's a terrific album. There are a lot of great artists out of Cleveland. There really are. And that's why it's hard to.

[Joey Chestnut]

Pick.

I don't.

[Tom Griswold]

Know. I'll go with Eric Carmen. The late, great Eric Carmen. Eric Carmen.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah. All by myself.

[Tom Griswold]

Guy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But I mean. Yeah, like I said, the first Raspberries album is a genuine classic. He went to. He went to a brush high school. A little bit of Eric Carmen trivia for you. Named after, I believe it was Charles Brush. Famously invented the brush.

[Josh Arnold]

Toothpaste.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

Brush.

[Tom Griswold]

Man. Well, Dan, congratulations. Thanks so much. Oh, go. I'm sorry. Go.

[Christy Lee]

Ahead. Bengals plus six. They're taking on the Buffalo Bills at Buffalo. Who do you like in that.

[Tom Griswold]

Game?

[Christy Lee]

Buffalo. All right, Chick, pick. The Bengals plus.

[Jeff Davis]

Six. Oh.

[Christy Lee]

My. We have a game.

[Tom Griswold]

Here. Okay.

[Josh Arnold]

Good. All.

[Christy Lee]

Right. Well, thank you.

[Tom Griswold]

Dan. Okay. Dan, it's a great.

[Josh Arnold]

Pleasure. Dan has something to.

[Tom Griswold]

Say. Oh, I was just gonna ask Dan if he has any intentions with us. 500e gift card from Steven Singer Jewelers. Are you gonna buy something for yourself, or do you have a lady in your life that might want something? My wife and daughter have already been looking. Okay, here it is. Well, that's good. All right. Thanks, Dan. All right.

[Jeff Davis]

Bye.

[Tom Griswold]

Bye.

Now I believe. Do we have time for this.

[Joey Chestnut]

Song? For.

[Tom Griswold]

Most. Now, I understand this is a sing along. We have to.

[Edwin McCain]

Participate. Yeah, you're gonna participate. We got it all coached up at Dirt the.

[Pat Godwin]

Break. Okay, I'm ready to.

[Josh Arnold]

Go. All.

[Edwin McCain]

Right. I came home from tour and walked in to my house where everything was just as it was, except for there was an addition of a Chihuahua that I was not consulted on. And all the little traders were gathered around him. His name's Mandito. He speaks Spanish. So I was. For years, just every year, I was coming up with new ways that maybe Bandito could go somewhere else, you know, and, you know, like building great horned owl boxes out in the.

[Josh Arnold]

Backyard.

[Edwin McCain]

Yes. Potato cannon.

And then I, you know, I was thwarted at every. I. I took it. I was walking out of the house with him in the little kennel one night, and my wife was like, where are you going with him? I was like, we're going coyote hunting. Put him back. All.

[Joey Chestnut]

Right. Like, all.

[Edwin McCain]

Right. And then Christmas rolled around and I was like, I have. I have a perfect idea. So that's where this song came from. Here we go.

I know that I should be in a good mood I should have a Christmas attitude But I just stepped in a tiny pile of poo. Santa needs a Christmas Chihuahua no.

[Pat Godwin]

He doesn't yes, he does no, he.

[Edwin McCain]

Doesn'T yes, he does no, he does.

I'm sure Santa's tired of all the treats Milk and cookies on every street I bet he'd love a little bubble eyed treat Santa needs a Christmas Chihuahua no, he doesn't yes, he does no, he doesn't yes, he does no, he doesn't he loves me, he hates me and I never know when I give him bacon and belly scratches but he still won't be my friend.

He will love it up in the North Pole he shivers anyway so he might as well be cold.

Singing this song will never get old Santa needs Christmas Chihuahua no, he doesn't yes, he does no, he doesn't yes, he does no, he doesn't this is the last verse.

He'll leave lots of presents before he's gone Tiny little paw prints in the snowy lawn Santa le yamara un poquito rat on.

Sam needs a Christmas.

[Josh Arnold]

Chihuahua.

No, I.

[Tom Griswold]

Don'T.

Edwin McCain, ladies and gentlemen. That was great. I think this could be. That could be a.

[Josh Arnold]

Hit. Very.

[Jeff Davis]

Nice.

[Tom Griswold]

Yes. Let's hope so. Coming up, we've got. We'll get some more stuff out of Edwin, Find out what his plans are for the holiday season. Plus, Mr. Joey Chestnut, World champion eater. And a couple years ago on this show, we actually ate some chestnuts because we'd been hearing about them in the song for years and years and years and never actually eaten.

[Josh Arnold]

One. We hated.

[Christy Lee]

Them. Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. It's one of those things that's great to sing about, but when it comes to eating them, maybe we had the wrong recipe. I'm not sure. We'll solve these and other of the world's problems when we return to the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios. This is the Bob and Tom.

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[Josh Arnold]

Corner. Hey, it's the Bob and Tom show live from the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios. Christy Lee is enjoying a beverage over at the Silac Insurance Company news.

[Christy Lee]

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[Josh Arnold]

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[Pat Godwin]

There. Hello.

[Josh Arnold]

Josh. Jeff Oskay across the way at the prize pick sports desk. That's right, there's Ace.

[Jeff Davis]

Cosby. Hey.

[Josh Arnold]

Josh. I'm Josh Arnold of the I Hate Steven Singer Sidekick chair. Tom, we're having a great day already because we're joined by one of our favorite people and we have another one of our favorite people coming. Coming in.

[Christy Lee]

Soon.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Well, I want to be overwhelmed by favorite.

[Josh Arnold]

People. Are.

[Tom Griswold]

We? We're blessed. It'll be.

[Josh Arnold]

Good.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. That would include the singer and songwriter and.

A comedian. Really in my mind, Edwin McCain has joined us here in the studio and we're looking forward to hearing a song. But you mentioned that you did a Christmas album that no one.

[Edwin McCain]

Likes. It was summarily rejected by everyone. And, and, and at the time, I Was like, I guess we shouldn't put it out. And now it's like a. I'm planting my flag of defiance. I was like, you know what? You can hate it if you want to. I like my.

[Christy Lee]

Christmas. So can we get our.

[Edwin McCain]

Hands. Yeah, it's on Spotify, so you can stream it all you want.

[Christy Lee]

To.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Do you want to sample a little bit of it.

[Edwin McCain]

Here? Yeah, yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. This is. This is the Frosty the Snowman.

[Christy Lee]

Song. Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Okay. So this will be familiar with it reimagined.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay. Is there a band with.

[Edwin McCain]

You? Oh, yeah, it's Ivan Neville and Eddie Bears and a bunch of my guys.

[Joey Chestnut]

And.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Okay, here we go. Let's give it a listen and be.

[Christy Lee]

Kind. Write a.

[Tom Griswold]

Record. Okay, here we.

[Al Jackson]

Go.

[Tom Griswold]

Ra. Okay, here we.

[Edwin McCain]

Go.

A Frosty the snowman Was a jolly happy soul With a corn cup pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal A Frosty the snowman was a fairy tale they say he was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day There must have been some magic in that old silk hat they found when they placed it on his head Head. He began to dance around oh, Frosty of the snowman Was alive as he could be and the children say he could laugh and play Just the same as you and me that is.

[Christy Lee]

Great. It is.

[Tom Griswold]

Great. You know, I'm. I'm a huge horn.

[Jeff Davis]

Guy. Take.

[Edwin McCain]

That. No, it's. It's got the whole. It's got the whole New Orleans funk.

[Josh Arnold]

Thing. People don't like.

[Edwin McCain]

It. No, my friends, I get.

[Josh Arnold]

That. But what the question. I.

[Edwin McCain]

Have.

No, like. So I think people are kind of used to me singing, you know, staring in my belly button, singing acoustic music. And then all of a sudden.

[Tom Griswold]

It'S like, what is.

[Josh Arnold]

This? No, it's good, dude.

Yeah, it's really.

[Edwin McCain]

Good. And so now I'm like, my daughter loves Michael Buble. And I'm like, I put my record on and she'll put it back. Buble back on. And I got.

[Jeff Davis]

This.

[Edwin McCain]

I'm. I'm battling for my daughter's attention with Michael.

[Tom Griswold]

Buble. Oh, yeah. I said to my 9 year old the other day, you know, you know, Hart, I said, I'm the coolest dad at the school. Right? And she just looks at what? No.

Okay. I guess, you know, you've been on stage in front of thousands of people and your kids aren't.

[Edwin McCain]

Impressed. They couldn't care any.

[Josh Arnold]

Less. Oh.

[Edwin McCain]

Gosh. I pulled up to the middle school when I was Dropping my daughter off. And of course, I was on a first name basis with the principal because the other two had already been through there. And so I pulled up and I was like, hey, Jordan, Jordan. This one's the good one. This one's the good one. And she walked right past him and went, no.

[Tom Griswold]

Promises.

We're Speaking with Edwin McCain, a very fine singer songwriter. Is the whole Christmas album that kind of New Orleans.

[Edwin McCain]

Funk? Yeah, it's a whole on full on New Orleans take on, On. On.

[Tom Griswold]

Christmas. Did you do any of the heavier serious.

[Edwin McCain]

Ones? No, it's all light.

[Josh Arnold]

Hearted. All.

[Edwin McCain]

Right. Yeah, the whole.

[Josh Arnold]

Thing. What's it.

[Edwin McCain]

Called? It's. It's called Merry Christmas.

[Josh Arnold]

Baby.

[Tom Griswold]

Nice. And it has. But no one's put it out.

[Edwin McCain]

Technically. Well, it's out. Yeah. It's on Spotify. It's everything. But we, we. We were not. We have no professional endorsements. This is a purely. This is. I've got. I went rogue. And this is an.

[Tom Griswold]

Independent. No. When you have you done a Christmas show where you do any of them.

[Edwin McCain]

Live? So we had. We've been talking about doing a big Christmas show and like doing. Dressing it all up and doing a whole big band thing. So that's been in conversation. And I've gotten, you know, four venues that want to do it, but it's a huge. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we're talking about 20 pieces on stage and then the full on lighting and all the costuming and all that stuff. So that, that is. That is something we've been talking about, but fun. I'm extremely lazy. So we'll see if that actually ever comes to.

[Tom Griswold]

Pass. What if you. If you had to pick your top five Christmas songs that you like to hear? Not necessarily. You'd like to cover. Do you have five that you really.

[Edwin McCain]

Like? Top five? Well, I mean, you know, if you put on the Bing Crosby Christmas record that entire. Just whatever. For whatever reason I grew up with that.

[Pat Godwin]

One.

[Tom Griswold]

That's. How about the newer.

[Edwin McCain]

Stuff? That's the standard for me, though. The Bing. I mean, I just. I listened to that Bing Crosby Christmas record every time. Because you can tell on the first side of the record, Bing's like, he's on it. He got there. And then the second half of the record, he's kind of half in the bag and the Sweeney Sisters are kind of picking up the slack. And it's my favorite thing because you can feel the progression of the day. Because I promise you, they recorded that album in one day. Like he walked. He being rolled in there at 9am and walked out at.

[Tom Griswold]

4. You always read about when they record these records, it's never at Christmas.

[Edwin McCain]

Time. Oh, no. When we made it, it was.

[Tom Griswold]

July. Yeah. So they. And sometimes you'll read about them. They'll be in Los Angeles and they'll bring in fake snow and pieces to get everybody kind of in the.

[Edwin McCain]

Mood. We didn't have that kind of.

[Tom Griswold]

Budget. Pat, what are your favorite Christmas. I love that one. This Christmas that Donnie.

[Pat Godwin]

Hathaway. Mine is. Yeah. That's a good one. I like the Fairy Tale in New York by the.

[Josh Arnold]

Pogues. That's.

[Pat Godwin]

Great. That's my.

[Jeff Davis]

Favorite.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. Really not a standard.

[Tom Griswold]

But.

[Josh Arnold]

No. Excellent.

