Good Children

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Childhood best friends Joe Hegyes and Andrew Muscarella reminisce on their daffy and deranged childhoods growing up as closeted queer kids on Long Island. With sound bites from over two decades of archival footage and banter only 23 years of friendship can foster, you'll laugh, cry, and grow up all over again alongside these Good Children. Join the Patreon community for an exclusive bonus episode every week!

Recent Episodes
  • Our Favorite Subject
    Apr 9, 2025 – 01:17:45
  • The Hunger Games Made Me Not Suicidal
    Apr 2, 2025 – 01:09:12
  • Can A Zoo Be Ethical? And Other Moral Debates You Expect From This Podcast
    Mar 26, 2025 – 01:14:55
  • The Midwest Is the Europe of America
    Mar 19, 2025 – 01:10:19
  • You (Might) Have A Phone Addiction
    Mar 12, 2025 – 01:17:03
  • Well, Well, Wellness
    Mar 5, 2025 – 01:14:09
  • Jon Lovett on Math, Chipotle, & Long Island
    Feb 26, 2025 – 01:10:14
  • The Body Keeps The Score, And, Girl, We’re Getting Our Ass Beat
    Feb 19, 2025 – 01:25:28
  • If You’re In Your Darkest Hour: Click On This
    Feb 12, 2025 – 01:10:41
  • The Sick & Twisted Story of A Twink & A Redhead
    Feb 5, 2025 – 01:15:25
  • What Cruise Ships Do To The Brain
    Jan 29, 2025 – 01:10:24
  • The Life & Death of Shirley Temple
    Jan 22, 2025 – 51:07
  • Why Ben Platt Performs
    Jan 15, 2025 – 59:41
  • Why Is Spending The Night So Scary?
    Jan 8, 2025 – 01:16:23
  • Getting Naked With Your Best Friend
    Jan 1, 2025 – 01:15:16
  • DO NOT HIRE A GRINCH IMPERSONATOR
    Dec 24, 2024 – 57:27
  • Ilana Glazer on Long Island, Weed, Motherhood, & Broad City
    Dec 18, 2024 – 01:02:48
  • Why Does Santa Punish Us?
    Dec 11, 2024 – 01:11:01
  • Are Christmas Carolers Okay?
    Dec 4, 2024 – 01:14:17
  • The Perks of Touching Grass
    Nov 27, 2024 – 01:19:13
  • Thanksgiving When You're Gay and Italian and In Your 20s
    Nov 20, 2024 – 01:16:10
  • Do Gays Need Gay Friends?
    Nov 13, 2024 – 01:05:19
  • Our Friendship Was Over
    Nov 5, 2024 – 01:06:56
  • The Partying Will Catch Up To You
    Oct 30, 2024 – 01:09:12
  • Halloween Horror Stories
    Oct 23, 2024 – 01:09:49
  • Are All Priests Gay? & Sick Days
    Oct 16, 2024 – 59:54
  • Charli and Troye (also, we're going on tour. check the bio. for real.)
    Oct 9, 2024 – 01:07:08
  • The Halloweentown Reunion
    Oct 2, 2024 – 01:09:41
  • The War on Apple Picking
    Sep 25, 2024 – 01:10:13
  • Yasmine Sahid Fan Club
    Sep 18, 2024 – 01:14:09
  • Talking About The SATs Again...
    Sep 11, 2024 – 01:23:26
  • Operation Green Acres
    Sep 4, 2024 – 01:07:52
  • Kelon Campbell Radically Accepts Terri Joe
    Aug 28, 2024 – 01:04:16
  • When Jenny Comes Calling
    Aug 20, 2024 – 01:10:01
  • Ranking Fruit
    Aug 14, 2024 – 01:03:39
  • The Bottom of Brooklyn
    Aug 7, 2024 – 01:13:07
  • Ribs by Lorde
    Jul 31, 2024 – 01:09:57
  • Food Noise
    Jul 24, 2024 – 01:15:56
  • The Riverhead Holiday Inn
    Jul 17, 2024 – 01:23:28
  • Boman Martinez-Reid is Made For TV
    Jul 10, 2024 – 01:09:07
  • Chimes and Punishment
    Jul 3, 2024 – 01:14:52
  • Kim Chi Can Do It All
    Jun 26, 2024 – 01:03:24
  • Sympathy is a knife
    Jun 19, 2024 – 01:02:25
  • Bears In The Woods
    Jun 12, 2024 – 01:26:52
  • A Dog With The Power To Turn Husbands Gay
    Jun 5, 2024 – 01:12:13
  • The 100th Episode
    May 29, 2024 – 01:11:07
  • Jake Shane on Taylor Swift, GIRLS & Grindr
    May 22, 2024 – 01:00:46
  • It's May, Let's Be Therapists Again
    May 15, 2024 – 01:04:22
  • Blacking Out At House Of Yes
    May 8, 2024 – 01:10:35
  • Does It Get Better? ft. Trixie Mattel
    May 1, 2024 – 01:10:14
Recent Reviews
  • Bee Blanch
    Can’t recommend enough!!
