Relationships & Family
Love, parenting, and the people closest to us.
53 minEp. 46 · September 10, 2026
Mamdani’s 9/11 Files & Parents Gone Wild
XO is back from a break with a voice wrecked by what may or may not be New York air. NYC Mayor Mamdani's "9/11 files" on post-attack air quality come with a pricey new public portal, and XO smells a nothing burger. Then: parents gone wild, from the Lindsay Clancy case to a mom charged for letting her kid walk to town alone.
45 minEp. 24 · February 6, 2026
Do opposites really attract?
Do opposites really attract, or is everyone just opposite to everyone else in some way? XO looks at hunter-gatherer instincts, the dirty-laundry fights every couple has, Family Guy's robot Brian, and where people draw their deal-breaker lines.
1 hr 20 minEp. 21 · January 26, 2026
A conversation with my son about life
XO sits down with his son for an hour and a half on life's biggest questions: what it would be like to swap lives with a stranger, what God looks like, whether AI pictures can fool you, a microphone god, how to run a world where nobody wants to work, and the ice age that nearly wiped us out.
1 hr 5 minEp. 20 · January 23, 2026
Why are bad words "bad"?
Who decided bad words are bad? From getting in trouble for saying "this sucks" in math class to the words even XO won't say, an argument that words mean only what we give them, that professionalism is about meeting the bar, and that the offense comes from us.
57 minEp. 12 · December 26, 2025
The vaccine debate isn't as simple as it seems
Why does asking questions about vaccines get you treated like you want grandma dead? XO pushes back on both sides of Gavin de Becker's conversation on the Joe Rogan Experience, from measles deaths to quitting the flu shot, and asks for what any parent wants: what's in it, what each ingredient does, and whether there's a safer way.
1 hr 14 minEp. 6 · June 2, 2025
Is there a dark side to nicknames from your partner?
"Our song," "our show," and the nickname only you call them. XO looks at the creepy side of pet names, side-eyes the nicknames XO has given partners over the years, and asks whether making something only yours is romance or a quiet need for control.
53 minEp. 1 · July 16, 2024
How can you know that God is real?
How can anyone know God is real? In the first episode of Get Xuded, XO sits down with Pops to ask the big questions: why God and not Allah or Buddha, whether a good man of another faith gets cut from the table, Adam and Eve's family tree, and believing without evidence.