Favoriting The Hour of Crap with Don-O: Playlist from January 10, 2025 Favoriting

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The Hour Of Crap is an hour's worth of crap and I make no apologies!

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Favoriting January 10, 2025: The April & NegativBob Show!
We pay tribute to NegativBob a. k. a. Bob Nelson (a good friend of mine) and get the what's old and new with April Winchell. Also Bob takes us on a ride through Chicago. ALSO, this weeks The ____ Of OTE is Panama Christmas....and blame Van Halen for the lame connection.

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Artist Track Album Label Format Comments Approx. start time
41  Johnny The Fox   Favoriting Drums  Bandcamp  MP3    0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Negativland (well....a couple of them)  Negativland ID Themselves   Favoriting     MP3  as recorded by Bob Nelson  0:04:36 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bob Nelson (a, k, a, NegativBob)  The Bob & Don Show   Favoriting     MP3  just the introduction  0:05:46 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Negativland  Marsha Turnblatt   Favoriting     MP3  As recorded by Bob Nelson  0:13:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic  Generic Blues   Favoriting UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff  Scotti Bros. Records  MP3    0:22:43 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
April Winchell & Mr. KABC  Jack Klugman   Favoriting     MP3    0:34:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Twink  Adventure Day   Favoriting Miniatures Volume 2  Bandcamp  MP3    0:48:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
April Winchell & Marc Germain  Excerpt   Favoriting Talk Radio One 3/12/24    MP3    0:49:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
April Winchell & Mr. KABC  Winch/Rosetta!   Favoriting     MP3    1:06:53 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Rickshaw Reggie  Tour Guide Rickshaw Reggie Presents A Tour Of Chicago   Favoriting     MP3  as recorded by Bob Nelson  1:14:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Negativland  Excerpt   Favoriting Panama Christmas (December 1989)    MP3  correction: there IS a Panama (country) connection to this show.  2:03:12 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

Avatar 👻 5:58pm
MarkTime:

A good hello!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:00pm
Asheville Jon:

great. just what we freakin' need, more CRAP!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:00pm
Aitch:

Hey crappers
Avatar 6:01pm
Don-O:

↳ MarkTime @5:58
Good Bob, Mark!!
Avatar 6:02pm
Don-O:

↳ Asheville Jon @6:00
Good Bob, Ashville Jon and Aitch
Avatar 👻 6:03pm
MarkTime:

"All Praise Bob!" is extra appropriate today
Avatar 6:06pm
Don-O:

↳ MarkTime @6:03
I'm sure he got enough of that SubGenius joke.
Avatar 👻 6:07pm
MarkTime:

Yes, the Souplantation in Lakewood whoopie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
dale:

hello crapuscular people.
Avatar 👻 6:11pm
MarkTime:

I think dinner was at Popeye's on Hollywood Blvd.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
WR:

Hi Don-O and folks
Avatar 6:12pm
Don-O:

↳ dale @6:08
Good Bob, dale! Enjoy the World Of Talk Tapes!!
Avatar 6:12pm
Mr Fab:

lived in LA my whole life, have never gone to the Hollywood Wax Museum. I imagine it has wax statues of people and whatnot?
Avatar 6:12pm
Don-O:

↳ WR @6:12
Good Bob, WR!
Avatar 6:13pm
Mr Fab:

$8 for Dodger tickets? How long ago was this?!
Avatar 👻 6:13pm
MarkTime:

I only ever got to the Hollywood Wax Museum thanks to Bob
Avatar 👻 6:14pm
MarkTime:

↳ Mr Fab @6:13
2007 ... Upper deck behind home plate, my favorite spot when it was still affordable
Avatar 6:16pm
Don-O:

↳ Song: "The Bob & Don Show" by "Bob Nelson (a, k, a, Nega...
Too bad I didn't get to Ventura. Amtrak wasn't feeling it that day! You guys don't need to hear the 'Bob & Don' portion of that tape.
Avatar 👻 6:16pm
MarkTime:

↳ Mr Fab @6:13
I haven't been since the 2016 playoffs vs. the Cubs. Nancy did not tell me how much but probably more like $108
Avatar 6:18pm
Don-O:

Speaking of THOSE guys, enjoy a film festival: www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:19pm
dale:

↳ Mr Fab @6:12
it's a salute to waxes....bees wax, paraffin, earwax....
Avatar 👻 6:21pm
MarkTime:

↳ dale @6:19
The Karate Kid "Wax On, Wax Off" scene ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
dale:

↳ MarkTime @6:21
hate to admit i never saw that. or proud to admit depending on how it's aged.
Avatar 👻 6:26pm
MarkTime:

