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Auntie Mags (Dana Quercioli) and Aunt Pat (Colleen Doyle) see the world through aunt-colored glasses. And if you don’t know what that means, Mags and Pat will talk at you until you get it. From dismantling the “fun uncle” narrative, to current events and how they pertain to aunts, to debating whether Marshall’s or Kohl’s is the superior place to buy decent luggage, you’ll gain deeper insight and appreciation for the aunts in your life. Probably. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spoti ...
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Don’t Think Twice

Amrita Vijay & Andrew Stephens

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Amrita and Andrew are ”platonic life partners,” artistic co-conspirators, and parents to a good baby. In 2024: Season 2 will reflect on one year of parenting as friends, and *lots* more. We will turn the lens to re-imagining the ways in which people relate to one another in the modern world: whether in family, community, partnership, or romance. Season 1 documented our path from friends to family as we decided to become parents. All the juicy backstory you could ask for. ”Season 0” is the fi ...
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Joined by the amazing Uncle Rikki Gus, Pat and Mags power through big sleepover energy to deliver you what is sure to be a wild ride this week. They discuss music, fears, making a wound and inserting the sickness, the incredible Vicki Lawrence, music, the arts, and much, much more. TW: Corpus Christi --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spo…
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Amrita and Andrew invite six friends around the dinner table to discuss friendship and intimacy: our co-host Marina, plus college friends, an ex-boyfriend, a neighbor...all with different perspectives on romance and family. We talk about what makes people get close, the difference between friend-intimacy and romance-intimacy -- plus, some personal …
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Pat and Mags sit a spell with Uncle Lowis and the chat that follows involves elbows in ears, the Kennedy curse, crotch crabs, a mess of papasan chairs, the porn chimney, a red river rivalry, steak fried steak, take a scooter, yardbirds, genderalizing, and hot hamburgers. Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Uncle Lowis - David Lee …
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Pat and Mags go full Haskell and Qbert this week to talk summer movies, which includes: What Year Is It? aunt island, Jon Arbuckle, Festerosa, a Ziggy movie, what's a date?, submarine levers, it buttons at the bosoms pull, the one eyed onion, relitigating the moon, the twisters are back, Colleen Bissell and Menace Spade. TW: Diane Keating's summer …
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One of people's first questions is "how do your families feel about all this?" --so we decided to ask them ourselves. Andrew and Amrita had one-on-one phone conversations with our parents and siblings to talk family dynamics, and then sat down with Marina to hash it all out. Our families have plenty of feelings about being joined together by the ap…
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Pat and Mags (role) play with Uncle Mikey and we talk faceshaming, smurfs and then avatars, knowing the toilet will go off, Newhart, keeping people out of the jacuzzi, when you're air, and butt energy. TW: small businesses without natural light Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Uncle Mikey - Kevin Sciretta Outro - Dana Quercioli…
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We've made it to our baby's first birthday (!) and we're celebrating with a new season of Don't Think Twice. How has the past year been? What are the expectations versus reality of parenting as friends? Did things shake out as we imagined in last year's Season 1 episodes? Join us and find out! Amrita and Andrew are creative collaborators, platonic …
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Pat and Mags circle up with Aunt Gail this week and we cover summer detention, a hairy esophagus, tequila rose, agug or agag, dick on down the road, Catherine O'Perry, JO bros, and Bob Euchre. TW: taking Inception Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Aunt Gail - Margaret Edwartowski Theme song - The Qs Artwork - Jordan Stafford Mau…
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This week Pat and Mags catch up and talk turns to mammagrammas, stomping grapes, crown moulding school, Jack Nicklaus' film 'Birds', the nuts aren't your milk, Karen O'Brien, licking pennies like the Irish, Jamie Drench, flashing underbra, and a snuff idea. TW: stomping grapes Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Theme song - The Q…
