This week, Spike and Rob discuss Optimism. Let's see if we can ruin that too. ;)

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0:00 Intro 1:32 Take two.. A second chance. Getting older. Trump's inauguration. Proof of God. 3:50 Miguel Ferrer passed away from cancer. Twin Peaks 2017. 6:20 Dispising Lincoln. Civil war reverence. 7:50 Professional segues. Internet memes and Hillary Clinton. Melania Trump. Disatisfied. 10:00 You son of a bitch. 12:00 Lovers Package and endorsements. Cutting commercials. Turds. 16:00 Heavier than Heaven. Charles Cross. 18:00 Your own bra. 20:00 Benson and Hedges. Sidebars. 22:20 DEEP SIX: Optimism 27:40 Being satisfied with what you have. Children and ignorance. Bliss. El Salvador. Perspective. 31:00 Americana. Kennedy and LBJ. Old fashioned. 35:00 Olympia Washington. Rope swinging. Naked. 39:30 Video games. Atari. Pac man. Space Invaders. Tempest. Centipede. Berzerk. 43:00 California Jam. ELP. Midnight Special. Being successful. Bruce Springsteen. 46:00 Bono story. Dublin. U2. 52:40 Shameless on Netflix. The OA. 54:00 Rob volunteers his personal information. Rockstar Superhero. Itunes. 57:00 Spike's new show.... finally. Nate Connors. KZOK 2 to 6pm. Seattle radio. 1:00:00 Stop using guns. Life in jail. Call me Lucky on Netflix. Barry Crimmins. Bobcat Goldthwaite. Sundance. AOL. 1:05:00 OCD and bodily functions. Poop tents. 1:07:30 Hairspray and John Waters story. 1:11:30 Hanging out with Spike. 1:16:15 Shut up Rob 1:16:45 HIDDEN TRACK (well, not now)

This week's show is a recap of the last 4 weeks, Spike's continued frustration with the changes to our new governmental agency, and acts as a very special announcement of "what's next for Spike?"

So, hang on to your hats, because this podcast is full of drives down the verbal cul-de-sac. Which basically means, we don't have our crap together.... which I guess is sorta awesome.  

Beware: Cleveland Steamers are dropped everywhere....please DO NOT look that up on Google.

All said, we seriously hope you enjoy the show.  It was great to be back.  See you soon!

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0:00 Intro 1:57 Welcome home to 2017. Being sick sucks. Beverly Hills Cop. Christmas time with the flu and bronchitis and sinus infections. 5:00 Living at the base of the Cascades. Chapstick. Bacon. Nebulizers SUCK. 10:20 Psychosomatic coughing. New boyfriends. Funky wives. 12:20 Breaking the Santa myth. Thanking the Lord. 15:40 Divorce during the holidays. 16:15 Christmas Eve and Trump. Good people to prevail. Facebook cliques. CNN fake news. 18:50 Doing what you want at all costs. Constitutional scholars. 22:30 New York in the 70's. George Bush. Good ol' boys. Knee jerk reactions. John Kerry. Obama. 26:40 Rob is trying to fart. Politics aren't funny. Rob loves Spike. Meryl Streep. 29:15 Bridges of Madison County. Nicolas Cage again... eating cockroaches. Vampire's Kiss. Copland. Robert Patrick. Sylvester Stallone. 34:50 Oldboy. Korean cinema. 37:30 Black Mass. Johnny Depp. So pretty and nice. The Iceman with Michael Shannon. X-men. Wanted. Split personality. James McEvoy. 41:30 Jonah Hill isn't very nice. Russell Brand. Jason Segel. Wolf of Wall Street. Leonardo DiCaprio. What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Moulin Rouge. Baz Luhrmann. 46:20 Robot Restaurant. Tokyo. Tanks and hot girls. Awesomeness. CBS radio. Salary men. 51:30 DEEP SIX: Spike's new gig. 1:00:00 New ski pants. Daddy needs more money. Hard to be successful. Amazon "hypocrisy." Walmart. Communism. 1:03:50 Do we "deserve" a living wage? Embarassed by porn. 1:06:00 Rob's world record urination. Unfair business practices. 1:10:00 Ambition requires pressure to succeed. The argument against tax code. Popular vote. 1:13:00 Communism. 1:16:00 President Carter. Moving to Japan.... again. America is built for the long term. Trump cabinet. Extreme swings in government. Bowling alleys. 1:20:00 Charlie Sheen. Inside Man. Children of Men. Clive Owen. King Arthur. Gangs of New York. The Last Temptation of Christ. Martin Scorcese. Raging Bull. Goodfellas. 1:30:00 Byron in Florida. Editing the podcast down. Leaving stuff awry. Coca cola sweat. 1:33:30 Spike and the Impalers for NYE. Frankenstein. Rob is a jerk.... again. 1:39:30 AC/DC. Bon Scott. Brian Johnson. Rob is a dumbass.... again. 1:42:00 Happy New Year 2017.

