Map of Newbridge

[Omar]

Was this the same guy who also ratted out the cult of Satanists, who I believe were actually Unitarians or liberals? And it turned out that he was the only one who was actually a Satanist?

Just came across this one today, Garrett Wilson's One on One News...different story about the Newbridge Twelve, a group of "Satanists" he went undercover with and got arrested because of their satanic behavior...bikram yoga. Still on the hunt for the Newbridge Ten.

That One on One News call is great!  The Colonel Jessup's Salad Plantation spot with the voice that would later be used for Zeph.

[buffcoat]

Was this the same guy who also ratted out the cult of Satanists, who I believe were actually Unitarians or liberals? And it turned out that he was the only one who was actually a Satanist?

Just came across this one today, Garrett Wilson's One on One News...different story about the Newbridge Twelve, a group of "Satanists" he went undercover with and got arrested because of their satanic behavior...bikram yoga. Still on the hunt for the Newbridge Ten.

That One on One News call is great!  The Colonel Jessup's Salad Plantation spot with the voice that would later be used for Zeph.

That is hands down my favorite JW voice. I guess it's "on account of" where I'm from.

Challenge to all: can you name the other one-shot character who used that voice? Hint: Tom called HIM.

[JRSly]

Indeed, fantastic voice. It's unexpected usage in the one-on-one call is just fantastic, kills me every time.

buffcoat, it's not cheating if I went back to get the name right? I remembered that spurt of short calls for opinions on the VP debate at least. Richard Rutherford.

[TrapNeuterReturn]

First thing I did was try to layout all the geography-the water features and the mountains, since they'd be the immovable elements that the city would have to develop around.

Kudos, my friend. Arthur H. Robinson could learn a lot from you.

One minor critique- I'm almost certain physical features like mountains and water features can indeed move in and around Newbridge. The mountain doth indeed go to Mohammed.

[JRSly]

Ha, fair point. I'm still deciding how the roving sinkhole is going to be depicted.

[buffcoat]

Indeed, fantastic voice. It's unexpected usage in the one-on-one call is just fantastic, kills me every time.

buffcoat, it's not cheating if I went back to get the name right? I remembered that spurt of short calls for opinions on the VP debate at least. Richard Rutherford.

Not cheating at all!

Richard Rutherford is one of my favorite characters ever, for all that he only existed for six minutes and 36 seconds.

"I got a bus pass on Greyhound that'll take me anywhere."

[JRSly]

On that show, I've always loved the call to the guy in Vernton, Iowa where they have a serious stray cat problem. The man describes the severity of the issue for a few minutes but Tom still not quite having full grasp on the scope asks, "So what is it like when you walk down the street in this town?..." and the response is a defeated, gravelly, "Caaats." Those five seconds is ranked very highly among the entire length of other very funny calls.

[jimakaclark]

Excellent map. 

I'm listening to the Sully call on 2/10/2009 and right around 1 hour 28-29 minutes Sully mentions knowing Bruce Springsteen and Miami Steve from being stationed at "Four Davies" (sp?) in Newbridge in the early 70s.  I wasn't able to find it on the map, thought I'd mention it. 

[TrapNeuterReturn]

Ha, fair point. I'm still deciding how the roving sinkhole is going to be depicted.

I suggest an inset map displaying each location.

[JRSly]

Excellent map. 

I'm listening to the Sully call on 2/10/2009 and right around 1 hour 28-29 minutes Sully mentions knowing Bruce Springsteen and Miami Steve from being stationed at "Four Davies" (sp?) in Newbridge in the early 70s.  I wasn't able to find it on the map, thought I'd mention it. 

Ahh, Fort Davies, yes, just listened to it...thanks! I'll admit, on my relisten to look out for Newbridge locations I skipped over this one as I assumed there wouldn't be any references from Sully. In my defense, adding up eeeevery single call, it's 9 solid days worth of material, I thought it'd be safe to skip a couple like this one to get through them all as quickly as possible. Just goes to show, you never know who spent time in Newbridge at some point in their lives.

That's not a bad idea, Trap, Neuter, Release, if there's room for an inset. The map is going to be pretty dense from border to border once it's done, I fear. I'll go back to where it was mentioned and see if it might make sense to rearrange and redistribute the locations affected by the sinkhole, currently all of those locations are clustered fairly close together near Lake Newbridge. And I was thinking I'd make the roving sinkhole look a bit comet-shaped and more trench-like. Like it moves around and gets filled in behind itself after a certain distance.

