Well, it’s our 300th episode – and our 15th podcast-i-versary – and Melanie and I are thrilled about both of these things. WHO WOULD HAVE EVER THOUGHT. So, as you can imagine, we do a little reminiscing on this episode, but we also do a lot of talking about the here and now. That is because this is the week that Alex moves to college, and we have a lot to break down about that.
As always we recap our weekends, and it’s my turn for Five Favorites.
Hope y’all enjoy!
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Show Notes:
– SOURCE Nashville Hall of Fame
– Episode 195 with Phil Rosenthal
– Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix
– Episode 10, our first episode with Travis
– The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
– 3001 Questions book
– Enter our 15th anniversary giveaway on Melanie’s blog
– Enter our 15th anniversary giveaway on Sophie’s blog
(Giveaways from Parachute Home, Hummingbird Farms, Anthropologie, Sephora, and Amazon)
– Jones Road Miracle Balm in Dusty Rose
– Patagonia Capilene graphic tees
– Women’s Utility Chore jacket
– Pioneer Woman’s olive cheese bread
Sponsors:
– June’s Journey (download on the Apple App store or Google Play)
– Munk Pack (use promo code BIGBOO for 20% off your purchase)
– Thrive Causemetics (use this link for 15% off your first order)
– Rothy’s (use this link for $20 off your first purchase)
Excited each week like Christmas for the podcast them save it so it won’t be over !! Thank y’all for the joy you bring and all the advice! Sophie – I have 2 Wideman peanut butter crocks, if you want one, we have a mutual friend I’m happy to pass it to!
Yay 300th episode! As I fellow 9 I am impressed! Great work!
Happy 300th! You two are a highlight of my week!!
Congratulations on 300 episodes! This podcast is an absolute favorite of mine.
Thanks for 300 episodes. I’m an artist and I like to listen as I work. It feels like I’m on call phone call with friends but there’s no pressure to join in!
I’ve been listening to the podcast since you all started and I can’t thank you both enough…you are always my first choice road-trip podcast listen…as a result whenever something interesting happens in the world of college football my Ohio State alumni husband will often say “well, what’s the big boo cast saying about this….”
I await each podcast like waiting on Christmas morning…only to then save it so it won’t be over! Thank you for the joy and advice!! Btw, Sophie, I have 2 peanut butter crocks from Widemans in Meridian (my mothers and grandmothers), would love to give you one…if you want one, I can pass it to you through a mutual friend…
Congrats on 300 episodes! Y’all’s anniversary coincides with my wedding anniversary, so basically I’ve been listening to you for like half my marriage :)
Looking forward to 15 more yeara
Congratulations and thank you for bringing a smile to my face every week! I’ve been listening since before kids and now I’m a mom of three!
Love the Big Boo Cast! Congrats on 15 years and 300 episodes!
Congrats on 300 episodes! I look forward to listening to y’all each week!
Happy 300th! Y’all are the highlight of my week! Thanks for the laughs!
Congratulations on 15 years!! This podcast has been so much fun for me since I started listening around 2015 (I was in college!) A highlight of every week for sure!
Happy 300th! Thanks for the laughs!
Congratulations! I really enjoy the podcast!
From a fellow enneagram 9, thank you for all the laughs and aha moments. You two are a treasure!
Congratulations on 15 years and 300 episodes! The kids’ little conversation in the beginning was just so sweet!
This podcastiversary was amazing! I snortlaughed so many times! Thank you so much!
Enjoy your podcast & books. Looking forward to the live event in October!
I had to go back and listen to your episode with Phil Rosenthal! I love your laughs, accents, and love for college football! Thanks for sharing your lives with us every week.
Thanks for bringing a little sunshine to my Wednesday’s!
Happy 300th Episode ? I feel like y’all are friends as I listen each week and there’s never an episode that doesn’t make me laugh ?
Your podcast is definitely one of the highlights of my week! I’m so thankful for the recommendations and laughs you girls provide each week!! Cheers to 15 more years!
Congratulations on 300 episodes and 15 years of podcasting!!! So very thankful for you both!!!
Happy 300 episodes! Looking forward to the next 300!
Love you guys so much!
Congratulations on 300 podcasts! I started listening when my oldest was a newborn, and you and Sophie were my friends through many middle of the night feedings! ????
yay for 300 episodes!!
Congratulations on 15 years and 300 episodes! It is an absolute joy to listen each week and to laugh along with you both!
Happy 15 anniversary and 300 episode! Love the show!!
Love the podcast….
I loved hearing the kids little voices on the podcast! Congratulations on 300 episodes!
