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The Spoon
by The Spoon
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
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EP 632: Near Misses With Rock (The Stephen Smith Story)
This 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 The Posters Down" The Morning Line "Nostradamus" Spoon Feeding The New Brutarians ~ 10" Moog Grandmother Krasner & Pollock ~...
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EP 631: Haha, I'm On The Radio! (The Carl Cafarelli Story)
This 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 "Kiss Your Ass Goodbye" Spoon Feeding Carl Cafarelli ~ Guitars vs Rayguns: Short Stories And Other White Lies Simon Whistler The...
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EP 630: The World's Oldest-Looking 46 Year Old (The Fernando Perdomo Story)
This 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" Fernando And The Wolf "Revealed" (teaser) Spoon Feeding Lindsay Nikole Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come Coyote vs Acme Abigail Devoe The...
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EP 629: Catchphrase Clearinghouse (The Brian Kehew Story)
This 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 "Love For The World" Ellen Foley "Phases Of Travel" Spoon Feeding Round And Wound Studio Paul Pope, Robbie Rist, & The Tower Of...
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EP 628: Digging A Hole To China With A Teaspoon (The Mary Karlzen Story)
This 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" Mary Karlzen "Blindsided" Glenn Phillips "Drive By" Blue Rodeo "5 Days In May" Spoon Feeding Mary Karlzen ~ For All That We...
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EP 627: No Reverb Mondays, No Contact Tuesdays
This 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 "Clean Slate" Spoon Feeding Vicki Peterson & John Cowsill ~ Long After The Fire Downey Wrote That Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic,...
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EP 626: You Gotta Think, And Your Hands Are Always Full (The Strawberry Alarm Clock Story)
This 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" Strawberry Alarm Clock "White Light" The Kinks "Waterloo Sunset" Spoon Feeding Strawberry Alarm Clock @ The Whiskey A Gogo 2027...
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EP 625: Somebody Has To Be The Yang (The Gregg Berger Story)
This 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 War" Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks "Walkin' One And Only" David Lindley "Mercury Blues" Spoon Feeding Mr. Beat Pluribus...
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EP 624: The One Thing You Can't Download
This 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" Rob Dickinson "Intelligent People" Spoon Feeding The Shark That Roared Ben Folds Five ~ Shelved First Attempt Hank Green:...
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EP 623: Fake Shemp
This 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 New Brutarians "Delinquent Things" Spoon Feeding Joe Scott: Questions With Joe From Widow's Bay Redux Redux The Men Of The…
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EP 622: Trading On The Shirtlessness
This 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" Blue October "Things We Do At Night" Magnet Mountain "Free Sea (Prisoner Song)" Spoon Feeding Mary Karlzen ~ For All That…
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EP 621: Soaking Up The Sunnier Sun
This 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 "Cabinet Man" The Mountain Goats "Alpha Rats Nest" Spoon Feeding Culture Club "Cold Shoulder" Chef Luke Palladino Apes Of The...
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EP 620: Easily Scared Suburban White Kids (The Greenberry Woods Story)
This 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 Greenberry Woods "Leave The Light On" Spoon Feeding Epic Rap Battles Of History New York Times Games White Denim ~ 13 Graham Nash "I...
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EP 619: Beamed Down To Bumbershoot (The Andy Stone Story)
This 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 Cats "Bring It Back Again" Spoon Feeding Joseph Tawadros Positive Grid Spark Heather Cox Richardson The Dark Wizard Heidi &…
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EP 618: The Philatelists Disagree
This 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 Go" Roland Orzabal "Dandelion" Spoon Feeding Creator The Last Podcast On The Left The Sheep Detectives The Men Of The Spoon...
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EP 617: A Considerable Amount Of Roots And Berries (The Joe Armstrong Story)
This 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 Love" James McMurtry "We Can't Make It Here" Madison Cunningham "Subtitles" Spoon Feeding The Dumbest Story Of The Week...
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EP 616: Baby Woodrow Strikes Back!
