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I think you may have listed the wrong time or date because he isn't playing any songs around that time. He is on a pretty funny rant though.
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# ? Dec 30, 2012 02:20 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 03:48 |
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Here's the song for those who are curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_msHpEa3_Y
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# ? Dec 30, 2012 04:55 |
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NESguerilla posted:I think you may have listed the wrong time or date because he isn't playing any songs around that time. He is on a pretty funny rant though. I was using the podcast version without any songs at the beginning, so the time was off. By the way, 9/23/08 is a loving stellar episode, with some truly hilarious Wurster calls and really funny Spike dismissals.
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# ? Dec 30, 2012 07:16 |
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Anybody have a Friends of Tom card? I'm not sure if I have it or not.
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# ? Jan 1, 2013 21:03 |
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Heh, I'm listening to the first episode (that is available ) and it's like watching something from the first season of the Simpsons. Everything is there, but it's all sort of off.
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# ? Jan 1, 2013 21:29 |
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Billy Gnosis posted:Is it possible that is a Spike is a deep-cover Jon Wurster character? Christ, id hope so.
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# ? Jan 2, 2013 06:30 |
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It still amazes me that Nardwuar is a real guy rather than a Wurster character.
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# ? Jan 2, 2013 13:44 |
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The Bunk posted:It still amazes me that Nardwuar is a real guy rather than a Wurster character. There are pictures of them together, and I'm still not 100% convinced they are aren't photoshopped .
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# ? Jan 2, 2013 20:38 |
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Been catching up on some of the later episodes and one of my favorite things ever has to be Spike being the very first caller on the emergency cell phone show.
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# ? Jan 5, 2013 06:33 |
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Billy Gnosis posted:Is it possible that is a Spike is a deep-cover Jon Wurster character? He sounds exactly like Fred Stoller, so thats my theory.
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# ? Jan 5, 2013 20:11 |
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Bundt Cake posted:He sounds exactly like Fred Stoller, so thats my theory. Spike sounds more like a gay Droopy Dog than anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXT7thyvhcs
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# ? Jan 5, 2013 20:24 |
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Spike's also gone through a strangely large amount of character development. Years ago, when he first started calling, he was just a gimmick caller who would shout "Where's Debbie!" and until Tom hung up on him. For a while he was pretty much in the same league as the Mr. T soundboard. After Tom coaxed him into talking, Spike went through a phase where he insisted that he lived in an S&M dungeon and one where he pretended to be writing a book called "Weirdos Exposed". Modern do-wop loving woman hating Spike is a relatively recent development.
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# ? Jan 6, 2013 03:52 |
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I thought the S&M dungeon was just an invention of Tom's? Spike pretending to read from Weirdos Exposed was one the funniest moments on the show ever though.
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# ? Jan 6, 2013 04:29 |
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NESguerilla posted:I thought the S&M dungeon was just an invention of Tom's? The dungeon is vintage Spike. I can't remember the last time he mentioned it, though. Must have been years ago. The Weirdos Exposed reading was amazing. That episode and Petey's Birthday party reached Curb Your Enthusiasm levels of cringworthy humor.
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# ? Jan 6, 2013 07:50 |
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Wow, that just made me realize how long that dude has been calling in. I've been a regular listening for at least 6 or 7 years and now that I think about it Spike was already his current self. Also, I don't know if people are joking when they question if he a character or not, but he's most defiantly is a real person. A bunch of people have met him at WFMU events.
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# ? Jan 6, 2013 08:04 |
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NESguerilla posted:
They're all just in on the conspiracy.
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# ? Jan 6, 2013 10:46 |
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Does the recent "Madman,Man and Man" Gem have a follow up? It kind of ends on an odd note for a Wurster call.
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# ? Jan 11, 2013 21:32 |
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I think they just switched it up from the usual call-ending insanity for the sake of variety/for the hell of it.
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# ? Jan 12, 2013 06:08 |
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Where's last week show on iTunes? Arghhh
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# ? Jan 19, 2013 01:14 |
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COUNTIN THE BILLIES posted:Where's last week show on iTunes? Arghhh Came here to post this and ask if there is a way to download so I can put in on my iPhone. All I can find is streaming of the WFMU website.
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# ? Jan 19, 2013 06:06 |
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Groucho Marxist posted:Came here to post this and ask if there is a way to download so I can put in on my iPhone. All I can find is streaming of the WFMU website. You can stream or download off of the WFMU app.
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# ? Jan 19, 2013 06:51 |
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The AV Club comments on this article about him mocking AV Club comments are great in terms of how humourlessly they take it.
