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by Important, Not Important · English · Kids & Family
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, soc
8 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 2 min
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 about how school dances have changed over the years (they keep the lights on now?) and for Qui...
E47 · 1 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 11 min
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 book called The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything. ...
E46 · 17 Sep 2026 · 56 min
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 audiobook), cicadas in the house, a broken bed jet remote, laundry as a consequence, and wheth...
E45 · 10 Sep 2026 · 59 min
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 actually a good person and how to explain that to kids who don't want the nuance, E. Jean Carr...
E44 · 3 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
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. They catch up on the summer and then get into surviving the back-to-school gauntlet. ---------...
27 Aug 2026 · 58 min
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 a relationship with your co-parent despite all the chaos. ----------- This week, Claire and Q...
20 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
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, Quinn and Claire are diving into the ever-evolving world of childcare, from the brutal economics...
13 Aug 2026 · 55 min
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. ----------- Parenting and sleep deprivation. From military-precise sleep training schedules to the anx...
6 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
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 expectations about parenting before we became parents vs. the reality. Enjoy! -------------- This week...
30 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 5 min
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 all the different ways we cope with parenting, while everything else is happening. From that ...
23 Jul 2026 · 52 min
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 and Quinn dive into how the show got its name - the eternal parental struggle of "Not Right Now...
E43 · 16 Jul 2026 · 54 min
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 companies like Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube, and the author of a book that is very much about dads...
E42 · 25 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 14 min
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 logistics of having a 3-year-old and a 5-year-old, Amanda's emerging second-book obsession (cryog...
E41 · 18 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 17 min
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 essay collection Little Apocalypses: Essays on Motherhood, Climate Change, And Hope at the En...
E40 · 11 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
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. They talk about religion, community, and what we actually want to pass down to our kids. Fro...
9 Jun 2026 · 2 min
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 Willow Beck and Briana Brown take a show you're already watching and pull the thread on what i...
E39 · 21 May 2026 · 52 min
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 school calendars to the age-old debate between fifth and eighth grade graduation parties. Also di...
E38 · 14 May 2026 · 1 hr 7 min
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 parenting advice columnist for Slate. AJ has been sober for nearly 10 years, and he brings t...
8 May 2026 · 54 min
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 conversation, and so relevant for parents, we thought we should run it on the Not Right Now fee...
E37 · 30 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by Willa Koerner, a creative strategist, writer, gardener, flower farmer, newsletter author, artist residency co-founder, and mother of a very busy four-year-old. They get into unschooling, invasive species, garde...
E36 · 16 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
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. Respect. Fortesa has spent years reporting on the world of mom influencers and family vloggers,...
E35 · 2 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 6 min
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 to raise kids in the age of the manosphere. Also discussed: vasectomies, testing our knowledg...
E34 · 26 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
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 bookseller, and the founder of Zora's Place, a Black-owned independent bookstore in Evanston,...
E33 · 12 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 15 min
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 Barnraisers Project, writes The White Pages newsletter, and is the author of the memoir The Right ...
E32 · 5 Mar 2026 · 57 min
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 dying across the US, especially because coaches make no money while dealing with our asshole ...
E31 · 26 Feb 2026 · 1 hr 11 min
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, ruining everything you used to find fun by professionalizing it, and parenting the kid that's exact...
E30 · 19 Feb 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
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 and force their kids (ages 12 and 9) to discuss them. We discuss: movies that don't hold up, ...
E29 · 12 Feb 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
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? Probably a Nazi.), how to tell kids bad news on their level ("Grandma is cooked"), and whether yo...
E28 · 5 Feb 2026 · 1 hr 5 min
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 kids Googling inappropriate things (it was obviously just a prank, dad), and the theoretical q...
E27 · 29 Jan 2026 · 1 hr 13 min
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 kid. Joy gets real about postpartum depression, the decision to stop at one when she never imag...
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, soc
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