SOBER SWAP BACKSTAGE! Bring one thing. Leave with everybody else’s good taste.

Think flea market energy, but we’re swapping the stuff currently making life better, weirder, tastier, louder, or more interesting.

Sober Swap is taking over BACKSTAGE on the third Sunday of every month from 4–5pm ET / 1–2pm PT / 2–3pm MT / 3–4pm CT.

One hour. One theme. Bring your current favorite. Make your case for why the rest of us need to know about it. Then shamelessly steal everyone else’s recommendations.

Your first three swaps:

🎵 OCTOBER: MUSIC SWAP 10/18/26

Bring one song you cannot stop playing right now. The one you keep restarting before it’s even over. The one you’ve already forced three friends to listen to. The one that has no business hitting this hard.

We’ll build the BACKSTAGE soundtrack together, live. Come with one song. Leave with a queue full of where the hell has this been all my life?

✨ NOVEMBER: OBSESSIONS SWAP 11/15/26

This is your permission slip to talk about The Thing.

The podcast that changed your brain chemistry. The Substack you’re forwarding to everyone. The show you inhaled in 48 hours. The weird hobby. The app. The rabbit hole. The niche internet drama. The $14 object you now believe everyone should own.

And yes, if you’ve developed an intense relationship with a particular brand of frozen dumplings, we need the full report.

🍪 DECEMBER: RECIPE SWAP 12/20/26

What’s in heavy rotation in your kitchen right now?

The 20-minute dinner saving your butt. The mocktail you actually make twice. The Christmas cookies that disappear before they make it into the tin. That cream cheese and crab dip everyone hovers around at the party. Your grandmother’s soup. The recipe you’ve become completely insufferable about.

Bring the recipe. Bring the story. Bring your strong opinions about why yours deserves a spot in everybody else’s kitchen.

One theme. One hour. An entire room of excellent recommendations you didn’t get from an algorithm.

Bring the thing you can’t shut up about.

We want in. FREE TO ALL BACKSTAGE MEMBERS

Hosted by Senior Sober Contributor, Anne Marie Cribbin

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