[Christy Lee]

Excellent. Etta James, Santa Baby Can't Be.

[Josh Arnold]

Beat. Mine is Neck and.

[Christy Lee]

Cole.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Yeah, those are all.

[Josh Arnold]

Good.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jeff Davis]

Jeffrey? Oh, I.

I don't.

[Josh Arnold]

Know. Do you like Christmas.

[Jeff Davis]

Music? No. Yeah, I could do without.

[Tom Griswold]

It.

[Jeff Davis]

Really? I love it.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. You're kidding.

[Edwin McCain]

Me. You watch those YouTube videos of the Grinch scaring little kids, don't.

[Al Jackson]

You?

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. You love those, don't.

[Jeff Davis]

You? I love Christmas. I just. I. I don't like that.

[Tom Griswold]

Music.

[Jeff Davis]

Huh. It was driving me nuts in the store the other.

[Tom Griswold]

Day. Well, if you work in a store.

[Josh Arnold]

Obviously.

[Jeff Davis]

Yeah. You get to hear real quick. I want to give Pat Godwin some props. So Spotify every year releases like, they tell you what your top listeners were, Right. Who you listen to the most. And a listener posted his top artist was Pat Godwin this year on their Spotify. Number two, Head.

[Tom Griswold]

East. Oh, all.

[Jeff Davis]

Right. Number three, Afroman. And number four was Crystal.

[Tom Griswold]

Gale. Crystal.

[Edwin McCain]

Gale.

I was about to say, that guy wins the widest range of.

[Josh Arnold]

Music. That's.

[Tom Griswold]

Amazing. But also, you gotta love a guy like that because he embraces his own.

[Josh Arnold]

Opinions.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. And we live in a culture where everyone's afraid to go, well, I really like this. Oh, no, you're not supposed to. So, you know. That's a great.

[Jeff Davis]

List. Yeah. So Pat was number one on this guy's Spotify.

[Josh Arnold]

Listen. Gail Wright, Natural.

[Tom Griswold]

Woman. No, that was.

[Josh Arnold]

Carol.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay. Crystal Gale is the.

[Josh Arnold]

One. Who am I.

[Pat Godwin]

Thinking? Long hair to the.

[Tom Griswold]

Floor. She has the song Donut Make My Brown Eyes Blue. And she's what? She's related to. Was she like Loretta.

[Pat Godwin]

Lynn's? Yes, her.

[Josh Arnold]

Sister. Got.

[Tom Griswold]

It. Yeah, she's. Does she still have hair down to the.

[Pat Godwin]

Floor? Well, I don't.

[Christy Lee]

Know. I don't.

[Josh Arnold]

Know. So I had her confused with Carol King.

[Al Jackson]

Okay.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah. So my daughter did that, Ava, who's 27, and they said her listener age based on her playlist.

[Tom Griswold]

84.

[Christy Lee]

84. Because 84 she has. I asked her about it. I go, why is it 84? And she said, I have a playlist that I play every single morning that has all these old, old standards. Frank Sinatra and everything. So the Spotify people think that she's like.

[Tom Griswold]

84. Oh.

[Christy Lee]

Wow.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Interesting enough. I bet if we did it for this group, the youngest, they'd think Chick would be.

[Christy Lee]

Chick.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. He listens to more new music than any of us. Yeah, I'd be in there in the high.

[Josh Arnold]

90S.

Mine just says.

[Christy Lee]

Dead.

I'm the only.

[Jeff Davis]

Person. I never do.

[Christy Lee]

That. That I'm not on.

[Josh Arnold]

Spotify. Oh, okay. So, yeah, I've never done the. I know it's a big social media thing. You.

[Christy Lee]

Post. Yeah.

[Pat Godwin]

Right. But it might be Paul. Paul Cathan for.

[Tom Griswold]

You.

[Josh Arnold]

Right. Paul Cawthon.

[Pat Godwin]

Maybe. I knew I said it.

[Tom Griswold]

Wrong. Oh, your favorite.

[Josh Arnold]

Artist. Yeah. Maybe Whiskey Myers. I don't know. I'd have. Maybe I'll do it just to.

[Christy Lee]

See. But I am an Apple Music. I just downloaded the Christmas album and I'm going to listen to it later.

[Tom Griswold]

Today.

[Edwin McCain]

Yes. I make no.

[Tom Griswold]

Guarantees. Okay. We're going to add to the mix here. We're going to bring in famous, I guess, legendary eater. He is Joey Chestnut. We'll talk with Joey, see what the latest is. I've got a couple questions for.

[Josh Arnold]

Him. The.

[Edwin McCain]

Champ. I have some questions too, because I'm. I'm 100% sure that we were on an MWR tour together, but I'm not. I can't get full confirmation of that. We'll see if he.

[Tom Griswold]

Remembers. We'll get it in person. We'll get you to play one of your songs at some point this morning. I know you love coming on shows. I went in the shine. I got a.

[Josh Arnold]

Plane. Maybe you could do I'll.

[Edwin McCain]

Eat. No.

I'm happy with. With planting my flag with Christmas Chihuahua. So that was.

[Josh Arnold]

Awesome. You'll do I'll Eat and like.

[Tom Griswold]

It.

We were talking about. There's a great commercial right now. I'm sure you've seen it because you watch football. The one with the three old ladies on the bench. And they order through Amazon. It's a commercial for Amazon and they order. They order the seats for the. And they go. They show them sledding down the hill and they're playing in the background. What is it? They're playing In My Life by John Lennon. It's not the Beatles. It's an instrumental version. It's really sweet, but I. One of. One of these days, someone's going to approach you about one of your big songs and say, hey, let's make this a.

[Edwin McCain]

Commercial. Listen, for years, I've been daring the automakers like they're missing their big chance. Like, greatest van of your.

[Tom Griswold]

Life. Come.

[Edwin McCain]

On. I mean, and I'm right there. I mean, mean, they're, they're. I'm almost out of the minivan phase, but I could still do this commercial. Like you picture it. Like the sliding door slides open and there I am singing greatest van of your.

[Tom Griswold]

Life. Or you could do a hot.

[Edwin McCain]

Dog. Are you kidding.

[Tom Griswold]

Me? Oh.

[Edwin McCain]

Beef. Yeah, there you go. And. And I. Once you get to 55. Shame's not a component in my.

[Josh Arnold]

Life.

[Al Jackson]

I'll.

[Edwin McCain]

Whatever. Bring it.

[Tom Griswold]

On. I'll wear.

[Edwin McCain]

It. I'll wear a tutu. We can do this. Toyota, Ford.

[Josh Arnold]

Dodge. Dignity be.

[Edwin McCain]

Damned. I got teenagers. They're so expensive. Everybody that has teenagers. It doesn't matter what humiliating thing you're doing for money. Everybody on earth goes, yeah, you had to do.

[Tom Griswold]

That. I remember we were talking with Peter Frampton once, and he had just released I forget. It was like a quadraphonic something remix of his great live album. And he goes, hey, look, I got kids at.

[Edwin McCain]

College. And, like, it's never easy. Like, my. My daughter just had a flat tire. Oh, she had a flat tire. She said she hit a pothole. Well, I said, I'm getting all this on the phone. The guy at the shop is like, if she hit a pothole, I mean, that's the biggest pothole in the history.

The rims got a dent. She bent the a arm and needs new struts. I was like, okay. I was like, hey, honey, will you go take a picture of that pothole for.

[Tom Griswold]

Me? Because.

That'S the Grand Canyon. Yeah, I just had a. So called. This is going to sound. I had to have a rim job on my. My teenage daughter's.

[Edwin McCain]

Car. I mean, you should. I feel like we need to bring back those big swamper tires for teenage cars because otherwise they're just gonna. They destroy rims and curbs and.

[Tom Griswold]

Mailboxes and the bumper sticker on the back isn't enough. They need to have a different color automobile. Oh, you mean that they're Teenage.

[Edwin McCain]

Driver and the little yellow flasher light. Yeah, like they have on the. On.

[Joey Chestnut]

The.

[Jeff Davis]

The.

[Edwin McCain]

The. The little parking lot clearing machine thing, though, you.

[Tom Griswold]

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[Christy Lee]

Back, so they don't fall out of your ear because they're beautiful. You don't want to lose one. That would be.

[Tom Griswold]

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[Joey Chestnut]

Whether it's the TV shows, I just tap into the.

[Edwin McCain]

Truth. That's what I bring to every.

[Al Jackson]

Project. Ladies and gentlemen, Isaac.

[Joey Chestnut]

Keys. People always ask, how did you.

[Tom Griswold]

Make it to the NFL? How'd you get into acting? There's a story behind all of that. It's about whether you're willing to tell your your story or.

[Joey Chestnut]

Not. Next Roll isn't about what's.

[Tom Griswold]

Next. It's about why they do it next. Roll with Vernon Davis. Follow and listen on your favorite.

[Josh Arnold]

Platform.

Hey, it's the Bob and Tom show live from the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios. Thank O'Reilly Auto Parts for all your car care needs. Get the parts and service you need fast from the professional parts people at O'Reilly Auto Parts. Christy.

[Christy Lee]

Lee.

[Josh Arnold]

Yes. Hi there.

[Christy Lee]

Lady.

[Josh Arnold]

Hi. She's at the Silac Insurance Company news desk. Jeff Oskay is at the prize pick sports.

[Jeff Davis]

Desk. That's.

[Josh Arnold]

Right. Pat Godwin has moved to the performance.

[Tom Griswold]

Room.

[Josh Arnold]

Hello. Ace Cosby across the way. I'm Josh Arnold, the I Hate Steven Singer sidekick, chair. And Tom, we're joined by two of our favorite.

[Tom Griswold]

Guests. Joining us in the studio, singer songwriter Edwin McCain. We just heard a great little bit of his Christmas project that's out there floating around in the ether. You can grab it on Spotify. Also joining us in the studio, truly a legend in the world of competitive eating, it's Joey Chestnut. Hey, Joey. How are you.

[Joey Chestnut]

Sir? Good to be back here with you.

[Josh Arnold]

Guys. Nice to see you.

[Tom Griswold]

Champ. Now, coming up, of course, this weekend, a very expensive ticket. I'm finding out the hard way, the Big Ten championship at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, usa. And there's going to be an ancillary event, if you will, featuring Joey Chestnut eating. And this time it's chicken wings. Now, are these.

[Joey Chestnut]

Boneless? No, there's, these are bone in, it's, these are like, they're called hermanaki. The flavor, which is pretty much a spicy teriyaki, which is like pretty good, like a good woman, a little bit spicy, a little bit.

[Tom Griswold]

Sweet.

[Edwin McCain]

Hermanaki.

[Josh Arnold]

Yes. Named after Herman who invented the.

[Tom Griswold]

Flavor. Essentially the Japanese version of the.

[Josh Arnold]

Monsters.

[Tom Griswold]

Yes. See? Thank you very much. I liked it. It's important that I enjoy something. So how does it, how do they make it fair that you take all the meat off? Do they like weigh them before and.

[Joey Chestnut]

After? Life isn't fair. You know.

[Josh Arnold]

That. Of.

[Joey Chestnut]

Course. No, it's, they way every weigh it before and after. So they give us a 20 pound bowl and then they weigh all the debris again and then the person with the biggest difference is the.

[Tom Griswold]

Winner. Now, do you.

[Joey Chestnut]

Practice? Of course I practice. Yeah.

I'm not gonna get on stage will it.

[Tom Griswold]

Cold. So there's no delicacy involved in competitive eating. Clearly. But I mean, so what is there a technique to eating a.

[Joey Chestnut]

Wing? I'm, I'm really, I gotta, I got, yeah, I'm familiar with these wings. The, the wings go down easy. The flats are super easy. I'm a little bit worried about drums. Drums. My role. I got these. My big teeth are a little bit. I rake the. I kind of roll the drums. So I'm a little bit worried. But, you know, I'm gonna get through it. I'm okay my techniques down and I'm gonna stick with.

