Bob invites religious people, regular churchgoers, to call and sound off about the scandals brewing among the various prominent televangelists. Almost everyone who calls is actually a clergyman himself.

DOWNLOAD - The Clergyman’s Shuffle

• Station: WPLP 570AM
• Date: April 27, 1987
• Time: 43:51
• Format: mp3
• Size: 10.1MB

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Before he did this round of polling for inductees into the Tampa Bay Talk Radio Hall of Fame, Bob did it to celebrate the 10th anniversary of talk radio in Tampa. Freddy Mertz takes the lion’s share of “bad” categories.

DOWNLOAD - Tampa Bay Talk Radio Hall of Fame - Take 1

• Station: WFLA 970AM
• Date: November 10, 1988
• Time: 1:12:24
• Format: mp3
• Size: 16.5MB

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A show about child abuse. If it’s not okay to beat adults, why is it okay to beat your kids? At what age does a kid get the right to NOT be beaten? Some kids weigh in on this one too.

DOWNLOAD - Don’t Beat Your Kids

• Station: WFLA 970AM
• Date: March 30, 1989
• Time: 1:19:18
• Format: mp3
• Size: 18.2 MB

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The Philadelphia Phillies, whom everybody knows is Bob’s team, won the National League pennant the night before. Everybody assumes that Bob’s been celebrating and getting fat again.

DOWNLOAD - Go Phillies

• Station: WSUN 620AM
• Date: October 14, 1993
• Time: 16:26
• Format: mp3
• Size: 3.8MB

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As he does every quarter, Bob reads the Arbitrons for Tampa Bay talk radio. He taunts the crosstown competition, WFLA, but reserves his best vitriol for Randi Rhodes.

DOWNLOAD - Randi’s Ratings

• Station: WSUN 620AM
• Date: October 12, 1993
• Time: 9:21
• Format: mp3
• Size: 2.15MB

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A sampling of a few calls from late in Bob’s year of morning drive. They don’t like him–par for the course. (Includes one call from the General.)

DOWNLOAD - Miscellaneous Bitching

• Station: WSUN 620AM
• Date: October 5, 1993
• Time: 5:48
• Format: mp3
• Size: 1.34MB

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The General marked this tape as “Most Boring Lassiter Ever.” Well, the conversation (about sensationalism in the media and economics, among other things) is pretty intelligent, and not terribly confrontational, but really it ain’t half bad.

DOWNLOAD - “I Don’t Understand”

• Station: WFLA 970AM
• Date: April 14, 1989
• Time: 1:30:45
• Format: mp3
• Size: 20.8MB

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Callers present two problems in America: one with a solution, one without. The hope is that you’ll think a little harder about the politicians who present you with their “solutions” to any given problem - is there a solution to that problem?

DOWNLOAD - Problems and Solutions

• Station: WFLA 970AM
• Date: April 10, 1989
• Time: 35:39
• Format: mp3
• Size: 8.2MB

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Bob just moderated a panel debate for the candidates for President of the Cook County Board, and this is the callers’ commentary about what they’ve just heard. Much of it is centered once again on the lone black candidate, Judge Eugene Pinchum.

DOWNLOAD - After the Debate

• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: March 6, 1990
• Time: 27:48
• Format: mp3
• Size: 6.4MB

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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?

DOWNLOAD - The COMPLETE $50,000 Giveaway!

• Station: WPLP 970AM
• Date: Jan. 1, 1987
• Time: 03:09:56
• Format: mp3
• Size: 43.5MB

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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.”

DOWNLOAD - Drinking Lassiter

• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: March 5, 1990
• Time: 42:45
• Format: mp3
• Size: 9.8MB

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

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• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: February 28, 1990
• Time: 24:01
• Format: mp3
• Size: 5.5MB

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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.

DOWNLOAD - Men’s Rights

• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: February 15, 1990
• Time: 1:03:56
• Format: mp3
• Size: 14.6MB

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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.

DOWNLOAD - Saying No to Farrakhan

• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: February 7, 1990
• Time: 19:42
• Format: mp3
• Size: 4.5MB

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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.

DOWNLOAD - The Right to Beg

• Station: WLS 890AM
• Date: February 6, 1990
• Time: 1:06:34
• Format: mp3
• Size: 15.3MB

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