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This week on the show, Spike and Rob talk about a fateful year, 1987. It's not so much a DEEP SIX episode as it is just straight catharsis. Spike and Rob's hearts were broken that year....and it only got worse.

With that, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and all that and we hope you'll continue to listen and enjoy. On with the show!

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0:00 Intro 2:45 Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, and Joanie loves Chachi. Erin Moran. 4:15 Kool cigarettes, Yakima. 6:00 Cigarettes are cool in Japan. Marketing. Amusement parks. 8:20 Going to bed early. 11:25 Great orange pumpkin. Mayor of Baltimore. 13:00 Colonoscopy party! Cancer scares. Barium enema. 16:05 Pooping on the bed. Splash mask. 18:30 Byron is our number one fan! 23:00 Losing celebrities to death. Harry Dean Stanton. Prince. 25:10 DEEP SIX 1987 32:20 Learning to love again. 37:50 Car business. Wenatchee. Mazda. Rotary engines and the Wankel. 40:00 Never saw a black man. Armistead gardens. 43:20 Electoral College. 47:50 Who is mislead? Obama and Romney. 54:30 Most people don't care. Uninvolved. 55:23 Spike and Rob share the same 1987 story. That girl broke my heart. 59:10 Taking the bus to the US Navy. Taking the ASVAB. Rob wanted to be a Navy SEAL. Submarines. 1:02:10 This boot camp story is gross. Marching. Rob gets crabs. 1:08:00 Spike smokes the ASVAB too. Live Aid in 1985. 1:13:00 Only one story to share. Navy music program. 1:15:05 Rob's best friend Steve. 1:21:20 Rob's surprise fails miserably. 1:24:00 Transitional year. 1988 gets crazier. 1:28:35 Spike's final thoughts. The holiday season. Missing loved ones.

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This week on the show, Spike and Rob talk about inevitability....

The whole show, barring the few asides, is a discussion on that moment when you must make the hardest choice:

Crossroads.

Whether you like it or not, you will encounter many such moments in your life. You must flip a coin, but in some ways, your deepest most secret desires are already being met in your brain. Which way to go? Only you know. That said, Spike and Rob have some thoughts on these troubling moments, mostly because Spike has some big decisions brewing. This won't come easy. Dig!

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0:00 Intro 0:50 Impossible choices. Food and sex. 1:26 DEEP SIX: Crossroads 3:00 Buying houses. Mortgages. Lenders. Ethics and morals. 4:55 Fact checking. Slanted news. Hillary Clinton. Pizzagate. 9:00 Fox News. Indictments. Post facts. 11:40 Radio business. 13:00 Howard Schultz and the story of Starbucks. Howard Stern. 18:40 College and success. Legacy and expectations. 20:20 Deposits into your soul bank. Career choices. 22:40 Joy and the microphone. Money always gets in the way. Being a 1% er. 27:20 Moana and Disney. 29:35 Rob Lowe and The Grinder. Insane belief. 35:40 Being white in Baltimore. The Wire. 38:40 Japanese wives. Engrish. 39:00 Divorce and contemplation. 42:00 Rob's first marriage and failure. Leaving predictability. Rob isn't innocent either. Wanting the best. Sacrificing a band tour. Meeting the woman of Rob's dreams. Fear based lives. 50:30 Beehives. Hornets. Learning the hard way. 52:20 Spike didn't take the leap. 54:20 Steve Harvey. Jumping. Video on Facebook. 56:55 Selling yourself out. Risk aversion. 58:00 Pro Bowl NFL player. Feeling inadequate. 1:00:00 Believing in Spike. 1:04:00 Changing one's mind. Making yourself happy.

