The Spoon

The world is off-kilter. You can feel it in the air, and hear it on The Spoon. Robbie returns to find that comic fodder is in shorter supply than when he left, which leads into some serious discussion on earthquake preparedness, led by special guest #1 Jenni Rosen. Thom's head is more jello-encased than usual as he juggles his regular duties in addition to laying out a manifesto for The Geek Agend...

The Sheening of America continues unabated! Chris and Thom are reduced to helpless, hypnotized, somewhat snarky bystanders as Charlie's awesomeosity continues to roll out over the land like a big rolling thing, and not even the ebullient presence of special guest Dave Shalansky can stop the coming Winpocalypse! Other topics (yes, there are a few) include the sad, Bixby-esque retirement of Phil Col...

Chris takes over hosting duties while Robbie is overseas, Thom returns from his Deseret sojourn, and friend of the show Dave Shalansky arrives to inject his keen insight and conversational rocket sauce to a post-mortem of Oscar night, what might end up as a pre-post-mortem of Charlie Sheen, and an attempt at putting all of the show's communications-related ducks in a row (which plays out a little...

With their minister of information away on special assignment, Robbie and Chris are left to grapple with matters technological on their own. Multiple forms of hilarity ensue. As for matters conversational, our dynamic duo are assisted by guests Johnny Dam of Porn Star Pundits and Good Green Witch Rhonda DeFelice whose collective presence supercharges the show to terrific effect -- partly because o...

The twists and turns on this week's conversational motor way are acutely sharp, some verging on hairpin, and we recommend that all proper safety measures be taken. Some of the briefly visited rest stops along the way include: The best Super Bowl commercials (one of which never aired, the other premiered days earlier-- go figure), social networking for better theological clarity, the growing (and w...

Quoth the textbox: "Finally, some ovaries on the show!" And not a moment too soon. Just as Robbie, Chris, and Thom are drifting into a conversational tailspin that threatens to cause serious whiplash to both themselves and the listeners, friend of the show (and girlfriend of the host) Jenni Rosen stops by to inject some much-needed linear thought into the proceedings. Her treatise on the lameness...

Sport is business. Business is war. War is fashion. Fashion is community. Community is music. Music is sport. On and on, 'till the break of dawn. Don't worry, it will all make sense in context. The important thing is that Robbie, Chris, and Thom manage to weave nearly half a show on the subject of sports and sports fandom, despite -- or perhaps because of -- their abject lack of knowledge and expe...

This week's show is a bit like a pinball game, with the conversation bouncing about at odd angles, running down sometimes unexpected corridors, and banging against the proper surfaces to score a few points, all the while generating a pleasing combination of shiny and loud. The Twenty-Aught-Eleven Grammy nominees set off some grumbling about the music industry's increasingly desperate and misaimed...

Joey Cola and Arthur Alexander from New York's legendary Sorrows drop by to bathe the show in effortless cool, shaking our fair trio out of a malaise born of sleep-dep and growing mistrust of the coming year. With tales to tell both cautionary and inspirational, J&A detail their efforts in taking control of their music and obtaining that rarest of atttributes: an un-sodomized legacy. Other topics...

In the first new installment of 2011, the boys hit the ground running with all guns blazing, full of piss and vinegar, and other cliché metaphors as well! After an opening exchange of pleasantries and congratulations on Robbie's commitment to arrive on time despite obstacles both psychological and auto vehicular, talk turns to a recent essay by Patton Oswalt on the current state of so-called geek...

On this, their final broadcast of 2010, the men of The Spoon take stock of the show's journey from inception to "almost a thing," and speculate as to what adventures the future may bring. SAL focuses on the bizarre series of spilled dominoes that is the life of one Phil Spector. Speaking of weirdness, returning guest Joe Oesterle drops by for more tales of the oddities found in Hollywood, Las Vega...

What, exactly, is a legacy? Where does it come from? What is it for? How can it be sodomized, and why should anyone care? Inspired by the anniversary of John Lennon's death, the men of The Spoon whip out their word scalpels and dissect one of the more important aspects of this show's ethos: the right -- nay, the duty -- to be honest and unmerciful, even if it means killing one's gods. (Metaphorica...

