I DON’T KNOW IF YOU HAVE HEARD, but Mississippi State won the college baseball National Championship last week in Omaha, so Melanie and I talk just a *little* *bit* about that on this week’s episode. We also discuss the fact that lo, the Olympics are almost upon us, which means that Melanie will be living her best life as she learns about all the Meaningful Life Stories and cheers for athletes from all around the world. Let’s be honest: watching the Olympics is pretty much a Shankle-tacular.

In addition to the sports news, we share about what we’re reading and talk a little more about a show we’ve both recently watched and loved. Plus, it’s my turn for Five Favorites, and we have some exciting news about our Amazon shop. Or maybe “exciting” is a stretch. But nonetheless, we have news.

Hope y’all enjoy!

Our Amazon Shop

Become a Patron!

You can click here to listen. Or you can even listen right here.

And if you’re on the Facebook, well, we are, too.

We’d love for you to subscribe on iTunes, and we’d be honored if you’d leave us a review.

Show Notes:

– Mississippi State wins the college baseball National Championship

– Jake Mangum tells Coach Lemonis in 2019 that he’s going to win the NC for MSU

– Out of Left Field postgame podcast episode (recorded after the Bulldogs won the CWS – it is FANTASTIC)

– An excellent YouTube playlist of State’s path to the national championship

– Karen Howell’s Twitter

– Good on Paper

– Starstruck (not for the children)

– Four Weddings and a Funeral on Hulu

– Laura Tremaine on Instagram (her content on making time to read is a treasure)

– Annie B. Jones’ book recommendations

– Favorite Day dark chocolate espresso trail mix

– The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast

– a delightful caftan / cover-up option

– Peace to All Who Enter Here plaque for doorframe

– Faith Adjacent episode about John Mayer

– @houseinhabit (Mel’s favorite Free Britney account)

– “Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare” by Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino

Sponsors:

-  Third Love (use this link for 20% off your first purchase)

– Thrive Market (use this link for $20 off your first order and a free gift)

– Care/of (use promo code BIGBOOCAST50 for 50% off your first order)

– Native (use promo code BIGBOO at checkout for 20% off your first order)

Last week we took a little time off from the podcast, and we had ourselves some adventures, we did. Melanie and Caroline went to a resort for a Mother / Daughter getaway, and Alex and I went to Omaha to see Mississippi State play in the College World Series. So, you probably won’t be surprised to hear Melanie and I talk about all the things related to both trips on this episode – including my enthusiastic but somewhat unfortunate reaction to Tanner Allen’s 3-run homer against Arizona.

We also discuss a book Melanie loved, a podcast I adored, and Melanie’s Five Favorites. What a time.

Enjoy, y’all!

Our Amazon Shop

Become a Patron!

You can click here to listen. Or you can even listen right here.

And if you’re on the Facebook, well, we are, too.

We’d love for you to subscribe on iTunes, and we’d be honored if you’d leave us a review.

Show Notes:

– La Cantera Resort

– Tom Brown’s Body

– Giver of Stars

– gold Aerosoles slides we both adore

– Framing Britney Spears

– Erin Moon’s Spotify playlist: Starting Drama in My Healthy Marriage

– Vida Bella Weekly Glow Exfoliator

– Vida Bella Shade Sunscreen

– Dime Beauty Eyelash Boost Serum

– No Bend hairclips

– Free People Pretty Cozy maxi dress

Sponsors:

– Munk Pack (use promo code BIGBOO for 20% off your first order)

– Thrive Causemetics (use this link for 15% off your first order)

– FabFitFun (use promo code BIGBOO for 50% off your first box)

– Prose (use this link for your free, in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your first order)

We are always so happy when our good friend Travis Cottrell joins us on the podcast, and TODAY’S THE DAY. In what turned out to be an extra-long episode, we talk about closet clean-outs and furniture shipping delays and college baseball (update since we recorded: Mississippi State is going to the College World Series!).

We also discuss our kids (the Cottrells and the Shankles are about to be empty nesters with some travel goals), our dads (FEELINGS ALERT), and I share my Five Favorites. As does Travis.

Enjoy, everybody!

Our Amazon Shop

Become a Patron!

You can click here to listen. Or you can even listen right here.

And if you’re on the Facebook, well, we are, too.

We’d love for you to subscribe on iTunes, and we’d be honored if you’d leave us a review.

Show Notes:

– Under Canvas Yellowstone

– To see show notes in Apple Podcasts, you now have to click on “episode webpage”

– Overcast

– “I Want to Be Just Like You” (Travis has introduced us to a Father’s Day song)

– In the Heights (in theatres and on HBO Max)

– Secret Treasures pajama shorts

– “October Sky” by Yebba (live version and studio version)

– Marc Ronson’s post about Yebba

– Benerx (my pulled muscles are so grateful for it)

– High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America on Netflix

– Sirius 80s on 8

– Marco Polo app

– Waldo’s Chicken and Beer

- A&W Root Beer Zero Sugar

Sponsors:

– KiwiCo (use promo code BIGBOO for 30% off your first month plus free shipping)

– Hello Fresh (use promo code BIGBOO12 for 12 free meals and free shipping)

– Best Fiends (download in the Apple App Store or on Google Play)

– FabFitFun (use promo code BIGBOO21 for $10 off your first box)

This week Melanie shares all about her trip to A&M for Caroline’s New Student Conference (to use baseball terminology, it was a real home run). We also talk about TV (I finished watching Breaking Bad and HAVE SOME THOUGHTS), and we dig into our current summer reading situations.

