Wandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth
39 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsWandering the Aisles documents the impulse buys, thefts, and meandering grievances of everyday people in the American retail wasteland and beyond. Happenings out in the world. Spontaneous conversational films.
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SN5:EP15 "Ham & Table"
July 24, 2020 18:43 - 1 hour - 97 MBA strolling inventory of the chicharrones, fresh spices, and Llama-cop piñatas at the vibrant Lowe's Supermercado in Denver, CO. Comedian Adrian Mesa @mesathings gives @bambifransworth a crash course on Cuban cuisine and presents a compelling case for his theory of pretentious restaurant naming.
SN5:EP14 "Disco Blood"
July 15, 2020 20:38 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBFrom Denver to LA via a Dropbox Homing pigeon, @sethandthecity collaborates with @bambifransworth on a very special @wanderingaisles. The show is comprised of two audio letters, a clip of one of Seth's greatest standup bits, and brand new music from @thefriendshipsband, his musical partnership with @ryamcownie
SN5:EP13 "The Bachelor"
July 09, 2020 06:58 - 1 hour - 101 MBAn afternoon with one of my real-deal, go-to friends here in Denver, Alex Elliott @alexelliottpics. And by afternoon, seriously, I mean the better part of an entire afternoon. Mostly Sprouts and us just talking in my truck. Verité podcasting. I didn't cut much because it's really hard to get tired of this guy. He's a genuine, wise, cat who never brags or name drops AT ALL even though he totally could. For example, I was months into knowing Alex before he happened to casually mention he was a...
SN5:EP12 "Sizzling with Sharad"
June 27, 2020 21:19 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MB@Insanebrownposse (BK Sharad) joins Andy in the search for fatherly comedy affirmation, talks being brown in Colorado, and cooks bacon the entire time he's on the phone. There's considerable soul-searching, faltering, questionable monologue-ing in this one so if you're itching to cancel somebody get that notepad out.
SN5:EP11 "Witch Target"
June 23, 2020 23:08 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBRitualcraft (Target for Denver Witches) and Botanica Yemaya with massage therapist, hand witch, and healing artist, Abby Jane Palmer @abbyjanepalmer. We slash through the shame forests of our religious upbringings and find our way into the clearing of a more inclusive and freeing spirituality. Sex, magic, and good-touch karma flowing through this episode.
SN5:EP10 "The Edge of Denver"
June 17, 2020 10:53 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBWhat begins as a failed trip to REI for a hat, becomes Steve Vanderploeg @slumdogchillionaire giving @bambifransworth a surprise visit to the now-defunct "Dog the Bounty Hunter" retail store. We walk Sloan's Lake and find the solace of our earliest curse words among the wary pandemic ducks. Support Wandering the Aisles on Patreon.
SN5:EP9 "But You White"
June 08, 2020 19:57 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBFirst, a fiercely compassionate and steely listener letter from Kisha Baskin--Andy's Junior High School friend who, maybe on accident, changed the direction of his life by telling him he was funny. And meant it. Next, (you'll notice this episode is still rated "explicit.") You'd think a clergy member would shy away from Andy's earthy lexicon and subject matter. Not so with the Reverend James Dollins. This conversation will surprise the Hell out of you. (No pun.) Dollins is a socially-pr...
SN5:EP8 "What We Hear"
June 05, 2020 03:53 - 1 hour - 66.3 MB@wanderingaisles went quiet last Wednesday out of respect for Black Lives Matter. Before we get back on schedule next week, I've put together a couple timely, stripped down episodes for today and Sunday in honor of George Floyd and BLM. A collage offering of sturdy angles, devoid of my usual monologues and cutaways. This first installment: An unflinching petition for understanding from NYC comedian Drew Dowdey. Oh and check out @thewhiteshift, a great IG that offers distilled informatio...
SN5:EP7 "A Brother Runs Through it"
May 24, 2020 21:34 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBThe inimitable Eeland Stribling @blacksteveirwin--one of the most relaxed, but killer comics I've seen in a while. He's also a Wildlife Biologist and a major part of the @brownfolksfishing initiative. AND co-host of the popular "Get Home Safe" podcast. We start with some basic bachelor grocery shopping and trade our takes on: trout fishing and race; religion; carbonated Hawaiian Punch; Ireland (or what he calls "White People's Africa"); and witness a rare kid-accidentally-breaking-some-eggs-...