This 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 or 3" Weird Al Yankovic "We All Have Cell Phones" Spoon Feeding Domi & JD Beck The Boys Hacks The Men Of The Spoon Robbie…
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EP 615: One Man Americana Scene (The Bermuda Schwartz Story)
This 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 "Do You Wanna Hold Me" Spoon Feeding Martin Mull Discography Recime: The Ultimate Cooking App Freestyle Libre Glucose Monitor...
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EP 614: Plant Shops And Libraries (The Corner Laughers Story)
This 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 known as The Corner Laughers! Also, we're all very preoccupied with our cats' urinary habits. Music By The Corner Laughers...
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EP 613: Hold The Guitar At Man-boob Level (The Legal Matters Story)
This 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 "Let Me Explain" The Legal Matters "Lull And Bye" Spoon Feeding Redd Kross Matt Haig ~ The Midnight Library The Pitt Lead...
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EP 612: Even A Stopped Satan
This 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 Uninvited "Bulletrproof" Spoon Feeding Gossip Goblin Frozen (not that one) Strava The Men Of The Spoon Robbie Rist Chris Jackson Thom...
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EP 611: All The Chicks Dig Writers (The Will Harris Story)
This 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 Lennon "Lucky Ones" Spoon Feeding Barely Pink/Redd Kross LIVE @ The Orpheum 4/1/26 Jeffrey Lewis Rifftrax Makes MST3k Garth...
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EP 610: Burro Outruns Lava (The Matthew Corey Story)
This 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 Does" Athens Drive High School Marching Band "Ave Maria" Spoon Feeding Battleship Gorillaz "The Mountain The Mooncave & The…
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EP 609: The Madness Vessel Is Filled
This 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" Spoon Feeding Alton Brown Cooks Food The Meters Once We Were Spacemen The Men Of The Spoon Robbie Rist Chris Jackson Thom...
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EP 608: Elk Skirt (The Peter Anthony Holder Story)
This 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 Travelers "This Land Is Your Land" Peter Peter "It's You" Bobby Gimby "Canada (The Centennial Song)" Spoon Feeding Thrice...
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EP 607: Well, Here's A Boat
This 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 Down" Spoon Feeding Wormstew "Spinning" Train Dreams The Red Locusts Carl Caferelli: 10 Songs 1/31/26 The Men Of The Spoon…
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EP 606: Let Us Be Stupid And Naive!
This 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 Lauper "Goonies R Good Enough" Spoon Feeding Pay Up Cheaters! (The Story Of The Beat Farmers) Intellivision Sprint Pluribus The…
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EP 605: We Don't Have Time For The Calf To Grow Up
This 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 Glass" World Party "Put The Message In The Box" Spoon Feeding Aloka The Peace Dog Oddity Cameron Crowe ~ The Uncool The Men Of...
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EP 604: Like The Schooner Tuna Man Says, We're All In This Together
This 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 happy as reasonably possible, and we'll chat again in 2026! Music By The Men Of The Spoon "Spoony Xmas 2011" Stephen...
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EP 603: Tourist Musician Energy (The Allen Lulu Story)
This 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 Trevor Blendour IT: Welcome To Derry Wake Up Dead Man Jack Chrome And The Darkness Waltz The Men Of The Spoon Robbie Rist…
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EP 602: Petal To The Meddle (The Michael Simmons Story)
This 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?" "Sail On, Sailor" Spoon Feeding Michael Simmons ~ Fun Where You Can Find It Golden Smog Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead...
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EP 601: What Have They Done To My App, Ma!?
This 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 To The Hills" Spoon Feeding Too Much Joy ~ Son Of Sam I Am (Tommy's Version) John Candy: I Like Me Letting Them Talk with…
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EP 600: Tactically Reloading A Second Set Of Vocal Cords
This 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" Spoon Feeding Li Shanshan Tea Wearingeul Inks New Wave Body Art Studio The Spoon on BlueSky The Spoon Facebook Page The Spoon...
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EP 599: Cool Never Announces Itself
This 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 Safety Belts" Spoon Feeding The Vapors ~ Wasp In A Jar Companion Kamala Harris ~ 107 Days Stewart Copeland ~ Strange Things Happen...
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EP 598: The Monsters Are Off The Screen
This 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 Dark #365 Show Me Whre The Candy Corn Touched You #326 Zihw Eseehc Stae Natas Music By AAoOD2 "Terrible Horrible Spoons"...
