Thought Spiral
Episodes
Test Show #343
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Josh shares his lateness strategy, Andy lives large in NY, Charlie Chaplin, the Hollywood niceness bonus, Josh tests his moral fiber, listener questio...
Test Show #342
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Best of the Lockdown" - A look back at the summer of 2020 when the guys tried to take Covid and make Covid-ade.
Test Show #341
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andy announces his secret trip, old Jew medical corner, young dog medical corner, a bungled comedy opportunity, Glibertarianism, some listener questio...
Test Show #340
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Josh pledges change, Andy yells about football, Josh's algorithmic sleigh ride, economic theory, Andy achieves a reunion, snack-free professionalism, ...
Test Show #339
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 muc...
Test Show #338
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, l...
Test Show #337
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Test Show #336
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Test Show #335
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 g...
Test Show #334
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, gen...
Test Show #333
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 que...
Test Show #332
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Test Show #331
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andy struggles with tough deadlines, fixed-income fever, Josh tries to reconcile with humanity, Israel, oy, Albert Brooks Doc, listener questions, eve...
Test Show #330
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Test Show #329
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andy finds divinity in vanity plates, Shake n' Bake and other throwback fare, Matthew Perry talk, Yogi Berra, Andy lives out his picketing fears, list...
Test Show #328
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 mo...
Test Show #327
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andy ages, toxic food theory, Josh gets retroactively fed up with The Replacements, Andy hits a new low, dream funeral lineup, listener questions, and...
Test Show #326
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andy rehabs from sushi, Pizza and other mortality reminders, Polish joke theory, friendship tending, Josh spots a mobile hate crime, listener question...
Test Show #325
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 mor...
Test Show #324
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A jovial day of atonement, one strike down, more bad football watching, sad home pizza, weird Dylan, listener questions, and much more Spiraling.
Test Show #323
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 questi...
Test Show #322
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andy's least favorite murders, deathbed follies, avoiding extra tech, family racism histories, dog updates, listener questions, and much more Spiralin...
Test Show #321
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, li...
Test Show #320
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ca...
Test Show #319
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, som...
Test Show #318
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Jim...
Test Show #317
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Josh gets social IRL, Clarence Thomas re-opens a wound, Josh Skidoos, SAG/AFTRA strike, Andy tilts at Twitter windmills, listener questions, and much ...
Test Show #316
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
Test Show #315
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Test Show #314
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 mo...
Test Show #313
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 mor...
Test Show #312
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Fra...
Test Show #311
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 qu...
Test Show #310
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Josh ages under Andy's radar, Hitler home movies, Josh attempts a media dump, podcast envy, SOTI torch passing, Susan and Andyversary, listener questi...
Test Show #309
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ques...
Test Show #308
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ne...
Test Show #307
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andy works clean, mapping guilt, meltdown memory lane, Josh tries to get a word in edgewise, raising the bar for George Clooney, listener questions, a...
Test Show #306
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrating the news purges, Josh clings to his Meat Loaf grudge, Andy reconnects to his Southern Rock roots, multi-level marketing mockery, Netflix H...
Test Show #305
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 q...
Test Show #304
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 pasteu...
Test Show #303
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 oncomi...
Test Show #302
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, Tw...
Test Show #301
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
Test Show #300
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Test Show #299
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, l...
Test Show #298
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Faking musical knowledge, new dog update, canine history, "In the USA", Andy has the hottest pastry in town, cyanide gummies, RIP Wayne Shorter, liste...
Test Show #297
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
Test Show #296
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From super balls to Super Bowl, it's those commercials.., Cameo guilt, Andy will not go Quixotically, rebooting the reboot discussion, listener questi...
Test Show #295
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, l...
Test Show #294
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Test Show #293
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, holdi...
Test Show #292
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 do...
Test Show #291
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Test Show #290
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Test Show #289
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Morning zoology, judges doing schtick, Andy's cats, Phil Spector's safety record, Josh is group fun poison, listener questions, and much more Spiralin...
Test Show #288
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why Andy shouldn't be armed, our annual visit to Pottersville, DoorDash darkness, Josh's living nightmare, Bob Dylan's x-ray detector, listener questi...
Test Show #287
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Test Show #286
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 comm...
Test Show #285
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Test Show #284
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andy is fresh from therapy, Josh witnesses the birth of a monster, Andy explains Quakerism, Josh revels in restaurants, listener questions, and much m...
Test Show #283
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Test Show #282
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Watching Twitter burn, before and after the mid-terms, Andy relapses, Jewish travel guide, Andy's SNL conundrum, listener questions, and much more Spi...
