About this podcast
In their quest to understand this insane world and the people who inhabit it, hosts Robbie Rist, Chris Jackson, and Thom Bowers stir up silly discussions on serious topics (and vice versa), hopping through conversational hyperlinks like a trio of cats playing with a laser pointer.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 640 episodes
- EP 635: Steakhouse Supermajority · 1 h 13 minThis is The Spoon: a crazy way to "live." Music By • 2Krispii "Every Conservative In America Right Now" • Mike Viola "Love So Beautiful And Strange" • Satchvai "Mayhem" Spoon…
- EP 634: The Spoon's 3D House Of Pancakes · 1 h 7 minThis is The Spoon, where we're big on YEAH. Happy Halloween, yall. More Spoony Halloween Episodes! • #598 The Monsters Are Off The Screen • #560 Up And Happy And Dark • #365…
- EP 633: Raymond Burr In The Saddle, Perry Mason In The Sheets? · 1 h 6 minThis is The Spoon, where there might be a boob. Music By • Sass Jordan "Make You A Believer" • Beyond Ears Hearing "Move Table" • Derrick Anderson "What Are We Going To Do"…
- EP 632: Near Misses With Rock (The Stephen Smith Story) · 1 h 6 minThis is The Spoon, where Stephen Smith from The Morning Line is our guest, and it will always be the 1900s for us. Music By • The Morning Line "Amhedonia" • Dick Diver "Tearing…
- EP 631: Haha, I'm On The Radio! (The Carl Cafarelli Story) · 1 h 17 minThis is The Spoon, where Carl Cafarelli is our guest, and we have good taste in lamps. Music By • Ballzy Tomorrow "Five Personalities" • The Flashcubes "Got No Mind" • Styx…
- EP 630: The World's Oldest-Looking 46 Year Old (The Fernando Perdomo Story) · 1 h 9 minThis is The Spoon, where Fernando Perdomo is our guest. 'Nuff said. Music By • Fernando Perdomo "We Were Raised With Headphones On" • The Improvement Movement "Too Far" •…
- EP 629: Catchphrase Clearinghouse (The Brian Kehew Story) · 1 h 29 minThis is The Spoon, Brian Kehew is our guest, and if we're double-tracking the vocals, we gotta lose the tambourine. Music By • Starbenders "Can't Cheat Time" • Purple Melon…
- EP 628: Digging A Hole To China With A Teaspoon (The Mary Karlzen Story) · 1 h 37 minThis is The Spoon, where Mary Karlzen is our guest and we're apologizing for every part of our lives. Also, the typewriters are metaphors. Music By • Billy Pilgrim "Insomniac" •…
- EP 627: No Reverb Mondays, No Contact Tuesdays · 54 minThis is The Spoon, where it's already a little zooey. Music By • The Catherine Wheel "Sparks Are Gonna Fly" • Manitoba's Wild Kingdom "Had It Coming" • The Mountain Goats…
- EP 626: You Gotta Think, And Your Hands Are Always Full (The Strawberry Alarm Clock Story) · 1 h 8 minThis is The Spoon, where the gentlemen from Strawberry Alarm Clock are our guests, and we can hardly believe it ourselves! Music By • Strawberry Alarm Clock "Monsters" •…
- EP 625: Somebody Has To Be The Yang (The Gregg Berger Story) · 1 h 33 minThis is The Spoon, where Gregg Berger is our guest, and we're wry, dry, low and inside. Music By • Knights Of Unicron "Transformers Theme (Reformatted)" • Backline "Prepare For…
- EP 624: The One Thing You Can't Download · 1 h 1 minThis is The Spoon: your official source for Barbara News & Information, where we have canes in our hands. Music By • Mod Lang "What I Can't Have" • Barbara "Isn't She Strange"…
- EP 623: Fake Shemp · 48 minThis is The Spoon, where our mill craves the grist. Get another child to sing "filthy whores!" Music By • Cardiacs "Tarred And Feathered" • Spectraflame "Do You Miss Me" • The…
- EP 622: Trading On The Shirtlessness · 1 h 9 minThis is The Spoon, where we're taking long distance dedications from all the lemurs out there. Let me go get my sticker printer! Music By • Emmit Rhodes "Somebody Made For Me"…
- EP 621: Soaking Up The Sunnier Sun · 1 h 3 minThis is The Spoon, where your Minister Of Information's offspring is in the house, and all that that implies. Music By • The Mountain Goats "Parisian Enclave" • Lemon Demon…
- EP 620: Easily Scared Suburban White Kids (The Greenberry Woods Story) · 1 h 14 minThis is The Spoon, where The Greenberry Woods are our guests, and we do the jangly stuff. Music By • The Greenberry Woods "That Girl" • Porkboii "Affection Is Nice" • The…
