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NESguerilla posted:Still kind of annoys me that he never just said what happened or didn't bring it up in the first place. It's annoying - and to this day I'd still like to know what happened - but after listening to the man for over a decade, I can't imagine him behaving any other way. On a happier topic, my box set came today and it is fantastic. If anyone is still on the fence about buying one, it is totally worth the money.
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Does anyone know the one clip from the sound collage that was some NPR sounding dude playing a Best Show clip and not liking it?
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My parents called to tell me that my box set showed up at their place today, but I won't be able to get there to pick it up for a month and it is going to drive me insane. 
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Groucho Marxist posted:Does anyone know the one clip from the sound collage that was some NPR sounding dude playing a Best Show clip and not liking it? It's Leonard Lopate from WNYC: http://www.wnyc.org/story/sex-and-broadcasting-film-about-free-form-radio-wfmu/
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Opened my box set today - I almost overlooked the consolidated cardboard packing tape, nice touch.
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Immediately after the "I'm not sure that clip convinced me" question he asks, "How did FMU become an independent station, wasn't its license originally held by a college?"
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PepeSilvia posted:Immediately after the "I'm not sure that clip convinced me" question he asks, "How did FMU become an independent station, wasn't its license originally held by a college?" It was though.
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Yep, Upsala doesnt exist anymore.
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CaptainPsyko posted:It's Leonard Lopate from WNYC: http://www.wnyc.org/story/sex-and-broadcasting-film-about-free-form-radio-wfmu/ Just wanted to quote this post because if you look at the trailer for the documentary that's linked in the article you can catch a glimpse of former best show power caller Petey during his birthday celebration a number of years back. Did not expect him to look like he does for some reason, call in radio does that to you.
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If you wanna order issue #40 of Ghetto Blaster magazine, email eddie@ghettoblastermagazine.com. For me, cover price + shipping was $7. Here's the sweet cover: 
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"this is the dumbest list imaginable"quote:The Top 100 Fictional Characters Of ALL TIME This was great, I really missed the themed shows in this new run. Illinois Smith fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Apr 8, 2015 |
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I'm distressed that the bad boyfriend from the Voices Carry video didn't make it in.
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That episode was brilliant, laughed so hard at Tom saying "OK, Brody from Seinfeld is at #58 and #59 is Hamlet. From Hamlet"
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I liked the guy who suggested Bender and Tom was like BECKER? TED DANSON'S BECKER? and just hung up. Great episode.
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Last night's Steven Universe was completely Tom-centric and also featured the voice acting talents of one Mr. Jon Wurster in a big supporting role. So it's pretty much a must watch.
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Did Johnny Ryan do the cover? It looks like his stuff.
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NESguerilla posted:Did Johnny Ryan do the cover? It looks like his stuff. I'm pretty sure it was Neil Numberman. I met him at the Brooklyn Best Show listening party a few years ago and he's a cool dude.
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GraPar posted:Last night's Steven Universe was completely Tom-centric and also featured the voice acting talents of one Mr. Jon Wurster in a big supporting role. So it's pretty much a must watch. Uh, yeah, speaking of that. I made a bit of a modification to my Best Show poster I got as a marathon premium a few years back. 
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Why can't it be both? Seriously, though, I got my box set a few weeks ago, and it is fantastic. Definitely pro-buy if anyone is on the fence.
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Okay, so because I am old and crochety, it took me literally years to think 'oh hey podcasts are pretty okay' and being a giant mountain goats fan I have no idea why I wasn't listening to this sooner, but...with such massive archives, most of it probably not available online (assumption) where does one even start listening? Just hit the latest one and go from there?
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If you just start with the relaunch as a podcast, that's probably as good a place as any, it's pretty accessible for new listeners. Then once you've worked through the backlog of the last ~5 months, you can have people in this thread link you to some gems or whatever.
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Allen Wren posted:Okay, so because I am old and crochety, it took me literally years to think 'oh hey podcasts are pretty okay' and being a giant mountain goats fan I have no idea why I wasn't listening to this sooner, but...with such massive archives, most of it probably not available online (assumption) where does one even start listening? Just hit the latest one and go from there? You are wrong about most of the archives not being available online! https://wfmu.org/playlists/BS That said, just start with the relaunch back in December for now. After that, I'd say grab the box set for Scharpling and Wurster's greatest hits, or check out the old Best Show Gems feed: https://wfmu.org/playlists/BD
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There are a couple of the older CDs on spotify etc as well. Just search for Scharpling & Wurster. I do realize more and more that I like the call-in stuff just as much as the preplanned bits. Of course when the callers are boring, the show becomes drat near unlistenable. When they are bad, Tom usually makes it fun.
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Yeah, just start with the new run and the old Gems podcast to get more familiar with the residents of Newbridge.
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I love wurster bits but my main draw to the show has always been the rants more than anything and the callers second. I realize I'm in the minority there though.
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NESguerilla posted:I love wurster bits but my main draw to the show has always been the rants more than anything and the callers second. I realize I'm in the minority there though. I'm in the same boat. As much as I love the wurster stuff, the stuff that makes me laugh harder than anything is Scharpling ranting
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Alright, I've listened to the first show of the relaunch, and it was good, but right near the end, there's a bit where Tom just sings King Crimson riffs at a caller for like three minutes straight. I laughed until I choked. I'm on board.
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Allen Wren posted:Alright, I've listened to the first show of the relaunch, and it was good, but right near the end, there's a bit where Tom just sings King Crimson riffs at a caller for like three minutes straight. I laughed until I choked. I'm on board. Do you happen to remember when that happened? Because now I'm remembering that moment and desperately want to hear it again, but really can't be bothered to listen to the whole thing trying to find it.
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CaptainPsyko posted:Do you happen to remember when that happened? It's definitely in like the last half-hour to forty minutes of the thing, just before or just after he indicated he was going to run long and clear the phone lines because the show took so long to get going.
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The early years have a lot of Tom singing. I tried to go through the whole show chronologically at work during the hiatus and at some point in 2003 he just starts singing Aimee Mann's Wise Up every week whenever he hits a string of bad callers. Also I'm not the biggest fan of the sound collage but that Jim Morrison chunk at the end of this week's was fantastic. Illinois Smith fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Apr 23, 2015 |
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A while ago I put the best of Tom singing up here: https://soundcloud.com/asteriosk/sets/tom-sings-toms-best-tunes-from If anyone has any additional MP3's, DM me and I'll add 'em.
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I can't quote the episode or timecode, but there's a really good bit of Scharpling singing "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" by the Beach Boys.
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Is there a torrent of the old shows or an easy to use archive that doesn't have the files in real media because I've been listening to the podcast all day and it's incredible
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Allow me to introduce you to the Newbridge Navigator http://newbridgenavigator.pythonanywhere.com/
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