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I've had the good fortune of interviewing Bob Mould a couple of times in my life. In honour of his new album, Here We Go Crazy, here's a previously unreleased conversation we had at 1:30 PM ET on Wednesday, June 25, 2024, about his album Beauty & Ruin.To hear this entire conversation, subscribe to Kreative Kontrol on Patreon at the $6 tier or higher (a reminder that an annual subscription includes a discount compared to a monthly one).Related episodes/links:Ep. #928: VerbötenEp. #644: The Replacements' ‘Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash' with Peter Jesperson, Jason Jones, & Bob MehrEp. #550: Ian Svenonius & Rich Morel of Too MuchEp. #252: Bob Mehr on The ReplacementsEp. #226: Scharpling & WursterSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/kreative-kontrol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We get back after a hiatus and rap about the universally accepted worst Beatles song ever.  Do we agree?  You'll find out after you sort through The Beatles Halloween Fan Club records, starting fires, the plight of professional podcasters, several Ranking the Beatles related messages, the role of youth coaching, Tommy inventing ice beers (again),Beatles soccer chants, kidney transplants, the official ranking of "Mr." songs, and the organ solo jam, "Mr. Moonlight."We bring it up in the episode - if you haven't heard Tom Scharpling's "Mr. Moonlight" story, you need to listen to it here.  If you like that, you'll love Scharpling's The Best Show.  As always, you can find Team Blotto Beatles on Instagram (@blottobeatles) and Twitter / X (@blottobeatles), by emailing us (blottobeatles@gmail.com), or on the web (blottobeatles.com).  We want to hear from you!Please also take the time to rate and review us on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.We have a shop!  Grab some merch.  You can always drunk dial us at 1.857.233.9793 to share your thoughts, feedback, confessions, and concerns to be featured in an upcoming episode. Enjoying the show? Buy us a beer via the tip jar (don't forget to include a message telling us what we should drink with the money).You know we're making a list of it, see the canonical, argument-ending list of Beatles songs we are assembling here: http://www.blottobeatles.com & listen to it on Spotify here.Please remember to always enjoy Blotto Beatles responsibly.Peace and Love.Hosts: Becker and TommyExecutive Producer: Scotty C.Musical Supervisor: RB (@ryanobrooks)Associate Musical Supervision: Tim Clark (@nodisassemble)

Musician/Comedian Jon Wurster (Superchunk, Bob Mould, Mountain Goats, Scharpling & Wurster) joins Delaney to take a deep dive into the world of Melonville and its lore. 

On this week's Talkhouse Podcast we've got an episode for the drummers and those who like a great story: Jon Wurster and Stewart Copeland. Copeland is of course the drummer for the legendary, gazillion-selling Rock and Roll Hall of Famers the Police, who were called “the biggest band in the world” during their mid-'80s heyday. Their hits have endured over the decades, too, and that's in no small part due to the special chemistry the trio enjoyed—and that chemistry, as you'll hear, often manifested itself in fights between Copeland and his old bandmate Sting. Copeland has made a fascinating career for himself since; he directed a documentary about his old band that made interesting use of their music, and he's got a new album and tour called Police Deranged for Orchestra, which features those classic songs redone in wild new ways. As you'll hear in this chat, Copeland also found a side career as a film composer, working on everything from Oliver Stone's Wall Street to the classic Francis Ford Coppola movie Rumble Fish. Check out a little bit of “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic“ from Police Deranged for Orchestra right here. Now the other half of this conversation is a drummer from a later era and, as you'll hear, a huge fan of Copeland's work. Jon Wurster is a renaissance man who's played most regularly with Superchunk, the Mountain Goats, and Bob Mould, but whose list of credits goes way beyond those amazing acts. He's also a comedy writer and half of the duo Scharpling and Wurster, which gave birth to some of the funniest characters in radio comedy ever. This summer, Wurster will tour with both Mountain Goats and Bob Mould, so chances are good that he'll be in a city near you. In this conversation, Wurster—as I had hoped he would—gets deep into specifics with Copeland, asking him right off the bat about a gig from the early 1980s. They also chat about how Copeland's orchestral tours actually work and about his forays into the soundtrack world—I had never heard the term “shit chord” before. They get into the fights that Copeland had with Police frontman Sting, and about how band therapy helped sort that all out. Wurster also gets a chance to ask about the lyrics to a deep cut called “On Any Other Day.” Enjoy. Thanks for listening to the Talkhouse Podcast, and thanks to Jon Wurster and Stewart Copeland for chatting. If you liked what you heard, please follow Talkhouse on your favorite podcasting platform, and check out all the great stuff at Talkhouse.com. This episode was produced by Myron Kaplan, and the Talkhouse theme is composed and performed by the Range. See you next time!