[buffcoat]

JRSly, do you have MP3s of every S&W appearance? How do you keep track of everything?

[bananagrabbers]

I don't like it.




I LOVE IT.

Great work.

[JRSly]

JRSly, do you have MP3s of every S&W appearance? How do you keep track of everything?

I do. When I first became a fan a few years ago, I just thought it would be cool to have all the appearances, so I made a playlist in iTunes and would order the Best Show Gems chronologically as they were released. And make mp3s from the full Best Show releases every week if Jon made an appearance. The full shows, and especially those only in the archive, were too unwieldy and inconvenient for my purposes. And then through the albums, through the WFMU archives, and a big help to someone on Soulseek who had a pretty good collection of Wurster calls already edited and named, that saved me a good amount of work making my own...I accumulated the whole set. Big thanks to you and the Newbridgctionary again, likely never would've caught those ten second-one minute calls if I didn't know they were there. Eventually, to soothe my anal retentiveness I renamed all the titles to match the format that the Best Show Gems had laid out and once I had acquired everything, I added disc (by years, eg. 1997 is disc 1, 1998 is disc 2, etc) and track numbers so they'd be ordered everywhere outside of iTunes. Phew. by my count, 607 files.

Like I mentioned with my woes tracking down the Newbridge Ten, I wish I'd made better notes tying the locations and people to each mp3. Either through remembering or being able to  narrow it down reasonably well with the order of their appearances on my Evernote list, I know where probably..70% of the locations are referenced. Recently as I relisten or from input from you folks I've been adding notes about which specific call each point of interest is from. It'll help in the future.

[aguardiente]

This is extraordinary. Thank you so much. I'd def buy a poster of this, as I'm sure tons of others would as well.

Two thoughts on possible additions:

1) Allin Towers, just outside Newbridge city limits (did this ever get built?) -- mentioned by Trip Whiting on Jan 2, 2007 (Best Show Gem here: http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=31271&archive=51865)

2) The Panty Pantry -- mentioned by Tom's Ex-Godfather Butch Daffodil on Jun 9, 2009 (Link to Best Show Gem here: http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=52882&archive=91647)

Bless you, you are amazing. Have you got a name or website? I want to share the map and want to give all due credit to the creator.

Thanks,
David

[JRSly]

Thanks a lot, David.

On Allin Towers, yeah, I decided not to include it because it wasn't built yet. And because its location might even be considered beyond the boundaries of this map. I don't really like to be subjective, I'd like to include absolutely everything mentioned and not cheat or try to make my own creative choices..but sometimes I can't help it. Like if I argue against Allin Towers because it's outside of Newbridge, it's harder to justify Mellow Grove and Potter's Woods. But Mellow Grove felt like a more essential facet of the universe and warranted cheating a bit to get it on there. And if I argue against Allin Towers because it's not built yet, I probably shouldn't include any other future sites like Marky Ramone's Amusement Park. And in fact, I've thought about getting rid of that and the '76 Olympics site, since they'll end up just being empty fields, and not very funny empty fields. But I think I'll break my rules again and keep the note about the future location of Newbridgecatraz, cause it's funny.

I've had the same struggles with residents. It's a nebulous set of rules...at first I threw in every single speaking character, but some are too generic and short of a call to deem worthy of inclusion. When I thought of who else to include, I couldn't just drop in every single name mentioned by a caller, again for the same reasons..it just wouldn't be funny and most would be too obscure to even be interesting. But I couldn't not include people like Sheila Larson or Merv Reynolds or the Germans, those who had some infamy despite never appearing on the show. So I was a bit flexible and inconsistent with this section and included those who were callers, or were infamous or if they had funny names...like Will Cope.

Thanks for the Panty Pantry, I'd missed that one. I bet that place and the Panty Pagoda have a long standing rivalry.

And I appreciate you spreading the map around. I love the idea of as many people as possible being able to enjoy the map, just as I would want to be exposed to it if I was on the other side of things. I'm kinda between sites right now, I need to retool my old one and update it some and I've been thinking about joining the 21st century and maybe incorporating a Tumblr or blog more prominently...but anyway, if you'd like to just drop in a link to my DeviantArt profile or blog, that'd be cool and if anyone feels like communicating with me, they can through those channels.