↳ dale @6:24
One of those things my wife introduced me to much later in life.
  6:27pm
Kat in the chat:

Hey crappers! I’ll sign in soon.
Avatar 6:28pm
Buddy Runyan:

I’m here now!
Avatar 6:28pm
Don-O:

↳ Kat in the chat @6:27
Good Bob, Kat!
Avatar 6:29pm
Buddy Runyan:

Hi, crappers!
Avatar 6:29pm
Don-O:

↳ Buddy Runyan @6:28
Now here you, Buddy!
Avatar 6:30pm
Don-O:

↳ Song: "Marsha Turnblatt" by "Negativland"
I think he recorded Marsha and the ID piece with his portable boom-box.....
Avatar 6:30pm
Buddy Runyan:

I have the Marsha Turnblatt wig somewhere in a box in my garage.
Avatar 6:31pm
Don-O:

"talk tape to him" say that line too fast!
Avatar 👻 6:31pm
MarkTime:

NegativFan was just one of three zines Bob had when I first heard of him, and we did a lot of talk tapes over the years all the way up to last mo
Avatar 👻 6:31pm
MarkTime:

↳ Don-O @6:31
2007
Avatar 👻 6:33pm
MarkTime:

Some Bob as blues DJs will be on my show, Tuesday 8 PM EST / 6 PM MST
  6:35pm
Kat in the chat:

April!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
Asheville Jon:

Quincy was a freakin great show
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
dale:

she really sounds like marcia wallace.
Avatar 👻 6:45pm
MarkTime:

↳ dale @6:44
Oh yeah ... in Dr. Bob Hartley receptionist mode
Avatar 6:47pm
Don-O:

So, Buddy? How do I get Tony Danza off my TV!?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:47pm
dale:

monty markham....
Avatar 👻 6:53pm
MarkTime:

"funny" three different tour hosts in New Orleans had Nicolas Cage horror stories
Avatar 6:56pm
Buddy Runyan:

↳ Don-O @6:47
Either I don’t know or you need to change to another channel!
By the way, Taxi was one of my parent’s favorite shows.
Avatar 6:57pm
Don-O:

↳ Buddy Runyan @6:56
The question comes up during the OTE show this week.
Avatar 6:59pm
Don-O:

Apparently, she has a discography: www.discogs.com...
Avatar 7:04pm
Mr Fab:

↳ MarkTime @6:53
well of course I gotta hear em now!
  7:05pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Song: "Excerpt" by "April Winchell & Marc Germain"
Lst time I recall "The Mothers In Law" coming up here was when someone played a record hat I recognized as quoting twice from thst show's opening theme.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
dale:

↳ Listener Robert @7:05
that scene where the seeds sing pushin' too hard on the mothers in law always surfaces.
Avatar 👻 7:13pm
MarkTime:

↳ Mr Fab @7:04
There was a running theme about Cage throwing his money around town buying houses, apartments, and a cemetery plot, until he ran out of money.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
Kat in the chat:

This is from 1996? Weird that this was during the period I actually wasn't in Chicago, I was in NYC.
Avatar 7:16pm
Don-O:

↳ Song: "Tour Guide Rickshaw Reggie Presents A Tour Of Chi...
It's Chicago Time. I wonder if you can see Quimby's from here?
Avatar 7:16pm
Don-O:

↳ Kat in the chat @7:15
Yup, 1996
Avatar 👻 7:17pm
MarkTime:

↳ Kat in the chat @7:15
Yes, 1996. I was in Des Plaines at the time. I could not get the day off work that day so Bob rode the tour solo.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
Kat in the chat:

I've been inside Marina City with my creepy ex-husband, one of his friends lived there. Cool view from the balcony but I wouldn't want to live in there.
Avatar 👻 7:19pm
MarkTime:

↳ Don-O @7:16
Quimby's is about 3 miles northwest of Wacker Drive. And, as always, Numero Uno pizza is ONLY for tourists
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
Kat in the chat:

Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's is gone, as is Wesley Willis who sang about it.
Avatar 👻 7:20pm
MarkTime:

↳ Kat in the chat @7:19
I'm kinda sad I never got into any of the Marina City apartments. The most exotic apartment I've been in was at Lake Point Tower
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ MarkTime @7:20
I don't remember the interior of the apartment very well, i think it was kind of blah.
Avatar 7:21pm
Mr Fab:

What happened to the Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's?!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Mr Fab @7:21
They just remodeled it, made it bigger I think. It had kind of run its course.
Avatar 👻 7:23pm
MarkTime:

↳ Kat in the chat @7:22
Looks more like a bus station McDonald's now
Avatar 7:23pm
Don-O:

Also in Chicago 1996: www.youtube.com...
Avatar 👻 7:24pm
MarkTime:

