The Nut Farm Podcast

This week on The Nut Farm, Gretchen returns from vacation with beach-bronzed energy. She and Missy chat about NBA Finals opinions, World Cup commentary, and a surprisingly deep realization inspired by Jaws. The farmers discuss: • Why modern parenting feels harder than ever • Whether we're doing too many things “right” • Growing up before the internet had guardrails • Extending grace to our younger selves • Why happines...

This week on The Nut Farm, Gretchen and Missy survive their daughters’ first sleepover, (including a prank-call scandal involving McDonald’s), debate casino strategy, celebrate organizational breakthroughs, and accidentally invent a new life philosophy: Full Potato. The farmers discuss: • Why children are terrible liars • Parenting panic that follows questionable decisions • Friendship sleepovers and tired-mom mornings...

This week on The Nut Farm, Gretchen and Missy accidentally stumble into one of their most thoughtful conversations yet. What starts with professional organizers, labeled pantries, casino jackpots, and tanning-bed nostalgia turns into a debate about boredom, productivity guilt, and whether modern parents are trying too hard to make childhood magical. The farmers discuss: • Why kids do not need to be e...

This week on The Nut Farm, Gretchen and Missy discuss Pokémon art obsessions, potential live podcast, Lake Powell spirituality, sobriety milestones, creepy internet men, dangling throat anatomy, and the very real importance of hobbies. Standard farmer business.

The girls get into:

• Turning childhood interests into adult joy

• Why women lose their identities

• Emotional weight of old photos

• Internet trolls and creepy comment sect...

This week on The Nut Farm, Gretchen and Missy discuss prison politics, tanning beds, Pokémon conventions, emotional support sound bowls, weird wellness products, terrifying parking lots, and the deeply unhinged contents of Gretchen’s Notes app burn book.

The girls spiral through:

• Why women can never relax alone in public

• Pokémon collector culture

• Whether tanning beds are making a comeback

• Childhood books that were way...

This week on The Nut Farm, Gretchen and Missy spiral through motherhood, mental health, marriage hypotheticals, WAG culture, swingers, sound healing, sports streaming rage, and one absolutely unhinged story involving a lost tampon and an ASU quarterback.

Normal stuff.

The girls unpack emotional burnout, stress living in the body, and what it actually looks like to support your friends through hard seasons — before immediately...

What do Little League parents, luxury handbags, horse racing, Pokémon treasure hunts, and a "late husband's wedding band" all have in common? Absolutely nothing. Which is exactly why this episode works. This week, Gretchen and Missy get surprisingly real about one of the hardest parts of parenting: raising resilient kids without crushing their spirit. They talk discipline, disappointment, emotional m...

Sometimes all it takes is one innocent conversation about Pringles to end up discussing Michael Jackson, casino etiquette, $500 baseball bats, naked meditation, and whether a scratch-off ticket counts as legal tender.

This week, Gretchen and Missy take a girls' night to the casino (where one of them is suspiciously lucky and the other is just trying not to get touched by strangers),...

Season 3 is officially open, and absolutely nothing has changed—which is exactly how we like it.

This week Gretchen and Missy manage to connect six contractor bags full of clothes, Pokémon vending-machine stakeouts, casino heartbreak, prison pockets, Greenland sharks, gay twin brothers, earbud etiquette, and numerology into one completely normal conversation.

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