Something cool happened on Drudge Radio last night. I know because I wasn’t listening. Don’t even bother filling me in. Something always transpires the week I’m not up to document the show…something relevant to my book, something I could comment on here, something really cool to distract myself from my Monday morning responsibilities. It’s Matt’s Law. If he can think up something really cool to do or say, he’ll do it when no one’s paying attention.

Either he went off on a crying jag, or he proposed to his girlfriend on-air (no, I already debunked those gay rumors), or, even more shocking, he contradicted Pat Buchanan live and on-air. Or the ultimate irony: he addresses our April Fool’s posting from last month and goes off on another tirade about people who call themselves bloggers (meaning us).

Drudge Blog and Drudge Forum have gotten questions about this issue. First, let me go on record as saying, do tune in to Drudge’s show your local station when you can. I won’t lecture you here and now about how ratings work or the importance of supporting radio advertisers and not taking free radio for granted, blah, blah, blah. But if you can’t listen live anyway, here are your options:

Pretend Pundit records and archives the radio show. His online disclaimer should protect him from legal liabilities. If he ever stops, though, you can:

1- Record the show on a radio station with the “Listen live” option (Drudge posts several links in major cities - including NY, LA, Tampa, Miami, West Palm Beach, and Atlanta) a few hours before the show. You’ll notice he doesn’t post the streams on a rare night he has a substitute.

2- Listen or tape at 8:30 pm Eastern time on WABC . The New York”warmup” show starts a half-hour before Drudge goes national.

FYI - There’s always an awkward station identification break during the last 5-10 minutes of the show, so the last quarter hour is generally toast. If you’re at home but want to go to bed, tune in to the warmup show and click off at that point, when things get a little repetitive and the callers get dumber.

Someone else online synopsizes the radio show, but it’s not quite the same thing. I’ve transcribed parts of some shows but worry about the copyright implications of posting too much of it online. I do post excerpts when I’m making a point in a DrudgeBlog essay. (Come to think of it, I’ve got a commonplace book of quotes that deserves a posting of its own…)

UPDATE: Something rather cool did happen last night. A Drudge Forum regular, who can love Matt more than I ever could, successfully made it onto the airwaves. Her brush with greatness is recounted here.)