You never fail to make me laugh!
Thank you for sharing a piece of your life with people you don’t know. I feel like I have two more friends who live on a podcast.
Congratulations!!
You’ve become dear friends – just walking through all of life’s moments with us – both the monumental and the mundane. I can’t imagine my week now without my Thursday fix with the BigBoo! I’m so very thankful for you both and have been blessed beyond measure by your 300 episodes! (Amazon, Sephora and a host of other shops have ALSO reaped a blessing ????) Celebrating this milestone with you ???? Affectionately,
Congratulations on the 300th episode! Thanks for sharing your lives with us!
I look forward to the podcast each week! Happy 300! ??
Not sure why the ?? Showed up. Good grief!
Love the podcast so much! I’ve been listening since 2015 and you make my commute to work so much better????
Your podcast is such a delight. It makes me smile and being such joy.
Congratulations on 300 episodes!! You and Melanie are two friends who I walk my dog with every week. Thank you for sharing how you live, laugh, and love! Hook ‘em!!
Congratulations on 300!!!
Congrats on 300 episodes! I’m a fairly new listener but really love it! My weekly happy!
Just the absolute best of the best. Love y’all!
You are such a delight! Thank you for what you do. My sister told me I HAD to listen and now I’m listening to all of your episodes.
Congratulations! Love listening to the podcast!
Been listening for a long time! Thanks for the chance to win!
I love the podcast. My son graduated from high school in May and it has been so nice to find some mamas who are going through the seasons that I am. Thank you for sharing your lives with the listeners. Saying prayers for you and Alex this week as he goes to college.
Thank you for providing such joy! My Big Boo Cast text thread (coworkers who introduced me to the podcast) celebrated #300 with you at a special lunch. Thank you for giving so many your wonderful gifts.
My favorite podcast of them all.!
Congrats! Looking forward to listening for many years to come!!
Congrats on a wonderful 15 years and 300 episodes of love and laughter!
I love listening to your podcast
Happy Anniversary!! Y’all are such fun and an easy spot in my week.
My Dad is from Meridian and my Mom is from Beaumont. Y’all feel like home in the best way! Congratulations, thank you!
Love the podcast!
Congratulations on 15 years! Every episode brings a smile to my face. ????
Love listening to your podcast. Congrats on 300 episodes and 15 years.
You ladies are so great! Just sent my twins to college and love hearing about your children!
Yay for 300 Episodes! Love hearing from you guys each week!
Congrats on 300!!! Your books, insta posts and PODCAST have been a god-send to my life. I am now a die hard A &M and Mississippi State fan! xo
I look forward to listening to you all every week. It’s like a sweet hour with friends! This episode with Caroline and Alex at the beginning was just so sweet! Thank you both so much for sharing your lives with us!
I have been listening to y’all since the dawn of time. And I relate to you so much because I am a mom of an only child too and I’m a Nine (9) too! And I’m from Texas. I was almost an Aggie, but decided to wear Burnt Orange instead. But I forgive you, Melanie. I’m still listening.
I listen to the Big Boo Cast when I am walking my dog. So, it’s not uncommon for me to laugh out loud. Speaking of laughing, the best is when it goes silent…because you are both laughing so hard you are not breathing. Thanks for being a light all these years and being my “virtual friends.” Is that weird? Keep it up.
Episode 300 was amazing! I always laugh when I listen, but hearing you guys talk about making each other laugh made me so happy. My favorite laughing moment was when you talked about Melanie giving feelings to various kitchen objects. We couldn’t hear you for what seemed like forever because you were laughing so hard. I still smile when I think about that moment. Thanks for all the fun times!!
I love listening to the podcast each week!
Love the show! Discovered you ladies in early Covid and haven’t looked back! If I did a Five Favorites every week you would always be on it! Listened to the 300th yesterday and if that wasn’t enough delight, lo’ and behold I went to a restaurant in Birmingham that night and there sat Sophie, David and Alex’s roommate’s parents! I totally interrupted their dinner (hopefully not rudely) to do a bit of fangirl-ing!
Here are some of my highlights from the last 2 1/2 years:
Melanie educating us that a v-neck T can be “aggressive.”
ANY time Sophie talks about Martha
Ditto for calves and arches
And of course, when Melanie graciously admitted that Saban was in fact, very charming.
Roll Tide! Love you, ladies!
Happy Anniversary! I have listened to every podcast episode and read your blog before that. I feel like we are super similar (even though I am a 2 married to a 5). I discovered Keith and Kristyn Getty because of you and have seen them in concert several time. I took my son to Omaha (live in Des Moines) to see Ben Rector on your recommendation. I buy so much stuff you and Melanie recommend. My teenage boys and husband know who you are. Thanks for putting such joy and fun out into the world. Keep at it!
