All The Feelings • Adulting

All the Feelings, Season 10: Adulting—A Life-Long Course in Feeling Unprepared You know that moment when you look around and realize, Oh no… I’m the adult in this room? Maybe it’s when you pretend to understand tax brackets. Or when your back starts to hurt because you "slept." Or when you stand in the grocery store, staring at asparagus, wondering if you should be investing in heavy greens futures. Welcome to All the Feelings Season 10, where your able hosts, Tommy Metz III and Pete Wright, are going to tackle the unspoken truth of adulthood: nobody actually knows what they’re doing most of the time. This season, we’re diving into the emotional chaos of adulting—all the things that, by now, we should have mastered but somehow still make us feel like confused 12-year-olds wearing oversized suits. We’ll explore the existential panic of estate planning (Wills: Now Featuring Your Inevitable Mortality!), the sheer absurdity of socializing as a grown-up (Why Is Making Friends Harder Than Filing Taxes?), and the shame spiral of arguing (Yes, You Can Still Lose a Fight in Your 40s!). We’ll unpack civic duty, grief, apologizing, and the delicate balance of managing time without feeling like you’re constantly failing an invisible test. And of course, we’ll get real about the things that make adulthood straight-up weird: why is sleep suddenly a competitive sport? Why does gift-giving induce a full-blown identity crisis? And why does every conversation about homeownership involve so much sighing? This season, Pete and Tommy are back to do what they do best: explore the emotional absurdity of being human. Because if adulthood is just a long series of pop quizzes, we might as well laugh about it together.

  1. The Inbox Redemption Issue: You Talk, We Finally Listen

    19 AUG

    The Inbox Redemption Issue: You Talk, We Finally Listen

    You know that moment when you find out your “contact us” form has been quietly dumping listener questions into a black hole for months? No? Well, Pete and Tommy do, and it’s exactly as humbling, awkward, and hilarious as you’d imagine. In this bonus-but-also-a-bit-of-a-mistake 13th episode of All The Feelings: Adulting, our hosts finally open the floodgates to the backlog of listener questions, comments, and fever-dream confessions you’ve been sending since episode three. What follows is part confessional, part group therapy, and part feverish improv jam session featuring: The story of Daisy the dog, who unearths a grease-soaked “treasure” that her humans nearly turn into lunch.The ethics of eating from the garbage (or as Tommy calls it, “a betrayal from God Himself”).The delicate art of managing your mom’s dating life without auditioning for Law & Order: Elder Crimes.Theme park survival strategies when your traveling companions are slower than Splash Mountain in January.Anxiety dreams that combine advanced mathematics with rodeo equipment.The suspicious prevalence of unopened crockpots in Midwestern garages.Why your parents need a “safe word” in case someone clones your voice to scam them for Bitcoin.This episode is proof that your stories are as weird and wonderful as we’d hoped… and that we should really check our filters more often. ---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

    44 min
  2. The Communication Issue: A Myth of Generational Proportions

    5 AUG

    The Communication Issue: A Myth of Generational Proportions

    Ah, adulthood—the never-ending escape room with no clues, no key, and someone yelling “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” in the background. In this season finale of All the Feelings: Adulting, Pete and Tommy break down one of the biggest lies we’ve ever told ourselves: that one day, magically, we would become Real Adults™. Spoiler: we do not. As far as our research has demonstrated, no one does. We’re all still wondering how to reheat pizza without judgment. This week, we confront the myth of generational superiority, from Gen X’s latchkey nihilism to Gen Z’s emotionally stoic eye contact, and the deep, soul-sucking silence of the millennial pause. Why do Boomers look so confident while setting their routers on fire? Why does Gen Alpha speak only in sound effects? Why are we, Gen X, the most stressed-out and financially unprepared sandwich in the buffet line of existence? So it’s anecdotes, slang trivia, a breakdown of eye-contact etiquette, and a dash of Lord of the Flies (plus its real-life, wholesome Tongan counterpoint) this week as we ask the central question: what if nobody knows what they’re doing and that’s… actually the point? Whether you’re prepping your taxes or debating whether mozzarella sticks count as a coping mechanism (they do), we invite you to put down the measuring stick and pick up that diploma, because you’re already here—and you’re already doing it. Congratulations. You’re an adult. Now go cancel your trial of AMC+ before it renews. 💖 Become a Feeling Friend! Ready to take your relationship with this podcast to the next level (without having to notarize anything)? Become a Feeling Friend today at allthefeelings.fun. For just $35 a year ($25 to renew), you’ll get: Early access to episodesA private podcast feed with bonus contentThe secret handshake (okay, it’s a sticker, but still)And our eternal affection, even from beyond the grave ---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

