Episode 78! SPOOKTOBERFEST 2024 continues through the dog days with SCREAM (1996) live from Las Vegas! 😱 A weekend away for Mummy & Deaddy means all-day brunch vibes, anxiety-dream-levels of mortification, plus how to talk about consent even with the very young, Richard Gere, rumors & bullying, emo adults, the media, processing grief past the year-mark, and SO much more!

Episode 77! SPOOKTOBERFEST 2024 us upon us! Time to check your waterspouts or run from them, cuz it’s ARACHNOPHOBIA (1990)! We talk about our full slate of Spooktoberfest movies, plus making big decisions “for the kids,” the real Oregon Trail, a modern health update, Halloween Heatwave, cursed family costumes, spider facts, local wildlife, fear mongering, and SO much more!

Episode 76! Thirsty? We’re headed back to school with THE FACULTY (1998)! We shell out some uniquely unhelpful advice, while the kids are wise (alright?). Plus: kids with crushes, Schrödinger’s mass, the comforts of home, the T2 Connection, The Faculty: The Musical, Canadian teen soap opera Fifteen, the movies of 1999, big muscly white guys, weird haircuts, alcoholic teachers, school funding, protecting fragile teachers, hydration, and SO much more!

Episode 75! It’s our diamond episode, Creeple! And we’re going completely CUCKOO (2024)!! We talk favorite eps, crying in public, horror-themed pinball, solo parenting troubles, tent building in-tents-ity, celebrity lookalikes, bad dads, teen protagonists, self-imposed worry, ending summer & new beginnings, PG movies and SO much more!

Episode 74! POLTERGEIST 2: THE OTHER SIDE (1986)! It’s the most powerful thing we have: Our annual AUNT MONICA POD, LIVE from Grandmom’s Basement!! We’re checking in with the A-1 Best Parents in MXD history, Steve & Diane Freeling with our A-1 guest, as we talk technology hygiene, summer vacation, reliving our youths, getting lost in the mall, irrational fears, a spill trauma breakthrough, Dana Freeling, kids & screentime & social media, family contracts, intense plots, and SO much more!

It’s a very special 5th Anniversary BONUS EPISODE of “I Have to Tell You About This Cuz I Don’t Think I Got To” OR “Following Francine,” aka MXD #73! We return to the hallowed ground from whence we came with PET SEMATARY 2 (1992)! We officially enter our Tornado Dragon Era talking thumbsucking, sibling rivalries, weaponizing reading, set safety, animal cruelty, trying to be less annoyed by children, and most importantly: Exhuming an ancient Sequel Pitch! Happy Anniversary, Creeps!

Episode 72! Knock Knock! Who’s there? it’s KNOCK AT THE CABIN (2023)! We’re celebrating the end of the school year with our FIRST SHYAMALAN! Plus, summertime fallacies, hot cicada summer, a big “Tricky People” refresher, a DOUBLE interview with a Vamparent, the pressures and opportunities of kids actually listening to you, Keanu Reeves, adoption, and SO much more!

Ep 71! NIGHT SWIM deserves a frightful night!! We talk MUMMY’S DAY and the fakeness of all holidays, plus thumb sucking, nail biting, pinworms, baseball, Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet, Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted, coaching youth sports, being the pool casual hangout house, rational pool fears, and SO much more!

Episode 70! Mere children commit the foulest deeds! It’s THE BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW (1971)! Mummy & Deaddy reach an unlikely hypothetical divorce truce, we find out if Mummy loves work more than her kids, the secret to taking a phone call, not weaponizing our emotions, deescalating, devil’s skin vs. birthmarks, witchcraft for wee ones, and SO much more!

Episode 69 is better than mangoes even! It’s A QUIET PLACE (2018)! We talk about our big kids rock concert, overcommitting, Daylight Savings Time, medical updates, the prevalence of PG-13, how only bad parents get pregnant in the apocalypse, how to keep babies quiet, and help older kiddos modulate their voices, some sequel pitches, a lil preview of AQP2, scary good stuff, and SO much more!