Hi Benjo, thanks for the play-by-play on Wiretap, but I get it. If they're in the studio and scripting it up, perhaps they can mix it up a little more? I guess my point is that these dudes are getting paid by a national broadcasting corp. in Canada, whereas Tom is doing it via a highschool radio station with vandalized lockers, crummy headphones, and a console forever stuck in mono. Wiretap ain't podcastin' by any means. Their previous episodes are available for purchase on iTunes...(might be a CBC thing they have no control over....or is it?) We get 'em for nothin'.
I dunno, maybe it was the randomness of catching that episode and finding it hitting a little too close to Best Show turf after listening to the pledge marathon. And I'm trying to limit my coffee to 3 ventis a day at the moment. Not trying to start a war, I did not say those guys were eggheads I have mucho respect for anybody creating something and putting it out there for the public. Comedy isn't easy...hmm, maybe thats why I'm so defensive of The Best Show!
You're starting to sound a bit like New Jersey governor Chris Christie: 'In Canada, people who do quality radio get paid! Here, people don't. It's not fair, and the only solution is NOBODY gets paid to do quality radio.'
Also I'd put myself in the pro-Wiretap camp. They both involve telephone calls to humorous effect, but I don't really see a lot of overlap aside from that. Tom and Jonathan Goldstein's on-air personas couldn't really be much more different.
