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 your head, you’ll find humor, honesty, and heart here. Expect: offbeat storytelling, second-marriage dynamics, parenting fails, philosophical detours, and new friends you didn’t know you needed.
Familiar Wilsons Media produces content to bring people together. We are curious, hopeful, and try not to take ourselves too seriously...admittedly, with varying degrees of success.
Super Familiar with The Wilsons
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Super Familiar with The Wilsons
Cussing, Kids, and Casseroles
We wrestle with how to handle swearing around kids and admit our own hypocrisy plus: the matcha shortage, Publix marathons and the Uncrustables saga from vegetarian to steak plus K‑pop Demon Hunters.
FamiliarWilsons at gmail.com. Do you let your kids swear at home? Let us know.
Super Familiar with The Wilsons
Find us on instagram at instagram.com/superfamiliarwiththewilsons
and on Youtube
Contact us! familiarwilsons@gmail.com
Familiar Wilson's Media. Relationships are the story.
SPEAKER_01:You are made of meat, my friend, all the way down.
SPEAKER_00:The following podcast uses words like and and also woo. If you're not into any of that shit, then now's your chance.
SPEAKER_01:Three, two, one.
SPEAKER_00:Run.
SPEAKER_01:Super familiar with that.
SPEAKER_02:Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons. I'm Amanda.
SPEAKER_00:And I'm Josh, and we are the podcast that's about marriage 2.0 with children.
SPEAKER_02:And all the side quests.
SPEAKER_00:We had a discussion earlier in the week that we put a pin on that we were going to come back to, and I've actually not forgotten what it was. Oh, I've completely forgotten.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, 100% I forgot.
SPEAKER_00:We we were driving, and someone driving near us was trying to speed up and speed around us. And I was very unimpressed with them. Yes. And it was me, you, and Winthrop in the car, and I referred to them as a douchebag.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, and I said do not do that.
SPEAKER_00:And you got on my case because why?
SPEAKER_02:I don't want him to learn these words and then ask what they are or use them at school incorrectly. Not incorrectly. Not at all. As long as he knows that kids, that no, no, no. That's true. I don't want him to use it inappropriately.
SPEAKER_00:No, again, still inappropriately. You don't want him to use these words. I don't want him to use these words. You think that it's inappropriate. It's interesting because I'd love to know how you grew up. Well, you grew up in very religious. We weren't allowed to say anything. There was no cussing. Like you've talked about how you couldn't say the word hell or no, I said hell once and got smacked in the face.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I mean when I was like 14.
SPEAKER_00:It's not appropriate to be smacked in the face. Yes. My dad swore a lot, but he also sent me to Christian school, which was weird because I'm pretty certain he wasn't Christian. Like he may have been um like culturally Christian, I guess, but he wasn't like practicing or whatever. Okay. So he sent me to the Christian school, I guess, to learn morals, but he certainly would swear like a sailor.
SPEAKER_02:Um I don't know what to do with that.
SPEAKER_00:Why?
SPEAKER_02:Because that would that was so not my upbringing.
SPEAKER_00:When did you say your first swear?
SPEAKER_02:Oh gosh. I don't think I really like I really don't think that I cursed or drank or any of those things until like my late 20s. From marriage 1.0. Um, my mom I remember once my mom got so frustrated with my nephew. He was like two or three, and I was maybe nine, and he had unrolled all of the toilet paper in the bathroom. And I heard her walk in and just call him what she called him a jackass. I think that's what she called him, which is funny because that's what I call you all the time. And I would not let it go. I mean, I just told everybody that she curse because I was like, Oh, but you didn't like get on her case in front of her. No, I was just really like, guess what mom said? And I told everybody, and she was like, Amanda Jane, stop it. And I'm like, but you said it.
SPEAKER_00:Well, it's interesting because what how do you feel about about kids cussing? Um If you can separate, though, your various lies, because you also taught preschool and then first, first and second grade. So, like, you kind of maybe gotta crawl out out of that unless you unless you can't, unless it's all the same thing.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, I don't think I can. It's it's interesting because I feel like, well, first of all, we you know, we say to the kids that, you know, words aren't bad, words are just words. It's your intent behind the words, if it's meant to hurt, if it's meant to, you know, be unkind or whatever. That's what made I mean, I'd rather you say damn than call somebody unkind words.
SPEAKER_00:Like jackass.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I mean, that's my nickname for you, but it's okay. Um, I called you that when you proposed. Jackass was the first thing I said. Um, but you know, I have we have friends, we have mutual friends that have kids that they they let their kids curse at home. And I mean, these are elementary and middle school kids, and but they'll say, like, these are these are not words we use outside of the house, these are your home words. Um, but I don't think I'm there because I think I would be worried that they wouldn't be able to like turn it on or off or whatever.
