The Spud Goodman Show is a radio program heard on several terrestrial radio and internet radio stations in North America and Europe. It began as a cable TV talk show in the Puget Sound area in the state of Washington, USA, and later transitioned to broadcast television. The show usually features eccentric celebrities, scripted pseudo-celebrities and live music. The show was originally hosted by Spud Goodman and his co-host, Chick Hunter. History The Spud Goodman Show was a counter-culture talk and music program which was prominent in the Puget Sound area from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. The program debuted on local origination cable TV channels in the Tacoma market in February 1985. The pilot program was titled Can We Talk?? but the title was changed to incorporate the host's name not long after regular broadcasts began. The producers purchased time on local cable outlets and commercial time was sold within the program. Later, radio versions were made of these programs in the Seattle-Tacoma area. Purporting to originate from Goodman's apartment, the original set was an ad-hoc studio built in the basement of an abandoned Eagles Club in downtown Tacoma. After several years at this location, the program moved to the public-access television facilities of TCI Cablevision in Seattle, where it was broadcast live. After one season on Public-access television, the show moved to TCI's commercial "local origination" channel which allowed sponsor tie-ins and other production synergies. Featuring genuine celebrities in addition to scripted ones, live music, a live audience and call-ins from viewers, the show became a genuine weekly event in the Seattle television market and frequently played to a standing-room-only house. Although the program was the highest-rated locally produced cable show in the Seattle market, its popularity also made it a target of some Public-access television advocates who saw its popularity as unfair to their own programs. Rather than accept an unfavorable time slot for the sake of such fairness the program left the air at the height of its popularity. The show made the transition from Public-access television to broadcast television in 1992 when it began a three-year run at KTZZ-TV (later KTWB, then KMYQ, now KZJO) in Seattle. Since KTZZ operated on a limited budget, the program was heavily dependent on volunteer staff working in all aspects of production. By the mid-1990s, however, the viability for locally produced variety programs diminished, and after a three-year