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This week on the Spike and Jones podcast, Spike and Rob talk about the thing that makes us all crazy, yet can't live without.  That would be family.  The holidays remind us that family is everywhere, in every nook and cranny, and that's not always a bad thing.  Good or bad, family is pretty much all we have, so we must learn to embrace it.  Listen to the stories we share and who knows.... maybe you'll get something bigger out of it than we did. That's the hope!  On with the show.....

0:00 Intro 0:57 Holiday season is a Richter scale. 2:30 Family is the root of all evil. Old stories. Moodiness. Losing parents. Halloween vs. Christmas. Storage. 4:50 Dad's 1965 Ford Thunderbird. 8:00 Breaking the ice. Normalcy. Missing parents. 11:00 Tree permits. Forest hunting. Christmas trees. Felling a big one. 14:00 Thanksgiving with the cousins. Divorce. 17:00 Working a lot. Football. Seahawks vs. Eagles. Temple of the Dog. Eddie Vedder. 22:45 Susan Silver and Kelly Curtis. KISW. Grunge era. Virginia. Cameron Crowe. Craig Gass. 26:40 Wearing black well. 27:00 DEEP SIX: Despair of family. 27:25 Intermission 27:42 Customer service. The gift of time. 30:00 Facebook hamburgers. Living with the parents. Heading to Japan. Spike saves Rob. 36:30 East coast families are big. Very big. 5 tables of food. Turkey. 39:00 Smug and argumentative. Neurotic and disabled. Come over for chores. 44:45 Holiday smells. Noise. 46:30 Uncle Uterus. 49:00 Spike stories. Concepts. Discipline and step parents. 51:00 Spanking arguments. Girls vs. boys. Respect. 54:00 Defiance. Mom knew how to use a spoon. 57:00 Band rehearsals and babysitting. 59:00 Leaving a holiday party. 1:01:30 Lake Chelan Christmas. Snow shoeing. Board games. Storms. Power outages. Romanticism. 1:02:30 Shirley Jones wins. Jane Fonda. 1:05:00 Marijuana from your uncle. Peanut butter. 1:06:10 Rob and his brother have nothing in common. Mike is an amazing man. Gracious. 1:08:00 Inclusion vs. Competition. Broadcasting. Travel. 1:11:00 Brother's success. Real estate investments. Olympia. Back seat fights. 1:15:00 Forgiveness. Family. Hummels. Theft. Fights. Forgive your family.

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Hey everyone! This week's podcast is all about our favorite songs, from past and present.  We love to sing and love what a song does for our psyche.... our memories.  Maybe, just maybe, songs are as equally important a memory creator as the sense of smell? Rob thinks so...  

Regardless, these songs make us happy for no reason other than they do.  So, dig in and enjoy.

