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"Being a Child of an Addict Is Your Superpower" — Breaking the Cycle with Stacee Reed (NACoA)

July 23, 2026

Ashley is flying solo this week (Kila's on vacation, back next week!) and this one hits close to home. She sits down with Stacee Reed, Director of Innovation at the National Association for Children of Addiction (NACoA), for an honest, funny, and deeply personal conversation about what addiction does to the kids in the room — and how we break the cycle for good. As a child of an addict herself — dad sober 31 years and running a recovery house, a brother still in active addiction, and two babi...

ChatGPT Read Us Like a Book | Willie's, Big Backs & Fat Little Legs

July 09, 2026

We asked ChatGPT to tell us three things about ourselves we don't know — and it read us so hard we nearly cried on mic. 🤖 Kila & Ashley take the viral "ask your AI what it really thinks of you" trend live, mid-episode, and it comes back with answers about resilience, humor, and turning pain into purpose that neither of us saw coming. (Then Chatty short-circuits because there's no Wi-Fi in the studio.) Before the AI goes off the rails: Fourth of July on the median 🎆, a week at Tybee Island and...

Cotton Candy Pickles & a Snake at the Swimming Hole

June 25, 2026

This week Kila & Ashley get into a little bit of everything — a too-close-for-comfort snake at the swimming hole 🐍, black bears moving into Tennessee 🐻, Katie graduating from Harvard (the day this episode goes live!) 🎓, and the main event: a red-white-and-blue PATRIOTIC PICKLE CHALLENGE 🥒🇺🇸 — cotton candy pickle and all. ⚠️ Mature audiences only — strong language & adult humor. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:23 Catching up (work, baseball) 7:26 A snake at the swimming hole 🐍 10:54 Bears moving into...