Good Children

Take a deep breath as you walk through the doors it's the morning of your very first day. Today's episode is all about ninth grade!!!! Freshman year is host to so many firsts, embarrassing moments, and learning lessons. For Joe, it was time to become a guido (and join The Order of the Phoenix). For Andrew, it was time to become a jock (and stan Katy Perry). Let's reflect on the wonderful woes of being 14 years old in 2010 and all of the drama, missed connections, and body dysmorphia that comes along with it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What do you think would happen if we never met? Joe and Andrew explore the very dark and troubling possibility of being total strangers meeting in their mid-20s for a drink on Valentine's Day. Enjoy this departure from Good Children's usual programming in which the boys genuinely do an hour long improv with minimal editing and get progressively drunker.. how decadent!💕 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let’s celebrate Valentine’s Day the only way we know how: candy, stuffed animals, and a general sense of impending doom for the world. Joe and Andrew dive deep through four categories of their February 14th’s: elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. Learn more about the boys first girlfriends and first rejections, the importance of mailbox valentines in 4th grade and the unseriousness of feeling lonely. We’re all gonna die, so let’s treat ourselves like someone we love! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's 2009: FarmVille, Flash Mobs, Hannah Montana and homophobia were all the rage. We're beginning to say goodbye to our childhood and prepare for high school with the rise of Glee, Gaga, and Picnik. Join Good Children on the journey of self-awareness and self-deprecation as Joe and Andrew dive deeper into the final troubling times of middle school: 8th Grade.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let's take it to 2008 for a second and dissect the very alarming reality of growing up (whether you want to or not). Stretch marks, being 12 at Retro Fitness, the 5 gum trade, pulling up your pants, getting scoobed, playing with toys in a godly way, and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's 2007: Harry Potter is ending, the iPhone is born, and Joe and Andrew take their very first steps into middle school. Today's episode is all about the trials and tribulations of SIXTH GRADE, including, but not limited to: Thursday afternoon fights at Gino's pizzeria, body odor, rainbow rockets, Webkinz, Aeropostale, milk for every meal, the birth of cell phone culture, Miley's pregnancy rumor, giving sixth graders power tools, Axe body spray, and more nauseating experiences from one of the worst years of our lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The boys are back with a special 80-minute season 2 premiere! Let's learn to put ourselves out there together: from using the internet to gain noteriety as a middle scholer to dealing with bullying and humiliation in high school, this episode gets traumatic. The boys talk about body image, their first gay dates, their most embarrassing moments, childhood crushes (Sharkboy), fear of rejection/failure lol, and the full-body experience of an elementary school assembly. Come for the jokes, stay for the 5-step program on how to be your authentic self in situations where it might seem fully impossible! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Surprise! The boys are back for the holidays with a reflective, weirdly sad, totally kooky Christmas special! Unpack Joe's Grinch fetish, desperately try to hear the ringing bell from the polar express, and learn to believe all over again in this special installment.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The time has come to share the most important night of our lives with you: Good Children: LIVE! Join the crowd at Good Children's first ever live show in this very special season finale! OK so FINE, we talk a lot about Thanksgiving, but the sentiments still stand a few weeks later. Laugh, cry, learn what dreams are made of, and cherish every moment like this. Thank you all for a great season 1, we'll see you next year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In their *actual* penultimate episode of Season 1, the Good Children reflect on the trends that made them who they are and the ones they wish they could forget. From Silly Bandz to Pillow Pets to Andrew's very first Webkinz, "Shinning star." Reflect on a season of heartwarming memories, a lot of self-indulgent growth talk, and moments we'll literally keep like a photograph and hold in our hearts forever. Whether you popped out the lenses of Disney 3D glasses to look like a hipster or wore Von Dutch as a young child, this episode has something for everyone. We've come a lawwwwwng way from where we've begun and we'll tell you AWLLLL about it when we see you again for Season 2 (but don't forget to check back next week for our LIVE EPISODE).  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices