The Best Show on WFMU

Listening to all of the episodes from the start was such a daunting task but well worth the investment. The only downside of this box set is that there are so many wonderful non-Wurster call moments that are equally deserving of archival treatment.

They would need permission from the callers I would think to do that, tho

Even just stuff like Coffin Talk and the Four Loko show.

so my 2 calls in the history of the show are unavailable, eh?

Nah, I think everything (with the exception of a handful of shows) is still streaming in the WFMU archives.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x29aun7_newbridge-tourism-board-newbridge-we-re-comin-to-get-ya_fun?start=5

And I don't think you should skip those first five seconds, so.... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x29aun7_newbridge-tourism-board-newbridge-we-re-comin-to-get-ya_fun

See also: Wait WHAAAAAT? No thread for Scharpling and Wurster?

Zachary Brimstead needed to weight about 300 more pounds.

Otherwise, Gold.

@scharpling
My college football rankings are in! And "college football" came in at #1 on the list of my least favorite sports!

i lol'd

TS is the focus of about 10 mins of the WFMU docfilm Sex and Broadcasting, incl a sequence of him taking several of "the worst calls ever." (likely to be distributed in 2015)

Not sure what sex has to do with WFMU?

film explains it

whatever puts asses in the seats!

that's what i thought too, but it turns out to be a legit title.

WFMU DJs have been secretly fucking on-mic for ages.

even by themselves (cf Kenny G)

I'm looking forward to seeing it...

Teaser podcast now running

http://thebestshow.net/

Teaser podcast removed an hour or two before Ned's post.

How was it?

It was almost more of a test session to see how sound levels would get. Kinda fun! Board vet Mackro was one of the callers.

Tom was cool on chakicast

Friends of Tom website forum section has a lot of the test session up as an mp3

This has now also been taken down (replaced with a stream) :(

Too bad

Annnnd...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B46Laz9CYAE1qlG.jpg:large

woah, I listened to the whole thing, I didn't know Mackro called in! I knew he was joking about the "late April" start date on Saturday, but I am surprised to see the official launch this soon. Happy though!

im caling in tonight (maybe)

cue the Bad Company

so how is it doing? haven't had a chance to listen yet.
the only flaw I see with the new style is less random/drunk NJ callers who just happened to be listening to WFMU by chance, this is going to be all folks who sought out Tom... but those random people were less and less part of the dynamic as the show went on anyway.

uh there are way more crazy/drunk callers than ever before believe it or not

it's on the internet the internet is full of crazies

it's great btw

v v v great

wurster in full effect is a joy

Wurster is on an unbelievable roll, these calls since he's been back are so great

Haven't heard last week's yet, but the first two are great. The Philly Boy Roy call was wonderful, but I think the highlight so far was the Bad Companying of the dude calling in to laugh at the previous Bad Companying.

amazing, so good to hear

Tom doing a Spike impression at a casino... "hiiit mehhhhhh"... I almost fell out of my chair

Scharpling posted this this evening. It is worth a careful, thoughtful read.

http://blog.scharpling.com/february-23-2015/

Poor guy

Goddamn do I sympathize. Four years after a string of similarly bad shit and I'm barely staving off the fear of another shoe dropping. It's amazing that he's been able to do the show through all this and that it's still been good, but I'm glad he's willing to do what he needs to do to take care of himself.

This Fall special happening right now is quite something.

Last few weeks of Best Show have been really really good, despite only brief Wurster calls. Tom has been in a much better mood, having pals like Julie Klausner and Jake Fogelnest around probably helped. I'm a little glad he hasn't had any celebrity interviews recently; it was cool he had Kristen Schaal and Ellie Kemper on but he's not really a great interviewer.

Dunno about that -- he is a genuinely good interviewer of musicians (not so much on the Best Show, but on the now on hiatus Low Times), and his interviews with Kemper and John Oliver (apparently also pals) were quite excellent -- and his interview of Turtle from Entourage was fantastic!

Yeah I felt like the Julie Klausner epsiode was the first v.2.0 show to really fire on all cylinders. Tom seemed way more loose and comfortable. The "Touch Me" riffing was killing me

Also banishing the Wheel of Crystal to the sound collage is a good move

I did like his interviews for Low Times. Maybe the difference is interviewing in person vs. over the phone? I don't know.

I just talked to Tom! And told him my embarrassing celebrity story from yesterday! Now I feel embarrassed after talking to celebrities 2 times in 24 hours.

Oh cool. I haven't listened to last night's yet. I can't imagine ever calling in, it seems too scary and I never listen live anyways.

It got way less scary when he did 90% of the talking at the beginning! I shouldn't have read twitter after tho.

I've avoided the urge to call for twelve years, which is probably for the best.