    They make me CRY LAUGHING every single time. They bring so much joy and love - highly recommend.
  • elizabethfrances04
    Love these men.
    I have been a casual listener since the beginning and became a patron as soon as I could. I live to hear what Andrew and Joe have to say about their lives and life in general every week. Whenever I need a pick me up I turn to Good Children for a laugh. I love these men, and I love what they’re doing with this pod.
  • gigii jr
    Literally the funniest show
    I don’t really know how to express how much joy and uncontrollable laughter this podcast gives me. I feel like I know these two, like we’ve all been friends for 23 years, and that we’re just hanging out, basking in the warmth of our friendship together. Literally obsessed with you, thank you for bringing levity to the world in these dark times <3
  • sobbyam
    Thank you ❤️
    It feels like just existing in 2025 is so heavy and taxing, but listening to you guys has brought me so much laughter and joy. Thank you both for what you do! ❤️
  • maddymantsch
    Let’s get to 16k!
    I’m watching season 3 episode 26 and I know this isn’t Spotify but I would love to see yall in a room WITH KEKE PALMER! Please make more CTAs to rate the pod (it took me 5 seconds)! I love you both - you’re the funniest Long Island gays I’ve ever heard! Love from phoenix 💕
  • Lumiereeee
    Relatable
    The Shirley Temple history lesson was fab. I only want to consume history through Andrew with commentary by Joe from this moment forth.
  • berrysarah723
    This pod is my RUMA
    My absolute favorite pod! As a lesbian I love these two gay men which says a lot!!
  • livylooooooooo
    obsessed
    i have not listened to a single episode without audibly laughing. don’t know how i found true happiness and enjoyment in life prior to coming across these two divas. mwah
  • NCC_listner
    Immaculate Vibes
    Joe and Andrew are angels. You never know what you’re gonna get and yet it’s always good. I watch on YouTube and if you don’t you’re missing out. Came all the way over to Apple Podcasts to do my homework and tell you all to listen and keep listening.
  • Malibu4mallory
    Love them!
    I love this podcast so much! I saw clips online and I thought I would listen to the whole episode and I was now disappointed. I love their interactions and the little skids they do. It’s definitely a podcast that I’ve recommended to all of my friends.
  • Gansett83
    So glad I found your podcast
    Saw you guys on The Bald and The Beautiful and immediately loved your style. Thank you for giving me something entertaining to listen to so I can forget about the world for a while.
  • Lexilovescats1
    I love this podcast soooo much
    It’s hilarious, fav kind of humor. I’m obsessed
  • Decorno
    Like listening to hilarious friends
    nothing better than turning this on and starting a big cooking project. I love them, they are so hilarious. They could talk about anything (and they do) and it’s going to be so funny. Love them.
  • tiannawhy
    Drowning in Content. Throw Me a Life Line.
    I have full good children brain rot. I work alone and over the last… like month?? I’ve listened to every episode in the main feed. I feel disgusting. I just joined the Patreon so obviously there goes the next month of my life. I love this podcast. I feel seen. I feel heard. I feel EXPOSED. I was born in 96 so the way you both talk about love, relationships, and all things nostalgia is so real for me. Listening to you talk about your lives as thriving almost 40 year olds is helping me realize how normal I am and actually making me feel free to just be. Also I’m about to go full James from Brooklyn and start calling you about every little problem and inconvenience that happens in my life. Thank you. xo.
