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Not Right Now
Not Right Now is a podcast for parents navigating the impossible task of raising kids while *gestures wildly at everything*. Join Quinn Emmett (Important Not Important) and Claire Zulkey (Evil Witches) for honest conversations about parenting in an era of climate change, artificial intelligence, social media anxiety, all while trying to get your kid to just please put on their shoes. From discussing how to talk to kids about the news without traumatizing them (or yourself), to debating the…
Episodes
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Let Kids Play
This week, Claire and Quinn are joined by Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17). He's a dad of four, Navy vet, and member of the Armed Services Committee, but…
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The Mom Guilt Economy
This week, Claire and Quinn are joined by Chabeli Carrazana, economy and childcare reporter at The 19th and author of their Mom Guilt Economy newsletter. She's…
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Friends Don't Let Friends Give Non-Strategic Donations
This week, Claire and Quinn are joined by Melissa Walker, a YA novelist and Principal Strategist of Giving Circles at The States Project. The chat about having…
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It's Not My Neck
This week, Claire and Quinn discuss school dances: from homecoming (HoCo, if you're under 25) to promposals, pantsing, and cotillion boards. Tune in to learn…
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Boys and Men Are Not Exempt
This week, Claire and Quinn sit down with writer Kathryn Jezer-Morton. She grew up on a commune, writes the column Brooding for The Cut, and just published a…
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I'm Not One Of Your Little Friends
This week, Claire and Quinn react to Michelle Obama's viral week on the internet that broke the mom discourse in half. Also discussed: biological warfare (on…
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Don't Look for Dirt
This week, Quinn and Claire discuss Lego sets for adults, Dolly Parton's canonization timeline, Tim Curry, Bill Gates and Epstein, AI in the classroom, who's…
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Make A Fist In Your Pocket
We survived summer break! Claire spent 10 days trekking through Sweden and Quinn is back from the Outer Banks for two weeks with seven children, not all his…
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Summer Rewind: Don't Touch Me While I'm Cooking
It's the last week in our Summer Rewind! We'll have a brand new episode for you next week, but until then, please enjoy this episode about somehow maintaining…
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Summer Rewind: How Low Is Your Bar For Childcare?
It's still August, which means we're still on summer break, which means we have another fan favorite episode for you to catch up on! ----------- This week…
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Summer Rewind: Sleep Will Never Be The Same
It's still summer, which means we're still on our summer rewind bullshit! Enjoy this episode about sleep, which remains forever relevant and eternal…
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Summer Rewind: Parenting Is Humbling (And I Hate Being Humbled)
That's right, we're still on summer vacation (sorry, not sorry!). We're diving into the archives again to bring you another one of our favorites: our…
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Summer Rewind: This Is Me At My Best
We're still on summer vacation! Here's another favorite from the vault. Hope you enjoy! ----------- This week, Claire and Quinn dive into the messy reality of…
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Summer Rewind: These Rules Can Go To Hell
We're on summer break! For the next few weeks, we're dipping into the archive and replaying some fan favorites. Hope you enjoy. ---------- This week, Claire…
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Grindr for Dads
This week, Quinn and Claire have Kevin Maguire on the pod. Kevin is the dad behind The New Fatherhood newsletter, an executive coach for CEOs and CMOs at…
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Don't Google It
This week, Claire and Quinn have Amanda Hess (NYT writer and author of Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age) on the pod. They discuss the summer…
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Parenting At The End of The World
This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by Kaitlyn Teer. She's the senior editor at Cup of Jo's Big Salad, essayist, college writing teacher, and author of the…
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Do You Think Mary Ever Yelled At Jesus?
This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by Meghan Murphy-Gill. She's an Episcopal priest, former hospital chaplain, mom, and author of The Sacred Life of Bread…
Not Right NowIntroducing: It's Called Reality
Something new from the team behind Not Right Now. It's Called Reality is a podcast about reality TV, and everything it's secretly about. Every episode, hosts…
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Grandmazon
It's Maycember, and we're not okay. This week, Claire and Quinn are back to commiserate about the absolute chaos of late spring parenting, from overloaded…
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Have Your Kids Googled You Yet?
