This has become a 45-50 minute podcast with at least 10 of that being ads. It’s basically one big ad with a little pod thrown in, and ever-shrinking. Then they are sad they don’t have time to share all their stories for the week? Maybe rethink the priorities a bit, because this feels like a giant sales pitch - it used to feel like a low key, relational ministry that ultimately aimed to bring God glory. Now it seems to just be about punching the clock and cashing a check. I enjoy this show content-wise, but it’s almost not worth it anymore because there are so many ads. I also struggle with Sophie’s constant name-dropping of people who are only well known in certain circles (like podcast niches). It’s feels weirdly boastful and it’s so irritating…another area where priorities are seemingly unaligned with their faith. When the ladies are at their best, this is a great show. But I just wish they were presenting their best all the time. Finally, can someone please tell Sophie that the word “and” only has one syllable???? This drives me absolutely batty - and I am a southerner! Ayyyy-und is not a word.

Y’all…sports/makeup/skincare/clothes/fun stuff. NORMAL! Will make you laugh out loud…these 2 women are the BFF’s I have longed for since 2017…so grateful and so thankful that I found them…once you listen…you will understand! Just do it!

I look forward to y’all’s podcast every week. Thank goodness I became a follower right as y’all started becoming consistent! lol I’ve gone to several in person events and refer to y’all in conversations as my podcast friends. I appreciate the wisdom of being a few years ahead of me in parenting and marriage and always on the lookout for new fashion and products.

This was a podcast that I used to really enjoy. I will sometimes listen to older episodes and they are delightful! Things started to change once the hosts started to focus on collage sports, particularly Texas A & M. What people wore to the game - great! People that attended the game - fun! What people ate/drank at the game - I’m all for it! I have no interest in individual plays, stats, or coaching decisions. Often more than half of the episodes will be taken over by these topics. I still check in most weeks to see if they are talking about other things but most weeks I am disappointed and skip to the end. I have also cancelled my Patreon subscription for the same reason.

I have been listening for years and I love their sense of humor and five favorites. But I know nothing about or care to learns about football or really sports. What would be awesome is a time stamp to say they have moved on to what I consider more fun stuff.

I just love to listen to you two. It’s like being with very best friends. I’m older than either of you (could be your mother) but I enjoy your show and all the things you recommend. Keep up the good work and Gig ‘Em, Aggies. Wish people could talk without using the word “like” so much. My grandkids do it and people in TV do it, but it drives me bananas.

Sophie and Melanie are treasures! Wonderful humor, truth nuggets, fashion advice, and no political mayhem - what a gift!

I started listening to this podcast in 2017 when a friend recommended it to me because my daughter was a freshman at Mississippi State. I have enjoyed it so much!!!! I started back at episode 1 and have listened to each episode driving back and forth from south GA to Starkville, MS. You girls are the best!!!! Thank you for years of wonderful entertainment!!!! I look forward to many more episodes and books!!!

I have been listening for many years and always look forward to it! Can relate on so many levels…books, tv, skin care and fashion. Love my podcast friends!

Love these two podcasters a lot, but feel like the show has become too sports-oriented. I know they are beloved fans, which I do appreciate, but it wasn’t what originally drew me to the show. I’m missing the original premise of the podcast.

…for helping me buy things I didn’t know I need; for helping me find books, movies, and tv shows I needed to try; sharing the beauty of Texas and Alabama, for laughter, and for making me feel like I have two new friends.

I may not be a sports fan or glamor chick who is in to fashion or make-up, but I can relate to these women about real life. Sophie and Melanie’s weekly conversations and banter draw this midwesterner in for laughs and light heartedness as they discuss anything and everything. It’s like the days when homes were connected via partylines before personal phone lines were available. I look forward to hearing about their weekly thoughts and experiences, and laughing along with them.

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If you enjoy listening to a middle age woman say ‘like’ three times every sentence, this is the podcast for you! I’ll miss you, Sophie. But I can’t with your co-host ever again.