SPEAKER_00:That's my thing. Well, I guess like I got two things. Number one, it still like turns me off a little bit if one of my kids would would do that. I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:I think that that's the even like the 25-year-old.
SPEAKER_00:Uh well, dude, the 25-year-old and 23-year-old, they they more word of their words that they say are cusses than aren't cusses. But I'm definitely a hypocrite about this because like again in my civilian life, I do, and not in anger, just just you know, just as words. Um But I think I think my parochial upbringing is still like has a shadow life in me because you know, if I if I were to think of of Winthrop cussing, like I'd be very upset. And so that may be kind of the the religious whatever upbringing, but also that thing where I don't want him to get in trouble is that's the other thing.
SPEAKER_02:I just don't I don't want you to say anything and it get you in trouble and you not really understand why, or whatever. I don't want that either. There was something he said recently that I was like, don't call anybody that. He was like, I haven't, I won't. And I said, I just don't want you to get in trouble, and I don't remember what it was. It wasn't necessarily a curse word, but it was it was something else, and I cannot remember what it was.
SPEAKER_00:Dickhead.
SPEAKER_02:Get out of here. But didn't you come up with like a very creative thing? Because I told you you couldn't say all of your words.
SPEAKER_00:Well, see, that's the thing is is like I'm not usually a fan of of little stand-in words for curses. I just think that that's silly. Like, don't say oh do poo-poo or doo-doo.
SPEAKER_02:No, I say oh sugar.
SPEAKER_00:It's oh su oh my gosh, oh sugar. And I say I can't stand that. Oh sugar. Oh fudge.
SPEAKER_02:No, I don't say fudge, I say sugar.
SPEAKER_00:I know, but I'm just saying it's like you're making a cookie here with all of these ingredients. I don't I don't really like that. But I guess your point was if I'm driving, I need to have a go-to word that I'll be able to express myself, but not teach Winthrop these naughty words.
SPEAKER_02:That if he accidentally uses it at school, or not even accidentally, if he uses it at school, it won't get him in trouble.
SPEAKER_00:Well, if I'm quite certain that the teacher would know that all of a sudden if he said, Oh, fudge, yeah, that that the teacher would know where he got them from and why. But I I just think that the stand-in word doesn't give you the same emotional hit. It doesn't, it doesn't make you feel as good because it's not the word, it's not the actual word.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know. I liked the one that you came up with the other day.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I didn't come up with it. It's something that that I had heard, and but not being used as a curse. Well, anyway, so so this guy had cut in front of us, and we're having the discussion, and Amanda's trying to convince me to come up with different words. And what I came up with was something that I I heard on a TV show that we watch, and that is to refer to any person that is annoying you as an absolute casserole.
SPEAKER_02:But that you understand that's not why he was using the word casserole, right? He was talking about his hemorrhoids, and he said it's an absolute casserole down there, meaning all the things were coming out of him.
SPEAKER_00:It did not mean it's amazing. You know what? I shouldn't provide any more context aside from that, since Amanda forgot that there's a listening audience here.
SPEAKER_02:No, I didn't forget. I'm just trying to explain to people, but I get it. Oh, because the asshole casserole. I get it, it rhymes.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, see, that's my thing is I can use casserole in my mind because it sounds very much like asshole, which this person was being, which by the way, person driving down the road very recklessly had a big religious sticker on the side of his car. Jesus is king. Yes. Um, Jesus apparently isn't sheriff because would have pulled that casserole right on over. Um, so audience, what do you think about this issue? Not about um having religious stickers on your car, which by the way, never a good idea unless you have a perfect driving record. Just don't do it. Like, what's the point? What's the even point? What do you think about this issue about letting your children curse or not letting your children curse? Are you in a different country? We have plenty of listeners in different places. I know that in general the UK has has probably less of a parochial view about all this. Apparently, Ireland is quite sweary.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I mean it's all the whiskey per capita. It's all the whiskey.
SPEAKER_00:And I think also it's more acceptable for their kids to to cuss as well. So um let us know what you think. Familiarwilsons at gmail.com. Do you have a problem with it? Do you does it make you uncomfortable? Do you let your kids just swear at home? And does that not concern you that they might just throw an F bomb down at their teacher in a fit of pick or rage? Let us know. FamiliarWilsons at gmail.com. Amanda, did you know that there's a matcha shortage? A worldwide matcha shortage. Did you know this?
SPEAKER_02:I didn't know there was a worldwide matcha shortage, but I did know that you were having a hard time procuring your matcha, so I figured something was going on with the supply chain.
