Super Familiar with The Wilsons
Marriage 2.0 with kids…and all the side quests!Super Familiar with the Wilsons is a weekly comedy podcast about second marriage blended family life, and the beautiful chaos of parenting, aging, and figuring it all out (again). Hosted by Amanda and Josh, partners in life, love, and side quests, each episode dives into real-life stories, quirky observations, listener emails, and spontaneous tangents that somehow always circle back to relationships, resilience, and the absurdity of modern life.Whether you’re navigating your own second act, raising kids who don’t want your help, or just wondering why birds seem to aim for yo...
The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Shut Up
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This week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons, Josh has decided the world is too damn loud and would like everyone to stop participating in it. Amanda, meanwhile, would prefer that her husband remain at least theoretically available for conversation.
Super Familiar with the Wilsons. Marriage 2.0, with kids. And side quests. Because apparently the main quest wasn't exhausting enough.
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The Politics of Shared Peanut Butter
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How do you politely end a conversation when you have absolutely no intention of going anywhere? Is it possible to establish personal boundaries without inventing a contagious disease? And at what point does a stranger's child become a credible threat? Josh and Amanda navigate the treacherous waters of social etiquette, marriage, parenting, and the politics of shared peanut butter.
Seasonal festivities, questionable encounters, unfinished business, and the occasional interruption from a universe that seems to be having administrative difficulties.
It's a comedy podcast about marriage, family life, and the...
The Marital Performance Review and The Unfinished Business File
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Marriage is a beautiful partnership built on love, trust, mutual respect, and the occasional formal performance review conducted by someone who has appointed herself management.
Also, after six years of podcasting, we've realized we've left an alarming number of stories dangling in the breeze. So we're opening the Wilson Unfinished Business Department (BANGGGGGGGG) to revisit old mysteries, questionable decisions, abandoned ambitions, and things that probably should have been allowed to die quietly.
Fancy internet words to make people listen: Marriage, parenting, ADHD, midlife, and judging your spouse.
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Game Time: "To Guess or Not to Guess" Movie Plots
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This week, Shakespeare wanders into a Blockbuster video store, fantasy football becomes an exercise in statistically average humiliation, and the Wilson household discovers that sobriety apparently comes with a surprisingly expensive beverage subscription.
It's pop culture, movie trivia, fantasy football, and matrimonial absurdity.
All the world's a stage. Unfortunately, the Wilsons have microphones.
Beeth gnarly.
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GLP-1s, Garlic, and Emotional Support Haunted Castles
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Garlic is supposed to be good for you, but nobody warns you about the part where it starts leaking out of your pores. We start with Amanda’s emotional support haunted house in the studio and Josh spiraling over fantasy football, then take a sharp turn. Amanda shares what it’s like starting a GLP‑1 medication on a weight loss journey in her 50s. We also talk menopause and hormones, of course.
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Game Time: Amanda's Fantasy Football Picks
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A viral grandma, fantasy football incompetence, and the important question: would you rather deal with a ghost or a poltergeist?
We start with the strange story of Vozinha, then Josh hands the football over to Amanda. Amanda predicts this week's fantasy football winners and upsets.
Finally, spooky season has arrived, so we tackle Halloween Would You Rather questions.
If you're listening to this little in between episode, you clearly like us more than is medically advisable. So go listen to our full-length episode from Monday, tell a...
Perimenopause, Spider Eyes & No Dog Left Ungreeted
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We stayed out until 10 pm, so naturally we’re exhausted.
This week: a stranger at Gator soccer who desperately wants to be our friend, Amanda’s strict No Dog Left Ungreeted policy, the haunted dollhouse that has become a member of the family, and chatting about perimenopause and not quite feeling like yourself.
Plus, Daniel and Winthrop hunt for spider eyes, we reconsider what makes someone a real friend, and Josh explains why you should never pass up an available toilet.
Midlife is going great.
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Bonus: Mailbag and The Wilson Marriage Card Deck
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“I don’t care where we eat” might be the biggest lie in modern marriage. We talk about decision fatigue, anxiety, ADHD time blindness, and why “fine” rarely means fine.
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Our Neighbors Don't Want to Be Our Friends and The Shelves Were a Mistake
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This week, Amanda tries to make friends in the neighborhood and gets roughly the same response you'd expect from shouting into an abandoned well. That sends us down several extremely important rabbit holes: the unwritten rules of holding doors, forgetting people's names, perimenopause brain, adult friendship, polite lying, anonymous confessions, parenting fantasies we should absolutely never act on, and whether supporting someone's terrible art is an act of love.
