Have you listened to every single show?

[bakersfieldchimp]

I'm working my way through all of the archives, starting at the beginning-- I'm almost through September 2003 now, and some of the real interviews were a little tough to listen to, the NutriNuts one in particular... ew buoy...

[Blancmange79]

I have a very boring job, and I can't think of anything that is more entertaining to listen to at work. It has been my friend through many tough times. When I first started listening (about two years ago), I would listen to the shows following the current date. So I would listen to all the Halloween shows around Halloween, all the Christmas shows around Christmas time, etc... So in about a year I was able to listen to all the shows. I've now started to go back through the archives from the beginning and listening to all the Scharpling/ Wurster calls and keeping track on a spreadsheet. Being a Tom completist has lead me to lots of great music, films, and comedy. Thanks, Tom! And don't forget the CD's! There are a lot of things I didn't understand until I picked up all the CD's.

[Patrick]

i was unemployed for about 6 months a little over 2 years ago, needless to say when spending 12 hours a day in my studio painting i worked my way through every archived episode of TBS, yes even the marathon shows...  most of 05 and 06 i have listened to twice.

i think im a better person for it.

[A.M. Thomas]

I've listened religiously since early-2005.  I started going through the archives about a year ago and I'm up to December of 2003.  So basically I've listened to everything except most of 2004.  I do intend to listen to all of them eventually, though.

I actually really like some of the older "character" shows.  I love the Patriot Zone and Teenage Girls episodes.

[Sarah]

I'm surprised at the relatively small number of people who've listened to all the shows. 

[emma]

I'm close, but not quite there yet.

[JP]

I've listened to every archive currently up (there are still problems I think as a results of the server crash,) all the stereolaffs CDs, the Star Wars show, Blood Sweat and Real Tears, the YLT show, the two times on TSOYA I think, all those shows with the MTV bedroom guy - there is at least one premium CD I have missed.  There are shows that were taken off of the archive pre September 2003 that I have never heard. 

Anyway I listen to it all while I'm doing tax returns.

I put "Yes." 

It's honestly not an OCD thing as much as it is just something I enjoy listening to while working. 

[iAmBaronVonTito]

i wish i could find the time to listen to all the archives.  they wont let me download real player at work so im restricted to the "pop up player" episodes.

[Stupornaut]

I've downloaded all the available archives and converted them to MP3 for my own personal listening, but I haven't gotten all that far -- between the most recent entry in my start-to-finish listening (Spring '03, just post-Marathon) and the point where I picked up listening to the show on the week (or day) it aired (Fall '06), that's a lot of stuff to catch up on, though I did listen to some stuff at random between those two points here and there. I will say it's pretty frustrating to run across a show where the end's cut off or some flaw in the streaming file causes it to stall and you have to skip a couple minutes ahead.

[franks.]

I suppose I'm one of the shy, long-time FOTs. Never called in. Pledge every year. And have been listening for almost as long as Tom's been doing the Best Show. There might be a few really old ones in the archive that I've missed but otherwise I think I've listened to all of 'em.

[Gibby]

I think I'd have listened to around 100 more than I have if it wasn't in Real Player. My router is a load of crap and cuts out 80% of the time when I try and listen to an old show. New router time, I think.

[Patrick]

all those shows with the MTV bedroom guy

wow, i know nothing about this!  how do i hear this?

[JP]

Sorry I probably overstated the excitement of this:

I'm just talking about this:


Scharpling & Wurster Live on 92.3 Free FM Tonight!

That's right!

Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster will be together LIVE in the studio as a guest of the JAKE AND JACKIE show tonight Wednesday the 19th on 92.3 Free FM in NYC! And when I say live, I mean LIVE! As in the W part of S&W actually being in the studio!

What will happen? Who knows!? But tune in to hear it!

[Regular Joe]

Tonight, Wednesday the 19th? Is this airing in an alternate dimension where the 19th of December falls on a Wednesday? Is this dimension also trailing us in the space time continuum, making today not Thursday there?

What exactly are you trying to pull here?! Is this some kind of prank? Quite frankly I'd love to listen to this, but have yet to reach the escape velocity needed to exit this reality. Nor do I have a time machine if this is old news. Good day!

[Jouster]

Old news, Joe.  Two and a half year old news.  I can upload it for you, if you'd like to hear it (it might already be uploaded in the Downloads forum, actually).