On this week's Talkhouse Podcast we've got an episode for the drummers and those who like a great story: Jon Wurster and Stewart Copeland. Copeland is of course the drummer for the legendary, gazillion-selling Rock and Roll Hall of Famers the Police, who were called “the biggest band in the world” during their mid-'80s heyday. Their hits have endured over the decades, too, and that's in no small part due to the special chemistry the trio enjoyed—and that chemistry, as you'll hear, often manifested itself in fights between Copeland and his old bandmate Sting. Copeland has made a fascinating career for himself since; he directed a documentary about his old band that made interesting use of their music, and he's got a new album and tour called Police Deranged for Orchestra, which features those classic songs redone in wild new ways. As you'll hear in this chat, Copeland also found a side career as a film composer, working on everything from Oliver Stone's Wall Street to the classic Francis Ford Coppola movie Rumble Fish. Check out a little bit of “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic“ from Police Deranged for Orchestra right here. Now the other half of this conversation is a drummer from a later era and, as you'll hear, a huge fan of Copeland's work. Jon Wurster is a renaissance man who's played most regularly with Superchunk, the Mountain Goats, and Bob Mould, but whose list of credits goes way beyond those amazing acts. He's also a comedy writer and half of the duo Scharpling and Wurster, which gave birth to some of the funniest characters in radio comedy ever. This summer, Wurster will tour with both Mountain Goats and Bob Mould, so chances are good that he'll be in a city near you. In this conversation, Wurster—as I had hoped he would—gets deep into specifics with Copeland, asking him right off the bat about a gig from the early 1980s. They also chat about how Copeland's orchestral tours actually work and about his forays into the soundtrack world—I had never heard the term “shit chord” before. They get into the fights that Copeland had with Police frontman Sting, and about how band therapy helped sort that all out. Wurster also gets a chance to ask about the lyrics to a deep cut called “On Any Other Day.” Enjoy. Thanks for listening to the Talkhouse Podcast, and thanks to Jon Wurster and Stewart Copeland for chatting. If you liked what you heard, please follow Talkhouse on your favorite podcasting platform, and check out all the great stuff at Talkhouse.com. This episode was produced by Myron Kaplan, and the Talkhouse theme is composed and performed by the Range. See you next time!

This week on Transmissions, Jon Wurster, the drummer of Mountain Goats, Bob Mould Band, and Superchunk and one-half of Scharpling and Wurster, the long running radio comedy duo as featured on The Best Show. In his wide-ranging talk with Jason Woodbury, he discusses growing up in Philadelphia during the birth of punk and alternative rock, working with Replacements producer Jim Dickinson in the mid-'80s, his experiences at Sun Records, getting the call to join Superchunk, and much more.

Gregg Gethard (@FinancialGuruGG) takes us through his early days in comedy performing in backyards and dive bars and writing one man shows based on The Wire and the autobiography of Darryl Strawberry, who Gregg would later meet. We also get the full story of the infamous New York is Better Than Philly show that pitted Gregg vs. his brother Chris, including an ending involving the Milkshake of Death. Then, Gregg details his relationship with Tom Scharpling and The Best Show on WFMU, why Scharpling wouldn't do Chris' show unless Gregg was there and meeting Ilana Glazer shortly before Broad City.

Today we talked with Jon Wurster of Superchunk, The Best Show, Bob Mould Band, The Mountain Goats and many many more. We spent about an hour just talking about how he got to NC and his musical and comedic life.  Definitely a great interview for fans of indie music and indie comedy. Phil goes negative in the intro about MLK day and rants on Jesse Helms.  Shannon redeems it by an eloquent discussion of Rev. William Barber.  Plus, stomach bug!  

