The Best Show on WFMU

First thing on BuzzFeed I've ever been tempted to repost/link, kudos to Matty P: http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/signs-youre-from-newbridge

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.

just thought that any fans of WFMU / John Peel may enjoy my lame mixcloud thing I started cos it was easier than sending friends CDRs.
i do detour into power rangers theme tunes, my pet Azerbaijani guitarist, and playing two records at the same time more than is advisable but hopefully there'S something in there for some of you. no DJ chat, tho. i'm shy *bats eyelids*

Well lookee what got posted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2rONbPrU-8

xpost with On Cinema at the Cinema on ilxor.com

tim heidecker hosted best show last night. it was weird (see below). tom's hosting office hours right now! i already prefer his version of this switcheroo

there was also this very awkward moment, the most awkward, in the last hour of the show. the one best show person that tim was acknowledging (because he was in the room) was the producer, jason, and he announced that the final hour would be a "no complaints" session, in which tim would not be allowed to complain. i think this might be a best show tradition, but i'm not sure, and tbh it seemed like tim wasn't sure either. then, jason announced that the special topic of the hour for callers would be to say what they think the best work tim has made, and then the very worst that he has made, and then reiterated that tim was not allowed to complain. tim seemed very uncomfortable with this, and if he was being intentional/comedic about it, i will say it was one of the greatest, most believable and subtle performances i've ever seen. if it was fake, he fooled me. he just seemed very unsure about the whole thing.

for most of the hour, the 'no complaining' and 'say your favorite and least favorite tim production' rules were fine, with the normal people who called in. (at the same time, they were also doing a worst 20 beatles list/brainstorming sesh, so that ate up most of the conversation). but then, near the end of the show they brought back 2 of the Best Show voices, the two guys on the telephone who were very briefly included as part of the show in the first 10 minutes and then completely ignored thereafter until this very point, near the end of the show. and one of the guys just kind of tore into tim's mistreatment of him on the show, how he had been completely ignored, referencing several times about meeting tim before the show and that how nice it was, but clearly mocking it, clearly it wasn't a good encounter, before the show. it went on for a while and then tim really had no real response -- again, if he was faking it he has become a fine actor, full stop -- and producer jason reiterated that it was a no complaint hour. it was very awkward! but also very gripping.

at the end of the show as they were signing off tim was, predictably, asking for reviews of his performance (one of the best show guys gave him 4 stars, lol), and jason mentioned what had happened earlier and explained that the guy on the phone was just doing a bit and he does it to everyone, that tom would have broken, etc. but tim didn't seem to believe that at all and frankly neither do i!

lol! i am actually going to xpost this to the best show thread because they will know a lot more about all of it, i'm sure.

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.