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The guests were spectacular. I'm a huge Hayes fanboy, but they both brought a bunch of energy. I'm excited for the Patreon-based, ad-free Best Show. Dude used to make hundreds and hundreds of thousands for WFMU. I'll definitely sign up.
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ManoliIsFat posted:The guests were spectacular. I'm a huge Hayes fanboy, but they both brought a bunch of energy. I'm glad it's going ad-free. That's how it should be
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I think going donation-only will do incredibly well, but I could also see it falling flat with Tom providing plenty of frustrated commentary. Either way, it feels right for the show. I wonder if there are plans to build a full podcast network. The Best Show would be a tentpole show again. It'd be like Earwolf minus the funding and focus on musicals.
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I am loving the Rocky outro's. It's no "Tuesday has become Wednesday..." but it'll do.
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Man, this is no Four Loko Christmas Spectacular.
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I've missed Gary the Squirrel. The shrimp connec-centric Christmas pageant was wonderful. (Also great to catch up with LDP)
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I think that guy who was calling for Jon Daly was loving around and did not actually mistake him for 3 other people. Makes for a better show if he did, though, I guess. Also, there will never be another Four Loko Christmas show as that almost killed Tom.
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Bayonne Christmas was great.
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What year was the Four Loko Christmas, 2010?
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The original Four Loko incident where Tom was completely out of it before the end of the show was during the Holiday Party of 2010, and the story of the Four Loko Carol was acted out during the Holiday Party of 2012. I was listening to some old shows recently, and Tom banned a caller named Todd from The Best Show for 11 years. The call was some time around 2006-2008. I wonder if Todd will call when his sentence is up.
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I think I'm going to make the 2010 Four Loko episodes an annual listening tradition. The contrast of a sane, sedate Hodgman and an unhinged Tom/Mike is so good.
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WrathOfBlade posted:I think I'm going to make the 2010 Four Loko episodes an annual listening tradition. The contrast of a sane, sedate Hodgman and an unhinged Tom/Mike is so good. I just listened to that episode for the first time myself this week and yeah, I'll put that in my annual rotation. "I think I'm gonna do the show like this every week! I'm done with the old show, this is the new show!" JethroMcB fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Dec 26, 2016 |
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Dec 26, 2016 21:38
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hi i'm dare
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Dec 26, 2016 22:10
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Okay. You should call Tom Scharpling next Tuesday (January Third) between 9 and Midnight eastern time at 201-332-3484 to talk about that.
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What the hell?
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HarlequinRatDance posted:hi i'm dare Hey dude
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And now I'll be able to put on my tombstone that I was the second person to support The Best Show's Patreon (after @sparkiepop). https://www.patreon.com/TheBestShow/
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The Bunk posted:And now I'll be able to put on my tombstone that I was the second person to support The Best Show's Patreon (after @sparkiepop). Just saw this. Can't wait for what the exclusive audio content might be.
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Binowru posted:Just saw this. Can't wait for what the exclusive audio content might be. More episodes of Gary the Squirrels Broadcaating Boot Camp
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CaptainPsyko posted:More episodes of Gary the Squirrels Broadcaating Boot Camp Maybe the other guys will do stuff. Dudio could put out a "Greatest Distracting Laughs from the Next Room" mix supercut.
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Bobby Joe, the afro-having toilet driver who tells you to never pay attention
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Looks like the Patreon is going well. I wonder how big the bump will be after the first new show. https://graphtreon.com/creator/TheBestShow
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14 grand a month is a pretty nice chunk of change, that's gotta be way more than Tom was making with ads.
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He's probably a little bit in shock and kicking himself in the butt for not making a patreon earlier. I wonder if he makes enough he could just get rid of the ads. I'm sure both he and his fans would like that.
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veni veni veni posted:He's probably a little bit in shock and kicking himself in the butt for not making a patreon earlier. I wonder if he makes enough he could just get rid of the ads. I'm sure both he and his fans would like that. He's been quite explicit that "just getting rid of the ads" is the whole point of going this route.
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24/7 is live. And yeah there won't be any more ads at all.
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Oh that's excellent. It's not even that ads bug me, he just clearly hates them so much and it didn't mesh with the spirit of the show.