  • marrcan
    Garlic fingers
    Never met y’all but thank you for being my literal best friends, love you
  • Bellataylor674
    5 stars
    Love these two! This podcast literally makes me laugh out loud!
  • f3minin0m3nonnnn
    Amazing, Showstopping, Hilarious Gays
    This podcast is extremely underrated, but the cult following it has makes it even better. Joe and Andrew are hilarious and what’s great is that although there are more than enough podcasts with two white gay men as hosts, they bring something different and unique to the table. This is a great podcast for listeners in the gen z to millennial age group as they speak on pop culture topics both past and present. What’s more, the honest and openness they deliver to their audience when it comes to their own personal insecurities and traumas just makes them even more real and likable. Love u guys! P.S. I very much identify as an Andrew.
  • Mimijss
    1996 babies unite!
    UPDATE: still listening to this podcast in 2024 and will see them in February!! They need their own show! This is the best because I always feel too young to relate to the older millennials with kids or the Gen Z. I started the podcast 2 days ago and I’m already on episode 15! I’ve already recommended it to 3 friends (although I want to gatekeep it). I feel like I’m hanging out with two friends talking about our memories. The way the boys approach childhood moments, thoughts, and experiences have helped me look back at my middle and high school years without shame and to have compassion for myself. Thank you Joe and Andrew for showing your truest selves to the world. The throwback videos and pictures are my favorite. In the most dramatic and true way possible, this podcast is helping me heal my inner child! These two were meant to be seen by the world 💕
  • Livvy Rivvy
    Why are you so obsessed with me
    WHEN I TELL YOU I AM OBSESSED 🤪🤪🤪❤️❤️❤️😈😈😈🥰🥰🥰🔥🔥🔥😼😼😼
  • AlyssiaMarieRenee
    Comfort
    I have trouble sleeping and listening to the pod helps me feel safe and sleep well on anxious nights
  • ScornedDolphin
    The best
    I’ve been listening to you guys since season one because my best friend sent your podcast to me because you guys remind us of us. Your both such great hosts and are such a brilliant combo of thoughtful and funny. This is the best podcast because it always makes me laugh and feel less alone. I highly recommend everyone listens!
  • Liz Ham
    It’s so good
    Joe and Andrew are magic together. Individually they’re hilarious and endlessly likable. But together they are really truly otherworldly. They look at each other with the most love while saying absolutely insane things and it’s just everything you need.
  • dont buy this season pass
    Joe hegyes
    He ruins this podcast
  • plantyofpink
    I would die for these boys
    We are the exact same age and I'm from a state over. Its like we lived parallel lives and it's so great to reminisce alongside them. Never stop!!
  • AshlynGrace!
    best pod
    it feels criminal to miss any episode, best pod ever!
  • JJMads
    i’m on the good list
    what’s not to like? i have never seen podcasters with better comedic timing, and it doesn’t even seem to be on purpose. the glances to the camera (on visual episodes), the editing, the pauses in between sentences, etc. are a perfect storm. i caught up on the episodes in an alarming amount of time :*
  • Kansas City Diana
    Literal joy
    Was always seeing clips on instagram and giggling my life away to them so I subscribed and have been experiencing nothing but literal joy ever since. Ten out of ten, love, it’s a fav, never looked back, everything is better now.
  • The people’s champion
    Did my homework
    Just because I don’t put pen to paper, doesn’t mean I’m not a poet.
  • sundaysauce228
    The Podcast Defining a Generation
    “When was the last time this country was united? …Kelly Clarkson.” From the moment my best friend (the Joe to my Andrew) sent me this infamous clip in 2021 I wanted to give Good Children a 5 star review. However, I never knew how to put the relatable, laugh out loud, heartwarming feeling of their podcast into words. Perhaps my obsession stems from the similarities I see in myself, having met my best friend at 5 years old in Orlando and recording videos at my New York-Italian parent’s house that I was sure TMZ would want someday. Listening to Andrew and Joe is like re-living my own childhood with her. We, too, were healed by the powers of mom’s pastina when sick. I, too, worked grueling hours at Disney World. Most of all, I was impacted by every DCOM which sold me the dream that I was an undiscovered pop star - no doubt the underlying reason I went for a music degree. Or maybe it’s the raw authenticity emanating from the show. The bond Joe and Andrew have cannot be anything but the result of decades of friendship. None of the content tries too hard. Don’t take it from me, just look at the joy written in every other review. The knowledge that our childhood shapes who we are as adults is nothing new, but Andrew and Joe break down week by week our shared generational experience in the most enjoyable and relaxed way possible. Thank you for letting us into your Good Children universe.