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Ken Plume has another chat with musician Ted Leo, about The Hanged Man, radium cities, biblical weather, and embracing the capo.

Ken Plume has a chat with writer/director Daniel Ralston, about The Zombies, roller rinks, beer, redemption, BBQ, and Pissed Jeans.

Tom asks who would make the new world better aboard SCHARPLING’S ARK! Rock god KURT VILE checks in about hanging out with Neil Young in Nashville and more! AT BEST SHOW makes it's return with the topic: #STARWARSCANDYBARS! Plus, another installment of WHO SUCKS IN PODCASTING!

This week the host of my favorite podcast is on my podcast - TOM SCHARPLING from THE BEST SHOW is here. Tom is a writer, director, television producer and one half of the comedy duo Scharpling and Wurster who are playing at Union Transfer in Philadelphia on Sunday 12/13.Tom and I discuss meeting at a Destroyer show, all kinds of music from Death Cab For Cutie to Wolf Parade to Springsteen, Northern New Jersey, podcast persistence, Tarantino movies, what goes into making the Best Show every week, Google being despicable, the Scharpling and Wurster live shows, karaoke and much more. Tom is the best of the best at what he does and it is truly exciting to have him here on my little old podcast. Support the podcasts you love by subscribing, downloading and rating. There are more episodes coming at you in December. Thank you for listening!

Scharpling & Wurster is a beloved and very funny comedy duo consisting of Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster. While they mainly work together on The Best Show radio program and podcast, which airs every Tuesday from 9 pm to midnight ET at thebestshow.net, they’ve been making rare live appearances around North America since the Numero Group […]

The great MIKE KROL returns to CITY SLANG! We conduct the KROL REPORT to update listeners on breaking news since Mike's last interview, and Mike tells us about "visiting" Danzig's and Rivers Cuomo's homes! Plus, support our mother station CHUO by visiting the CHUO website and buying a CITY SLANG shirt!

Jon Wurster first made his name as the drummer for Superchunk, and over the past twenty years, he's become of rock's most in-demand and versatile drummers. He's played with everyone from Bob Mould to Katy Perry, but his creative output isn't limited to music. Jon is one half of the acclaimed and bizarrely hilarious comedy duo Scharpling & Wurster. He talks to Joe about setting ambitious goals at a young age, the power of projecting your intentions into the universe, sobriety, and the relationship between comedy and music.

An epic episode from Los Angeles! Patton Oswalt and Lisa Jane Persky are in studio, Tom's brother Ron calls in to discuss his podcast, Gary the Squirrel moans about his career, Hayes Davenport and Sean Clements from the Hollywood Handbook podcast say funny stuff, an amazing sound collage and more! A show for the ages!

As a musician, Jon Wurster is best-known as the drummer for Superchunk, The Mountain Goats, New Pornographers and The Bob Mould Band. He’s also half of the comedy team Scharpling and Wurster. Tom Scharpling was the host of a radio show which originally aired on WFMU. Scharpling and Wurster struck up a friendship, and Wurster started regularly calling into Scharpling’s radio show, voicing different characters. The Best Show aired for 13 years, and an exhaustive collection of the show’s shenanigans featuring Wurster’s crazy personnas, has just been released as a box set. We talk to Wurster about his early days in the Philly punk scene in the 1980s, becoming a professional musician and coping with life on the road. Wurster also reveals the surprising inspiration for the voice of one of his most notorious Best Show characters, Philly Boy Roy. The “Best Show” box set by Jon Wurster and Tom Scharpling is now available at Amazon, and includes 16 CDs, a book and lots of bonus material. You can listen to new “The Best Show” as a webcast and podcast through TheBestShow.net

Along with the warm weather each year comes record release season, with exciting new albums put out by major artists. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot get you up to speed by offering a review roundup of new releases from Alabama Shakes, Mumford & Sons, Sufjan Stevens, and Van Hunt.

Kenan Thompson was on his way to a pitch meeting at Saturday Night Live when he stopped by Marc's hotel room to talk about The Mighty Ducks, Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, and Lorne Michaels' handlebar moustache. Plus, Marc has a chat with Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster about the massive new box set that chronicles 14 years of their comedy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast.

