The Big Boo Cast, Episode 194

The Big Boo Cast

Melanie Shankle & Sophie Hudson

Christianity, Personal Journals, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

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!

Show Notes:

- 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 fascinating, from what we understand)

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

- Swing Your Sword by Mike Leach

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

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody this is Safey and welcome to Episode 194 of the Big Big Cast.
0:20.9	On this episode Melanie and I are beside ourselves so so happy because we got to have a conversation
0:28.7	with Mississippi State's head football coach Mike Leach. I still can't believe I get to say that.
0:33.6	I still can't believe he's the coach of my school and listen, not one thing about it was a
0:39.4	disappointment. It was everything we hoped it would be a more and we cannot wait for you to listen.
0:44.9	You're going to hear Melanie and me talk for about 20 minutes as a little bit of a set up and then
0:50.0	we'll get into our conversation with Coach Leach and we are totally indebted to y'all for
0:56.2	helping to make this happen because as you know Coach Leach is a guest on the episode because of
1:01.7	a Twitter wager. So thank y'all for liking and retweeting the post that led to all of this.
1:08.4	We are very grateful as always this year here we hope you enjoy this episode and welcome Mike Leach.
1:15.2	Welcome everyone to Episode 194.
1:40.5	Hey everybody this is Sophie this is Beama. Hey it's Melanie it's Big Mama.
1:45.3	It's a big day on the Big Bootcast. It is a big day. It is a day brought to you by 1000 Twitter
1:52.2	retweet. That is the truth. Listen this was an effort of the people. Exactly right. A product of
2:04.8	people's commitment to quality podcast content because about I don't know was that about three
2:12.6	weeks ago maybe a month ago. Maybe a month ago. Dave Emmerich who works in the football department at
2:21.2	state said that if people had questions for our head football coach Mike Leach to please go
2:29.2	and to send him a direct message and then catch Leach would video or reply and so in some fit of
2:35.2	boldness which is really weird because I'm not super bold. I just said I don't have a question we
2:43.4	would just love for him to come on our podcast and then thanks to all the people who charmed in on
2:48.5	that he came back the next day and said tell you what if you get a thousand retweets of this
2:54.0	reply will make it happen and that took approximately 27 minutes. That was it for us to get to a
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