SPEAKER_00:Something is going on. It's a combination of climate change, weather situations, the fact that there aren't very many matcha farmers and they can't keep up with the all of a sudden booming demand and different things like that. Bottom line, worldwide matcha shortage, especially the higher end matcha, you know, like the the ceremonial grade and all this and that.
SPEAKER_02:So matcha is green tea, but it's grown like in the shade. Is that what the deal is with it?
SPEAKER_00:I I don't know. I just know it's not just green tea, it's like a specific, a specific tea leaf that's grown in Japan.
SPEAKER_02:It's grown like very specific places in Japan. Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I hadn't been able to find some and I had to go without. I've had to go without before. Like we didn't have some at home. And I'm noticing that I I think that I'm pretty pretty addicted to this matcha thing.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00:Like I I switched off a coffee because I was very much addicted to the coffee, and when I wouldn't drink the coffee, I'd get a headache and it would be a problem. So I switched to the matcha, and now I'm starting to have that same level of man, I gotta have my matcha. I can't miss my matcha. And I'm stressing out since finding out that there's a worldwide shortage and going into the store and not being able to find it. Like the places on the shelf, it's got the tag, no matcha. It's a problem. So things that I've noticed that I've been doing since finding out that there's a shortage worldwide of matcha. This is in no particular order. Number six, licking the inside of my empty matcha tin, just getting right in there with my tongue like it's the last chopper out of Saigon, making sure that I get all of that matcha. Number five, working on getting my dopamine hits from increasingly pathetic places like putting my head on a baseball bat and spinning around 10 times, breathing really fast and standing up quickly.
SPEAKER_02:Oh god.
SPEAKER_00:Number five.
SPEAKER_02:That was five.
SPEAKER_00:Uh number four, writing increasingly desperate letters to Japanese tea farmers, offering them various members of my family, cars, all these things. Um, number, what am I on? Four. Trying to brew matcha from literally anything green that I can find, like grass or my child's Kermit the Frog Doll.
SPEAKER_02:I I think that grass is fine. That's what matcha tastes like. Just number two. Um I've said You've said four twice and skipped three. Now we're on two. It's because you don't have your matcha.
SPEAKER_00:That's a problem. It's a problem. Number one.
SPEAKER_02:No, number two.
unknown:Get out of there.
SPEAKER_00:Number two, I've started suspecting everyone around me of secretly hoarding matcha.
SPEAKER_02:What if we were?
SPEAKER_00:I'd look at you sometimes. I'm like, Amanda is suspiciously calm for someone in the midst of a world matcha shortage. So that's all right. And number one thing I've noticed myself doing uh in the midst of this matcha shortage. Um, I'm looking into starting a black market matcha ring in the neighborhood.
SPEAKER_02:We got enough going on in this neighborhood.
SPEAKER_00:Hey, buddy, shh, hey buddy, hey buddy, come over here. You need some ceremonial grade? I got it right here.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. There's not enough weirdness going on in this neighborhood.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah. Update on our little uh little neighborhood saga. Right. We've had we've had County come.
SPEAKER_02:They're all today.
SPEAKER_00:Visiting the various dilapidated houses around here that need to be pulled down. So we should have some excitement in the neighborhood WhatsApp group.
SPEAKER_02:Yep, they're getting a little chatty, a little chatty for the WhatsApp group.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, no, they're excited. They're excited. This is this is as revolutionary as we're probably gonna be able to get in the current climate.
SPEAKER_02:I'm all yeah, I'm well, I'm happy you got the one next to us torn down. So I fair thee well. God bless the rest of them. I hope it happens for them, but we got what we needed over here.
SPEAKER_00:Dude, this is a real weird world that we in. I noticed this Monday as I'm dropping off uh Winthram at school. There were an inordinate amount of parents wearing pajamas, dropping off their kids.
SPEAKER_02:This is a rough Monday.
SPEAKER_00:I just think that people are getting more and more fed up. I mean, you had people in in like matching jamma sets. I'm not talking about coming into in like a an outfit, like a t-shirt and gym shorts. You're like, they probably slept in that. No, like Christmas jammies.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Like, all I need to see next is someone coming in their their jammies, their robes with their coffee, carrying their coffee like right out of the car.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um, this is the point that we're at right now.
SPEAKER_02:I listen, do you, friends? Whatever works for you. I have gotten increasingly later and later going into work, and it's a problem. It's a real problem.
SPEAKER_00:Would you go? You've probably gone into a store with jammies on.