    53 min
  3. The Death Issues Issue: A Legacy of Passwords, Photos, and Shocktatoes

    29 JUL

    The Death Issues Issue: A Legacy of Passwords, Photos, and Shocktatoes

    Death! That thing we pretend we’ll deal with later, even though “later” is very much someone else’s problem. This week, Pete and Tommy dive headfirst into the gloriously unsexy topic of postmortem administration. Not grief. Not funeral playlists. The actual hellscape of what happens when you suddenly have to explain to Costco that your dad no longer needs a membership because, well, he’s gone to the big food court in the sky. In part one, Tommy reflects on “stuff”—the knickknacks, photos, and inexplicable oven mitt collections we leave behind. He shares his strategies for helping friends confront the emotional paralysis of legacy clutter, including the deeply rational rule: no landscapes unless they’re breathtaking, and no tuna casserole recipes unless they’re really different. In part two, Pete takes us on a bureaucratic rollercoaster through the modern administrative afterlife: joint credit cards that implode, death certificates that cost a fortune, and the absolutely vital necessity of a password manager for your aging parents (seriously, do this now). He makes the case for creating a “digital death file,” so your loved ones don’t have to hack into your Apple account to cancel Hulu while you’re ghostbathing. Plus: a brief but oddly moving tribute to 17th-century haberdasher John Graunt, who basically invented epidemiology by accident while counting plague victims and also possibly ribbons. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll immediately back up your two-factor authentication. 💖 Become a Feeling Friend! Ready to take your relationship with this podcast to the next level (without having to notarize anything)? Become a Feeling Friend today at allthefeelings.fun. For just $35 a year ($25 to renew), you’ll get: Early access to episodesA private podcast feed with bonus contentThe secret handshake (okay, it’s a sticker, but still)And our eternal affection, even from beyond the grave ---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

    47 min
  4. The Nighttime Stress Issue: Dreams of Car Keys and Sciatica

    22 JUL

    The Nighttime Stress Issue: Dreams of Car Keys and Sciatica

    Welcome to a very special episode of All the Feelings, brought to you by REM sleep, tennis elbow, and the visceral horror of trying to put on socks like you’re still in your 30s. This week, Pete and Tommy are pulling a two-for-one special: first, they dive into the dreamscape of adult anxiety—why our nighttime brains love to drop us in college final exams we never studied for and why Tommy keeps losing his car in a parking garage that exists only in the astral plane. Then, they shift to the nighttime betrayals of the body: the mysterious transformation from human being to fragile pile of orthopedic complaints, where simply “sleeping” can result in injuries typically reserved for Olympic gymnastics. Along the way, we get hot tips from Tommy’s therapist (shout-out to Bonnie!), dream science from the BBC, and Pete’s personal musculoskeletal origin story—which involves surprise vertebra fusion, leg-length inequality, and an orthotic insert named Steve. There’s also a powerful case made for the humble foam roller, a pony running off with Tommy’s Mazda, and a rare Greek myth about moon-gazing lovers that ends, predictably, in a curse. If you’ve ever woken up more injured than you were when you went to bed, if you’ve ever texted your group chat just to be out-sympathied by someone who dislocated their shoulder sneezing, or if you’ve ever been haunted by the ghost of your own plantar fascia, this one’s for you. Support the show at allthefeelings.fun and become a Feeling Friend today—for early episodes, bonus content, and a front-row seat to Pete’s ever-expanding sneaker collection. ---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

