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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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Holy poo poo. A.C. Newman wrote and performed a song about Spike's love of John Wesley Shipp.
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Tom was the guest bailiff on the Judge John Hodgman podcast this week. The case itself was a little meh, but Tom and Hodgman were pretty funny.
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The Weirdos Exposed saga went on for weeks and weeks, but I think the whole thing came to a head in the November 10 2009 show.
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COUNTIN THE BILLIES posted:Anyone receive the pledge drive swag yet? HAve they shipped it? Most of my 2013 stuff came a week or two ago and my 2012 Best Show premium came this week. The 2013 Best Show fun pack was marked as 'back ordered', so I'm not sure when it will show up.
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Rush Hour Renegade posted:I'd hate to see WFMU go under as a result of this. I've always feared that when The Best Show ends then the money will stop coming in. Hopefully Tom will come back to do a show during the annual pledge drive. Oh god, the pledge drive... As bad as we feel, I bet Ken Freedman is taking it twice as hard.
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inferis posted:Spike doesn't look like Wesley Willis at all. Because they're both black and Spike is a little overweight? I have no idea what you are talking about Could be worse. Spike used to describe himself as looking like Malcolm Jamal Warner.
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Has anyone had a chance to listen to the Stroszek commentary yet? I'm holding out until I can find a copy of the film to watch it with.
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It died on me too. I had to abandon ship for http://www.ustream.tv/channel/best-show-stream
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"All nem strings, all nem screws, all nem glue"
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Dec 18, 2013 04:44
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I will never be able to listen to A Prarie Home Companion again without remembering that creepy poem from the sound collage.
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Dec 18, 2013 05:06
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Holy poo poo - Petey!
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Dec 18, 2013 05:20
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I'm genuinely sad about the Tom/PFT feud. His appearances had some prime collage material.
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GraPar posted:Him and PFT talking about The Gathering is definitely a strong candidate for funniest, most legendary clip in the show's history Oh god... the HELICOPTER...
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Snowy posted:You just reminded me that Pete Seeger was one if the advance obituaries they recorded on 7SD a while back. The idea was they would be able to interrupt whatever was playing on the station with a heartfelt tribute, right after the news broke. Time to go digging in the archives. This is it: http://www.wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=51442&archive=89077&drop=2
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The Low Times podcast put out their final episode recently. One of the reasons given for ending it was Tom's efforts at getting the Best Show back in some form.
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If anyone is going to the San Diego Comic-Con, Scharpling is scheduled to be on the Steven Universe panel on Saturday.
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He gets up to the same stuff on Twitter. For the last two days he has been responding to anyone in his feed who makes even the mildest joke with "POINTS!!!"
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The Bunk posted:Are any of the recent podcasts Tom has been on particularly good? I listened to the Todd Barry one but have never heard most of the other ones. That WPRB one that Mico mentioned was pretty good, if you don't mind a straightforward interview.
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Dec 9, 2014 04:31
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They're doing a test show at 1 PM EST.
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Dec 13, 2014 03:13
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Tom and Jon are doing a panel at SF Sketchfest this year. Andy Kindler is moderating and John Darnielle and Bob Mould are the musical guests. http://sched.co/285V
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Mico posted:i know he's using livestream, anyone got a direct link to the livestream channel? I pulled this URL out of the page source: http://new.livestream.com/accounts/11222128/events/3662161/player?width=560&height=315&autoPlay=false&mute=false
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The Devil Tesla posted:It's really weird that they're gonna do an episode so close to xmas but also cool, I'm down with it. I haven't gone back to count, but I'd bet that Tom has done a lot more of his Christmas-proximate shows than he's skipped.
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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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I used to think that the weirdos wouldn't call in now that the show was on the Internet... Avalanche Bob proved me wrong.
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May 13, 2015 02:53
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Didn't the show get started late this week? I couldn't listen live, but it shows up as a half hour shorter than usual in iTunes. Maybe they missed his availability window.
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One of my favorite parts of The Cherry Blossom Clinic was how diligent she was at kicking callers off the line when they called in too early for ticket giveaways. I think the lady is just a fan of people getting hung up on.
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Nov 6, 2015 16:58
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I'm surprised that people are so down on the show. I think the last year's worth of shows has been easily better than the last two years when it was on WFMU.
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Nov 19, 2015 01:00
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The Bunk posted:I wish this had been released on Tuesday. The response will only get better the more time Tom has to stew over it.
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Nov 19, 2015 22:25
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Not sure if I'm a super fan of Dudio's laughter in the background these days.
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WrathOfBlade posted:Also this call was recently brought to my attention and I think it's a must-listen. Maybe it's 'cause I'm a latecomer to the show but this version of Tom caught me totally off guard. Trying to talk over him has always been the absolutely best way to get on Tom's nerves.
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Mar 19, 2016 22:42
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This computer voice guy is equal parts amazing and excruciating.
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Tom and Jo(h)n Daly were on the Comedy Bang Bang that came out today. Highlights include Tom swearing and Jon improvising a new "look it up Scotty" song.
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Apr 8, 2016 01:44
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Illinois Smith posted:This whole thing is amazing. I want him to do a 3-hour version of it but that seems like it would be a spectacularly bad financial decision. I'd be more worried about the stroke Tom would inevitably have trying to keep that up for three hours.
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Apr 20, 2016 23:36
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Huh. Tom really does always wear polo shirts. Why did I never notice that?
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veni veni veni posted:I feel like an idiot asking this but was that really Tom Talking to Brian Wilson? It sounded nothing like him but that lines up perfectly with a story he told recently. That's really him. I remember that clip coming up back in the WFMU days.
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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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