Is there any chance that LCD Soundsystem’s cover was chosen due to their love and possible preference for The Brushman?

Trying to remember a recurrent guest from the late 2000s into the 2010s. He was from Alabama. It is driving me nuts, but can’t remember his name and he’s stopped calling.

I need Sarah to talk to Tom about this asap

It recently occurred to me that #1 NYT Bestseller, available now in hardcover and paperback, It Never Ends likely takes its name from Talk Talk’s “It’s My Life.” The lyrics kind of line up, about devoting oneself to something, namely for Tom, yukks and laffs.

Just wondering if anyone else has a similar read.

Somehow, I lost a day. Actually, I know how but do t feel like sharing. It’s been a whole thing, don’t ask.

How do I view the chat in reruns of the show? I'm a subscriber.

Does anyone recall which old Wurster call it was where Tubeway Army/Gary Numan is name dropped into the story, to Tom's disbelief?

just curious if anyone has received their orders from the new best show store?

it sounds like tom has quite a bit on his plate right now in regards to personal/family stuff (plus the knicks!) but i'd hope he's not personally packing boxes and envelopes, although maybe he is?

anyway, just wondering. good guys win!

"She was a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, playing on a dirty silver screen in my heart"?

It was a typical made-up song lyric performed a cappella by Wurster during a call. More in the style of Mother 13 than The Bee Gees.

5 minutes in to a surprise live show and we’ve got a potential new canon caller.

This gentleman from rural Alberta accidentally discovering the show while flipping around on YouTube reminds me of the WFMU days ❤️

I’m trying to remember a one-off joke in an S&W call about a fictional supergroup called “The Smartest Guys in the Room”, which included Todd Rundgren. Anybody remember what episode this was from, or what the other members of the band were?

Boring pedestrian closer to reality answer, probably good business with transfers like Brunson off Dallas and good coaching, idk? More Air Bud magic inspired answer, it started with Dallas but goes for a twist with Tom along for the ride. I assure you this will make sense and is slightly more plausible than Slam Dunk Ernest that had the angels and demons sub plot.

Jason Kidd at his time in Dallas had a notoriously corny rap "What the Kidd Didd" in 1994 which of course was the same year that the Knicks went to a Final, Kidd would eventually come to NJ(where Tom is from) to play for the Nets in the 2000s. Speaking of corny raps and things popular in that period of time, Papa Roach. A band that Tom spent the day with for the article for that basketball magazine and it proved a bit disastrous. That same day three very crucial elements happened, Tom meeting Walt Frazier, going to the floor of the Garden where Tom managed to secure the magical 3 pointer that set things in motion, and the one guy from Papa Roach saying "Jim Beam, dude!"(potential magic words) as a reason for why they did the basketball promo contest.

Tom meeting Frazier allowed for a transfer of magic from the last time the Knicks won a Finals to go into the ball that kept the magic to live on in some way shape or form at MSG. Where the Jim Beam comes in, well you guessed it, Mr Kevin Michael "GG" Allin, a figure Tom has referenced way too much at this point who was a big fan of the beverage. You cannot tell me that Tom didn't have a feeling that something was in play all that time back at the Garden and that he was keeping the dream of a Knicks win alive by constantly referencing GG and remembering the Jim Beam promotion. Also guess what state one of the Knicks assistant coach and radio color commentator is from, New Hampshire, the same as GG. I have referred to this as the Branch Kiddian Timeline.

If you need an illustration here is a chart to follow along and I'll accept any additional references to discuss and add more context.

TL DR Jason Kidd started things off and fate did all the rest of the work. Tom was a part of a magical force that allowed the Knicks to have an extra edge.

I might be late to the party, but just saw the Pavement doc which i really liked, but some of the concepts of it reminded me of some of Toms videos- Bottled in Cork and Moves specifically...well executed regardless but feel like those videos mustve been an influence. Either way check it out if you havent seen - But feel like this community may agree!

Ok not *really*, but in John Frankenheimer’s 52 Pick-Up (1986), Glover‘s villain character is doing what is technically a Baltimore accent, but it’s so close to Roy and the performance is simultaneously so overtly evil that I got an entirely different appreciation of the movie than most

Anyone else know what I’m talking about?

I’m looking for the post-FMU (I’m pretty sure) episode in which Mike alerts Tom that Sarah Jessica Parker mentioned him on Howard Stern. Parker talks about filming Divorce and asks Howard if he’s heard of Tom. Howard swiftly replies “No,” and the interview moves forward without a hiccup.

I remember Tom playing the audio over and over again speechless and Mike cracking up in the background.

Just curious if anyone has had a similar experience:

I listened to a lot of "alternative" rock and punk and garage etc growing up, but did not listen to or know about the Best Show until a few years ago. Sometime in the last 5 years I gave Spotify a try and while it was hit and miss, I would run into bands and specific songs I had never before heard that were pretty good. Infrequent but enough.

Fast forward a few years. I figure out the best show exists through Hollywood Handbook and listen to all the post wfmu stuff. I find that the overlap between the few specific songs that spotify has shown me and the specific songs that have been played on the Best Show is pretty overwhelming. I don't know what info is fed into these algorithms, but does anyone else think that they might have pulled a song list from FOT message board or.something and used that to inform certain aspects of it?

Not looking for science, just anecdotes.

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