The Best Show on WFMU

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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.

Gumming The Fun Tunnel (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link

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)

Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link

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.

Gumming The Fun Tunnel (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link

cool

you are kind, I am (waterface), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link

Whither "Bad Company"?

An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link

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

Spring Water With A Kiss Of Lemon (Old Lunch), Thursday, 28 November 2013 03:49 (ten years ago) link

Thank u

you are kind, I am (waterface), Friday, 29 November 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link

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.

Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link

Yeah but it was funny

you are kind, I am (waterface), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link

That's what I said.

Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link

No that's what I said

you are kind, I am (waterface), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link

I know you are but what am I

you are kind, I am (waterface), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link

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, 11 December 2013 20:58 (ten years ago) link

I KNEW Dr. Morbius was Spike!

Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 12 December 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link

HAHAHAHA

you are kind, I am (waterface), Thursday, 12 December 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link

Immediate Follower just blew my fucking mind

you are kind, I am (waterface), Thursday, 12 December 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link

"Hello, Scharpling."

you are kind, I am (waterface), Thursday, 12 December 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link

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

Breathe-Wrong® Nose Gum (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link

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

eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 December 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link

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

Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 12 December 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link

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?

Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 12 December 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link

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

giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Thursday, 12 December 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link

No 4 Loko no dice.

Sticky Gary (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link

I KNEW Dr. Morbius was Spike!

HOLY SHIT

Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 12 December 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link

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

Iago Galdston, Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link

i'm Dr Morbius, u goddamn idiots

eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link

What's your take on Jennifer Lopez?

Hadrian VIII, Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link

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

Ludicrous Positions IV: Tender Arenas (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link

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

Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link

*loves soap operas

you are kind, I am (waterface), Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link

*always looking for Debbie

Ludicrous Positions IV: Tender Arenas (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:28 (ten years ago) link

*total stan for doo-wop

Hadrian VIII, Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link

* annoying

Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link

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

Iago Galdston, Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:44 (ten years ago) link

* loves John Wesley Shipp
* is black

giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Friday, 13 December 2013 00:16 (ten years ago) link

The prosecution rests.

Sandwich Slobber (Old Lunch), Friday, 13 December 2013 00:30 (ten years ago) link

Wurster's on a live WTF episode up today.

Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 16 December 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link

Nice, will check that. Fogelnest files also had a great best show special last week.

dsb, Monday, 16 December 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link

The WTF ep was mostly about his drumming which was weird since the end of the Best Show was obviously the impetus for having him on. The Fogelnest Files episode was great.

Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 16 December 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link

The end of the Best Show wasn't announced until months after that episode was taped - he's usually wayyyy behind on the live eps.

giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Monday, 16 December 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link

Oh well then I guess it was just the impetus for him finally getting the episode up.

Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 16 December 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link

That Fogelnest Files episode was cheap fun-- I'm totally OK to listen to two dudes just run through favorite Best Show clips for an hour. FWIW the Fogelnest Files with Gary the Squirrel and Andy Kindler is A++, basically just Gary ragging on Jake and Andy rather than Mike.

Call me Shitmael (CompuPost), Monday, 16 December 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link

wait a second, I just figured out who this Spike persona is -- that guy has been phoning NYC radio shows for at least 30 years. He's still not me.

My voice is not queeny, either.

eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 December 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link

RIP Weirdos Exposed.

Call me Shitmael (CompuPost), Monday, 16 December 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link

My theory now is that Dr Morbs is Fred from Honolulu....getting warmer?

Iago Galdston, Monday, 16 December 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link

I wonder how the final episode will go down. Tom has seemed pretty uncomfortable with the eulogizing in recent shows, and lots of regulars have already said their goodbyes. I'm sad to see it go - but it feels like time.

brio, Monday, 16 December 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link

I wonder how the final episode will go down. Tom has seemed pretty uncomfortable with the eulogizing in recent shows, and lots of regulars have already said their goodbyes. I'm sad to see it go - but it feels like time.

Spike/Morb, @LaurieFromMiami, Philly Boy Roy, …

Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 16 December 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link

Trying to catch up through the last few weeks before tomorrow; happy to hear Fredricks call in, a little bummed that we'll probably never hear from him again and the last thing he was talking about were "frequencies." :/

Call me Shitmael (CompuPost), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link

Really doubt Spike will be on the last show, I think he missed his chance. My guess is no calls at all, don't think Tom wants to risk additional eulogizing. Maybe even just three hours of Scharpling and Wurster wrapping up Newbridge.

Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 01:45 (ten years ago) link

think Paul F Tompkins will call in?

brio, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link


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