I love this podcast so much! it’s a great boost to my day, and makes me laugh, feel encouraged and it’s just clean, fun humor! And by the way, I am also going through Streams in the Desert, and it is one of my favorite devotionals! Someone gifted it to us when my mother-in-law was killed in a tragic car accident. I bought several more copies to give to others. It’s the best gift to someone who has a loss or tough time. 🩷

The best one sided friendship I could wish for. Going strong all these years!

I really enjoy listening, especially to the fun takes on college football and sports in general. This podcast makes me laugh and is a nice diversion. But I have a very difficult time relating to a lifestyle which is so invested with attention and money in nails, skins, fashion, massages, etc.

I’ve never before so loved people I haven’t met, but I feel like we are lifelong friends. Sophie and Melanie crack me up like nobody else! A few times every episode I take screenshots of the timestamps so I can go back and share blips with my friends. Y’all are a treasure! Since knowing you, I have a renewed love of Aggie football and a newfound respect for proactive skincare regimens. If that’s not a wise investment of listening time, I don’t know what is.

Sophie and Melanie are so funny. This is the best podcast.

I have loved this podcast for years but all the ads are starting to make me feel the same way I do when I’m trying to have a conversation with another adult and my toddler keeps interrupting to tell me random things. Really takes away from the natural flow of conversation that first drew me to the podcast in the first place and I have found myself putting off listening to episodes because of it. Today I was crazy enough to count and there have already been 5 ad breaks in 34 minutes 🫠😳 Also the episodes have gotten a lot shorter and seem to follow a quick script (what Sophie did this weekend, what Melanie did this weekend, one random topic, are we ready to do 5 favorites?)….I know y'all have to make money and aren’t big on listening to other podcasts but many of them are a lot longer and only have a couple of ad breaks. Maybe you could group them together at the beginning and end or something? I hope the feedback isn’t too much for you nines 😂 but I want the all the best things for y’all and can’t be the only listener noticing this!

I clean my house each week while listening to Sophie and Melanie….and it has made the job so much more fun! This is a FANTASTIC podcast and I love Patreon episodes as well. Not only do these ladies keep me laughing, keep me up-to-date on pop culture and football, and keep me fashionable but they have a heart of gold as well!

This is truly one of the things that I look forward to each week! So much laughter along with great fashion and product tips! It feels like being a girls night out taking about all the fun thing! 🫶🏻

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I taught the women who recommended this show to me how to seduce men with “football talk.” We all were, and still are LSU fans, but I was teaching Texans about real football and DMB and SEC rivalries years ago. Then my same Texas friends suggested this show to me, 20 years later, proving that the women who know you in college, they know you. Thanks for being role models for sports-obsessed women.

I don’t follow college sports, but it’s still fun to listen to Sophie and Melanie talk about that and everything else from pop culture to their college age kids and five favorites.

I listen very week and it brings me such joy! Also 5 favorites has so many good ideas. I bought the fan you recommended a couple of weeks earlier to take on a trip and it worked great.

I hate to clean, but the treat I give myself while cleaning is listening to this podcast. I laugh so much and love hearing who Melanie is in a fight with this week. I love football and food and these ladies cover those topics and more. Five Favorites at the end is such a treat - add to cart!

I look forward to this weekly podcast and enjoy the lively conversation between Sophie and Melanie. They are always honest (often hilariously so) and cover a wide range of fun topics. I would love to see one of their live events and witness their conversation in person!

Love listening to and laughing along with these two friends. I look forward to every chance I have to hear their latest stories! I feel as if I know their families intimately, and I share their interests and most importantly their faith! I love these two women! ❤️❤️

Melanie and Sophie have been a fun respite to this chaotic world. I look forward to each week!

These two always have me laughing! A highlight of my week for sure! And the sports podcast you never knew you needed 😂

Such a fan of this podcast! Melanie and Sophie are delightful & hysterical storytellers, willing to let the listeners in on all the details of their day to day lives. whatever the topic, they make it entertaining and enjoyable.

