The BOB & TOM Show – September 29, 2025

Host: The BOB & TOM Show (Tom Griswold, Bob Kevoian, Chick McGee, Jess Hooker, Pat Godwin, Josh Arnold, Ace Cosby)
Date: September 29, 2025

Episode Overview

This episode of The BOB & TOM Show blends the show’s signature mix of comedy, lively banter, music, and topical news. The crew kicks off the week with laughs, sports results, absurd true stories, listener letters, and digressions about everything from LEGO-building fails to explosive bike tires, from slang dictionaries to corn dog recalls. The group’s trademark raunchy bits, affectionate ribbing, and digressions into personal stories keep the tone light, irreverent, and fast-paced.

Major Segments & Highlights

1. "Pissing Outside": A Musical Ode

• [01:02 – 03:06]
  The show opens with a comedic musical interlude about the joys of urinating outdoors, performed by Tom, Bob, and Chick. “You don’t know what you’re missing until you start pissing outside,” they sing, invoking everything from virgin snow to the grass being greener "when you water with your wiener."
  • Memorable Quote (Chick, 03:14):
    “Because the grass is always greener when you water with your wiener outside!”
• After the song, the cast riffs on Tom’s supposed penchant for outdoor urination, with Tom declaring:
  Tom (03:41): "It connects me to the earth."
  Chick: "You mean it grounds you?"
  Banter continues about whether such experiences are "spiritually grounding."

2. Monday Catch-Up: Weekend Mishaps, LEGO Frustrations

• [04:47 – 10:45]
  • Bike Tire Explosion:
    Bob recounts an explosive mishap while filling his bicycle tire ("boom happened at 30 [psi], not 50"), leading to comedic speculation about the dangers of air hoses and a group admission of such irrational fears (05:00–07:30).
  • LEGO Building Woes:
    Chick laments being unable to assemble a complicated LEGO radio, admitting his defeat to Tom’s 12-year-old daughter, Finn, who is a LEGO whiz.
    Chick (10:27): "I knew that a 12-year-old was smarter than I was. Now I have proof."

3. Sports Highlights & Bets

• [12:23 – 13:15 | 36:26 – 38:29 | 57:47 – 65:15]
  • NFL Recap:
    Recap of Green Bay vs. Dallas’ wild 40–40 overtime tie and Chick’s “bookie woes.”
  • Scoregami (unique NFL final scores) discussed, with Tom excited about record-breaking results.
    Chick (59:36):
    "This result has never happened before. Never in the history of the National Football League."
  • Non-Alcoholic Beer Mishap:
    Bob humorously admits drinking multiple Stella Artois 0.0s, only realizing his error after failing to get "buzzed."
  • Sports Guy Identity Crisis:
    Chick, resistant to his "sports guy" moniker, complains about frequent sports interruptions and ribbing.

4. True Tales: Cheese Sticks, Pranks Gone Wrong, Listener Letters

• [19:29 – 23:10]
  • Strange Listener Letter:
    Tom reads a letter about a child who inserted five cheese sticks rectally, requiring EMT intervention and X-rays.
    Chick (21:09): "Let's let it go."
    Bob: "There's some things your kids do that you just don't tell people about."
  • Air Hose Prank Gone Wrong:
    The cast recalls a horrifying story of a prank at a service station involving an air hose and a coworker’s posterior—"and it killed the guy" (18:28).
    Chick: "That’s Final Destination stuff, man."
  • More Listener Letters:
    Topics include childhood posters (Linda Carter, Frank Zappa), nostalgic video stores, marching band stories, and expired pancake mix horror.

5. Pop Culture, Posters, and T-Shirts

• [22:19 – 33:13]
  • Poster Memories:
    The hosts reminisce over classic room posters—Zappa, Budweiser girls, Ozzy, and the John Belushi "College" sweatshirt shot.
  • T-Shirt Irony:
    Debate over people wearing Nirvana and Ramones shirts having never heard the bands—Tom admits to judging such wearers, Chick recalls wearing an Indian Motorcycle shirt despite having crashed one.

6. Contemporary Slang & Language Discussion

• [139:53 – 147:28]
  • New Terms in the Dictionary:
    Jess reads social slang and jargon recently added to Merriam-Webster, quizzing the room:
    • Beast mode (“bringing it hard, 100% full out”)
    • Dad bod (“slightly overweight, not extremely muscular”)
    • Dumb phone (“cell phone with no advanced features”)
    • Petrichor (the smell after rainfall—new to most of the cast)
    • Teraflop (a trillion floating point operations per second)
    • Hard pass (“firm refusal”)
  • The group critiques overused or misused words in modern lingo—"impact", "optics", "unpack", etc.

