Trailer - Stories From the Middle of Nowhere

S1 E12 - Life Skills Not Included

In the final episode of the season, Judy and Donny look back at how they entered adulthood with absolutely no life skills. Paying bills? Nope. Grocery shopping? A disaster. Donny’s first solo shopping trip even turned into an underwear fiasco that still makes him cringe. They talk about the conversations they never had — including the birds and the bees (Judy is still waiting for hers) — and the “child‑friendly” crime explanation that almost got Donny in trouble at school. They dig into why they weren’t allowed to do chores, how that shaped their early adult years, and the money‑management rules that somehow only applied to Donny. It’s the perfect mix of chaos, honesty, and sibling therapy to wrap up Season 1. Disclaimer: These stories are based on our personal memories and family experiences. Some details may be condensed or combined for clarity. Names and identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. All events are recounted to the best of our recollection.

S1 E11 - Underage and Unsupervised

From a 13‑year‑old’s makeup‑caked attempt to buy TJ Swann, to Donny aging himself with motor oil, to Judy dodging a police raid by pretending to bus tables, this episode dives into the chaotic, unspoken rite of passage that underage drinking became in small‑town North Dakota. It’s a story about risk, improvisation, and the consequences that usually showed up in the form of our dad — the one authority figure we never managed to outrun. Disclaimer: These stories are based on our personal memories and family experiences. Some details may be condensed or combined for clarity. Names and identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. All events are recounted to the best of our recollection.

S1 E10 - Evicted: The Prequel

At seventeen, both Judy and Donny were evicted from their homes for wildly different reasons — one for smoking, one for a hammer and a radiator — sending them into parallel journeys through mice‑infested trailers, chaotic jobs, and the strange freedom of starting adulthood with absolutely nothing. Judy becomes an apartment manager overseeing convicted felons and whackado renters, while Donny heads to Gillette, Wyoming for his first DJ gig, where the men outnumber the women 12 to 1 and the odds are stacked against him. From mice nightmares to brand‑new trailer houses, surprise firings, and Donny’s ever‑expanding list of aliases, this episode isn’t where the chaos began… it’s where the childhood chaos leveled up. Disclaimer: These stories are based on our personal memories and family experiences. Some details may be condensed or combined for clarity. Names and identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. All events are recounted to the best of our recollection.

S1 E9 - Breaking News: Us...Again!

Judy and Donny are back with a collection of stories from a childhood where every minor incident somehow became a headline. In their family, even the most ordinary days had a way of ending up in the newspaper — whether they wanted the attention or not. There’s the time their mom called 911 over a beehive and a reporter showed up with the police. Judy’s first day at work turned into a public spectacle after her car was smashed, her commute was broadcast on the traffic report, and she arrived two hours late on a flatbed tow truck. Donny’s smoking habit sparked a chain of disasters that followed him everywhere. And in the middle of nowhere — where people call the cops for littering — Judy’s attempt to hire painters spiraled into a stolen‑truck fiasco that no one could have predicted. This episode is a reminder that when your family has a knack for becoming breaking news, even the simplest moments can turn into a story the whole town hears about. Disclaimer: These stories are based on our personal memories and family experiences. Some details may be condensed or combined for clarity. Names and identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. All events are recounted to the best of our recollection.

S1 E8 - Donny: A Lifetime of Accidental Mayhem

In this combined episode, Judy and Donny revisit the week that proved Donny should never have been left in charge — and the lifetime of spectacular bad luck that followed him everywhere he went. It starts with a rear‑end collision while driving our mom, escalates when a bicyclist flips over Donny’s hood on the way to pick her up (with a TV news crew filming the whole thing), and ends with a backyard grilling disaster that singed off her eyebrows. But that week was only the beginning. From sneaking off to hotels to hiding cigarettes, borrowing cars, skipping school, and drinking and driving, Donny was the kid who got caught every single time — usually by accident, always in unforgettable fashion. This episode sets up Part Two of the Donny saga, where the bad luck only gets bigger. Disclaimer: These stories are based on our personal memories and family experiences. Some details may be condensed or combined for clarity. Names and identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. All events are recounted to the best of our recollection.