Thought Spiral

Andy prepares for his big trip, Josh tries to list Andy's day jobs, Malice at the Palace, Andy's unrealized LSD fantasies, and much more Spiraling.

Andy gloms on to the Knicks, ditching your younger self, sorting out Israel feelings, Josh hates Andy's new friend, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Andy cruises the mall, Josh struggles to lower his anecdote standards, Kindler on Kindler crime, comedian children's books, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Andy reunites with Arsenio, doing sets at 85, Andy gets cheated out of a murder, the new Kindlermobile, Josh can't remember what he added to the show as he writes this description, listener questions, and much more Spiraling. 

That's right, 400! Andy has grinding anxiety, living in the Pope gap, Andy shifts into car buying gear, Josh's poli-pod theory, Andy drains the tragedy from The Dead, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Andy milks the Elks, the age of bailing, Andy's golf buzz, Josh finds the limits of his dilettantism, Art Spiegelman, Hair Club for Jeremy, and much more Spiraling.

Josh fires up his stand-up radar, Andy goes searching for himself…on Reddit, holy license plates, Andy milks the Cowsills doc, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Josh has a good vibe adventure, Andy unsatisfied by JFK files, Andy suffering from L.S., Bluesky Almanac, Andy loves celebrities, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Andy wakes up to the wrong people, Josh's attention span in the Trump era, the party Andy imagines himself at, Josh heading out of town, and much more Spiraling. 

Finding a form of productive powerlessness, Josh's age denial in his early career, Andy's face bounces back, Josh goes to a screening of “The Big Whoop”, listener questions, and much more spiraling.

Josh has jury duty again, Andy can't stand up for falling down, the joy of part of a cigar, Chuck Schumer disappoints, Josh likes a movie, Andy likes a show, listener questions, and much more Spiraling. 

Andy sniffs out a scam, Oscar round-up, kid-scaring movies, more grudges and beefs, Josh sees the value of atheists, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Bouncing back from a spat, Andy does a gig outside the comfort district, Andy looks for people to talk yacht rock with, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Josh slays a false narrative for Andy, SNL 50th, actors vs athlete's dysfunction, the old rock star experiment, Andy watches Yacht Rock Doc, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Super Bowl recollections, Josh is a water hero, finding cultural harmony with pastrami, Andy wakes up drunk, lotsa docs, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Andy's Grammy recap, working geek skills into stand-up, Parsing Randy Newman. Josh waits for America to hit bottom, Andy does a gig, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Downhill from the Greatest generation, Andy thinks he should be doing Dylan covers on TV, Josh goes rollerblading, Andy watches the “The Fiddling Horse”, audition memories, the current SNL doc gauntlet, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Ignoring the inauguration, Andy's gig report, the right to be wrong,  Andy's de-X-ing process,  Andy finally puts The Curly Shuffle in its place, Josh listens and occasionally comments, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

The guys discuss their near brush with the brushfire, Josh betrays his possessions, how social media bad feelings have evolved, alert fatigue, coping strategies for the coming era, and much more Spiraling.

Andy attempts football empathy, the week in watching, bravery triggers, LA on fire, local disaster coverage, Andy scratches his Manson itch, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Happy New year, the guys give their holiday recaps, Andy finds his old age drink, Josh's youth drinking, Denny's Andy, the week in watching, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Andy has fresh watchings, Josh's people habits, deep diving one of Andy's top shelf grudges, rock and roll affectations, our christmas break, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Josh questions Andy's diagnostic skills, Andy seeks justice for JonBenet, Andy celebrates a Met get, Josh watched stuff, Andy gets a name for his pain, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Pre-natal grudges, Andy finds his booze match, Josh gets haunted, Doc watching reports, Andy vs truck, Josh vs chihuahua, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

An abbreviated Spiral due to thanksgiving travel, fear of a black spatula, forgetting 80's stand up,  Andy's ode to soup, Josh's bro theory, Andy's fixed income, and much more Spiraling.

