The Big Boo Cast, Episode 456

The Big Boo Cast

Melanie Shankle & Sophie Hudson

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

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode Melanie and I recap our (very brief) time together in Nashville, we talk about all the reading I've done over the past week (it's obnoxious, really), and we discuss a couple of takeaways from the most recent round of RushTok (all the balloons at the University of Arkansas really made an impression on us).

We also break down my first attempt at playing mahjong, and it's my turn for Five Favorites.

Enjoy, y'all!

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Show Notes:
- Caroline's new book, The Lion & the Bear, out October 14th
- The Hermitage Hotel in Nashville
- Drusie & Darr
- restrooms at The Hermitage
- Ladybird Taco
- New Heights episode with Taylor Swift
- Taylor Swift and sourdough
- Taylor Swift and Slim Aarons
- Bamboozled on Friends
- Lilo's Salad (this is the salad that Melanie and I love)
- Any Given Saturday on Netflix
- e newton jewelry
- Tri Delt Bid Day baloons at University of Arkansas
- Culpability by Bruce Holsinger
- These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean (fairly spicy in the event that you try to avoid spicy)
- Let's Make a Scene by Laura Wood (also fairly spicy with a really fun premise)
- The Ferryman by Justin Cronin (NOT The Journeyman - I got the title wrong on the episode)
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Taryn Delanie Smith / The Unlikely Countrywoman on YouTube
- Bare Home comforter set
- By Anthropologie Hardware Side-Slit midi skirt
- Mateo's Cantina Salsa
- Just in Time cast recording
- We the Free Garden Painters pullover

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Sophie, and welcome to episode.56 of the Big Boo cast. On this episode,
0:23.6	Melanie and I are going to talk about our unexpected time together this past week in Nashville.
0:29.8	We're going to talk about the first time that I played Mahjong. And I'm going to repeatedly,
0:36.5	as in over and over again, get the title of a book wrong as we catch up on what I've been reading.
0:42.9	Just know, the book I'm talking about is called The Fairy Man, not the Journeyman.
0:48.2	Alas, I say The Journeyman about 42 times.
0:51.9	We would love for you to join us on Patreon if you haven't done that yet.
0:54.7	It's at patreon.com slash big boo. Our most recent episode is all about any given Saturday,
1:01.6	the Netflix show about SAC football. We so enjoyed it. We had a lot of thoughts and we had some
1:07.6	spicy takes as well. We would also love it if you would stop by our Amazon shop
1:12.0	to see some of the things that we love and love to use. That's at Amazon.com slash shop slash big boo.
1:17.8	And finally, on October 23rd, we'll be in San Antonio, Texas at the Aztec Theater. And we hope you
1:24.9	will be too. There's a link for tickets in the show notes and it will be so much fun
1:30.7	if you are there with us. All right, hope y'all enjoy episode 456.
1:41.8	Hey everybody, this is Sophie. This is B-Mama. Hey, it's Melanie. It's Big Mama. Well, what's happening? What's going on? What's the latest? Listen, we, well, as you know, we got to see each other. We were in Nashville last week. So, Caroline and I went to Nashville because she had to do some podcast stuff for her book.
2:03.5	And I'm going to tell you that we basically left there with like Nashville is like a fairy tale land is what I'm going to tell you.
2:13.1	Okay.
2:13.7	It just, it was magical.
2:15.7	Like, and here's the thing.
2:16.5	It helped that we were staying.
2:17.9	So when I knew we were going to go on this trip, I had texted you and I said, where would you stay in Nashville?
2:21.9	And then you had said that your sister who lived in Nashville for years, and to me as like a pro at Nashville, she had recommended the hermitage.
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