SN5:EP6 "Too Many Wizards"
May 20, 2020 12:12 - 1 hour - 67.3 MB@haleydrizcoll is our traveling companion today. The joyous peril begins with a traditional pre-show de-crystalling ceremony in front of Andy's place. Then: it's fronting English in front of a Natural Grocers; talking exchange students at a mile-high Asian market; soccer hooligans in a middle school parking lot at sunset; and a suburban Vaquero appearing out of the vapor to guide our spirits back home. Support @wanderingaisles at Patreon.com/WanderingTheAisles.
SN5:EP5 "Toe Job"
May 14, 2020 07:54 - 55 minutes - 51 MBThe nail salons are all emery-boarded up for a while. So treat your indoor self this audio indulgence from late 2019, wherein the incomparable Cami Nelson serves as @wanderingaisles first poet/mom/nail-salon guide.
SN5:EP4 "Kronberg's List"
May 05, 2020 18:59 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBMy collaborator in meandering today is @benkronberg. Co-proprietor of The Denver Comedy Lounge, Ben lives in his own county. And that county is not located on the surface of this planet. Kronberg county is INSIDE the planet. He lives in a small, underground museum deep within the Earth’s crust. There is an access tunnel to it covered by a place he refers to as quote “his girlfriend’s house.” If you Google Ben Kronberg, not only will you find his killer sets on Late Night with Seth Myers, J...
SN5:EP3 "Doest Thou Even Hoist, Comrade?"
April 29, 2020 19:44 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBMonths before the world changed, Chad Niel @PlantBasedChad offered me a Tofurkey wrap off a hummus-smeared plate and chided my reluctance to eat after him. Hauntingly, this twenty-sixth @wanderingaisles opens with a foreboding joke about germs and preparing for "the Big One." We say "dude" a lot and I get some solid real-time shopping advice about meal prep and the practicals of eating plant-based. Chad hosts the popular "Cooking with Chads" show on YouTube where he cooks with his son (also ...
SN5:EP2 "Panic Buys"
April 01, 2020 06:18 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBMe and a very funny guy named Denzer, one week into the new world, navigating ransacked aisles in search of last meals. We drive out to a Whole Foods, and King Soopers in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado. It's a first foray into the epoch of what my friend Jared Mendenhall calls: "One day at a time with two weeks of toilet paper." Support us on Patreon!
SN5:EP1"Six Foot Feelings"
March 18, 2020 10:07 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBSeason five's inaugural episode is just me and you (a reasonable distance from each other) at an Aldi in Omaha, a Safeway in Denver, and notes from one of the most purgatorial weekends in the history of standup.
SN5:EP1 "Six Foot Feelings"
March 18, 2020 10:07 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBSeason five's inaugural episode is just me and you (a reasonable distance from each other) at an Aldi in Omaha, a Safeway in Denver, and notes from one of the most purgatorial weekends in the history of standup.
SN4:EP7 "Burnt On Wonder"
April 07, 2019 16:33 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBThe erudite Brian Earl: comedian, improv genius, and savant, guides Andy through the Willy Wonkian aisles of Standard Restaurant Supply in Salt Lake City. (Where all the restaurants get their stuff.) The perils of first dates for comedians, drinking out of shoes, Dad jokes as population control. @wanderingaisles
SN4:EP6 "Sex Toilets"
March 08, 2019 06:15 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBCasing City Creek Center with Connie Daly, a retired Rhode Island school administrator, relationship sage, and spinner of some wild stories from the trenches of American education about sex toilets and sheep mutilation. @wanderingaisles
SN4:EP5 "Mormon Zoo"
March 03, 2019 05:36 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBIn which Meggie Troili, artist, musician, organizer of happenings, takes Andy to Salt Lake's Hogle Zoo. The two experience western caged wildlife dosed with underage drinking PSAs. @meggietroili @wanderingaisles
SN4:EP4 "Tool and Die"
February 22, 2019 08:41 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBJohn Florence, host of KRCL's "A Brand New Day" (weekdays 6-10am on KRCL 90.9FM), walks Andy through Sutherland's, John's favorite local hardware store. Andy picks up an Oklahoma accent, reveals the healing power of the "shath," and the two explore the merits of the latest digital mousetrap. @rockadayjohnny @wanderingAisles
SN4:EP3 "Boat Act"
February 14, 2019 06:12 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBTim Duffy, comedian, writer guy for Comedy Central, takes Andy along on his daily commute from Staten Island into the city. It’s an everyday trip Tim's been taking for years, but Andy still finds it exotic, which makes him feel a little like a hayseed. Also, on this Valentine's episode, Andy gets into the thick of it re: what it means to be in love at 41 and how he's worried he'll have to start closing the kitchen cabinet doors when he's finally living with someone for the first time. (Note...
