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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood | Parenting Tips From Funny Moms

Why Was This a Thing? Rules We Once Lived By

What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood | Parenting Tips From Funny Moms

What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Parenting, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

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 Rooms where no one was allowed to go? Saving up phone minutes? Opening one kind of cereal at a time? What odd rules did we once live by that we can't imagine following now? Amy and Margaret discuss: The Good Room Snuggies Peek Freans Links to references in this episode: The Onion: Bloodthirsty, Undead Ghoul Advocates Chocolate-Cereal Consumption "Certain things are for company" - comedian Sebastian Maniscalco "Company is Coming" - comedian Chris Fleming Peek Freans Follow us on Threads @whatfreshhellcast We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Wow, it's amazing you survived.

0:04.6

What fresh hell.

0:06.4

Laughing in the face of motherhood.

0:08.5

It's your reticular activating system.

0:10.9

With Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson.

0:14.0

It was one of the darkest days in family history when we broke a vase in the good

0:18.6

room.

0:19.1

A podcast that solves today's parenting dilemmas

0:21.9

so you don't have to. After the wicker lobbies died down, they moved on to R.C. Cola.

0:31.2

Hello, everyone, and welcome to What Fresh Hell, laughing in the face of mother. This is Margaret.

0:36.9

And this is Amy. And today we're going to

0:38.6

talk about why was this a thing, some of the random rules that we once live by for some reason?

0:45.0

I'm ready for this. I feel like there were so many of these things back in the day. And I do also

0:52.1

want to say that, I mean, this is still going on. Like, people still

0:57.2

will give you extremely strong advice about things and you just think, what is that thing you

1:04.3

just said out loud? As I like to say to my husband sometimes, I'll be like, why do you see

1:10.4

like four types of the same car in a row

1:12.9

sometimes on the highway, let's say? And my husband cannot help but answer the question.

1:18.3

Like he, and it's become a joke between us that I'm like, it's your reticular activating system.

1:24.4

Yes, exactly. Like, why do you see Mars sometimes in the winter sky? He's like, well,

1:30.8

because, and I can just tell he has no idea, but he can not answer the question. I have a friend,

1:36.5

a hilarious friend who at some point said, do you know anything about blah, blah, blah?

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