7. Major News & Absurd Health Stories

• [157:08 – 159:34, 161:02+]
  • Massive Corn Dog Recall:
    58 million pounds of corn dogs and sausage-on-a-stick products recalled after reports of embedded wood splinters; comic speculation ensues about the irony of wood in a product already on a stick.
    • Pat Godwin sings an Elvis-style parody:
      "Ain't nothing but a corn dog with wood in the batter. Millions being recalled with wood in Nevada."
  • World Records:
    Guinness record for world’s longest fingernails by a male (over 19 feet!), and ensuing gross-out at how one lives with such appendages and how his wife helps him.

8. Personal Health & Home Life

• [49:32 – 53:37]
  • Tom’s Hernia Update:
    Colorful discussion of post-surgical swelling (“At its height, I would say lacrosse ball”), scatological humor, and the “sandpaper softball” pooping story.
  • Household Pet Peeves:
    Sunday morning noise etiquette (lawn mowing rules), the problem with leaf blowers, burning leaves, and neighborly rooster crowing.

9. Technology, Subtitles, and the Evolution of Media

• [131:28 – 138:36]
  • Closed Captioning:
    Gen Z prefers subtitles; Tom and Jess admit to always using them, whether from hearing loss or habit.
  • Formats Discussion:
    Whether modern movies have been (or could be) shot in vertical (TikTok-style) alignment; brief discussion of smartphone/tech preferences.
  • Subtitles in Porn?:
    The team wonders if adult films have closed captioning and imagines the sound effects.

10. Rapid-Fire Bits, Inside Jokes, and Musical Moments

• Frequent running gags involve Chick’s failed LEGO skills, Tom’s unusual phrasing (“angels in a basket” for pigs in blanket), making fun of suburban parking etiquette, riffing on the origins of the word “glory hole” (with a promise to research "Glory Hole Park" in Aspen, CO for a future show), and trivia round of TV theme songs from My Three Sons.
• Odd foods and nostalgic chats: Cool Whip mishaps, family food hoarding (Cool Whip tubs as Tupperware), diet fads, and the effect of butter on health.

Notable Quotes & Comedic Moments

• About LEGO Troubles:
  “I knew that a 12-year-old was smarter than I was. Now I have proof.”
  – Chick McGee (10:27)

• On embarrassing ER visits:
  "He decided, for whatever reason, to insert a cheese stick into his butt. Couldn't get it out. He panicked and called 911."
  – Tom Griswold reading a listener letter (19:54)

• On non-alcoholic beer confusion:
  "I had two and I was like, man, I am not even the least bit buzzed. And I realized I had been drinking non alcohol.”
  – Bob Kevoian (55:58)

• On the widespread taste for Ramones/Nirvana shirts:
  "A lot of the people wearing it don't realize it's referencing a band."
  – Tom Griswold (28:56)

• On "Petrichor":
  “If the weatherman did it, I would go, what are you talking about?”
  – Tom Griswold (146:43)

• On mishaps with prescription meds after surgery:
  “I famously went 11 days after a shoulder surgery, and on day 12, I gave birth to a sandpaper softball. I know ladies what childbirth is like. At least rectally.”
  – Tom Griswold (53:07)

• Elvis-Style Corn Dog Song:
  “Ain’t nothing but a corn dog with wood in the batter. Millions being recalled with wood in Nevada.”
  – Pat Godwin (159:12)

Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:02] “Pissing Outside” song
• [04:50] Bob’s exploding bike tire story
• [10:27] LEGO fail and Chick’s admission
• [12:23 / 59:36] Sports: Packers/Cowboys tie, Scoregami
• [19:29] Listener letter: kid with cheese sticks
• [49:32] Tom’s hernia update
• [57:47] NFL, non-alcoholic beer discussion
• [131:28] Captioning, subtitles culture
• [139:53] Miriam-Webster new words, slang quiz
• [157:08] Corn dog recall news & Elvis parody

The Cast on Full Display

• Frequent comedic interplay between Chick, Bob, Tom, and Jess, with running gags about bodily functions, ignorance of modern slang, and escalating stories about food and parents.
• Pat Godwin’s musical parodies serve as delightful interludes, including a standout Elvis-inspired corn dog recall song (159:12).
• Listener interaction via letters brings in real-life absurdities and fuels additional riffing.
• Topical absurdity blends with a healthy dose of nostalgia and pop culture trivia, covering everything from TV theme songs to the Super Bowl halftime show announcement (Bad Bunny, to Tom’s confusion).

Final Thoughts

This episode is a quintessential BOB & TOM blend: unfiltered, eccentric, and laugh-out-loud. There’s something for every fan—news-heads, sports junkies, nostalgia lovers, and those looking to just go beast mode on a Monday morning commute.

If you missed it, check the timestamps for your favorite brand of Bob & Tom chaos and cringe—just maybe skip the cheese stick letters if you’re eating breakfast.