# Dr. Demento **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148 "2005-10-14T00:55:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/41 "2005-10-15T03:10:38Z")
I seem to recall that Uncle Joe Benson used to work at KNAC before he went over to KLOS (then some other station, then KLOS again, then God knows where…). Would that have been in the early 1980’s? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/42 "2005-10-15T03:33:46Z")
I actually heard Gonzer a couple of years ago on a new station in Charlotte, North Carolina. Must have been a network gig, starting new stations. I always loved Jim’s sets. I may have disagreed with his politics, but man could that man put together songs to make a point. Was any other Doper there for the great White House Phone Assault over paraquat? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/43 "2005-10-15T12:51:51Z")
As a teenager growing up in Dayton, OH, I used to tape his show all the time when it was on WOXY (Oxford, OH). I have since lost the tapes. ☹ Many of those songs are still going through my head after all these years. I currently have a few Dr. Demento CDs, along with his first three vinyl albums. Great stuff. ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/44 "2005-10-15T14:55:31Z")
Can anyone with more time to Google, than I do find a transcript of an old fish report? KMET, goodness you guys are bringing back memories. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/45 "2005-10-15T15:57:29Z")
[Cynthia Fox](http://www.955klos.com/listingsentry.asp?id=202715&pt=stationarchives) For a bit of the Fish Report either read Radio Waves, or see page 9 [here.](http://www.ringgi.com/PinkFloyd-Documente/RadioK.A.O.S.pdf) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/46 "2005-10-15T22:20:11Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > So why would we be singing the song one more time for (Roman Hruska)? Hruska is most famous for defending Richard Nixon’s (ultimnately unsuccessful) nomination of Harold Carswell to the Supreme Court with this response to criticism that Carswell’s judicial record was mediocre: > [@](#): > > “Even if he is mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance?” Perhaps Ogden Edsl was admitting that _Dead Puppies_ wasn’t the greatest song, but still deserved a place on the radio. More on Hruska [here.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Hruska) ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/47 "2005-10-16T03:09:39Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The Mighty MET is where I first encountered the Dr. Demento show back in the mid-70s. I was stationed at March AFB outside of Riverside, and I never would have made it through those boring Sunday nights without the Good Doctor. Gee, I wonder why you never hear “Kinko The Clown” any more? 😉 Heh. I used to listen to Dr. D on WYSP 94 in Philly during the 70’s. Same deal, Sunday nights. Kinko the Clown was hilarious! Kinko/FedEx would likely sue somebody if it started to get airplay, now (all the more reason to play it!) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/48 "2005-10-16T03:26:36Z")
I first heard the Doctor on CHUM-FM, Toronto, back in the late '70s. One night he played Jef Jaisun’s “Friendly Neighborhood Narco Agent”, and it took me 25 years to track down a copy of that record! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/49 "2005-10-16T03:26:45Z")
I was always partial to the _White Collar Holler_… Well, I rise up every morning at a quarter to eight Some woman who’s my wife tells me not to be late I kiss the kids goodbye, I can’t remember their names And week after week, it’s always the same And it’s Ho, boys, can’t you code it, and program it right Nothing ever happens in the life of mine I’m hauling up the data on the Xerox line 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/50 "2005-10-16T14:52:46Z")
‘It’s Funny Five Tiiiiiime!!!’ ‘It’s time for Number One…!’ ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/51 "2005-10-17T02:17:34Z")
(Continuing the hijack) Anyone remember KPPC out of LA in the late 60’s? One of the first FM rock album stations. Many of the DJ’s moved from KPPC to KMET when it shut down. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/52 "2005-10-17T02:23:40Z")
What are your top 3 Dr Demento songs? “Boobs A lot” (Holy Mobile Rounders) “Shaving Cream” “Pico and Selpulveda” (Felix Figeroa) ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/53 "2005-10-17T02:31:56Z")
I remember trying to stay up late enough on Sunday nights to hear the Funny Five. Eventually, the radio station switched Dr. Demento to an even MORE inconvenient time slot … early Saturday mornings. Every now and then, I’d have to get up for an academic competition on a Saturday and I’d catch a few minutes of the show while getting ready to go, but otherwise I never heard it anymore. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/54 "2005-10-17T02:52:34Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#): > > “Boobs A lot” (Holy Mobile Rounders) Correction: Holy **Modal** Rounders. ---
**Author:** ![Spike913](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Spike913](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spike913)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/55 "2026-04-21T05:34:12Z")
Actually, the good doctor was on 93.3 wmmr in philly, not 94 wysp They used to play those killer station identification calls that bounced around your headphones ---
**Author:** ![Spike913](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Spike913](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spike913)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/56 "2026-04-21T05:35:25Z")
Actually, the good doctor was on 93.3 wmmr in philly, not 94 wysp They used to play those killer station identification calls that bounced around your headphones ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/57 "2026-04-21T17:08:27Z")
Looks like he retired last year, but thousands of hours are available for streaming at [drdemento.com](http://drdemento.com). Interesting business model – you pay $3 to listen to a show once. Or there are memberships for regulars. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148/58 "2026-04-21T17:31:51Z")
Since this has been bumped: a 2018 interview with talk radio host Paul Harris and the good Dr. is at the bottom of [this page.](https://harrisonline.com/dr-demento/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-demento/326148.md?page=2)