Ed Debevic's gone, sad face
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
Kat in the chat:

OH god, creepy ex also dragged me to Hooters on more than one occasion.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ MarkTime @7:24
You liked Ed Debevic's? I only went once. Wasn't my thang I guess.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Don-O @7:23
LOL I missed that!
Avatar 👻 7:26pm
MarkTime:

↳ Kat in the chat @7:25
Maybe I looked like I wasn't going to put up with rude service, ha. Decent meatloaf and mashed potatoes plate
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
Kat in the chat:

Man, if I had never been to Chicago and I was listening to this, I wouldn't be the least bit intrigued.
Avatar 7:28pm
Don-O:

↳ Kat in the chat @7:24
WTF!?!? So much for romance.....and the food.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Don-O @7:28
I said he was creepy! The wings were good but there are other places you can get wings...
Avatar 7:30pm
Don-O:

↳ Kat in the chat @7:19
Those Towers looks pretty funky n the outside, but those apartment looks pretty small and weirdly shape. I'm guessing you can't use the balconies during windy days.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
Kat in the chat:

The guide has to explain the concept of "rush hour"? Where are these people from??
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Don-O @7:30
They looked cool on the cover of that Wilco LP.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
egould:

↳ Song: "Tour Guide Rickshaw Reggie Presents A Tour Of Chi...
This is a load of crap.
Avatar 7:33pm
Don-O:

↳ egould @7:31
You're welcome, egould. Remember the titles of this show is a trigger warning!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Kat in the chat:

Now the "Willis Tower." Not named after Wesley Willis.
Avatar 7:34pm
Mr Fab:

My wife took her mother on one of those Hollywood bus tours for tourists, and she told me later some of the things the tour guide said - pure fiction. Some really ridiculous stuff.

Guess they figure no one's gonna remember their spiel.
Avatar 7:34pm
Don-O:

↳ Kat in the chat @7:31
Those crazy days of urban complex developments!
Avatar 👻 7:34pm
MarkTime:

↳ egould @7:31
Yep ... I didn't miss much having to work that day
Avatar 7:35pm
Don-O:

↳ Song: "Tour Guide Rickshaw Reggie Presents A Tour Of Chi...
www.youtube.com...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
Kat in the chat:

I used to work around a lot of those places. Not terribly nostalgic for those parts of town.
Avatar 7:36pm
Don-O:

↳ Song: "Tour Guide Rickshaw Reggie Presents A Tour Of Chi...
www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
egould:

↳ Don-O @7:33
Thank you Don-O!
I spent a lovely warm May afternoon on the Chicago River. Back in 2023. Me, my wife and her cousin drank 3 bottles of wine and admired Marina City to the Wrigley Building.
Avatar 👻 7:37pm
MarkTime:

↳ Kat in the chat @7:36
I much more enjoyed working on and around Wabash, the other side of the Loop
Avatar 7:37pm
Don-O:

↳ Song: "Tour Guide Rickshaw Reggie Presents A Tour Of Chi...
Final Marina City link: www.youtube.com...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ MarkTime @7:37
Me too. I worked around there in the 80s.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Don-O @7:37
"A presentation of the Portland Cement Association"!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
egould:

↳ Mr Fab @7:34
When he’s not leading tours, Rickshaw Reggie operates the milk bottle ring toss game at county fairs across the Midwest.
Avatar 👻 7:41pm
MarkTime:

↳ egould @7:40
And his biggest week is the Iowa State Fair
Avatar 7:42pm
Don-O:

Holy Crap! We're past the half way point of this episode!!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Kat in the chat:

I'm still working my Chicago job remotely, I have yet to commute in Philly! I am close to Center City though, it would be pretty easy.
Avatar 👻 7:47pm
MarkTime:

Almost done with the tour loop
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Kat in the chat:

I like the Chagall and the Miro in downtown Chicago better than the Picasso. And the Calder!
Avatar 7:47pm
Don-O:

Oh! Smell like a sweaty athlete!!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Kat in the chat:

RIP Marshall Field's and Carson Pirie Scott. Now a Macy's and a Target respectively.
Avatar 👻 7:48pm
MarkTime:

↳ Kat in the chat @7:47
The mosaic at the formerly-known-as-First National Bank ... a Chagall, yes?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ MarkTime @7:48
yes!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Kat in the chat:

The Cultural Center is really cool.
Avatar 👻 7:50pm
MarkTime:

↳ Kat in the chat @7:48
I feel old remembering it being the main library. Great they preserved the inside of the building
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Kat in the chat:

That's right, this was before Millennium Park, which I actually really like. Amazing open-air concert facility there.
Avatar 👻 7:53pm
MarkTime:

