Thought Spiral
356 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 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 #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.
Test Show #302
April 03, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.6 MBAndy differs with Mark Twain’s taste, Andy watches (or re-watches) a doc, more mogul chronicles, swishing the Trump indictment around in the mouth, Twitter twials and twibulations, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #301
March 27, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBAndy closes the book on the haunted Cameo, the 80’s stand-up to sitcom railroad, Andy revisits his Daily Show stint, Rock and Roll movies, Josh gets double-tortured, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #300
March 20, 2023 07:00 - 2 hours - 84.4 MBYes that’s right, 300! Oscar thoughts, Andy does an actual live stand-up set, Josh gets Zach justice, Josh gets cold-called, A Cameo goes very badly, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #299
March 13, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 76 MBJosh loses his battle against dog clothing, Andy goes deep C.K., a Proustian butt-dial, Taking the U.N. out of fun, Andy’s Pred-Lit spree continues, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #298
March 06, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBFaking musical knowledge, new dog update, canine history, “In the USA”, Andy has the hottest pastry in town, cyanide gummies, RIP Wayne Shorter, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #297
February 27, 2023 08:00 - 2 hours - 82.6 MBJosh expands the pack, Andy vs Sully, RIP Belz, prank aversion, the whatever-his-name-is trial, Andy jealous of Manson, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #296
February 20, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBFrom super balls to Super Bowl, it’s those commercials.., Cameo guilt, Andy will not go Quixotically, rebooting the reboot discussion, listener questions, is anyone reading this, help I’m being held captive in a description factory, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #295
February 13, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 78.8 MBJosh battles introversion and anti-semitism on his trip to SF, Andy’s dosing strategies, "You People” review, Sherman Oaks P.I., RIP Burt Bacharach, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #294
February 06, 2023 08:00 - 2 hours - 84.6 MBAndy figures out his own references, Josh gets too reasonable, Andy‘s door-to-door days, Andy lights his feud fuse, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #293
January 30, 2023 08:00 - 2 hours - 83.6 MBHow Andy became a man in Ireland, Josh keeps trying for 'dry January' in his house, no adderol gets Andy’s attention, liquor cabinet adventures, holding 'Night Court' in contempt. listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #292
January 23, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 82.2 MBAndy eats up “Velma" backlash like a Scooby snack, Manson vs the Unabomber, Andy’s favorite jealousy, Josh is tired of ride or die politics, Andy dodges bullet-19, Josh is down to the studs, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #291
January 16, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBTest Show #290
January 09, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBTest Show #289
January 02, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 79.4 MBMorning zoology, judges doing schtick, Andy’s cats, Phil Spector’s safety record, Josh is group fun poison, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #288
December 26, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 78 MBWhy Andy shouldn’t be armed, our annual visit to Pottersville, DoorDash darkness, Josh’s living nightmare, Bob Dylan’s x-ray detector, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #287
December 19, 2022 08:00 - 2 hours - 84.8 MBAmazon guilt, the arc of Andy’s softball career, Josh denies being the best, watching Twitter burn, Josh protects Billy Joel from demolition, the long dessert, listener questions, and much more spiraling.
Test Show #286
December 12, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 73.6 MBLove is all around, Andy can’t tell his Case from his Cale, the guys’ different approaches to making music, Spiral Bowl recap, Andy flips through commercials, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #285
December 05, 2022 08:00 - 2 hours - 86.6 MBAndy carefully rents a dangerous car, Thanksgiving recaps, it’s still not T.V., Josh rates the view-a-thons, The Spiral Bowl, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #284
November 28, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBAndy is fresh from therapy, Josh witnesses the birth of a monster, Andy explains Quakerism, Josh revels in restaurants, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #283
November 21, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 80.6 MBAndy does color commentary on a football text, the week in anti-semitism, Oww! It’s not TV.., Andy’s shoes are laced with trauma, the great Adderall famine, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #282
November 14, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 82.1 MBWatching Twitter burn, before and after the mid-terms, Andy relapses, Jewish travel guide, Andy’s SNL conundrum, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #281
November 07, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBAndy takes on Musk, Josh's showbiz success paradigm, election angst, Josh upgrades his tech, Andy doesn’t Square off with Whoopi, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #280
October 31, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBBlack belt discretion, Professor Kindler, more therapy re-cap, Josh goes life coach, Andy discovers the groin, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #279
October 24, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBAndy cracks some birthday bubbly, managing mid-term anxiety, more things Andy hates on TV, Josh gets the day right, snacking strategies, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #278
October 17, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBJosh survives another one, Andy is emotionally freed from the MLB season, Andy is mad at the New Yorker, a heinous guitar assault and other comedy musical crimes, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #277
October 10, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBAndy’s Creedence Clearwater reviling, the benefits of band violence, Josh gets ready for another backstabbing, Andy goes mono-polar, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #276
October 03, 2022 07:00 - 2 hours - 86.1 MBIt’s a Thought Spiral Rockin’ Jewish New Year, Andy has Beck in his craw, Josh takes Andy to Sunday School, Andy’s titanic emotional journey to watch a baseball game, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #275
September 26, 2022 07:00 - 2 hours - 82.8 MBAndy open-sources his medical care, the danger of talk show hosting, revisiting the Grape Lady origin story, Ken Burn’s latest, Biden’s not kidding, listener questions, an oxford comma, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #274
September 19, 2022 07:00 - 2 hours - 86.2 MBAndy goes to camp, Josh wins a war against nature, Andy watched some stuff, the olden days of lying, back to school memories, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #273
September 12, 2022 07:00 - 2 hours - 85.1 MBHappy Belabor Day, who to blame in a hack joke situation, Josh celebrates tennis drama, beware “the dinner hour”, entering the Charlesian Era, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #272
September 05, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 76 MBAndy finally gets around to rapping, exploring the podcast “space", Josh exposes the Don Rickles con, Andy rolls the Dice again, jack of no trades - master plumber, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #271
August 29, 2022 07:00 - 2 hours - 83.1 MBAndy puts an old jealousy to rest, facing casting reality, Josh plays the dumb guy, Andy practices safe Twitter ranting, geo-political round-up, Andy’s Nazi show of the week, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #270
August 22, 2022 07:00 - 2 hours - 87.3 MBSherman Oaks P.I., Andy the family business dead end, Josh explains show business, audience relations, pork talk, Andy can’t “Take it Easy”, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #269
August 15, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBJosh’s tongue gets a new hobby, Andy learns the ins and outs of podcasting, Andy’s heroin holdout continues, heavy is the tooth that wears the crown, rent prices in Andy’s head, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #268
August 08, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 81.5 MBAndy and Josh recap the SOTI hologram experience including plenty of clips, irony sports, Andy takes the Magic out of his Earvin Johnson encounter, Josh is late to his own extortion, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #267
July 25, 2022 07:00 - 2 hours - 89.8 MBThe guys take a field trip, body language illiteracy, a mean messiah complex, Andy passes the Horshack test, searching for SOTI targets, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #266
July 18, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBA peeping Andy, Josh takes up fencing, some back and forth on tennis, Andy’s horse dread, homeless issues, SOTI-prep, listener questions, and oh so much more spiraling.
Test Show #265
July 11, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBRemembering the Doobie Brothers'…names, the hologram that wouldn’t die, Andy meets with a food Nazi, the cinema of discontent, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #264
July 04, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBAndy meets his holo-self, our current pundit peeves, tales of road depression, Carlin and Brian Wilson doc reports, how to "how to,” listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #263
June 27, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBJosh’s pack of cig-regrets, Andy gets a walking buddy, pogo stick memories, talking the new KITH, the whole "stripping human rights away from half the population” thing, listener questions (along with audio issues), and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #262
June 20, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBFinding a use for computers, Andy is on the Spectrum…cable, opera scorn, audition dread, stand-up on Netflix, Josh goes black, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #261
June 13, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBAndy’s got a new boss, an aborted hate-watch, Andy reports on his vacation, the state of flopping, the Star Wars hotel failure, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #260
June 06, 2022 07:00 - 2 hours - 89 MBAndy enlists for Mets duty, 20th anniversary celebrations, hate laundering, Josh follows the narcissism trail, Andy’s “Too Good to be True”, Norm’s last stand-up, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #259
May 30, 2022 07:00 - 2 hours - 85.4 MBAndy and Josh bat around the central questions of existence, waiting for the kids to ripen, a pill of goods, Josh watched some stuff, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #258
May 23, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBJosh returns from the wild, getting loopty loopy about roller coasters, parsing "American Pie,” oldies are new again, Andy’s jury duty suspense, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #257
May 16, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 74 MBDelusions of sports grandeur, Andy’s big Cameo, parsing Garfield, the mid-century disenchanted Jew genre, Josh reports from Mpls., listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #256
May 09, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 81.8 MBTasting Mom’s resentment, Andy recaps the WHCD, bracing for Musk Twitter, Josh meets the metal scraping tool, the distracted air traffic controller, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #255
May 02, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBAndy goes boom, a 70’s-style regret, the death of the late-night monologue, Andy fears he’s entertaining himself wrong, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.