[Tom Griswold]

It. Okay. Now, have you ever done a wings.

[Joey Chestnut]

Competition? I've done.

[Tom Griswold]

Multiple. Oh, really? Yeah.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah. This is a sore subject. I'm on a loser. I'm on a losing.

[Christy Lee]

Streak.

[Tom Griswold]

Really?

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah. I haven't want to win like Mickey Sudo. She. She's competing tomorrow at the contest. She beat.

[Christy Lee]

Me.

[Joey Chestnut]

Oh. There's a couple people who beat me and I. I want to turn it.

[Christy Lee]

Around.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay.

[Tom Griswold]

Yes. Yeah. I believe Mickey's going to be our guest tomorrow. Yeah, I'm looking forward to.

[Josh Arnold]

That. We're going to try to do something. We're going to serve her very hot beverages. Burn her mouth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cap and.

[Pat Godwin]

Crunch. If we had to knock your teeth.

[Tom Griswold]

Out. Yeah. It would only be fair. What is the. The worst food you've had to eat? Not with respect to flavor, but the most difficult in all these eating competitions? Anything. Do you think? Oh, boy. I don't want to do that.

[Joey Chestnut]

Again. Oh, my God. I did. Well, flavor. There's.

[Edwin McCain]

Two.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah. I did cow brain tacos. That was. And it was just.

[Christy Lee]

Gross. Oh.

[Joey Chestnut]

God. And they looked like.

[Josh Arnold]

Brains. They do look like brains.

[Jeff Davis]

Yeah. They.

[Josh Arnold]

Don'T. They don't disguise it. What are they.

[Christy Lee]

Called? Cow.

[Joey Chestnut]

Brain. Say.

[Tom Griswold]

So. Oh.

[Joey Chestnut]

God. And people were barfing. It was like a stand by me.

[Tom Griswold]

Moment. Like multiple people were getting.

[Joey Chestnut]

Sick. And that was rough. But yeah, I got the win. I was just watching the guy next to me. Another one. I did a rib contest. I love ribs. So it's the worst thing when it's a food I love and they do a bad job and so it's like. That's torture. It's work. So. So, yeah, I love to eat, but when it's bad food, it's a.

[Tom Griswold]

Bummer. Now your. Your event is coming up on Saturday, 3:30 in the afternoon prior to the Big Ten championship. What's the. The 24 hours prior to the event? What's happening in your.

[Joey Chestnut]

Life? Full on.

[Tom Griswold]

Cleanse.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah. I take, you know, some psyllium husk, some. A couple of oils and things are running the day before, and I'm going in empty and.

[Christy Lee]

Loose. Oh.

[Josh Arnold]

Oh. Empty and loose is the.

[Tom Griswold]

Key. Delicate way to put.

[Josh Arnold]

It. Now these wings are some of my favorite. Yeah. They're from one of my favorite restaurants in the world called Ale Emporium. I'm very familiar with them, and I eat them with their homemade ranch sauce. How about you? In the contest, can you dip them at.

[Joey Chestnut]

All? There's not gonna be any time for dipping. Okay. But I have had their ranch and their blue cheese. Yeah. And it's.

[Josh Arnold]

Legit. Yeah. So that would just slow things up.

[Tom Griswold]

Gotcha. What is the spiciest competitive food they've ever thrown at you? Oh, my.

[Joey Chestnut]

God. Well, you know, the St. Elmo shrimp.

[Jeff Davis]

Cocktail. And.

[Joey Chestnut]

That. That's kind of a weird spice. So it's explosive with the. With the.

[Josh Arnold]

Horseradish. You feel that in your.

[Joey Chestnut]

Brain? Yeah, that one hits hard. Like, my. My eyes are watering. My ears hurt. It's just that. That's. That's.

[Christy Lee]

Painful. How many days does it take to get over.

[Joey Chestnut]

That? It's that one little shrimp. It digests super easy for.

[Christy Lee]

Me.

[Joey Chestnut]

Really? Oh, yeah. And so I'm feeling fine. Day and a half.

[Tom Griswold]

Later.

[Josh Arnold]

Okay. Christie's, I think, is asking about the potential ring of.

[Christy Lee]

Fire.

[Jeff Davis]

Yeah.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah. See, a horseradish spice is different from, like, a pepper.

[Christy Lee]

Spice.

[Joey Chestnut]

Okay. So the horseradish is actually. It settles down pretty quick, but, like, wings. These wings. I'll be feeling this. Oh, yeah. The next day, I'm gonna be on the.

[Josh Arnold]

Bidet. Oh, yeah. Wow. And maybe some.

[Tom Griswold]

Popsicles.

I understand frozen hot dogs can.

[Christy Lee]

Be. All.

[Tom Griswold]

Right. There's posited. Not necessarily through the gluteal cleft, just, you know, positioned in such a way. Now, we had an interesting thing that I heard off the air. Edwin McCain is here, a distinguished musician, great singer, songwriter. And you said to Joey, we work together. Yeah, but Joey wasn't.

[Joey Chestnut]

Quite. Does it really.

[Tom Griswold]

Work? No, Joey wasn't quite. You were touring.

[Edwin McCain]

Asia. We did a Navy entertainment tour in Asia. And it was crazy legs. And you. And there were some chefs in our.

[Sponsor Voice]

Band.

[Tom Griswold]

And. Was it your band? I.

[Edwin McCain]

Mean. No, it was our whole band. And they were dragging us around to all these military places, military bases. But what they would do is put them on stage, and then, like, volunteers would come up and try to. Like, the amateur soldiers would come up. The Navy people would come up and try to, like, compete with them. And. And it was exactly like that movie Stand By.

[Joey Chestnut]

Me. We did think we did soba noodles.

[Edwin McCain]

Once. Yeah, it.

[Joey Chestnut]

Was. That was rough. They were cold noodles.

[Edwin McCain]

Yeah. People getting sick and were hot dogs, mostly.

[Joey Chestnut]

Right? The best. Yeah, we did hot dogs, but the best was we. We went on this nuclear submarine. And these guys, these kids, like, they were like 19 years old, sitting in the dark all day looking. Yeah, they, they, these poor kids were on the submarine and they were just eating hard boiled eggs and we like three people got.

[Edwin McCain]

Sick.

I will have to say so I'm peristaltic chain reaction guy. And so I watched a couple of them and then I was like, okay, I gotta sing after this. There's no way I can be up there dry even and trying to sing my song. So I would, I would excuse myself.

[Tom Griswold]

And. But you guys worked together, but you didn't necessarily. Joey didn't recognize you right away, but you pointed out that you.

[Edwin McCain]

Were. Yeah, I was right. I was fresh out of rehab. I was.

[Joey Chestnut]

Having. And he has his clothes on.

[Josh Arnold]

So you have to recognize you with.

[Tom Griswold]

Your, you were staying, were staying away from.

[Edwin McCain]

Me. Well, like they say in the Navy, it's not gay if it's. If you're.

[Josh Arnold]

Underway.

Send your letters.

[Edwin McCain]

Too. Sorry, sorry, It's a joke. That's a Navy joke. I can make that.

[Tom Griswold]

Joke. But Joey, you were with the drinking crowd at that.

[Joey Chestnut]

Time. Oh, yeah, we were, we were.

[Tom Griswold]

Young. Yeah, we were, we were over. You were, you were kind of avoiding.

[Edwin McCain]

Getting. Yeah, yeah. Rehab was.

[Tom Griswold]

Expensive. Now we were just, we were just suggesting to Edwin that he take one of his most famous songs and turn it into a commercial. But have you ever been approached by, I don't know, like Tums.

[Joey Chestnut]

Or. I've done a couple awesome commercials, dude. We did one. I did one for a wonderful, wonderful.

[Tom Griswold]

Pistachio. Oh.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah. Cracking some nuts. Crack some nuts with Joey Chestnut. No. Yeah, but I've never done anything.

[Tom Griswold]

With. Yeah, I would think. What is it? Pepto.

[Joey Chestnut]

Bismol. I did some work with Peptoismol. That's when I gave up my day job. I was working in construction management and I was like, dude, Pepto Bismol hired me to work every weekend for like 10 grand. I was like.

[Edwin McCain]

Yes.

You know, the colonoscopy centers or.

[Joey Chestnut]

Something. Yeah, I, I, I'm down with that. You know, I put a lot of work in.

[Tom Griswold]

With. Yeah, I have a.

[Christy Lee]

Question. It's the holiday season. Have you ever done a chestnut eating.

[Joey Chestnut]

Competition? Never the, the European. No, no, no, never chestnuts. I like the water chestnut.

[Josh Arnold]

Chestnuts. Oh, yeah, those are great. Those are.

[Joey Chestnut]

Great. But I've never even had the European.

[Christy Lee]

Chestnut. Oh.

[Tom Griswold]

Really? I don't.

[Christy Lee]

Know. They're not very.

[Tom Griswold]

Good. Maybe we didn't get them properly cooked. Now, you might find this hard to believe, but Josh here Has installed on his facility, in the smallest room of his house, a aftermarket.

[Joey Chestnut]

Bidet. Oh, yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Now I do you have.

[Joey Chestnut]

Absolutely. Oh, if you don't have a.

[Edwin McCain]

Bidet. Yeah. The Toto washlet changed my.

[Josh Arnold]

Life.

[Tom Griswold]

Sure. But sure, I have a very nice home, but I.

[Edwin McCain]

Never. No, that was because we went to Asia, right. So we're in Japan and every toilet there, like, as you walk in it, like, opens in a little fountain that greets you and the whole.

[Tom Griswold]

Thing.

[Edwin McCain]

And. And I was like, well, we got to get one of these immediately. Got home.

[Tom Griswold]

Ordered. No, wait a minute. I have an idea for you. They probably need to add music if they're going to have a presentation when you walk in. Maybe you could write like a little 15.

[Edwin McCain]

Second. Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Yes. That's very.

[Edwin McCain]

Good. See, this is what happens. This is how it happens for me. I can feel it.

[Josh Arnold]

Now. Tom, I just. I was just telling Joey, I was flipping through the channels a couple weeks ago and I'm a 47 year old man, I don't have kids, but if Scooby Doo is on, I usually leave it on while I'm doing something. And the guest star was Joey Chestnut on an episode of Scooby.

[Joey Chestnut]

Doo. Yeah, it was really my voice.

[Josh Arnold]

Too. Yeah.

[Al Jackson]

Yeah.

[Joey Chestnut]

Pretty. They did a good job with.

[Josh Arnold]

It. Did you get Shaggy's.

[Joey Chestnut]

Autograph? I did. Picture in my.

[Tom Griswold]

Kitchen. Do people ask you to sign menus? What? What do you. I mean, if they. If you're having lunch somewhere. Oh, my God, it's Joey.

[Joey Chestnut]

Chestnut. Sometimes. Sometimes menus. If I'm at a restaurant, the owner or chef will come out. Other times it's. Yeah, lots of sometimes tables if I'm at a restaurant. But people, they'll let me sign their kids one once in a.

[Jeff Davis]

While.

[Tom Griswold]

Oh. Oh, that makes sense. Edwin, you probably sign a guitar.

[Edwin McCain]

Records. I've signed children. It's a weird thing. It's a weird feeling. Hands you a baby and you're like, sure.

[Joey Chestnut]

Okay. And then right after the baby, then the dude's like, hey, can you sign my arm? I was like.

[Tom Griswold]

No.

Do you. Is your signature on your autograph signature the same as your check writing.

[Joey Chestnut]

Signature? No, it's completely.

[Tom Griswold]

Different. Good work. You ever thought about.

[Edwin McCain]

That? Mine's the.

[Tom Griswold]

Same.

[Edwin McCain]

Okay. No, they, like, the first day I got to Atlantic, they put me in a room with like 50,000 posters. And I used to write every letter of my name. But as soon as 50,000 posters got it, it turned into em real.