Marriage. Friendship. Neighbors. ADHD. Perimenopause. Social etiquette. Cheap hardware.
You know. The usual.
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Please Do Not Introduce a New Variable
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What happens when work stress follows you home and everyone in the family is running on low emotional capacity? Josh and Amanda talk marriage, parenting, mental overload, stress eating, checking out, overstimulation, and the strange little things that help when your brain has simply had enough.
Along the way, they ask about food temperature, the therapeutic possibilities of going to bed absurdly early, and whether a household can legally declare that it is no longer accepting new information.
It’s an episode about stress, coping, marriage, and finding a li...
Bonus Game Time: Whose Hill Is It, Anyway?
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We’re leaning hard into the Marriage 2.0 side of Super Familiar with a bonus Gametime round of “Whose Hill Is It Anyway.” We read a stack of scenarios and predict each other’s answers, then argue the merits. And we survive!
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Perhaps You Can Outrun a Cold plus Emergency ASMR
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Josh has a cold and briefly becomes convinced he has discovered something about the human body that all doctors and scientists in recorded history have somehow overlooked.
Amanda brings some questionable science of her own, which leads to an attempt at communicating directly with Josh’s body. Meanwhile, the Wilson household has been rocked by a municipal change of such staggering importance that it threatens to alter the entire rhythm of the week. The neighbors are no help. They may, in fact, have a separate group chat.
Then there’s a...
"A Girl Meets Poverty on a Whale" Google Translate Movie Mayhem
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Can a good movie plot survive getting mangled through multiple rounds of Google Translate? In this bonus episode, we crank up our “Game Time” challenge to identify famous films from descriptions that sound like they were written by a sleep deprived robot.
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Messi, The Premier League, and Other Things We Don’t Understand
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This week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons, Josh and Amanda settle into the pub and wander confidently into subjects they are not qualified to discuss. There’s a sudden outbreak of Premier League football, a question about what the rest of the world thinks Americans actually do on weekends, a mysterious artifact from the early days of the Miami Heat, an unexpected canine side quest, and the triumphant return of a game that takes perfectly respectable movie titles and sends them through a wood chipper.
Winthrop continues to become alarmingly sm...
Burger Week and The Bear Has Been Eating Cheese Since Tuesday
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This week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons, Josh and Amanda return to the important questions facing modern families: Why does food suddenly become boring? How many subscriptions are quietly feeding on your bank account because you forgot to cancel the free trial? Can technology save us from ourselves by simply removing all of our choices? And at what point does a laundry basket stop being a household object and become a monument to everything we have failed to accomplish?
Along the way, Josh and Amanda talk adult...
Nobody Asked for the Pee Quiz
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This week, our marriage is fine, the dog has entered assisted living, and Josh is considering growing a mullet despite a significant shortage of front-of-house hair. We wander through ADHD unmasking, Alexa’s refusal to play the correct Brooks & Dunn, the economics of crow friendship, and the growing suspicion that Finland may simply be too content to listen to this podcast.
Then Amanda finds an online quiz designed to make Josh pee himself.
It does not.
Emotionally, however, everyone leaves damp.
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Miami is a Financial Mistake
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Marriage is a beautiful partnership between two people who love each other very much and would occasionally like the other person to stop making decisions.
This week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons, we’re wandering through the strange middle years, where brains change the rules without updating the manual, hormones begin operating as an independent government, and a perfectly ordinary conversation can suddenly require NATO intervention.
We’ve also been traveling, which means spending alarming amounts of money to experience things we could never have predicted woul...
FIFA Is Corrupt and Dating Fails with Gavin Belson
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We invited Gavin from Be There With Belson over to talk about the World Cup, and for a few glorious minutes we actually stayed on topic. We get into soccer gatekeeping, why everyone becomes an elite tactical genius every four years, whether FIFA deserves your trust, and the surprisingly wholesome side of a tournament that somehow convinces billions of strangers to care about the same thing at the same time.
Then the conversation wanders off like a toddler in the ALDI center aisle. We end up discussing modern dating, self-worth, perimenopause...
Our 9 Year Old's Philosophy is "Life is Only Two Minutes Long"
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Josh stops masking his ADHD, which accidentally launches one of the deepest conversations we've ever had. After feeding years of podcast transcripts into AI, we discover what artificial intelligence thinks our personalities actually are and it isn't entirely flattering.
Along the way we wrestle with uncomfortable questions about identity, memory, and whether there's even such a thing as a single "real" version of ourselves. Then our nine year old casually delivers a line that sounds like it came from a Buddhist monk instead of a fourth grader.
