Tomtit & Baobab: A Bee-Inspired Podcast

With age comes wisdom and as usual, C and Jenn are acting like a couple of wise asses on this week’s episode of T&B! We’re talking lemon laws, TYCOONs, and the origins of FAKE in 18th century Thieves’ Cant. We’re also reviewing your candidates and plotting next steps for our #BeeTheChange Campaign. Have ideas about words that should count in the #NYTSpellingBee? Have thoughts about what factor...

Tomtit & Baobab is back for Season 6 and we're slaying episode 1 like a couple of MATADORas! Come for the JOGGLING, stick around for the LOAF, and get ready for a few October surprises. If you're looking for joy, optimism, and friends who share your obsession with the NYTimes Spelling Bee, you've come to the right place.

It’s the final episode of Season 5, and do we have a treat for you! We’re being BATTY, talking TUBBY, WHINGEING about ARBITRARY words, and serving up just desserts. Join us for a fun summer send-off and subscribe to be the first to know when T&B returns this fall. K.I.T. on FB and IG or email TomtitAndBaobab@gmail.com.

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!

Put on your seatbelt, grab hold of the ROLLBAR, and get ready for a wild ride! This week on T&B we’re celebrating Beatrice’s sixth birthday, taking stock of what we’ve learned from the Bee, wondering if LEMMA should count, and doing some much needed housekeeping.

We prefer to think of ourselves as ECLECTIC, but if you wanted to call us nuts, we wouldn’t care a TITTLE! Don’t be CHARY, it’s nothing but a good time on this episode of T & B. We’re going to the Bee-Ball game, breaking down WORRYWART, and generally YUCCA-ing it up.

Who’s there? Jenn and C are live from NYC with two special guests, one unfunny NOCK NOCK joke and exactly zero LILLIPUTIANs! If you’re wondering whether you’re a DUMDUM for not knowing NUMBAT or tanking on TANTALUM...you're not. But take a listen and you'll never miss them again!

What's the difference between BONK and BOINK? Why should you know BOBOLINK? And what is Vintage Vocab anyway?? Grab a seat at the Boomer Bar with C, Jenn, and Jenn's mom, Bonnie. We're about to spill everything we know about Spelling Bee words!

It's an episode full of bouquets, BRICKBATs, SYZYGY, and BACCARAT. So shut your PIEHOLE, wipe your mouth on a NAPKIN, and put on your eclipse glasses. It's show time! Content Warning: We talk about a word related to sexual violence in this episode. Take care while listening.

This show has TITs. This show has COCKs. But if you think we're talking about anything other than words, you are barking up the wrong tree, PUPPY! Join us for YIPPEEs, YODELs, a bit of LOLLYGAGGing and a lot of excitement over a wild card discovery so good, we can't stop saying DAG.

We're away this week, but don't worry. We've picked out the perfect episode to re-air: the April Fool's show from our very first season! The deep dive on "HOODWINK" is a T&B classic. Come back next Monday for an all new episode.

T&B is having a wild time this week--we're breaking all our own rules and dedicating the entire episode to one very special guest. William Shunn, the mastermind behind Spelling Bee Solver⁠ , is back and we couldn't BEE happier.

This week on T&B we’re revisiting a few “strands” from last week’s episode, rehashing an old conversation about FILLIP, taking another look at those GLUTEI, and having feelings about MICROMINI. Are we VICTIMs of the Bee’s befuddling ways…or are we active agents in the experience of our own game play? There’s only one way to find out.

This week on T&B we’re figuring out how to play the new NYTimes game, Strands, and following the strands of conversation wherever they take us! It’s an episode full of tangents, PENTATHLETEs, ARMADILLOs, and ARANCINI that might just serve as a NEPENTHE for your troubles. Step into the DIORAMA and enjoy the show!

It’s March madness on T&B this week! What are we mad about? Oh, you know, only the exclusion of EFFABLE, the inclusion of NUDIE, all the Bee ARGOT, and the terrible results of our NYTimes’ Puzzle Personality Quiz! Join us for spontaneous PLAUDITs and linguistic BEDIZENMENT, then head over to @TomtitBaobab on Facebook to see our INEFFABLE Puzzle Quiz avatars and share yours!

We’re back from Puerto Rico and freezing cold! So bear with us as we reminisce about the beach, fruity cocktails, and…BURGOO? From LIVIDITY-producing words for gruel to big ideas like GOOGOL, we’re covering more ground than a MANKINI. Jared joins us for surf speak in an extra wild Wild Card.

C & Jenn are on holiday (yet again), so it's up to self-styled super guest host extraordinaire Jared Goodman to take y'all through the bee this week. Come for the Week in Bees, the Word of the Week & UNBEELIEVABLE WORDS ™ , stay for the ridiculous tangents, including Tutankhamun: His Tomb & His Treasures and the Step Up film franchise. Don't ask. Just go with it.

In this episode, Valentine’s Day meets the Super Bowl meets the NYTimes Spelling Bee. The result? AGELONG entertainment and BALLYARD (sem)antics! It doesn’t matter whether you go LONGAN or go wide, with T&B hitting play is the winning play every time.

C and Jenn are back for a whole new season of #NYTimesSpellingBee banter! This episode we’re running through the best and worst Bees of our winter break, boondoggling our way into the hearts of all Americans, and learning a very fancy word for the study of flags. No hoodwinkery or mountebankery here! T&B is the real deal for #WordNerds.

♫ It’s the most wonderful time of the year. ♫ We're wrapping up 2023--and Season 4 of Tomtit &Baobab--with a show full of gifts, cheer, and of course, words! We’ve got a list of best pangrams for C, limerick singing for Jenn, ETYMOLOGY for everybody, and Nearly Twelve Christmas Pangrams for Tim Alborn! We also have a special appearance from Jenn’s dad, the Rev. Dr. James Hallam, who boasts...

If your HOBBY is the NYTimes Spelling Bee, come HOBNOB with us! On this penultimate episode of T&B Season 4, we’re tackling crucial questions like: What the heck happened with HAMACHI? Who wouldn’t want a CHIA bee? When is a PINNY not a penny? And why is “Pop Goes the Weasel” a perfect tune for word puzzle enthusiasts? We may have limited rizz, but we’ve got risibility galore…and a rousing per...

Here at T&B, we like our TAMARI on a TATAMI and our belly laughs by the BOTTLEFUL. We also like a good interview with a NYTimes Spelling Bee-inspired limerick writer! That’s right, fellow Word Nerds, we’re talking with the very poetic Tim Alborn, and all INDICIA suggest this is one hu-MUNG-ous episode you won’t want to miss.

It’s our second annual live, mostly unedited, Thanksgiving show! In this week’s extraORDINARY episode of T&B, our families are gathered ‘round the table to give thanks for “word things and language stuff”. We’re sharing some of our favorite word-related apps, places, and games; dishing out un-BEE-lievable words; and serving up a second helping of hilarity. It’s loud, it’s crazy, and…it’s just...

This week’s episode of T&B is TEETOTALLY for the birds--and we mean that in the most literal possible way! We’re talking about the puteketeke, the gooney, and the LINNET. But don’t get your tailfeatherses ruffled if winged words aren’t your thing. MEATLOAF, PANDITs, and NOOGIEs are also in the mix, along with a wild card that Scrabble-lovers will fall over laughing for.

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!