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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: buffcoat on March 29, 2016, 10:21:42 AM
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I found a haunting Best Show moment in the November 22, 2005 Best Show, courtesy of Stevie Blue (https://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=17129&archive=100726&starttime=0:27:32 )
Tom: "What's your favorite thing to eat on Thanksgiving?"
Stevie Blue: "What is my favorite... I can't say it on the air, so I'm gonna just say turkey... Hope you don't mind."
Tom doesn't react. I shuddered.
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The fish in the cooler from the Captain Who Can't Be Named.
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The fact that Mike's Loaded Comment of the Week was "fart in your general direction" in the same conversation where he used the term "break ass."
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The fact that Mike's Loaded Comment of the Week was "fart in your general direction" in the same conversation where he used the term "break ass."
I could listen to Mike spin yarns all day long.
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Last week's strangely depressing Larry da Perv call was pretty haunting.
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I've got two in mind from really early on that aren't even remotely funny, just strange and sad:
During a S&W call circa 2001 (might have been Hot Rockin' Ronny) somebody all of a sudden started shouting something like "HEY RADIO STATION!" over and over again either from right outside the building or outside the room, I don't know. It definitely had nothing to do with the bit, just very odd and kind of scary.
About a year later (or within the same year, can't remember) there was a call with a woman who broke down in tears when Tom informed her that an old WFMU DJ had passed away. I'm pretty sure they were having a pleasant enough conversation until Tom broke the news to her. :(
Oh, I just remembered something else: when Stevie Blue sang "Chocolate Covered Hearts" in a 2007 show (this is where I'm at currently in the archives). Yikes.
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Oh, I just remembered something else: when Stevie Blue sang "Chocolate Covered Hearts" in a 2007 show (this is where I'm at currently in the archives). Yikes.
I gave you a box of candy, some flowers and champagne
The only thing Tom Scharpling, if I see you again
A chocolate covered heart and white-bright shining pearls
There is no reason, baby, you're the only girl in my world
I put my chocolate heart in a candy box, and I know that it's melting or falling apart
Every time you smile, you look at me that way
I love you, Thomas Scharpling, yes, I do.
I believe this is on Cucumber Castle ...
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I've got two in mind from really early on that aren't even remotely funny, just strange and sad:
During a S&W call circa 2001 (might have been Hot Rockin' Ronny) somebody all of a sudden started shouting something like "HEY RADIO STATION!" over and over again either from right outside the building or outside the room, I don't know. It definitely had nothing to do with the bit, just very odd and kind of scary.
It was the XFL super fan.
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I've got two in mind from really early on that aren't even remotely funny, just strange and sad:
During a S&W call circa 2001 (might have been Hot Rockin' Ronny) somebody all of a sudden started shouting something like "HEY RADIO STATION!" over and over again either from right outside the building or outside the room, I don't know. It definitely had nothing to do with the bit, just very odd and kind of scary.
It was the XFL super fan.
Ah, thank you! I had a feeling it was during a one-off call but I didn't want to elaborate anymore than I did.
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Tom talking about his experience going to see Intersteller.
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The one where Tom tries to relax with some ASMR videos (it doesn't work). 11/24/15 (http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebestshow/TBS_151124.mp3) from 96:20 to 100:20 (and the following call which goes to 107:41).
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Any time I see Jen Kirkman on twitter or elsewhere I think about the last time she called Best Show. It was maybe a month before the show ended on WFMU. I heard it the night of and haven't gone back and relistened to it, so I'm possibly misremembering it. Here's what I remember: she called in pretty drunk, and Tom ended up hanging up with her in a way that felt like it was more for her than anything. Since she hasn't called in to the new show, the call stands as a glum conclusion to many years of playful conversations on the show.
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https://soundcloud.com/asteriosk/tom-scharpling-wise-up?in=asteriosk/sets/tom-sings-toms-best-tunes-from
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https://soundcloud.com/asteriosk/tom-scharpling-wise-up?in=asteriosk/sets/tom-sings-toms-best-tunes-from
Kid Kansas haunts me every time he calls.
There are two questions I would like to ask Tom in person and one of them is whether he knows Kid Kansas.
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I was haunted this week by Tom's review of "Steve Jobs" while watching the movie. I was amazed by how Tom got it right and the critics got it wrong.
Even though my best friend in 8th grade was was a ProDOS instruction manual for an Apple ][, I thought it was the craziest thing ever to make a movie like this--about Seth Rogen running into the room every year to yell about "what about acknowledging the Apple II team???!" It was like an SNL skit.
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I enjoyed making that Logo turtle move around the screen when I was a little kid.
Maybe that's why I didn't go see that movie, or the one with Kelso as the Smartest Man (who used to be( Alive.
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I was haunted by this message board being down and am unhaunted by it being back up.
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WALLY
GET SOME ASS, MAN
GET SOME ASS
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In 2003 when Tom went to the gun range with Officer Tom and got his thumb mangled in the slide and had to get 5 stitches.
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I was listening to this week's Half Hour of Power, immediately followed by a random 15 minutes of the October 4, 2005 Tom plays Dark Side of the Moon show.
I listened to them no more than 10 minutes apart, and in both of them Tom makes a random, throwaway mention of Starship Troopers.
Whoa.
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March 20, 2007 Tom gets a kidney stone live on the air and Fred from Queens calls up to say he was worried about Tom. Fred is definitely underrated in my book.
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It's not really haunting, but I love this thread so I'll post here anyway:
The B Buster/AP Mike call from the December 9, 2003 show (right near the end) is *great*: the radio chemistry was there from the very beginning.
I started listening to the show (at least the Newbridge parts) about the same time Mike came on board as AP.