- EP 619: Beamed Down To Bumbershoot (The Andy Stone Story) · 1 h 15 minThis is The Spoon, where Andy Stone is our guest, we use the Oud to make fun, and we're much more Florida than you. Music By • Ty Segall "The Bell" • Idles "Grounds" • Stray…
- EP 618: The Philatelists Disagree · 1 h 2 minThis is The Spoon, where we're navigating the identitarian waters of the 21st century. Music By • Bill McClintock "Smooth OperaTTor" (Sade/Ratt) • Michael Guy Bowman "Rarin' To…
- EP 617: A Considerable Amount Of Roots And Berries (The Joe Armstrong Story) · 1 h 32 minThis is The Spoon, where Joe Armstrong is our guest, and he absolutely will not allow us to print the episode's tagline. Music By • Joe Armstrong "Can't Stop Thinking About Your…
- EP 616: Baby Woodrow Strikes Back! · 1 h 7 minThis is The Spoon, where we use chords as a truncheon, and we're having a tough day with the capitalism. Music By • Frank Black "Whatever Happened To Pong" • The Lemon Twigs "2…
- EP 615: One Man Americana Scene (The Bermuda Schwartz Story) · 1 h 24 minThis is The Spoon, where Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz is our guest, and it's always a delight. Music By • Martin Denny "Quiet Village" • Mark Wirtz "Maniac vs Brainiac" • Bow Wow Wow…
- EP 614: Plant Shops And Libraries (The Corner Laughers Story) · 1 h 3 minThis is The Spoon, where our guests this week are The Eggplant (aka Karla), The Snappy Dresser (aka KC), The Cuisinart (aka Koi), and The Drummer (aka Charlie), collectively…
- EP 613: Hold The Guitar At Man-boob Level (The Legal Matters Story) · 1 h 6 minThis is The Spoon, where Andy, Keith, and Chris from The Legal Matters are our guests, and we are all pretty sad people. Music By • The Who "A Legal Matter" • The Legal Matters…
- EP 612: Even A Stopped Satan · 1 h 12 minThis is The Spoon, where THIS INDIGNANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. Music By • David Lee Roth "You Got The Blues, Not Me" • Greenberry Woods "Whenever You Want Me Too" • The…
- EP 611: All The Chicks Dig Writers (The Will Harris Story) · 1 h 10 minThis is The Spoon, where Will Harris is our guest, and we are at the Harris/Costello Nexus. Music By • Damone "Frustrated Unnoticed" • Men Without Hats "Eloise & I" • Julian…
- EP 610: Burro Outruns Lava (The Matthew Corey Story) · 1 h 12 minThis is The Spoon, where Matthew Corey is our guest, and we know better than the dots. Music By • Olivia D'abo "Undertow" • SNMNMNM "Spanish Cucumber" • Outhouse Poets "When She…
- EP 609: The Madness Vessel Is Filled · 58 minThis is The Spoon, where we don't recommend putting a hat on a fish. Music By • Bad Religion "Hooray For Me" • Father Peace "No Complaints" • The Ramones "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg"…
- EP 608: Elk Skirt (The Peter Anthony Holder Story) · 1 h 7 minThis is The Spoon, where Peter Anthony Holder is our guest, we pull the jerseys over our heads, and then the fun begins... and you can sync it to The Blue Danube. Music By • The…
- EP 607: Well, Here's A Boat · 1 h 2 minThis is The Spoon, where we're dropping our font sizes, and it could get pricey. Music By • Mel Blanc "The E.I.O. Song" • Barbara "Father Before Me" • Scruffy The Cat "Upside…
- EP 606: Let Us Be Stupid And Naive! · 1 h 9 minThis is The Spoon, where it's like going to college. Science! Music performed by The Men Of The Spoon • The Beat Farmers "Lost Weekend" • David Bowie "Life On Mars" • Cyndi…
- EP 605: We Don't Have Time For The Calf To Grow Up · 1 h 1 minThis is The Spoon, where the energy is released from the meat sack... and we haven't done this in a while. Music By • Jesse Welles "Join Ice (live)" • Styx "Everybody Raise A…
- EP 604: Like The Schooner Tuna Man Says, We're All In This Together · 1 h 9 minThis is The Spoon's 10th Annual Xmas Xtravaganza... and all that that implies. (Also, we made "flabloota" a word.) Thanks so much for listening, may your holidays be as safe and…
