The most requested show in the history of this website is finally complete — we’ve got the fourth and final hour of the legendary WPLP show from New Year’s Day, 1987. Bob offers an unbelievable $50,000 to anyone who calls his show on this night or any other night in the coming year, plus an additional $10,000 to everybody who’s listening. What’s that little voice in the background?

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 Part One [47:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

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Rachel Kelly, president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, comes on the show to defend her organization’s scare tactics in trying to eliminate the consumption of alcohol in the U.S. She makes such brilliant, informed statements as “people can become alcoholics with their first drink.”

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 Drinking Lassiter [42:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A monologue about Bob’s notorious, longtime addiction. It includes the truth about the famous incident with Oscar Lapidus.

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 Smoking Lassiter [24:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The guest is Fred Hayward, an advocate for “Men’s Rights,” which he says are steadily being usurped by women in areas like military service, parental custody, social etiquette, and certain professions (i.e., firefighting). Hmmmm.

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 Men's Rights [63:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Bob finally got Judge Pinchum on his show — and Pinchum tap-danced around distancing himself from Louis Farrakhan, thus losing Bob’s vote and prompting a monologue. A caller takes issue with that.

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 Saying No To Farrakhan [19:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It starts off talking about a New York City judge who said that panhandlers have the right to beg from passersby. It progresses into arguing over whether children should be beaten. Somewhere in there Bob loses two listeners, but gains two more.

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 The Right To Beg [66:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Bob’s planned topic about TV talker Morton Downey Jr. disintegrates just before the show starts, so instead he hosts a general discussion about the increasing levels of violence and crime in America. Includes the famous “Crime Problem” call.

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 Our Violent Society [82:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

After the previous day’s meltdown, Bob decides not to try to set up a topic that’ll make people call. Of course, this is after he establishes half a dozen topics, but who’s counting?

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 No Topic Thursday [49:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We don’t trust in God, says Bob, since we feel the need to have insurance, alarm systems, and use the money with his name on it to spread misery. Thus the Mad Dog wants to know whether it’s important that the United States put God’s name on its money (and in the Pledge of Allegiance) and whether God would be happy with his name being used that way.

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 In God We Trust [83:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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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 Neil & Randi Hate Bob [15:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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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 Courtney Campbell & the Decency Lady [6:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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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 Bush Bashing [30:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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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 The (Chicago) Lassiter Group 2 [27:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download