Thought Spiral
354 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 493 ratingsComedians Andy Kindler (Bob’s Burgers, Maron) and J. Elvis Weinstein (MST3K, Freaks and Geeks) convene weekly to solve the problems of the world but usually end up talking about comedy and various forms of anxiety. Produced by Alex Brizel (ShowBriz Studios).
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Episodes
Test Show #352
April 22, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBAndy reacquaints himself with his chops, Josh learns a Rat Pack fact, Andy cops to golf watching, huge invisible careers, Andy’s off to Austin, and much more, but still less than usual, Spiraling.
Test Show #351
April 15, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBThe eclipse casts a shadow on the proceedings, Old joke or new Andy joke?, Jerry Lee Lewis, Andy stumbles into the wrong show, Josh tries a half-hearted intervention, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #350
April 08, 2024 07:00 - 2 hours - 84 MBAndy has a public banter misfire, Josh reports on the Steve Martin docs, Andy does an ailment inventory, Remembering Joe Flaherty, Andy starts his final stand-up cramming, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #349
April 01, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBMark Twain shrugs in his grave, Showrunner disease, Josh goes mindless, A Talking Heads-to head, Andy digs in on his job, Andy defends the Royals, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #348
March 25, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBAndy listens closely to himself not listening, Josh gives a Bar Mitzvah report, Andy gets doc rage, Andy gets less help, gestures to the Universe, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #347
March 18, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 73.1 MBRecapping the Oscars, Andy flips on Kimmel, re-voting past best pictures, Josh dives into the Midnight Special, Andy still optimistic about his gig, the thin line of Biden boosting, listener emails, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #346
March 11, 2024 07:00 - 2 hours - 87.9 MBFriend of the pod JEN KIRKMAN returns for a guest spiral in the second hour, but first: Andy resets his comedy sites, Remembering Richard Lewis, Josh reacts to Andy’s guest spiral, “What Did I Watch?”, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #345
March 04, 2024 08:00 - 2 hours - 85.7 MBComedian/author GARY GULMAN joins Andy in the 2nd hour for a Guest Spiral! But first, Josh and Andy discuss Joe Flaherty, Conan nostalgia, Jewdar, Acting, and plenty of other First Thought Theater.
Test Show #344
February 26, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBAndy keeps working on the new set, SNL what-ifs, a listener pep talk for Andy, a fundraiser of the damned, Hitler updates, plenty of movies and TV watched, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #343
February 19, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBJosh shares his lateness strategy, Andy lives large in NY, Charlie Chaplin, the Hollywood niceness bonus, Josh tests his moral fiber, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #342
February 12, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MB“Best of the Lockdown” - A look back at the summer of 2020 when the guys tried to take Covid and make Covid-ade.
Test Show #341
February 05, 2024 08:00 - 2 hours - 82.4 MBAndy announces his secret trip, old Jew medical corner, young dog medical corner, a bungled comedy opportunity, Glibertarianism, some listener questions mixed with hostility, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #340
January 29, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 82.1 MBJosh pledges change, Andy yells about football, Josh’s algorithmic sleigh ride, economic theory, Andy achieves a reunion, snack-free professionalism, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #339
January 22, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 82.1 MBAndy tries to break the Beatles, Josh’s religious suffering, Andy does a set, true or falsetto, Andy loves up the podcast, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #338
January 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 79.9 MBAndy’s Golden Globalism, Josh gets sucked into the Katt Williams saga, Andy walks hard, A battle of TV fishermen, Andy does a hack background check, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #337
January 08, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBAndy bonds with his headphones, Andy finds a new Gen Xer to love, our weekly watches, Andy’s storytelling flaws, jazz fighting, Karen ‘24, Josh tries to take the heat off Andy, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #336
January 01, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBA child’s Xmas in the Valley, Andy starts the clock on his next album, Josh disappoints his parents, the death of references, Josh goes down a douchey rabbit hole, Andy chooses not to help Josh, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #335
December 18, 2023 08:00 - 2 hours - 83.2 MBOur last show of ‘23, Andy tries to be nicer to young Andy, the proficiency conundrum, gambling tightens its grip, the de-shaming of America, have a good trip to Japan Alex, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #334
December 11, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBThe next chapter of the Stewie chronicles, Jen Kirkman gets her due, the state of 2 stand-up careers, Josh goes Blowhardee on streaming economics, gender in the comedy blender, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #333
December 04, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBThanksgiving tales, Andy is down in the mouth, interpreting Barry Sanders, Andy is one step away from a reunion, Josh has a pox upon him, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #332
November 27, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBChew your food, narcissism testing, Josh tries to make a point about celebrity docs, Andy’s career planning, finding a lost man-crush, Josh’s slippery slope guardrails, no questions this week, but much more Spiraling.
