Jon Wurster and Tom Scharpling talk it out.
When they began assembling The Best of the Best Show box set, Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster were faced with a problem a lot of artists would probably consider a good problem to have: too much material to choose from. Scharpling hosted The Best Show on New Jersey public radio station WFMU every week for 13 years, talking irascibly about current events and pop culture, interviewing guests, playing music, and, most notably, fielding calls from listeners. These calls offered a great inversion of the classic talk-radio formula, aided by Scharpling’s quick wit and effortlessly caustic tone—rarely has a broadcaster gotten more comedic mileage from simply repeating words that have just been spoken by a caller…
