Mic'd and Medicated: Unfiltered, Unafraid, and UnExpert

Camp Pickup, Mic'd-Up Husbands, and Why Kids Need to Struggle a Little

Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal

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Caroline and Eva are both back from visiting-day weekend in Portland, Maine, where they mic'd up their husbands at dinner, compared hotels, and picked their kids up from sleepaway camp.  

From there it turns into the real debate: has camp gone soft? They dig into how kid communication has changed (texted photos vs. one letter a summer), the "modern camps" trend of sensory rooms and neurodiversity programming (Caroline swears it's real, Eva's not convinced), a contraband cup-of-noodle-soup story that comes back to haunt them, and whether "resilience" was ever actually the point. Plus: book of the week — Funny Story by Emily Henry, a light beach read with more heart than expected — a Demon Copperhead check-in, a Claude cameo settling a bar bet about what "tits up" actually means, and a dad joke that needed its own disclaimer.

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Chapters:

  • 0:00 – Cold open: testing mics, first-ever virtual episode
  • 0:53 – Back from Portland, Maine
  • 2:43 – Take two: officially recording
  • 2:57 – Portland, Maine vs. Portland, Oregon
  • 3:37 – A retold comedy bit that goes somewhere wild
  • 5:49 – They actually drove, not flew
  • 7:23 – Hotel comparison: Caroline's "5-star" vs. Eva's Marriott
  • 9:21 – The hard-boiled-egg tangent
  • 10:24 – Mic'ing up the husbands at dinner
  • 11:00 – The peacock vs. caged chameleon bit
  • 12:41 – How pickup actually went
  • 13:25 – Eva's daughter's first camp pickup meltdown, revisited
  • 14:55 – "Divorce dad Sunday" and the two-day visiting policy
  • 16:05 – Activities they're both opting out of
  • 17:53 – Tangent: what does "tits up" actually mean?
  • 19:43 – Was this pickup as emotional? Session-length debate
  • 21:11 – Why send your kid to camp if you already have the Hamptons?
  • 21:32 – Has camp shifted from "just fun" to skill-building?
  • 22:20 – How technology changed how much parents hear from camp
  • 23:36 – Snack nostalgia and the contraband cup-of-noodle story
  • 25:04 – The burn story (aka karma's a bitch)
  • 27:43 – The dad who napped through all of visiting day
  • 28:51 – The "modern camps" debate
  • 32:17 – Book of the week: Funny Story by Emily Henry
  • 36:16 – Closing joke + sign-off

We're two New York City women talking candidly about the chaos of modern life, from relationships, parenting, working in and out of the home, to what it takes to stay semi-sane in a world that expects you to hold it all together and be #blessed.

We couldn't find an honest and vulnerable conversation — so we started one! If you need a laugh, a cry, or just want to hear someone else admit their flaws and validate your crazy, you're in the right place. Be ready to be… Unfiltered, Unafraid, and UnExpert.

Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends!

Surgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor.

© 2026 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal

We’re two New York City women talking candidly about the chaos of modern life, from relationships, parenting, working in and out of the home, to what it takes to stay semi-sane in a world that expects you to hold it all together and be #blessed.

We couldn’t find an honest and vulnerable conversation — so we started one! If you need a laugh, a cry, or just want to hear someone else admit their flaws and validate your crazy, you’re in the right place. Be ready to be… Unfiltered, Unafraid, and UnExpert.

Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends!

Surgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor.

© 2025 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal