The Spoon

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 Legacy: Michael Bay The Andersons! "Hey Coelacanth" Music by XTC Utopia Spoon-feedingCartoon Research Dinofish Pzizz Top 5 alternate titles:5- No Bones In The Flappy Bit 4- General Tso, Colnel Sanders, and Major Rist 3- Candy-Striped Groot 2- The Right Kind Of Dumb 1- Master Terrorist Baiter!

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 yearbook pictures, spoon feeding, BIG ANNOUNCEMENT, doin' it live! TMV Radio Cafe - new home of The Spoon! Music by: Dr Hook The RainmakersGreenberry Woods Spoon-feeding: Theory Of Everything Lion Bars Death And Company The Librarians

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 by: Karen BassetThe Mockers The Wellingtons Top 5 Alternate titles: 5- Hate Never Tasted So Good 4- I Was Trying To Avoid Saying Lubrication 3- Humor Is Always The Biggest Threat 2- Asparagus Is Fun To Say 1- Have You Seen The Horror Movie That Is This Guy's Brain?

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 Friends Of Dan Music Podcast Gil Scott Heron - "Whitey On The Moon" Iron Sky 2 trailer Music by: Esperanza SpauldingBad Religion Enuff Z'Nuff Spoon-feeding: Muscle Shoals Milius Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet BoJack HorsemanAlternate Titles: Honorable Mention: I Lick The Receiver 5- The Racist Underbelly Of The Spoon 4- Anything Can Blow Up These Days 3- Pro Cannibalism, Pro Germs, Pro Gallagher 2- Mugged By A Four Year Old 1- Life Is Iffy

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. Music by: 20/20Peter Holsapple & Chris StameyLinda HorwattSpoon-feeding: Airplane ModeOpen qPCR Kickstarters I'm Glad I Did, by Cynthia Weil Garfunkel & Oates Fire CiderAlternate Titles: Honorable Mention - I Like The Steaky Parts 5- The Great Canadian Entertainment Conspiracy 4- A Serving Of Stomach Juice 3- Songs For Broken Trombone 2- Robbie Just Wants To Put A Big Heart On 1- The East India Company Can Suck It

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!

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 you dig it!

Music by:

The Sons Of Lazaro Secret Affair Goo Goo Dolls

Spoon-feeding:

Mel Brooks: Make A Noise Dry-Brined Turkey Guy On A Buffalo Top 5 Alternate Titles: Honorable Mention - Properties Of Immiscible Fluids In Porous Media 5- The Inside Of Someone's Brain Coming Apart 4- Why Does The Pudding Skin Have Leg Hair? 3- Darryl & Carol & Their Other Brother Darryl2- We've Yet To Insult People With Hiccups1- Check Your White Rice Privilege

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!

Music by:

The Well Wishers Agony Aunts Steve Barton & The Oblivion Click

Alternate Titles:

5- I Still Like To Hold Something And Look At It 4- Streamlining The Normalcy 3- You Guys Go Show Off And Be Cute 2- Giant Bags Of Stuff That I Will Never Eat 1- Today It Was Grey, And So Was I

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!

Music by:Cliff Hillis Willie Wisely Chris Von Sneidern Spoon-feeding:Doc's Hard CiderIndie Bohemians Morning Show Does The Dog Die? Rist/Hillis/Wisely/Von Sneidern

Alternate titles: 5- The Last Thing I Wanna See In My Porn Is You4- What Do Pittsburghians Eat? 3- Set Up, Punchline, Tag Tag Tag! 2- The Incoming Angle 1- I Will Leave My Car On The Mayor's Lawn For Six Bucks

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 by:

The Like Locksley The Number 12 Looks Like You

Spoon-feeding: Drunk History Serious Eats La Brujeria

Top 5 Alternate Episode Titles:

Honorable Mention: Unexpected Wankery In The Middle 5- If I Hate This, I'm Gonna Punch You 4- Embrace The Panic 3- You Could Do A Little Slicey-Dicey2- Where Da White Witches At? 1- #BlameBurton