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)
“The gospel is all over it”. What a fantastic lens to view the world through. You and Melanie are an absolute delight and remind me to always look for the good. Thanks so much for the happiness you bring me every week.
I LOVE you guys so much! I’m thankful for each of you and how you’ve impacted my life! Your podcast is my highlight every week!
Happy15 years and 300th episode! Love your podcast and you both! You guys are the highlight of my week in carline!!
I think one of the reasons we love y’all so much is because it feels like you’re just sharing your everyday lives with us and it truly does make it feel like we’re friends. Big congrats on 300 episodes! Love y’all.
Congratulations or rather Kadooos (sp :) ) to you! 15 years sure went by fast – love love love listening to all the love and wisdom you two share!
Love y’all! Crossing my fingers for a big win!
Love your podcast!! Congratulations on 300 episodes????
Love this 300th, 15th anniversary episode. You and Melanie feel like friends to me! I have a daughter slightly older than Caroline and Alex and a son slightly younger, so I love all that content plus the college football, fashion, book recommendations and mostly just cracking up laughing! Hope you are surviving these first few days with Alex off at school…thinking of you:) Thanks for the fun giveaway!!
If it’s not too late to tell you, take some garage towels to dry off with (and then take back home) if it’s raining on move in day.
I could not be more excited that all I have to do is leave this comment and not tag 5 friends and follow 10 pages and share to my story and make a post and offer my first born as a sacrifice. Y’all are doing the Lords work! Also,
The simplicity of entering this contest as an almost 53 yo in menopause couldn’t make me any happier…
I think I have listened to every episode now, and you all continue to make my Wednesday or Thursday night dish washing not such a drudge. I try to talk to you on occasion even since it does feel like you’re right there with me!
The clip from the first show reminds me of the watching an old Jimmy Stewart movie, how movie stars talked so differently than they do now. You two so different than you do now and it just makes me grin!
Congrats on 300 shows in 15 years…that’s an 20 shows a year and the last few have been weekly, so… ????
Congrats! I love listening to you girls so much!
My favorite memory is having to pull my car over because I was full on cry-laughing when Melanie said “diabet-us” like a Wilford Brinley commercial and the conversation that ensued. Congrats on 300!
Thank you for always being friends ??
Happy Anniversary! Y’all have brought bright spots to my walking, or driving journeys for years! Thankful for your authenticity, love for Jesus and compassion for others!
Kimberly Sheppard
Happy 300! My BFF and I listen from different states. I love a friendship that goes the distance.
Y’all bring so much joy to my life! I am a football coaches wife and I love listening to other women that love football as much as I do! I also have a daughter that’s going off to college this year, from Texas to Oregon! Thank y’all for being my mama friends!!
I love the podcast and have been listing since your kids were in middle school! Thanks for always making me laugh!
I love listening to you two chat! It’s one of my favorite things every week (also, praise for having a weekly podcast after all those years of random episodes! ????)
Happy 300th episode! The Big Boo Cast is a delight! It’s the only podcast that I can’t wait to hear every week! ??????
Your podcast brings me so much joy! I’m a northern girl, married into a southern family. I love the window into your lives in the south–so many differences to my own. I’m a mom of littles…I love getting a glimpse into the future, both for reassurance that we’re gonna make it through these long days, but also to cherish all the things because before we know it we’ll be dropping them off at college. Thank you for accompanying me on walks, drives, laundry folding, making all the meals, and cleaning all the things. U of M fan here, so I do appreciate the shade to ND…we can’t stand them either.
Congratulations on 15 years and 300 episodes! I always feel like I’m in your home with you just having a conversation over a cup of coffee. You ladies make me laugh, feel encouraged, and are so relatable. Keep going!
Happy 15th anniversary and Kadooz on 300 episodes! Won’t He Do It! Loved meeting you both in Brenham last year and look forward to each episode. Especially during the most wonderful time of the year! College Football Season!
I can’t tell you how many times I want to somehow message either of you to tell you that I found a WWII book that’s phenomenal, or a half baked harvest recipe that’s so good (I’m looking at you Creamy Gnocchi Soup with rosemary Bacon), or any number of things. If I forget to check on. Wednesday, I’m always reminded of a new episode because my friend starts sending me texts of bits of the latest podcast. Makes me so happy. Thanks for all you do!
Love hearing you all on the podcast!
I pretty much have a grin on my face and laugh out loud every time I listen. Can’t believe it’s already been 15 years! Love it!
You two are my favorite to listen to. I tell my husband that I feel like I’m just listening to two friends talk, and it’s so fun. I re-listened to your episode with Travis and it about did me in to hear Alex singing happy birthday to Travis and hear Caroline and Alex talking to one another. Congratulations on 300 episodes/15 years! Here’s to many more!