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Bing! Pat and Mags crash right into conversation with Uncle Cramblin this week, as they discuss the mind's ear, The Ladder, an amazing flesh sack, negging your car, Chili's Slamz, REALLY GOOD 3 ON 3 BASKETBALL, how movement is medicine, a mustard heiress, tiptoeing into the future, circle states, and honestly so much more. TW: Inverted Scrotums. Au…
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Pat and Mags' bag this week is femail and talk turns to The Non-Vocal Majority, Marvelous Franks, Sherlock Browns mind library, the whereabouts of Kato Kaelin, hot fruit soup and hot short injections. TW: Rick left H & Her Block Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Theme song - The Qs Artwork - Jordan Stafford Mauntra - Aunt Robin …
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Do Pat and Mags land the plane? We'll see! TW: A divisive jacket. https://www.magicmind.com/thosewhoaunt and use code AUNT20 Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Special Guest: Chelsea Perrotty Talbot Special Guest: Charlie McCrackin Special Call-in Guest: Joann Maletic Special Call-in Guest: Tina Quercioli Special Dog: Scoops McCr…
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Pat and Mags continue to watch and discuss the 96th annual Academy Awards having seen almost none of the movies. TW: A magical trip to the bathroom. https://www.magicmind.com/thosewhoaunt and use code AUNT20 Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Special Guest: Chelsea Perrotty Talbot Theme song - The Qs Artwork - Jordan Stafford Mau…
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Pat and Mags watch and discuss the 96th annual Academy Awards having seen almost none of the movies. TW: A magical trip to the bathroom. https://www.magicmind.com/thosewhoaunt and use code AUNT20 Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Theme song - The Qs Artwork - Jordan Stafford Mauntras - Carol Doyle Editor - Dana Quercioli --- Sup…
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Pat and Mags dream a little dream this week as they talk about nearly everything, and certainly whatever pops into their minds at any given moment. Get your colonoscopy and ask your doctors about perimenopause. TW: butt stuff. https://www.magicmind.com/thosewhoaunt and use code AUNT20 Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Theme song…
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B'day from Pat and Mags! This week we chat wiping, old white man skeleton face, Benny Loggins, Candyass, This Here's Me, Stefani Schaefer of Fox 8 News, and front butt/back butt. https://www.magicmind.com/FEBthosewhoaunt and use code AUNT20 Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Theme song - The Qs Artwork - Jordan Stafford Mauntras …
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Pat and Mags feel a true sense of community with Auntie Em (Emma Pope) as they tackle everything from cars for junk, putting in a skylight so loved ones can watch over you, Fluffy Iglesias, Streampunk, getting out ahead of it, Dulles, insulting comics and much, much more. TW: Ra. https://www.magicmind.com/JANthosewhoaunt and use code AUNT20 Aunt Pa…
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Pat and Mags ham (and turkey) it up with Auntie Sunny this week as they discuss questions nobody's ever asked before, Droopy Dogging, is Porky Pig okay anymore?, softening your noodle, your sexuality as it pertains to Saltburn, and a different kind of chainmail. TW: Runners. https://www.magicmind.com/JANthosewhoaunt and use code AUNT20 through Janu…
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Pat and Mags are joined by Uncle Charlie this week and topics include: being down with HPV, Duckunt, patriotic animals, 95 chicken littles, uncling oneself, the Panamanian postal service, and oh-way-sigh. TW: distracted driving. Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Uncle Charlie Seaver - Bill Arnett Theme song - The Qs Outro - Debr…
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Auntie Maude visits with Mags and Pat and together we ponder did FDR roll it out? If alien robots can ski well, what's next? Are our shins clean enough? What does Hanukkah smell like? TW: May-December romances where the man is once again the December. Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Auntie Maude Butts - Lily Sullivan Theme son…
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Pat and Mags ring in the new year with talk of another Snape hunt, new love languages, giving seniors less information, holding your water, illegal turtles, Auntie Bags, and turning into John Popper. Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Theme song - The Qs Artwork - Jordan Stafford Mauntra - Carol Doyle Editor - Colleen Doyle This …
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Pat and Mags run aground this week with VacatiAunt Margie, as they cruise through conversations about prison pen palls, girls trips with Murray, llama farms, crematoriums, using points for dreams, if your sauce is too sweet, shrimp, more shrimp, not enough shrimp, and which colors don't run. TW: the fate of many a llama. Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Au…
