Puzzle Buddies: A Comedy Podcast For Adults!

Welcome back to the newest installment of whatever this is! Joining me this week on my dumb little puzzle cast are my roomies/assistant host Lee Kimbrell and Ran Barnaclo.  I have a few friends join in from an instagram live feed and forget to mic up the phone so now the last part of the podcast is a fun new game called "guess what the other half of the conversation is!" Winner gets bonus content, including the other half of said conversation and a NASCAR mug! Happy Quarantining! 

Joining me on this weeks puzzle pod are my good buds Molly Hartzell, Erica Turer, and Sean Muthig! Grab a puzzle, leave your buddy at home, and tune in!

This week's episode comes from our second LIVE episode, recorded at chameleon about a month ago (pre-apocalypse).  I am joined as always by my assistant host Red Barnaclo as well as my good buds, Giles Chickering, Wayne Memmott, Lee Kimbrell and Mike Hillinksi!  Also shout out to Danny Gamble for making this wonderful logo!!

This week John Schroeck joins us on the puzzle pod and learns us up on the current political climate.  Go out and vote tomorrow Ohio! Just don't touch that sexy face of yours while ya doin it!

My assistant host, The Kit-Kat Rat, regales me with tales of winning Kit-Kats in gambits of yore. 

Lee Kimbrell and Ran Barnaclo join the pod to tell coming of age stories and Andrew ends up the hero once again!

Join us for the gripping conclusion of our last disgusting episode.  Joining me again, is my part-time assistant Red Barnaclo.  Come get hog wild on the hottest puzzle podcast for adults in the greater Cincinnati Area.  Fuck yea!

DISCLAIMER: THIS EPISODE IS HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE!  If you are a sexually liberated hip cat then this is the episode for you because Randrew gets a little too explicit in this one.  If you are a family member please turn back now and in fact, go ahead and unsubscibe.  This smut is not for you.  Buckle in for part one of this sexy ass episode! PUZZLES AWAY!  

We did our first live podcast! At least the first half and that's pretty good!!! This special live episode is presented by Bombs Away Comedy! It was recorded at Three Points Brewery and features special guests Wayne Memmott, Billy Devore, Ran Barnaclo, and Lee Kimbrell! 

Ran Barnaclo comes on the podcast and tries to derail the whole operation by not paying attention to Andrew's incisive and thoughtful questions.  Things really heat up when the boys make a blood pact to become born again virgins and discuss their new lives being celibate and writing yelp reviews about the best lemonade haunts about town.  Come get some!

Andrew logs into his new audio diary to talk about Oreo hangovers, being terrible at yoga, voting and nothing.

Andrew is joined midway through his thoughts by hot air-balloon captain Chonce Levenson to talk about life in the skies! Check out Americans favorite family podcast for Adults only!  

Puzzle Buddy favorite Josh O’Neill returns to the pod to talk turtles, Louis CK, and city living.  Josh issues his State of the Cincinnati Comedy scene Address.  Andrew helps Josh prep for an upcoming job interview by improvising a series of mock interviews, but Josh quickly flips the script, and reverses roles on Andrew’s candy ass.  Andrew finds himself in quite the pickle, forced to think on his feet and explain to Josh why he feels qualified to keep his own podcast.  Does Josh get the job? Do Josh’s cutback’s force Andrew to retire from Puzzle Buddies LLC’s?  What’s been burning Josh’s Paddys lately?  These are the dumb questions we attempt to answer on this stupid podcast!

Joining me this week is the very funny Zach Powers!  Zach just moved to LA this week and he comes on to tell me how he thinks he’s better than me know and how he’s sick of this one-hole shit-town we call Cincinnati (his words, not mine.  I love it here).  We discuss the music that gets us juiced (Juice-tunes).  Zach confesses his love for hit Choch-Rock band Evanescence and the boys really get the convo cooking when we get into gold fish size.  Finally Andrew creates his new rapper persona “Buck, Buck, Ground Chuck” and everything works out just fine!  Tell your friends!

This week we have the very funny Phil Pointer joining us on the puzzle cast!  Philbo Baggins talks about his status as a furloughed government employee and how the shutdown is affecting him.  Phil points out (get it?!?!) how different groups of audiences react differently to his material.  We talk about how it feels to lose a clap off and discuss about how Clinton did a great job with the theme song even though  he needs to modify his last name and Phil does a spot on impression of me! Check out the new rehabbed IG account @puzzlebuddiespod! Im not locking myself out of this one I’ll tell you that much! Wrote my password down on my hand this time!

Joining me for this week’s edition of Puzzle Buddies are my awesome friends Mike Hillinski and Joe Mesa!  We find out that Mike is really into hardcore ASMR!  Find out what hi jinx the fellas are up to this week,  like will Joe finally tell Buffalo Puzzles to get fucked?  Just how much reverb can one man take?  How many times can Andrew say “like” in one sentence?  These are just some of the many hard-hitting puzzles we’re going to be piecing together.

Joining me this week on the puzzle-pod are my two hilarious friends Molly Hartzell and Sean Muthig!  We try to convince Sean’s silly ass to do stand up comedy, but he throws in the Crohn's-card and teaches us how to make a waffle salad!  We address the hard-hitting questions, like are children real, or are they just tiny little actors?  The debate really heats up when Molly posits whether or not Sandra Bullock even really exists.  She offers some winspiration for puzzling we and ruin Tony Hawk's marriage! Come piece together some FUN!!!  IM ANNOYING!

