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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Denim Gremlin on January 09, 2008, 07:35:15 PM
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so I'm still working my way through the archives, trying to fill in all the gaps.
today i'm listening to october 19th 2004, great show by the way, track by track reaming of sgt. pepper, harassing sports bars.
about 2 and a half hours in a woman named Adrian calls in and Tom spends like 15 minutes calling her husband a stupid ape. did i miss something here?
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I'm pretty sure when she first started calling she thought that she knew Tom and that she used to cut his hair, she was clearly crazy. I think she also wanted to be a singer and sung to Tom down the phone. Somehow Tom got into a routine of insulting her husband and it really used to get a reaction from him.
I miss those days when the show was little more chaotic, calling payphones and gomping babies. That should be the title of the first book of transcripts from the show - TBSOWFMU The Early Years - Calling payphones and gomping babies.
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I miss them, too, and I wasn't even listening then.
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I miss them three. The older shows gave you the impression that Tom was just this dude sittin' there, semi-amiably-to-irritably wading his way through this provincial universe of weirdos (ie "Newbridge"). Just takin' their calls one at a time, doing what had to be done to make it to 11.
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October 19th, Colin2K. Open your ears!
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October 19th, Colin2K. Open your ears!
where the hell did i get the 4th from?
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This week's show didn't bring back any memories of the old days? With all the mutants calling in? Swap out that one kook for Adrian, and James is even worse than the dolts from Goshen or Kid Kansas, plus a call from Philly Boy Roy, and you've got a 2003 show in 2008.
Tom.
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But you were less sick of everyone back then, Tom. That's the difference.
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James is like a tenacious new mutation of an old disease that Tom has licked in the past. Back in the day, he would call out a Petey or an M.C. Steinberg, taking a small vaccine-type dosage and letting them run-their-trap, meeting-them-halfway type thing and sooner or later they would come around and call him sir! This also worked with The Leader and, to an extent, Kid Kansas, whose calls seemed to taper off a little bit after Tom let him go on and on while mixing him in with some rantings by He Who Shall Not Be Named, before busting into that classic antibiotic "Wise Up". But Tom's actually been visited upon by James in real life, and the encounter has actually made things worse! James is a whole new kind of Mutant Caller. Is it any wonder that we cannot and should not return to the Old Ways, as much as they appeal to us in retrospect?
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James is like a tenacious new mutation of an old disease that Tom has licked in the past. Back in the day, he would call out a Petey or an M.C. Steinberg, taking a small vaccine-type dosage and letting them run-their-trap, meeting-them-halfway type thing and sooner or later they would come around and call him sir! This also worked with The Leader and, to an extent, Kid Kansas, whose calls seemed to taper off a little bit after Tom let him go on and on while mixing him in with some rantings by He Who Shall Not Be Named, before busting into that classic antibiotic "Wise Up". But Tom's actually been visited upon by James in real life, and the encounter has actually made things worse! James is a whole new kind of Mutant Caller. Is it any wonder that we cannot and should not return to the Old Ways, as much as they appeal to us in retrospect?
what do you call a mutant of a mutant?
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James is like a tenacious new mutation of an old disease that Tom has licked in the past. Back in the day, he would call out a Petey or an M.C. Steinberg, taking a small vaccine-type dosage and letting them run-their-trap, meeting-them-halfway type thing and sooner or later they would come around and call him sir! This also worked with The Leader and, to an extent, Kid Kansas, whose calls seemed to taper off a little bit after Tom let him go on and on while mixing him in with some rantings by He Who Shall Not Be Named, before busting into that classic antibiotic "Wise Up". But Tom's actually been visited upon by James in real life, and the encounter has actually made things worse! James is a whole new kind of Mutant Caller. Is it any wonder that we cannot and should not return to the Old Ways, as much as they appeal to us in retrospect?
what do you call a mutant of a mutant?
A ghoul.*
* I'm kidding, Sarah.
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James is like a tenacious new mutation of an old disease that Tom has licked in the past. Back in the day, he would call out a Petey or an M.C. Steinberg, taking a small vaccine-type dosage and letting them run-their-trap, meeting-them-halfway type thing and sooner or later they would come around and call him sir! This also worked with The Leader and, to an extent, Kid Kansas, whose calls seemed to taper off a little bit after Tom let him go on and on while mixing him in with some rantings by He Who Shall Not Be Named, before busting into that classic antibiotic "Wise Up". But Tom's actually been visited upon by James in real life, and the encounter has actually made things worse! James is a whole new kind of Mutant Caller. Is it any wonder that we cannot and should not return to the Old Ways, as much as they appeal to us in retrospect?
I blame the antimutantial hand-wash in the WFMU bathroom.
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Yeah, weird that the first show of '08 was so mutanty, after 2007's INCREDIBLE RUN OF GREAT SHOWS.
Roy's call was great though, and a few others. Keep it up, Tom.
-Ajax