Melinda Whitten and Carrie Varnell are on a mission to make you smile. A little useful, a little random, a lot of fun! It's like a palette cleanser for your brain!
We Are Not Doctors But We Play One on This Podcast 👩🏻⚕️😷
Send us Fan Mail Ever wonder how microscopic germs actually work, or why getting sick makes your brain go down a rabbit hole of weird questions? We do too. After a recent bout of illness, we sit down to process the mystery of bacteria, share our totally unscientific theories, and wonder out loud about the invisible bugs that take us out. Then, Melinda takes us back to a mission trip to Uganda, where a sudden health scare had her convinced she’d accidentally patient-zeroed a global pandemic. F...
20 Aug 2026
They're Not Paying Us to Make Each Other Laugh
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Melinda and Carrie start by catching up on life’s latest chaos before spiraling straight into the sheer madness of pregnancy. They’re confessing the most completely unhinged things they did while carrying human life—think crying over wrong-flavored drive-thru orders, erratic midnight renovations, and hormonal decisions that made perfect sense at the time. To save themselves from total public scandal, they wrap up the episode with a grounding word from Scriptu...
6 Aug 2026
I Bet There's Fisticuffs and Clipboards Flying
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Made Ya Smile Podcast! We promise we aren't turning into a civil engineering channel today, but hear us out... The Secret Lives of Streets: Why is a road a road and an avenue an avenue? What starts out sounding like a snoozefest of urban planning turns into a surprisingly fascinating deep dive into the hidden history beneath our tires. Unboring Questions: We turn the mic on each other with a rapid-fire round of quirky, unexpected question...
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
11 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
7 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100
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Social presence
91
YouTube
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Engagement
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