The Tim & Chelsea Podcast · New Country 103.1 WIRK | Hubbard Radio

The things your kids did

April 3, 2026·1 hr 1 min·4 clips

Chelsea describes watching her daughter Vail topple a full display mirror and a large potted tree onto the turf of their pickleball club during prime-time hours, with paddle players watching through the glass wall.

1. The Tim and Chelsea Podcast, airing on New Country 103.1 in South Florida, opens on a Friday with hosts Tim Leary and producer Leary discussing the week's running theme: things kids have done that made their parents stop and ask 'really?' 2. Tim is the primary storyteller for himself and his wife Karen; Chelsea is the co-host who shares stories involving her own children, primarily daughter Vail and son Caden; a third contributor named Leary (the producer) is referenced but mostly serves as a reactive foil. 3. The episode's unifying premise is parenting as a series of involuntary comedy moments — from smashed toothbrushes at 5 a.m. to dirt-covered children in upscale athletic clubs. 4. Tim opens with a story about his electric toothbrush malfunction at 5:10 a.m., retreating into the bathroom closet to avoid waking his wife Karen, failing to shut it off by button, and ultimately smashing it against the wire shelving in the closet — which he frames as a victory. 5. Tim recounts attending the Florida Panthers vs. Boston Bruins game with his season-ticket-holding friend Jeff, who had front-row seats; the Panthers won 2-1 in a close game, and Tim ate his 'first cheeseburger in three weeks' and licked the wax paper, ranking the evening just behind his wedding day and the birth of his children. 6. Tim describes his son Jonah's Easter plans: having his 80-year-old in-laws fly to Mississippi to visit, with Jonah planning to take them to a crawfish boil above a liquor store, and possibly buying his grandfather a bottle of scotch at age 20 — Tim declines to ask how. 7. Chelsea introduces the concept of 'Vail's Trails' — a recurring nickname for the trail of involuntary destruction that follows her daughter Vail, described as a 'sunshine and butterflies and rainbows' child around whom things simply collapse. 8. At their Boynton paddle pickleball club at 5:36 p.m. — peak hour — Vail knocked over a large decorative mirror and a fully planted tree in a planter, spreading soil across the green Astroturf while active paddle players watched through the glass walls. 9. Chelsea and Vail spent several minutes on their hands and knees scooping soil back into the planter by hand while employees brought brooms; Chelsea notes that sweeping dirt out of Astroturf 'is pretty difficult' and that she 'embarrasses very easily.' 10. Tim invents guardian angels that take shifts watching over Vail, imagining them at the 'heaven bar' asking for doubles after particularly demanding days. 11. Listener call-in segment: a caller's son took a bite from every hot dog package in the grocery store aisle; a text described a 3-year-old inserting a plastic egg half into her mouth until it blocked her throat; a listener named Nick admitted smearing feces on a Mickey Mouse wall sticker as a child, which Tim declined to continue discussing. 12. Tim recounts his son Jonah, as a young child, coloring in a church Bible with crayons provided in the church's own activity bag; Jonah had to hand the Bible to the pastor after the service with 'big crocodile tears,' and Tim argued to church leadership that putting crayons next to Bibles is the equivalent of giving children weapons. 13. Chelsea admits she spends entire church services watching Vail anxiously, convinced she will somehow ignite someone's hair with a battery-operated candle. 14. Tim reports that the Artemis 2 moon mission experienced a toilet fan failure for the first six to seven hours of flight, requiring crew members to use bags; the crew is now 280,000 miles out heading toward the dark side of the moon. 15. Tim introduces his hypothetical assistant 'Rico,' whose entire role as an astronaut aide would be verifying that the space toilet is functional, while Tim ignores rocket systems as 'someone else's department.' 16. The show plays a clip of a child screaming 'we're going back to the freaking moon, that's why!' at a reporter, which Tim adopts as a recurring audio sticker throughout the news segment. 17. Tim and Chelsea both pick Arizona and UConn as their Final Four champions — 'in lockstep' — and note that the four semifinalists are UConn, Illinois, Michigan, and Arizona. 18. Chelsea explains how her App State-bound son Caden used an unofficial student Instagram account to post a roommate profile, receiving 50 friend requests and direct messages within hours; she contrasts boys' passive 'watch but don't post' behavior with girls' organized approach. 19. A 'Man from Florida' game segment has listeners identify which of three news stories — a DUI driver found sitting cross-legged on top of his overturned vehicle, a restaurant building a fence to prevent people from defecating on its property, or a woman torching her husband's home to 'rekindle' their marriage — actually comes from Florida (answer: the arsonist wife). 20. Best suited for parents of school-age and college-age children who appreciate humor about parenting chaos, regional Florida life, and lighthearted pop-culture commentary; least suited for listeners who want structured news or topic depth rather than free-form conversational radio.

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Kid chaos gets turned into a quick, funny pile-on.

The episode leans into kid logic and parent disbelief: a toothbrush that will not turn off, four DVDs crammed into a car screen, a grocery run that becomes a vegetable tasting tour, and a church mishap that ends with broken glass.

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Your kid made a simple day weird? This one gets it.

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