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

[herbie]

oh, i just remembered... didn't somebody call in and say "calamari is a fruit"?

that was a girl named dina, who asked if tom liked peaches.

[Josh]

i keep checking back here to see if someone uploaded a ripped stream.

jeez did your mom die in a car fire before she got around to teaching you patience?

[Spoony]

I always listen that way, but staring at the computer. And breathing through my mouth.

It is taken for granted that FOT's breathe through their mouth.

C

[orangewhip]

i keep checking back here to see if someone uploaded a ripped stream.

jeez did your mom die in a car fire before she got around to teaching you patience?

  No, she died in a house fire, dick.

[Stan]

i keep checking back here to see if someone uploaded a ripped stream.

jeez did your mom die in a car fire before she got around to teaching you patience?

  No, she died in a house fire, dick.

 FOTchan: All pervasive?

[orangewhip]

i keep checking back here to see if someone uploaded a ripped stream.

jeez did your mom die in a car fire before she got around to teaching you patience?

  No, she died in a house fire, dick.

 FOTchan: All pervasive?

april fools.  but anyway, i already waited a week.  

[orangewhip]

the archive is corrected now.

[dave from knoxville]

no matter what you listen to it on, it needs to be done all alone in your room, drinking a beer.

thatsoundsstupid

[John Junk 2.0]

That station switcheroo is like a bad 7 Second Delay episode that lasted 24 hours.  Thusly, it probably contained 24 fatal flaws.  I'm still not sure why Tom couldn't do a California-related show, as if him saying the name of the station he was broadcasting on didn't "ruin" the "joke" already(??).  Also, woiuldn't the regular radio listener just be like "Oh shit, some other station took over my station, this sucks I'm turning it off" and then the internet listener (i.e. ME) just be like "Oh shit, this is some dumb prank now I gotta figure out how to listen to the radio station I actually WANT to hear and spend an extra two minutes finding a stream"?  I would've liked to have heard the show Tom planned for this because it was probably awesome.  There's a potential for funny in this prank, but the prank alone does not make me laugh.

[Turf Out]

the archive is corrected now.

my day has been saved!!

[Forrest]

The whole thing seemed to fly in the face of the WFMU ethos, which is about letting the DJs do their own programming the way they want. It could have been a great day if all of the individual shows could do their own unique April Fools gags. I was gearing up for Tom to open his show with Tom Waits, John Zorn, etc. Although the Oneida track did seem to make some sort of statement.

[Sarah]

Dina reminded me a lot of Julie.

[masterofsparks]

Dina reminded me a lot of Julie.

A few folks in the chat, myself included, made this same connection.

[Sarah]

I loved the end of the show.

[erika]

Me too. "Tell me somethin good... yeahhh... tell me that you like me, yeahhhh...." made my night.

But seriously, fuck whoever came up with this idea and forced the DJ's to go along with it with those stupid rules. This is FREEFORM RADIO, baby! Not someone's conceptual playground.

(I'm having a lot of problems seeing other people's creative concepts come to life these days, aren't I?)