0:00 Intro 1:04 Spike comes back from nowhere. Non sequitur theater. Kansas. Leftoverture. Sing along time. Kerry Livgren. Searching for faith. 3:30 Toffifay. $100,000 bar. Toblerone. 1978. Paper routes. Tonasket. Hostess. Cheetos. Coke. 7:00 Spike keeping it real. Wanting more for your life. Election 2016. Trump. Clinton. Huskies. Trojans. Seattle Seahawks. 9:00 Twisted Tunes. Itunes ratings. Imagination. 10:20 Bad insulation. Not boring. 11:15 DEEP SIX: Songs 12:00 Alice Cooper 14:29 Lyrics and Rob's failure to learn them. Nick Gilder. Hot Child in the City. Turntables. Glue sniffing. Bay City Rollers. Hudson brothers. Alan White. Snoqualmie casino. Chris Squire. Taylor Hawkins. Sunny Day Real Estate. Roger Daltrey. Tommy and The Who. Imagine. Saturday morning TV. Beatles. Badfinger. Derivative. Bernie was a friend of ours. 20:30 1978 ruled for music. 22:40 A fifth of Beethoven vs. Electric Light Orchestra. Roll Over Beethoven. 26:20 Osmonds Brainstorm. Pimp clothes. 28:30 Carry on Wayward Son. 32:00 Journey. Steve Perry. No security. Festivals. 36:00 Bruce Springsteen's long long long shows. 39:00 The Tubes and David Bowie. Which way to go? Tacoma dome. Early departures. Festival seating. General admission. Homosexual tendencies. 46:00 George Martin and Phil Spector. Let it be. Wall of sound. 48:30 Grateful Dead. Rolling Stones and Dean Martin. 52:00 Elton John and forbidden love. Swearing and homosexuality. Rock of the Westies. 54:00 Donnie Iris. Ah Leah. Tonasket. 8 track tapes and the yellow Ford Pinto. 55:40 Elvis Presley. In the ghetto. Christmas. Out of tune vibrato. 59:00 Ventura Highway. America vs. Crosby Stills and Nash. 1:00:00 The Clash. Big Audio Dynamite. Rudy don't fail. Spike's smile. Bee Gee's. 1:05:40 My Sharona. The Knack. Radio top 40. 1:09:00 Important records. James Taylor. Spike is cheating. Journey Escape. Don't stop Believing. Open Arms. Tonasket and first love. Miracles happen. Gregg Rolie. 1:14:00 Pink Floyd The Wall. The best album for headphones. Quadrophenia. 1:16:00 Meat Loaf. Bat out of Hell. Paradise by the dashboard light. Clive Davis. Clive Owen. Todd Rundgren. 1:20:20 Radio and record industry.

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You just discovered the super secret Thanksgiving podcast.  Congratulations.  Now, if you are still here afterwards, perhaps you should subscribe and share on various social media?  That sounds like a really good idea, don't you think? Yeah, I thought so.  Enjoy!

0:00 Intro 1:29 Losing women. Trump still kills it. Levels and penis size. Alien monsters. Jaws and monsters. The unknown. 3:58 Fake cocaine. Michael J Fox. Bright lights, big city. Drugs. Upcoming podcast teases. 4:30 Spike is unprepared, so let's talk about radio. 5:35 Scattered thinking and professional radio conversation. Inviting an audience to the podcast. 7:25 Spike got bit by a dog. In the ass. 9:20 ISIS and Donald Trump. 10:00 Narcissistic endeavors. 10,000 hours. Drumming. Mental acuity. 12:00 SEC and paradigm shifts. 1 failure on the radio. Spike drops an F bomb. KISW. A funny church service. Bob Rivers. Indifference. Victimization. Catholicism. Weapons. 15:00 Spike talks about what it's like to be in radio. Entertainment. 53:50 Moving on to a new life. 55:10 Starting over sucks. 57:30 Grass skirts. Mr Rags. Going from here. Spike is still upset about how it all went down. 1:00:20 Timing advertisement on radio. Game plans. Break time. 1:01:00 Diary based radio ratings. Arbitron. 1:05:00 Jukebox on shuffle. Jack FM. 1:08:20 We are the old generation now. Subversion. Latch key kids. 1:11:45 Road runner. Real people. Billions. Fame for terrible reasons. Celebrity. 1:13:20 Courtney Stodden. Doug Hutchinson. Green Mile. Walmart. Pornography. Ocean Shores. 1:16:00 TMZ and Live Leak. Youtube for gore. 1:19:30 Evil, violence, corruption, sexual abuse. Demonic influence. 1:21:20 Helping people. Being a superhero. Sex addiction. 1:24:20 Donnie Osmond. Timothy McVeigh. 1:26:10 Adam Carolla. Finding our voice. Ideas.

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This week on the podcast, Spike and Rob discuss preconceived notions. Why you ask? Well, because it's far more interesting (ok, slightly) than talking about politics and Trump's election, although Spike sneaks it in anyways. That naughty guy.

Plus Japanese Christmas stories!

