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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Gary McHenry loves two things: Yahtzee, and foxes. So it’s just cruel when Gary is stuck in the traffic plane, but Bob is broadcasting from Howard’s Restaurant at the same time that it’s filled by the Tampa Bay Yahtzee Playing Foxes Association. Includes a call from Jacob.

• Station: WFLA 970AM
• Date: April 13, 1989
• Time: 49:29
• Format: mp3
• Size: 11.4MB

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A scared 20-year-old lady calls for advice in fixing her predicament - followed by a couple of genuine assholes and their commentary on her situation.

• Station: WFLA 970AM
• Date: April 12, 1989
• Time: 10:31
• Format: mp3
• Size: 4.8MB

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A show about the importance of labor unions and the problems that the state of Florida has for its lack of unions.

• Station: WFLA 970AM
• Date: April 5, 1989
• Time: 23:10
• Format: mp3
• Size: 5.3MB

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Just today, we stumbled on the news of Don Richards’ death last week from cancer. Nobody who visits this site regularly needs any introduction, but just in case you weren’t sure–Don was news/program director at WPLP during Bob Lassiter’s tenure there, and one of the 8 people who lost their jobs when Susquehanna bought out the station. He moved very quickly to WFLA, where he did the newscasts during Bob’s show and eventually became the station’s news director.

On this site you’ve heard his voice, and you’ve heard Bob joke with him and about him, many times.

Don graciously granted me an interview for this website late last year. He was, by far, the nicest, funniest, most insightful person I talked to about Bob and Tampa Bay Radio, and the most eager to help–now I can’t help but wonder if he knew that his time wasn’t long and wanted to make sure some of his memories and knowledge of the radio business were recorded somewhere. Fortunately, his finest radio moment was also recorded: a 1998 news broadcast where Don spoke with fugitive killer Hank Earl Carr. (Clip courtesy of WFMU.)

George and I send our condolences to Don Richards’ family.

Rocky, the Rock & Roll Klansman; Danny, the Dodger; and who can count how many others…all arguing over the simmering controversy of the day: Who was the best rock & roll band of all time, The Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin? Well, that’s what you get in a Saturday schmooze. (NOTE: Recording quality is not good. We’ve done what we could to improve it.)

• Station: WFLA 970AM
• Date: October 31, 1987
• Time: 1:21:22
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• Size: 18.1MB

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We continue to find longer versions of previously posted clips. Actually, this is one of the most excerpted Lassiter shows: It’s “Anything-Goes-Friday on a Thursday,” except that anyone calling in has to start the conversation with something about WTKN — whose ratings are a disastrous 0.2 (Bob reads them at the start of the show). There are three calls from Lionel, as three different characters. (Quality gets better as the recording continues.)

• Station: WFLA 970AM
• Date: July 21, 1988
• Time: 1:58:52
• Format: mp3
• Size: 27.2MB

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