- EP 603: Tourist Musician Energy (The Allen Lulu Story) · 1 h 26 minThis is The Spoon, where Allen Lulu is our guest, and we like to hold twelve inch things. Music By Throttleback Sparky • "Another Hoop" • "Hellraiser" • "Beatrice" Spoon Feeding…
- EP 602: Petal To The Meddle (The Michael Simmons Story) · 60 min · Episode 602This is The Spoon, where Michael Simmons is our guest, and we want to be thoughtful: here's a lot of G chords. Music By Michael Simmons • "Temptation Eyes" • "Is It Like Today?"…
- EP 601: What Have They Done To My App, Ma!? · 1 h 5 minThis is The Spoon, where we're all little piggies. Music By • Concrete Blonde Y Los Illegals "Viva La Vida" • Stan Ridgway "A Mission In Life" • Vegard Johansen "Never Gonna Run…
- EP 600: Tactically Reloading A Second Set Of Vocal Cords · 1 h 23 minThis is The Spoon, where we are pedagogically unsound. Music By • Naisho No Pierced featuring 9lana "Propose" • Flavour Foley "Spoken For" • Tiger Wang "You Need To Be Happy"…
- EP 599: Cool Never Announces Itself · 1 h 5 minThis is The Spoon, where we're one of the many onlookers in the throng. Music By • Queen "Death On Two Legs" • Sloan "Suppose They Close The Door" • Cake "Stick Shifts And…
- EP 598: The Monsters Are Off The Screen · 1 h 19 min · Episode 598This is The Spoon, where... [gestures to the state of the world]. This is our 4th Halloween episode, and all that that imples. Spoony Halloween Episodes • #560 Up And Happy And…
- EP 597: Put On A Mask To Drop Your Mask (The Big Stir Story) · 1 h 8 minThis is The Spoon, where spooky is valid all year 'round! Our guests are Rex Broome & Christina Bulbenko from Big Stir Records, along with Michael Simmons from sparkle*jets UK…
- EP 596: Be The Cringe You Want To See In The World · 1 h 2 minThis is The Spoon: 24/7 ridiculous! Music By • Foxy Shazam "Too Fast To Let Go" • Heliopolis "Elegy" • Sloan "Open Your Umbrella" Spoon Feeding • Sim City BuildIt (goddammit)…
- EP 595: No Way To Steer An Elephant (The Patrick Labyroteaux Story) · 1 h 25 minThis is The Spoon, where Patrick Labyorteaux is our guest, and we're tweaking that nostalgia bone. Music By • Winger "Seventeen" • Tom Jones "She's A Lady" • Warrant "Uncle…
- EP 594: Thou Poke-Willied Eye Gonger! · 54 minThis is The Spoon, hosted by the Rasputin of kid performers. Music By • Peril "Eggs In One Basket" • Barbara "Tolerant Nation" • Van Halen "Main Squeeze" Spoon Feeding •…
- EP 593: Team Human · 1 h 16 minThis is The Spoon: big fat baby people who are learning to love the meat. (And a long way around the barn for a mediocre result.) Music By • SpinsRyche (Bill McClintock) "Motor…
- EP 592: A Tube Of Cocksure · 1 h 13 minThis is The Spoon, where we talk about punching downward. Music By • Splitsville "I Hate Going To Hutzlers" • The Orion Experience "Sugar" • Cheap Trick "Invaders Of The Heart"…
- EP 591: It's All Hook (The Splitsville Story) · 1 h 6 minThis is The Spoon, where Matt, Brandt, Tony, and Paul from Splitsville are our guests, and sometimes things aren't going to be okay. Music By • Splitsville "Beth Steel" • Judee…
- EP 590: I Miss Wizard Vans · 1 h 13 minThis is The Spoon, where your Minister Of Information's offspring returns, and we're all a little craisin. Music By • Vane Lily Ft Yi Xi "Bucher Vanity" • Toby Fox "Big Shot" •…
- EP 589: Off The Top Of The Pate (The Adam Waltemire Story) · 1 h 4 minThis is The Spoon, where Adam Waltemire is our guest, and that's Twilight! Music By • Adam Waltemire "I Wanna Be Loved" • Adam Waltemire "Sing Me A Song" • Adam Waltemire "The…
- EP 588: Deathvalanche! · 58 minThis is The Spoon, where we look around the corner at jazz, and say maybe... but maybe not... and it all ends up in a punch-fest. Music By • Ozzy Osbourne "I Don't Know" • The…
- EP 587: Everyone Under 55, Sing Along! (The Andrew Curry Story) · 1 h 7 minThis is The Spoon, where Andrew Curry is our guest, and we're the cracked armor on a mainstream legacy act. Music By • The Corner Laughers "Speak To The Sky" • Linus Of…
- EP 586: Not That Kind Of River (The Bob Walkenhorst Story) · 1 h 16 minThis is The Spoon, where Bob Walkenhorst is our guest, and your Overhost is rapidly transforming into Scotty J from Boogie Nights. Music By • The Rainmakers "Downstream" • Bob…