Actress Aubrey Plaza needs no introduction (because she’s got it memorized)… Singer-songwriter Laura Marling has a soundtrack for evenings warm and chilly… Writer Jon Ronson looks at shaming on social media and sees our modern pillory… The comic duo Scharpling & Wurster take our etiquette segment to the strangest of places, which might be a city […]

Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster rarely analyze why their brand of two-man radio comedy is so potent. Today on the Gist, they pause to consider 13 years of hilariously weird phone calls from Newbridge, NJ. Their box set The Best of The Best Show is available from the Numero Group. For the Spiel, Mike takes a stand against dictators (although a couple are all right). Today’s sponsor: The Great Courses, engaging audio and video lectures taught by top professors. Courses like "Fundamentals of Photography." Right now, get 80% off the original price when you visit thegreatcourses.com/gist. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at http://www.slate.com/gistplus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Faced with Tom Scharpling’s unexpected absence, Mike hastily convened an emergency Skype chat. We welcome some new folks and jump into our old routine as best we can. Pat Walsh fails to join.     Corey’s Scharpling and Wurster talk.       Losing my touch. Mike’s work and snow talk.     Pat makes it in.      More work talk includes "You gotta be devious" and "Stair etiquette.”      Movie Talk! Birdman and Inherent Vice.  Brian shows we talk about the Toby Dammit, the Swans and Einstruzende Neubauten/                     Best Show talk.  Massa’s Movie Talk: Interstellar, Top Secret, Let It Ride, Burt Reynolds movies. The Super Bowl.     FrancesaCon.         Gambling.             Girl Scout cookies.         Fredericks and P.C. on Cigarettes and Whiskey ep. 93.      Cigarette people. Paul Thomas Anderson.     Pynchon spotting.      Jon Wurster teases American Airlines. More movie talk: The Master.       Audience watching.      Meandering. 

It must be around 11PM by the time Tom Scharpling arrives at my apartment, and he’s predictably exhausted. We’d scheduled something for earlier in the evening, but he found himself sitting though four hours of traffic making his way into Queens, making the executive to skip directly to the live podcast he’s appearing on a ten minute ride away.  He’s tired, but ready. This is his moment of triumphant, one of the final few podcast appearances on a victory lap before ending The Best Show’s year-long self-imposed hiatus, resurrecting the beloved public radio program as an internet-only concern. It’s a world the comedian has (somewhat) lovingly ribbed, but later this month, after a dozen-plus years as a terrestrial radio show, WFMU’s former tent pole program joins the ranks of standalone podcasts. Scharpling and indie rock drummer turned comedy partner Jon Wurster have spent the past year piecing together the infrastructure for a proper relaunch, taking a much needed break to pursue other avenues of expression and reflecting on the program’s strange and steady transformation from music-based radio program to one of the purest and most unique pieces of on-going comedy in the last 20 years. The intervening months have also seen a number of Best Show-related projects that have afforded further reflection, including the suitably off-kilter Adult Swim one-off The Newbridge Tourism Board Presents: “We’re Newbridge, We’re Comin’ To Get Ya!” and the forthcoming Scharpling and Wurster Numero Group boxset, which collects 79 of the duo’s best bits over a massive 16 CDs. Even after all that, I still managed to squeeze around an hour or so out of Scharpling to talk social media, success and Donald Sterling.

