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The Best Show is the best live podcast you’re ever gonna hear! Hosted by Tom Scharpling and featuring celebrity guests, music, callers, and plenty of surprises, The Best Show streams live every Tuesday night on Twitch at 6pm PT and is available on your podcast apps the next day.
Do you ever feel like you have this nagging voice that tells you that you are not enough or that there isn't enough in the world today? Well, you are not alone. I wanted to create a podcast that explores this very idea of fear and scarcity. It dominates our lives, yet rarely is talked about. It is a lens that convinces us that we are all alone, cut off, separate from everyone and everything. When just the opposite is true. My hope is that this podcast will be a heartfelt, honest, and playful ...
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Best Show Gems with Tom Scharpling | WFMU
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Best Show Gems with Tom Scharpling | WFMU
Tom Scharpling and WFMU
Best Show Gems: The Best Of The Best Show On WFMU is a twice-monthly podcast featuring highlights from the full radio show. Classic Scharpling and Wurster calls, amazing phone-ins, random weirdness and more! It's a perfect way for a beginner to get on board, or for a longtime fan to look back and remember when.
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Meet My Friends The Friends with Tom Scharpling
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Meet My Friends The Friends with Tom Scharpling
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Join Tom Scharpling (The Best Show) for 236 episodes of the ultimate Friends recap podcast!
Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Episode Hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Keatts Twitter: @RockDocsPod Instagram: @RockDocsPod Cover Art by N.C. Winters - check him out on Instagram at @NCWintersArt
Kevin McCracken and Joshua Doan talk to mostly punk kids who grew up and are now inspiring us and others by being awesome. Please let us know if you have a suggestion for guests. Don’t be shy if it’s you! We’ll say yes. Contact us at kevin@adultingwellpodcast.com
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The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling | WFMU
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The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling | WFMU
Tom Scharpling and WFMU
The Best Show On WFMU is now The Best Podcast On WFMU! Join Tom Scharpling as he journeys through the treacherous and hi-larious world of open phones, bizarre fake guests, and even more disturbing real guests. The podcast is all of the Mirth and Mayhem, but none of the Music!
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Stage Times is a new music podcast from Ticketmaster. Across each episode, our hosts Mark, Paul and John will chat with bands and musicians about their defining gig experiences, from the very first one that inspired them to pick up an instrument to their best, worst and weirdest experiences on tour.
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The first episode of S&W/Q&A is now available on Patreon! Tom and Jon answer questions about Robert Pollard stories, favorite Flock of Seagulls songs, and bands that one of them likes but the other one doesn’t. Plus Tom tells the story of the day that Jon met his boss Jim at the sheet music store. It's a really fun and candid look into Tom and Jon'…
This wee we have a wonderful conversation with War On Women's Brooks Harlan! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Joshua Doan and Kevin McCracken
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A Call From A "Star Wars Insider" (featuring Peyton Reed)
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BEST SHOW BESTS! In this classic clip from The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling, Tom gets a call from a Star Wars "Insider" who may or may not be Peyton Reed. (Originally aired in December 2000 on WFMU; intro to this clip originally aired on July 21st, 2015) New to the Best Show? Check out Best Show Bests, the greatest hits of The Best Show! A…
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CARL TART! SEAN CLEMENTS! NATHAN GELGUD! DOWNTOWN DONNIE DEE OF THE BAND WET CHERRY! HELP ME IDENTIFY THAT SONG/MOVIE/SHOW!
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You want a jam packed show? THIS IS IT. Featuring the hilarious CARL TART in studio! Hear Tom quiz Carl on his long running showbiz accolades and more! SEAN CLEMENTS of Hollywood Handbook swings by! Cartoonist NATHAN GELGUD reveals the long awaited (written on air) illustrated children's book MY PET FLY! Tom gets a call from DOWNTOWN DONNIE DEE OF …
Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries A Treble Media Podcast Today's documentary is Meet Me in the Bathroom, released in 2022, directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace. Meet Me in the Bathroom is about the early 2000s New York rock revival, featuring The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, Moldy Peaches, TV on the Radi…
BEST SHOW BESTS! In this classic clip, Tom gets a call from Sherm and Tad Throckmorton! (Originally aired April 14th, 2021) New to the Best Show? Check out Best Show Bests, the greatest hits of The Best Show! Available every Friday on your podcast app. WATCH THE BEST SHOW LIVE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 6PM PT ON TWITCH https://www.twitch.tv/bestshow4life…
This week have a wonderful talk with Daniel Sea. Daniel Sea (he/they) is a trans non-binary actor, musician and artist. Sea has worked in film, theater and TV series. They played the first recurring transmasculine role on television, appearing from 2006-2009 as Max in Showtime’s The L Word. In 2022, he revised his role as Max for the current iterat…
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MATT BERRY! EYELIDS WORLD PREMIERE! BEST QUITTING & GETTING FIRED STORIES! TEENY KEN FROM NORTHBRIDGE!
