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Back to School with Gabe Henry

Who will you be this year? No matter your age, it’s likely that your body remembers the school calendar, and with the blooming aisles of binders and pencils and backpacks

Sep 15
1 h 13 min

Ballet with Megan Burbank

Megan Burbank’s gotta dance. The centuries-old dance style known as ballet has been stereotyped in our modern world with images of refined, wispy, frighteningly disciplin

Sep 1
1 h 12 min

"Heaven is for Real" with Adrian Daub

If your four-year-old told you about a trip to heaven, would you believe them? For a pastor named Todd Burpo, the answer was yes. In 2010, his book Heaven Is For Real—co-

Aug 11
1 h 25 min

Lightning Round! with Chelsey Weber-Smith

Send your submissions for our Halloween Listener Spectacular (scary stories or Halloween nostalgia) to sloppyandalive@gmail.com before August 31st! How many maligned wom

Jul 28
1 h 06 min

What I Love: A Listener Summer Special

How do I love thee? For this special episode, we asked you to send us a voice message about something you love. From gas station coffee to tap dancing to rocks to the inn

Jul 14
58 min

The JFK Assassination Part 2 with Mackenzie Joy Brennan

But seriously, who really killed JFK? For part two of the JFK Assassination series, law correspondent Mackenzie Joy Brennan takes Sarah through the conspiracy theories th

Jun 30
2 h 31 min

The JFK Assassination Part 1 with Mackenzie Joy Brennan

Where is Dana Scully when you need her? For the first installment of this two-part episode, legal correspondent Mackenzie Joy Brennan tells Sarah about what happened befo

Jun 23
1 h 43 min

Crying in Baseball with Julie Kliegman

Could there be a little crying in baseball as a treat? Sports correspondent Julie Kliegman is here to tell Sarah about the history of women’s baseball and softball and to

Jun 9
1 h 26 min

Rainbows with Lulu Miller

Why are there so many songs about rainbows (and what’s on the other side)? A bridge between worlds, a map to a pot of gold, the centerpiece of a Lisa Frank trapper-keeper

May 26
1 h 12 min

What to Carry, What to Burn with Blair Braverman

Ada Blackjack wants one thing: To make enough money to bring her son home from an orphanage. But good work is hard to find in 1920s Nome, Alaska, so when four strangers c

May 12
1 h 04 min

Desperation Pie with Sarah Archer

What would you do for a desperation pie? Kitchen correspondent Sarah Archer is here to talk with Sarah about the American food trends that marked the 20th century and how

Apr 29
1 h 14 min

The Great American Spelling Bee with Gabe Henry

Can you use the word in a sentence? For this episode, Spelling Correspondent Gabe Henry takes Sarah through the surprisingly rampageous (r-a-m-p-a-g-e-o-u-s) history of t

Apr 14
1 h 26 min

Crop Circles with Chelsey Weber-Smith

What do men really get up to at the pub? For this April Fools' Day episode, Sarah tells urban legend correspondent Chelsey Weber-Smith of American Hysteria the history an

Apr 1
1 h 14 min

How to Deprogram a Guy in 10 Days with Endless Thread

Free yourself. What does it take to get someone to leave a cult? What happens if the cult is all around us? In this episode, Ben Brock Johnson & Amory Sivertson of NPR’s

Mar 17
1 h 25 min

The Worst Movie Ever Made? with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson

From the bonus vault! What actually makes a movie “bad”? In this bonus episode, Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson of the film podcast Unspooled tell Sarah the story of what m

Mar 13
1 h 34 min

The Bluebelle with Blair Braverman

Do we ever finish surviving? Sarah tells Survival Correspondent Blair Braverman the incredible story of 11-year-old Terry Jo Duperrault, who was lost at sea for several d

Mar 4
1 h 17 min

Keiko Part 3 with Brianna Bowman

Would you ride on the back of a random orca at the beach? For the final part of this series on Free Willy star Keiko, deep sea correspondent Brianna Bowman tells Sarah ab

Feb 17
1 h 18 min

Keiko Part 2 with Brianna Bowman

The movies freed Willy, but what about Keiko? For the second part of our trilogy on the biggest aquatic star of the 90s, deep sea correspondent Brianna Bowman takes Sarah

Feb 10
1 h 45 min

Keiko Part 1 with Brianna Bowman

Can a killer whale really jump that high? For kids of the 90s, the adventure movie Free Willy introduced us to magic of the orca through its charismatic megafauna star, K

Jan 27
2 h 02 min

Where I Live: The Listener Holiday Special

“We’ve always been inventing and reinventing new worlds for taking care of each other. We just have to notice.” We asked our subscribers to send us audio postcards to enc

Dec 23 2025
1 h 30 min

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What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

This show is great. Wholesome, sweet, thoughtful, safe, and warm, as well as full of lessons to learn. I’ve been listening for years, and as time goes on I just want more and more to be friends with Sarah. Keep it up — you’re a real one!

LoGo_1 · Sep 2026

I was late to discover this podcast and am so glad I did. Perfect amount of information and levity. It also feels really good to discover truths about things I grew up thinking I understood. Some have been absolutely mind blowing.

dfsdgfsdfg · Jul 2026

I love the great storytelling that goes into the multi-source research of this podcast. My favorites are the several episode deep-dive type stories. I like to go back and forth between the early episodes and the more recents.

in_stitchesRNMSW · May 2026

My only always-listen podcast. Smart, compassionate, thoughtful, funny. Great mix of topics and guests. I still think about episodes from years ago.

pinky2anne · Nov 2024

This show really worked in the past bc the premise was tight and the chemistry between the cohosts was great. Without a cohost, the guests change up the show too much and the topics feel a little all over the place. So it now feels super hir or miss (could be extremely boring or extremely lacking in research / nuance, depending on guest) Sarah is a fun and smart person but not sure she’s a strong producer of the show and definitely could benefit from a cohost balancing out her takes with more research and a different perspective

Krista Walsh · Oct 2024

I used to love the show when Hobbs was cohost. The editing was refreshing and the chemistry was delightful. Both timing and overall chemistry are no longer present. The research does not appear to be lacking, just the delivery. Chemistry: Other criticisms here targeting the personalities involved are inaccurate and boring. Marshall continues to be witty and charismatic and her guests are interesting. Despite this, there feels like there’s a disconnect — which admittedly may be my own resistance to change. Editing: Other podcasts I’ve listened to have a lot of wasted space — all manner of things unrelated to the subject matter and endless laughter that eventually feels alienating rather than inviting. YWA has entered this territory for me. All this being said, I’m confident Marshall has the wit and charisma to reclaim me as a listener — my only wishes are she finds an excellent partner and editing be prioritized.

Pema_Özer · Oct 2024

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