Episodes

  • Have Your Kids Googled You Yet?

    Have Your Kids Googled You Yet?
    May 14 2026
    This week, Claire and Quinn are joined by AJ Daulerio, He's a dad of three, founder of the recovery community The Small Bow, host of The Small Bow Podcast, and parenting advice columnist for Slate. AJ has been sober for nearly 10 years, and he brings t...
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • It's A Crossover Episode: A Calm Voice In A Loud World with Andrea Barbalich

    It's A Crossover Episode: A Calm Voice In A Loud World with Andrea Barbalich
    May 8 2026
    It's a crossover episode! Quinn had the editor-in-chief of The Week Jr, Andrea Barbalich, on his other show The Most Important Question. It was such a great conversation, and so relevant for parents, we thought we should run it on the Not Right Now fee...
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    54 mins
  • Goodbye, All The Things That Kept Me Sane

    Goodbye, All The Things That Kept Me Sane
    Apr 30 2026
    This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by Willa Koerner, a creative strategist, writer, gardener, flower farmer, newsletter author, artist residency co-founder, and mother of a very busy four-year-old. They get into unschooling, invasive species, garde...
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Baby's First Brand Deal

    Baby's First Brand Deal
    Apr 16 2026
    This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by journalist and author Fortesa Latifi. She's pregnant, has a toddler at home, and is somehow also promoting a book. Respect. Fortesa has spent years reporting on the world of mom influencers and family vloggers,...
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Every Man Owes DraftKings $5000

    Every Man Owes DraftKings $5000
    Apr 2 2026
    This week, Quinn and Claire get into their March Madness brackets, before discussing how the gambling industrial complex is ruining sports, and what it's like to raise kids in the age of the manosphere. Also discussed: vasectomies, testing our knowledg...
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Where Else Can You Get a Dollar Fifty Hotdog and IVF Medication?

    Where Else Can You Get a Dollar Fifty Hotdog and IVF Medication?
    Mar 26 2026
    This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by L'Oreal Thompson Payton, a bestselling author, award-winning journalist, yoga teacher, mom to a four-year-old junior bookseller, and the founder of Zora's Place, a Black-owned independent bookstore in Evanston,...
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Coloring Pages of Karl Marx

    Coloring Pages of Karl Marx
    Mar 12 2026
    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 author of the memoir The Right ...
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Coach Doesn't Do It for the Money

    Coach Doesn't Do It for the Money
    Mar 5 2026
    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 while dealing with our asshole ...
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    57 mins