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It's all gravy with Pat and Mags this week when Aunt Mo joins to talk mall jail, being joepiscopalian, borons, Yelping across Bethlehem, widdle babies, the Jacksonville Junkpile, short serfs, Tom Celica, tenured kids on the block, gazebos, leather legal guardians, and the ox and lamb. TW: further antagonizing flight attendants Aunt Pat - Colleen Do…
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Pat and Mags fly the plane themselves this week, and emphatically talk about everything and nothing. TW: The toilet room Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Theme song - The Qs Artwork - Jordan Stafford Mauntra - Carol Doyle Editor - Dana Quercioli This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. ⁠⁠⁠⁠https:/…
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Pat and Mags do their best to provide full-bodied guidance to Uncle Brendy (Brendan Fitzgibbons) this week as they discuss East Dundee, IL, thoughtful gift-giving, an all neck playlist, credit card swipes, and almost too much more. TW: another intervention kinda? Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Uncle Brendy - Brendan Fitzgibbo…
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Pat and Mags get raw dogged by Uncle Alfie this week and our discussion includes a stray Tarantino, Al Pacino but smaller, underwear broccoli, Mo(town) problems, Indiana Jones: the Podcast, Rules of Four, Frankenstein's monster, and laser zappa. TW: another intervention Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Uncle Alfie - Chris Candy…
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This week, Pat and Mags are joined by Uncle Dutch (Edgar Blackmon), the most glorious uncle. This trio is full of love, support, and interesting thoughts on books, music, and thick spaghetti. Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Uncle Dutch - Edgar Blackmon Theme song - The Qs Outro - Debra Duncan Artwork - Jordan Stafford Mauntra …
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Pat and Mags end up offsides with Lizzy this week and our convo includes being being wheelbarrowed by Jesus, how am I on death row, anger smelling, hulking, what are you feeding your PitBull, unfinished spreadsheets, soccer b*tch, and being age blind. TW: plain violence Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Aunt Lizzy - Megan Grano …
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Please excuse the commercial nature of this episode as Pat workshops her sound effects album. Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Theme Song - The Qs Artwork - Jordan Stafford Editor - Colleen Doyle --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anc…
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Aunt Trish swings by and oops! it's an intervention. Haircuts from drifters, somewhat useful role plays, and the inevitability of being the villain in most of your own stories is the meat of this particular podcast sandwich. Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Aunt Trish - Amanda Blake Davis Theme Song - The Qs Outro - Debra Dunca…
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Pat and Mags get some 'splaining from Uncle Roger this week which includes animated documentaries, Verner's Hairsmog, MILF corn, the goiter act, aging like gas station wine, writing in Stillvester Stabone, hitting the brown note, and a baja blast cleanse. TW: The General is a chad Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Uncle Roger - …
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Pat and Mags love to share their voicemails with the Aunt Colony, so that everyone gets a taste of this ironclad friendship. TW: Bulk Hogan Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Artwork - Jordan Stafford Mauntras - Carol Doyle Editor - Colleen Doyle Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcas…
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Pat and Mags sound(s) off this week about all manner of things including dogs voices changing, mom and pop dental dams, accidental performance art, Phil the Hero, turning into an abacus, ishing someone will, Turd Pooz, and Dave Foley artist. TW: Blucifer Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Artwork - Jordan Stafford Mauntras - Caro…
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The committee of Pat, Mags and Uncle Melvin convened this week and on the agenda: two empty fanny packs, obits/hot or not, unopened blu-ray players, two sidekicks, loopholes, a whole rockin' bod up on the world, and remember Nell(y). TW: people with luck Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Uncle Melvin - Macklen Makhloghi Artwork …
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Pat and Mags (and their two full body puppeteers Colleen and Dana) finish reminiscing about how great they are, and how especially great their friends, family, and guests are in part two of a now-beloved retrospective of this very podcast. TW: Friendship and mutual respect of peers. Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Outro - Gian…