0:00 Intro 1:10 Interstellar. Rob breathes a sigh of relief. Matt Damon. Bruce Springsteen. 3:20 Lancing political boils. Steel Cut oatmeal. Non Sequiturs. Family Guy. 4:00 POLITICS: President Trump. Dad's opinions. Crooked politicians. Protests. Personas. 24:00 Rob's in a cloud. Lack of sleep. Kidney Stones. Gremlins. Santa Claus. 25:10 DEEP SIX: Preconceived Notions. Differences between them and stereotypes. 34:30 Children take your joy away. Being selfish. 40:00 Finding happiness. Career aspirations. 41:15 Being smarter than your parents. 44:25 Daddy issues. Rob's lost. 46:00 Explicit comedy podcast. Paying attention. Seeing another's point of view. 48:00 Rob wasn't always a fan of Spike. He was wrong. 50:40 God's got it. Sea Turtles. Star Trek. Managing humanity. 53:15 Electric vs. Gasoline. Torque. Gay midget porn. Inglorious Basterds. 55:30 Japanese Christmas expectations. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Turkey. 59:00 Bangkok. Utah. 1:00:00 Mentally ill are possessed by the Devil. Dangerous. Quell Foundation. Kevin Lynch. Stigma. 1:05:45 Addiction and Depression are choices. 1:08:00 I'm right and you're wrong. 1:09:50 Ben Affleck. Zach Snyder. 300. Batman Vs. Superman. Watchmen. Gerard Butler. Jodi Foster. 1:13:00 The Bible and the Rapture. Rob leaves the bad stuff in. 1:14:30 Rob's rapture story. Video games. The Mark of the Beast.

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This week's podcast gives Spike and Rob a chance to talk about stuff they really dig... maybe even more than girls.  ....and that's movies.  Yes, sweet movies.  

Movies we can watch every time they come on TV, no matter where they are at. Movies we love that everyone else hates. Movies our wives adore but we think are a bit silly. Movies that....

Well, you get the point.  Spike and Rob love movies.  A lot.  This week's podcast almost never veers simply because this topic is so stupidly compelling to us.

So there.  Enjoy the Deep Six on Movies, brought to you by Spike and Jones.

0:00 Intro 0:50 Cubs win. Harry Carey. Spike does impressions. 2:00 Potential kidney stones. 7:35 Walter Peyton was a legend. More Cubs. 8:20 Seahawks Football. Solo sports. 11:00 Deep Six: Movies. We don't have top 10 lists. Too many options! 16:00 Amazon Women on the Moon. 22:00 Apocalypse Now. 27:30 Twelve Angry Men. 31:00 Fight Club. 35:15 Tombstone and Silverado. 40:20 Departures. Japanese movie. Oscar best foreign film. 43:00 INTERRUPTION (damn it, Veronica) 47:00 Oscars worth anything? 51:00 Nightmare Before Christmas 54:25 Spike's cheating with Shawshank. 58:25 Mulholland Drive and David Lynch. 1:04:30 Old Man and the Sea. Spencer Tracy. 1:09:00 Spike cheats again with Matt Damon. 1:11:00 Cameron Crowe and sucking bad. 1:17:50 Donnie Darko and time travel. 1:21:00 Heat and Spinal The Graduate. 1:24:25 Caddyshack. 1:30:30 Go see the classics. Humphrey Bogart. Maltese Falcon. Casablanca. Gone with the Wind. The French Connection. Bullitt. Steve McQueen. Unforgiven. Clint Eastwood. Gran Torino.

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Hey, it's the first episode of the Spike and Jones Show.  Who woulda thunk it? Yet, here we are.... fast friends failing fast.  

We are just getting our bearings, but rest assured it's going to be fun watching our little experiment take off and crash into a telephone pole.  In the meanwhile, enjoy this first attempt at a new(ish) thing.

We break out the weapons on our new feature, Deep Six, although admittedly we only get to 3 this week before Rob has to bail out.  What a wuss that guy is.

With that, we hope you enjoy and remember:  Always keep our podcast 500 feet away from Elementary schools.  It's the law.

00:00 Intro 04:00 Nicolas Cage 06:00 Seattle Seahawks bore us 12:00 DEEP SIX TOPIC: Anger 23:30 Rob's new business 31:00 Calling God names... Rob apologizes 35:00 Spike, the Protector 39:00 Spike doesn't forgive easily. 43:00 Rob tries not to bring home anger. 44:20 Spike gets a "mulligan." 46:30 MacGyver was cool. 48:15 Spike needs salve. 49:20 Legal Marijuana and the DEEP 3.

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