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In this final INNOVATIONAL show of the season, we're going insane (and inane) for games, looking at MILDEW and searching for HOOCH. Oh! And somebody should probably tell Gus, he's Jenn's GODCHILD now. Listening is totally VOLITIONAL, but highly recommended!

***The fun doesn't DWINDLE but it is going on vacay. Bee back in September, friends! K.I.T. at tomtitandbaobab@gmail.com***  

If ever there was a Bee INVARIANT, it was no Q, K, S in the same puzzle. On this live-from-New-York episode of T&B, Jenn finds out TAMARINs are her JAM, C discovers the giant SKUA, and Sam introduces a SEAQUAKE worthy of some pomp and circumstance.

From politics to parachute pants, we're covering the full spectrum of human peculiarity this week. So bring a DOLLAR for your slush fund and fill up your PHAETON for a CARTLOAD–or CARLOAD–of fun. T&B has CHUTZPAH; we will not be OUTDUELED!

Whether you're looking for a new episode or NU-ANCE, we've got you FOILED! Jenn's back from Cali, C's reading mail, and we're rediscovering elemental INDIUM. It's a TWEE show with two weeks worth of words...some people might even call it a MEGAHIT.

**This episode first aired May 20, 2024** PFFT, PISH, HMPF, HAH! Not sure what that all MIENs? Come find out. This week on T&B EMCEE C and DEEJAY J are in the PALAPA and they want you to MAKE. SOME. NOISE!

We'll bee back with a whole new episode next week.

It's May Day and here at T&B we're putting in the work to show you we're ECLECTIC. There's some silly POOH POOHing, a lot of RACY talk, and a passionate defense of the right to VOTE. No need to pay TUITION; we're giving out the facts for free.

We're following in Sam's footsteps and wrapping up National Poetry Month without any rhyme or reason. On this week's episode of T&B, C gets mad about MATUTINAL, Jenn's befuddled about BOOKWORK, and we're both very vocally in favor of VINCIBLE. We don't have to ALLUDE to the fun times ahead. Fun is just part of the program.

This week on T&B, we're DELIGHTED by FANG, vamping on VAMP, and playing Merriam-Webster's What Did You Call Me? game. MAVEN is clearly a compliment, but what about QUISLING or CALLIPYGIAN? We might also be committing a little bit of sacrilege...but isn't everyone these days?

This week on T&B, we dig deep on GRUBBY--and what we find might make you say YECH...or YECCH...or YEECH! It's a GONZO episode that covers everything from DOGGING to DOXXING. Best not to let your AI agents listen for you.

When kings are fools and fools are kings, we must find joy in wordy things! This week on T&B, we're putting on our April Fool's caps, talking TANKA for national poetry month, and getting a bee in our BONNET. Plus, we've got a marvelous mash-up of Vintage Vocab and Teen Words that you won't want to miss.

Skip the GLADHANDING, get ready to MOIL, and call up your OILMAN, man. T&B is all new this week and we're playing road trip word games from home. 'Cause that's how we roll.

**This episode first aired November 11, 2025**Jenn's moving. C's on vacay (yes, again). And for season 9 episode 5, we're giving you a chance to revisit season 8, episode 5! We'll bee back with a whole new episode next week!

It's the end of the world as we know it...and we're just going to laugh and talk about words! On this episode of T&B we're avoiding CATATONIA by focusing on CORMORANTs, ROBINs, and LULLABYs. If you, too, could do without MONOCRAT, pick up a fig NEWTON and PENCIL us in!

If you're confused by the world and looking for a word escape, you're in the right place! This week on T&B we're talking DELI orders, ANAGRAMs, and full body Scrabble. It's an onomato-party, and we're ready to COOK!

This week on T&B, C's giving women the spotlight. Call her a TACTICIAN. Call her a MONOMANIAC. Either way, there's nothing AWRY--the CATMINTs are for everyone! So, put on your CHAPs, hold on to your KNURLs, and come along for the ride. We're flying by the seat of our pants again!

We're back (and only a few hours late)! On this inaugural episode of T&B Season 9, we're talking winter sports, Crossplay, and dictionary denial. And of course, we've got Spelling Bee takes! TRIGRAPH? CORDOVA? PILLOWING?? If there's a word you got passionate about last week, we're probably on top of it like a two-person luge.

It's the holiday season and here at T&B we're wrapping up Season 8 with PLAUDITs, PEEVEs, PALAPA, and WHATNOT. Join us for a GUFFAWING good time...and we'll be back before you know it!

If you're looking for a THRILL...or the definition of BAIZE, you've come to the right place. This week on T&B we're bringing our PIZZAZZ and our PIZAZZ! It's a little bit wild, a little bit silly, and a whole lotta RADICOLOUS.

