This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by Garrett Bucks , a writer, organizer, recovering white do-gooder, and parent based in Milwaukee. Garrett runs The Barnraisers Project , writes The White Pages newsletter, and is the au...
This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by Garrett Bucks , a writer, organizer, recovering white do-gooder, and parent based in Milwaukee. Garrett runs The Barnraisers Project , writes The White Pages newsletter, and is the au...
This week, Quinn and Claire talk about first crushes, school dances, bloody noses, and other horrors of middle school before getting into why youth sports are dying across the US, especially because coaches make no money whil...
This week, writer Emily Gould joins Quinn and Claire to discuss her obsession with Heated Rivalry (it's about hockey, primarily), the aging cliff at 44, ruining everything you used to find fun by professionalizing it, and par...
This week, we have Meghan Keane Graham and Mark Graham on the show to chat about their podcast, Back In My Day , where they watch movies from when they were 12 and force their kids (ages 12 and 9) to discuss them. We discuss:...
This week we're talking about the delicate art of making everything toxic for your children (Whole Foods? Ruined. Florida? The worst. Every public figure? Probably a Nazi.), how to tell kids bad news on their level ("Grandma ...
This week it's just Quinn and Claire on the pod, crashing out over academic probation (which is actually kind of a relief?), school surveillance that catches kids Googling inappropriate things (it was obviously just a prank, ...
"Not Right Now is the conversations I have after bedtime + the thoughts in my head. Thank you for the commiseration of what it means to have too many water bottles yet never the *right* one. Also,…"