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The one and only MATT BERRY joins Tom in studio! Phones ring on the topic: BEST QUITTING & GETTING FIRED STORIES! Hear a debut song from EYELIDS upcoming album: "A COLOSSAL WASTE OF LIGHT"! Tom gets a call from TEENY KEN FROM NORTHBRIDGE! Plus, hear a detailed recount of the time Tom went face-to-face with RAY LIOTTA! Don't miss this one! We're on …
#017 - Life is hard and being human isn't always a joy ride. It is often times filled with suffering, not having the answers, and wondering if there is a purpose in what often times feels like a world filled with pain and disorder. On today's show, I speak again with my good friend Rick Borutta who works for the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco…
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Darren from Work Unearths 'The Newbridge Wall'
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BEST SHOW BESTS! In this episode, Darren From Work unearths a relic from Tom's childhood... "THE NEWBRIDGE WALL"! (Originally aired Oct 28, 2015) New to the Best Show? Check out Best Show Bests, the greatest hits of The Best Show! Available every Friday on your podcast app. WATCH THE BEST SHOW LIVE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 6PM PT ON TWITCH https://www.t…
This week with sit down with Matt Kreutz, the founder of Firebrand bread. Matt founded Firebrand with the goal of making a positive impact on his community by hiring homeless and previously incarcerated people. Firebrand was born out of Matt Kreutz's determination to make the best damn bread possible while building a business that helps people. His…
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LOU BARLOW! NARDWUAR! MISFITS CLAUDE IN HORRORBRIDGE!
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WOW! This show has it ALL! A LIVE SET and interview with LOU BARLOW?! YES! A SURPRISE DROP IN from the legendary NARDWUAR?! YES YES!!! A historic and chilling call from MISFITS CLAUDE IN HORRORBRIDGE?! Baby, you better tap that play button and have a seat... WATCH THE BEST SHOW LIVE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 6PM PT ON TWITCH https://www.twitch.tv/bestsho…
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Garth Brooks: The Road I'm On - Nick's Picks Vol. 2
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Welcome to Nick's Pick's Vol. 2, in which we invite our Very Special Guest and returning champion Nick McCann on to discuss any documentary he chooses. Today's documentary is Garth Brooks: The Road I’m On, released in 2019, directed by Al Szymanski. This doc is a two-parter from the A&E Biography series. We all went into this episode not knowing th…
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Paul Rudd (featuring Philly Boy Roy)
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BEST SHOW BESTS! In this classic episode, PAUL RUDD swings by the studio and talks about Ant-Man, Anchorman, Paul McCartney and more! Plus, PHILLY BOY ROY asks Rudd some hard-hitting questions! New to the Best Show? Check out Best Show Bests, the greatest hits of The Best Show! Available every Friday on your podcast app. WATCH THE BEST SHOW LIVE EV…
Note from Pepper: This episode is special for me. J Robbins is my favorite producer and I never in a million years thought I would get the chance to have a conversation with him. Yay! Robbins began his career as a bassist for Government Issue, and has also led five of his own bands: Jawbox, Rollkicker Laydown, Burning Airlines, Channels, and Office…
#016 - It’s hard not to feel the chaos that makes us believe our world is spinning out of control. Often times we feel powerless to do anything about it because the problems appear to be so overwhelming. On today's show, we'll ask the question, “What does it look like to find peace in the eye of the storm?” We’ll explore a range of topics including…
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OPEN MIKE EAGLE! HEIDI N CLOSET & JAIDA ESSENCE HALL! VIC BERGER! DEVON TAYLOR & MARK PENDER! SKYLER CALEB! STEVE MOULTON!
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YES! It was BRING A CELEBRITY TO THE BEST SHOW STUDIO NIGHT on The Best Show and boy oh boy is this one wild show! WATCH THE BEST SHOW LIVE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 6PM PT ON TWITCH https://www.twitch.tv/bestshow4life SUPPORT THE BEST SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheBestShow WATCH VIDEO EPISODES OF THE BEST SHOW: https://www.youtube.com/best…
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A Call from Newbridge Legend Raccoon Face! (featuring Adam Resnick)
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BEST SHOW BESTS! In this classic clip, Tom and special guest Adam Resnick get a call with the mythic Newbridge legend Raccoon Face! New to the Best Show? Check out Best Show Bests, the greatest hits of The Best Show! Available every Friday on your podcast app. WATCH THE BEST SHOW LIVE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 6PM PT ON TWITCH https://www.twitch.tv/bests…
This week we sit down with the amaizing Kim Coletta! Kim bought her first bass from David Grubbs (Squirrelbait, Bastro, Gastr del Sol) when they both attended college in Washington, DC. After graduating, much to her father's chagrin, she started Jawbox with J. Robbins and Adam Wade. Shortly after, Coletta founded DeSoto Records to put out Edsel and…
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TOM SCHARPLING’S COMEDY BOOT CAMP! PHILLY BOY ROY! SOUND COLLAGE!