Baby, it's cold outside...and if we can't be hot potatoes, at least we can be COUCH potatoes! This week on T&B there's a BOOMLET of winter words, an AGELONG debate over AMBIENCE, and a bit of a HICCOUGHING fit. Take a listen and find out what makes this episode "friggin' terrific"!

Welcome to our annual live Thanksgiving episode! C and Jenn have brought their families to the HARVEST table and you can bet your PILGRIM DRESSING there's gonna be SPACE for PUMPKINs and GIBLETs. We only serve up the good STUFF here at T&B.

C's back and you're about to listen to an all-new episode of T&B! What you have to look forward to: We get mad about MIGNONETTE, find the logic in HOROLOGIC, and pontificate about PROPAGANDA (which, by the way, is an intentional pun that you may only understand when you get to the final segment, so hang in there!)

**This episode first aired on November 13, 2023**

Do foot bones count in the NYTimes Spelling Bee? What’s the deal with New England donuts? And what the heck is Gen Z talking about?? This week we’re going back to answer these and other burning questions from previous episodes. But it’s not all housekeeping: We’re also checking the LOOKBOOK, attending the LUNCHEON, and loading up the BOOKMOBILE. It’s an episode of BIBLICAL proportions!

This episode of T&B is LADEN with PETTIFOG, milky LETTUCE and more ÉLAN than most people can handle...or should we say MANHANDLE? Join us for a tubular time...and sadly, no, we weren't drinking while recording this one. [Background piano playing courtesy of Gustave]

🎵 This is Halloween. This is Halloween. 🎵 It's a spooky, eldritch time on T&B! Beatrice has a witch's hat, Jenn has ENMITY (and AMITY), C is word-shaking things up, AND there's mysterious piano music. Just you wait, Charlie Brown!

What do witches, bats, PEDIMENTs, and GIGOLOs have in common? They all get a mention in this week's Halloween-ish episode of T&B! Join us as we recap a scary week in "politics," engage in some toothsome talk about toothlessness, and treat ourselves a tricky old school game.

It's Jenn's BEE-day and we're feeling EXULTANT! Join our live-from-Philly party for BALLETIC moves, drinks to TIPPLE, and a call to MOBILIZE! No EMOLUMENTS, please. We prefer gifts our gifts constitutional.

After a long hiatus, T&B is back to Bee-ality! We’re celebrating our new season with liberal LABIALIZING, equivocating over ECHIDNA, and pushing back on PONGEE. Plus, we’re reviving the Wild Card with a live play of Merriam-Webster’s Reunion and, of course, our T&B signature screech. Nothing PURLOINED here—we’re totally original!

There are so many GOODLY reasons to listen to the T&B Season 7 finale! Firstly, singing worthy of TROUBADOURs. Secondly, LOVEABLE DOGGIE talk. Thirdly, LOVABLE DOGIE talk...NINTHLY, a delightful discovery of DUUMVIRATEs! All in all, there’s never been a a better moment for PEACETIME in the ARCHDUCHY.

Keep up with T&B this summer on Bluesky @tomtitbaobab. We'll bee back in the fall!

Despite the widening GULF between knowledge and the lack thereof, we’re having a virtual POTLATCH and you’re invited! Whether you’re KEMPT or UNKEMPT, a MUTT or a muttonhead, join us for this penultimate episode of Season 7. It’s a CALLITHUMP you won’t want to miss.

This week on T&B: C is all about the BUNG, Jenn says BINGO, and we want to TEACH you something while we still can. So put on your CLOGs and try to KETCH up!

HECTIC times call for MALAPROP measures...or something like that. On this week's episode of T&B, we're approving the PAPAL succession, calling out the CLAPTRAP, and demanding due process. In America, everybody gets a TRIAL!

"We are very tired, we are very merry." We're back from Japan and we're giving you a groggy recap of our trip told through...Bee words! It may be an uphill climb but with FAUNA, OOLONG, and a crying baby sumo festival ahead, it's 100% worth it.

With C & Jenn on holiday, your trusty T&B emergency host and lesser-known 'Georgia Wonder', Jared, is here to keep the word herd humming along.

For a whale of a good time, join us for a look into all things animal-related in this week's Bees, a new slate of Civil Words, and a Sad Sack Sentence that may have you questioning your APIAN existence.

Note: No, it's not your speakers, the audio quality is a bit wonky at times—apologies!

If you have a BEEF with a word in the NYTimes Spelling Bee (or the policies of the current administration), you've come to the right place! This week on T&B, we're talking TOPONOMY, muttering our MOTTOs, and playing a fun little game we like to call...Is It LEGAL? Take a listen and play along! It's not nearly as hard as it sounds.