Andy plans his getaway, Josh's new metaphor, getting back to bad gigs, keeping murder fresh, RIP Andy Paley, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

The X-odus to Bluesky, the folly of assigning blame, writing sucks, Josh uses the prefix “micro” 3 times in an hour, brain management in the Trump era, Andy cranks up the gigs, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

2 Hours, 2 moods this election week. the elastic ethics of insult comedy, documentary ruts, coping plans for Trump 2, bad information voters, the age of picking your fights, Hi Gruber, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Going to a Garden party, Josh slaps back at the Kindlers, last pre-election takes, debating dog capacities, A Grateful Death, Josh replaced his memories with jokes, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Andy puts the Mets to bed for the year,  Andy's movie shoot, state of the podcast, Josh gets an alcohol ambush, pre-election feels, IRL lunch report, listener questions, and much more Spiraling. 

Birthday week in Kindlerville, Josh tries to gin up some baseball rivalry, the drag of celebrities, sleep strategy, Andy tries to de-Google, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Andy's got Mets playoff fever, confessing to comedy crimes, Andy goes full Kindler on SNL and gets hot about Coldplay, Josh tames the tiny beast in his bed, kinks in the Slinky, listener questions, and much more Spiraling. 

Andy ties one on, Kris Kristofferson, sorting out generations, Andy tries to watch baseball correctly, considering Pink Floyd, listener questions, and much more Spiraling. 

Andy defends Rock and Roll romanticism, documentary viruses, a schadenfreude moment, “Freaks and Geeks” anniversary, reading “Being There”, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

JAMES ADOMIAN joins the Spiral for the first hour to talk about his new stand-up special “Path of Most Resistance” plus: Andy tries to construct a point out of song lyrics, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Looking for A.I., Andy hears more books, the downside of musical elitism, post-debate kvellling, Andy gets called to cartoon duty, Josh worries about new visitors in the neighborhood eating his dog, tales of forced judaism, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Andy cleans up his feelings on Biden's decision, Josh cares about tennis for a minute, Andy still trying to get the grudge release concept down, Andy tries a healthier form of head banging, the Malcolm Gladwell tipping point, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

We're back from vacation! Andy's face-plant-based diet, Josh rejects Andy's grudge, content anhedonia, Moon Zappa's book, Olympics and other August happenings, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

Our last show before summer break, adjusting to the new Presidential race, Andy quizzes Josh on his ancestry, an X posting post mortem, sports fan idealism, listener questions, and much more Spiraling!

Processing last weekend's events, Larry Kindler's workplace, Josh collects ice cream market data, Andy is right about everyone, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.

A rare IRL interaction between the guys, more Joe-riatric discussion, Andy tries Josh's latest ice cream, the world of confirmation bias, Josh escapes to the Old West, LISTENER QUESTIONS, and much more Spiraling.

Week 2 of America trying to take grandpa's keys, pegging the Thought Spiral golden age, Discussing meat guilt, Josh defends ambivalence, Andy tries to nickname Josh, and much more Spiraling.

Andy turns a comedy grudge into a hockey grudge, Crying and kissing on film, Andy does a Sopranos aria, Dealing with debate shock, Andy goes in for body work, and much more Spiraling.

Everything's coming up Hitler, a callous response from the dentist, defending and attacking this week's watchings and listenings, auditions versus cronyism, and much more Spiraling.

Andy survives his first white-knuckle weekend, Josh cracks his own code, Andy takes his hand into the shop, Andy enrages Lawrence of Astoria, Weinstein Watches, and much more Spiraling.

Andy plots to infiltrate the Vanderpumps, the allure of reality shows, Andy opens his three year old gift, crippling grandiosity, the search for “no soap, radio”, this week's doc watching, and much more Spiraling.

Andy emotionally preps for another podcast, stoicism rage, Josh's addiction dodging,  Andy's Naked Lunch, staying in the moment with the Trump verdict, ice cream updates, and much more Spiraling.

Andy turns the tables on 60 Minutes, Josh continues his frozen adventures, Tiny Grudges, Andy retries the Hurricane, Josh ages again, and much more Spiraling.

Andy strides confidently back to TV, more Beatle-ology, , Roger Corman, Josh's new dangerous hobby, and much more Spiraling.

Andy's early season Mets dysfunction. Josh gets frosty with ‘Unfrosted', the wrong crowd conundrum, Andy gets some hands-on doctor action, RIP Steve Albini, Josh's Mom had a badass moment,  “Let it Be” is back, and much more Spiraling.

Andy finds religion with a flute solo, Josh sets off a lunch grudge, a French king dies again, the limits of performative awfulness, Crameos, and much more Spiraling.