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The Big Boo Cast

The Big Boo Cast, Episode 454

The Big Boo Cast

Melanie Shankle & Sophie Hudson

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

52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode Melanie and I discuss her flounder gigging experience, my (two!) trips to Mississippi, and a dessert at Bayonet here in Birmingham that absolutely blew my mind. Plus, we talk about some music we've loved lately and our shared delight about a new Hollywood couple. 

If that weren't enough (it probably isn't, but oh well - we tried), it's my turn for Five Favorites.

Enjoy, everybody!

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Show Notes:
- Trader Joe's dips ranking part one and part two
- That Green Dip
- Southwestern Tossed Salad
- Bayonet in Birmingham
- Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson
- Pamela, a love story
- Sonsie skin care
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloots
- Snipe Hunter by Tyler Childers
- Thelma & James - "Canaries in a Coalmine"
- Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson - "Friends & Lovers"
- Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
- The Gilded Age on HBOMax
- Cremo Palo Santo deodorant / antiperspirant
-  Trader Joe's butter with garlic, parmesan, and herbs
- mattress topper
- Lavazza single serve espresso maker (also ordered Cafe Crema pods)
- We the Free Camden maxi sweatshirt dress

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. This is Sophie and welcome to episode 454 of the Big Boo cast.

0:22.5

On this episode, Melanie and I are going to talk about her family's recent trip to the beach.

0:28.1

We're going to talk about my trips, plural, to Mississippi over this past week.

0:33.9

We're also going to talk about some pop culture news that has brought us some joy as well as

0:39.8

some things that we have loved listening to and some things that we have loved watching.

0:45.3

We would love for you to join us on Patreon. If you haven't done that yet, that's at patreon.com

0:49.7

slash big boo. With a $5 subscription, you get two bonus episodes a month. And with an $8 subscription,

0:56.9

you get two bonus episodes plus a live episode every month, our most recent episode, was our

1:03.2

book club for our $8 level. We talked about Annabelle Monaghan's book called It's a Love Story.

1:08.8

And that was a ton of fun. We would also be so happy if you stop

1:12.7

by our Amazon shop to see some of the things that we love and love to use. That's at Amazon.com

1:18.1

slash shop slash big boo. And finally, in just a little over two months, we have our San Antonio

1:24.5

Live Show, October 23rd, and there's a link for tickets in the show notes.

1:29.3

We would be delighted to have you there with us.

1:33.2

All right.

1:33.6

Hope you enjoy episode 454.

1:42.4

Hey, everybody.

1:43.6

This is Sophie. This is Beaumama. Hey, it's Melanie. It's Big Mama. We're recording at the crack of light. It's 1113 in the morning. Listen, it is, it's early. It's especially early because I'm, I need a vacation from my vacation.

1:59.0

Hey, have some yard workers cranked it up since what, yeah, it's time. Yeah, Perry's crew is out here doing our yard. So sorry about that, everybody. That's okay. It's okay. It'll be, you know, Jonathan will be done here in a few minutes. That's great. It's so fine. Yeah. Just a little ambient noise. No, it is a little bit early. I laughed because somebody I posted last night on Instagram, a picture of us flounder gigging, and somebody messaged and they said, how early did that happen? Are you okay? And I was like, no, the beauty of that is you don't start till 8.30 at night. It's the perfect hours for me. It's a nighttime thing. Yeah, it might be a new hobby for you because it really works with your schedule. It does. It won't be a new hobby for me. It's a nighttime thing. Yeah, it might be a new hobby for you because it really

2:34.9

works with your schedule. It does. It won't be a new hobby for me. It's a, it's, I'm going to tell you

2:42.4

what I discovered. When you were on a boat in the, in the bay at night with a light that shines on

2:49.3

everything that exists in the water. What it did for me

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