Small Town Shit

This week’s episode is a special one because Mel took the podcast LIVE to a real Oklahoma festival that started after someone found a literal alligator in Claremore Lake.

What started as a random small town story somehow turned into a full-blown annual festival with live music, food trucks, geckos for sale, karaoke legends, conspiracy theories about the alligator, and one very famous dog contestant named Jace.

In this episode:

• The creators of Gatorfest explain how the festival started
• The story behind the Claremore lake alligator
• Why they believe the town shouldn’t have killed the gator
• Small town festival chaos
• Local music & karaoke culture
• Buckets bar lore
• Tim becoming an honorary third host of the podcast
• One wildly inappropriate joke that somehow made the final cut
  

PLUS: next week’s Part 2 interview may be the most chaotic interview we’ve ever recorded.

If your town has ridiculous local lore, send it to us.

This week on Small Town Shit, we start talking about super powers, Dateline (or lack thereof 😳) , and somehow spiral into one of the most insane small town stories we've heard yet...

We're talking:

• A small-town mayor in Oklahoma in the middle of a cheating scandal
• A Facebook News Page being used to leak "corruption"
• The mayor... exposing himself by accident (literally and figuratively)
• Allegations of city money being used for an affair
• His own Facebook Page being turned against him
• And the entire town watching it unfold online

That's just the beginning...

We also get into:

• Why we want to be invisible (for very questionable reasons)
• Jessie not knowing what Dateline NBC is (???)
• Tattoos, strip clubs in small towns, and night out plans
• Conspiracy theories (Flat Earth? Aliens??)

Basically... it's unhinged in the best way.

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This week we attempt to talk about birthday parties in small towns… but obviously spiral into:

• swinger waterparks (??)
• near-death childhood stories
• why moms are secretly competing through their kids’ parties
• and the realization that kids literally just want snacks and chaos

If you’ve ever been to a Walmart cake birthday, a skating rink party, or watched moms go full Pinterest Olympics… this one’s for you.

💀 What We Get Into

• The evolution of birthday parties (simple → full production events)
• “Pinterest moms” vs “Party City moms”
• Why kids don’t actually care about the aesthetic
• Small town gossip hits HARD
• The Safari Joe’s swinger room rumor 👀
• Almost being fed to an alligator as a baby
• Siblings trying to accidentally (or intentionally?) take you out
• COVID birthdays + drive-by parties
• