The Return of The Best Show

[Matthew_S]

Will the show have a music portion when streamed live?  I assume there won't be music in the podcast form.

Tom said on a few podcasts that he was working on the music issue, but I assume it's been cleared up since he played a bunch of songs on the Test Show.

I bet it'll be like the WFMU show/podcast, where music gets chopped out for the podcast. Shame, though; I prefer listening to the podcast on my own time, but love the music. Listening to downloaded full shows with the songs intact over the last year has really turned me onto some good music.

I always thought that the reason the music was removed from the podcast had something (legally? financially?) to do with the fact that WFMU is a real radio station and those songs were broadcast over the airwaves and were now/then being "re-broadcast" digitally.   Or maybe it was that the archives are purposefully not *easily* downloadable and that makes some sort of difference?

I guess we'll have this question answered at latest tomorrow.

I may have missed this in one of the recent Tom interviews, but is the show abandoning its "hard-G" rating?

[noah]

Tom has been quoted as saying that the show won't be pure shore trash filth, but there will be less restraint on the guests and music when it comes to bad language.  I hope Tom plays more uncensored Hip Hop as a result of having no FCC oversight.  I think that using curse words will just be another tool in Tom's belt and if he's dropping an F-bomb there will be hilarious consequences.

[buffcoat]

He played a filth song on The Test Show. It did not trouble my mind.

[jxmitchell]

Tom has been quoted as saying that the show won't be pure shore trash filth, but there will be less restraint on the guests and music when it comes to bad language.  I hope Tom plays more uncensored Hip Hop as a result of having no FCC oversight.  I think that using curse words will just be another tool in Tom's belt and if he's dropping an F-bomb there will be hilarious consequences.

I have an obvious feeling that the first potty mouth to swear on the new show will be AP Mike.

[Bull Shannon]

Tom has been quoted as saying that the show won't be pure shore trash filth, but there will be less restraint on the guests and music when it comes to bad language.  I hope Tom plays more uncensored Hip Hop as a result of having no FCC oversight.  I think that using curse words will just be another tool in Tom's belt and if he's dropping an F-bomb there will be hilarious consequences.

It'll be nice to have that restriction lifted from the music, but I've always felt it's funnier to hear mild profanity in a no-profanity environment than excessive profanity in a regularly profane environment (Howard Stern isn't as transgressive when the FCC isn't breathing down his neck).

Same goes with the time restriction. Tom could go all night if he wanted, but I'd rather see three planned-out hours than four loose ones.

[yesno]

Will the show have a music portion when streamed live?  I assume there won't be music in the podcast form.

Tom said on a few podcasts that he was working on the music issue, but I assume it's been cleared up since he played a bunch of songs on the Test Show.

I bet it'll be like the WFMU show/podcast, where music gets chopped out for the podcast. Shame, though; I prefer listening to the podcast on my own time, but love the music. Listening to downloaded full shows with the songs intact over the last year has really turned me onto some good music.

I always thought that the reason the music was removed from the podcast had something (legally? financially?) to do with the fact that WFMU is a real radio station and those songs were broadcast over the airwaves and were now/then being "re-broadcast" digitally.   Or maybe it was that the archives are purposefully not *easily* downloadable and that makes some sort of difference?

I guess we'll have this question answered at latest tomorrow.

I may have missed this in one of the recent Tom interviews, but is the show abandoning its "hard-G" rating?

The Best Show (independent version) would have to get the same license that other "non-interactive" online radio shows get.  It's set by law, and is higher than what normal radio stations pay.  It's the same as what Pandora pays, basically.  (Pandora is considered "non-interactive", vs. something like Spotify.) This license wouldn't include downloads, which would need a separate license. 

[gabbo]

Not sure if this has been discussed in the previous 33 pages of this thread, but I feel a bit, say, apprehensive about the interaction with callers. I know the vast majority of WFMU Best Show  listeners would have been rusted on fans, but the confused callers that were berated or embarrassed were a real highlight. That will happen far less with the new version of the show. Is Tom really over the crappy callers? I thought that deep down they were appreciated on the odd occasion.

[WikipediaBrown]

I wonder what sort of advertising or sponsorships the Best Show will have now.   Wouldn't Wawa be a perfect fit?  Only about an hour to find out!

[nrt4]

Not sure if this has been discussed in the previous 33 pages of this thread, but I feel a bit, say, apprehensive about the interaction with callers. I know the vast majority of WFMU Best Show  listeners would have been rusted on fans, but the confused callers that were berated or embarrassed were a real highlight. That will happen far less with the new version of the show. Is Tom really over the crappy callers? I thought that deep down they were appreciated on the odd occasion.

He said in some interviews that he feel that the idea of "scanning the dial" and calling a show that you were unaware of is a lot less common, and that the wait for the Best Show call queue is upwards of 40 minutes and no one is going to have that patience for something they're unaware of.

[erg79]

I'm sure there won't be any drought of the occasional crappy call, though!

[Gleepglop]

Not sure if this has been discussed in the previous 33 pages of this thread, but I feel a bit, say, apprehensive about the interaction with callers. I know the vast majority of WFMU Best Show  listeners would have been rusted on fans, but the confused callers that were berated or embarrassed were a real highlight. That will happen far less with the new version of the show. Is Tom really over the crappy callers? I thought that deep down they were appreciated on the odd occasion.

Chelsea Peretti has been doing a call-in podcast for a while, and trust me- she has no lack of random lunatics calling into that show.

The Best Show probably casts a far wider net, so I'm confident there will be some call-in gems.

[boil]

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I'm still alive

[RHB]

so good to hear times voice again

[boil]

Poke Salad Annie was represented in great rehearsal footage in the original "Elvis That's the Way It Is." It was cut from the 2002 digital reworking. Boo.

[puffskull]

ITS HAPPENING!!!

Wednesday afternoons at work are gonna be write-off from now on... (it starts at 1pm in Sydney)