Is this the best April Fool joke, or what the?

[Stan]

The fact that the legal station ID still had to be given sort of undermined the whole concept.

I knew going in that the KFJC stream wouldn't be able to hold up to the FOT onslaught.

 Yeah, they're using ShoutCast. I used it to stream to maybe a dozen or so people that one time that the WFMU stream died. I checked a few times and there were over 200 listeners between the three streams.

 I shall endeavor to never again use the word 'stream'.

[Jillian Barberie]

I agree that the concept could be OK for Music shows.

But it was extremely NOT OK for Tom's show for numerous reasons:
His show is a call-in show and the 5-10minute delay the NY/NJ listeners had due to listening on KFJC's stream made it impossible to get conversation continuity between calls
AND it made it hard for Mike to screen calls.

As he was asked to NOT directly address the San Francisco listeners, he couldn't work with them either.
He actually had a really funny show written that he worked on for a fair amount of time for this April Fool's switch show if he would have been allowed to address the SF listeners and really get them going.

But if Tom directly addressed the SF listeners, he would have been seen as the one who spoiled the April Fool's joke...

and as Yesno pointed out, Tom's a team player.

Also there were technical problems as well because the DJs today did not broadcast from the regular studio they always use, but rather an alternate studio (u may have heard Tom refer to it as "The Submarine").
This alternate studio only has 2 phone-lines and ALSO has a DIFFERENT call-in number that FOTs are used to.
 

[masterofsparks]

So is the Apple Jam disc of All Things Must Pass now officially the new Pangaea?

[Sarah]

Too tired to listen last night so I missed all the fun (?).  If the proper archive is never available, I guess it will serve me right for being such a shirker.

[dave from knoxville]

I feel ripped. I intentionally DIDN'T listen, so that I would have the Best Show to keep me awake throughout a late night drive to Nashville Friday.

Now I will die in a fiery car crash. Brian Turner and Ken Freedman will be notified. Soon my surviving family members will OWN WFMU.

[folksnake]

RIP, Dave. Looking forward to the new, improved, non-April-Fooled WDFK!

[masterofsparks]

I did listen but I missed part of the second JW call because I had to attend to my house's ailing sump pump. I figured I'd be able to hear it on the archive, but I guess not. Ugh. I knew there was a reason I hate April Fools Day.

[folksnake]

Also--does anyone know why the blurb for today on the FMU webpage is "Tomorrow's "Monk" References Today!"? Did I miss something (besides most of last night's show, that is...)?

I see now...it's just a random, rotating message. Don't mean nuthin.

[Julie]

That was the worst conceptual joke in the history of the universe. I wish I could take back my pledge and give it directly to tom scharpling.

However, I laughed so hard that I cried when Sleepy Jeff called. I could totally relate.

[jed]

This was just one in a long line of April Fools "jokes" that I never get. I guess I'm just not into pranks. I don't think they are funny. I think I'm still bitter about getting flour dumped on my head by a "friend" when I was 11 and his only defense was "April Fools!"  All my subsequent experience of April Fools pranks have been a redux of that sort of humor, someone being an insensitive jerk and then telling me I should laugh because it brought everyone else some sort of pleasure.

[moonshake]

Amusing as a concept but kinda sucky if you have a habit of relying on the archive to catch up with the show on Wednesdays.

I hope someone ripped the stream of yesterday's show and it'll still be available as a podcast.

Mel?

[Turf Out]

Amusing as a concept but kinda sucky if you have a habit of relying on the archive to catch up with the show on Wednesdays.

i'm in the same boat as you. i always listen to the archive on wednesdays while i'm at work. today is ruined!...and it just started! waaaaaaaaaah 

candy from the current bin? ugh.

[kimota]

I was duped for about an hour, thinking that what I was hearing WAS the April Fool's day joke and eventually, Tom would come on.  I guess I liked the KFJC show but was getting very annoyed the longer it went on.  About 8:15 CST it kind of sunk in that I should check the KFJC site and then it all fell into place what I needed to do.  I came in right at the end of the Jeep Cherokee call.  I thought it was a pretty cool prank, too bad it didn't work that well for Tom's show.  

[kimota]

And I totally thought the "ATTENTION" message at the top of the forum was a joke.  Did it actually work?

[Wes]

Technical difficulties and all other factors considered, it ended up being a great show. Sleepy Jeff, calls from two people named Jeep, at least two calls ending fatally, a mayubernatorial entry, more drumming, Tom talking to someone from The Afterlife and trying to get better and more famous dead people to call in instead, the delay between things happening in studio and the reactions from Mike in another room, Tom covering "Beware of Darkness" live in studio and finally Tom, in a dark hour, turning to one of his enemies for help and the unexpected result.

Not to mention the big cliffhanger ending after Mike was asked to flip a mysterious switch on the wall. I dunno, I was definitely entertained.