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It's weird, I said a long time ago he should've went the kickstarter/patreon route (did patreon exist then?) when he was relaunching the show and running into all those difficulties but he seemed too proud to try that. I could be wrong about his motivations as to why he didn't use crowdfunding but It seemed like a layup to me. Podcast ads suck and they don't gel with his show at all and from what little I know I'm pretty sure they pay a lot worse if you're not part of a podcast network. He has a dedicated fanbase who obviously would pay to support the podcast. He could've avoided a lot of the headaches by setting this up earlier but that's his choice. I hope that if he makes some decent money off of the Patreon he'll cut in Mike on some of it. Mike is a big part of the show to me and he didn't seem to be doing so hot financially recently according to one of those half hour of powers.
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Mike said on twitter that supporting through Patreon will get him some cash: https://twitter.com/APMike/status/815037349998592004 I assume Tom is going to pay himself, Jason, Mike, Pat etc. with the Patreon money. http://thebestshow.net/247/ I probably could have posted that link when I said it was live but oh well here you go
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Someone should make a new thread. The op is dead and gay and he died in a car crash from a homo sucking how dick
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Seltzer posted:It's weird, I said a long time ago he should've went the kickstarter/patreon route (did patreon exist then?) when he was relaunching the show and running into all those difficulties but he seemed too proud to try that. I could be wrong about his motivations as to why he didn't use crowdfunding but It seemed like a layup to me. Podcast ads suck and they don't gel with his show at all and from what little I know I'm pretty sure they pay a lot worse if you're not part of a podcast network. He has a dedicated fanbase who obviously would pay to support the podcast. He could've avoided a lot of the headaches by setting this up earlier but that's his choice. I hope that if he makes some decent money off of the Patreon he'll cut in Mike on some of it. Mike is a big part of the show to me and he didn't seem to be doing so hot financially recently according to one of those half hour of powers. As soon as people start paying for something, though, their relationship with it changes. Hopefully donors don't start expecting preferential treatment on the phone or getting pissed when Tom needs a week off. Edit: is there an app for the 24/7 stream? I want to play it on my phone while while still, you know, being able to do phone stuff. Doughy Fresh fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Jan 2, 2017 |
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Doughy Fresh posted:Edit: is there an app for the 24/7 stream? I want to play it on my phone while while still, you know, being able to do phone stuff. Chrome on the iPhone will keep the stream open in the background while you're using other apps.
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Doughy Fresh posted:As soon as people start paying for something, though, their relationship with it changes. Hopefully donors don't start expecting preferential treatment on the phone or getting pissed when Tom needs a week off. I guess that could happen, but the Best Show has a well-established fan base and a culture that respects him, rather than a bunch of lovely internet randos that want their spaceships and titty statues now. Unrelated question: do the 24/7 stream or the Patreon make it possible that we'll get an officially supported archives any time?
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Doughy Fresh posted:As soon as people start paying for something, though, their relationship with it changes. Hopefully donors don't start expecting preferential treatment on the phone or getting pissed when Tom needs a week off. Man, even when a podcast is completely free people get pissed off about stuff. I hope Tom is in a decent financial situation now so even if donations aren't as high as expected the show can still go on. That reminds me though of a recent episode where Tom was remarking on a tweet he read. "Oh someone on twitter asks, 'You don't have any more of that Monk money?' Let me answer that for you.... NO." I thought that was pretty funny.
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Doughy Fresh posted:As soon as people start paying for something, though, their relationship with it changes. Hopefully donors don't start expecting preferential treatment on the phone or getting pissed when Tom needs a week off. Paying for a Patreon doesn't owe you anything. It's supporting a service that's free and you can cancel any month you want. The same ratio of people will complain whether it's free or not and if he loses 5% of his patreon support because he won't talk to them or whatever it won't matter.
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Holy poo poo Spike is back This is the biggest upset return caller short of PFT
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Good lord are this week's callers an exercise in contrasts. Starting the year off with a whole lotta drippy dudes.
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Flip Yr Wig posted:Good lord are this week's callers an exercise in contrasts. Starting the year off with a whole lotta drippy dudes. After the back-to-back Bad Company-ings so early in the show, I started to wonder if it was the beginning of a prepared bit.
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