Long time listener! Love y’all so much!
Happy anniversary and 300th!
Love listening every week on my walks. We have put lots of miles on my shoes together. Also love your books. Thanks Sophie for not being as hard on Notre Dame …it’s only football and I have a beautiful smart loving daughter who graduated happily from there and now is a mama of two…I still love the podcast. Congrats. Marjie
Yay for your weekly chat fix!!! I love it so much!!! Whoo hoo on hitting 300!
Y’all are my friends that I’ve never met. I found the podcast shortly after we moved in 2015 and I was so lonely. Thank you for encouraging me to hold onto my sweet “old” friends, to make new friends, to dislike Notre Dame, to “chin up America”, to celebrate others, and so much more. So a huge kadoos to you on 15 years.
The Big Boo Cast is the highlight of my Thursday morning! I drop the girls off at school and get to listen to my favorite ladies on my drive in to work. Congratulations on 300 episodes!
Congratulations on 300 episodes! As a fellow enneagram 9 college football lover (War Eagle), i relate so much to everything y’all talk about. Bright spot of my week!
Congratulations, y’all don’t look a day over 299, despite Melanie’s unfortunate sun incident this spring. It is all kadoos to the skin care you teach us about. I like to listen when I ride my bike, but what that means is, sometimes on a crowded trail that I let out a real hoot, holler, or whoop when you ladies just tickle the heck out of me, and that receives looks from the people I’m passing by (but I really don’t care, except that I want to stop and tell them how great y’all are and that they should listen too). I appreciate the sacrifice of your 9-ness that you’ve started, had a slow spot in the middle, are in a current rally, and by golly gettin in done on the regular. It’s a testament to Lord. Y’all are charming all the way around. And I appreciate a good leadership book, speech, time as much as you do Sophie. Y’all keep bringing it to us, and we’ll keep listening and bringing our friends. Maybe you’ll hit 20’s of listeners by episode 350, which on current pace should be in 3 years–but goodness I hope Reetha keeps after ya to stick with it weekly because it’s a highlight. And I just dropped off my youngest in College Station too, so laughter needed here! And of course I followed right along and bought many of your recommendations–hello IKEA bags, I’m looking at you.
Love y’all so much!
I love y’all!! Congrats on 300 episodes!!!
Loved this weeks episode! Congrats on 300!!
Thank you for sharing your love of Jesus, SEC football, your families, and each other with all of us!
Congrats on the big milestones! I’ve listened since the very beginning. The first time you posted a podcast, I thought, “What is this thing and how do I listen to it?” I pressed play and heard you both speak for the first time. It was like I’d made two new friends who never met me. That hasn’t changed for 15 years. I tell me husband that Melanie told me to try this or Sophie said I should watch that and he knows exactly who I mean. It seems weird to talk about someone like that and I’ve never seen you in person! I’m going to try to change that by coming to a live show soon! Thanks so much for doing what you do!
I love listening to y’all. I’m looking forward to joining the live show in October!
Congratulations on getting to 300!! Love your podcast!
I love your podcast so much! My daughter is the same age as Alex, and I feel like you and Melanie have been my therapists as I’ve been all in my feels over the past year or so. As a fellow 9, I’m not a big fan of feeling my feelings, but your podcast has been a balm and an escape. Love you both!
Love the show! I am wearing an eShakti dress next weekend for a wedding, thanks to you!
Soph and Mel! Congrats on the 300th episode! Please don’t stop! As a mom who just dropped my oldest at college I need the weekly tips and encouragement. Love y’all!
I am a 30 year old Momma, Wife, and Teacher. I LOVE your podcast! Thank you for uploading every week- it is always a highlight for me :)
Happy Anniversary Boo Mama! I never miss an episode. ???? thank you for coloring the future teen years of parenting with humor and grace. It makes me look forward to it!
Congratulations on 300! Y’all are wonderful!
Love, love, love you ladies!!! Can’t wait to see y’all in Brenham!!!
Congrats on 300 episodes! I love the podcast! You two have the sweetest friendship!
You girls are the highlight of my week! I listen to you religiously every Thursday night after I put my little kids to bed and while my husband is out playing late night basketball. It is the balm to my soul at the end of a long, hectic week. God truly uses you to bring joy to my heart and a smile to my face and of course some additional items to my closet. Haha. You are just a little ahead of me in life as I am in my mid-40s with my oldest being a senior in high school so I can relate or know I will soon to what you talk about. Keep up the good work, the Lord’s work! ??????
Congratulations on 15 years – from a fellow Mississippi State Chi O alum! ??????
Congratulations on 300 episodes! Listening to your show each week is truly one of my favorite things!
Congratulations on 15 years and 300 episodes! I consider you & Melanie friends. I look forward to it every week.
