The Big Boo Cast, Episode 483
The Big Boo Cast
Melanie Shankle & Sophie Hudson
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode Melanie and I delight in the fact that both of our college baseball teams swept their weekend games, we celebrate some of the memorable moments from the Winter Olympics (WE SEE YOU, ALYSA LIU), and we discuss our friend Cole's frustration that his wife Katherine and I aren't interested in rare collectibles.
We also have some very important information for those of you who want to make Helen reservations when you're in Birmingham for our live show, and it's Melanie's turn for Five Favorites.
Hope you enjoy!
- Join Us on Patreon
- Our Amazon Shop
- Birmingham Show (4/23) Live Stream Tickets (and you will have access for a week after the show)
If you'd like to listen online, you can do that here.
Show Notes:
- US women win hockey gold (we didn't talk about this, but we for sure want to acknowledge it, because wow)
- US men win hockey gold
- Johnny Gaudreau
- Alysa Liu
- Mikaela Shiffrin
- Mary Carillo's story about Norwegian Olympic excellence
- Kate Hudson's "California Dreamin'" LA28 promo
- Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model
- The Bronze Horseman
- Tuesday Date Night with Katherine and Cole Cubelic
- Tuesday Date Night on IG
- Nike Vomero Premium
- For Helen reservations 4/22-4/24, email info@helenbham.com with BIGBOO in the subject line; also let them know your party size and desired date / time.
- Breath As Prayer devotional book / prayer guide
- L'Oreal Voluminous Superstar mascara
- Lola blanket
- Cecily clogs
- Copper Peptide face cream
- AG1 - use this link for free samplers, free supplements, and a welcome kit with your first order
- Drink LMNT - use this link to get a free 8-count sample pack with any purchase
- Boll & Branch - use code BIGBOO for 15% off your first order (plus free shipping)
- Trust & Will - use this link for 20% off
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, this is Sophie, and welcome to episode 483 of the Big Boo cast. On this episode, |
| 0:23.6 | Melanie and I are going to talk about our undefeated so far, college baseball teams, fingers crossed. |
| 0:30.7 | We're going to talk about some memorable moments from the Olympics, and we're going to talk about |
| 0:36.1 | Perry's ongoing battle with Apple Maps. |
| 0:39.3 | We would love for you to join us on Patreon if you haven't done that yet. It's at patreon.com |
| 0:43.5 | slash big boo. Our most recent episode is our live Q&A that we did this past Tuesday night, |
| 0:50.6 | and we have an episode about to come out with our good friend Hayden Shot |
| 0:54.3 | and our March Southern Living episode will be out next week. It's a ton of fun. We would also |
| 1:02.2 | be so happy if you stop by our Amazon shop to see some of the things that we love and love to use. |
| 1:07.5 | That's at Amazon.com slash shop slash big boo. And finally, if you can't be here in |
| 1:13.3 | Birmingham with us for the live show on April 23rd, you can be with us virtually, and there's a link |
| 1:19.0 | to that in the show notes. Speaking of the live show, this really is the last thing. There's information |
| 1:24.5 | in this episode and in the show notes about how to make your Helen |
| 1:28.7 | reservation. If you're going to be in Birmingham from April 22nd to the 24th, and you |
| 1:34.2 | want a reservation in that window. Okay, hope you enjoy episode 483. |
| 1:42.4 | Hey, everybody. This is Sophie. This is Boom Mama. Hey, it's Melanie. It's Big Mama. We just had a 30-minute |
| 1:48.7 | catch up before we started to record. We did. But there's always things. You know what I mean? |
| 1:54.6 | I know. There's just business. We have businessy things to talk about. Businessy things. Yes, for sure. |
| 2:00.8 | And then we have other life things. And so. We have businessy things. Yes, for sure. |
| 2:26.9 | And then we have other life things. And so, you know, anyway, it was great. But now we got to get going, get her done, get it recorded. Yes, we do. We're here for our podcasting business. And so kick us off, Melanie. What's been going on with y'all? What's happening with the shankles? Well, I'm going to tell you a couple of things that are going on with the shankles. Number one, I'm going to say that yesterday on the way to church, I was like Perry's continual battle with Apple Maps continues. |
| 2:35.5 | Apple Maps is the best and worst thing that's ever happened to me personally because I love to be able to pull up, you know, |
| 2:41.3 | directions to know, this is the fastest way for me to get there. It's telling me, Perry never believes it, 100% of the time. And here's the problem, that we drive out to church. It takes us |
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