Aging & Raging (from the ladies of Nursing & Cursing)
156 episodes listed below
Mom life, older bodies, zero polish.
Aging & Raging is the louder, older sequel energy of a parenting circle that never learned to keep private worries private. The panel ricochets through vasectomies, school shutdowns, death, aging bodies, and kids asking impossible questions.
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Aging & Raging follows the Nursing and Cursing crew into the next bracket of family life, where the babies are older, the bodies are louder, and the group chat has somehow become even less filtered. The show runs on panel momentum. Someone brings a worry to the room, and the room immediately turns it over, mocks it, worries about it, and makes it weirdly comforting. Vasectomy appointments become fertility folklore. Targeted ads become proof that aging has entered the algorithm. School closures become a household operations crisis with no clean plan. It is funny because it is specific. It is also funny because nobody pretends the specific thing is small. A wasted lunch, a child talking about an imaginary brother, a spouse's pandemic habits, or an unexpected mirror moment can all receive the same mock-serious hearing. The episodes are full of bodies, marriage, kids, screens, hormones, fear, and friendship. They are not polished essays. They are live reactions from women comparing notes while life keeps interrupting. That looseness gives the show its charge. Guest conversations can bring sharper focus, as in the episode with guest author Jelani Memory about talking to kids about racism. Even then, the house style stays practical and plainspoken, using parenting questions as the way into larger moral territory. The aging material adds a new ache to the older mom-life comedy: parents noticing they have become the adults they used to judge. There is tenderness underneath the noise. There is also a lot of nervous laughter. Aging & Raging suits listeners who want parenting comedy that admits the day can be ridiculous, frightening, gross, loving, and unfinished all at once.
Made for: For parents who like messy panel banter, blunt domestic comedy, and conversations that treat school logistics, bodies, marriage, aging, and fear as shared material. It especially fits listeners who want mom-life humor without a glossy self-help wrapper.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by letting ordinary parenting details escalate in real time instead of packaging them into lessons. Its best moments feel like friends conducting a chaotic emergency meeting about the smallest possible crisis.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Five mothers turn parenting uncertainty, midlife recognition, and household chaos into candid comedy sharpened by their competing perspectives.
Aging & Raging turns five mothers comparing notes into lively conversational comedy. Kate, Christine, Allie, Molly, and Sarah move easily between parenting logistics and the strange realization that they have reached the age they once considered fully grown.
A vasectomy chat ends with someone Googling follow-up tests; your kind of parental reassurance?
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose, funny run from vasectomy nerves to kid logic and twin talk.
An easygoing pass through a scheduled vasectomy and the kind of group banter that can make a plain medical errand feel a little theatrical. The talk wanders into twins, psychic predictions, and a child who swears a stuffed raccoon is her brother, which keeps the mood light…
Messy, blunt, and funny about aging, bodies, and burial questions no one really polishes up.
The episode sits comfortably in comic territory, moving from targeted Instagram nonsense into caskets, cremation, organic burials, and the picture of being wrapped in a sheet and returned to the earth.
A late return turns parenting, age, and self-recognition into a loose, funny catch-up.
After a long gap, the show comes back as a catch-up about parenting, age, and the odd jolt of realizing how fast the kids are growing while the hosts are now the parents in the room.
Sponsor-heavy at first, then a grounded conversation about the pressure of talking race with kids.
Nursing and Cursing spends its first stretch on sponsors, so the episode takes a little while to settle. Once it does, it turns into a plainspoken talk about race and kids, and the black-dad line about being afraid of saying the wrong thing to brown kids and white kids alike…
A brisk, funny parent roundtable about school closures, childcare, and the messy logic of staying safe.
School closing "for infinity" gives the episode a scrappy, funny energy. It plays like a parent roundtable that keeps circling the same practical knot: childcare, exposure chains, and what it means to keep a family sealed off when everyone is improvising.
Dad life, drafted and derailed.
Parenting chaos, told after bedtime.
Marriage, kids, mess, and mercy.
Dad life, after the patience runs out.
Two dads, a stack of nicknames, and zero filter.
Early parenthood, played for laughs, with zero advice.
The hosts open on a fresh family announcement: one of their husbands has a vasectomy appointment on Friday.
The hosts open by talking about how online life can feel a little too watched, especially through Instagram, ads, and the news they keep running into.
The hosts open by apologizing for the long gap and admitting they stayed away longer than they meant to.
Nursing and Cursing settles into a candid conversation about talking to kids when race and saying the wrong thing are on the line.
A group of moms from different backgrounds introduce themselves and their parenting podcast, which covers the challenges and humor of raising children.
The hosts check in from their houses and land on the same basic problem: school is canceled for what feels like forever, and nobody has a clean plan.
Five moms from different states gather to share humorous parenting stories and banter about guilt-tripping kids and school lunches.
Five moms from different states joke about parenting, Valentine's Day lingerie, and tech listening habits.
A group of moms from different states joke about parenting, pronunciation, and daily life in a lighthearted roundtable.
Five mom friends from different states kick off 2020 with humorous reflections on aging and their high school reunion.
A group of moms humorously discuss holiday newsletters and the humblebrags they contain.
A group of moms from different backgrounds discuss parenting challenges and share humorous anecdotes.