Thought Spiral

By Andy Kindler & J. Elvis Weinstein

What's Thought Spiral about?

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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Thought Spiral episodes:

04.15.2024
Test Show #351
The 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.
04.08.2024
Test Show #350
Andy 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.
04.01.2024
Test Show #349
Mark 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.
03.25.2024
Test Show #348
Andy 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.
03.18.2024
Test Show #347
Recapping 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.
03.11.2024
Test Show #346
Friend 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.
03.04.2024
Test Show #345
Comedian/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.
02.26.2024
Test Show #344
Andy 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.
02.19.2024
Test Show #343
Josh 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.
02.12.2024
Test Show #342
“Best of the Lockdown” - A look back at the summer of 2020 when the guys tried to take Covid and make Covid-ade.
02.05.2024
Test Show #341
Andy 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.
01.29.2024
Test Show #340
Josh 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.
01.22.2024
Test Show #339
Andy 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.
01.15.2024
Test Show #338
Andy’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.
01.08.2024
Test Show #337
Andy 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.
01.01.2024
Test Show #336
A 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...
12.18.2023
Test Show #335
Our 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.
12.11.2023
Test Show #334
The 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.
12.04.2023
Test Show #333
Thanksgiving 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.
11.27.2023
Test Show #332
Chew 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.
11.20.2023
Test Show #331
Andy 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.
11.13.2023
Test Show #330
Andy 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...
11.06.2023
Test Show #329
Andy 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.
10.30.2023
Test Show #328
Wedding 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.
10.23.2023
Test Show #327
Andy 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.
10.16.2023
Test Show #326
Andy 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.
10.09.2023
Test Show #325
Just 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.
10.02.2023
Test Show #324
A jovial day of atonement, one strike down, more bad football watching, sad home pizza, weird Dylan, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
09.25.2023
Test Show #323
Andy’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.
09.18.2023
Test Show #322
Andy’s least favorite murders, deathbed follies, avoiding extra tech, family racism histories, dog updates, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
09.11.2023
Test Show #321
Andy 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.
09.04.2023
Test Show #320
We’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.
07.31.2023
Test Show #319
Our 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,...
07.24.2023
Test Show #318
Andy 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.
07.17.2023
Test Show #317
Josh 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.
07.10.2023
Test Show #316
It 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.
07.03.2023
Test Show #315
Andy 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.
06.26.2023
Test Show #314
Josh 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.
06.19.2023
Test Show #313
Andy 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.
06.12.2023
Test Show #312
Andy 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,...
06.05.2023
Test Show #311
Andy 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.
05.29.2023
Test Show #310
Josh 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.
05.22.2023
Test Show #309
Andy 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.
05.15.2023
Test Show #308
Hitler, 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.
05.08.2023
Test Show #307
Andy 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.
05.01.2023
Test Show #306
Celebrating 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.
04.24.2023
Test Show #305
Andy 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.
04.17.2023
Test Show #304
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.
04.10.2023
Test Show #303
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.
04.03.2023
Test Show #302
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.

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Thought Spiral episodes:

Test Show #351

Test Show #350

Test Show #349

Test Show #348

Test Show #347

Test Show #346

Test Show #345

Test Show #344

Test Show #343

Test Show #342

Test Show #341

Test Show #340

Test Show #339

Test Show #338

Test Show #337

Test Show #336

Test Show #335

Test Show #334

Test Show #333

Test Show #332

Test Show #331

Test Show #330

Test Show #329

Test Show #328

Test Show #327

Test Show #326

Test Show #325

Test Show #324

Test Show #323

Test Show #322

Test Show #321

Test Show #320

Test Show #319

Test Show #318

Test Show #317

Test Show #316

Test Show #315

Test Show #314

Test Show #313

Test Show #312

Test Show #311

Test Show #310

Test Show #309

Test Show #308

Test Show #307

Test Show #306

Test Show #305

Test Show #304

Test Show #303

Test Show #302