This week on The One You Feed we have Jon Wurster. Jon Wurster is an American musician and humorist best known as the drummer for indie rockers Superchunk, The Mountain Goats and Bob Mould as well for his comedic work with radio host Tom Scharpling on the The Best Show on WFMU. Wurster has recorded and/or performed live with artists such as Bob Mould, Jay Farrar, Ben Gibbard, Robert Pollard, Katy Perry, The New Pornographers, Rocket from the Crypt, Ryan Adams, R.E.M., Guided by Voices, Marah, Alejandro Escovedo,A.C. Newman, Chris Stamey and Peter Holsapple, Inspiral Carpets, The Minus 5, and Charlie Daniels. Wurster is one half of the radio comedy team Scharpling and Wurster. Tom Scharpling is the longtime host of The Best Show on WFMU radio program. The duo have been releasing CDs on their Stereolaffs label since 1999. Their most recent album is 2007's The Art of The Slap. Scharpling and Wurster have collaborated in music videos written and directed by Tom Scharpling and starring Wurster. The videos were created for The New Pornographers, Aimee Mann, and The Postal Service. Wurster has written for television shows such as Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell, Monk, Squidbillies, Tim and Eric Awesome Show and Tom Goes to the Mayor. In This Interview Jon and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable. The importance of acknowledging the bad wolf. Some of his favorite personal development books. Learning to take what you like from books and leaving the rest. His early depression. WordHate™ His dislike of the ukulele music trend. Not trusting people from different social circles. His comedy with Tom Scharpling on The Best Show on WFMU. His favorite character from The Best Show. His touring schedule. His decision to stop drinking. The negative downward cycle of drinking. The enjoyment of playing sober. The music he turns to for inspiration. Getting started in music. Playing rock music with Stephen Dubner. Remembering that we are all "works in progress". The importance of self-awareness. Learning to guide our behavior by how it makes us feel. Jon Wurster Links Jon Wurster on Twitter Sterolaffs-The home of Wurster and Schaprling The Best Show on WFMU Archives Best Show Gems- Almost exclusively Jon's phone calls. Superchunk Homepage The Mountain Goats homepage Bob Mould homepage Some of our most popular interviews you might also enjoy: Mike Scott of the Waterboys Rich Roll Todd Henry- author of Die Empty Randy Scott Hyde See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part 3 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1998. I've also got music from Screaming Maldini, Brawlers and Grass is Green. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Check out Brian's comics podcast The Hour Cosmic - Brian's #3 - Sean Lennon was considered the poor man's Beck - Yuka Honda was married to Lennon, now married to Nels Cline - Jay's #3 - Totally slept on QOTSA in '98 - Homme's first post-Kyuss band - The greatness of Them Crooked Vultures - Brian and Jay have same #2 - Frank Black got dropped by a major label - First album by major arist commercially released online - Jay: Pete Townshend made some great solo albums in early '80s - Brian's #1 - Billy Bragg and Wilco covering Woody Guthrie - Jay's #1 - Sloan has four talented songwriters - Paul Stanley's stage raps - The end of The Best Show on WFMU - Mourning a great radio experience - Next up: 1984 Music: Screaming Maldini - Soweto Brawlers - Instagram Famous Grass is Green - Vacation 2.0 Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Screaming Maldini song is a self-released single. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) at Bandcamp. The Brawlers song is on the EP I am a Worthless Piece of Shit on Alcopop! Records. Download the song for free at Soundcloud. The Grass is Green song is on the album Vacation Vinny on Exploding in Sound Records. Download the song free at Amazon. The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

in January of 2010, two novice comedians - Andy and Mark - started Beginnings as a way to cut through the layers of mythos that surrounded having a career in entertainment. How does one *actually* have a career in comedy? What are the realities about getting into show business? Three years and 106 episodes later, Beginnings has shed its original intent and morphed into a Freudian talk show that examines where creative people come from and what their childhoods were like.On today's episode, Mark and Andy look back over the first 100 episodes and pick out some of their favorite moments with guests such as Daily Show-writer Elliott Kalan, Pete Holmes, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Tom Scharpling, Gabrielle Bell, Ethan Berlin (Totally Biased, Bunk), John Lee (Wonder Showzen), Devin Clark (Ugly Americans), Jesse Moynihan (Adventure Time), David Rees, and Jon Glaser. As Mark is also departing the show, it's also a chance to say good-bye to him and revel in melancholy!Check out our new website for Beginnings, subscribe on iTunes and see some live dates: Andy will be in conversation with J.J. Sedelmaier on July 30th at UCB East, and the next live episode will be August 6th with Ari Shaffir and more!

Commencing at 12pm EST on Friday, March 1st 2013 and ending at 1pm EST on Saturday, March 2nd, Ken Plume conducted a 25-hr marathon of Bit Of A Chats featuring 57 guests in support of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day celebrations. This is one of them. YOU CAN STILL DONATE at rednosenet.com. PLEASE DO.

