Well, if you’ve wondered over the last week if the Kale Boss was in fact the boss of our friend Melanie, you’ll be happy to hear this week’s juice cleanse update. You might also be interested to hear my update on our first high school football game of the season, which was a happy return to a little something we like to call a LIVE SPORTING EVENT. What a marvelous concept that is.

On top of all that, we talk about what shoe works best with a wide cropped pant, what pajamas I’m renaming “loungewear” so I can wear them as actual pants, and what five things have become long-term favorites for me over the last few weeks.

Basically what we have for you this week is good times aplenty. Except maybe that whole Kale Boss situation. Hope you enjoy!

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Show Notes:

– Our Amazon Shop

– The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes by Suzanne Collins

– Our friend Retha (she is also our podcast business manager / boss)

– The caftan dress that we both love

– GAP lounge pants that I plan to wear as straight-up pants

– Marc Fisher booties

– Stars Above lounge pants

– Stars Above sweatshirt

– Redland cotton sheets

– Anastasia Brow Wiz eyebrow pencil

– Anastasia Clear Brow gel

– Thrive Causemetics Multi-Dimensional Strobing Blush in Rosie

– Skinnygirl Denim Utility Jogger

– Farm Rio Gabriela knit maxi skirt

– The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

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– FabFitFun (coupon code BIGBOO for $10 off your first order)

– School Mask Pack

– NoteCube (promo code BIGBOO for 20% off)

Sometimes we don’t get a chance to talk about a regular-ole-life something that’s going on until we sit down to record on Mondays, and that was certainly the case this week. Melanie shares some newly formed health / fitness goals, and I think the best way to describe my response is SURLIGHTED (surprised + delighted). Oh my goodness. Next week’s update should be solid gold.

We also discuss a parenting question we didn’t get to last week re: technology as well as the lingering effects of my renewed commitment to the chemical exfoliation of my face. It has been humbling and also very burn-y.

Hope y’all enjoy!

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Show Notes:

– Our most recent Patreon episode that is basically Melanie’s graduate thesis on skin care

– Sunday Riley Vitamin C Serum

– Sunday Riley Good Genes

– Revitabrow

– Brittany Runs a Marathon

– Our Amazon shop

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

Not long before we recorded this week’s episode, I posted on Instagram and asked if y’all had any broad topics you wanted us to cover. To absolutely no one’s surprise, college football the #1 answer – followed by parenting, friendship, and home.

SO. We structured this episode (well, “structured” might be a strong word – maybe just “loosely organized”) around those four topics, and we used some of your specific questions to do that. You won’t see many show notes because we didn’t talk about many specific products or people or shows or crepe erasing neck creams. We mainly just talked about life, and that is always fine by us.

Hope y’all enjoy!

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Show Notes:

– Athleta Salutation Joggers

– Athleta Farollon Stratum Joggers (please go on sale please go on sale)

– Ohio State in the SEC? (we don’t think this will actually happen – but the idea is an interesting one)

– KitchenAid stand mixer

– Calphalon

– Poppies on Blue

– Our Amazon Shop

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– KiwiCo (use this link for 30% off your first order and free shipping)

– Acorn.tv (use the promo code BIGBOO for 30 days free)

– Crayola School Mask Pack (Alex loves these, by the way – he’s a fan of the adjustable ear straps and thinks the masks are really comfortable)

After spending the last two weeks with delightful, wise, funny guests (thanks, Mike Leach and Phil Rosenthal), we’re back to our usual shenanigans on this episode. It’s just Melanie and me, and we talk about the comfort of a good caftan, the practical side of going back to work (for example, I can no longer spend my days in walking tights and t-shirts), and the joy of finally finding a dry shampoo that exceeds expectations.

We also discuss how I really showed my Enneagram 9-ness in terms of anticipating the transition back to work, and Melanie gives an update on the antelope that used to live in her living room.

If that weren’t enough (is it, though?), we talk about make-up and TV.

Enjoy, y’all!

