Why Mommy Drinks

Amanda and Betsy sit down with Katy K. (Producer and Facebook moderator extraordinaire) to talk about how nice it is to be abused by your children, being exhausted by all of the work, and the shittiest trip to the library ever.

Amanda and Betsy’s husband Ari Voukydis sit down with Donovan Patton (Blue’s Clues) to talk about that magical time when your entire family is wiped out one by one by the stomach plague, dodging the truant officer, and babysitters phoning it in.

Actress, Director and Photographer Lara Everly joins Betsy and Amanda this week to talk about Halloween murder clowns, discipline for the win, and the slippery incident of the lap pooper.

Betsy and Amanda share their latest sh*tshows, and then read some epic listener email stories! They talk about Sugar Island, showing your “P” in the bathroom for laughs, the BEST NANNY EVER, and breaking into your own house.

Betsy and Amanda shoot the sh*t this week about breath tests, the joy of lying to your kids, and the saddest Allan family Christmas tradition ever.

Betsy and Amanda sit down to read listener spooky spooky scary stories. We say spooky so much in this episode that if you were to take a shot every time we say it you would DIE. SPOOOOOOOKKY. Betsy wants to apologize for how many times she says it, for real. We hear ghost stories about the girl with the red bow, getting pantsed by ghosts, the two wet kids from the pond, and the other mother.

Betsy and Amanda are back at the mom retreat with our last batch of mom guests who have hilarious and epic sh*tshows. We hear about lice, a school pickup from hell, a sad story about lasagna, the Venn diagram of Betsy and Amanda, and road apples on the kitchen floor.

This week Betsy and Amanda sit down in the actual forrest and hear rapid-fire shit-show stories with a group of fabulously hilarious women during a mom retreat. This week we hear about a trip to Vegas, poop hot dogs, ponytail restrictions, answering the tough questions, a thundersnow airport cry-fest, baby's first experience in the movies, and -of course- pooping in a cup.

Actor SARAH BURNS (Big Little Lies, Enlightened) sits down with Betsy and Amanda this week to talk about getting mom-shamed at a parent teacher conference, unsolicited parenting advice, and getting kicked in the face.

Betsy and Amanda read your stories this week! This week we hear shitshows from listener Ally Davis about camping with kids for the first time and Bree Shaw about her epic family trip to Greece.