Test Show #281
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andy takes on Musk, Josh's showbiz success paradigm, election angst, Josh upgrades his tech, Andy doesn't Square off with Whoopi, listener questions, ...
Test Show #280
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Black belt discretion, Professor Kindler, more therapy re-cap, Josh goes life coach, Andy discovers the groin, listener questions, and much more Spi...
Test Show #279
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andy cracks some birthday bubbly, managing mid-term anxiety, more things Andy hates on TV, Josh gets the day right, snacking strategies, listener ques...
Test Show #278
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 mus...
Test Show #277
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andy's Creedence Clearwater reviling, the benefits of band violence, Josh gets ready for another backstabbing, Andy goes mono-polar, listener question...
Test Show #276
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Test Show #275
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, l...
Test Show #274
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Test Show #273
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Belabor Day, who to blame in a hack joke situation, Josh celebrates tennis drama, beware "the dinner hour", entering the Charlesian Era, listene...
Test Show #272
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 - m...
Test Show #271
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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'...
Test Show #270
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Test Show #269
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Test Show #268
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andy and Josh recap the SOTI hologram experience including plenty of clips, irony sports, Andy takes the Magic out of his Earvin Johnson encounter, Jo...
Test Show #267
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The guys take a field trip, body language illiteracy, a mean messiah complex, Andy passes the Horshack test, searching for SOTI targets, listener ques...
Test Show #266
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 mu...
Test Show #265
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Remembering the Doobie Brothers'…names, the hologram that wouldn't die, Andy meets with a food Nazi, the cinema of discontent, listener questions, a...
Test Show #264
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andy meets his holo-self, our current pundit peeves, tales of road depression, Carlin and Brian Wilson doc reports, how to "how to," listener question...
Test Show #263
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Test Show #262
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Finding a use for computers, Andy is on the Spectrum…cable, opera scorn, audition dread, stand-up on Netflix, Josh goes black, listener questions,...
Test Show #261
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, an...
Test Show #260
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andy enlists for Mets duty, 20th anniversary celebrations, hate laundering, Josh follows the narcissism trail, Andy's "Too Good to be True", Norm's l...
Test Show #259
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 questio...
Test Show #258
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Josh returns from the wild, getting loopty loopy about roller coasters, parsing "American Pie," oldies are new again, Andy's jury duty suspense, liste...
Test Show #257
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Delusions of sports grandeur, Andy's big Cameo, parsing Garfield, the mid-century disenchanted Jew genre, Josh reports from Mpls., listener questions,...
Test Show #256
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tasting Mom's resentment, Andy recaps the WHCD, bracing for Musk Twitter, Josh meets the metal scraping tool, the distracted air traffic controller, l...
Test Show #255
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
Test Show #254
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Josh drug tests Andy, more death of the SOTI, colorizing black and white thinking, an on-air death omen, Josh's Mom as doomsday prepper, listener ques...
Test Show #253
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andy reads the signs, King of the Morons, Josh rejects Andy's movie review, Andy shuts down the SOTI, the dork tax, talking Gilbert, listener questi...
Test Show #252
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dungeons and drag on, Andy does some self-listening, the history of air quotes, GMOs: Friends or foes, Paul Lynde's bad feedback, listener questions, ...
Test Show #251
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The inevitable "Slap" debriefing, Josh interviews Leno, the revolt against celebrity "royalty," Andy needs a boost from his booster, "In the USA" (Car...
Test Show #250
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Licorice Pizza doesn't deliver for Andy, Josh issues corrections, Visine murders, Andy describes his collapse, Josh trashes the place, listener questi...
Test Show #249
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Monkey optometrist, podcast round-up, Andy gets ego-phished, "Merry, Merry" murder medley, sibling rivalry, Andy renounces his inner Billy Jack, liste...
Test Show #248
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The king of misplaced commitment, the "wait, what?" crisis escalates, The Lone Ranger's last episode, "Get Out of Town", old man problems, listener ...
Test Show #247
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andy tidies up after last week's spat, poking holes in the Swiss, more like Scare BnB, "never a thinker" calls back, listener questions, and much more...
Test Show #246
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Posthumous morning radio, Andy clears his Olympic notebook, an argument about an argument, Josh loses his power of attorney, listener questions, and m...
Test Show #245
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Defending the Jewnabomber, Andy watches part of many things, Josh rejects invasive flavors, Andy protects humanity from podcasts, expatriation planni...
Test Show #244
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andy drinks his protein but still has beefs, Josh loses another part, Andy's first cameo fight, Josh eschews the outliers, Andy turns his back on Jesu...