My fav podcast! Congrats on your 300th episode. Love “doing” life with you as I’m in a similar life stage. You truly feel like friends. One question, after listening for years, I’ve somehow missed the meaning behind the name of the your podcast and “Big Mama/Boo Mama”-please explain :).
love the podcast!! don’t miss an episode
Congratulations on 300! I never missed an episode and y’all definitely helped get me through the pandemic. Whether it’s Melanie’s “outrage” or you use of the word delightful, you always put a smile on my face. Here’s to 300 more!
Congrats and thank you for what y’all do! You bring the levity we need every week.
I have LOVED following and listening along for years. Thanks for always making us laugh! ??
Love your show- love your humor and love both of you! You two became my best friends during Covid after my 93 year old mom died in January. You got me thru them both!
Praying you both to have many more years of laughter!
First podcast I’ve ever listened to and the only one I listen to. Can’t wait every week until it comes out! Congrats on 300!
Love you sweet ladies??
Staci.Mayfield@hpe.com
I have listened to your podcast for years. It is a highlight of life! Thank you for the laughs but also for the depth and sermons! Congratulations on 300 episodes!
I’d been a faithful reader of your blog and books, and then I started listening to your podcast years ago. It’s so funny, relatable, and heartfelt! I consider it self-care each week, and as a fellow enneagram 9 I feel like I’m listening to my inner thoughts so many times. Y’all are a gift! Congrats on 300 episodes!!
Thank you for all of the smiles and product recommendations since the very beginning!
Congratulations on episode 300!
CONGRATULATIONS! Happy 15th Anniverarry! ????.
I’m so thankful for your podcast! It brings me so much joy! ????
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Love the podcast. Makes me happy when I listen to it.
Congratulations!! Happy 300th!!
Love the Big Boo podcast. I’ve even made a believer out of my husband. Thanks for the laughs, the tips and the football commentary. Here’s to another 15 years!!
I enjoy listening to you and Melanie.
Congratulations on making it to 300!! You all made weeding my yard delight!! ????
So thankful for you both!
Listening to your podcast on Thursdays is one of my favorite treats of the week!
Congrats on 15 years! Love listening to you!!
Always a highlight my week!
My most favorite podcast..thanks for bringing some joy each and every week!
Yay for 300 Episodes!!!! The wild part is that I’ve listened to all 300. Love you both!
Love, love the podcast! I follow many but this is one I always stay caught up on! Congratulations and thank you for 15 years. Looking forward to many, many more!
Congrats on 300th Episode! I’ve listened for years now; it’s so fun!!! It’s always fun hearing y’all’s Five Favorites each week.
Your podcast always makes my day.
Congrats on your 300th episode and 15 years! Looking forward to spending many more years with you both! ????
So glad I found your podcast! Happy 300th!
Congrats on 300 episodes and 15 years!!! Y’all are my favorite companions on the commute to work Thursday mornings!
Congrats on 300 episodes! You two have made me laugh for almost 10 years! Never stop!
Sending LOTS of love from NH. You and Melanie bring smiles and laughs to my week. Next time you come to NH (or Maine) let me know! :)
Love listening to you guys!!!! Always makes my day????
Love listening to you both. I look forward each week to a new episode. Thanks for making my drop offs and pick ups fun.
Congrats on 300 episodes and 15 years of one of my favorite podcasts! Y’all keep me laughing and shopping the favorites you so graciously share. As a fellow enneagram 9 it’s so comforting to know there’s other people out there I relate to so much! Thanks for sharing, don’t ever stop!
Thank you so much, you are my favorite podcast!
Love, love, love your podcast!! 300 episodes is a big deal – you and Melanie make my day! Thank you for sharing your selves with the world. Congratulations!
Love you girls!! Congratulations on the milestone anniversary!!
Congratulations on 300! I’ve been a committed listener for about 5 years, but have enjoyed going back and catching up on the previous 10. ???? Y’all make long car rides much shorter and much more fun as you are a delight to listen to. Keep up the great work! ??
Thanks for keeping me company while I work in my classroom or do chores at home. I love your conversations and laughter! Congrats on 15 years. Those little voice brought tears to my eyes.
Been listening since the beginning. My favorite, cannot miss podcast! Congrats on 300 episodes!
I love your podcast and have been listening for years! I remember when you hit 100 episodes and couldn’t believe it!! Congratulations on getting to 300!!!
I love listening to the podcast! Definitely a highlight of my week!
Congrats ladies! Love listening
Look forward to hearing y’all every week!
Congrats on 15 years! I love your podcast and my favorite is when you both silently laugh.
Congratulations on 15 years! I’ve been listening for about the last 8 years and look forward to every new episode ????