The Spoon

This is The Spoon, where the world punishes us for wanting to love. No Previously, Helping Artists, Merch Time, Harbor Freight, Garage Full Of Stuff, Dressing Brainiacs, The Lucky Four, Anderwear, Can't Sell 'Em, Diet Code Red, Sugar Junkie, Picard Earl Gray, Mr Burns, Satellite Radio, Monopolies, Salt Lakians, Greatest Song, Mountains Of Cash, Hyperactive Songs, Podcast Slackerdom, Trios, SIRENS,...

This is The Spoon, where Jonathan Aronson is our guest, and we have names for all the parts! Procrastination, Theme Music, Adult Baseball, David Letterman, Late Night Folklore, Hate Mail, EW Goth, Weddings, Four Duffel Bags To A Hog's Head, Greatest Song, Halley O'Malley, The Patrick Talk, Proctological adventures, Spirit Of Giving TM Charity, Oliver The Place, Catch Phrases, Hologram Goodbye, Let...

This is The Spoon, where Ken Tucker is our guest and we dance ironically! 8000 years, Mortal Vampires, Welcome To Indiana, City Smells, The Electric Amish, Porn Namer, Ken's Blues History, The Aging Of Music, The Nightly Show, Name That Truck!, Whopper Junior, GSYNH LIVE, The Tip Jar, Mystery Diners, TV Culture, Autotune The News, Getting Ahold Of Robbie, Sick Again, Going Solo, OLIVER THE PLACE,...

This is The Spoon, where we jump out, and get back in. And celebrate Warrant's entire catalog. Listen LIVE! Thursdays at 7:00pm PST on TMV Cafe TMV Cafe Mobile App The Men Of The Spoon Robbie Rist Chris Jackson Thom Bowers Music By Julie Dolan/Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp The Bears The Kinks Spoon Feeding 30 Rock The Babadook Stiff Lightning

This is The Spoon, where Julie Dolan is our guest and we're worth doing the whole way through! Almost A Format, Professional Auditioner, Sitcom Subtext, Tribute Bands, Stand-up Drummers, Conan Hookers, Loop Group, Answer The Phone, A Wenchy Quality, Universal Studios Love Story, Greatest Song, Making Web Sites, Editing, Singing Telegrams, Magic Tour, Beautiful Prisons, The Dancing Machine, Blood B...

This is The Spoon, where Moosie Drier is our guest! Real DJ, Acting Rivals, Oh God, Robbie's Mom Called, Waterworld, Remakes, Moosie Directs, Reba, Serenades, Star Wars Trailer, Disney Deaths, Loop Group, Pixar Lifestyle, Rollins & Shatner, Showbiz Turf wars, Vomit Comit, Phil Tanzini, Jealous Of Musicians, Directing Advice, Buyer's Remorse, Lucas Money, Attracting Stalkers, It's Their Moment, Vap...

This is The Spoon, wher e Quinton Flynn is our guest, and we love tonight's cat! Insulting Stuff First, Q Is Here, Impressions, Sitting Alone, Now It's Affecting Me, No More Sirens, HC3, Poop Gets A Response, Enemies List, Famous Families, SCTV Actors, Making People Laugh, Boogie Nights, Celebrities Losing Their Shit, Greatest Song, I Miss Androgyny, Vocal Range, Trip To England, Oasis, Eat The In...

This is The Spoon, where Bill Funt is our guest and we all go "Yay!" Smooth Grooves, Van Halen On Kimmel, Chris Mic Fail, Go-To Guest, Funeraling For Two, Passover Hosting, Atheist-ish, Soulful Conversation, Moby Reference #3, Chris Is Back, Pith Helmets, Weird German Behavior, Cold Turkey, Don't Bug Me, The Denver Foundation, Gilligan vs Brady, Three Stooges, Child Stars And Politics, Surfer Spea...

This is The Spoon: where we all have gritted teeth! Pleasant Pregnancy, NY Gigs, K-Tel Tuneage, East Coast Winter, Skating Rink, Whiskey/Chocolate, Hero Isle, Street Names, Pungent Regionalism, The Idea Of Kerhonkson, Gnome Chomsky, Greatest Song, MST3k, Inside Jokes, Show Off The Cats, Last Man On Earth, Fast & Furious, CGI actors, Technology Spillover, Spoon Feeding, Needle In The Taint, Texbox...

This is The Spoon: where Mike Simmons is our guest, and we're all turgs, but not dramatic! Sparkle Jets UK, Clark Kent Persona, Spoilers, What Killed Power Pop?,  Un-Prolific, Drinking Stories, Teaching Technology, Voiceover Guys, Chris Will Call You Back, Stump The Band, Walking Dead, The Train Is Leaving, Cat Avatar, Effing, Greatest Song, Pick-Up Lines, Tall Women, Girl Oliver, Whiplash, Anti-W...

This is The Spoon: it's a keeper! Piracy And Douchebags, Blurred Lines Verdict, The Grand Assimilator, Victory For Middle Aged People, Schadenfreude, The Curse Of Availability, No More Bar Bets, Sparks, ELO, Power Pop Anger, Linear Influences, Entertainment Tonight Theme, Mike Post & Matthew Wilder, Gyrus, Superenthusiasts, Defending The Spoon, iWatch, Sci Fi Technology, Sound FX, War Of The World...

This is The Spoon, where we're approaching the chorus! Nikki Savitt joins us from the road this week -- literally! Bus Life, Theme Music, Tour Itinerary, Buffalo Wings, Righteous Indignation, Ben Carson Bigotry, Gay Prison Thing, Bus Life Revisited, Multi-talented Movement, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, The Chris Jackson Musical, Wake Up Sheeple, Cadbury Egg Controversy, Discovery Of Chocolate, Whack...

This is The Spoon, where we drop the "son". Meet The Angersons, Into Darkness & Interstellar, Kanye & Paul, Black Hole Physics, Overthinking Fun, WTF BOOM, Dental Adventures, Old Man Maladies, Lie About Your Age, Irregular Heartbeat, Diet Soda, Eye Explosion Anniversary, Shorty Awards, Bradfute Coccoon, On Page Two, Openly Dirty, Blackmail Audio, The Product Is Me,  Brady Fans, More Surgery, Dude...

This is The Spoon: where we're kicking everyone's ass! Supporting New Artits, Shorty Awards, Chirren, Orchestra Gigs, Live vs Click, Rush, Heritage Acts, Musical Trends, Suspension Of Disbelief, Oscar Nominations, Directors In A Rut, I Songs vs We Songs, Beatledorks, Changing Radio Formats, Rock Demarcation, Noisy Podcast, Chinese Democracy, Wal-Mart Albums, Seth McFarlane, Interview Behavior, Gay...

Quinton Flynn returns this week, along with frenemies both real and imaginary! Disclaimer, Glitches & Gremlins, The Shorty Awards Revisited, The Pop Culture Train, Private Ranter, Q's Resume, Rob Trips Out, In The Name Of Jasper Lotus Hawkins, Drug Monkeys, Probationary Period, Joke Gone Wrong, In Like Flynn, Master Mimic, Unfair Advantages, James Lipton, Gravitas, Batting Average, The Charmer, Ka...

The Men of The Spoon are in trio mode this week, and feeling the alienation of their age. Please bear with us. Bouncy Happy Fun, E.W.=Earl, Getting A Rise, Weege, I'm Columbian, Sportsball And Serious Injuries, Military Flyover, Not Very Technical, Auotune, Millennial Chest Thumping, Everything Available Forever, Grumpy Old Man Show, Born In The Wrong Time, Musical Disagreements, Tweedy & Genesis,...

Lisa Orkin joins the men of The Spoon for this episode, and the discussion gets frank...in more ways than one. Bad Cereal Night, Gluten Free, Sybian Revisited, Sex Lingo, Dave Died From Poison, Announcer Voice, The Greatest Generation, Oxygen Mask Deployment, Hurrah Torpedo Revisited, The German Comes Easily, A Hearty Diet, Schlager Music, Fish Scrapings, Love Bites, Spoon Feeding, Musical Patron...

Bill Funt is our first guest in the new live format, and brings a heaping helping of fractious frivolity, in which the sparks they do fly! Remembering Taylor Negron, Penile Bufrication, Christian Science and Scientology, Circumcision and Grooming, Dotty Old Guys, Hefner and Guccione, Ear Worms, Billy Joel, Five Stages Of Fame, Bereft Of Song, The Paracas Skulls, 3D Impersonations, Reality TV Pitch...

Our first live show in 25 months, 2 weeks, and 6 days. Much rejoicing! Business In The Front: Tales Of The Bradfutes, Brussell Sprout Technology, Charlie Hebdo Revisited, Warning Label, The Youths. Party In The Back: Viral Mashups, Contract Negotiations, Cracking Open The Intertron, Neil Young/Pono, All About Presentation, Queen Memories, Album Withdrawal, KLOS/DJ Culture, Tasteful Plank Spanking,...

First sorrow. Then anger. Then lollipop trees. The Men of The Spoon make their debut on TMV Cafe with talk of the Charlie Hebdo murders, Islamist baiting, stimulus burnout, news-related loudness wars, the Year Of Outrage, the urban legend underground railroad, TMNT remake, Los Angeles geography cheats, Big Eyes, a swing and a miss, give the fans what they want, Badfinger fail, artists sobering up,...

Travis J Coleman of Superenthusiast Radio joins us to help ring in 2015. Celebrity reincarnation, magic rings, pointing psycho in the right direction, Perkins vs Hopkins vs Orzabal, totally inside baseball, the movie lied, losing our perspicacity, throwing out Christmas trees, non-conformity stew, old age and inhibitions, camping out for Iron Sky II, French movies are French, mandated affair time,...

Unexpectedly bereft of guest this week, the Men of The Spoon charge ahead dauntlessly: the Cuba thing, grouper sandwiches, terrible interview stories, great TV finales, offensive accents, vegetable lore, why Plan 9 needs a gritty reboot, whatever happened to the "war on Christmas" anyway, appreciation for DJ skills, the future of jacking-on, The Colbert Report is  ending, North Korea vs The Interv...

Friend of the show Dan Miles finally meets The Men of The Spoon on their home turf, and the battle is well and truly joined! Topics include: placenta revisited, favorite interviews, pop instrumentals, ethnicity in music, The Lennon Boys, nature vs nurture, the new Ludditism, disproportionately angry ranting from Thom, a dearth of phone booths, the importance of boredom, Maron vs Gallagher, tastefu...

Carey Anne Farrell and Jessica Hebert are here to snark your asses off and chew bubblegum, and...well, you can guess the rest. Ingredients in this post-Thanksgiving stew include botched intros, Canadian outsourcing, The PDX Broadsides , dropped trombones, Star Wars prequel bashing, Theme Music flashmobs, a feud over Frozen, accidental scientists, repeated eye-rolling, translucency, Basic Bitches,...

Ripped from the archives! Before the show officially returned in January of 2014 , The men of The Spoon executed a few dry runs to test the gear and get back into the swing of things. As a special Thanksgiving treat for our friends and listeners, we present here the best of those experimental excursions into whimsy, recorded in late December 2013, and including some actual pilgrim talk amongst the...