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When you're a parent, every day brings a "fresh hell" to deal with. In other words, there's always something. Think of us as your funny mom friends who are here to remind you: you're not alone, and it won't always be this hard. We're Amy Wilson and Margaret Ables, both busy moms of three kids, but with completely different parenting styles. Margaret is a laid-back to the max; Amy never met a spreadsheet or an organizational system she didn't like. In each episode of "What Fresh Hell" we offe ...
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Part 2 Acomi and Turk talk about Turk's recent trip to Mississippi. The 14 hour drive, each way, wasn't bad, but great, either. But, what made the entire trip tolerable was a visit to the local comic book store (LCS), 3 Alarm Comics. Turk met with the owner and his daughter, before being enthralled by the biggest selection of of dollar comic book b…
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How can we help our kids prepare to move from a structured high school/ home environment to the less structured and more independent college environment? It starts earlier than you think! Emily Rubin Persons, founder of SKIP Coaching, explains how to help kids build the skills they need from a young age. Emily is a certified ADHD Coach who works wi…
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Part 1 Acomi and Turk talk about Turk's recent trip to Mississippi. The 14 hour drive, each way, wasn't bad, but great, either. But, what made the entire trip tolerable was a visit to the local comic book store (LCS), 3 Alarm Comics. Turk met with the owner and his daughter, before being enthralled by the biggest selection of of dollar comic book b…
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What do we do as parents when our kids aren't great at making friends, or their friends are outgrowing them, or we feel that their friends are a bad influence? Sometimes, we're not supposed to do anything at all. Sometimes our kids really need our support. How can we tell the difference? In this episode, Amy and Margaret discuss: what might contrib…
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Acomi and Turk182 throw on their best 80s clothes, stuff their pockets full of money and head out for a night of fun on the streets of Los Angeles. And, what's more fun than dancing, drinking, and doing drugs? Paying for a prostitute a.k.a. the Angels of the City (1989). Two college girls have to pretend to be hookers and have sex with a stranger a…
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This month's Deep Dive series is all about helping our kids through hardships like making mistakes, getting rejected, and facing competition. Listen to the whole playlist on Spotify. Does competition have benefits? What level of competition is healthy for our kids? Many of us agree that the stereotypical dad yelling through the fence at T-Ball is t…
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Acomi and Turk182 hop into the Funback machine and take a trip to the glorious 1980s, specifically the golden age of adult films. Or, was it, though? Video was replacing film and threatening to saturate the market with low quality and low production products. AIDS was a growing issue that the government wasn't acknowledging. And, the industry was n…
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As moms, we're often given tons of societal pressure on how we have to give our kids all the right things—then told to "chill out" when it comes to the worrying part. Gabrielle Blair, author of the new book THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, is here to tell us that adulthood doesn't look like it used to, and that there are many paths to the success and happin…
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Acomi and Turk182 debate over how honest they would be with their children because of singer Janice Ian and Doris Day. After Turk takes jabs at the naïveté of the young lady in Ian's song At Seventeen, he turns to Day's Que Sera, Sera. There, they diverge on coddling versus brutal honesty. Your classic psychological "hard mother", "soft mother" the…
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In a recent study, women who saw their homes as "cluttered" had higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol than those who reported more well-organized, restful spaces. But for some of us, the stress of trying to be neat feels harder than any occasional shame or confusion that messiness might cause. Does messy matter? Does it matter the same for e…
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Part 2 Acomi and Turk182 go through a Rolling Stones article reviewing 50 Best Songs By Made Up Musicians. These are original songs in movies that were performed by fake bands in said movies. Acomi and Turk read through the list to see how many of these fake songs and bands they know, and how many of them they think deserved to make the top 50 cut.…
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Part 1 Acomi and Turk182 go through a Rolling Stones article reviewing 50 Best Songs By Made Up Musicians. These are original songs in movies that were performed by fake bands in said movies. Acomi and Turk read through the list to see how many of these fake songs and bands they know, and how many of them they think deserved to make the top 50 cut.…
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Acomi and Turk182 brace themselves for a post apocalyptic future where "contaminated" citizens are cast into the wasteland and hunted for sport. A future where amusement comes from being The Final Executioner (1984). Not to be confused with The Bronx Executioner (1989) which used footage from The Final Executioner to make a very similar, while conf…
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This month's Deep Dive series is all about helping our kids through hardships like making mistakes, getting rejected, and facing competition. Listen to the whole playlist on Spotify. Every kid will experience some kind of rejection, and some will have an easier time of it than others. How do we validate our kids' feelings while giving them the tool…
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How can we get our kids cooking with us (or even FOR us) in the kitchen? Mark Bittman, longtime chef, food writer, and author of the new book HOW TO COOK EVERYTHING: KIDS, has some incredibly simple tips for bringing kids into the cooking process. Mark Bittman is the author of more than thirty books, including the How to Cook Everything series. Ove…
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How has Halloween become a days-long, massively involved and expensive holiday? What happened to the good old days of stumbling around the neighborhood in a Barbie mask you could barely breathe in with a pillowcase full of candy? Here's how Halloween went from just spooky to spooky consumerist. Amy and Margaret discuss: How Halloween has lost its t…