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Unfunny and wish you were funnier? Funny but wish you were “Tom Scharpling funny”? Hear Tom help callers get better at The Art of Being Funny! PHILLY BOY ROY calls in to reveal his Superbowl LVII fate! Plus, the return of the SOUND COLLAGE and much much more! It's all right here, my friend! WATCH THE BEST SHOW LIVE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 6PM PT ON TWI…
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Without Getting Killed or Caught (Guy Clark) with Tyler Jordan of Good Looks
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Today's episode is about "Without Getting Killed or Caught" (Tamara Saviano and Paul Whitfield, 2020). It's about the Texas singer-songwriter Guy Clark and his relationships with his wife, Susanna Clark, and his best friend, Townes Van Zandt. Our Very Special Guest is Tyler Jordan of the fantastic Texas rock band Good Looks. Check out their songs "…
BEST SHOW BESTS! In this classic clip, Tom has an extended interview with indie rock legends Yo La Tengo! (Originally Aired June 2nd, 2015) New to the Best Show? Check out Best Show Bests, the greatest hits of The Best Show! Available every Friday on your podcast app. WATCH THE BEST SHOW LIVE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 6PM PT ON TWITCH https://www.twitch.…
This week we sit down with the amazing Zach Barocas. Zach is best known for his drumming in Jawbox, The Up On In, and BELLS≥. He is currently at work composing material for his latest project, New Freedom Sound. Since 2001, he has served as editor and publisher of The Cultural Society, a primarily-poetry micropress. He lives in Brooklyn with his wi…
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PEYTON REED! MARC MARON! SEAN Y. CONGRESSMAN!
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THIS IS A HUGE ONE! PEYTON REED makes his triumphant return to share some HUGE NEWS with Tom that, let's just say, is the payoff of a lifetime! MARC MARON visits the Forever Dog studio for the first time and talks to Tom about his upcoming HBO special From Bleak To Dark and much more! Plus, Tom gets a troubling call from NJ Congressman, SEAN Y. CON…
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Carl the Sound Engineer, Lisa Jane Persky, Joe Mande and Gabe Delahaye
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BEST SHOW BESTS! In this classic clip, Tom, along with guests Lisa Jane Persky, Joe Mande and Gabe Delahaye have an interesting conversation with Carl The Sound Engineer. New to the Best Show? Check out Best Show Bests, the greatest hits of The Best Show! Available every Friday on your podcast app. WATCH THE BEST SHOW LIVE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 6PM P…
This week Kevin and Pepper talk with Gordon Withers! Gordon is a Post-Punk Cellist residing in the suburbs of Washington, DC. He plays cello with the J. Robbins Band, New Freedom Sound, Betwixt, and many others. He is best known for his cello tribute albums including Jawbreaker on Cello, Dark Side of the Moon on Cello, and Jawbox on Cello. In his “…
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TOP 50 MOST BORING PEOPLE! PHILLY BOY ROY! SOUND COLLAGE TEASER!
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Who are the 50 MOST BORING PEOPLE alive? Tom decides with callers! PHILLY BOY ROY checks in with Tom on The Eagles and more! Plus, a special SOUND COLLAGE! A great show! WATCH THE BEST SHOW LIVE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 6PM PT ON TWITCH https://www.twitch.tv/bestshow4life SUPPORT THE BEST SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheBestShow WATCH VIDEO …
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Wings for Wheels: The Making of Born to Run with RJ Bee
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Today's episode is about "Wings for Wheels: The Making of Born to Run" (Thom Zimny, 2005). It's about, of course, the making of Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Our Very Special Guest is RJ Bee, co-founder of Osiris Media, which brings you many fine podcasts. Check them out! Rock Docs is hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Kea…
BEST SHOW BESTS! In this classic clip, Tom talks with the one and only Molly Shannon! (Originally Aired Tuesday, May 5, 2015) New to the Best Show? Check out Best Show Bests, the greatest hits of The Best Show! Available every Friday on your podcast app. WATCH THE BEST SHOW LIVE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 6PM PT ON TWITCH https://www.twitch.tv/bestshow4li…
This week we sit down the amazing Jon Wurster! Jon is an American drummer and comedy writer. As a musician, he is best known for his work with Superchunk, the Mountain Goats, and Bob Mould.He is also known for appearing on The Best Show with Tom Scharpling. He's recorded and performed live with Jay Farrar, Ben Gibbard, Robert Pollard, Katy Perry, T…
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LIGHTHOUSE CONFESSIONS! DARVAN IN UPPER SOUTH NEWBRIDGE! MIKE VS. ANDREW!
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Anonymous callers join Tom in the solitary serenity of the ol' lighthouse for some top secret LIGHTHOUSE CONFESSIONS! Hear their darkest truths finally revealed! One of which comes from DARVAN IN UPPER SOUTH NEWBRIDGE! Plus, A.P. is forced to read a stunning public statement after losing last week's Giants vs. Eagles bet with producer Andrew! Surpr…
BEST SHOW BESTS! In this episode, Tom gets a call from his mailman, SKIP MAGELLAN! New to the Best Show? Check out Best Show Bests, the greatest hits of The Best Show! Available every Friday on your podcast app. WATCH THE BEST SHOW LIVE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 6PM PT ON TWITCH https://www.twitch.tv/bestshow4life SUPPORT THE BEST SHOW ON PATREON: https:…
