Super Familiar with The Wilsons

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...

Send us Fan Mail 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,...

Send us Fan Mail Amanda is expecting...a kidney stone. Help us name it! 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 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 abou...

Send us Fan Mail It's Josh'a Birthday. And ADHD takes control of the show. 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 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. Sup...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Subscribe for more marriage 2.0 with kids, share this with a friend w...

Send us Fan Mail 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). Also: Preventing b...

Send us Fan Mail 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. Write us at familiarwilsons at gmail.com. Thanks to Ricky Kendall for our music! Super Familiar with The Wilsons  Find us on instagram at instagram.com/supe...

Send us Fan Mail  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 caugh...

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

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 th...

Send us Fan Mail 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 chao...

Send us Fan Mail 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 seve...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Super Familiar with the Wilsons , Amanda and Josh stumble into one of those conversations that starts with a normal errand and quietly escalates into an existential audit. We talk about the unsettling moment you realize time has been moving faster than you thought, the kinds of questions kids ask right before sleep that absolutely should come with a warning labe...

Send us Fan Mail A pointless bedtime food count mutates into a conversation about memory, influence, ADHD, perimenopause, barking dogs, and the ongoing group project known as Marriage 2.0. Gen X exhaustion meets Gen Alpha chaos. One brain is Jeopardy-ready, the other is a busted library. We talk recall triggers, who actually influences us now, grounding strategies for anxious brains, and how love...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when the person talking sounds confident but the body has other plans? We notice the glitch. We don’t fix it. We build around it. This episode wanders through identity slippage, energy math that no longer adds up, and the quiet renegotiation of how we show up for each other when the old rhythms stop working. There are new rules (gentler ones), abandoned expectations,...

Send us Fan Mail How not to litigate your marriage like it’s a podcast court. Memory misfires. Sleep disappears. Someone says “circle back” and a soul leaves a body. Embarrassment is declared a lifestyle. Cringe becomes courage in a novelty hat. No onions are harmed. Art appears. Strangers clap. Wellness culture smells like fish and asks too many questions. Listener messages arrive carrying thermo...

Send us Fan Mail We head to Amelia Island for our eleventh anniversary, skewer the copy-paste beach-town vibe, and find a real story in American Beach’s history. Back home, a candid relationship quiz surfaces our habits, frictions, and the small routines that keep us close. Super Familiar with The Wilsons  Find us on instagram at instagram.com/superfamiliarwiththewilsons and on Youtube Contact us!...