“I’m Going To Decrease Your Treats” with Eugene Mirman | 31

I Love My Kid, But...

Wondery

Parenting, Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Happy New Year Buttheads! This week comedian Eugene Mirman joins Megan, Chris, and Kurt. They love their kids, BUT…why are even our best intentions twisted and used against us by our sadistic children? When Kurt asks his kids how their day at school was, they clamp up like a couple of Cold War era Soviet Spies under a hot interrogation light. Kurt’s getting NOTHING out of these kids, so he decides to come up with a little ploy to make Olive talk: A fake talk show on the car ride home from school! Fun, right? But fresh off giving himself a pat on the back, Kurt realizes that he created a Groundhog Day nightmare where he’s forced to put on a talk show in the car EVERY DAY with no signs of cancellation in sight. Eugene laments that when it comes to correcting his son’s behavior, his punishment threats are akin to a toy gun that spits out a “POW!” flag. It's a new year with the same old problems and our solutions, like they did in all the years past, will just make things worse.

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to I Love My Kid, but early and ad-free right now.
0:06.1	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
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0:24.6	The Grinch is back again to ruin your Christmas season with Tis the Grinch holiday podcast.
0:29.6	Listen as his celebrity guests try to persuade the Grinch that there's more to love about the holiday season.
0:34.4	Follow Tis the Grinch holiday podcast on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:38.7	Grownups, enjoy bonus content of Tis the Grinch holiday podcast exclusively on Wondery Plus.
0:44.6	Hey parents, just a heads up that this show may have kid in the title, but it is not for kids.
0:51.4	We like to swear.
0:53.7	So if you're with your kids, you may want to save this one for later,
0:56.9	or if you want them to be really cool, let them listen now.
1:05.1	Hi, I'm Eugene Merman. I love my kid, but sometimes he refuses to acknowledge a shared reality.
1:15.6	From Wondery, I'm Chris Garcia.
1:17.8	I'm Megan Galey.
1:18.9	And I'm Kurt Brown-Oler.
1:20.2	And this is I love my kid, but.
1:22.3	So, man.
1:25.7	That's what we look like.
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