[Tom Griswold]

Quick. Yeah, good move. Okay, now, how about for your checks? Now These days, if you write a check, do you.

[Edwin McCain]

Still. Same. It's the same signature.

[Tom Griswold]

Now. Oh, just that little.

[Josh Arnold]

Square. Is yours the.

[Tom Griswold]

Same?

[Josh Arnold]

No. Really? You have different.

[Jeff Davis]

Signatures.

[Christy Lee]

Wow. You sign with just Tom. You just print.

[Tom Griswold]

It. Do.

[Christy Lee]

You. Do you use cursive on your.

[Tom Griswold]

Checks? The weird thing is I haven't written a check in like 30.

[Josh Arnold]

Years. Okay, well, yeah, but this is your.

[Christy Lee]

Question.

You have to sign documents.

[Tom Griswold]

Occasionally. Oh, yeah, I could do.

[Edwin McCain]

That. He has an auto.

[Josh Arnold]

Pin. Yeah, I have no.

[Tom Griswold]

Doubt.

When we come back, I want to get. Get a real song out of Mr. Edwin McCain. I'll remind you. Or we can hang.

[Josh Arnold]

Out. He didn't come here to.

[Tom Griswold]

Work. Okay. I'm very impressed with your Christmas project, though. That was fun. And I loved your Chihuahua song. And Joey's gonna hang out for a little bit longer and Christy Lee's gonna tell us about something. What's.

[Christy Lee]

Happening. Yeah, about Raycon, because they are the best holiday gift. And you want to check out Raycon's new essential open earbuds. I have become a big fan of these because you can put them on, they don't go in your ear. They go kind of around the back. It's really cool. It's like sits in front, you can play music and still hear what's going on around you. Perfect for the gym or while you're out walking your dogs. Tom needs to know that there's traffic coming because he doesn't pay attention real.

[Tom Griswold]

Well. And you can, by the way, my neighbor with the Tesla, I finally flagged him down. I said, I can't hear.

[Christy Lee]

You. Yeah, you can't because they're.

[Edwin McCain]

Electric. Don't they make that weird noise.

[Tom Griswold]

Like.

I got to have them stolen? It was ran over my dog and me.

[Edwin McCain]

Yesterday. This Tesla was backing up in the parking lot yesterday and it was making that noise and I turned to this friend and I was like, do you hear that? Because I was thinking, man, the 90s are coming back hard on me right.

[Christy Lee]

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[Tom Griswold]

Gift. I'm a big fan. Thank you very much, Christy Lee. We're coming back with Edwin McCain and Joey Chestnut in the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios. This is the Bob and Tom.

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[Tom Griswold]

Show.

Moment.

Agitated.

[Josh Arnold]

Well.

This is the Bob and Tom show live from the O'Reilly Auto Part Studios. Tom says something angering and then wonders why people are angry.

There's Christy.

[Tom Griswold]

Le. Got to get him mad at.

[Josh Arnold]

The Silence Insurance Company news.

[Joey Chestnut]

Desk. Yes, you.

[Christy Lee]

Do. Yeah, you.

[Josh Arnold]

Do. Like he has that whiplash mentality.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Same reason we keep the room.

[Josh Arnold]

Cold.

There's Jeff Oscar, the prize pick Sports desk. Yeah, man. Pat Godwin is in the performance room. Hello. Ace Cosby's at the the board running the the ones and the.

[Christy Lee]

Twos. Hey.

[Josh Arnold]

Josh. I smell wings. You do smell wings. We have what famous Hermanaki chicken wings.

[Christy Lee]

Here. And Herman's.

[Josh Arnold]

Here. Yes. What a pleasure. I asked him if they had given him the.

[Tom Griswold]

Nobel.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. He says they're still waiting. And I don't know what the.

[Tom Griswold]

Nobel people are doing because that's, that's the origin of.

[Christy Lee]

Hermannaki.

[Josh Arnold]

Yes. Yes, sir.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. I just met.

[Josh Arnold]

Herman.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. I didn't realize that was the. Makes perfect sense.

[Josh Arnold]

Now. Culinary.

[Tom Griswold]

Scientist. I did not make him angry. No, I'm trying to get Joey angry because Joey Chestnut, the world champion eater, is here with us and he just pointed out that he's. He's just lost a couple rounds, so he's got it. He's getting ready for the Big Ten championship coming up this weekend in Indianapolis. And prior to the game is a special event, eating the Hermanaki wings. And you got to get fired up because you got to win.

[Joey Chestnut]

Right? Oh, yeah, yeah. My juices are.

[Christy Lee]

Flowing. But don't you have an advantage because you live here, so you're more familiar with these wings than the other.

[Joey Chestnut]

Contestants? I like the way you.

[Al Jackson]

Think. Yeah, yeah.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah. I.

[Edwin McCain]

Wouldn'T. Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. Gotcha.

[Joey Chestnut]

Question. I've been practicing.

I'm not gonna win any cocky, but I feel.

[Josh Arnold]

Confident. Joey, is it an even balance of drummies and.

[Joey Chestnut]

Flats? Yeah, yeah. Drums and flats. My technique with the flats. Oh, my God, it's.

[Josh Arnold]

Vicious. It's like Sylvester with a fish, right? You just put it in your.

[Joey Chestnut]

Mouth. It's.

[Christy Lee]

Like. You want to demonstrate.

[Joey Chestnut]

It. The bones are.

[Tom Griswold]

Clean. Now, do you watch film the way the NFL players, I mean, like you.

[Josh Arnold]

Did? I think that's a fair.

[Tom Griswold]

Question. You sit down with someone and he goes, well, look, obviously you're moving your arm too.

[Josh Arnold]

Much.

[Joey Chestnut]

Right? This one I didn't. I didn't videotape myself. Practice for hot dogs. I'll videotape and watch my film. That one. That one, I put in almost two months of work in for that.

[Tom Griswold]

One contest, and that's the one where you are the.

[Joey Chestnut]

Legend. I don't screw around on that.

[Tom Griswold]

One. Yeah. Okay.

[Jeff Davis]

Okay. Now, you just saw me eat a flat. On a scale of 1 to 10, how was my.

[Joey Chestnut]

Technique? Oh, good. Amateur.

[Josh Arnold]

Level. Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Yes.

[Joey Chestnut]

Okay. He pinched it hard and put the whole thing in his mouth. Mouth and sucked it pretty.

[Josh Arnold]

Good. All right.

[Joey Chestnut]

But. So that's right, but in a contest, that technique, it's a little bit slow. So in. In contest mode, I'm kind of scraping with my hand and using my.

[Josh Arnold]

Mouth.

[Tom Griswold]

And.

I don't want to get in the way of his.

[Josh Arnold]

Prep.

[Tom Griswold]

Right. He's. He's in the mode right now.

[Josh Arnold]

Where he can't have Oscar do.

[Joey Chestnut]

It. I give until it.

[Josh Arnold]

Hurts. Let's do it. Oscar did a good.

[Christy Lee]

Job. Get a SIM.

[Tom Griswold]

Flat. Well, while we wait, why don't we do that in just a second? We have time to read a letter. Do you have a.

[Edwin McCain]

Question? No. Well, do you have any hangers on? Like, I know if I lived here and I knew you were practicing, like, I would just drop by, you know, eat some wings, too. You know what I mean? Like, I feel like I know that if I was doing that, I can, in my head name five friends who would be like, hey, what are you doing today? Knowing full well, they knew what I was doing today so they could come hang out and eat wings while I.

[Tom Griswold]

Practice. What do you call, I mean, in the world of rock and roll, Ed, when you, of course, had back.

[Josh Arnold]

In the day, groupies, but he still has groupies.

They may not be the groupies you want, but you have.

[Tom Griswold]

Them.

[Josh Arnold]

Sorry. Now they're called.

[Tom Griswold]

Droopies.

Yeah. I feel like I, I, I get a.

[Edwin McCain]

Desist. There's been some spandex that's been brought out back out that should have been left in the.

[Tom Griswold]

Closet. Now, what do they call the hype? The. The mega fans of Food.

[Edwin McCain]

Trouble. Okay, I know, like, rodeo. They're buckle bunnies. And like, is there competitive food eater.

[Josh Arnold]

Slurpees?

[Tom Griswold]

Slurpees? That'd be kind of a double description of. Of the gig, if you.

[Josh Arnold]

Will. I think Joey's right, though. They're called distractions, aren't they? You don't need that.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah. It's any woman who's after a competitive.

[Jeff Davis]

Eater.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah. It's like.

[Tom Griswold]

Oh.

Yeah, I'm.

[Joey Chestnut]

Sure.

I have to win the good ones with my.

[Tom Griswold]

Charm. Yeah, yeah, clearly there may be. Yeah. It's not the association with your skill level.

I watched your tongue tap tackle that wing. And how did this go down this road? I have no idea. Now, someone has just brought in. I can't see from here. What have you got over.

[Joey Chestnut]

There? Oh, we got some nice.

[Tom Griswold]

Flat. Oh, those are the.

[Joey Chestnut]

Flats. Yeah. So contest mode. I'll pinch. Pinch it.

[Tom Griswold]

Hard. No, Christy, you're closer. Can you do the play by play.

[Christy Lee]

Hard. You pinch on either.

[Joey Chestnut]

End.

[Christy Lee]

So.

[Josh Arnold]

Yes. You want.

[Tom Griswold]

You.

[Joey Chestnut]

Your. Your instinct is going to go towards the side with the little bone sticking.

[Christy Lee]

Out.

[Joey Chestnut]

Right. Don't do that one. Go to there towards the pointy.

[Josh Arnold]

Side. Okay. Pinch the heck out of.

[Tom Griswold]

It.

[Christy Lee]

It. And pull.

[Josh Arnold]

It. Oh, man. I mean, it's. It's.

[Christy Lee]

Bare.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

Wow. Okay's doing it because your mouth.

[Joey Chestnut]

And your lips get.

[Christy Lee]

Tired. Oh, look.

[Josh Arnold]

At. Oscar's pretty.

[Christy Lee]

Good. He's really.

[Joey Chestnut]

Good. Kind of slide. Slide your thumb.

[Tom Griswold]

Underneath. Okay, do it. I'm sorry. Tell me again in slow motion. You don't. You. You pinch it. What's happening, Christy? I can't.

[Josh Arnold]

See. Pinch the pointy.

[Joey Chestnut]

Eye. Yeah, you kind of slide your. Slide your.

[Tom Griswold]

Thumb. Oh, so you're shoving the meat up off the bones. Ah.

[Christy Lee]

Okay. Into your mouth.

[Jeff Davis]

Yes. He's shucking.

[Christy Lee]

It. Yeah. We need some paper.

[Tom Griswold]

Towels. Here, give this to.

[Josh Arnold]

Joey. I don't know if.

[Edwin McCain]

You'Ve. I've never been so more ready. Happy that I dropped out of.

[Tom Griswold]

College. Oh, God. Than I am right now. I mix Christie's Coffee by 2.

[Edwin McCain]

Inches. Sitting here eating wings in the morning. This is the.

[Josh Arnold]

Greatest. Now we missed Edwin's technique. How do you.

[Jeff Davis]

Feel? You.

[Edwin McCain]

Did. I feel like I'm at the low end of the amateur.

[Josh Arnold]

Scale.

Oh, that was good. That was real.

[Tom Griswold]

Good.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. Good.

[Edwin McCain]

Yeah. Listen, if you left me alone, then in that room with just the wings and nobody was in there to judge me, I would put on a.

[Josh Arnold]

Clinic. Yeah.

[Edwin McCain]

Man.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Now, I have a technical question. Joey, facial hair. You. You do not have any facial hair, nor do I. Edwin, technically, what is. Is that a. A.

[Josh Arnold]

Foti. A flavor.

[Edwin McCain]

Saver. Yeah. This is double ch. Double chin camouflage is what this.

[Tom Griswold]

Is. That's a soul patch, but bigger.

