The Best Show on WFMU

Sad news (TBSOWFMU has been a pretty central and essential part of my comedic intake for the past decade) but also good if it means Tom & Jon are moving on to bigger and better things. I'm about a year behind on the show. Guess this is the kick in the seat I needed to get caught up.

Getting caught up is nice but I encourage you to listen to the live broadcast a few times instead of just listening to the archive.

Yeah I need to try to listen to some of the last episodes live.

He's working on the Chris Gethard show for IFC, "Stupid Life."

― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, October 30, 2013 11:52 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Word from the man himself over on the FOT board that Gethard's show was not picked up by IFC...too bad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Universe

http://youtu.be/Fh9tz_nKYYU?t=1m5s

How do I get ahold of the archives, iTunes only goes back to July

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/BS

Is there a way to download those, though?

probably, but I don't know what it is

Cool thanks! I'm just hoping they come out with an app or something. Discovering this show has been a treat

I am a regular on the Friends of Tom board, and I get the feeling more than one serious fan is sitting on the complete run of the show in MP3 form, but it is maddening because I just can't come out and ask--seems like bad form, especially since Tom seems to read everything on there. I would pay ALOT to FMU for a complete set, for like an upper level contribution to the station!

Seems like people would pay for an archive app like WTF or This American Life

There's a website somewhere with, if not all, at least a hefty portion of the shows in MP3 form. I'll see if I can find the link when I'm not at work.

Thanks, old lunch...the FMU site has them listenable on a pop-up player, I've never tried to download them individually and not sure if it's possible (don't think it is)

They used to be accessible from the FMU site via a secret webpage, but I don't know if that's true anymore. I wound up converting a ton of older shows to MP3s from the .rm files that they used to archive.

cool

Whither "Bad Company"?

Pssst: awfulsome(dot)com/tbsowfmu/.getoffmyphone/

Thank u

Thought it was funny how Tom was ragging on the Seinfeld2000 guy a few weeks ago and then in last week's episode went on a riff with Hodgman and Braunholer that was basically a Seinfeld2000-esque updating Seinfeld thing.

Yeah but it was funny

That's what I said.

No that's what I said

I know you are but what am I

GQ! It's strange to read this when you were packing t shirts with the guy in East Orange, NJ in 1998.

http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2013/12/goodbye-to-major-tom-the-gq-exit-interview-with-the-best-show-on-wfmus-tom-scharpling.html

I KNEW Dr. Morbius was Spike!

HAHAHAHA

Immediate Follower just blew my fucking mind

"Hello, Scharpling."

That's a theory that's been posited multiple times over the years.

I called the show once, maybe 6 years ago, and he hung up on me p quickly. I don't hear it much.

I'm kind of loving Spike refusing to turn up for the final festivities.

There's a listening party here for the final episode but I'm not sure about going. I only have like two IRL friends who are into Best Show and neither of them seem very interested in the party, and a bar is probably not ideal listening conditions. Though the communal aspect could be cool?

Communal aspect would be great fun, & you can listen to the podcast later if you worry you missed something

No 4 Loko no dice.

I KNEW Dr. Morbius was Spike!

HOLY SHIT

are you guys kidding about Morbius being Spike? I actually asked him recently if he was AP Mike he said no

i'm Dr Morbius, u goddamn idiots

What's your take on Jennifer Lopez?

I heard that they're the same person but I also heard that we're goddamn idiots so I don't even know what to believe anymore

* hates Hillary Clinton
* makes up "humorous" nicknames for celebrities
* lives in NYC

*loves soap operas

*always looking for Debbie

*total stan for doo-wop

* annoying

GQ! It's strange to read this when you were packing t shirts with the guy in East Orange, NJ in 1998.

http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2013/12/goodbye-to-major-tom-the-gq-exit-interview-with-the-best-show-on-wfmus-tom-scharpling.html

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, December 11, 2013 3:58 PM

OK, so Dr. M is NOT Spike, then

* loves John Wesley Shipp
* is black

The prosecution rests.

Wurster's on a live WTF episode up today.

Only now working my way through the whole 24 hour show, can't believe how great the Mike Watt Stooges set was.

Low-key highlight for me: Chris Elliott calling in to read the convoluted instructions to the Jaws board game.

FFS

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