This week, Claire and Quinn are joined by AJ Daulerio, He's a dad of three, founder of the recovery community The Small Bow, host of The Small Bow Podcast, and…
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It's A Crossover Episode: A Calm Voice In A Loud World with Andrea Barbalich
It's a crossover episode! Quinn had the editor-in-chief of The Week Jr, Andrea Barbalich, on his other show The Most Important Question. It was such a great…
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Goodbye, All The Things That Kept Me Sane
This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by Willa Koerner, a creative strategist, writer, gardener, flower farmer, newsletter author, artist residency…
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Baby's First Brand Deal
This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by journalist and author Fortesa Latifi. She's pregnant, has a toddler at home, and is somehow also promoting a book…
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Every Man Owes DraftKings $5000
This week, Quinn and Claire get into their March Madness brackets, before discussing how the gambling industrial complex is ruining sports, and what it's like…
Not Right NowWhere Else Can You Get a Dollar Fifty Hotdog and IVF Medication?
This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by L'Oreal Thompson Payton, a bestselling author, award-winning journalist, yoga teacher, mom to a four-year-old junior…
Not Right NowColoring Pages of Karl Marx
This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by Garrett Bucks, a writer, organizer, recovering white do-gooder, and parent based in Milwaukee. Garrett runs The…
Not Right NowCoach Doesn't Do It for the Money
This week, Quinn and Claire talk about first crushes, school dances, bloody noses, and other horrors of middle school before getting into why youth sports are…
Not Right NowLoving Heated Rivalry A Totally Normal Amount
This week, writer Emily Gould joins Quinn and Claire to discuss her obsession with Heated Rivalry (it's about hockey, primarily), the aging cliff at 44…
Not Right NowThe Movies That Raised Us (Wouldn't Be Made Now)
This week, we have Meghan Keane Graham and Mark Graham on the show to chat about their podcast, Back In My Day, where they watch movies from when they were 12…
Not Right NowRuPaul Fracks
This week we're talking about the delicate art of making everything toxic for your children (Whole Foods? Ruined. Florida? The worst. Every public figure?…
Not Right NowCat People Don't Believe In Cat Allergies
This week it's just Quinn and Claire on the pod, crashing out over academic probation (which is actually kind of a relief?), school surveillance that catches…
Not Right NowMaybe Having Another Kid Would Break Us
This week we have fiction writer and mom to one amazing 10-year-old, Joy Netanya Thompson, on the pod to discuss why she chose to stick with having just one…
Not Right NowBabies Sh*tting At A Funeral
This week, we have registered dietitian and death doula, Deanna Rondero, on the pod to chat about food insecurity, death cafes, and how grief intersects with…
Not Right NowWhat's The New Fresh Hell In Public Health?
This week, we have another guest! Dr. Devika Bhushan, a pediatrician, public health leader, former acting Surgeon General in California, and mom, chats with…
Not Right NowI Had My Petty Boots On (And I Liked It)
This week, we have author and journalist Nefertiti Austin on the show to talk about her new book She's Just Spirited: Parenting a Neurodivergent Child and The…
Not Right NowGo to Bed Angry
This week, Claire and Quinn chat Halloween logistics, the rear-facing car seat as the ultimate deterrent to having another baby, Claire's solo cabin getaway…
Not Right NowYour Kids Don't Care About Your Success
This week: We won a podcast award! And now we're immediately spiraling into existential conversations about where we seek approval, why we need it, and how…
Not Right NowDon't Make It Somebody Else's Problem
This week, Claire and Quinn discuss the very normal things like getting back into shape (this time it's happening!), anniversary celebrations that peak at the…
Not Right NowWhat's The Point of This Salad?
