The Big Boo Cast, Episode 474
The Big Boo Cast
Melanie Shankle & Sophie Hudson
5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Melanie also has some thoughts about Amazon's AI assistant, Rufus, and it's my turn for Five Favorites.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everybody!
- Aggie women's volleyball wins National Championship
- Chicken Oil Co. in Bryan
- Aggie football loses to Miami
- Johnny Manziel couldn't make it
- Jazz TX
- Pullman Market in San Antonio
- Owning Manhattan on Netflix
- The End of an Era on Disney+
- My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman on Netflix
- Murdaugh: Death in the Family on Hulu
- Love, Meghan on Netflix
- Will Guidara
- Spicy Hamburger Soup
- Truremedy soap
- sleeveless puffer vest
- Miss Mouth's Messy Eater Stain Treater
- turquoise big bead necklace
- Aerie Like Candy crew sweater
- Homeserve - use this link to find the plan that's right for you
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, this is Sophie, and welcome to episode 474 of the Big Boo cast. |
| 0:22.5 | On this episode, Melanie shares her feelings about the most recent developments in Texas A&M football, |
| 0:30.4 | as well as happy developments in Texas A&M volleyball. |
| 0:34.3 | I share my feelings about my recent trip to the dermatologist that involved having to get |
| 0:39.7 | some blood taken supposedly. And we talk about a ton of the stuff that we've been watching over |
| 0:45.7 | the holidays. We would love for you to join us on Patreon in 26. If you haven't done that yet, |
| 0:50.7 | there are three levels, $5, $8, $10 levels. You can find all of that broken down |
| 0:56.0 | on our Patreon page. But the $10 level, we're going to read through Southern Living together this |
| 1:01.9 | next year, and it is going to be a ton of fun. As always, please feel free to stop by our Amazon |
| 1:08.3 | shop to see some of the things that we love and love to use. |
| 1:11.5 | That's at Amazon.com slash shop slash big boom. |
| 1:15.6 | Alrighty, everybody, here we go with episode 474. |
| 1:19.2 | We hope your holidays have been so happy so far, |
| 1:22.6 | and that your Christmas is the merriest. |
| 1:42.0 | Thank you. that your Christmas is the Marriest. Hey, everybody. This is Sophie. This is Big Mama. Hey, it's Melanie. It's Big Mama. I've come to you with a bit of a Christmas cold today. Yeah, a little bit. You sound a little bit like you took up smoking Marlboro Reds for the holidays. Well, there's still time for that. Don't count it out yet, Melanie. But I did, |
| 2:04.2 | as I told you earlier, I've been very prideful in 2025 about just the functioning of my immune |
| 2:10.9 | system. Just I haven't gotten, I really haven't, you know, I haven't had any upper respiratory |
| 2:16.5 | distress, and which usually, you know, I haven't had any upper respiratory distress and, which usually, you know, kicks in in the spring at least once. |
| 2:23.3 | And nonetheless, I have come down with a cold. And Alex came home from college with a cold. |
| 2:30.8 | I don't know if I got what got it from him. I don't know if I picked it up somewhere. |
| 2:34.4 | I've been like, you know, the champion of the hand washers. But nonetheless, I have, |
| 2:40.9 | I have contracted some sort of congestion situation. So we'll just, we'll do the best we can. |
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