Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and feelings at the dinner table are guaranteed to be running HIGH this year. Why not give yourself an emotional vocabulary and a respite with a family movie night? Dylan and Phil set off from Friendship Island to explore Inside Out 1 & 2, a couple of their kids' favorites.

Episode 33: Goosebumps

With Halloween on the horizon, we’re looking for age appropriate horror for our kiddos. Luckily R.L. Stine is a prolific author of young reader horror, and now we get to share his work with ours! Take a nostalgic stroll through the Scholastic Book Fair of Horror as we talk about Goosebumps books, TV adaptations, and movies. Listener beware, you’re in for a scare!

There’s nothing quite like a day at the movies to beat the heat in summer. Come catch a matinee double feature with us as we talk about taking our kids into movie theaters and review the family summer movies If and Garfield the Movie. You will find us in the matinée, the dark of the matinée. It's better in the matinée, the dark of the matinée. (Remember, you get points for getting our references and we are keeping score).

We’re taking you into the world of kid’s birthday parties. We discuss the different kinds of dads you might find in this most unusual of events.. Are you a “business” dad or a “playoff game on tv” dad? Also, we dive into the world of the child rat casino that is Chuck E. Cheese.

When our kids turn 10, we plan to send them out into the world on their own, expected to tame wild animals and train them to fight for money. Actually, considering the state of the world these may not be bad skills to hone… It’s our most manically musical episode yet, as Phil and Dylan go north on Route 1 to talk about the world of Pokémon!

We venture into the sweetest land of them all, Candy Land. Did you know that they’ve tried to make this game into a movie 3 times?!? We discuss that, along with all the other games we’re playing right now, and so much more!

This episode is all about the wild things that dwell in the night kitchen, outside over there. In other words, we’re talking about Maurice Sendak! Let the wild rumpus start!

Having finally put their children to sleep, Dylan and Phil take some time to reflect on their own media consumption when they aren’t with the kiddos. We’re talking about bedtime routines, what we’re watching late at night, and the various addictions that have befallen our co-hosts. Apropos of nothing, does anyone know of any support groups for people who play too much Civ 6? Asking for a Phil. A friend!

It’s so wonderful when your kid becomes obsessed with a show you also really enjoy. Dylan and Phil swap storm damage, do a bunch of swearing right off the bat, and then dive into Big City Greens, a surprisingly sophisticated show about a country family moving to the city. It’s like Beverly Hillbillies, but they’re poor!

Phil and Dylan are friends! In their first sequel episode, Dylan and Phil spend some time ruminating on getting a new sponsor while discussing the cottage core show Frog & Toad. They also reminisce on D&D snacks, the super bowl, and Betsy Sodaro.

It’s finally here. The franchise that spawned an ear worm worse than Ceti Alpha 5. Dylan and Phil navigate a frozen musical wasteland, geek out over a friend’s accomplishment, and survive a pack of wild Tilda Swinton. And yes, that is also the plural, let it go.

Dylan Hood and Little Phil, recording another podcast, laughing back and forth at what the other has to say. Reminiscing this and that and having such a good time, oo-de-lally, oo-de-lally, golly, what a day.

Put down those iPads and switch off those Nintendos, it’s time for some hands on, educational fun! Dylan and Phil review their favorite places to take their kiddos indoors during Chicago’s slushy, eternal winters. From the Field Museum to Exploratorium, we go on a winding adventure rivaled only by Bob Newhart’s walk home.

Happy holidays! Did you think we’d forget about you? We got you a whole new episode of HOPC, wherein Dylan and Phil compare their end of year playlist statistics and then wax nostalgic over the now classic Nightmare Before Christmas. But what’s this? Phil is about to reveal hidden truths to Dylan about his son? What drama! You’re welcome!

Has it really been 20 episodes already? It feels like only yesterday Dylan and Phil were learning how to make a podcast in their basements, and now we’ve got a high octane retrospective of season one on our hands. Buckle up and study up, because you know we like a good pop quiz around here. Dylan and Phil recap every topic from this first season under the gaze of a strict timer.

On the verge of becoming a trilogy, the Trolls franchise has a chance to redeem itself from a weak initial offering followed by an excellent sequel. Finally, a chance for Phil to talk about the only music he’s ever allowed to play in the car ever again (send help in the form of pizza rolls, please). Also, an uninvited guest in the booth!?

We’re talking about the musician, activist, and all around cool dude Raffi! Get ready for some earworms. Plus we get to talking about a possible childhood fever dream…Timmy the Tooth.

We conclude our stay in Gotham City, and no tour of that fine monument to urban decay is complete without a French lesson, a painstaking review of the plot of the 1966 Batman movie, and some serious peer pressure from Kevin. Don’t smoke, kids.

Holy podcasts Batman! We’re talking classic 1966 Batman: The Movie in the first of a two parter. We join Big Talk Podcasts founder and Batman super-fan Kevin Alves, along with the voice that goes “Blah Blah Blah Big Talk” at the very end Kim Boler, to dig into Adam West’s Not-So-Dark Knight.

Ka-chow! Dylan has seen Disney/Pixar’s Cars approximately 74 times in the past nine months, but it turns out it’s ok because Cars is great! Phil and Dylan discuss Paul Newman and George Carlin’s highest grossing film ever, Cars.