| Genre | Talk, comedy, entertainment, rock |
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| Running time | 4 hours, 6 A.M.-10:00 A.M. CST |
| Country | United States |
| Home station | KLBJ-FM Austin, Texas |
| Starring | Dale Dudley Bob Fonseca Matt Bearden |
| Producers | Daniel Gallo |
| Air dates | since 1993 |
| Opening theme | "Intro" by Bob Fonseca |
| Website | http://www.klbjfm.com/dudleyandbob |
| Podcast | http://www.klbjfm.com/podcast |
The Dudley & Bob Show is a weekday-morning comedic radio talk show airing on 93.7 KLBJ-FM,[1] from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. CT in Austin, Texas that consistently ranks among the city's top-rated drive-time shows.[2]
Anchor host Dale Dudley, originally heard on KFMX/Lubbock, Texas, was recruited to Austin, Texas's KLBJ-FM to work alongside Clark Ryan as the morning drive time show partner, which lasted for five years. When Clark left sales director Bob Fonseca was selected to be co-host and partner. The show has had various co-hosts and producers.
Currently the show features an open format where Dale Dudley, Bob Fonseca, and comedian Matt Bearden discuss various current event topics while sharing stories from their personal lives. The show has been on the air for 17 years and was nominated for a NAB Marconi Radio Award in 2007 for Medium Market Personality of the Year by the National Association of Broadcasters.[3] Dudley and Bob were inducted in to the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in 2009.[4]
Comedy has a major role on the show, with local and touring comedians routinely stopping in. It has also created three spin-off shows, Bob's Drive Home,[5] a mostly defunct daily webisode which often recaps and provides video clips of events from within the studio, The Charlie Hodge Halftime Show with Host Charlie Hodge, and co-host Matt "Chicken-wing" Sadler,[6] which no longer airs on KLBJ-FM from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. CT, and the Taint and Teabag Show, a live one-hour podcast that is distributed via a number of digital audio and video formats.
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An 88-year-old woman named "Gladys Hardy" from Austin who voiced concerns, opinions and suggestions all in one thirty-second message to Ellen Degeneres who called "Gladys" the next day in front of her live audience. The esuning conversation became an internet sensation.[11] The show cast in the 90's would regularly make prank phone calls using the name Bob Martinelli. These calls were included on the CDs issued by the show. The show also did a bit entitled "Rate a Bride". The show would give ratings to pictures of women and couples from the bridal announcement section of the local newspaper. Drive thru of danger is another old show bit in which listeners would go through a drive thru and perform bits suggested by the show cast for prizes. House Party Fridays is a tongue in cheek reference to the morning zoo radio shows that have special "Friday" party shows.
Each show begins after the following introduction, usually read by Bob Fonseca, with rotating background music "Live, local, direct, coming to you free of charge from the multi-million dollar radio production facilities 93.7, KLBJ-FM, the rock of Austin. Located right there on the radio motor mile, the radio factory discount outlet mall of America I35, and live music capital of the world, good morning everybody. Welcome to another live edition of the Texas Radio hall of fame inducted, nationally recognized, universally loved and respected, Dudley and Bob Show. The only show in town to feature the marginal, but moderately compensated abilities of Dale Dudley, Bob Fonseca, funny man Matt Bearden and Daniel Gallo and his greenroom greenhorn. A Slobberknocker presentation, in association with Emmis Communications, around the globe. And now here he is, the man, the myth, the legend...the master of the world, king of the universe, the geeter with the heater, the boss with the hot sauce, the dean of the university of radio perversity, the head professor of the college of broadcast knowledge. The 70’s ninja warrior himself, the star of stage and of screen, award winning "col-yum-nist" and the man who puts the unity back into our community, Mr. Dale Dudley."
In 2011 Dale Dudley and Bob Fonseca started their own podcast series under the nom de guerre of Taint and Teabag Show.[18] The nickname was given to the pair by Bobcat Goldthwaite after a guest appearance on KLBJ-FM. The podcast is to be featured on the Kevin Smith inspired Smodcast Internet Radio (SIR) and is currently offered via free download. Regular guests include Daniel Gallo and Matt Bearden. The radio show is also available in Podcast form on iTunes and the station's Web site.
The Dudley & Bob Show produced four albums in the 1990s featuring various calls, bits, and sketches released during the Dudley and Bob with Debra years of the show.
During the 2000s the show produced the "Damn It's Early" albums which featuring live on-air performances from various local and touring national musicians.
| Year | Title | Label |
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| 1995 | Public Enema #1 | KLBJ |
| 1996 | We're Back and We're Highly Pissed | KLBJ |
| 1997 | Eugene! Don't Hit 'Em in the Head | KLBJ |
| 1998 | Prince Albert...Your Refrigerator Is Running | KLBJ |
| 2001 | Damn It's Early | KLBJ |
| 2003 | Damn It's 2 Early | KLBJ |