On today's show we talk to filmmakers Rob Hatch-Miller and Puloma Basu. Rob and Puloma are accomplished filmmakers and documentarians, and along with Best Show creator Tom Scharpling, they make up Production Company Productions. Over the last few years, the three have created a large number of funny and interesting music videos for acts such as The New Pornographers, Ted Leo, Ben Gibbard and Aimee Mann.Over the weekend, Rob and Puloma came over to the Wrestling Team apartment to get in deep about music (John Vanderslice, Midlake, Bob Mould, Husker Du, Parquet Courts and Palma Violets!), and chat about how Puloma used to run with Indian street musicians, Andy's childish palette, as well as Rob and Puloma's collaborations with Tom Scharpling. Subscribe on iTunes and follow Andy and Mark on Twitter! See a live episode on April 2nd at UCB East at 8pm with a sweet line-up TBA!

We close out Muriel Awards Week (I recently wrote a piece over at the official blog) here with a convo with Muriels voter Philip Tatler IV. We talk a lot about old and new movies, especially movies that Tatler, a Tennessee-based, reality-show film editor and cinephile, feels has some remarkable editing. We also discuss the sort of reality shows he has no choice but to edit. We close it out with Tatler and I sifting through Film Comment's Top 50 of last year and seeing which films we thought were Muriels-worthy. By the way, for all those Best Show on WFMU fans, we also talk about unfortunate-yet-sidesplitting moment when I called into the show and got "Bad Companyed" by none other than Tom Scharpling. 

Ken Plume has another chat with writer Will Stegemann about, Billy Joel, epiphanies, Piano Ham, Oral support, Sal's IROQ, and floating.

This SPECIAL SPOOKY HALLOWEEN episode of How Was Your Week Live --HOW WAS YOUR SHRIEK-- was recorded live on October 17th at The Bell House in terrifying New York City! Join GHOULIE as she interviews KRISTEN "CORN MAZE" JOHNSTON, "GORY" GABE LIEDMAN, "SCARY" SCHARPLING & WURSTER AND "SCARY" THA SQUIRREL live on stage, while "TERRIFYING" TED LEO watches! Regret not being there live to see a surprise--and spooky--appearance by GENE SIMMONS, kind of! Marvel at the Halloween Costume Contest, which admittedly might not translate well to audio! Enjoy Ted & Julie's SPOOKY SONG-OFF! And gird your loins for CATS fan fiction and Tawny Kitaen's geniunely horrifying Twitter feed. Plus--the lyrics to FRANKENSTEIN, finally! Spangles The Cat! The five things that scare Gabe! What slutty thing John Lithgow once said to Kristen on the set of 3RD ROCK! A man named Cheryl Morgan! And Gary Tha Squirrel's favorite candies. Oh, would you were there. Here are photos! What a show! What a memory-maker! Best Halloween Ever! The Guests: Kristen Johnston Tom Scharpling Jon Wurster Gabe Liedman Gary Tha Squirrel The Band: Teddy Leo Chris Wilson James Canty The Dream Team: Marianne Ways (Live Show Producer) Jess Coppa (Makeup, Wigs, Costumes) Jack Ferry (Director, WHISKEY & WHITTLING SHORT) Melissa Schneider (Producer, WHISKEY & WHITTLING SHORT) Brian Mann (Editor, WHISKEY & WHITTLING SHORT) Brooklyn Brainery (Location, WHISKEY & WHITTLING SHORT) Soma (Teacher, WHISKEY & WHITTLING SHORT) Alex Scordelis (Writer) Chris Spooner (Podcast Producer, Graphic Designer) Jack Fagan (Consultant; Muse) David Hart (GIFs) Alex Gaylon (Sound Recording) Mindy Tucker (Photos) Merge Records (Giftbags for the Costume Contest) Thanks to the Bell House for hosting us!  

Ken Plume has another chat with writer, performer, and the host behind WFMU's legendary Best Show, Tom Scharpling, about kitten boxes, Pedant Island, coconut water, crowbars, and Kormot the Toad.