After catching up on the weekend's chaos (signing up to be toilet papered, progressive dinner parties, and dads of preteens who've apparently never heard of…
Not Right NowThat's A Hard No
We're back! This week, Claire and Quinn are crashing out over back-to-school chaos (music class that your kid swears they aren't supposed to practice for…
Not Right NowDon't Touch Me While I'm Cooking (Or Maybe Ever?)
This week, Claire and Quinn tackle the brutal summer heat while diving into the complexities of maintaining a relationship with your co-parent. Finding couple…
Not Right NowKeep It Janky
This week Claire and Quinn welcome Sarah Wheeler, creator of the Mom Spreading blog, host of The Mother Of It All podcast, educational psychologist, and…
Not Right NowTake The Waters
This week, Quinn returns from an epic family trip to Alaska with stories of whales, glaciers, and kids who packed two socks for a week-long adventure. But as…
Not Right NowHow Low Is Your Bar For Childcare?
This week, Quinn and Claire are diving into the ever-evolving world of childcare, from the brutal economics of quality care to the desperate measures parents…
Not Right NowWhy Does Disney Always Kill the Moms?
This week, Claire and Quinn welcome screenwriter and director Chris Winterbauer (Moonshot, What Went Wrong podcast) to chat about movies! They cover what they…
Not Right NowWe're Gonna Be the Woke Family
This week, Claire and Quinn ask: How do you raise charitable, empathetic kids when you can barely manage getting them to put their dishes in the sink? Topics…
Not Right NowThat's $15 Worth of Raspberries
This week Claire and Quinn welcome their first guest, Lindsey Stanberry, founder of The Purse and former editor at Fortune. Together they explore how to teach…
Not Right NowSleep Will Never Be The Same
Parenting and sleep deprivation. From military-precise sleep training schedules to the anxiety spiral of a child who won't sleep, they share their brutally…
Not Right NowParenting Is Humbling (And I Hate Being Humbled)
This week, we talk about the humbling experience of parenthood and how reality shatters expectations. We cover: The gap between pre-parenting fantasies (museum…
Not Right NowQ&A: Questions We're Not Qualified to Answer (But We'll Try Anyway)
In our first bonus Q&A episode, Quinn and Claire tackle listener questions with their signature blend of honesty, humor, and zero judgment. Topics covered…
Not Right NowIt's Not A Vacation, It's A Family Trip
This week, Quinn and Claire dive into traveling with kids. They share personal stories about family trips from their own childhoods and with their children…
Not Right NowUnderstimulated or Overscheduled
This week, Claire and Quinn dig into the minefield of youth sports: understimulated kids who are getting on everyone's nerves vs. overscheduled families who…
Not Right NowRecycling Isn't Real, But Your Kid's Plastic Hoard Is
This week, Claire and Quinn lament on the endless influx of STUFF that children seem to magically manifest in your home. From mysterious bouncy balls to apple…
Not Right NowLower Your Expectations (And Everyone Else's Too)
This week, Claire and Quinn unpack the often messy, often thankless job of solo parenting while your partner is away. We cover why you should never, EVER call…
Not Right NowHow Do You Say "WAP"?
This week, Claire and Quinn take a break (mostly) from their existential dread to talk about the awkward, hilarious world of music and parenting. From deciding…
Not Right NowThis Is Me At My Best
This week, Claire and Quinn dive into the messy reality of all the different ways we cope with parenting, while everything else is happening. From that…
Not Right NowKill Me In The First Wave
This week, Claire and Quinn explore the impossible question many parents are facing more frequently: how do you explain disasters, displacement, and…
Not Right NowThese Rules Can Go To Hell
This week Claire and Quinn dive into how the show got its name - the eternal parental struggle of "Not Right Now" - from TikTok bans and VPN-savvy kids to…
Not Right NowPush Them Down
In our debut episode, Claire (Evil Witches) and Quinn (Important, Not Important) dive into the chaotic reality of raising tiny humans in these wild times. From…