The first part of the clip might be the opening salvo in Neil Rogers’ feud with Bob Lassiter — he really lays into the Mad Dog for his shots at Randi Rhodes and for repeating a private conversation on the air. The second part has Neil and Randi on the air together, bitching about Bob…well, Neil bitches…Randi kisses Neil’s ass, then bitches. But in case you wondered what got Bob and Neil on such bad terms, here it is.

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A female talk host who goes by the name of “Courtney Campbell” (yes, after the Causeway in Tampa) substitutes for Bob on her birthday and brings along the now-legendary Decency Lady as her guest. We don’t usually post Bob’s substitutes, but in this case we do because “Courtney Campbell” appears to actually be none other than Mary Lassiter

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One of Bob’s favorite topics, of course; a postmortem on the previous evening’s State of the Union Address. He doesn’t find a lot of support for the President, except for one dufus at the end.

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Just a few minutes at the end of the show, a discussion of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago and of Saturday morning cartoons.

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Just like the previous one, this clip omits Bob’s actual conversation with the four Chicago journalists (which George, who’s from Chicago, tells me is an act of mercy considering the lineup). Instead, here Bob opens the phones to the same list of topics he talked about with the Lassiter Group–including college fraternities, the archdiocese of Chicago, and baseball star Will Clark.

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Bob wants to talk about the Eastern Airlines employees who are caught in the company’s bankruptcy…but when nobody else does, he gets pissed–or, as he puts it, “has a stroke.” And the General babbles.

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Broadcasting live from the Chicago Auto Show, Bob interviews two defense attorneys who work with DUI cases. To give you an idea of the tone, he begins the interview by asking one of them “How do you sleep at night?”

• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: February 12, 1990
• Time: 1:04:36
• Format: mp3
• Size: 14.8MB

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It’s open phones, because Bob just feels too lousy to bother working out a topic. Sound quality is, um, weird.

• Station: WFLA 970AM
• Date: March 22, 1989
• Time: 45:19
• Format: mp3
• Size: 10.4MB

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(Apologies to Gay Talese)

 

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An attempt to discuss the previous night’s 20/20, the one featuring the teenage girl’s exorcism, gets few calls. So Bob switches to Chat With the Mad Dog.

• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: April 6, 1991
• Time: 1:33:42
• Format: mp3
• Size: 21.5MB

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Joe Zwilling is a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, which issued a statement expressing displeasure with The Satanic Verses but not joining the Ayatollah in calling it blasphemy. Bob interviews him about the Catholic Church’s hypocrisy on the matter, then opens up the afternoon to callers.

• Station: WFLA 970AM
• Date: February 22, 1989
• Time: 53:14
• Format: mp3
• Size: 12.1MB

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