Joining me this week on the puzzle-pod is John Hays!  John is a musician/comedian/MMA fighter/photographer/lover/bad-boy.  We talk about what life is like being tattooed bad-boys.  We discuss who would win in an MMA fight (obviously me) and we discuss John’s job working at the Racetrack.  We discuss John’s proclivity for missionary sex and how he’s looking for a family.  Join us for the sexiest episode yet!

Leah Rudick and David Bly join the puzzle pod on Christmas night and David teaches us about Canada! I throw a little Christmas shade at my big sis even though she is being as nice as can be! Things get heated over the great Capri sun/lunchables merger debate!  We have some fun with accents so my apologies to anyone who might live in those countries! We discuss what’s been bugging us lately, like bugs!  Leah discusses being killed by a “swarm of insects” in a past life.  We do some practice drills to get better at small talk and Leah divulges her greatest fear - impromptu toasts.

My sister and brother in law join me for a special Puzzle Buddies Christmas edition.  We start with the world’s smallest puzzle and move on to a customized puzzle that they gave me as a Christmas gift.  The puzzle in question was a picture of me in a speedo as an 11 year old boy coming out of a pool, dripping with water and pure sexuality.   If this sounds creepy to anyone, just remember that I’m talking about a picture of myself in the past.  Ive done the calculations and determined that it is impossible to molest yourself so everyone just fucking relax!  Also, we find out that Leah is tone deaf AF!

Chris turns football Sunday into puzzle Sunday as his newfound love puzzle passion possesses him to pick up a golden girl puzzle! Lee has got something caught in his giblets because he is running hotter than Red Barnaclo.  An impromptu and fully necessary roommate meeting halts the puzzle pod to address Lee’s potty attitude and inability to spread out the pieces. YIKES TO RED! The gang gets into a heated game of “FMK” and some DIFFICULT decisions are made that leave some of us feeling less than whole.  Newlyweds Billy and Alicia Devore join us midway through for some hot takes on Golden Girls.  We find out that Alicia is a ghost-fucker and Billy doesn’t even seem to care!  Andrew gets his buzz on big thyme after discovering that the puzzle is cursed.

Gabe Kea comes on the puzzle pod this week and the boys get it on! We discuss my racist high school mascot, (GO REDSKINS)! We also talk about Gabe’s Canadian roots and the role hockey has played in his life growing up.  We also discuss the difficulty of stand up and Gabe talks about his eclectic taste of music.  It's a rip-roaring good thyme!

The witching-hour descends as the boys hash out some fiery and pent-up roommate drama.  Ran tries to sabotage the episode by trying to create dead-air and ruin the recording levels but Andrew foils his plans and saves the day. Lee and Andrew take a good look into each others eyes as the roommate meeting gets HEATED!  We discuss the etymology of Red’s name. Somebody pooped and the boys aim to get to the bottom of it. Then they bury the hatchet from all the roommate drama with a round of vodka shots and pizza pieces.  Lee makes the grossest drink ever created because he was mad about the great pizza heist.

Blake Hammond and I have known each other since we both started doing stand up, and this episode was a chance for us to note how we've developed as comics and people over the years. Blake and I discuss how our political system is fucked! Andrew’s biggest sexual fantasy comes true!  We talk about Blake’s sinful predilection for devil music and ghoul-punk and Andrew alienates any potential Jimmy Buffet fans out there.

Chris discovers he has quite a passion for puzzling.  Andrew attempts to ask Chris questions about comedy but Chris has no time for that as his laser focus hones in on his new passion - puzzles. We talk about his divorce and how that led him to comedy and how he’s managed to be successful on his own terms.  We also discuss advanced level geography and determine where TF Turkey is!

The incomparably funny Zach Wycuff joins us on the puzzle pod! We talk about Zach’s faith, his job as a parole officer and his life as a stand up comedian.  We talk about the struggles of being labelled into one group and how that misses the complex nuances of an individuals personality.  Zach talks about what it felt like to win the FPIC contest both immediately afterwards and the months following and the challenges that came along with that accolade.  Andrew misuses the word "pigeonhole" several times.

This is a whimsical hay-ride into the mind of the disturbed.  The boys put some custard on this hot one! Josh O’Neill and Lee Kimbrell hop on the puzzle-pod to discuss the most difficult aspects of stand up.  We start our own new segments including “Andrew’s Burnt Biscuits” and “Lee’s Roasted Giblets.”  COME ON DOWN!!!

Chris Weir has always been one of my favorite comedians.  We talk about his background in art and illustrating and the ways in which that intersects with stand up comedy.  We talk about the frustrations that come with doing stand up and how we deal with heckling and how that has changed over the years.  Finally, and most importantly we address our Swedish constituency and talk about why everyone should move to Sweden ASAP.  Check it out folks!

Ran comes back for his second appearance on the puzzle-cast and besmirches the host’s good name, so Andrew has no choice but to hurl a pot of piping hot pot of coffee into his face, disfiguring him horribly, in order to restore the Rudick family honor. Things quickly devolve into further mayhem as the pair discuss who would win in a post-apocalyptic fight over who would be a better father.  Lee “drops in” and Andrew learns what the word “compartmentalize” means.