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 Speak, Horror On TV, FuntCast, Going With Booze, Martha & Mary Ann, Audible Spit Take, Spoonerinos. ...
Apr 03, 2015•1 hr 15 min
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 Fun. Listen LIVE! Thursdays at 7:00pm PST on TMV Cafe The Men Of The Spoon Robbie Rist Chris Jac...
Mar 27, 2015•1 hr 1 min
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-War, Wild Honey, Keyboards, Embrace The Wank, Spoon Feeding. Listen LIVE! Thursdays at 7:00pm PST on T...
Mar 20, 2015•1 hr 20 min
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 Worlds, Things I Wish I Had, What's In The Bag, I Don't Like Fruit, The Trixter Of Zombies, Sam Simon...
Mar 13, 2015•1 hr 13 min
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 And Wrap, Fair Food, Lousy Smarch Weather, Export The Snow, For MS Or Against It? Listen LIVE! Thur...
Mar 06, 2015•1 hr 8 min
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 Name Movies, Genre-Hoppy, Changing The Lexicon, Handed-Down Genius, Goldblum Impression, Swee...
Feb 27, 2015•1 hr 12 min
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 In Plain Sight, The South Is Consistent, Adorable Platypi, CC Deville, Utah Accent, Guns Are "Cool"...
Feb 19, 2015•1 hr 14 min
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, Kanye's Kryptonite, Johnson Water, Close Your Eyes And Be Still, Everything's Been Done To Death. ...
Feb 13, 2015•1 hr 12 min
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, No Show Prep, Like The Dead, A Capella Punk Rock, JK Simmons, Degrees Of Spoony Bacon, 130 Year...
Feb 06, 2015•1 hr 24 min
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 Saints, Guest Dossier, Hike Talk. Listen LIVE! Thursdays at 7:00pm PST on TMV Cafe Honestly Lisa Mus...
Jan 30, 2015•1 hr 29 min
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, Outdoor Game Shows, Candid Camera Talk, Sex Tapes, Local Commercials, and The Shorty Awards. Liste...
Jan 23, 2015•1 hr 44 min
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, Snowden Retrospective, Beer Hipsterati, Two Pits & Chesty. Listen LIVE! Thursdays at 7:00pm PST...
Jan 16, 2015•1 hr 17 min
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, Coelacanth discoveries, Von Trier confessions, and at least two instances of "Jinx!" Sodomizing A L...
Jan 09, 2015•1 hr 18 min
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, Haitian conch, Albanian exports, the gods are walking the earth, bad Baldwin impressions, old yearb...
Jan 02, 2015•1 hr 22 min
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 Interview , tales of gin-fueled wedding insanity, and speculative locations for future holiday shows. Music...
Dec 22, 2014•1 hr 31 min
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, tasteful plankspanking, the Fill In The Blank Game, bands vs solo artists, and psychopathic toddlers. The F...
Dec 12, 2014•1 hr 30 min
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, autopsy noises, a foodie face-off, a middle finger to death, and the worst advent calendar ever. Mus...
Dec 04, 2014•1 hr 9 min
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 other topics. Enjoy our vintage shenanigans and we'll be back with a new show next week!...
Nov 28, 2014•50 min
WARNING : This episode may contain one or more of the following ingredients: framed babies, creative vomit, the youth vote, Theme Music stories, legalized weed, procrastinated flossing, partially de-fatted fatty pork tissue, Robbie's complete pessimism, comet landings, civil engineer jokes, wabi-sabi, compulsive bird-rubbing, secret cannibal families, dream water, very intense mathematics, tasteful wordsmithing, and at least four potential cures for hiccups. All that, and Bob Fenster , too. Can ...
Nov 20, 2014•1 hr 15 min
What's in a name? The men of The Spoon may not have the answer, but they ask the question with gusto! This week, the politics of professional pseudonyms, the amusing, appalling sobriquets of childhood, the mythologizing of market monickers, the gamble of googling oneself, and the not-so-secret weaponizing of middle names by all parents everywhere. Plus, road gig decompression, documentaries with friends, animation crossover madness, the carnal stats of con culture, and a future segment is born! ...
Nov 18, 2014•1 hr 5 min
The Men of The Spoon don't normally stand on tradition, but a sesquicentennial episode only comes once, so this week our former executive producer Johnny Dam (aka Johnny Darko, aka Leon The Thundertaker) returns to gaze upon the show he helped birth and pronounce his hilarious judgement. Plus, the virtues of a Pennsylvanian lifestyle, how to write a joke, dissecting the Baha Men discography , a short recap on the mid-term elections, and no small amount of self-referential archive diving. Enjoy! ...