[Edwin McCain]

Even. Yeah, yeah. This is just clearly to try to make my big round head.

[Josh Arnold]

Look. That's not a soul patch. That's a.

[Tom Griswold]

Soul.

Again, you're on fire today, Josh. Would that be a disadvantage, Joey, to have facial hair in an eating.

[Joey Chestnut]

Competition? I don't think it.

[Tom Griswold]

Would.

[Josh Arnold]

No.

[Joey Chestnut]

No. I had. I had a beard a couple. For a couple years. But it's. When you. When you're a competitive eater, you attract trouble.

[Jeff Davis]

People.

[Joey Chestnut]

Like. Oh, you want.

[Josh Arnold]

Drugs?

[Tom Griswold]

Like.

When you walk around with.

[Joey Chestnut]

A beard in the cities I go to, like, oh, yeah.

[Josh Arnold]

They.

[Joey Chestnut]

They. This guy doesn't have a normal.

[Tom Griswold]

Job. Yeah, that is a weird analysis of. No, I mean, when you go to.

[Edwin McCain]

Bars. Dive.

[Josh Arnold]

Bars. Yeah. And you have a beard, people. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah. Jeff knows about.

[Jeff Davis]

This. Yeah, they just shaved mine off. I haven't been offered drugs in the last three.

[Tom Griswold]

Days.

Yeah, but your beard was. You had more of the homeless.

[Jeff Davis]

Look. It was still. I'm gonna offer you some drugs.

[Josh Arnold]

Beard. It was hobo chic. Yeah, yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. I mean, I get offered valet parking.

I look like a narrative.

We're having fun. You know, we haven't let these guys do a.

[Christy Lee]

Song. We have Al Jackson coming up.

[Tom Griswold]

Next. We got Al. We got. But I really want. We have a request for a song. We don't have time to do it just this second. Okay, so we'll do it in a few minutes. I'll give you time to find out what I'm talking about here. This letter comes to us from Vincent. Kind enough to write, thank you for making my. Blah, blah. I just saw Edwin McCain at a charity event for the Children's Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, right near where you live. They raised, wow, over a million dollars for the children's hospital. Edwin put on a fantastic show. It was phenomenal. Well, that's. That's.

[Josh Arnold]

Nice. Very.

[Joey Chestnut]

Nice. A billion dollars.

[Edwin McCain]

We. We've raised. It's every.

[Tom Griswold]

Year.

[Edwin McCain]

We. We raised about a million.

[Josh Arnold]

Too. Oh, that's.

[Edwin McCain]

Great. And over 20.

[Tom Griswold]

Years. It's a.

[Edwin McCain]

Lot.

[Tom Griswold]

So. Yeah. And there's a request for you to play. I don't even know how to say this. What is.

[Edwin McCain]

It? Oh, the fame. The Don Ho Christmas.

[Tom Griswold]

Song. What is.

[Edwin McCain]

It? Melikaliki Maka is the.

[Tom Griswold]

Thing. Okay. When we come back. That's a great song. I'd forgotten about that. We'll get to it. Coming up. And we have Al Jackson on the way as well. And we will be in the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios, and this remains the Bob and Tom.

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[Josh Arnold]

Show.

Hey, it's the Bob and Tom show live from the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios. Christy Lee is at the Silac Insurance Company news.

[Christy Lee]

Desk. My lips are.

[Josh Arnold]

Burning. Oh, yeah. Some.

[Tom Griswold]

Spice.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah. Joey, I have a lot of respect for.

[Joey Chestnut]

You. It's. Yeah, it's gonna hurt a little.

[Tom Griswold]

Bit. We should explain this sounds like a weird sexual encounter. Christie's lips are the ones on her face and they're burning because she was.

Consuming, consuming some delightful hermanaki.

[Josh Arnold]

Wings. Just to clarify, because our guest, Joey Chestnut, the champ, he'll be involved in a chicken wing eating contest this weekend. Edwin McCain, singer, songwriter, and we consider you a comedian, has joined us. Jeff Oskay's at the Prize Pick Sports.

[Jeff Davis]

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[Josh Arnold]

Details. There's Ace Cosby, Andy. I'm Josh Arnold of the I Hate Steven Singer, sidekick chair. And Tom. We also have a guest on the phone joining.

[Tom Griswold]

Us. It's on the big screen up there. It's comedian Al.

[Al Jackson]

Jackson. It's your challenger in the chicken wing eating.

[Tom Griswold]

Contest. Do it, Al. You just missed it. Joey showed us his technique and it's, I can't really give it.

[Joey Chestnut]

Away. Poetry in.

[Edwin McCain]

Motion. It's.

[Josh Arnold]

Unnerving. Poultry in motion, in this.

[Al Jackson]

Case. I had a question I've always wanted to ask Joey. Oh, yes. First of all, great to meet you, man. My name's.

[Joey Chestnut]

Al. Do you want.

[Al Jackson]

Pictures? Well, you know, I'll DM you after. I'll slide in there. You know, I've talked to people that have been around probably sports, and they said they, they saw like a young so and so, and they were like, oh, for sure. This guy has what it takes to be a pro ballplayer. Baseball, football, whatever. Do you ever just see somebody out and you just go, I think that guy has what it takes to be a professional eater. Is this like, like an innate characteristic that somebody.

[Joey Chestnut]

Has? Yeah, yeah. There's a, there's, there's been a couple times where I've seen really, really good eaters and they the way they attack the food.

And it's like when their bodies tell them one feeling, they can ignore that feeling. I've seen there's a couple guys who.

[Josh Arnold]

Are.

[Joey Chestnut]

There's. There's the guy out of Australia, really good. He's getting better. But. Yeah, but there's other guys.

[Jeff Davis]

Who.

[Joey Chestnut]

They. They. They can attack the food and then. And then they don't like the feeling of being bloated. Like, I enjoy that feeling. So. So. So it's.

[Edwin McCain]

So.

[Tom Griswold]

There.

[Joey Chestnut]

There. There's people who don't love.

[Josh Arnold]

It. Do you tell them, hey, you've got a kid, or do you keep it to.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yourself? I mean, I. I'll help him a little bit, but I'm not. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna. Yeah, it's weird. It's a hard. It's hard on the body. It's hard. You have to try. You're on the road. That's a grind. And I'm like, I'm not gonna tell anybody to give up their day.

[Josh Arnold]

Job.

[Edwin McCain]

Yeah. I feel like I'm discovering my next.

[Tom Griswold]

Chapter.

So I want to go around the horn here, and I'll start with you out. If you had to eat a lot of one particular food, and in. What would you want it to be? My answer would be spaghetti. I could do that's probably. I could probably eat the most of that. Of.

[Al Jackson]

Anything. This is probably bad, Tom, because as I'm thinking about, I'm like, it might be too filling, but I think your boy could put away some sweet potato pie. I think it would scare people. I could really throw it. I could throw that back. But is that bad? Joey, in terms of, like, what do you want to look for? When you're looking for food, you can eat a lot of. Do you want it to be, like, light? Or what are you looking.

[Joey Chestnut]

For? So if you're gonna eat a lot of it, you want to be comfortable with it. So it's kind of like if you. If you are. You go out drinking, you drink the booze, you're comfortable with.

[Christy Lee]

That.

[Edwin McCain]

You're.

[Joey Chestnut]

It's. If you're gonna eat a lot of the food. Sweet potato pie, if you love it, you're familiar with it, you're.

[Josh Arnold]

Gonna. You're.

[Joey Chestnut]

Gonna. Your body's gonna be comfortable hauling around £12.

[Al Jackson]

£15.

What would be a goal if I was. If you were gonna eat pies for a regular person, should you be at least able to get, like, five down? Like, what's a. Oh, it all.

[Joey Chestnut]

Depends. Like, the bar depends on weight. And volume. So some pies, if they whip it up a little bit more, it's going to be a little bit less dense, but if it. Normally it's eight or nine inch pie.

I would say five of.

[Tom Griswold]

Them.

[Joey Chestnut]

Whoa.

If those are like a pound and a half each. So, yeah, that'd be 50. My. My record for pumpkin pie is £21.

I don't think you're gonna beat.

[Tom Griswold]

Me now for Christmas fruitcake. For Christmas fruitcake. For me, it would be zero.

They turn it into a doorstop. Josh, what food do you think you could eat the most.

[Josh Arnold]

Of? Either, like shrimp or. I'm talking like shrimp cocktail or what I would like to try because it's one of my favorite foods and I'm comfortable with them and I feel like I have. I can handle them. Well, egg rolls.

[Tom Griswold]

Really? Oh, that's a good.

[Josh Arnold]

One. Now, I think it might tear up the mouth a little bit, but I would like to try egg rolls. Is that something you've ever.

[Jeff Davis]

Tried?

[Christy Lee]

I.

[Joey Chestnut]

Good. I've never done egg rolls in contests. I've done. Oh, anything crispy like that. I don't think I've done anything.

[Al Jackson]

Crispy.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. Crispy's got to be a little tough on the roof of the.

[Joey Chestnut]

Mountain. It's a little bit harder.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah. I've done a couple crispy taco contests, and there's a couple of times I thought I was gonna cut my.

[Jeff Davis]

Throat.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah. But.

[Tom Griswold]

No. Have you ever done a. A game like a venison or. Oh, in other words, not a traditional, like beef or pork. But has anyone ever.

[Josh Arnold]

Done. Or.

[Tom Griswold]

Elk? I was forced. One time. A friend of mine owns a restaurant, he said, you've got to try the goat tacos. They were. I hated them.

[Joey Chestnut]

Period. No, I don't think I've done anything. Anything like.

[Tom Griswold]

That. Surprised some hunting organization hasn't done. Done one with.

[Joey Chestnut]

Venison. Elk would be really.

[Tom Griswold]

Rad. Yeah, some of it would be delicious. Yeah, it'd be.

[Edwin McCain]

Cool. Are there any starting part guys in competitive eating, like the dudes that just know they're never going to win, but they go because it's. They get to eat whatever they want. Like, I feel like. Like, you know, the NASCAR guys, there's some cars that are in the back and they just make a couple laps and then they park. I feel like I could be a starting part guy. Like, right. I just be like over at the end, like, who's.

[Tom Griswold]

That? Don't worry about.

[Joey Chestnut]

It. I didn't know what you meant by starting part. There are some Eaters. Who are they? They love it. They love the sport. There's a.

[Tom Griswold]

Couple.

[Joey Chestnut]

There's. There's one guy, Crazy Lace, Connie. He's coming this weekend. He's been. He's been doing it longer than.

[Edwin McCain]

Me. He was with us on the.

[Tom Griswold]

Mwr. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a good.

[Joey Chestnut]

Dude. He's a good competitive eater. Not great. I've never seen him. I've never seen him win, but he has his heart and he's. He's a good.

[Edwin McCain]

Dude. He's like the Eddie the Eagle of competitive.

[Joey Chestnut]

Eating. He's a great man to go on the.

[Tom Griswold]

Road. Now, Al.

[Christy Lee]

Jackson. What, the starting barf.

[Tom Griswold]

Guy? That would be.

Yeah, good point. Al Jackson is familiar with the so called street lingo. You guys may find this hard to believe, but my hypnos level is not particularly up there. So Al is trying to. Al is trying to get me a little more street. Al, you have some new verbiage for me.

[Al Jackson]

Today? I absolutely do, Tom. And this. This phrase is just in honor of our guest, Joey. You know, let's make it food related. Okay. So, Tom, if somebody said the phrase to you, the following phrase, just put the fries in the bag, bro. What are they saying to.

[Tom Griswold]

You? Put the fries in the bag, bro. Is it as direct as it sounds? Is this. If you're at a fast food place and the person is asking you a lot of questions, just, hey, just put the fries in the bag. I got to get out of.

[Al Jackson]

Here. Go. Go with that. You're right.

[Tom Griswold]

There. Okay.

