The growing list of influences

Hello readers,

If you're sitting around on boxing day wishing that you had some more lock in podcasts to enjoy, you could take the time to look at some other podcasts made by people who make money and everything. With that in mind, we thought we'd start to write a few posts about our influences and some of the people that we admire in radio land.

One of the latest radio shows that i've started to enjoy is a show called 'the best show' on WFMU. Being a show called 'the best show' you could understandably assume that i enjoy it for the faux-arrogance of repeatedly claiming that your show is the greatest thing to don listeners ears.

It's a public call-in show from America presented by Tom Sharpling. It seems like a peculiar choice, but it appears to have been picked up and thoroughly endorse by an elite group of the American comedy scene such as Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifinakis and Robert Popper all of whom have appeared as guests. A lot of the best moments for me come from Tom's incessant petty bickering with the people that call in, but he also has plenty of recurring characters and special guests as we mentioned. It's interesting to hear how different American radio can be from what we produce over here just in terms of style and tone.

There are over a hundred podcasts of the show available here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/BS  if you click on the intunes button you can get them all in your podcasts folder.

You'll hear more from us very soon with some of our favourite players in alternative radio comedy

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