Recorded live on the air on November 19, 1997 at WFMU East Orange, NJ, listen in as deejay Tom Scharpling does a faux interview with self-appointed music critic Ronald Thomas Clontle (Jon Wurster) about his controversial reference book Rock, Rot & Rule. The book is simply just a list dividing all popular music history into the categories Rock, Rot, and Rule which is intended as a spoof of the false authority of real rock guidebooks and music critics. Clontle admits to not being very knowledgeable on the subject. He often seems disinterested during the interview since he has money on a basketball game in progress, his rationale is inconsistent, and he contradicts himself often, setting up a flood of enraged callers to the show. More enraging than Clontle’s inflammatory remarks about Bowie, Zappa, and Neil Young rotting, is his manner of turning the other cheek as callers become more and more confrontational with him. Wurster as Clontle is amazingly quick, reacting to every caller’s diatribe hilariously, and the venom they unleash, and the passion with which they debate this subject mirrors that of the armchair coaches heard regularly on sports radio. Great stuff for any fan of the show.

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