Wandering the Aisles with Andy Farnsworth

Wandering 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.

SN5:EP15 "Ham & Table" 07/24/2020

SN5:EP15 "Ham & Table" A 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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/15343034

SN5:EP14 "Disco Blood" 07/15/2020

SN5:EP14 "Disco Blood" From 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 /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/15224861

SN5:EP13 "The Bachelor" 07/09/2020

SN5:EP13 "The Bachelor" An afternoon with one of my real-deal, go-to friends here in Denver, Alex Elliott @alexelliottpics. And by afternoon, I mean the better part of an entire afternoon. (Mostly Sprouts and us just talking in my truck.) 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. We were months into our friendship before he casually mentioned he was a finalist to be on "The Bachelor." Stuff like that. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/15120620

SN5:EP12 "Sizzling with Sharad" 06/27/2020

SN5:EP12 "Sizzling 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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/14989976

SN5:EP11 "Witch Target" 06/23/2020

SN5:EP11 "Witch Target" Ritualcraft (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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/14942687

SN5:EP10 "The Edge of Denver" 06/17/2020

SN5:EP10 "The Edge of Denver" What 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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/14857997

SN5:EP9 "But You White" 06/08/2020

SN5:EP9 "But You White" First, 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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/14745236

SN5:EP8 "What We Hear" 06/05/2020

SN5:EP8 "What We Hear" @wanderingaisles went quiet 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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/14705996

SN5:EP7 "A Brother Runs Through it" 05/24/2020

SN5:EP7 "A Brother Runs Through it" Eeland Stribling @blacksteveirwin is: a killer Denver comic, major part of the @brownfolksfishing project, and co-host of "Get Home Safe" podcast. We start with a King Soopers and trade our takes on: trout fishing and race; religion; carbonated Hawaiian Punch; and Ireland (or what he calls "White People's Africa"). This is a longer episode for you to live in and one of the best recorded evenings in the history of @wanderingaisles. Support the show at Patreon.com/WanderingTheAisles or just tell a friend. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/14549315

SN5:EP6 "Too Many Wizards" 05/20/2020

SN5:EP6 "Too 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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/14361416

SN5:EP5 "Toe Job" 05/14/2020

SN5:EP5 "Toe Job" The 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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/14361398

SN5:EP4 "Kronberg's List" 05/05/2020

SN5:EP4 "Kronberg's List" My collaborator in meandering is @benkronberg. Co-proprietor of The Denver Comedy Lounge, Ben lives in his own county. One 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.” /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/14295407

SN5:EP3 "Doest Thou Even Hoist, Comrade?" 04/29/2020

SN5:EP3 "Doest 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. 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. Donate here: Patreon.com/WanderingTheAisles /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/14205785

SN5:EP2 "Panic Buys" 04/01/2020

SN5:EP2 "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 Whole Foods, and King Soopers out 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." /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/13795778

SN5:EP1 "Six Foot Feelings" 03/18/2020

SN5:EP1 "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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/13595012

SN4:EP7 "Burnt On Wonder" 04/07/2019

SN4:EP7 "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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/9299396

SN4:EP6 "Sex Toilets" 03/08/2019

SN4:EP6 "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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/8925353

SN4:EP5 "Mormon Zoo" 03/03/2019

SN4:EP5 "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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/8851082

SN4:EP4 "Tool and Die" 02/22/2019

SN4:EP4 "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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/8742431

SN4:EP3 "Boat Act" 02/14/2019

SN4:EP3 "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. 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 actually living with someone. (Note: Staten Island Ferry is noisy so the audio isn't perfect here.) /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/8642582

SN4:EP2 "Sweat Lodge" 02/09/2019

SN4:EP2 "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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/8578700

SN4:EP1 "Clip Show" 02/01/2019

SN4:EP1 "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 /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/8488592

SN3:EP2 "Slightly Dating" 04/18/2018

SN3:EP2 "Slightly Dating" A trip to Wal-Mart and a grocery store, 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. I follow up a couple months after to see how she's doing. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/6496328

SN3:EP1 "Famous Last Worlds" 04/05/2018

SN3:EP1 "Famous Last 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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/6447626

SN2:EP5 "Ear Hustling" 07/01/2016

SN2:EP5 "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." /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/4486541

SN2:EP4 "Emotional Graffiti" 06/17/2016

SN2:EP4 "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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/4452019

SN2:EP3 "Being in Jeff's Apartment When He's Not There" 06/04/2016

SN2:EP3 "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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/4418118

SN2:EP2 "Walking to an Audition" 05/18/2016

SN2:EP2 "Walking to an Audition" 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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/4378667

SN2:EP1 "Trap, Neuter, Return" 05/09/2016

SN2:EP1 "Trap, Neuter, Return" Margaret Dodge is my traveling companion this week. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/4353496

SN1:EP9 "The Barber of Sunset Park" 03/12/2016

SN1:EP9 "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. /episode/index/show/whatsyouryarnworth/id/4214175

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