Super Familiar with The Wilsons

Send us Fan Mail 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 bu...

Send us Fan Mail 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)...

Send us Fan Mail 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,...

Send us Fan Mail 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,...

Send us Fan Mail 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&a...

Send us Fan Mail 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 mak...

Send us Fan Mail “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.  Super Familiar with The Wilsons  Find us on instagram at instagram.com/superfamiliarwiththewilsons and on Youtube Contact us! familiarwilsons@gmail.com A Familiar Wilsons Production

Send us Fan Mail 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 sh...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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! Super Familiar with The Wilsons  Find us on instagram at instagram.com/superfamiliarwiththewilsons and on Youtube Contact us! familiarwilsons@gmail.com A Famil...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Super Familiar with The Wilsons  Find us on instagram at instagram.com/superfamiliarwiththewilsons and on Youtube Contact us!...

Send us Fan Mail 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 qu...

Send us Fan Mail 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 baske...

Send us Fan Mail 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. Th...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 s...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 w...

Send us Fan Mail 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 i...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 par...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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. Subscribe so you do not miss the next hang, share this...

Send us Fan Mail 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...