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Acomi and Turk182 keep on swinging with another episode of Japanese Supaidaman a.k.a. Spider-Man. So, sit back true believer and enjoy Episode 17, Pro Wrestler Samson's Tears. Acomi and Turk182, along the occasional special guest, provide running commentary of awfulsome movie and TV shows. The hosts select movies that either one, or both, have neve…
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This month's Deep Dive series is all about helping our kids through hardships like making mistakes, getting rejected, and facing competition. Listen to the whole playlist on Spotify. There are benefits to our kids' making mistakes, even when it’s hard. Maybe especially when it’s hard. Some kids have tons of flexibility and safety around trying new …
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Part 2 Acomi and Turk182 continue their learning about the truth behind the first black samurai in Japan. Former slave, turned king's protector Yasuke. The inspiration for the anime Afro Samurai, and many other tales. But, what we know about Yasuke isn't entirely accurate. n fact, it's not accurate at all. The man who wrote the definitive history o…
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Right now our society feels more polarized than ever. We don't agree on much—and sometimes the people we disagree with most are the ones who are closest to us. This week, we talk about how to handle those difficult relationships and conversations with Brit Barron, author of the new book DO YOU STILL TALK TO GRANDMA? Brit Barron is a highly sought a…
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Part 1 Acomi and Turk182 learn the truth about the first black samurai in Japan. Former slave, turned king's protector Yasuke. The inspiration for the anime Afro Samurai, a character in the upcoming Assassins Creed game, and many black people's dream. But, what we know about Yasuke isn't entirely accurate. n fact, it's not accurate at all. The man …
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In September 2024 the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, issued an Advisory on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Parents. In it, he declares the mental health and well-being of parents an urgent public health issue. In this episode we discuss the revealing research included in this report, stating that parents consistently report higher leve…
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Part 2 Acomi and Turk182 continue with the strange origin of Chuck E. Cheese pizza and its mascot Chuck E. Cheese. Later, Turk relays a story he read on Reddit about a guy whose girlfriend started acting like an entirely different person after he proposed. Turk also talks about the not quite rise and massive fall of former adult movie star Ron Jere…
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Part 1 Acomi and Turk182 test their mental resilience by answering Turk's hypothetical question about death. Then, Acomi tells Turk the bizarre and seldom told story about the origin of Chuck E. Cheese pizza and its mascot Chuck E. Cheese. #OMTWF #Acomi #Turk182 #KorovaEntertainment #ChuckECheese #pizza #pizzaparlor #singingrobots #arcade Follow Ac…
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Acomi and Turk182 kick back with another great episode of Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot. Episode 17, Destroy the Dam. Dr. Botanus and his extra large eyebrows are back, and he's brought the Gargoyle Vine with him. Johnny and Giant Robot defeated the Gargoyle Vine once before in episode 3, but will they succeed again? If they do, what does anoth…
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Acomi and Turk182 are joined by guest Generic for a viewing of the martial arts horror classic Silent Rage (1982). Before Walker Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris was Dan Stevens, the sheriff of another Texas town. One with a bigger menace than that tv show could possibly hold. After being failed by his psychiatrist, who was a former surgeon, John Kirby g…
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This Deep Dive series is titled "Things We've Learned After Doing This Motherhood Thing for a While." Listen to the whole playlist on Spotify. Youth is wasted on the young. We wasted our youth taking the wrong classes in college and layering imaginary agendas onto other people's dopey behavior. Sound familiar? We asked our listeners: If you could t…
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What does it really mean to raise resilient kids, and where do we start? Dr. Tovah Klein, Director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development and a psychology professor at Barnard College at Columbia University, is also the author of the new book RAISING RESILIENCE. Tovah's book explains why we might have to look inward first when attemp…
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Amy's book Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser is coming in January 2025. Pre-order your copy! How important is it to teach our kids the manners that we ourselves learned as children? Which social niceties should we keep up with and which ones should we discard? In this episode, Amy and Margaret discuss: How manners have sometimes been us…
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What Fresh Hell Podcast is going on tour across the Northeast US this fall! Join us for a live version of the podcast and bring all your mom friends. We can’t wait to go back on the road! https://bit.ly/whatfreshhelltour This Deep Dive series is titled "Things We've Learned After Doing This Motherhood Thing for a While." Listen to the whole playlis…
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Part 3 Acomi and Turk182 test their survival skills to see how well they do in a time of crisis. Flood. Financial crash. Cats and dogs living together. Mass hysteria. Using the book Beat the Odds Survival Manual by Tim MacWelch, they see how aligned their survival methods are to what Tim suggests. Plus, how well do they know the warning signs leadi…
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We're so glad to be talking to Kendra Adachi again this week. Kendra is the host of the Lazy Genius Podcast and the two-time New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way and The Lazy Genius Kitchen. In this interview, we discuss what Kendra calls "compassionate time management" and her newest book, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy…
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Part 2 Acomi and Turk182 test their survival skills to see how well they do in a time of crisis. Flood. Financial crash. Cats and dogs living together. Mass hysteria. Using the book Beat the Odds Survival Manual by Tim MacWelch, they see how aligned their survival methods are to what Tim suggests. Plus, how well do they know the warning signs leadi…
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Amy's book Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser is coming in January 2025. Pre-order your copy! Parenting is a series of everyday battles. But which ones are truly worth fighting? In this episode we discuss the Sisyphean nature of the overuse of the word 'like', to a cleaned-up playroom, to the unending struggle of getting tweens to wear p…
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