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# ? Jan 19, 2013 16:33 |
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Groucho Marxist posted:Came here to post this and ask if there is a way to download so I can put in on my iPhone. All I can find is streaming of the WFMU website. http://mp3archives.wfmu.org/archive/BS/bs130115.mp3 You can plug the date into that file name to get any show available for streaming, and it actually has the songs from the beginning of each show.
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# ? Jan 19, 2013 16:40 |
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GraPar posted:The AV Club comments on this article about him mocking AV Club comments are great in terms of how humourlessly they take it. Hahaha. That's pretty great. I hope he brings back the slide whistle in the future. I completely lost it at work during that part and everyone was looking at me like I was crazy.
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# ? Jan 19, 2013 16:44 |
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TransatlanticFoe posted:http://mp3archives.wfmu.org/archive/BS/bs130115.mp3 It's actually up on iTunes now, but thanks for the advice in case this happens again.
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# ? Jan 19, 2013 18:59 |
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In case anybody hasn't seen it, Tom directed an Aimee Mann video last year that's relevant to this week's Best Show Gems, in which Jon reenacts the Voices Carry video as "the guy who took [her] to the opera." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA1cX-wgMdM
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# ? Jan 23, 2013 21:02 |
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PepeSilvia posted:In case anybody hasn't seen it, Tom directed an Aimee Mann video last year that's relevant to this week's Best Show Gems, in which Jon reenacts the Voices Carry video as "the guy who took [her] to the opera." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA1cX-wgMdM Also look for Ted Leo, as one of the band members, wearing a hilarious wig.
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# ? Jan 23, 2013 21:08 |
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Good interview: http://www.avclub.com/articles/scharpling-wurster-pick-their-favorite-best-show-g,91510/ Also, in that they mention the Bruce Springsteen biographer call that came up in Best Show Gems a few weeks back and I don't think got mentioned in this thread, but is an all time classic.
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# ? Jan 24, 2013 15:30 |
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GraPar posted:Good interview: http://www.avclub.com/articles/scharpling-wurster-pick-their-favorite-best-show-g,91510/ Man, AV Club commenters really took that ribbing last week personal.
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# ? Jan 24, 2013 18:12 |
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The Bunk posted:Man, AV Club commenters really took that ribbing last week personal. Tom reading their comments was one of my favorite things he's done in recent memory. I do enjoy the AV Club's articles but their comment section might as well be Reddit with all of the unfunny memes and quotes they use repeatedly. I'm going to listen to this week's Best Show tonight on my way home from work and can't wait to hear if he talks about them throwing a collective tantrum.
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# ? Jan 24, 2013 21:18 |
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This weeks episode is one of the funniest in a while. My favorite part of the show is when Tom rambles and makes fun of everything and there is a hell of a lot of it.
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# ? Jan 25, 2013 02:29 |
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NESguerilla posted:This weeks episode is one of the funniest in a while. My favorite part of the show is when Tom rambles and makes fun of everything and there is a hell of a lot of it. Yesss me too. I listened to it a bit yesterday and it's good one. Last week's was good too. GraPar posted:Good interview: http://www.avclub.com/articles/scharpling-wurster-pick-their-favorite-best-show-g,91510/ Love those Gems too.
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# ? Jan 25, 2013 02:30 |
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That's a really good interview, but the comments are just something else. It's amazing and hilarious how angry they all are. e: Scharpling and Wurster are ranked 31 in Rolling Stone's 50 funniest people. That's behind Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher among other no longer amusing people though so probably not something to set your watch by. EmotionlessThug fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Jan 25, 2013 |
# ? Jan 25, 2013 04:13 |
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If Scharpling made fun of how unfunny goons are with a slide whistle it would make my day. Especially if he was reading something I wrote. I don't know why those guys are so butthurt about it.
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# ? Jan 25, 2013 08:08 |
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GraPar posted:Good interview: http://www.avclub.com/articles/scharpling-wurster-pick-their-favorite-best-show-g,91510/ Some of my favorite Wurster calls are the ones where he just makes up fake trivia about famous people. I think my all-time favorite one is the Brock Peuch "call from a hero" from January 16, 2007, where he riffs on the musical careers of famous news anchors(in addition to some other good stuff).
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# ? Jan 25, 2013 14:20 |
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AP Mike appreciation show gave me tenders
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# ? Jan 30, 2013 06:01 |
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Roosevelt posted:AP Mike appreciation show gave me tenders That friend of Mike's call was really sweet. So to balance out that sweetness, this picture that was tweeted around
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# ? Jan 30, 2013 06:13 |
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# ? Jan 30, 2013 10:27 |
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And this is how Tom feels about AP Mike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUL68ZeclcA
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# ? Jan 30, 2013 10:29 |
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Billy Gnosis posted:That friend of Mike's call was really sweet. this may be my favorite call of all time tbh. she was really sweet on Mike.
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