Tomtit & Baobab: A Bee-Inspired Podcast

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 q...

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 macro crack 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 s...

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 Tuesda...

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!