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Show Notes:

– Last Chance U (not for the children)

– Yellowstone (not for the children)

– Life in Pieces

– Marc Jacobs Gel Powder eyeshadow in Perfect-o

– Bobbie Brown Long-wear Cream Shadow stick in Heather Steel and/or Amethyst

– Prose dry shampoo (use this link for 15% off your first order)

– Living Proof Dry Volume Blast

– Lisa Whittle’s second caftan home run

– (Lisa Whittle’s original caftan home run, just FYI)

– Amiyrah Martin also loves a good caftan

– The Daily Tay preps for the Nordstrom Sale

– Revitalash

Sponsors:

– Best Fiends (download on Apple Podcasts or Google Play)

– Hello Fresh (promo code BIGBOO80 for $80 off your first box and free shipping)

– Margaret M (promo code BIGBOO25 for 25% off your first order)

If you’ve been listening to the podcast pretty regularly the last couple of months, then you have heard Melanie and me mention the Netflix series Somebody Feel Phil over and over again. Melanie started watching (after Karen Howell recommended it, if memory serves), and then I started watching, and here we are, roughly six weeks later, both certifiably obsessed with it. Because it is FANTASTIC.

So you can imagine how delighted we are to tell you that, in one of the most unexpected occurrences in lo, all of our podcasting years, Phil Rosenthal from Somebody Feed Phil is our guest on this episode.

Sometimes life comes at you fast, my friends.

You’ll hear the story of how all of this came to be at the beginning of the episode, and then for the rest of the episode you’ll hear Phil be super funny and wise and inspiring. It was such a joy to talk with him, and it was also confirmation that 1) we cannot wait to travel again and 2) Phil really is our Quarantine All-Star.

Next week we’ll be back with our usual shenanigans, and it’ll just be Melanie and me again. Unless Melanie gets in touch with Jimbo Fisher – in which case, all bets are off.

Enjoy, y’all!

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Show Notes:

– Lenox Hill on Netflix

– Phil Rosenthal, Prince Among Men

– Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix

– You’re Lucky You’re Funny by Phil Rosenthal

– The Chris Farley Show sketch

– Anthony Bourdain

– Massimo Bottura

– Chef’s Table Season 1 on Netflix

– “Earth’s Greatest Hits” on I’ll Have What Phil’s Having

– Phil Rosenthal / Somebody Feed Phil website – with links to all the places and restaurants he has visited (plus merch!)

– Century Old Eggs

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– School Mask Pack

– Thrive Market (use this link for a free membership and a free gift of your choosing, worth up to $22)

– Hydrant (use promo code BIGBOO for 25% off your first order)

I feel like I can speak for most Mississippi State fans and say that when it comes to Mike Leach being named our head football coach earlier this year, we’re all still pinching ourselves. And listen – Melanie has been just as excited as I have been. That is because Mike Leach is a genius, and he is a college football legend, and the SEC will be better with him in it. So needless to say, we are absolutely beside ourselves that he is our guest on this episode of the podcast.

How did this even happen? Well, it is all because of a Twitter wager, you understand. Dave Emerick, who is on the football staff at State, told us a few weeks ago (after I asked about the possibility of interviewing Coach Leach) that if we could get 1,000 likes on his tweet, he would get Coach Leach on the podcast. Well, our beloved podcast listeners more than came through, and about a week ago, Melanie and I got to talk to Coach Leach. The whole experience did not disappoint. In fact, it DELIGHTED us.

The first part of the episode is Melanie and me giving this whole situation some context, and our conversation with Coach Leach starts around 25:40. You’ll be happy to know that Melanie was able to voice her grievance about Deshazor Everett’s targeting call, and Coach Leach has a couple of bad call grievances himself. We also talk about Mississippi and his favorite game at Texas Tech and his favorite books so far this year. Among other things.

The best part? Coach Leach was all we expected and more: kind, smart, funny, gracious, and a real straight-shooter. We think you’ll agree.

Enjoy, y’all!

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Show Notes:

– Coach Fran

– Nick “Lou” Saban

– Coach Mike Leach

– The video that made Sophie clap her hands when Coach Leach was named head football coach at Mississippi State

– Melanie predicted Coach Leach’s hiring (go to 47:23 in the episode)

– The tweet that brought Coach Leach to the podcast

– The very strange Egg Bowl ending that set the wheels in motion for Lane Kiffin and Mike Leach to move to Mississippi colleges

– The Texas Tech / Texas game that Coach Leach remembers very fondly

– “Texas Back in 1880”

– Melanie’s Deshazor Everett heartache

– The Last Dance

– Michael Lewis

– Bill Bryson – The Lost Continent

– Henry Crumpton – The Art of Intelligence

– Operation Odessa (not for the children, and a little racy at the beginning, but Melanie says it’s fascinating)

– Narcos (again, not for the children, but again, Melanie and P are fans)

– Swing Your Sword by Mike Leach

– Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior by Mike Leach

Sponsors:

– Magic Spoon (promo code BIGBOO for free shipping)

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

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