Mini Marathon - Tuesday November 17th. The Best Show. WE WILL DO THIS.

[bakersfieldchimp]

I just pledged for the first time online, and I feel pretty great. No more guilty conscience for me!

[dave from knoxville]

I love WFMU and a lot of other shows on it but how long do you think it took Ken to decide to have the mini-marathon on Tuesday night? 5 seconds?

A no-brainer if there ever was one.

Also notice, they are ending it at the instant Narduawar starts. I bet he would have an interesting fun pack though.

[Pat K]

I got confused/trigger-happy and pledged online last week...The perils of not listening live.  Had to bit my lip and forgo the premium this time around, but EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS. 

[Anthony from Ireland]

Just pledged and paid. I won't be able to listen live. Time difference.

[Martin]

When has time difference ever stopped anyone from listening?

(Nice going with the pledge.)

EDIT: I'm joking, of course. The Best Show is on at 2-5 am over here.

[Martin]

I just issued this challenge on twitter:

I'm ready to issue a WFMU pledge challenge... If you follow me here and have never before pledged money to WFMU, pay attention: If you pledge at least $10 tonight, I will pledge an additional $5 to my already big pledge. Reply to me! And be honest! This challenge is only available for pledge newbies who follow me on twitter. But I encourage others to issue the same challenge!

Now, these might well be famous last words. I'm no DfK when it comes to math, so maybe I'm setting myself up for a disaster. But I'm willing to go for it. I'm guessing a third of my 250 followers are FOT, a third are spambots, and a third are real people, so I think I'm OK. But I wanted to come on here and tell people about this - maybe someone gets inspired to do something similar.

GOOD GUYS WIN!

[Reeleyes]

I've never been so excited to give up some dough.

[fonpr]

I'm guessing a third of my 250 followers are FOT, a third are spambots, and a third are real people

From this information I deduce FOT are not real people.

[Martin]

You catch on fast!

[fonpr]

I feel real.

[Phil]

DID IT! Feels good, everyone.

[Reeleyes]

Pledged. Got a shoutout. I feel like a real FOT, now I just need my card.

[masterofsparks]

I pledged right at 8:00 and my name wasn't read until almost 10:00. I take this as a good sign.

[Christina]

I pledged right at 8:00 and my name wasn't read until almost 10:00. I take this as a good sign.

Yeah, the printer couldn’t keep up with the web pledges & at one point was a ½ hour behind … and that’s before they tallied & sorted, and then made piles for Terre T to read over the air. I had big fun talking to youse guys – talked to Scratchbomb early on and scribbled Kristina’s name so badly that Terre added an extra syllable when she read it – My fault Kristina! My handwriting just blows now that we have the computers and live in the future.

Also talked to JustNicole and Big Plastic Head, and sat next to a bunch of awesome WFMU dudes as they took pledges from a lot of you – I recognized a bunch of your names! Kiemzi scored big time when she bagged I think 3 celeb calls – Patton, PFT, and Tim Heidecker! Right at the end, I also heard from Lisa Jane Persky! I was such a jibbering idiot at that point I thought she was a previous pledger calling back – the woman had a similar name.

Let me share a proud moment … so Tom is up and moving the whole time, right? Before the show he’s pulling records, he’s all over the station, he stands throughout the show, punches the air & jumps around to the music. He’s in the phone room, then he’s back in the studio ... just all over the place. The show ends, and Tom’s out in the anteroom leaning on a stair rail regaining some equilibrium, cause he pushed hard, especially at the end, and everyone’s marveling at the foot-&-a-half high stack of pledge cards. So I go, “Wow, it’s like a marathon!” I meant running a marathon of course, so I had to kinda go “HAHAHA running a marathon HAHAHAHA!” to cover my tracks.

Dumb! Ass!

[JustNicole]

I pledged right at 8:00 and my name wasn't read until almost 10:00. I take this as a good sign.

Yeah, the printer couldn’t keep up with the web pledges & at one point was a ½ hour behind … and that’s before they tallied & sorted, and then made piles for Terre T to read over the air. I had big fun talking to youse guys – talked to Scratchbomb early on and scribbled Kristina’s name so badly that Terre added an extra syllable when she read it – My fault Kristina! My handwriting just blows now that we have the computers and live in the future.

Also talked to JustNicole and Big Plastic Head, and sat next to a bunch of awesome WFMU dudes as they took pledges from a lot of you – I recognized a bunch of your names! Kiemzi scored big time when she bagged I think 3 celeb calls – Patton, PFT, and Tim Heidecker! Right at the end, I also heard from Lisa Jane Persky! I was such a jibbering idiot at that point I thought she was a previous pledger calling back – the woman had a similar name.

Let me share a proud moment … so Tom is up and moving the whole time, right? Before the show he’s pulling records, he’s all over the station, he stands throughout the show, punches the air & jumps around to the music. He’s in the phone room, then he’s back in the studio ... just all over the place. The show ends, and Tom’s out in the anteroom leaning on a stair rail regaining some equilibrium, cause he pushed hard, especially at the end, and everyone’s marveling at the foot-&-a-half high stack of pledge cards. So I go, “Wow, it’s like a marathon!” I meant running a marathon of course, so I had to kinda go “HAHAHA running a marathon HAHAHAHA!” to cover my tracks.

Dumb! Ass!

Auntie Christina was awesome on the phone.  I totally choked when it came time for my shout-out and she let me ramble for a good minute plus while I was concocting what I wanted to say.  IFLY, Auntie!