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The Big Boo Cast

The Big Boo Cast, Episode 493

The Big Boo Cast

Melanie Shankle & Sophie Hudson

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

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

This past week has been graduation-palooza at the Hudson house, and as it turns out, there has also been an exciting development with the Shankle family. On this episode Melanie and I discuss all of the above, and also, we don't know if you're aware, but college baseball can be dumb.

We're back with Five Favorites again (it's my turn), and we share some graduation gift ideas, too.

If you'd like to listen online, you can do that here.

Show Notes:

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, this is Sophie, and welcome to episode 493 of the Big Boo cast.

0:21.9

On this episode, Melanie and I are going to discuss graduation and all the celebration that entailed

0:29.6

because Alex graduated from college this past weekend, along with his roommate, Jackson,

0:34.7

and we're also going to talk about a very exciting and

0:39.2

unexpected development with the shankles. We would love for you to join us on Patreon. If you

0:43.9

haven't done that yet, it's at patreon.com slash big boo. Our most recent episode was our live

0:49.8

book club episode, and we also had a conversation with Jackson, who I mentioned a little earlier.

0:55.6

You get a little behind the scenes of what his life has been like over the last few years.

1:00.3

And it was such a sweet discussion. Super grateful that we got to do that. We would be so happy

1:04.9

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

1:09.3

Amazon.com slash shop slash big boo. And finally, some of the things that we love and love to use. That's at Amazon.com slash shop slash big boo.

1:12.5

And finally, some of you asked if we would give some graduation gift suggestions,

1:18.5

and you will hear those in this episode.

1:21.4

So you'll find links to that in the show notes.

1:23.9

All right, thanks so much for being here,

1:25.7

and we hope you enjoy episode 493 hey everybody this is sophy it's Melanie. It's Big Mama. So today we talked for about 50 minutes before we recorded. We did. We did. But we had a lot. We hadn't talked because, well, we had been together for 42 days. Yes. A week ago. Yes. After our multi-month foray here in Birmingham and then in

2:07.8

Starfall, we haven't gotten to talk the last four or five days. No, because you got home. I feel like

2:13.2

you got home and what I had was a soft reentry because I did not have much going on. But I feel

2:19.4

like what happened to you was, hey, so you're home from all of this and now we're going to ramp

2:23.4

it back up with the graduation. Tell you what. And I also, I went to, I went to Meridian one

2:31.7

day last week because I had, and I was delighted to do it.

2:35.8

I had agreed to do a little speaking thing there for that was connected to a friend of mine's

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