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Our Maine Trip, Horse Tornadoes, and Lobster Rolls
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After two weeks away, we are back with stories from Maine, where delayed flights, lobster pounds, suspiciously homemade mayonnaise, and surprisingly charming small towns made for an unforgettable trip.
Along the way, we debate airport etiquette, discover the world's largest cryptozoology museum, argue over fireworks parking, play a game of guessing perimenopause replacement words ("horse tornado" might become part of your vocabulary), answer listener emails, and wrestle with the surprisingly complicated question of whether friendships should always require equal effort.
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World Cup Fever and a Goat in Miami International Airport
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We're not saying the timeline is broken. We're just saying it could probably use a software update. Scientists believe reality is held together by a delicate web of cause and effect. We spend an hour trying to prove them wrong.
Along the way, we become unexpectedly obsessed with the FIFA World Cup, attempt to choose Premier League teams, survive the glorious chaos that is Miami International Airport, spend way too much money on airport food, and discover an internet business that absolutely should not exist, and, by the way, a new...
The Importance of Being Bored and Nostalgia In The Target Toothpaste Aisle
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This week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons, a quick Target trip spirals into a Gen X nostalgia summit, we uncover a child sized fashion manifesto and discuss sleep accessories forehead dents.
Along the way, birthday-party battlefield tactics, accidental hometown reunions, the strange power of sports fandom. Plus: antique mall treasure hunting, British pub curiosities, listener mail from around the world, and a reminder that screens may be the solution to many modern problems and the cause of several others.
Key words, yo! Gen X nostalgia, parenting po...
Celebration Florida, Instant Best Friends, and the Worst Game We've Ever Played
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Amanda travels to a conference, Josh develops strong opinions about theme parks, and Winthrop unveils a previously undiscovered superpower involving the relationship between flavor and color. Meanwhile, somewhere in Central Florida, an Irish accent slowly migrates.
Also appearing in this episode: a suspiciously perfect town, a security guard quietly monitoring a Florida Man, a parking garage operating under entirely different laws of physics, a pantry exorcism, rogue paper bags, perimenopausal brain fog, patriotic inflatable overload, and a game so profoundly unnecessary that it circles all the way back around to being...
"Please Stop Worrying, You're Nine"
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This week, we're recording from our newly named pub, The Admiral's Rest, where conversations include kidney stones, children worrying about our mortality, and how artificial intelligence is getting dumber.
We talk about the strange things kids fixate on when they're nine, the surprising number of jobs we've collected over the years, why buying used stuff feels like winning, and the growing realization that adulthood is mostly just trying to keep everyone calm while quietly Googling things yourself.
Also: dog birthdays, darts, anxiety, work, aging, treasure hunting at thrift stores, a...
The Pub and the Pickled Egg
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We built a pub inside our house in one week, and then we stress-tested it with a birthday party full of friends, darts, and the kind of conversations that make you ask, “How did we get here?”
Also, Kermit and Miss Piggy breakup, VeggieTales, and being an introvert. The the Flashbacks history trivia game, plus recommendations.
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"I'm Running for Judge" with Eric Atria
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This week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons, Josh and Amanda sit down with local judicial candidate and longtime Gainesville music scene fixture Eric Atria for a chat about community, purpose, survival, creativity, and why Gainesville feels different from the rest of Florida.
Meanwhile: Josh declares war on remastered albums, Winthrop continues his hostile takeover of car rides with unsolicited percussion, John the Scot returns with another phrase no living American can decipher, and Wilson Technology unveils a product that may or may not solve climate change using hamster ball engineering.
The Kidney Stone, The Colonoscopy, and The Cardinal
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This week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons, Amanda and Josh wander through the glamorous middle-aged carnival of kidney stones, medical waiting rooms, colonoscopy overachievement, Mother’s Day grocery-store flower panic, and the quiet horror of realizing your favorite songs now play in retirement communities.
There are bird feeder breakthroughs, tiny pub dreams, invented words, listener mail, home decluttering wisdom, aging Gen X discomfort, Microsoft Teams rage, and the sudden realization that comfort is no longer a luxury.
A journey through marriage 2.0, parenting, aging, health weirdness, Florida backyard birds, an...
Romancing the Kidney Stone, Plus Decluttering Your Life
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Amanda is expecting...a kidney stone. Help us name it!
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Parenting Through Soccer Trials and Troubles
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This week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons, we record in the wild (nature: loud, unpredictable, vaguely threatening) and spiral into a conversation that includes, but is not limited to, youth sports, parenting philosophy, public behavior, small plastic instruments, and the general question of how any of us became adults.
Somewhere in here a child learns something important about the human condition.
