8. The Big Stick, With Tyler Parker

Tyler was the biggest, baddest slugger on his small-town Little League team—until the day he realized he was scared of the ball. To get out of facing an intimidating pitcher, 8-year-old Tyler told a lie that made him feel guilty for decades to come. Has the time come for adult Tyler to forgive himself?

Host: Brian Phillips
Producers: Mike Wargon, Conor Nevins, and Vikram Patel
Sound Design: Kaya McMullen
Mixing and Mastering: Scott Somerville

For more from Tyler, check out his hilarious and heartbreaking first novel, A Little Blood and Dancing, which Brian once described as “the funniest novel about Oklahoma since The Grapes of Wrath—only Tyler is doing it on purpose.”