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Wandering the Aisles w/ Andy FarnsworthHam & TableA 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.
2020-07-2400 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy FarnsworthDisco BloodFrom 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
2020-07-1500 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy FarnsworthThe BachelorAn 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 finalist to be on "The Bachelor." And (paraphrasing here): "It's funny y...
2020-07-0900 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy FarnsworthSizzling with Sharad@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.
2020-06-2700 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy FarnsworthWitch TargetRitualcraft (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.
2020-06-2400 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy FarnsworthThe Edge of DenverWhat 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.
2020-06-1700 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy FarnsworthBut You WhiteFirst, 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-progressive; insightful; startingly "non-shamey"; compassionate, and super quick-witted Methodist minister in Anaheim, CA. A city which i...
2020-06-0800 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy FarnsworthWhat We Hear@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 information for "White people who want to help out but don’t know how.”
2020-06-0500 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy FarnsworthA Brother Runs Through ItThe 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-on-the-way-home-from-the store ritual. This is a longer episode for you to live in and truly one of the best recorded evenings in the history of @wanderingaisles. Support...
2020-05-2400 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy FarnsworthToo Many Wizards@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.
2020-05-2000 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy FarnsworthToe JobThe 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.
2020-05-1400 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy FarnsworthKronberg's ListMy 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, John Oliver’s New York Standup Show, and Last Comic...
2020-05-0500 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy FarnsworthDoest Thou Even Hoist, Comrade?Months 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 Chad). It's a plant-based/modern fathering experience for athletes and civilians alike. You can support @wanderingaisles at Patreon...
2020-04-2900 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Panic Buys"Me 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!
2020-04-0100 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Six Foot Feelings"Season 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.
2020-03-1800 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Burnt On Wonder"The 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
2019-04-0700 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Sex Toilets"Casing 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
2019-03-0800 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Mormon Zoo"In 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
2019-03-0300 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth“Tool and Die”John 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
2019-02-2200 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Boat Act"Tim 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: Staten Island Ferry is noisy so the audio isn...
2019-02-1400 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Sweat Lodge"Adrian 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
2019-02-0900 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Clip Show"Preview 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
2019-02-0100 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Slightly Dating"A 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 some bins. I follow up a couple months af...
2018-04-1800 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Famous Lost Worlds"Andy 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
2018-04-0500 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Ear Hustling"A 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 us talking back in May in Prospect Park. @Sha...
2016-07-0100 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Emotional Graffiti"Tim 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
2016-06-1800 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Being in Jeff's Apartment When He's Not There"A 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, and the guy behind "'And I Am Not Lying...
2016-06-0400 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Walking to an Audition"For 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, 2016 and February 22, 2016 and is one of the...
2016-05-1800 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Trap, Neuter, Return"Margaret 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 easy to talk to. @dodgecityradio Check out Dodge City Radio: Friday nights at 7p...
2016-05-1000 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"The Barber of Sunset Park"This 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...
2016-03-1200 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"The Sacred Struggle of Bedtime"It'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 she called an "Alone Woman Sh...
2016-02-0400 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"1-800-BAD-TOUCH"It'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 own childhood sexual abuse. In this episode I play...
2016-01-1500 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Ali, Meet Chango"Ali 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 #AliRachelPearl #ModernLove #OnTinderOffSex #Changoliveset #Comedy #Podcast #SelfHelp #EDM #NYC #WYYW #UnionSquare
2015-12-3000 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"There and Back Again"Over 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 titled "Mutual Testament" in the as of yet unpublished manuscript "Style, Elements." For n...
2015-12-1600 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Stops Fighting Food"How 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
2015-11-2500 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Present French"I 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, mimicking people, food, death, and a lot of other very French type stuff. It's...
2015-11-1800 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Child Power"Livia 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 on the Livia Scott Sketch Program at...
2015-11-0900 minWandering the Aisles w/ Andy Farnsworth"Living Out Loud"The 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 served as a guide for all the episodes that have followed. Anti-instincts. I'd say this epis...
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