Was a huge Bob and Tom fan growing up. One of the greatest largely unscripted morning shows ever created. Helped put Indianapolis on the map in the 90’s. Never met him but never heard a bad word about him.
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That show was the soundtrack of my late teens and early adulthood when it first started in the early to mid 80's. They were my morning drive for 20 years. I met him a few times and he was just a good dude. When I was doing some side work for a courier company, I had to deliver some gear to an event at the Indy 500 Museum. I'd finished and was hanging out having a smoke by the delivery entrance before heading out. He'd found his way out there to do the same. Shot the shit for 5-10 minutes, mostly about racing.
A good friend will bail you out of jail, but your best friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying "that was f***ing awesome"
Listened to them a lot in my late teens, early 20s. The first time I ever heard "toast" I laughed so hard milk came out of my nose.
Still stuck in my head was a Mariachi style intro they did for Jay Baker (did a purposely awful Dick Nixon impression Dick's Picks), who did mid days after Bob and Tom.Went something like:
Aye aye aye aye,
Oh no Jay Baker.
A sheep thats asleep he will take her,
Just like a Purdue Boilermaker.
A good friend will bail you out of jail, but your best friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying "that was f***ing awesome"
Listened to them a lot in my late teens, early 20s. The first time I ever heard "toast" I laughed so hard milk came out of my nose.
Same! Haywood Banks was a treasure. Toast, the Pancreas Song, Big Butter Jesus...
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
This was 1b for me in terms of songs.
I was a little too young to really understand the show during its prime, but I loved it, and when it finally got picked up in Fort Wayne, it was my regular morning show.
This was 1b for me in terms of songs.
A few I really enjoyed:
A good friend will bail you out of jail, but your best friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying "that was f***ing awesome"
Wow, missed this until now.
Haven't listened to B&T for years, but it was a mainstay in the 80s and 90s. Buttman and Swallow, all the track bits when the Indy 500 was still the 500, first introduction to Todd Snider, Sid and Hadji, Man Song, the list is endless.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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Loved the Dick Simon song
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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