SN4:EP2 "Sweat Lodge"
February 09, 2019 01:46 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBAdrian Lambrinos invited me to a sweat lodge ceremony in April and it was such a powerful experience it shut me up for about 9 months. This is my attempt to take you through it with me. Glad to be back. @wanderingaisles
SN4:EP1 "Clip Show"
February 01, 2019 20:53 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBPreview of Andy’s new standup album. Roundup of where WtA has been the last few months and where it’s wandering next. This is a mini-episode clip show of: your refurbished host; the cinching of some bows on the past; and a sigh of hope for an amazing and stable new one. Highlights of a profound experience with Adrian Lambrinos, my ambassador to a sweat lodge ceremony which will air in its entirety soon. @wanderingaisles
SN3:EP2 "Slightly Dating"
April 18, 2018 19:56 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBA trip to Wal-Mart, a recent MS diagnosis, sobriety, dating in recovery, and a reconciliation with Lauryn Bunker. We spend a lot of time talking in my car, yelling and trading stories. Lauryn shouts at a man while driving past the strip club, and I yell about an amends gone awry with an ex-girlfriend that ended with the destruction of my old Volvo. We attempt to eat candy out of those "free" bins. Can't find any bins at Wal-Mart. Get kicked out. Then we go to another grocery store and find s...
SN3:EP1 "Famous Last Worlds"
April 05, 2018 05:39 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBAndy sets the stage for the first season of Wandering the Aisles. A trip to the Mormon Goodwill, known in Utah as "Deseret Industries," with photographer Natalie Simpson. Their afternoon thrift store odyssey yields Andy an old lady chair and an emotional breakdown in what may or may not be the dead kid stuffed animal section. @wanderingaisles @neverendinghike @beehivephotovideo
SN2:EP5 "Ear Hustling"
July 01, 2016 21:49 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBA harrowing camp story and comedian and actor Sharron Paul. You might recognize her once we start talking. She’s the voice of the mom, Francine, on the kids cartoon Fanny Fun Facts on Amazon, and she’s also in a webseries called “GhostedBusters." Sometimes I get a little nervous talking to guests, especially the part right there at the beginning. The hello. The handoff from being alone to being in someone’s company. But I was good with Sharron and we had a pretty epic conversation. Here’s ...
SN2:EP4 "Emotional Graffiti"
June 17, 2016 22:43 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBTim Racine and I on: cats that try to separate us from our lovers; frozen gummy bears; and lying about Pantera. Also, former NPR reporter Athena Desai ties a bow on a 14-year-old audio clip mystery I've been trying to get my head around since I left WBUR in 2002. @TimRacine Athena Desai = @brighteyeslife
SN2:EP3 "Being in Jeff's Apartment When He's Not There"
June 04, 2016 02:21 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBA tiny documentary on what it's like to be in a friend's apartment when they're not there. Followed by me and Jeff talking about: people who don’t wring out the kitchen sponge; getting way deep into the nature of storytelling (he helps coach me through an impossibly climax-less story I keep insisting on telling). He comes over and cooks me the mushrooms I helped watch for him one weekend in March. Jeff’s a real heavyweight and it was an honor to have him on. He's “a storyteller, standup, a...
SN2:EP2 "Walking to an Audition"
May 18, 2016 20:30 - 1 hour - 135 MBFor better or worse, this episode is likely one of the first podcasts ever to provide an audio chronicle of the day before a colonoscopy. This week my walking companion is Katina Corrao. Much has been written about her positivity, but what is sometimes left out is just how much loss she has experienced in her life. We bond over the grim and I marvel at the horsepower of her attitude. I hate the word "attitude," but she helps me accept it again. This episode was recorded on January 27, ...
SN2:EP1 "Trap, Neuter, Return"
May 10, 2016 05:11 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBMargaret Dodge is my traveling companion this week. Recorded in two parts: October 25th, 2015, on a visually and aurally beautiful day in Central Park; then, deeper into our respective issues and into the belly of her new apartment/feral cat cave at the end of February 2016. Basically, this episode bookends several months of substantial emotional fermentation. Anyway, I’m making some progress and Margaret has become a good friend and has been pretty helpful with that. She's funny and ea...
