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Coloring Pages of Karl Marx

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...

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Coloring Pages of Karl Marx
March 12, 2026

Coloring Pages of Karl Marx

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...
Coach Doesn't Do It for the Money
March 5, 2026

Coach Doesn't Do It for the Money

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...
Loving Heated Rivalry A Totally Normal Amount
Feb. 26, 2026

Loving Heated Rivalry A Totally Normal Amount

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...
The Movies That Raised Us (Wouldn't Be Made Now)
Feb. 19, 2026

The Movies That Raised Us (Wouldn't Be Made Now)

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:...
RuPaul Fracks
Feb. 12, 2026

RuPaul Fracks

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 ...
Cat People Don't Believe In Cat Allergies
Feb. 5, 2026

Cat People Don't Believe In Cat Allergies

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, ...

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"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,…"

Sally | Feb. 28, 2025