Oh, I know what you're saying. So if I'm at a social situation and someone can't get to the point, I just say, hey, just put your fries in the bag.

[Jeff Davis]

Bro. That's.

[Al Jackson]

It. That's a walk off home.

[Tom Griswold]

Run. Do I come off as being a little fake when I say, oh, you sounded hip. I can talk that.

[Jeff Davis]

Way. Oh, yeah, I'd do it.

[Josh Arnold]

More. That was actually really.

[Tom Griswold]

Good.

I sound like a narc. We were saying, al, you know me. You've been at my house, you know my life. These guys were saying, like, osu, with his look, he's offered drugs. I said, I get offered valet parking. I don't. I don't. I don't come off like someone who's.

[Al Jackson]

Hip. But you know what, when you watch a movie and you know, whoever is, like, looking for the drug, they get through, like the first couple scary guys when they get to the final boss, that's kind of like, you know, either the big drug dealer or the bag. The worst Guy. They're always like, kind of like mild mannered. They have like a regular house and you're like, oh, this is the guy. But they're terrifying. So you could have that look where like, like, oh, we found out Tom controls everything west of the.

[Tom Griswold]

Mississippi. That.

[Al Jackson]

Is. You got that.

[Tom Griswold]

Look. That is exactly what happened. If you've watched that show Task, that's exactly what happens in that show. They go. And you find the big.

No, no, it doesn't just. There is a. Like a boss is. You think you see. Know who the boss is. Then they go to the real boss. And Al's right. This guy that looks like.

[Al Jackson]

Me.

Disrespect them. They were like, okay, that's a decision you just made, and that's way.

[Tom Griswold]

Scarier.

[Al Jackson]

Yeah. Than somebody saying, I'm gonna kill you. You're just like, oh, no, this. This guy's not messing.

[Edwin McCain]

Around. I set up a grow operation in his pool house last.

[Tom Griswold]

Weekend.

Yeah, wouldn't be the first time someone's dropped that.

[Josh Arnold]

Pin.

[Tom Griswold]

Please. Okay, we got one more. We have time for one more phrase. L. What have you.

[Al Jackson]

Got? All right, Tom, I like this one because the young kids are using it. Tom, what is your.

[Christy Lee]

Huz. Your.

[Tom Griswold]

Hus. H, U z.

[Al Jackson]

Z. Yes.

[Tom Griswold]

Sir. And this can be said by a man or a.

[Al Jackson]

Woman? Yes.

[Tom Griswold]

Sir. This is not a partner kind of.

[Christy Lee]

Thing. It's not your husband? Is that what you're.

[Al Jackson]

Thinking? Go with that.

[Tom Griswold]

Tom. Okay, so last night I was out on an event and Christy was there with her.

[Al Jackson]

Hus.

[Tom Griswold]

Knock. No, it was. It.

[Christy Lee]

Was. That's.

[Al Jackson]

Right. You hit.

[Tom Griswold]

It. Yeah, that's.

[Al Jackson]

It. Yeah, it's a new phrase that Gen Alpha is using. And huzz, obviously, like Chrissy Lee said is like for the husband, but everybody uses it like a girl could. You know, a guy could use it to even refer to his girlfriend. She's like, oh, that's my hus. Like, it's just shortened to like, that's my.

[Tom Griswold]

Boo. Yeah, your.

[Christy Lee]

Boot. Your.

[Tom Griswold]

Boo. Oh, your boo. Oh.

[Al Jackson]

Sorry. Tom, you got two walk off home runs. Don't mess it up right at the end.

[Christy Lee]

With.

[Al Jackson]

Sorry. You know.

[Christy Lee]

Boo. That's an old term. You knew that.

[Tom Griswold]

One. Boo. Okay. Boo. Yeah, yeah, she's my.

[Jeff Davis]

Boo.

[Tom Griswold]

Boo. Boo. Very good. Well, thank you so much, Al. You're on the road this week with Willie, right?

[Al Jackson]

I'm. I'm with your son at the Dayton Funny.

[Tom Griswold]

Bone. All.

[Al Jackson]

Right. Friday and Saturday. That's right. So, yeah, come out and see the boys. We're out kicking it, Nick. So can't wait to get to my home state tomorrow with your son Willie and do some comedy. So, yeah, come on out if you're.

[Tom Griswold]

Around. Are you picking the Browns this weekend? Oh, I. I am. They're.

[Al Jackson]

Doing. It's just like.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yours. Doing.

[Christy Lee]

Great. They're minus three against the.

[Al Jackson]

Titans. I know the Titans are really bad. Yeah, I'm gonna. Yes. I'm gonna say the Browns, but it's gonna be. I think it's gonna be like a weird score, like 8, 5 or.

[Christy Lee]

Something.

Yeah. And then it's push because, you.

[Tom Griswold]

Know. No, I'm. I'm saying shit or three touchdowns. It's gonna.

[Al Jackson]

Happen. Oh, there we go.

[Tom Griswold]

Tom.

[Al Jackson]

Yeah. Put that in the.

[Jeff Davis]

Universe.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. The Browns are finally going to come.

[Christy Lee]

Back.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay. It's the time for the big turnaround. Al, it's always a great pleasure. Thank you. Have fun with.

[Al Jackson]

Willie. Love you guys. Great talking to.

[Christy Lee]

You. Bye.

[Tom Griswold]

Al. Now, Mr. Oscar, if you had to eat piles of something, what would it.

[Jeff Davis]

Be? I could probably eat the most rice. I could eat like 10,000 of.

[Tom Griswold]

Them.

[Edwin McCain]

Really?

So daily.

[Tom Griswold]

Serving. I the only that contest. The way to do that, though, would be to have to use.

[Christy Lee]

Chopsticks. Oh.

[Jeff Davis]

Yeah. Oh.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. You ever seen a guy really mowing down the rice? You go to a restaurant and there's some duder there that holds the bowl up.

[Jeff Davis]

And. Oh, yeah, I like that.

[Joey Chestnut]

Guy. Yeah. It's the pro move. You pick up the.

[Josh Arnold]

Bowl.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah. If you're on an airplane, don't eat off the.

[Tom Griswold]

Tray. You got to pick up your food. Oh, yeah. They're very good. Very good. We're getting some great tips. When we come back, we have a special request for Mr. Edwin McCain and Pat Godwin. You guys are doing kind of a duo duet thing. I'm certainly looking forward to that. What have you got coming up in the news, Christy.

[Christy Lee]

Lee? Oh, we probably won't get to it, but we've got a guy who's been eating something that is quite expensive. Joey. But he only ate one. It was a Faberge pendant. We'll talk about that. And Pat, I gotta say, you look really good in.

[Josh Arnold]

There. Oh, I.

[Christy Lee]

Thank. Very nice lighting.

[Pat Godwin]

And.

[Joey Chestnut]

Right.

[Pat Godwin]

It's. Yes. It's right in my.

[Christy Lee]

Face. It's really.

[Tom Griswold]

Pretty. That lighting coming from below makes you look like you have a lot more hair than you.

[Christy Lee]

Do. Oh, my.

[Jeff Davis]

Gosh. Oh, thank.

[Tom Griswold]

You. Well, I just admit it, Kristy.

[Christy Lee]

I think you look.

[Josh Arnold]

Very. That's coming from the baldest man in the. In.

[Christy Lee]

The. Yes.

[Tom Griswold]

Right. No idea. Under this hat. I have a bushy head of hair just like Ace. Christy, you going to handle this prize pick for.

[Christy Lee]

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[Tom Griswold]

Details. Thanks very much, Christy Lee. Coming up, a duet with Patty g. And Edwin McCain. I think we have time. Joey, can you hang out for a.

[Josh Arnold]

While?

[Tom Griswold]

Absolutely. Oh, good. We'll look forward to it. Coming up, they're going to be doing their version of Mela Kaliki Maka. Am I getting it right? Am I missing a syllable or three? Okay, good. We'll find out when we return to the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios where this remains the Bob and Tom.

[Josh Arnold]

Show.

Hey, it's the Bob and Tom show. Live from the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios. Christy Lee is sitting at the Silac Insurance company news desk. Jeff Oskar is at the prize pick sports desk. Hey, man. Pat Godwin is in the performance room getting ready to do a musical number with one of our favorite people, Edwin McCain. Who joins us. There's Ace Cosby. Hello, I'm Josh Arnold at The I Hate stevensinger.com Sidekick chair. And Tom. We're also joined by the champ himself, Joey.

[Tom Griswold]

Chestnut. Joey Chestnut, legend in the world of competitive eating. Is there a like a hall of.

[Joey Chestnut]

Fame? Not yet. Not.

[Josh Arnold]

Yet. What city would you like it to be.

[Joey Chestnut]

In? Oh, it would have to be. Oh, probably Probably.

[Josh Arnold]

Brooklyn.

[Joey Chestnut]

Okay. Or the hot Coney.

[Josh Arnold]

Island. Makes.

[Joey Chestnut]

Sense. That would make.

[Tom Griswold]

Sense. Would the TR. With the.

What do the guys get in the baseball hall of Fame? Do they get a jacket or. I know, obviously in golf, the masters, you get the green jacket. Would you get like an.

[Joey Chestnut]

Apron?

An apron? Maybe they get a belt.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. The belt would have a place where you can put in extra.

[Edwin McCain]

Holes.

The golden toilet.

[Tom Griswold]

Seat.

The golden.

[Joey Chestnut]

Bidet.

A normal.

[Tom Griswold]

Belt. Joey Chestnut is here. And Joey's got a big thing coming up Saturday because it's going to be a. This time it's wings. The. The famed Hermanaki Wings are going to be consumed. Joey's already showed us his technique. We'll be posting the. The technique online. You can look at the videos on YouTube in case you're interested in seeing how it's.

[Christy Lee]

Done. You gotta wait till after the competition or the. Well, tomorrow people will be watching, you know, his competitors will be watching his.

[Tom Griswold]

Technique. Mickey Suto's gonna be in the studio, I think tomorrow, so we can. We can see what her technique.

[Joey Chestnut]

Is. Yeah, we gotta watch her technique. She got some dental work done not too long.

[Christy Lee]

Ago. Does it help.

[Josh Arnold]

Her? I don't think.

[Joey Chestnut]

So. I think she's a little bit.

[Edwin McCain]

Nervous. So is there any. Is there any psych out stuff? Do y' all, like, talk a little trash or.

[Joey Chestnut]

Anything? I'm like, I'm already telling her, like, oh, these wings are gonna be hard on your little baby.

[Tom Griswold]

Teeth.

But you can't trash talk during the event because you're mouthful of.

[Joey Chestnut]

Food. No, you can't. Yeah. So it has to happen.

[Tom Griswold]

Beforehand. You have.

[Joey Chestnut]

To. You have to really mind. Screw.

[Tom Griswold]

Them. Yeah.

I like it. That's. I like that work. That's good. Now, we had a nice letter here for Edwin McCain. It's. I had the good fortune of attending an event. Edwin was the performer. He probably has good stories about it. There were a lot of NASCAR drivers there. Not sure what this was.

Edwin did a fun version of Mela Kaliki.

[Edwin McCain]

Kakamaka. Melly. Melly Kalikimaka. The famous Don Ho.

[Tom Griswold]

Classic. And Pat, you got. You guys work this.

[Pat Godwin]

Out. Ready to.

[Tom Griswold]

Go?

[Edwin McCain]

Yeah.

Melekaliki maca is the thing to say on a bright Hawaiian Christmas.

[Pat Godwin]

Day. Oh, yeah, it.

[Edwin McCain]

Is. That's the island greeting that we send to you for the land where palm trees sway.

Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright the sun will, will shine by day and all the stars by night. Mele glicky maca is the right way to say Merry Christmas to you.

[Tom Griswold]

All.

[Josh Arnold]

Right. And a.

[Edwin McCain]

Little. A little addendum.

[Pat Godwin]

There. Oh, those Herman Hermanakis are the wings today. Joey Chestnut comes to.

