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Why are we doing a show about spoons?
There are two ways to answer that question. Our basic philosophy is that anything can be made interesting, especially if you tilt it at lots of different angles. So, yes, today you'll hear about playing spoons as a rhythm instrument and about how stage performers bend spoons with their "psychic powers" and about an ancient Welsh spoon-based courting practice and about a children's book author who made a spoon her protagonist. And tonight or tomorrow, if our magic works right, you'll say to somebody, "The Colin McEnroe Show did a whole episode on spoons and it was surprisingly good and interesting."
And they won't believe you.
So that's one way to answer the question.
The other way is that spoons really deserve a special treatment because there is something about them that suggests a fundamental, essential shape in the grain of the universe -- that there is a cosmic argument for spoons. You decide, after the news.
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