Nov 06, 2014•1 hr 7 min
Stooges? Musketeers? Blind mice? Cornered hat? Whichever metaphor you use, the Men of The Spoon function best as a trio, and this week's episode demonstrates it particularly well. In breakfast cereal parlance, it not only pops, but snaps and crackles as well. Join us on a rollicking journey through voice branding, lookalike partying, role model surfing, ebola panicking, halloween movie watching, the end of all things middle, and more demographic insults than you can shake a white witch at. Music...
Oct 30, 2014•1 hr 11 min
The Spoon stirs in triplicate once more! Robbie returns from Spain with a head full of stardust and a gut full of sea creatures, and the show hits the ground sprinting with topics ranging from the mummification of rock to the weaponization of flatulence, with stops in between for vegetarian sci-fi, multiple-choice biographies, millennial insults, a eulogy for the instrumental single, a glimpse into the show's cranky old man future, and a fine array of sweet, sweet white crosses for added courage...
Oct 24, 2014•1 hr 3 min
If Bill Funt falls in the woods and Robbie Rist is not around to mock him mercilessly, does hilarity still ensue? You bet it does! Follow us down this week's spoony rabbit hole as we write in our slam books and make delicious s'mores while discussing domesticus interruptus, not-so-civil forfeitures, soda flavors of the 80s, soft vs hard stress, the pros and cons of Sirius XM, online jackass fatigue, and the third coming of Themestock . Music by: Sparkle*jets UK Rosewood Thieves The Andersons! Sp...
Oct 15, 2014•59 min
Robbie is still out rockin' the continent, but in his stead we offer you the mighty Quinton Flynn , and there is much rejoicing! Ingredients of this week's verbal stew include bands that work, lonely cavemen, handgun substitutes, irregular heartbeats, cool party tricks, unpleasant surgeries, TSA ladles, and plain white sleeves. Plus, Thom gets lost in the gigosphere, and Chris considers having to cosplay Bane just to get a decent night's sleep. Music by Glen Burtnik , Heliopolis , and The Mocker...
Oct 06, 2014•1 hr
Things get very nerdy very quickly this week, as Allen Lulu joins Chris & Thom for a rollicking discussion of sci-fi physics failures, alternative fantasy presents, movie tie-in novels, the latest iPhone shenanigans, sculpting the fandom of children, and the value of turning shuffle off to enjoy full albums again. Plus, tributes to missing family and fallen comrades. Happy belated Rosh Hashanah, everybody! Music by Rich Creamy Paint , The Old Joe Clarks , and Sons Of Nothing ....
Sep 29, 2014•1 hr 5 min
Robbie is off on tour bringing the rock to the people, so Chris and Thom are joined by special guests Bill Holmes and Dave Berges for this week's excursion into whimsy. Topics include big band adventures, advice column musicals, celebrity mortality, mental assassination, voiceover shenanigans, and more weather talk than you can shake something sharp at. Plus, tequila! Music by Selby Tigers , Pete Krebs & Gossamer Wings , and The Woody James Big Band (featuring Mr Berges himself)...
Sep 19, 2014•58 min
Though battling unusual and disorienting recording times (not to mention time zones) The Men of The Spoon remain doggedly on their game this week, whether taking care of business in the front with the horrors of war and the weirdness of biblical gender politics, or dropping a party in the back with the ranking of rock movies and forays into sci-fi nostalgia. Plus, spoon feeding, 20 points of compatibility, and the dawn of battle tennis! Music by The Little Girls , The Onlymen , and Kenny Howes ....
Sep 05, 2014•1 hr 6 min
In the beginning, there is discussion of our American stew of propaganda, fear, and violence, and what might be done decrease its levels of poison, or at least lighten up the flavor. In the end, there is much whimsical jousting about cartoon people, video rodeo and the bureaucratic nature of the universe. And in between, splitting the show's two sides like a diamond bullet to the brain, is the return of Oliver Mattson . Prepare thyselves. Music by The Bus Boys , 3D Picnic , and Kristian Hoffman ...
Aug 28, 2014•1 hr 14 min
The Spoon's family has suffered another heartbreaking loss, as today we say goodbye to Chris's beloved bulldog Frankie . Then Quinton Flynn arrives on the scene in revealing and relatable fashion, ready to hurl hilarious, narrowcasting smart-bombs. Plus, fake news evolution, demonic phone possession, late night host dishing, action star metaphors, random calls from the south, and a generous quantity of artisanal moonshine to wash it down. Music by Linda Horwatt , The Day I Fell Down , and Fernan...
Aug 21, 2014•1 hr 2 min