  • AJW!!!
    oh to be a love puppy webkins sitting on joes bookcase
    i could listen to these men talk for 8 hours a day 5 days a week. Someone give them a TV show!
  • Emma3232323
    “The bottom of Brooklyn”
    I haven’t LAUGHED the way I did during that girls voicemail in SO LONG. Give that girl an adderall prescription and give these men the world. ILY 🫶🏻 I always have to crack open my journal when I listen bc you guys really do heal me every week
  • gemi_ry
    my fav podcast
    talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before
  • Tchrney
    Amazing
    Absolutely hilarious, positively uplifting, exquisitely gay ❤️
  • Long Island girly pop
    On Repeat
    I never relisten to any podcasts, but I could listen to any episode that Andrew and Joe have put out endlessly.
  • NoelynWak
    Best podcast
    I started listening to this podcast one month ago and I started at the very beginning and now I’m almost caught up on two years’ worth of episodes. That should be all you need to know.
  • mcancel5
    Hooked!
    Love! They’re so funny, love their friendship 10/10
  • Dyaln7262
    Obsessed
    My favourite day of the week is when I see Good Children’s new posting
  • Sarah2017k
    Love it
    Rallying to get the score up
  • nphotos_
    New found addict - love them
    I got hooked after seeing an Instagram reel (Andrew being a gazelle) and since then I’ve been l listening and watching to this podcast every chance I get. Andrew and Joe feel like my besties, listening is good but watching them on yt is better!
  • kateeee81818
    love love love this podcast!!
    the banter between these two makes every conversation insanely funny. grateful for their willingness to be open and blatantly honest about their experiences. also the reminiscing on their childhoods through adult lenses is so pure and heartwarming. please please please keep it up ◡̈
  • ummmm94
    Don’t change a thing.
    I just love you both! Sorry for the haters.
  • Andreanaomi1127
    I need my gay podcast every Wednesday.
    This is my favorite podcast. Joe and Andrew fill every week with sparkling confetti ✨ Listening to this podcast gives me validation, confidence, and helps me heal my inner child. Good Children, thank you for being you and sharing your vulnerability. 🩷
  • D_King 1989
    Hilarious
    These boys are so funny and so relatable.
  • psychicsylviabrowne
    Joes cover songs
    I rarely take the time to review but the bravery of Joe making a compilation of his cover songs really spoke to me in a way I can’t explain. 5 stars.
  • socialstrategyexpert
    One of my favs!
    I love these 2 so much! Always vulnerable, sweet, fun, and relatable! One of my go to shows
  • boobiezzzz
    Insane
    I am so obsessed with this podcast. It’s incredible. I listen to it all day at work and can’t stop giggling. It’s perfect. Best podcast I’ve ever listened to genuinely. I feel like I know the hosts and I love them. They are so genuine and vulnerable and naturally so funny. This show makes me so nostalgic for my best friend and my childhood that I shared with her. Thank you guys so much. From the bottom of my heart. Thank you.
  • Mad M Graham
    Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
    I’m not kidding… this podcast changed my life. As a new post-grad that has just moved to a new city without anyone, I have been binging this podcast and cannot praise it enough. I feel like I am surrounded by love and joy and positive endings while listening. Everything is going to be okay I tell myself because Joe and Andrew, yall are okay. Feeling so lost in a big world is scary but you two have proved that everything happens for a reason and it’s never too late to do anything. I love yall!! Thank you for being there <3 Mad.
  • strawberrysourmamba
    everything I need and more
    y’all are perfect, that’s it!
  • Likydf
    Thank you for making my car rides less lonely
    Anytime I have a long drive i put this on and feel like I have two friends in the car with me. It got me through my first long distance relationship and made the drives so much more bearable. Can’t thank yall enough
  • beccalefkowitz
    love me some joe and andrew
    my favorite podcast! down to earth boys who know how to make people laugh🙂‍↕️ i love!
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