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Thought Spiral

356 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 493 ratings

Comedians 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 MB

Letting 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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Yes 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 MB

Josh 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 MB

Faking 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 MB

Josh 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 MB

From 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 MB

Josh 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 MB

Andy 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 MB

How 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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Test Show #290

January 09, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 76.6 MB

Test Show #289

January 02, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 79.4 MB

Morning 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 MB

Why 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 MB

Amazon 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 MB

Love 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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Watching 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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Black 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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Josh 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 MB

Andy’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 MB

It’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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Happy 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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Sherman 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 MB

Josh’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 MB

Andy 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 MB

The 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 MB

A 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 MB

Remembering 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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Josh’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 MB

Finding 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 MB

Andy’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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Andy 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 MB

Josh 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 MB

Delusions 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 MB

Tasting 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 MB

Andy 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.