[Edwin McCain]

Play.

[Tom Griswold]

Nice. Good coda. Thank you very.

[Josh Arnold]

Much. That was.

[Edwin McCain]

Great.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Were you, like, in the choir and stuff in High.

[Edwin McCain]

School? 100%. No. So I. I was. I couldn't. I had dyslexia real bad when I was a little kid. I couldn't read. I had a hard time reading. And so elementary school was hard and. But I. I could sing, and I was in the church choir and doing things, and it was like, all right, well, the adults seem to like it when I sing, so that's what we're doing. And. Yeah, so that was church. And church choir is basically Southern daycare.

I mean, everybody's in church choir.

[Joey Chestnut]

Right?

[Edwin McCain]

Yeah. And sports. The church choir and.

[Tom Griswold]

Sports. Did you play sports.

[Edwin McCain]

Too? Everybody did. Yeah, we all did. And, you know, if you remember, we were lighting fires and playing soccer and, you know, nobody knew where we were for weeks at a time in the.

[Christy Lee]

Summer. Good old.

[Edwin McCain]

Days. My father was the town pediatrician, and they didn't know where we were. You know, I mean, I tell my parents. I remember telling my kids. I'm like, you know, parents in our neighborhood were fully authorized to beat your butt if you were doing something wrong and you come home and your parents would go, what'd you.

[Jeff Davis]

Do? Yeah, I would go home and get beat by my parents for putting the other parent.

[Edwin McCain]

Out. You made them beat.

[Tom Griswold]

You. Those days are.

[Edwin McCain]

Gone. Oh, my.

[Tom Griswold]

Gosh. We all learned a lesson. Now we're hanging out with Joey Chestnut, getting ready for another competitive eating event. Do you have a full schedule coming up? Do you have a break here after this.

[Joey Chestnut]

One? Gonna start slowing down. Wintertime. I don't know if you can see me, but I'm a little bit heavy. I'm a doughy Chestnut. Right now.

I'm gonna try to drop some pounds. My next real contest will be end of January. Will be.

[Tom Griswold]

Bagels. Wow. So those would be. That, I think, would be tough.

[Jeff Davis]

Yeah. Is hard with a schmear or.

[Joey Chestnut]

Without. There's a little shmear on there. It's not. It's not toasted.

[Christy Lee]

So. Oh, are they stuck together or they.

[Joey Chestnut]

Halves? Yeah, they're stuck together, but. So we got.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah. Pull them apart and then.

[Edwin McCain]

Eat. Can you dunk.

[Joey Chestnut]

It? We. The dunking really doesn't work on too much at.

[Tom Griswold]

All. They don't. They don't absorb.

[Joey Chestnut]

Anything. It's better just to kind of tear and drink a little water and just.

[Josh Arnold]

Wiggle. Wiggle.

[Tom Griswold]

Wiggle. Now, obviously, with, with the hot dog competitions and I don't know who was the Dick Fosberry, if you will, who revolutionized the sport of high jumping? Who revolutionized the sport of hot dog eating and taking the bun off and dipping in water. Who's.

[Joey Chestnut]

The. It was the Japanese. Yeah. Back in the 90s, there was an eater called the Rabbit. I think is Arai. And then later Kobayashi started winning. And then so, like when I started, I was like, all right, that's the technique. And I tried to eat him fast without dunking, but it's just a little bit faster with.

[Tom Griswold]

Dunking. Now. Can you do with the wings? There's.

[Joey Chestnut]

No. It won't, it wouldn't.

[Tom Griswold]

Help. Wouldn't.

[Joey Chestnut]

Help. Now anything that's fried at all or like with the, it, it, the oil really makes a barrier.

[Christy Lee]

Almost. Can you patent a technique for, for eating.

[Joey Chestnut]

Like. No, I don't think.

[Christy Lee]

So.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay. I, I, It'd be kind of.

[Christy Lee]

Cool. I mean, it would be kind of cool to have your own. I just can't do.

[Edwin McCain]

That. Like the Chestnut.

[Tom Griswold]

Chug. I was gonna say, you want to have your name on.

[Christy Lee]

It? Sure.

[Tom Griswold]

Absolutely. It'd be cool. Like the Fosbury Flop to this day for those high jump fans out.

[Joey Chestnut]

There. The Chestnut.

[Tom Griswold]

Jiggle. Yeah, yeah. Gotta think of that. Or create a tool of some sort that you could market the Joey Chestnut.

Hot Dog.

[Josh Arnold]

Stick.

Well, it's Coney. I still have some of the Coney.

[Joey Chestnut]

Sauce. Oh, those are good days. Those are good days. Covid killed that.

[Christy Lee]

That. Yeah. How do you lose weight? Is it.

[Joey Chestnut]

Tough? Oh, my God. I go on a serious high fiber.

[Christy Lee]

Diet. Oh.

[Joey Chestnut]

Okay. No, no.

[Jeff Davis]

Carbs.

[Joey Chestnut]

Almost. Yeah, I cut, I cut calories.

[Tom Griswold]

Hardcore. Well, now, speaking of unusual things to eat, we have an odd story. Yesterday we had a story about the highest price ever paid for one of those Faberge.

[Christy Lee]

Eggs. $30 million. Some Russian tsar Nicholas II had it made for his mother back in 1913. And it's only been, I think, in three different hands over all these.

[Tom Griswold]

Years. It sold for 30.

[Christy Lee]

Million. 30.

[Tom Griswold]

Million. But now we have a different thing. But this is not one of those eggs. Sort.

[Christy Lee]

Of. Police in New Zealand say a man tried to smuggle a Faberge pendant out of a jewelry store by swallowing it. Valued at $19,000, the alleged loot was a gold, jewel encrusted Faberge egg pendant Inspired by the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy. These eggs are not the size of a real egg. The pendant is a smaller egg. So you're not Swallowing.

[Josh Arnold]

Faberge. The style or the.

[Christy Lee]

Material? Faberge is the company that made.

[Josh Arnold]

Them. Oh, it is.

[Christy Lee]

Okay. Yeah, like a Chanel or like a brand name. The 32 year old suspect believed to have consumed the egg in an attempt to steal it. Evidence of the alleged theft has yet to emerge, if you will, but an officer has been.

[Tom Griswold]

Assigned. This thing's three and a half inches.

[Christy Lee]

High. Constantly monitor the.

[Tom Griswold]

Man. And they think the guy swallowed it.

[Josh Arnold]

Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

Wow. That's a.

[Joey Chestnut]

Trick. That's pretty.

[Tom Griswold]

Impressive.

[Jeff Davis]

Yeah. Now he's gonna have a bunch of blood.

[Edwin McCain]

Diamonds.

It's gonna be a pretty interesting Darwin.

[Jeff Davis]

Award.

[Tom Griswold]

Exactly. But I mean, some. They have to. The police have to just, I guess, sit there with a. I don't know, a.

[Jeff Davis]

Strainer. I want to know what. I want to know what the cop did who got put in charge of having to sit there.

[Tom Griswold]

With. You mean duty.

[Jeff Davis]

Duty. Yeah, exactly. I must have had sex.

[Josh Arnold]

With. Yeah. Remember when you ticketed my.

[Pat Godwin]

Wife?

[Tom Griswold]

Well.

What else have you got? Christy.

[Christy Lee]

Lee? Scientists say smelling your own flagellants might be good for.

[Josh Arnold]

You. I knew.

[Christy Lee]

It.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine found that the hydrogen sulfide that causes your fart's rotten egg smell can actually help protect your brain cells from Alzheimer's disease. See, I totally don't believe that.

[Tom Griswold]

This. Because if you've ever been around Johns Hopkins. I mean, it's serious.

[Christy Lee]

Business. Old people fart all the time. That's. The body naturally produces small amounts of hydrogen sulfide, which helps cells communicate and regulate normal functions. Researchers found that the chemical supports healthy brain signaling. And levels drop with age, especially in people with Alzheimer's. And it apparently is in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, if you'd like to read more about.

[Tom Griswold]

It. Yeah, that serious, serious medical journal. Does they have to be your.

[Christy Lee]

Own? I would think they would have to be your.

[Tom Griswold]

Own.

Wouldn't the hydrogen sulfide be in Josh's, for.

[Josh Arnold]

Example? I don't.

[Tom Griswold]

Know. You could be a.

[Josh Arnold]

Donor.

[Edwin McCain]

Yes. I'm gonna live.

[Josh Arnold]

Forever.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Well, I gotta go down to the fart bank. I lost a step in my.

[Josh Arnold]

Memory. Very.

[Joey Chestnut]

Odd. And get pink.

[Tom Griswold]

Eye. Well, let's get back to our guests. Edwin McCain is here with us. You brought your guitar. Do you want to sing a real song for.

[Edwin McCain]

Us?

[Tom Griswold]

No. Okay. You don't have.

[Edwin McCain]

To. I'm good. I think we tapped out. We hit the we. We've hit the.

[Tom Griswold]

Quota. You nailed it, though. You did such a good job. And you may be going out this summer back on.

[Jeff Davis]

Tour.

[Edwin McCain]

Yeah. I hope we're going out on tour this summer. I like the big tours that. Where we get to be. I mean, my goal is to be the greatest support act in the history of man.

[Tom Griswold]

Because. And how many people you taking with you when you.

[Edwin McCain]

Go? We go out with seven of us. It's five of us in the band, two crew. I drive the bus. We're like SEAL team.

[Jeff Davis]

Six.

[Edwin McCain]

We're. We're lean and mean, man. We get it done. It's.

[Tom Griswold]

Great. Now last time I saw you, you were leaving a major venue. You were opening for Collective.

[Edwin McCain]

Soul. Yeah, Hootie and Collective.

[Tom Griswold]

Soul. And I. You didn't know it. I was right behind you because I recognized your bus. I was trying to pull up next to you, but you. I mean, the concert had been over for like 10 minutes and you were driving to the next.

[Edwin McCain]

Gig. Yeah, we have a whole. We have a whole program. We get out of there, we beat the traffic, you know, get on the highway, head for the next.

[Tom Griswold]

Place. Wow, good for you. And you can also repair the.

[Edwin McCain]

Vehicle. I.

[Tom Griswold]

Am. Yeah, but what kind of license you have to.

[Edwin McCain]

Have? No. Well, you have to have a CDL and, And. And I have to be. You know, we used to be. We could just put private coach on the front of it and that was it. And we could do whatever we wanted to do. And now we're sort of. We have to follow all the rules. That's how I lost my bus driver. You know, my old bus driver that used to share the duties with me when we had to become legal. I. I said, hey, say hey, Dave, we're gonna have to be on random drug screens from now on. And he goes, well, today's my last.

[Tom Griswold]

Day.

How does that work? You pull into a way station and they test your.

[Edwin McCain]

Urine? No, we don't have to do it. I, I.

[Al Jackson]

Just.

[Edwin McCain]

It. It shows up in the. We get an. I get an email that I have to go buy ran. I got to go buy one of those drug testing places and put in or random screen and they give you a number and you send it all off and do the whole.

[Tom Griswold]

Thing. Well, this actually ties into a news story in an odd way. There was a news story we had a few years ago about a false male member, if you.

[Edwin McCain]

Will. Oh.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. That you could put urine.

[Christy Lee]

In. Wasn't it called the.

[Edwin McCain]

Wizinator? Yeah, dudes had him in rehab. Yeah, that was.

[Tom Griswold]

Happening. And. And I guess the trick I was told was you've got to bring them up to temperature. Yeah, yeah, because people would store that, you know, they'd go up to someone and say, hey, can I have some of your.

[Edwin McCain]

Pee? Well, the big problem was these idiots in rehab would get pee from women and then they would come back, hey, you know you're pregnant.

[Tom Griswold]

Right?

Yeah. And we also had a new story. I don't have it in front of me anymore. We had a new story about a. I want to say it was a lady that walked into a 711 and put a jar of her urine in the microwave because she wanted to get it up to temperature for the.