Test Show #331
November 20, 2023 08:00 - 2 hours - 82.6 MBAndy struggles with tough deadlines, fixed-income fever, Josh tries to reconcile with humanity, Israel, oy, Albert Brooks Doc, listener questions, even our producer doesn’t read these things, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #330
November 13, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 75.7 MBAndy goes south in a good way, supplement prison, Josh flips on DST, the gambling apocalypse, Andy can’t nail down game day, the end of the SAG strike, listener questions, help I’m being held hostage in a synopsis factory, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #329
November 06, 2023 08:00 - 2 hours - 84.1 MBAndy finds divinity in vanity plates, Shake n’ Bake and other throwback fare, Matthew Perry talk, Yogi Berra, Andy lives out his picketing fears, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #328
October 30, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBWedding bell flus, Andy’s unique fan pattern, Josh retro-previews movies, a dog opera, the World Series of the damned, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #327
October 23, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBAndy ages, toxic food theory, Josh gets retroactively fed up with The Replacements, Andy hits a new low, dream funeral lineup, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #326
October 16, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 73.5 MBAndy rehabs from sushi, Pizza and other mortality reminders, Polish joke theory, friendship tending, Josh spots a mobile hate crime, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #325
October 09, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes - 46.1 MBJust an hour today, Andy has powder advice, Josh’s sleep formula, the ticking gambling bomb, Trump’s blood thirst, menorah buying tips, and plenty more Spiraling.
Test Show #324
October 02, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBA jovial day of atonement, one strike down, more bad football watching, sad home pizza, weird Dylan, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #323
September 25, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours - 87.4 MBAndy’s bad trip to Rome, when a Cameo becomes an opera, dog dish, Andy cracks another nest egg, ditching the news, in-show follow-ups, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #322
September 18, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 80.6 MBAndy’s least favorite murders, deathbed follies, avoiding extra tech, family racism histories, dog updates, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #321
September 11, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.6 MBAndy has a shout-out letdown, music deaths of the week, Andy on the Mets/Jets cusp of the year, replaying “The Player,” Josh has a big name dinner, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #320
September 04, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours - 87.6 MBWe’re back from summer break! Andy joins the ranks of the retired, Josh has walls, act management skills, Josh’s social media ebb, Andy walks the cameo tightwire, listener questions, and oh so much more Spiraling.
Test Show #319
July 31, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 68.4 MBOur last show before summer break, Josh stays married another year, Andy tries to cash in on Pallilo-mania, the guys hit the wall with each other, some chemistry from the vault, passing off the SOTI, taking August off, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #318
July 24, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBAndy and Josh have a good deed duel, sports doc-orama, Andy watches Twitter burn, Van not the man, Josh sees Harvey (the movie, not the rabbit), a Jimmy Stewart dog poem, Listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #317
July 17, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBJosh gets social IRL, Clarence Thomas re-opens a wound, Josh Skidoos, SAG/AFTRA strike, Andy tilts at Twitter windmills, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #316
July 10, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 77.1 MBIt is “What It Is,” doc talk, OJMC, Andy reconsiders a fish grudge, break music by Clarity Repa, Andy’s bagel tales, BlueSkying it, Andy rediscovers sushi, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #315
July 03, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBAndy can’t stop checking in, Josh’s dog origin stories, Andy finds his bagel sweet spot, Grey Gardens, Andy de-stimulates, superhero fatigue, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #314
June 26, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours - 83.6 MBJosh has a Las Weekend, Andy reviews Pet Sounds (hint: it’s good), Surf Nazis, Sad news in Josh’s house, Sub-enfreude, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #313
June 19, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBAndy has a beach jam, drug thieves, doc talk gets tense, Josh heads to Vegas, The Wrecking Crew, Curb your Certainty, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #312
June 12, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours - 85.2 MBAndy takes a dementia test, Andy takes a dementia test, Josh recaps his Acme week, Andy commits a micro-aggression, Bob and Ray, Excerpt: Josh And Frank Conniff on “No Laugh Track”, murder golf, Rich Brotherton in the news, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #311
June 05, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBAndy becomes disenchanted with Eva Braun, Josh heads off on the road, state of the Twitter address, Andy rejects a doc review, snack talk, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #310
May 29, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 72.3 MBJosh ages under Andy’s radar, Hitler home movies, Josh attempts a media dump, podcast envy, SOTI torch passing, Susan and Andyversary, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #309
May 22, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 78.4 MBAndy crams for a DM, death of the SOTI, Andy throws the Lakers under the bandwagon and more bad L.A. timing, horrible is the new decent, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #308
May 15, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 75.3 MBHitler, Del Close, and other dictators, Andy’s early career cold calls, CNN clown hall, Josh puts in some scan time, The WGA strike, big little dog news. Listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #307
May 08, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 85.5 MBAndy works clean, mapping guilt, meltdown memory lane, Josh tries to get a word in edgewise, raising the bar for George Clooney, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #306
May 01, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBCelebrating the news purges, Josh clings to his Meat Loaf grudge, Andy reconnects to his Southern Rock roots, multi-level marketing mockery, Netflix Hitler reminders, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #305
April 24, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours - 84.9 MBAndy pays to watch a guy’s stuff, encyclopedia insecurity, supporting The Police, more studio heads, Josh ends his math career on a 5-note, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #304
April 17, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours - 90.5 MBLetting the air out of bubble wrap, more things Andy’s audio book told him, Comedy in the Crusades, Josh does the Hustle, Top Gun:AI, Andy gets pasteurized, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #303
April 10, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 79.7 MBAndy ages into money, Josh has a different Twain take, Andy tries to Stutz it up, Josh does a riffing gig while Andy does stand-up, Andy avoids oncoming traffic, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.