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What Were Once Caricatures are Now Portraits

I love the Best Show 24/7 streaming station he has now. It's good to hear shows from like 2000-2001, when it was truly bizarre and unexpected

tom scharpling on the first episode of "the podcast for laundry" with brett davis is good if you miss angry/flustered tom from the earlier hollywood handbook episodes

i was wary of james murphy on the best show after some of those post-relaunch interviews of celebrities who tom doesn't know personally, but it was a really good ep. they are obviously simpatico, and having him in the studio instead of on the phone probably helped.

i really really enjoyed that!

book

https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/the-best-show-tom-scharpling-memoir-book.html

Rot

I really like how Tom’s affection for RAtM and Limp Bizkit closely mirrors Ronald Thomas Clontle’s musical evolution in Rock, Rot and Rule.

I thought Tom's assessment of RaTM as either the best bad band or the worst good is rather astute.

'worst GOOD band' rather

And finally the Andrew Dice Clay interview sees it’s standalone light of day. Assuming it coincides with his first unintentional on-air fbomb

Tom accidentally swearing on 7/24 is a real joy

part of the joy of tom going on hollywood handbook is hearing him swear

I really like how Tom’s affection for RAtM and Limp Bizkit closely mirrors Ronald Thomas Clontle’s musical evolution in Rock, Rot and Rule.

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, August 9, 2019 7:52 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ha true, not to mention "the Music Scholar" bit!

Argh, that’s the one I meant!

Thanks to Rock Rot & Rule I now use 'rotting' as a verb for sorting through records to decide if they're worth selling.

AP Mike's latest song, On Broadway, is unbelievably good, heavy, deep stuff. Go to his bandcamp page if you haven't heard it.

the Greg Cartwright solo set on newest "Best" is so, so good

Agreed, incredible. I had just gone back into the archives to listen to it recently before it popped up on Bests a few days later, funny enough.

yeesh what's going on

not feeling this "slice of life"

what's the deal? i'm months behind

I haven't listened, but Mike and Dudio and someone else have been filling in for Tom while he's busy (up until this week where he did an episode from LA)

tom was on hollywood handbook again this week if you need your scharpling fix

It's with great sadness that we say goodbye to a beloved friend of the show, Robert "Avalanche Bob" Cribbie. It was an honor to be a small part of his life and he will always be a part of Best Show history.

RIP to a true original who never gave up.https://t.co/XDbpQYmsah pic.twitter.com/JJotS239Yg

— The Best Show (@bestshow4life) November 21, 2019

RIP

did i skip every single one of his calls after the first few? yes, i did. but still, RIP

RIP to a true Weirdo

SKIBBLABBLEDIBBADABBADIBBASKABBLABBLABBADACKADIGGASKABBARRRrest in peace, Avalanche.

there was one call where tom actually got him to talk about his past for a while and it was really interesting, i wish they had done more of that

oh no!

I'd like to hear that call

RIP

Probably was the same episode where I remember Pat Byrne thinking out loud on air about figuring out how to reissue his 50s recordings

yeah sorry i have no idea when it was. probably a few years ago.

Aww, RIP

Got a real kick out of AP Mike asking him if he had ever been on a snowboard before a few weeks back.

That actually kind of irked me...maybe in the very beginning Tom did a little of that sort of thing, but even when he made fun of him he went out of his way not to embarrass him—he was sweet and mostly patient.

That Mike dig seemed like punching down—he obviously was not a snowboarder.

Anyway RIP yodel diddy doo

it was because he was yodeling about snowboarding wasn't it? Those things have been around a minute..

Yes, that’s why. That was the whole joke—he was glomming onto snowboarding to create a niche.

just like snowboarding did to surfing. fair play.

love having nathan fielder on as a guest and spending an hour and a half talking exclusively about air hockey

This is going to be so good

I HAVE A NEW PODCAST WITH MY FRIEND @julieklausner CALLED DOUBLE THREAT!!! It premieres 4/6 and there's a preview ep up now! @DoubleThreatPod @ForeverDogTeam

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— scharpling (@scharpling) March 23, 2020

Yes! I think Tom is always at his best when she's on, he feeds on her laughter

Not the biggest fan of hers but no denying she brings the energy level way up when she's on the show.

I kind of love the new best show format of tom just driving around monologuing to himself and occasionally throwing a mic cable out the window

yeah and the 3/20 (21?) sound collage was kind of mindblowing

I like that he now has to mix these in advance

Yes! Love Julie on The Best Show and elsewhere. Their riffing on the Cheesecake Factory from (I think) a 2018 episode was the most I've ever endangered myself by laughing too hard while driving.

best show on hiatus

the eps of double threat i've heard have been very funny

On the day I change my dn to a Best Show ref. That cannot be coincidental.

When did Scharpling start doing so many impressions? Dude is Rich Little all the sudden.

I wanted to love Double Threat but it just felt a bit lazy, like let's just read the news and bag on everyone.

i haven't been listening to the best show (or any podcast really) regularly, has tom talked at all about being stuck in LA? is terre t with him or back in NJ? seems like a tough situation

also what did ap mike say on twitter that everyone is mad about? fred from honolulu is beefing with him and i'm seeing implications that the hiatus is a direct result?