[Christy Lee]

Fake. Oh, yeah, I remember that.

[Edwin McCain]

One. 235.

[Tom Griswold]

Degrees. Kind of hot, man. But this is a fake body part, but it's not for the purpose of a drug test. Do you have the.

[Christy Lee]

Story? Yeah. The former CIA agent known as the chief of disguise revealed some of the devices that they used during the Cold War. Among them, fake scrotums and so called rectal tool kits. And in her interview with Wired, Ms. Joanna Mendez offered a series of stories about some of the CIA's Cold War era.

[Josh Arnold]

Gadgets. Now, when she wore the fake scrotum, it was very obvious.

Ma', am, we might think you're a.

[Christy Lee]

Sponge. A fake scrotum which could be prepared in advance to conceal escape tools if the operative anticipated being captured or strip searched. So you'd have to be able to fit your real scrotum inside the fake scrotum.

[Tom Griswold]

Right? I guess that or you could.

[Christy Lee]

Just. Alongside the.

[Tom Griswold]

Tools. I would think, because I mentioned the guys that have to do this, it's probably a fairly unpleasant task to have to search.

[Edwin McCain]

Somebody. And it's definitely not a quick draw.

[Tom Griswold]

Situation. Yeah, hold on a.

[Josh Arnold]

Second. Yeah.

[Christy Lee]

Yeah. Menendez also described a rectal toolkit, which he said was a little bit like a suppository that you just inserted in case you needed.

[Josh Arnold]

It. I wonder what. What it did or what she.

[Christy Lee]

Said. It was important that it be very well made, very smooth, that it not cause any injury coming or going. But inside of it were small tools that could be used in a.

[Josh Arnold]

Variety of ways, like picking.

[Jeff Davis]

Locks. Yeah, I've seen it. It has like a, like a wire cord for cutting and it has like lock picks, so you can pick your handcuffs or.

[Josh Arnold]

Whatever.

[Tom Griswold]

Gotcha. Hope Tom Cruise has to do this for his next movie because he always does his own stunts. All right, quiet on the set. We got to remove the rectal tool. No.

[Josh Arnold]

Smiling.

That makes sense. Your handcuffs behind your back. You can just kind of push it out and it's right there. Yeah. This boy.

[Tom Griswold]

Man. So this is the suppository one. Not, not the Scrotum.

[Jeff Davis]

Thing.

[Tom Griswold]

Sure. Because I thought of a great name for the. The spy movie with the scrotum.

[Josh Arnold]

Thing.

[Tom Griswold]

Okay. Scrotal.

[Jeff Davis]

Recall.

[Tom Griswold]

Yes.

Kind of a robot thing. Okay. Well, aren't you glad you don't have to do that? Yeah, yeah. Escape with a 2D. Do they train those guys how to pick locks and.

[Josh Arnold]

Stuff?

[Christy Lee]

Sure. Oh, yeah. Behind your.

[Tom Griswold]

Back?

[Christy Lee]

Sure. I don't know if I could. My arms would go down that far.

[Josh Arnold]

To. Oh.

[Jeff Davis]

Yeah. We should handcuff you and try.

[Josh Arnold]

It. See if I can crap out a tiny little.

[Tom Griswold]

Egg.

Well, earlier in the show you said you could make a deposit into a Pringles.

[Josh Arnold]

Can. No.

[Tom Griswold]

Doubt. Okay, okay, we'll talk about that.

[Jeff Davis]

Later. The look on Joey's face when you just said that we.

[Tom Griswold]

Had. No, this was a legitimate news story out of Columbus, Ohio. A distinguished attorney, for some reason.

[Christy Lee]

I don't know if he was distinguished.

[Tom Griswold]

Now. He was. And admitted that he had been pooping into Pringle scans and throwing them at various sites around the.

[Christy Lee]

City.

Yeah, yeah. Look at his.

[Edwin McCain]

Face. Well, no, I'm just trying to figure out the motive. Was it just to see if he was mad in.

[Josh Arnold]

There? He was mad at, at the city hall or something and he was throwing it at the.

[Tom Griswold]

Building. Those were his enemies. Someone wrote us a letter saying. Apparently the technique is you do that into a Pringles can, then you put a layer of Pringles on top and leave it at your.

[Edwin McCain]

Office. Whatever happened, just the, you know, the.

Little lunch bag and you light it on fire and leave it on the.

[Tom Griswold]

Floor. The.

[Edwin McCain]

Classics. Yeah.

[Tom Griswold]

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[Josh Arnold]

The Bob and Tom show live from the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios. Christy Lee's at the Silac Insurance Company news.

[Christy Lee]

Desk.

[Josh Arnold]

Hello. Pat Godwin's in the performance room. Hey, Josh, There's Jeff Oscar at the prize pick sports desk. Hey, man, Ace Cosby.

[Jeff Davis]

There. Hey.

[Josh Arnold]

Josh. I'm Josh Arnold with the I Hate Stephen Singer sidekick chair. And Tom, if you would please introduce our terrific.

[Tom Griswold]

Guests. Singer, songwriter, he is also a got a great little Christmas project that's floating around on Spotify. He is Edwin McCain, terrific, terrific musician. And also in the studio, it's the legend himself, Joey Chestnut, competitive eater. And Joey has a big event coming up prior to the Big Ten championship game. He's going to be trying to be a big winner at the Al Emporium Hermannacki Wing eating competition. He has already shown us his special technique for eating wings. And to make this clear, Joey, you they weigh, they weigh the wings and the refuse, if you will. So it's based on the total amount of.

[Joey Chestnut]

Foodie.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Food.

[Joey Chestnut]

Eaten. So if you have a technique that you're not efficient, if you're wasting time getting the meat off the bone, you have to get the meat off.

[Tom Griswold]

Quick. And approximately how long will first of all, how long will the competition be? How many.

[Joey Chestnut]

Minutes? Oh, it's a ten minute contest and yeah, ten minutes of playtime and it's, yeah, it goes if it's a rough contest, It's a long 10 minutes. If I'm in my zone, in the rhythm, it goes by pretty.

[Tom Griswold]

Quick. And then approximately how many wings will it be, do you think? Think if you had.

[Joey Chestnut]

To. Oh, my gosh. We're probably right around 200.

[Tom Griswold]

Wings. Oh.

[Edwin McCain]

What. Has there ever been in, like, a cheating scandal in competitive.

[Joey Chestnut]

Eating? Oh, my God. Well, we're competitive. If it. I think it was Emmett Smith who said, if you're not cheating, you're not trying.

And you know, there's. There's a couple eaters who have been caught doing what? Oh, my God. They put things in their pocket. They put things in.

They try. They try to hide the food. Food. They'll drop it on the.

[Christy Lee]

Ground. Man, I was great at that as a.

[Tom Griswold]

Kid. Yeah, me.

[Josh Arnold]

Too.

We didn't have a.

[Edwin McCain]

Dog.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. There are certain things you do and you can't have dessert until you eat that. Here.

[Christy Lee]

Boy.

[Tom Griswold]

Yep. So that's interesting. Are there judges then staring at you the whole.

[Joey Chestnut]

Time? So there's usually a couple judges, and then the emcee, he's. He's really the head judge. Yeah, he's standing right.

[Tom Griswold]

Behind. Hey, listen, try to get the officials from last week's a Colts game on your side. They wouldn't notice anything. They're apparently blind. Well, this should be interesting. And you are coming off of. This is a.

[Joey Chestnut]

Comeback. Yeah. Well, I've won every contest this year except for a win contest, so I'm hoping I can break my win contest losing.

[Tom Griswold]

Streak. Now. The record for hot dogs on the fourth of July, because you were back at that this year. I was, but you did not get. That was not a personal best, though, was.

[Joey Chestnut]

It? No, it wasn't a personal best, but back in the 70s. And next year I have a plan. I'm gonna lose a couple.

[Tom Griswold]

Pounds. What is your personal best.

[Joey Chestnut]

Man?

[Tom Griswold]

76. 76 hot.

[Josh Arnold]

Dogs. That's a.

[Tom Griswold]

Spirit.

[Joey Chestnut]

Yeah. For.

[Christy Lee]

America.

[Tom Griswold]

Yeah. Now they. For that, it's strictly the number of hot dogs. Right. They don't measure the refuse because there's going to be spitting.

[Joey Chestnut]

Or. Well, yeah, so we dunk the buns in water. So if you. If you make a mess with your buns, there'll be deductions. They'll. They'll give you deductions as they should. And everybody has two judges. Like.

[Tom Griswold]

They'Re. They take it very.

[Joey Chestnut]

Serious. Oh, yeah. They're watching hard and. Yeah. So that one. I. I have a.

[Christy Lee]

Plan. Yeah, you got to do 76 for the 250th. Year of.

[Joey Chestnut]

The. Exactly. Or at least match or world record would.

[Josh Arnold]

Work. Does your announcer write his own introductions or does he have a team? Because those things are so.

[Joey Chestnut]

Rich. George. George is on the. On the. Yeah, he's the lead emcee and he's. He kills.

[Josh Arnold]

It. If I were the president, he'd be my.

[Tom Griswold]

Speechwriter. Yeah, we've had him on the air. They're.

[Joey Chestnut]

Amazing. He gets the crowd amped up. And I'm. I go in, I'm. I'm ready to. I'll do whatever it.

[Tom Griswold]

Takes. What is the temperature of the hot.

[Joey Chestnut]

Dogs?

[Tom Griswold]

Temperature? I mean, you got to make sure, obviously, in any of these. Com. If this. If it's too.

[Joey Chestnut]

Hot. Well, yeah, they'll always cool down. It's best if they're warm still. But sometimes they've been sitting out a little bit.

[Tom Griswold]

Longer. And.

[Joey Chestnut]

When. When the meat kind of gets. When it's in now, it gets a little bit.

[Tom Griswold]

Nicer. Tougher sitting is sitting in sort of blue.

[Joey Chestnut]

Water. Yeah. So. So hopefully they're still warm if it gets cold. Cold hot dogs aren't fun to eat. It goes back to, like, if it's garbage food, it's. It's. Numbers are gonna be.

[Tom Griswold]

Good. Well, speaking of food, Edwin McCain, you drive the bus for your band, and of course, you're the star of the band. But do you have rules about food in the.

[Edwin McCain]

Bus? We used to actually have little competitions like who could bring the nastiest thing out of the truck stop for the hundred dollar prize. And we had to stop doing that because the ace of spades was always the pig's foot. And so we had to throw the flag on that we had to stop doing.

[Tom Griswold]

That. Do you keep the bus clean personally? Are you in charge of that? Yeah.

[Edwin McCain]

Yep. And so that's a. That's a important moment in my life where I'm sitting there vacuuming the.

[Tom Griswold]

Bus.

Singing to.

[Edwin McCain]

Yourself. Yeah. No, it's no higher praise than getting the bus. I just put new floors in the bus so I can just swiffer it out.

[Tom Griswold]

Now. Oh, nice. Oh, cool. Now, do you have. Isn't the secret to these buses to not have the name of your band on.

[Edwin McCain]

It? A hundred percent. Well, so there are. It used to be. Back in the day. Back in the day, they used to name the buses and the bus was. Buses name would be on the back of the bus.

[Al Jackson]

Right.

[Edwin McCain]

And. And so we had a bus called the Drifter, and we called it the Lake House because every time it rained, it just poured inside of it. We loved that bus. And.

[Christy Lee]

So.

[Edwin McCain]

So. But people would misunderstand and that we'd have these old codgers knocking on the doors that the original drifters, you know, we'd have to explain. It's not. No, no.

[Tom Griswold]

Sir. You don't do any covers. Well, thanks. Thanks, guys. Guys, it's always a great pleasure. Edwin McCain and Joey Chestnut joining us here. And These are the O'Reilly Auto Parts Studios, and this is the Bob and Tom.

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