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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, of course.

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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.

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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 makes someone a real friend, and Josh explains why you should never pass up an available toilet.

Midlife is going great.

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“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. 

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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 should absolutely never act on, and whether supporting someone's terrible art is an act of love.

Marriage. Friendship. Neighbors. ADHD. Perimenopause. Social etiquette. Cheap hardware.

You know. The usual.

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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 to bed absurdly early, and whether a household can legally declare that it is no longer accepting new information.

It’s an episode about stress, coping, marriage, and finding a little hope when everybody’s internal “please do not introduce a new variable” light is blinking.

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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!

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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 importance that it threatens to alter the entire rhythm of the week. The neighbors are no help. They may, in fact, have a separate group chat.

Then there’s a 20 second experiment conducted in jeans, an investigation into Josh’s moral alignment that raises more questions than it answers, a gibbous moon that becomes far more important than anyone anticipated, and a dispatch from Refined Gay Jeff involving Ipswich, books, allergies, and an urgent care visit that he chooses to interpret in his own special way.

Also: lawn crews, Ring cameras, Dungeons & Dragons, seasonal allergies, getting older, British television, marriage, ADHD, and the growing suspicion that the Wilsons may be the strange people in the neighborhood.

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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. 

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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 quest, and the triumphant return of a game that takes perfectly respectable movie titles and sends them through a wood chipper.

Winthrop continues to become alarmingly smarter than his parents, spooky season begins creeping out of the walls, listener mail arrives from Germany, and Josh confronts the strange human compulsion to keep watching television we actively despise.

It’s marriage, parenting, family life, pop culture, soccer, movies, aging, and middle-aged nonsense from Gainesville, Florida.

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