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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: yesno on December 03, 2008, 02:09:50 PM
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Wondering how many of the crazy completists are here.
(I've listened to everything except most of 2003 and a few 2007, and anything missing from the archives.)
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I just put "No, But Almost" but I probably missed most of 2005.
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All of them since 2004, probably 90% of pre-2004, or at least of what's archived.
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I'm working my way through the archives in reverse order. I'm currently in the middle of April 2002, so I'm getting closer.
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Most since 05, before that it gets spotty - maybe a few shows in 2002-03 or so. I need to make another push next year and feed the completionist in me though.
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Probably about halfway. I've heard every show since 2006 and am working backwards and forwards, no real order but marking off which ones I listen to.
Question: the archives go back to 2000, but Ronald Thomas Clontle is from 1999 (I think) - so what was the Best Show before it was the Best Show? Or is it just a case that the archives just pick up from a certain date?
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Question: the archives go back to 2000, but Ronald Thomas Clontle is from 1999 (I think) - so what was the Best Show before it was the Best Show? Or is it just a case that the archives just pick up from a certain date?
RTC is November 19, 1997, pre-TBS.
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Question: the archives go back to 2000, but Ronald Thomas Clontle is from 1999 (I think) - so what was the Best Show before it was the Best Show? Or is it just a case that the archives just pick up from a certain date?
RTC is November 19, 1997, pre-TBS.
Frighteningly awesome. You remind me of Bill Frindall (http://www.beardedwonder.co.uk/), a legend on these shores.
There are at least 44 shows each year (apart from 1999/2000) so anyone who has listened to 320+ shows gets my thumbs up. I estimate I'm on around 150-160.
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At least part of each one except for a couple of the early '01 shows. And most of them live since late '02.
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To get technical I skipped over the teenage girl episode.
And some of the interviews where Tom was a "real" radio guy gave me the same weird feeling as Ali G so I skipped those, though they were really funny.
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And some of the interviews where Tom was a "real" radio guy gave me the same weird feeling as Ali G so I skipped those, though they were really funny.
How would you know?
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And some of the interviews where Tom was a "real" radio guy gave me the same weird feeling as Ali G so I skipped those, though they were really funny.
How would you know?
I always tried to listen to all of them and then had to skip past them when they made me start to cringe. I never skipped them because they weren't funny.
Some people understand what I mean when I say that I would sometimes have to leave the room or hide my head under a pillow during Ali G interviews. I also can't listen to the Just Farr a Laugh CD. What I've heard of it is funny, but it makes me feel physically ill when I try to listen to it.
I'm sure there's a name for this other than "being a pussy."
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Some people understand what I mean when I say that I would sometimes have to leave the room or hide my head under a pillow during Ali G interviews. I also can't listen to the Just Farr a Laugh CD. What I've heard of it is funny, but it makes me feel physically ill when I try to listen to it.
I have a similar reaction to The Office (UK), Extras, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, all of which I'd say I like.
I don't have this reaction to JFAL, though.
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Some people understand what I mean when I say that I would sometimes have to leave the room or hide my head under a pillow during Ali G interviews. I also can't listen to the Just Farr a Laugh CD. What I've heard of it is funny, but it makes me feel physically ill when I try to listen to it.
I have a similar reaction to The Office (UK), Extras, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, all of which I'd say I like.
Me too.
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Some people understand what I mean when I say that I would sometimes have to leave the room or hide my head under a pillow during Ali G interviews. I also can't listen to the Just Farr a Laugh CD. What I've heard of it is funny, but it makes me feel physically ill when I try to listen to it.
I have a similar reaction to The Office (UK), Extras, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, all of which I'd say I like.
I don't have this reaction to JFAL, though.
If I know the people are fictional there's no problem usually. Curb Your Enthusiasm takes it so far that there's sometimes a little twinge.
Maybe people freak out whenever they see their worst fear. Mine must be some sort of "I'm too stupid to understand what's happening to me" embarrassment. (That, and any sort of clinical execution scenes. If I ever have to be put down for my many sins I hope it's firing squad or hanging or pack of dogs, not lethal injection.)
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm surprised at the relatively small number of people who've listened to all the shows.
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I'm close, but not quite there yet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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all those shows with the MTV bedroom guy
wow, i know nothing about this! how do i hear this?
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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!
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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!
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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).
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I got over-excited, and I apologize. In the future, I will search for things, instead of leaping to insane conclusions. Good day.
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New router. Archive works fine for me now.
Coming up to Show #350. Wonder if there are any plans to celebrate.
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It looked like I was on my way at one point- not that I was nearly there yet, but I was moving at a pretty fast pace. Then life happened, and now I can barely keep up with the current podcast. Also, I have no records of which shows I've listened to, other than which mp3s are in iTunes.
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I have every podcast and am pretty sure I've listened to most of them so I think that's like 150 or so shows there. I'm commencing starting from the earliest archive chronologically soon though. I had no idea the show used to only be 2 hours and pretty much consist of just a call from Wurster, somebody else, and rarely a "real" caller. My how the show has grown.
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for those listening through the archives, do you skip the music, or do you consider the music integral to the show?
i tend to skip, much as i love or like most of what gets played.
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i cant skip the music, it creates an atmosphere that puts me in the game.
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I skip the music.
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I load up a bunch of shows on my hutPhone, set them all to remember their position, and skip each one ahead of time to where Tom starts talking.
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I did and do not skip the music. It's part of the show, so I want to hear it. Indeed, that it's not included in the podcasts is one of the reasons I don't bother with them. (Well, that and the fact that I'm generally within hearing range of my computer's speakers, so the archives work just fine for me, thank you very much, especially since I don't mind using Realplayer.)
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I'm nowhere near all the way, but that's because life takes over and I barely keep up on the show week after week. The music is always good, so there's no reason to skip it.
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I've heard every episode since I started listening (March 2007) but I'm only through April 2001 in the archives.
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I NEVAH skip the music. I wouldn't know about Von LMO, DC Snipers and a hole host of other awesome bands if I did that.
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I try to listen, but sometimes it's too much for my tastes, which have been described as "teeny-bopper bullshit", and I just have to skip ahead.
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I NEVAH skip the music. I wouldn't know about Von LMO, DC Snipers and a hole host of other awesome bands if I did that.
Same here, G.
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Sadly i completed the entire archive in about 2 months listening 8 hours a day at work and a couple more at home.
yikes.
-Jonah
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I started off super motivated but I had no system. I just scrolled around in the archives until I saw one that caught my fancy (often for a particular guest, or a Wurster call that sounded intriguing), but soon enough (probably after hearing about half of them) found that I couldn't remember which I had listened to and which I had not. That got kind of frustrating as I would start on one and, half an hour in, realize it was the former. The show definitely stands up to repeat listens, but I pretty much stopped trying to go through them all. Someday I intend to get organized about it and start again at day 1.
For now I'm just too busy with work and life to do much more than catch the weekly broadcast.
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My problem is my barely under control OCD tendencies. I know that the instant I completed TBS archives, I would feel compelled to pick another show. And though I would consciously understand that I could never hear every archive (since they keep producing them,) my subconscious would feel compelled to try, and I would have a nervous breakdown. Hell, I can't even keep up with the discs that I buy and am given.