Your podcast is a bright spot in my week. Thank y’all for keeping it up! Love the five favorites.
Congratulations! Thanks for the laughs, keeping it real as moms, and for always taking the high road with so much negativity in the world. Best wishes for more success and memories, ladies!
Hope y’all keep the party going for at least another 15 years!! CONGRATULATIONS!!
Your humility, genuineness, and humor are a DELIGHT!
Happy 15th and 300th episode!! I love listening because I am also a 9 and y’all make me feel normal!!
Yay for 300!
My husband knows y’all on a first name basis because of how much I reference you, especially for SEC talk. Y’all are an absolute delight!
Thinking of you as you embrace your empty nest – definitely a bittersweet time!!
Happy 300 episodes! I love the podcast and all the laughter that comes from it.
Way to go on 300 episodes! And thank you Retha! ???? Love listening to you two….it brings me joy! (& a visit from Tony, our family UPS guy, on occasion). Also we just moved to the state of an SEC team…Our first time….I’m conflicted on who to cheer for haha
Love the podcast! Yall are the best.
This podcast always brightens my week! Thankful for y’all!
What a ride it’s been! Happy 300th!! Thank you for the joy and laughter you bring every week ??
Congratulations on 300 episodes!!! We loved seeing you in the Nashville live show. Hope there is another Tahoe in the Birmingham or Atlanta area soon!
Congrats on 300 episodes! I loved the opening with little Alex and Caroline – how sweet!
Love you & Melanie so much! Listening to y’all makes me laugh out loud on my daily walk! Every. Single. Time. I saw y’all at the Mulehouse last year and it was a delight. I feel like y’all are my people. I joke with my kids that y’all are my imaginary internet BFF’s. (This results in a huge eye roll from the teens). So blessed to get to listen and laugh along with you!
The BigBoo cast has been my favorite for years and this episode was one of the best. My sister introduced it to me right after our sweet mama passed away five years ago. Not only did you and Melanie make me laugh during such a heavy time, it is always a comfort to hear you two talk because you both are close to her age. I’ve since gone back and listened to all the episodes (twice, but who is counting) and laugh every time. Thanks for being yourselves and for spreading joy like none other! Love you both.
I love your blog! I actually talk back to you guys like I’m part of the conversation ???? Thank you for bring joy to my Thursday commute!
This 300th episode was delightful, as they always are. I’m moving our youngest girl into college in the next state over this weekend, and I’m all up in my emotions. I’m a huge fan of the frequent pauses for the silent laugh, especially from you, Sophie. I also love it when you repeat a phrase that hearkens back to the past, like “you said ____”. The silent laughter catches me off guard every single time, but I love it so much. Also agree that you had some amazing guests over the years, like Phil Rosenthal, Beth Moore, and of course, Fry Daddy Travis Cottrell. Congratulations to you both!
Congratulations on 15 years and 300 episodes! ??
I have to agree with so many, some of my favorite pod moments with the two of you are when Melanie gets riled up over injustices (insert Notre Dame) and when you two are laughing so hard it’s silent! Here’s to many more podcasts and anniversary / milestone celebrations!!!
Happy 300! You both have gotten me through some hard times in my life and now it’s like hanging out with old friends!! Thank you for being you!
I love y’all so much! Grew up in Mississippi, and now live in NC which is technically the south but it’s not the Deep South. When Sophie said the other day that something “tickled her” I was so happy. I’ve read all of your books as well. Y’all just don’t know how good of friends we are ????
Thank you both for sharing your laughs, tips and blessings with us!!
Love the podcast!!
15 years.
300 episodes.
I’ve heard them all and LOVED them all!!!
Congrats on 300 episodes!! I’ve loved every single one!
We’re sending our boys to college “together” – thanks for the support (and tips)!
Happy 300th episode! I’ve been listening for over 10 years. Thanks for all the laughs and recommendations!
Congrats on 300 episodes! You & Melanie always get my Thursday mornings off to a great start. Even though our hearts belong to different schools, this Aggie certainly appreciates your dedication to State. Thanks for the laughs, great recs, and for being a source of pure delight.
Cheers!
Happy 300th episode!! I have loved each and every one!
Have listened to every episode.
I LOVE YOU GALS! HAPPY 300! I’ve listened to every episode.
Happy 300! I LOVE y’all’s podcast. It cheers me up and I feel that I am just listening to my friends talk. I love that you both have shared your lives with us.