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This show is in two segments. In the first, Bob asks the audience what criteria should prohibit someone from owning a gun. Opinions range from “people with psychological problems” to “convicted felons” to  One genius says “talk show hosts.” The second segment - which we don’t have much of - is an interview with some kids in the Chicago schools, brought in for the sake of equal time after Bob interviewed some Lawnhead kids who went to school in the suburbs.

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• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: January 17, 1990
• Time: 46:09
• Format: mp3
• Size: 10.5MB

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Oh, boy, talk about taxes, the budget, and social security! Doesn’t THAT make for exciting radio? It’s not a very long clip, though, and it does open with Bob reading a very compelling piece of hate mail.

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• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: January 16, 1990
• Time: 22:43
• Format: mp3
• Size: 5.2MB

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We’ve all heard people who complain about how prisons have too many luxury items - that putting cable TV and weight rooms into maximum security prisons makes them less of a punishment. But Bob doesn’t buy it. First, he says, denying them any form of recreation or distraction leaves them nothing to do but plan their next crime. Second, it’s simply inhumane to deny them basic amenities. The middle part of the show is an interview with two police detectives about the wisdom of placing criminals in prison, as well as whether their Vice Squad jobs really make us safer.

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• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: January 11, 1990
• Time: 1:45:04
• Format: mp3
• Size: 24.1MB

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Bob’s picture shows up in an article on WLS in the Chicago Tribune, and he decides to celebrate with a round of open phones. Among the topics are affirmative action, college as trade-school, Tasty Kakes, Louis Farrakhan, Bob’s chair, and much, much more.

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• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: January 9, 1990
• Time: 2:06:54
• Format: mp3
• Size: 29.2MB

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The day after raging at his listeners for not giving a damn about anti-Semitism, Bob comes in and opens with an apology for venting his pent-up anger at work. Then he explains that he’s a dinosaur - a man who’s out of his time, because he gets upset when he sees injustice, ignorance, and selfishness. A riveting monologue of almost 25 minutes.

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• Station: WFLA 970AM
• Date: May 23, 1989
• Time: 23:54
• Format: mp3
• Size: 2.8MB

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There are two different discussions happening here. First is some discussion about racism in society (which involves Al Sharpton somehow - it’s not really clear). Then, after Bob interviews U.S. Attorney Robert Merkle in Tampa about the indictments of General Noriega, he delivers a short monologue about the Noriega situation and declares an open program to talk about either race OR Noriega.

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• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: January 4, 1990
• Time: 1:16:01
• Format: mp3
• Size: 17.4MB

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Lassiter opens his show with a note that his sometime sparring partner, Rabbi Jan Bresky, is in the hospital, seriously ill, and can’t afford his medical bills, but gives the information for a fund that’s been set up on his behalf. This is an aside, not the topic of the show. But when a few callers make some ugly anti-Semitic remarks against the Rabbi, Bob gets more furious than he ever has before - not at the anti-Semites, but at the decent people who know better and don’t call up to say so.

(Hardcore fans will note that this is the show from which most of Neil Rogers’ “Bob Lassiter Disease” clip comes.)

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• Station: WFLA 970AM
• Date: May 22, 1989
• Time: 1:11:39
• Format: mp3
• Size: 8.3MB

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Bob took off a day to go to the dentist, leaving Sharon and Jeffy to do the show on their own. When he comes back the following day and stumbles upon the fact that Sharon and Jeffy had given away a whopping 15 pairs of hockey tickets the previous day, he accuses them of using the tickets to get lots of calls and thereby steal his job. Opens with a call from Mr. Fudd.

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• Station: WSUN 620AM
• Date: March 10, 1995
• Time: 1:26:53
• Format: mp3
• Size: 10MB

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After invading Panama, the invasion force couldn’t find General Noriega, so the next day President Bush (41) declared a million-dollar bounty on his head. Bob has a question: is $1 million all Noriega’s worth to the U.S.? In that case, why didn’t we just offer that from the start, instead of wasting much more money - not to mention time and hundreds of lives - on a military invasion that couldn’t suss him out anyway?

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• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: December 21, 1989
• Time: 1:07:06
• Format: mp3
• Size: 15.3MB

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On the day that U.S. forces invaded Panama to capture General Manuel Noriega, Bob takes our government to task - not for invading Panama, but for creating a Panama that allowed Noriega to happen…then suddenly deciding to care about conditions in Panama, when it was in our economic and political interests to do so. (There’s a brief snippet of Bob Grant, at WABC New York, mixed in too.)

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• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: December 20, 1989
• Time: 1:32:50
• Format: mp3
• Size: 21.2MB

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After Bob had a raging success in Tampa by inviting callers to a forum called “The Lassiter Group,” Bob replicated the experience in Chicago with four newspaper columnists: Richard Roeper and Carol Ashkinaze of the Chicago Sun-Times, and Mike Conklin and Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune. This is the show on which they first met: but their actual meeting isn’t on the tape. We hear what came immediately before and immediately after.

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• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: December 18, 1989
• Time: 37:05
• Format: mp3
• Size: 8.48MB

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Declaring a war on drugs was a political goldmine, but Bob says it’s time to ask if it’s really a winnable war. Indeed, does it even stand a chance? He doesn’t say so himself, but the issue on this show really becomes whether drugs should be legalized.

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• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: December 15, 1989
• Time: 1:00:53
• Format: mp3
• Size: 6.96MB

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Essentially an open phones program, but there are two dominant topics. First, the Bears are threatening to move away from Chicago if the city doesn’t agree to a publicly financed, domed stadium, and people are pissed - at the Bears, not the city. Second, apparently it’s a clear night in Florida, because lots of Bob’s old listeners in Tampa and elsewhere are calling in to say hello.

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• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: December 14, 1989
• Time: 27:23
• Format: mp3
• Size: 3.13MB

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There are two different topics discussed on this show. In the first part, Bob discusses adultery: how it affects all of us, not just the people involved, and why it should preclude letting gymnast Nadia Comaneci into the U.S. In the second, Bob talks only to people under 18, asking them how they feel about year-round school as a way of fixing our broken educational system.

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• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: December 12, 1989
• Time: 1:13:24
• Format: mp3
• Size: 8.4MB

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Put simply, it’s a show about black people, who still have to deal with racism every day and everywhere in this country. If you are white, but tomorrow you woke up black, your whole world would fall apart, says Bob. You won’t believe some of the responses he gets.

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• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: December 1, 1989
• Time: 51:02
• Format: mp3
• Size: 11.7MB

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