    49 min
  5. The Adult Adults Issue: Courtship and Caution Signs

    15 JUL

    The Adult Adults Issue: Courtship and Caution Signs

    There comes a time in every adult’s life when you look at your parents and think, “Wait, are you… dating?” And suddenly, the woman who once grounded you for not using a coaster is fielding calls from a man probably named Art who knew her in the sixth grade and now rides a bicycle suspiciously close to her begonias. In this week’s episode of All the Feelings, Pete watches in emotional 4K as his recently widowed mother begins navigating the uncertain terrain of late-in-life romance. There are awkward phone calls, vintage flirting, and—somehow—tool borrowing. Meanwhile, Tommy explores the slow-motion wonder and quiet stew of trying to travel anywhere with aging parents, from the battlefield that is airport security to the glacial crawl of choosing produce. We talk role confusion, emotional gatekeeping, and the surprising revelation that your parents might be the actual ride you were rushing past. Also: a diamond heist pulled off by British grandpas, the dangers of amusement park pizza, and the secret power of a well-timed smile. This is an episode about love, loss, patience, power poses, and what happens when your mom becomes the heartthrob of the neighborhood. Again. Become a Feeling Friend! Help us keep the precinct weird: allthefeelings.fun Get early access, bonus content, stickers, and the satisfaction of supporting emotional democracy for only $35 a year. ---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

    51 min
  6. The Kids & Dependents Issue: Emotional Support is a Two-Way Scam

    1 JUL

    The Kids & Dependents Issue: Emotional Support is a Two-Way Scam

    This week on All the Feelings, Pete and Tommy explore the emotional aftershocks of being needed… and then suddenly not. Pete reflects on launching two adult kids into the world and discovering that successful parenting feels a bit like getting laid off from a beloved job—complete with pride, grief, and way too much free time. One minute you’re managing snacks and carpool, the next you’re wondering if your adult child has remembered to eat or just sent you a meme so you’ll stop asking. Meanwhile, Tommy confronts his own dependence issues—namely, a rescue dog named Foster who once had its way on a stranger’s sandals at the beach. It’s an emotional support animal that mostly needs support for being an emotional menace. And it raises the question: how much of our identity is tied to how our dependents behave in public? Also: a theft that leads to a 911 call, a rogue Capri Sun on a soccer field, and the quiet horror of realizing your purpose has been reassigned. If you’ve ever cared too much, let go too slowly, or blamed yourself for your dog’s personality, this one’s for you. Become a Feeling Friend! Help us keep the precinct weird: allthefeelings.fun Get early access, bonus content, stickers, and the satisfaction of supporting emotional democracy for only $35 a year. (Or just vote Pete back into office. Either works.) ---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

    45 min

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All the Feelings, Season 10: Adulting—A Life-Long Course in Feeling Unprepared You know that moment when you look around and realize, Oh no… I’m the adult in this room? Maybe it’s when you pretend to understand tax brackets. Or when your back starts to hurt because you "slept." Or when you stand in the grocery store, staring at asparagus, wondering if you should be investing in heavy greens futures. Welcome to All the Feelings Season 10, where your able hosts, Tommy Metz III and Pete Wright, are going to tackle the unspoken truth of adulthood: nobody actually knows what they’re doing most of the time. This season, we’re diving into the emotional chaos of adulting—all the things that, by now, we should have mastered but somehow still make us feel like confused 12-year-olds wearing oversized suits. We’ll explore the existential panic of estate planning (Wills: Now Featuring Your Inevitable Mortality!), the sheer absurdity of socializing as a grown-up (Why Is Making Friends Harder Than Filing Taxes?), and the shame spiral of arguing (Yes, You Can Still Lose a Fight in Your 40s!). We’ll unpack civic duty, grief, apologizing, and the delicate balance of managing time without feeling like you’re constantly failing an invisible test. And of course, we’ll get real about the things that make adulthood straight-up weird: why is sleep suddenly a competitive sport? Why does gift-giving induce a full-blown identity crisis? And why does every conversation about homeownership involve so much sighing? This season, Pete and Tommy are back to do what they do best: explore the emotional absurdity of being human. Because if adulthood is just a long series of pop quizzes, we might as well laugh about it together.

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