On this week's episode we contend with COCHAIR, noodle on NEOLITH, and linger on LUGGAGE...or should it be baggage? We're trying our best the remain RIANT, but we can't hide the fact that we're HOWLING mad about what's happening to ELITE universities. Our message: Get smart, America!

This week on T&B C's making a COMEBACK, Jenn's hogging the conversation, and we're both sitting pretty in the CATBIRD seat! It's your CHOICE whether to listen, but we're in the pro camp!

What's left to say after "Omigod"? A lot, apparently! This week on T&B, Jared's filling in for C and we have opinions: PUCE is gross. MOONING is unadvisable. And this administration is totally COUP COUP.

We're in high DUDGEON 'cause the GOON Squad is here! Join us this week as we DOETH a review of the week in Bees, talk about all the GOONs in the current government, and take on DENGUE fever.

This week on T&B we’re making a FUSS about Sam’s most FABULOUS surprise, POUNCING on the opportunity to OPPUGN a COUP in progress, and flipping the bird at censorship by saying controversial words like: women, Black, and disability. No COUPONING needed. The fun is all free.

Who's ADJUDGING the New York Times Spelling Bee? We are! Put on your HARDHAT and step into our CIVIC center where CIVIL discourse is wildly overrated. It's just another WINGDING here on T&B!

T&B is back for an all new season! And we're still a 100% indie podcast. So we're using our INDEPENDENCE to say all the words that need to be said! Plus, in these FARCICAL days of BUNGLING INANITY, we could all use a few laughs, right?

It's the final episode of T&B Season 6 and we're not being scrooges about it! Or MOOCHes for that matter! Find a hunky Santa, jump on the UNfun bandwagon, and join us for carol singing, #BeeTheChange scheming, and, as always, laughs galore. Happy holidays, Hivemind!

This week on T&B, C just got her wisdom teeth pulled, nothing makes sense to Jenn, and the jinglizing continues! Listen to learn about the meaning of TRACKWAY, the deal with CARAT vs. KARAT, and the fate of the Philly jeweler who had a diamond in his beard. We promise we'll have you in stitches!

It's been an ANTICLIMATIC Bee week, but that won't stop us! On this episode of T&B, we tout the TOWHEE, extol the EGGHEAD, and call PHONY baloney on DOGTROT! Join in the convo and send us your "Bees ALEE" jingles while there's still time!

It's our annual family Thanksgiving episode, and spoiler: it's low-key awesome! But don't quote us on that (we prefer to remain UNQUOTED.) Join us to talk "hard climb" spellings (C-H-L-O-R-O-P-H-Y-L-L ), share "wow-worthy" words, and break out into spontaneous ALEE jingles. There's always more fun to bee had on T&B!

On T&B we don't just MICROCRACK each other up, we macrocrack each other up! This week we reject UNMAN, rejoice in CARIOCA, and recap where we are with the #BeeTheChange campaign to..."ALEE-viate the injustice"? So skip the BACKTALK, take the CLICKBAIT, and get on board!

Now that the NYT Tech Guild strike is over, we're back on our game! On this week's episode, C's going nuts for AQUANAUTS, Jenn's delighting in DITTO, and we're both shouting, "Bees ALEE"! If you know how to get Ed Helms on board (puns fully intended) for #BeeTheChange, write us ASAP.

On T&B when times are hard, you can be sure we have things to say about the word PRIAPIC! This week on the show, we're taking stock of the CRAP that happened on Tuesday, CARPing about dicks, and standing in solidarity with the striking NYTimes Tech Guild workers. We're also revealing the final results of the #BeeTheChange polls. You'll have to listen to find out what word won, but let's just say that here on T&B, we still believe in democracy!

It's scary times in the #NYTSpellingBee and beyond! Join us for some BULLHEADED TOMMYROT, spooky monster talk, and an update on our #BeeTheChange campaign. We're not HOTFOOTing you when we say this election is heating up! Cast your vote for ALEE, NUTRIA, or BENNE on ⁠FB⁠, ⁠IG⁠, or ⁠Tiktok⁠ (or by emailing us at ⁠tomtitandbaobab@gmail.com⁠) this week. And cast your vote for democracy this Tuesday, Nov. 5th! For info on voting in the US election, visit ⁠iwillvote.com⁠.

If you're looking for HORROR, you've come to the wrong ROOM! On this week's episode of T&B, we're DOLLOPING out the laughs, finding a COLONEL of truth, and debated whether ALEE is truly the strongest candidate to carry our #BeTheChange campaign. ENJOY the show!