Plus, we discuss our current state of contentment with our beauty products (I KNOW), and it’s Melanie’s turn for Five Favorites.

Enjoy, y’all!

Our Amazon Shop

Become a Patron!

You can click here to listen. Or you can even listen right here.

And if you’re on the Facebook, well, we are, too.

We’d love for you to subscribe on iTunes, and we’d be honored if you’d leave us a review.

Show Notes:

– Chopt

– Campbell University Fighting Camels

– Texas A&M Hotel & Conference Center

– HomeTown Takeover in Wetumpka, AL

– The Friends reunion

– Courtney Cox and Ed Sheeran on social media here and here

– Oprah’s Legends Ball on YouTube

– June’s Journey (I’m on level 90 with no signs of slowing down)

– Evvie Drake Starts Over

- 2 Hearts on Netflix

– The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr

- Beyond Soft Fruit of the Loom underwear

– Zella strength racerback tank

– Kendra Scott Masie gold hoop earrings in mint mix

– Stars Above pajama shorts

– Cocina de Coco pressed Italian sandwiches

Sponsors:

– Rothy’s (WE LOVE THESE)

– Native (use this link or promo code BIGBOO for 20% off your first order) (the scents are glorious)

– Thrive Market (use this link for $20 off your first order and a free gift) (the internet’s finest granola selection IMHO)

– Third Love (use this link for 20% off your first purchase) (these bras are FANTASTIC and worth every penny)

Well, Caroline has graduated from high school, which is shocking considering that it seems like yesterday when she was telling Alex about “bad twaffic” in “San Antone-yo” on an early episode of the podcast. Anyway, Melanie brings us up to speed on the graduation festivities, and we also talk about last week at the SEC baseball tournament as well as some of Melanie’s initial reactions to the Friends reunion (we’ll do a Patreon episode about that very thing later this month).

On top of all that, we discuss an exciting new patio umbrella option (because that’s a thing at this stage of life) and my Five Favorites.

Enjoy, everybody!

Our Amazon Shop

Become a Patron!

You can click here to listen. Or you can even listen right here.

And if you’re on the Facebook, well, we are, too.

We’d love for you to subscribe on iTunes, and we’d be honored if you’d leave us a review.

Show Notes:

– Grace upon Grace (Sophie’s new devotional book for young women that comes out September 28th)

– The Friends reunion

– Whitley marries Byron on A Different World

– The Kominsky Method

– Hacks

– Half-Baked Harvest Whipped Ricotta Toast with Marinated Tomatoes

– the fancy LED-light patio umbrella (IT IS HUGE and really substantial)

– Snickerdoodle mug cake

– “Survival” on Live from the Woods Vol. 2 (the guy yells for the first time around 3:58, then again around 5:12 – and I encourage you to keep listening so you can hear Madison and Calvin sing)

– a simple, thin, tunic-style swimsuit cover-up from Amazon

– Stand To by Shawn Brower

– Architectural Digest Open Door on YouTube

Sponsors:

– Daily Harvest (use promo code BIGBOO to get $25 off your first box)

– Storyworth (use this link for $10 off your first purchase)

– GoHenry (use promo code BIGBOO for one month free)

It’s a big week for The Big Boo Cast: Caroline’s high school graduation and the SEC Baseball Tournament. Not that those two things are of equal importance, of course (I mean, graduation = milestone). But Melanie and I talk about graduation and the tournament and TV and so much more on this week’s episode.

We also discuss an exciting new find in the way of summer shorts, and Melanie shares her Five Favorites.

Enjoy, everybody!

Our Amazon Shop

Become a Patron!

You can click here to listen. Or you can even listen right here.

And if you’re on the Facebook, well, we are, too.

We’d love for you to subscribe on iTunes, and we’d be honored if you’d leave us a review.

Show Notes:

– SEC Baseball Tournament

– the most comfortable summer shorts (I bought the gray camo and love them!)

– The Handmaid’s Tale (it’s so dark)

– A Place to Call Home

– The Kominsky Method

– Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner

– Gabe Dixon’s “Lay It On Me”

– Warner’s Easy Does It No Dig Wire-Free bra

– Pavoi 14k huggies with cubic zirconia

– Veno heavy duty extra large moving bags with backpack strap

– Cristin Cooper on Instagram

– Ben Rector’s “Range Rover” and Dave Barnes’ “The Lord Ain’t Let Me Down Lately”

Sponsors:

– Best Fiends (download on Google Play or on the Apple App Store)

– Thrive Causemetics (use this link for 15% off your first order)

– Prose (use this link for your free, in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your first order)

– iwi Life (use promo code BIGBOO for 30% off your first order)