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EP 597: Put On A Mask To Drop Your Mask (The Big Stir Story)
This 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, aking that musical question: what's a grimoire? Music By sparkle*jets UK "Eyeball Eater (From Outer Space)" Strawberry...
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EP 596: Be The Cringe You Want To See In The World
This 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) Arturia Microfreak Metropolitan Animal Specialty Hospital LA The Men Of The Spoon Robbie Rist Chris Jackson Thom Bowers The Spoon…
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EP 595: No Way To Steer An Elephant (The Patrick Labyroteaux Story)
This 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 Tom's Cabin" Spoon Feeding Robbie on The Patrick LabyroSheaux Working Actors School The Bionic Woman The Nightingale Duff MacKagan…
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EP 594: Thou Poke-Willied Eye Gonger!
This 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 Fastball ~ Sonic Ranch Don Rickles: AARP Dinner With Don Foundation The Men Of The Spoon Robbie Rist Chris Jackson Thom Bowers The…
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EP 593: Team Human
This 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 City Woman" Supergrass "I'd Like To Know" Styx "Michigan" Spoon Feeding Hot Honey! (check it and see) Your Friends And...
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EP 592: A Tube Of Cocksure
This 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" Spoon Feeding Cardiacs Beastie Boys Story Peacemaker Thom's interview with Fish (Aug 2012) The Men Of The Spoon Robbie Rist...
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EP 591: It's All Hook (The Splitsville Story)
This 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 Sill "The Kiss" Splitsville "Glorious Lie" Spoon Feeding Danelectro Sitar Swami Jesse Welles Weapons A History Of Rock Music...
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EP 590: I Miss Wizard Vans
This 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" Shadow Academy "Icarus" Spoon Feeding Sorrows ~ Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow Beavis & Butthead (2022) Billy Joel ~ And So It...
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EP 589: Off The Top Of The Pate (The Adam Waltemire Story)
This 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 Rainbow Connection" Spoon Feeding Dominic Noble ~ Lost In Adaptation Dexter: Resurrection Blank Check Podcast The Why Files...
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EP 588: Deathvalanche!
This 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 Reddcoats "All For Me" There I Ruined It "Breaking Bad: The Musical" Spoon Feeding Thom Bowers Audiobook Catalog KCBC…
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EP 587: Everyone Under 55, Sing Along! (The Andrew Curry Story)
This 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 Hollywood "I Get Excited" Ballzy Tomorrow "Old Gangsters Never Die" Spoon Feeding Fuzzbubble ~ Cult Stars From Mars Somebody…
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EP 586: Not That Kind Of River (The Bob Walkenhorst Story)
This 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 Walkenhorst "Happy Enough" The Rainmakers "Let My People Go-Go" Spoon Feeding Red Kross ~ Third Eye I Think We're Alone Now…
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EP 585: You Can Have Shields, Or You Can Have Torpedoes
This is The Spoon, where we've perfected the shitty groove, with 11 tracks of dookiecacki. Music By Frank Black Sloan Sly & The Family Stone Spoon Feeding The Beach Boys ~ Pet Sounds The Beach Boys ~ Friends Garlic Scapes Weird Al Yankovic: Bigger & Weirder 2025 The Men Of The Spoon Robbie Rist...
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EP 584: One Long Gotcha Question (The Peter Anthony Holder Story)
This is The Spoon, where Peter Anthony Holder is our guest, and we're Venice Beach for parkas. Music By Doug And The Slugs Bedouin Soundclash Nathaniel Rateliff Kim Mitchell Spoon Feeding Trailer Park Boys Malus Zine Portrait Artist Of The Year Employee Of The Month The Men Of The Spoon Robbie…
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EP 583: The Waking Is The Hardest Part
This is The Spoon, a conflagration of things that come together for change. Music By Frou Frou Extreme Chumbawamba Spoon Feeding Working Actors School New York Times Games Pee Wee as Himself The Men Of The Spoon Robbie Rist Chris Jackson Thom Bowers The Spoon Facebook Group The Spoon Facebook…
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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.
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