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This week Aunt Pat and Auntie Mags go from hole to hole with Uncle Nigel and we discuss priceline.net, sweeping the bones, the birthplace of syphilis, Richard Wolf, Cody/Coty/Cody99, the internet truth squad, Paddington 4, and Benny Hillsong. TW: Internet people, again Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Uncle Nigel - Greg Hess Ar…
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Pat and Mags rock and roll with Aunt Cay this week and we discuss gutter chasers, dry aerobics, Forever 33, waggin', being single dingle, things not included in the infrastructure bill, Dick Simmons, and sex talk rebuttals. TW: a bunch of stuff Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Aunt Cay - Kate James Artwork - Jordan Stafford Mau…
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Pat and Mags don't need to watch their step with Aunt Googs this week to talk Fig Newton, a public Italian, hump eve, going straight to skinnylicious, a gap year selling khakis, post office famous, and mannequin caves. TW: child ballroom dancers Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Aunt Googs - Megan Gailey Artwork - Jordan Staffor…
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Pat and Mags manifest-o a new episode with Uncle Ted Kaczynski (No Relation) and we talk an 80s business boy, god juju, stranger butts, accidental Yelps, fingers too short for a firearm, BBMd, Elkhorn, the Arby's pimp, mouth numbers, and a bucket of silly parts. TW: men who write Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Uncle Ted - Dan…
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Aunt Wendy bobs and weaves with Pat and Mags this week, as they chat about The Amazing Race, problematic moles, adult Legos, The Denver Murder Horse, emotional involuntary flailing, Prime Suspect, Fran Drescher, all the forklifts, Hermit Crabs, and so much more. TW: Tit Skin Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Aunt Wendy - Katy Co…
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Uncle Tayo enters the chat with Pat and Mags this week, and we kick it off with some talk of fungus, chat rooms, Gordon Shumway, DDS, the 43rd president, The Hot Tamale Train, the joys of traffic, arm covers for couches, and so much more. TW: Mens Soccer? Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli Uncle Tayo - Nnamdi Ngwe Theme Song - Th…
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We've come full circle in our tale of preparing for co-parenting: FAMILY. Andrew and Amrita's biological families will be fused together by this new baby -- what will that look like for a platonic couple? How will our very different religious and cultural upbringings come into play for our new family unit? Host Marina Weiss helps bring this series …
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Uncle Donnie joins Pat and Mags this week and we ponder In House IT: My 2 Aunts, salthounds, Max Bedroom, emotional dogs, big awning, the customer is sometimes ignorant, hard wine, tapping it, the math these days, where are the california raisins now, Guillaume, and the mens room in your home TW: scrum Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Qu…
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Pat and Mags jam with Aunt Josephine this week and talk prescription crocs, KT lang tape, the taste of tar, invisible fence for women of a certain age, no women at the bottom of the ocean, dating dolphins, phish fry, george clinton's bathroom, cosigning Cleetus, gas powered scooters, facebook inc, the tinder grinder, lots of text on your driver's l…
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We're nearing the end of our Baby Episodes! But we can't leave without confronting how sex and dating will work in Amrita and Andrew's new roles as friends raising a child together. Host Marina Weiss does a little after-hours therapy and guides us in an open and vulnerable conversation about our ideal romantic partners, and how they might fit into …
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Pat and Mags clown around with Uncle Fred this week, and they really strike a cord(uroy) when they talk about Taylor Swift, one terrible gig, Harry Buffalos, car drapes, anemic shirts, massaging your kale, hearses for tall people, how bad Ricky Schroeder is now, and so much more. TW: Bed wear. Aunt Pat - Colleen Doyle Auntie Mags - Dana Quercioli U…
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In this week's exploration of nontraditional family, we look at a male perspective on parenthood. Andrew sits down with our friend JR Andre - an educator and school administrator who is on the pathway to parenthood along with his husband. We talk gay fatherhood, navigating relationships with the women involved in the process, and the importance of …
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