Look forward each week to the show. It’s like having your sisters in the car with ya. Hard to find good, clean, and just real conversations! 👍🏻👍🏻

This show is like comfort food. It’s wholesome and light hearted. I love it when Sophie gets tickled. Her laugh makes my day better. Melanie and Sophie’s conversations are like hanging out with a couple of friends and I look forward to it every week.

As a woman who loves college football this podcast is a DELIGHT. Not only do they like college football but they know it. My mom got me addicted to this podcast. It’s a joy.

I have learned so much from this show. Where can you learn about College Football and the newest and latest skincare, makeup, and great gift ideas? This show, that’s where!! Keep it coming ladies, y’all are fabulous.

These ladies are Fun! From make up to football and God! It’s fun and you will be laughing right along with them for sure!

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Was laughing out loud!! Never gets old!!!!! Your podcast is the only subscription I have!!!

My very favorite podcast! I have a handful that I wait for and listen to each week and Big Boo is 100% my favorite! I love the 5 favorites and all the talk about everything from sports to kids to cooking and beauty care and more!!! I recommend this podcast to everyone!!!! Thanks Melanie and Sophie- you’re the best!!

As an introvert I so enjoy listening along as my two best friends (whom I’ve never actually met) chit chat about their weekends, kids, meals and game days as we have a cup of coffee, or go through the school pickup line or whatever other task I take them on. Best news is they never direct a question to me, I can laugh as loud as I want and they don’t mind when I ask for a pause to place my take out order. I can be content to sit back and listen and let them exert all the energy and at the end of our adventure, I mean episode, they aren’t going to text each other about how quiet I was. Or wonder if I even had fun. Believe me I did!!! I never miss a chance to hang out with these two gal pals of mine!!

Why is he still calling the games. Who does appreciate what knowledge he imparts on everyone EVERY play!!!!

FIVE STARS ALWAYS. BUT Please can y’all post some pics of the elephant pants/outfits and convince me to keep mine? Ordered them off Mel’s rec a couple weeks ago and was going to return them (I am 5’6” and they are very long on me so how do they fit Sophie?) but then Sophie says how much she loves them….so I’m questioning all my life choices and need help.

If you’re interested in hearing about tv shows, beauty products, being a mom, college football, fashion, and dogs, from two Southern women, I have the perfect podcast recommendation for you! Sophie and Melanie are a hoot!

I’m a 26 year old single mama and sometimes just need some uplifting words and conversation from some good friends and other mamas. So my search began for a good Christian mom podcast and I am just so glad this is the one I decided to land on. I have put ALL of my true crime podcasts on hold and am now about a month behind because I cannot stop listening to this one. I started back from the beginning in 2007 just so I can follow your lives to get to where we are now. I am in 2015 right now and have lately been wondering if I could find any of your books at my local Mardels. Just like my podcast pursuit, my book searches are similar so I tend to pick up motherly books that I feel will guide me with a little bit of humor as well. Before my Mardels run tomorrow morning I googled the names of your books that way I can keep my eye out for the titles and covers. To my surprise, I inadvertently picked up It’s All About The Small Things during my last Mardels run (it’s not a run, I sit in the book sections for at least an hour and a half) and this memoir made it in my pile of books that were coming home with me. Didn’t realize it’s been sitting on my dresser in line to be read all the while I’ve been listening to this podcast, and I just couldn’t be more TICKLED today when I realized. Love you ladies, y’all are awesome and I just enjoy listening to you. I am already from Texas but noticing my southern accent gets stronger and stronger after I listen to an episode and start saying things like “tickled.”

I look forward to this podcast all week! I joined Patreon because once a week just isn’t enough. Favorite podcast by far!

Don’t worry about whether they wash their sheets (girls included), that’s what Parent’s weekend is for or Thanksgiving holiday. Just saying…🙃

Love that for 45ish minutes I get to listen to 2 girlfriends talking about nothing or a whole lotta something. College sporting season is my favorite !!! Other women who love sports & have passion for their schools makes me happy!!

Congrats on nearing #300! 🎉 Tagline idea: What we lack in concrete plans, we make up for in enthusiasm! 😂

Love it!!