SPEAKER_02:I've definitely gone into Publix with jammies on, but I don't think any other store. For whatever reason, I don't feel like Publix needs the best of me. I mean, Target, I think maybe I need to dress up a little bit more, at least put a bra on. But like, because up only because I'm gonna see people I know. It's a giant store, it's in the middle of town. Publix is a mile right here from the house. They don't, they, they, they saw me five times yesterday.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, they did. You went to Publix five times yesterday.
SPEAKER_02:No, I went four and you went four, but collectively, we went one separately, so five times all together.
SPEAKER_00:That's the new math because that's eight what we just did there. So why were you at Publix four other times?
SPEAKER_02:Because you woke me up and we're sitting there and we're lying there, and we're just cuddling and being kind to each other. And you said, it would be really nice to get up and take a walk before it gets hot. And I said, Okay, I'll do that. And then I got up and and in my pajamas, no bra on, because I think I'm walking around the neighborhood. I'm wearing Christmas pants and like a t-shirt. And then I get downstairs and you say, You want to walk to Publix to get breakfast foods? I was like, All right. So I didn't even put a bra on. Full disclosure, didn't do it.
SPEAKER_00:And we walked to Publix, which is saying full disclosure, like already you haven't been in Publix with no brawn. Like they saw all of you.
SPEAKER_02:Um, it's a mile to Publix and a mile back, right? So we walked there, walked back, got the stuff, made breakfast, and then we went to volleyball and had a fabulous time, UF uh versus Alabama volleyball. And I said to you, Ugh, I forgot Uncrustables because Winthrop will only eat an uncrustable. He will not eat a homemade peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I can try to cut it into shapes, does not matter. So I knew I was out of uncrustables. I knew I was gonna have to make lunch today. And you said, Well, we'll just um no, I remembered when we were at Publix getting breakfast stuff, but we had already paid. And you said you can do it when we come back from volleyball. So coming back from volleyball, you said, I want to go to the big publics because apparently you needed it to be an experience for yourself if you were gonna grocery shop because we have one of the largest publics in in the chain or whatever. So we're in there, do the grocery shopping, we leave. What did I forget?
SPEAKER_01:Uncrustables.
SPEAKER_02:Uncrustables. So we get home, Muffy's home because she's sick and she's running a fever and she doesn't want to get a roommate sick, so she's staying here. And she said, Did you get me soup? Well, no, I didn't know you wanted soup. So you go back to Publix and they didn't have the soup she wanted. So you come home with a different soup, and then it was not preferred. So then I went back to Publix and in exchanged it, came home. What did I forget?
SPEAKER_00:Uncrustables.
SPEAKER_02:Yep. So the fifth trip to Publix was to get the damn Uncrustables, and I ended up doing that. Yeah, you were like, just drive around the parking lot and I will go get the uncrustable.
SPEAKER_00:And I came back with uncrustables and two nice big steaks. T-bones, right? Uh yes, which by the way, so good. If you've been paying attention to the podcast, you know that I went through a period there of being a vegetarian. Well, no longer because I like steak.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it was really good. I like steak. You made it so well in the cast iron skillet, and then I had the leftovers with a salad a day for lunch. So nice.
SPEAKER_00:Again, those of you who I have listened for long enough know that I went through this vegetarian phase, and I was feeling all self-righteous, like I'm doing this for the environment and for the this and for the that. But I came to hate eating, like eating was so boring to me. Yeah, I could not, none of the vegetarian meals were satisfying to me. None of them. I just couldn't do it. And forget about the the fake meat, absolutely not. So now I'm back on steak. And it's really like my tongue has gone from watching black and white TV back to to frickin' full color technicolor dream coat. It it is awesome, and I was so happy last night. And I just want to take this moment to thank whatever cow gave of them. No, it's not, it's not because I so appreciate it. See, that's a difference. Now I'm grateful to the cows for their sacrifice, their selfless sacrifice.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, I don't think it was selfless. They were forced into that.
SPEAKER_00:No, no, no, no, no, no, no. They they willingly, willingly they did it. And I'm I'm so happy. So thank you. Thank you, bossy, or whatever. Um, I really appreciate it.
SPEAKER_02:The thing is, I really like steak. I've always really liked steak, but I have to disassociate what the meat is. Like I can't, I I I can disassociate. I don't mind eating chicken and turkey. That's fine. I don't whatever. But um pig and cow I have a really hard time with. But I also really love bacon and steak.
SPEAKER_00:And so yeah, we had some is a struggle. We had some bacon yesterday too, boy. That's one of the things we got at Publix is there's a couple of frickin' packages of bacon.
SPEAKER_02:Um and then I made sausage and gravy with biscuits because it's Winthrop's favorite breakfast, and you like it too. But um, that was turkey sausage.