The events of this installment unfold like a classically groomed mullet: business in the front, party in the back! In the first half, our fair trio consider changing the name of the show to "The Tip," even as they attempt to circumnavigate the technological, economic, and political iceberg that is the Net Neutrality debate. With that nod toward the show's original mission statement under their col...

Don't be fooled. You may think this episode is merely a string of anecdotes about Thanksgiving 2010, or an exploration of satisfying curse-word euphemisms, or even a slice of performance art lampooning the pitfalls of VOIP technology. You could easily be distracted by the mystery of the Poop-tato, or Bret Favre's legacy getting sodomized within an inch of its existence. But these are all smokescre...

Napoleon had a standard battle plan, in two parts: A) Show up, and B) See what happens. In this episode, the men of The Spoon employ the talk radio equivalent of this approach, and the results are...predictably unpredictable. Held together by a loose thread on the joys and concerns of the impending holiday season, Robbie, Chris, and Thom sluice through a truly bounteous selection of topics which i...

In the first half of this evening's program, Robbie brings to the table his views on the dangers of financial excess, a topic of timeless resonance and near limitless potential for thoughtful discourse...which is promptly dashed upon the rocks of the show's usual nitwittery. In the second half, the Sky Mall catalog is strip-mined for utterly impractical (yet entirely awesome) Christmas gift ideas....

The show is derailed almost before it begins, as our intrepid orators set out to correct some commonly held misconceptions about the world and end up accidentally inventing a few of their own. The etymology of "roofies", the relative height of European dictators, the flavor components of (and magazine market for) cheese, men who fancy women who impersonate men, and the surprisingly prolific career...

In this special double-sized, civics-minded episode: Robbie Rist returns from the road covered in musical glory, southern infatuation, and sweet, sweet BBQ sauce. There ensues a recap of both his touring adventures and how the show fared in his absence, then talk turns from past to future as the upcoming election is dissected on micro, macro, and meta levels. The definition of the word "legacy" is...

The show goes more askew than usual this week, but our heroes prevail by running directly towards the crazy. Chris and Dave reaffirm their BFF-hood while engaging in serious conversations about silly topics and vice-versa. Amongst the conversational fodder: the sanctioning of movie star meltdowns, the inequity of gender-based advertising, the plausibility of motorcycle-induced orgasms, and the fin...

Dave Shalansky returns to hurl double-fistfuls of WTF, while Chris & Thom do their best to roll with the punches. Robbie calls in from the road with tales of inter-species gig riots and a plug for friend of the show, Kenny Howes, whilst also informing the crew that he'll be absent for one more show. Mixed emotions ensue. Other topics include: the Museum Of Tolerance (but not really), the definitio...

Three guys in a bathtub, Michael Jackson's legacy, Dave's Robbie/Jenni dream, revisiting Mel Gibson's turn on Sodomizing a Legacy, "The Delorean House," Update #2 from Robbie on the road, eating after 9pm, Dave's Blockbuster story and general anti-semitism, dispute over Nick Cage quote, Justin Beiber nail polish, A Triumvirate of Right Wing Dicks. Music by Mary Prankster and Wonderboy.

Chris has the wheel, Dave Shalansky in the house and Thom keeping it all on the tracks as usual. The hows and whys of Twitter, those that are thin, but unhealthy, McNugget Paste, Robbie calls from the road, the return of Sodomizing a Legacy: Elton John, coping with the cats, the origins of Nice Guy Eddie, Fucking someone's soul, and the shocking truth about the Transsexual Bond Girl. Music by Harv...

Dancing with the Stars, Facebook whiners, My Zoo and other time 'time waster' games, reality show pitches, sexual encounters with Steven Tylerand Robert Plant. Also, Thom and Chris really like that awful Gummibear song. Music by The Dictators, Back Pocket Memory and Mary Prankster.

Kid actors, genetically engineered food, Chris works blue, Thom is our new engineer, replay of George Lucas- Sodomizing a Legacy. Music by Abby Travis, Sorrows and Candypants

Robbie doesn't watch the teevee but still finds visual entertainment from other sources (and Chris tries to educate him). Then a brief discussion on how O.J. Simpson (star of this week's Sodomizing A Legacy) changed the face of American law by getting away with murder. Songs by Martin Luther Lennon and Candypants.