Paul F. Tompkins has a long legacy of being the best podcast guest on the podcast circuit. Never Not Funny, The Best Show on WFMU, Superego to name a few. But then the landscape of podcasting began to change. For months PFT has been teasing us with promises of his own podcast, dropping hints during […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a bit from the Sound Opinions podcast, which is a great music podcast, but as I was listening to this bit I broke out laughing as it just seemed like the perfect start to a Scharpling and Wurster bit. It actually was a somewhat interesting interview, but nothing compared to what the masters […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Weird podcasting coincidence today. I have been catching up on some of my podcasts today. I started with the November 16, 2010 episode of The Best Show on WFMU. Philly Boy Roy called in and his call is interrupted by the mega-bass alarm on his Swatch playing a song by The Hooters.
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Whoever thought Philly Boy Roy could be involved in educational products.
I finally found a place for the free swag always given out by the great indie providers Merge Records and WFMU. Bringing indie goodness to the Ontario wilderness.
I wish that I could say that this is a success story. At most I can say it is a successful experiment in measuring whether a random sampling of Ontario campers would uncover a significant population of listeners of The Best Show on WFMU.
Great article over at Spin about Tom Scharpling, Jon Wurster and The Best Show on WFMU. Why Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster of WFMU’s ‘Best Show’ Are Punk Genuises The likes of Patton Oswalt, Paul F Tompkins and Ted Leo chime in on the Best Show’s greatness. I love this quote from Jon: “I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Vance is the resident puppet at The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling. Vance is pretty mellow. Vance loves prog rock. Vance has a Twitter account. A few weeks ago there was a caller named ‘Chris from Little Rock’ who said something along the lines of “make your presence felt”. Now I don’t know […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