SPEAKER_00:Chicken was the only animal we didn't kill and eat then, because we had we had pork, we had beef, and we had turkey.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, but Winthrop had popcorn chicken.
SPEAKER_00:Full house, baby.
SPEAKER_02:No, no fish, nobody had fish.
SPEAKER_00:Royal flush. Just want to break in here for a correction. Oh, a correction. So um I incorrectly pronounced a word uh a year ago on this podcast um when we were talking about the origins of um Halloween, and we're talking about how it came from the Irish tradition of Sam Hain, right? Because that's how it's spelled, Sam Hain. But if you're familiar with Ireland, uh you know that Irish people are basically like, well, fuck all these letters. We can say what we want. So it's spelled Sam Hain, but it's pronounced Sawin.
SPEAKER_02:Yes.
SPEAKER_00:So that's a correction from a year ago when we were referring to the Irish uh tradition. It's called Sowen.
SPEAKER_02:I also have an update, but it is not a correction. It is just a little bit of an update on our friend Jeff. He has not been sitting in Refined Gay Thoughts because he has been going through a lot. And I'm very happy to say that Josh and I spoke with him yesterday. He is in a much, much better place. He has moved to a new school in Houston, the largest um best high school in Houston as their librarian and is very, very happy refined gay Jeff now. And he wanted us to share that with all of you.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, but Jeff, do do write in to our listeners because um I know that they enjoy hearing from you.
SPEAKER_01:No one likes to be told what to do.
SPEAKER_00:And now is the time in the program where we tell you what to do. Amanda, what should we do?
SPEAKER_02:So if you have kids, even if you don't have kids, like get the soundtrack, you don't have to watch the thing. But I watched K-pop Demon Hunters with Winthrop this weekend or this week. And it's a thing. Like I've heard all of the people at my my work who have have little girls who are this age and talk about it. And I whatever. I I wasn't, I didn't know anything about it. Well, I just know that like the songs are a bop and all that stuff. So Winthrop the other day said, you know, you were working late, and I said, Well, we can get your shower, we'll cuddle on my bed, we can watch something. And he said, Well, I might as well go ahead and watch K-pop Demon Hunters because everybody at school is talking about it. So we watched it and it's very cute. And it's like I actually watched it twice with him because he wanted to watch it with Muffy. And the music is super fun and um a little bit of an earworm. And it was really cute because he said, you know, I don't know what all the third grade boys are talking about because I liked it. And so we had a conversation about, you know, how movies aren't for specific genders. They're just, you know, if you enjoy it, you enjoy it. And so if you enjoy a good, catchy song and um, you know, some some Korean animation looking stuff, go watch K-pop Demon Hunters.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you you go do that. Not a chance in hell. I will do that. It's cute.
SPEAKER_02:You may like it.
SPEAKER_00:Definitely not.
SPEAKER_02:You like the adventures of Tentin?
SPEAKER_00:What?
SPEAKER_02:This is an animated thing.
SPEAKER_00:Okay. Oh, I didn't catch that. It was animated. Is it animated? Yeah. No, I thought it was. I always picture when you say that, I thought it was like um what you call it? Uh Buffy? Power Rangers.
SPEAKER_02:Power Rangers. No, no, it's animated.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, interesting. Okay. Well, still won't check it out.
SPEAKER_02:Are you a little closer to maybe checking it out? Nope, not.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, fine. Alright, Amanda, that's all there is. There is no more. What do you think of that mess?
SPEAKER_02:I mean, it's the same mess we do every week, just different stuff.
SPEAKER_00:That's right. Um, so we want to thank all of our friends. You know who you are. Um I have my keep my list of my friends on my phone. My phone isn't near me right now. I don't know where it is.
SPEAKER_02:So Josh said he doesn't know your name if he's not looking at his phone.
SPEAKER_00:That's not true. I just made I made the list of who they are and the little credit things.
SPEAKER_02:And Joey! I did mine.
SPEAKER_00:Thank you. Um, yeah, so there you go. So until next week. Oh, by the way, news. Uh, we're probably going to see Josh Scar this week as he and his family travel uh through the state of Florida to go visit the house of mouse. So, Josh, we're looking forward to seeing you.
SPEAKER_02:And Josh, it's looking like the hurricanes are taking care of each other for you. It's gonna be a big turn, and you don't have to worry that I jinxed it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, there you go. Good job. Amanda made all of that happen. Yep. So until next week, folks, you all, all of you collectively are just an absolute casserole.
SPEAKER_02:Go be kind.
SPEAKER_00:Bye.
SPEAKER_02:Bye.