SN1:EP9 "The Barber of Sunset Park"
March 12, 2016 00:40 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBThis week I visit Eric Aleman, owner of the storied King of Kings Barber Shop in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. I’ve been going to him for a couple years and it's always an odyssey which begins on my scalp and ends in my heart. Eric, like a lot of good barbers, is able to step in and out of conversation. He’ll talk if you want to talk. Or he’ll just step back and keep working on your hair. That’s part of why I like him. He’s not only a really solid barber, he’s also a talented lyricist, hip-ho...
SN1:EP8 "The Sacred Struggle of Bedtime"
February 04, 2016 06:13 - 1 hour - 75.2 MBIt's one thing to be invited into the home of a comic, but to see them in the thick of motherhood is, to me, like the spotted owl of documentary conversation. Today's episode is a sort of extreme form of eavesdropping. An audio portrait of the sacred struggle to get a kid to bed with comic, mom, and brilliant facebook satirist Julie Kottakis. AKA Madge the Vag. I first saw Julie perform at the New York Fringe festival last year in her solo show "Does This Dress Make Me Look Alone" which sh...
SN1:EP7 "1-800-BAD-TOUCH"
January 15, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBIt's impossible to tell the story of how I know comedian and psychologist Marc Gerber without getting into a host of sordid and vulnerable-making trauma from my past. He offered some perspective back in June that changed my life and comedy. Gerber is an atypical hybrid of a professionally funny and employably empathetic person. He and I met when I performed on a show at the PIT called Relationshit where he served as on stage therapist for a story I told about a piece of material about my o...
SN1:EP6 "Ali, Meet Chango"
December 30, 2015 03:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBAli Pearl, author of the recent New York Times Modern Love article 'On Tinder, Off Sex,' and I discuss: the intimacy of listening to Enya together; our emotional exhibitionism; and a grudge I had against her for not putting me in her article. I also take her to meet Chango—those badass EDM subway performers in Union Square wearing Mexican wrestling masks you may have been lucky enough to experience. On Tinder, Off Sex Ali's Blog @AliRachelPearl Chango's Facebook Page #AliRachelPea...
SN1:EP5 "There and Back Again"
December 16, 2015 17:00 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBOver a year in the making, this epic episode spans several conversations with NYC comedian Aalap Patel. From Alpha Donuts in Queens, along Avenue A in the village, 3 of Andy's apartments, a rooftop in Brooklyn, and into the dark heart of one of New York's most beloved funny men. [Correction: The poem that I read about 22 minutes in to this episode is by Greg Koehler and his name is actually pronounced "Keeler." Originally published in Ninth Letter as "Heart River Dirge," the poem is now t...
SN1:EP4 "Stops Fighting Food"
November 25, 2015 17:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBHow ducks have sex; ways to call in sick to work; and "food brain"--just a few of the topics covered during this fantastic conversation with LA comedian Barbara Gray. We walked through Prospect Park in Brooklyn on a crisp afternoon and watched fall ripen around us. Listen to this episode of What's Your Yarn Worth? with Andy Farnsworth and then go listen to her on the popular Lady 2 Lady podcast over there on Maximum Fun. Lady to Lady Podcast @BabsGray @Lady2LadyComedy Sauce
SN1:EP3 "Present French"
November 18, 2015 01:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBI hope that this conversation with one of the best and brightest French people I know makes up for my lack of insightful commentary on the situation in France. Sami Bronowski is a NYC comedian who walked around Manhattan with me back in April. (I've been sitting on this episode because I was worried you guys might think it's too difficult/distracting to listen to a lively conversation which sometimes battles the sounds of dump trucks and helicopters.) We talked about the usual stuff: girls, ...
SN1:EP2 "Child Power"
November 09, 2015 07:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBLivia Scott is not only a freakishly funny and compassionate person, who I was stoked to get to spend an afternoon in Prospect Park with, she also offers a compelling theory about my childhood that helped me find my inner 2nd-grader's Walter White. She explains the origins of her body suit and why she is so proud of a particular song she wrote, one that confirms all my worst fears about my genitals. Listen as we "embarrass our way to the right hand of God." And go see Livia in her shiny suit...
SN1:EP1 "Living Out Loud"
October 13, 2015 18:00 - 1 hour - 91.5 MBThe inaugural episode of this podcast. (Originally "What's Your Yarn Worth? w/ Andy Farnsworth.") An honest, unvarnished conversation with James Greco: painter, inner monologue coach, and person I respect and love a whole lot. There's literally zero production on this first episode. Just a straight, conversational document. Pretty much every instinct I had at the time told me not to put this out there, but my friend Tasha listened to it and told me not to trust my instincts. It's advice that...