Wild, wild onions ... couldn't drag me away
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ MarkTime @7:53
They couldn't drag me back!
Avatar 7:57pm
Roberto:

CRAP I missed April!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Kat in the chat:

I missed the first segment with Bob. Fortunately this Crap is archived.
Avatar 👻 8:02pm
MarkTime:

You're welcome!
Avatar 8:02pm
Buddy Runyan:

Was preoccupied with actual crap, back now.
Avatar 8:03pm
Don-O:

↳ Buddy Runyan @8:02
JUST in time, Buddy!
Avatar 👻 8:04pm
MarkTime:

↳ Buddy Runyan @8:02
Howdy! I'm told you would like some of my zines ... please e-mail Don=O for my address. Say hi to Sue Ridgewater!
Avatar 8:04pm
Don-O:

↳ Roberto @7:57
Good-O Hell-O, Robert-O
Avatar 8:06pm
Buddy Runyan:

I may have had road rage in my Mercury Monarch, while on the way to Over The Edge.
Avatar 8:06pm
Roberto:

I consider April the High Priestess of Crap.
Avatar 8:07pm
Buddy Runyan:

↳ MarkTime @8:04
Sue Ridgewater was the name of my imaginary girlfriend!
Avatar 8:10pm
Roberto:

This just in: Anita Bryant, extremely crappy person, has fuckin' died.
Avatar 8:10pm
Don-O:

↳ Roberto @8:10
Too much pie in her diet!
Avatar 8:11pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Roberto @8:10
Weirdly enough, when I saw Wayne Newton live in Vegas some years ago, he introduced Anita Bryant in the audience. I did not applaud.
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Roberto:

↳ Don-O @8:10
Oy.
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Buddy Runyan:

Dr. Gene Scott was on KVOF channel 38(Voices Of Faith).
Avatar 8:12pm
Don-O:

↳ Buddy Runyan @8:12
God's Angry Man!
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Don-O:

↳ Buddy Runyan @8:12
www.youtube.com...
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Buddy Runyan:

↳ Don-O @8:12
The ham radio jammers occasionally played recordings of Gene Scott
Avatar 👻 8:15pm
MarkTime:

↳ Don-O @8:13
Was fun running that and the show at the same time
Avatar 8:15pm
Roberto:

Holy shit, April's father, Paul Winchell, was the voice of Tigger and invented the artificial heart. How's that for a resume?
Avatar 👻 8:17pm
MarkTime:

↳ Don-O @8:13
I'm told Scott was also on a Sow Cal channel at the same time we got him on KVOF. Channel 30??
Avatar 8:21pm
Buddy Runyan:

↳ MarkTime @8:17
I recall the onscreen phone number was at one time in area code 818, which is Southern California.
Avatar 8:23pm
Don-O:

↳ Song: "Excerpt" by "Negativland"
HA!!
Avatar 8:24pm
Buddy Runyan:

I never had a high 8 camcorder. All of my home videos were recorded on regular 8 mm.
Avatar 8:28pm
Buddy Runyan:

Channel 13 CB radio (Contra Costa County) is where the ABC Auto Parts guy usually resided.
Avatar 8:32pm
Don-O:

www.youtube.com...
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Buddy Runyan:

Google AI says: “According to most cable TV frequency charts, channel 69 on CATV has a video carrier frequency of 801.25 MHz.”
Avatar 8:39pm
Buddy Runyan:

I’m not lively!
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Buddy Runyan:

Like beer now, most brands of IPA
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
Kat in the chat:

I'm drinking a hazy IPA from Love City Brewing right now :) I like the toad talk!
Avatar 8:45pm
Buddy Runyan:

↳ Kat in the chat @8:43
I like Lagunitas IPA.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Buddy Runyan @8:45
That's a good one.
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Buddy Runyan:

Broken brain!
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Don-O:

The Playboy Channel circa 1985 www.youtube.com...
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Don-O:

The Playboy Channel circa 1981 www.youtube.com...
Avatar 8:54pm
Buddy Runyan:

Miister Chemistry Homework!
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Buddy Runyan:

I can only do one thing at a time!
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Don-O:

UT! We got a few minutes left. My thanks to all fer showing up for this mess. 'Till next week.....and sorry for the embarrassment, Buddy!
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Don-O:

RIP, NegativBob!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Kat in the chat:

Thanks, Don-O! Good show!
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Buddy Runyan:

↳ Don-O @8:58
Not a problem!
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Don-O:

....now I'm off to make a tuna sandwich....
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Buddy Runyan:

Uh oh!
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Roberto:

Nose Nuggets, everyone!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
WR:

Thank you! Don-O! I didn't say much but I think they said enough to cover for all of us.
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