Ken Plume has another chat with writer, performer, and the host behind WFMU's legendary Best Show, Tom Scharpling, about night ballast, burgernapping, Halloween films, ballcaps, Hulk-a-mortgages, and The Love Sub.

Ken Plume has a chat with writer Will Stegemann about Billy Joel, Long Island, Caldor fighting, goofy Dylan, Helen Slater, and supergroups.

In this episode, Ken Plume has another chat with writer, performer, and the host behind WFMU's legendary Best Show, Tom Scharpling, about Kitchen Sink filmmaking, zombie satire, Low Times, good times, cider stomping, and 2012.

Tom Scharpling is the host of the weekly-call in program The Best Show on WFMU. Tom is also one of the best straight men in comedy, and uses his skills in the duo Scharpling and Wurster. Recently Tom has begun to direct music videos for groups like Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and The New Pornographers, and on this episode of Field Guide we talk about the trailer he made for John Hodgman's new book. If you want to check out Tom's full interview, why not listen to the last episode? And we interviewed his comedy partner Jon Wurster in episode 13!Drop us a line at jokes@wrestlingteam.org Follow on Twitter @wrestlingteam

Tom Scharpling is the host of the critically-acclaimed weekly-call in program The Best Show on WFMU. Grounded by Tom's sardonic glee, the show features phone calls, comedians and a weekly call between Tom and his comedy partner Jon Wurster, where Wurster plays numerous characters, usually from the made-up town of Newbridge, NJ. Tom was also a writer and executive producer on USA's Monk, and most recently, he has been directing a number of well-received videos for everyone from The New Pornographers to John Hodgeman. A few weeks ago, we sat down with Tom in Studio C of WFMU hours before The Best Show. On this episode: we spend ten minutes accidentally depressing Tom! Tom becomes Andy's impromptu therapist! Andy downgrades his crippling fears! We maybe learn the origins of soda! And Tom challenges us to a game of Make Me Laugh!

Episode thirteen, our almost-anniversary, features Wrestling Team favorite Jon Wurster. When he's not drumming for Superchunk or A.C. Newman or The Mountain Goats or any other number of acts, he is one-half of the comedy duo Scharpling and Wurster. Along with producer and director Tom Scharpling, host of The Best Show on WFMU, the two create partly-scripted phone calls where Wurster plays different characters, from unabashed Philly fan Philly Boy Roy to geriatric Fonzie-inspiration The Gorch and hundreds more. Grounded by Scharpling's straight-man incredulity, the two have built up a vast fictional world centering around the made-up town of Newbridge, NJ. Jon sat down with us over Skype in mid-December to talk about Chris Elliott, SCTV, world-building, coming to comedy from being a professional musician and former MTV VJ Smash.

In our first ever seventh episode, we go on an adventure with Tom Scharpling (Best Show on WFMU, Monk) to the magical land of New Jersey! ; You will get to drive with us on New Jersey’s freeways, walk with us through New Jersey’s Princeton University campus, eat with us at New Jersey’s Ican’trememberthenameoftherestaurant and more!

Ken Plume chats with singer/songwriter Ted Leo about theme restaurants, touring, white whales, bubbles, and death's door.

In this episode, Ken Plume welcomes back writer, performer, and the host behind WFMU's legendary Best Show, Tom Scharpling, as they chat about frat lawyers, lists, convenience stores, and vengeful bicyclists.

Ken Plume has another chat with writer, performer, and the host behind WFMU's legendary Best Show, Tom Scharpling, as they awkwardly promote chocolate and character actors...

Ken Plume has a chat with writer, performer, and the host behind WFMU's legendary Best Show, Tom Scharpling, as they place Angela Lansbury in deadly peril.

Jesse Thorn, by his lonesome, welcomes two very funny men on this episode of The Sound of Young America.  Look forward to the great writer and radio host Tom Scharpling as well as  the never not funny comedian Eugene Mirman.

Episode 1: Welcome to A NEW ERA. A Drink Calls a Knight. "I Have A Google" (featuring Tim Meadows). The Origins of Friendship (One Particular Friendship, Not The Concept of It). Paul F. Tompkins Comes to YOUR Town!

Matt and Jouster interview Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster of "The Best Show on WFMU."