We also explore parenting and resilience (how much is enough, how much is too much, and who decides?), marriage dynamics in real time...
Josh's Double Nickels and Amanda's ADHD
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It's Josh'a Birthday. And ADHD takes control of the show.
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25 Essential Words for World Peace
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We're had a rough week so in lieu of a new episode, here is an episode of theUnscrew It Up Podcast, where Josh and Amanda try to solve a big problem with a tiny tool: a shared set of words that could help people communicate across borders. We pitch two competing “universal language” systems, test them out loud, and realize how fast meaning breaks when context disappears.
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When Kids Snitch, Empty Easter Eggs, The Self Check Out Line
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Easter weekend chaos and a last-minute Walmart run, the psychology of self check out while avoiding human interaction, honesty, loyalty, and why kids snitch, why dogs “mark” everything, a Gainesville restaurant review for Bingo Deli and Pub at South Main Station, Flashbacks timeline game, and listener feedback.
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Music by Ricky Kendall, Chris Barron, AJCW, and Josh Wilson
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Youth Soccer and The Forced Apology Letter
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In this episode, we spin through a series of completely normal conversations that somehow include fashion critiques no one asked for, identifying your spouse by their sneeze, and the weaponization of the phrase “my love.”
Winthrop is back on the field after a long break, and it turns out youth sports are not just about winning (although… there was some winning).
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Preventing beverage-related disastersAmanda continues to live like it’s 1989Listener emailsBeing a tourist in your own townIt’s marriage, parenting, minor arguments, and the ongoing pr...
Spring Break Meltdown in Amanda's Anxiety Village
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Spring Break 2026: board game chaos, disappointing zoo visit, the Game of Life, the “dog hair” verdict, the trampoline park fire, a bad haircut, a miniature anxiety village, “possess me”, quitting Amazon and other shenanigans.
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Thanks to Ricky Kendall for our music!
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How Fie Scoobie Became “Mr. Gainesville”
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Sometimes your side quests take you straight into the heart of your city.
In this episode of Super Familiar with the Wilsons, Josh and Amanda sit down at one of their favorite Gainesville pubs, The Bull, to talk with the man currently blowing up across town, local rapper Fie Scoobie, better known around here as “Mr. Gainesville.”
What started as a hometown anthem suddenly caught fire when the Florida Gators basketball championship celebration sent his song echoing through downtown. One minute he was worki...
"I Was An Embalming Technician"
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This week, Madison joins us to talk about her time working in a funeral home, what death teaches the living, and why grief, absurdity, and dignity all seem to sit at the same table. Also: farmer’s market people-watching, Aldi dresses with pockets, and somehow, Fallout.
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Go Tell Collin Whitlock!!
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This week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons, Amanda and Josh are joined by Collin Whitlock for a chaotic chat about storytelling, community, and why a room full of grown adults collectively moaning can be the most emotionally responsible thing you do all month.
Along the way: we test our extremely questionable knowledge of English cities, wander into the sacred territory of awkward silence, and remember that being uncomfortable in a safe place is… weirdly kind of the point?
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How Not to Explain Where Babies Come From
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Relationships are the story. And this week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons, that story includes Olympic drama, jalapeño eye trauma, Gen X sex education trauma, and one extremely inconvenient question from a nine-year-old.
We dive into Winter Olympics chaos (cheating scandals, flying survivalists, and medals that can’t hang), flash back to how we learned about “the birds and the bees” (spoiler: not well), and wrestle with modern parenting in a world where YouTube exists and woods no longer hide questionable magazines.
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A surprisin...Parenting with Screen Time and Flirtatious Strangers
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Parenting in a digital world can feel like steering a canoe in crosswinds, especially when your kid starts sounding like a gaming livestream.
This week on Super Familiar with the Wilsons, we talk screen time boundaries, YouTube rabbit holes, media literacy for kids, and finding the middle ground between isolation and algorithm overload. We share what happened when we swapped chaos for curation, added library cards and backyard soccer, and aimed for fewer tabs, more pages.
Plus: awkward hobbies, doctoral dreams, camo flirting at Best Buy, existential chicken jokes...
Our Kid Can See Solar Panels Now and It Changed Everything
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Across the alley, a neighbor becomes a character and the neighborhood turns into a stage: speeding cars, a beloved Nemo pumpkin, and grudges with no names.
Meanwhile, a small boy puts on glasses and the world snaps into HD. He starts speaking in riddles, announcing new powers, and requesting a meeting about budgets like a tiny haunted accountant.
We also open one email, avoid several emotions, and briefly question whether realism has gone too far.
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