He asked if Shep was another "Tiny Town", and told me on twitter he hasn't listened to it. I was a regular listener to the "Brass Fillagree" (Shep's show on WOR from the 60's to the 70's) podcasts for awhile before becoming a "Best Show" listener. Some guy recorded it for ten years in his bed room (someone else here will know more than me). The sound is awful sometimes as a result but they are an amazing document. Some parts are similar to Tom, the feigned (or not) contempt for the audience, shouted asides to the engineer, arcane turns of phrase, show biz tales. No calls though, mostly stories, and sometimes tributes to people he admired that are very touching. Often he lags (he did it 5 nights a week for 30 mins.,) but he has flashes of brilliance. His New Year's story of eating picked herring at his grandmother's floored me. Xmas Story and other tv adaptations have diminished him but I think he was great. Oh, there was a dreadful radio interview I heard with a sports station in NY in Shep's final years, (late 90's?) Where he attributed the decline of major league baseball to the the increase in Spanish speaking players. Depressing.
Tom has to have name checked Coyle and Sharpe at some point, but I haven't heard it. They have more in common with Scharpling and Wurster than Bob and Ray do IMO.
-Anthony
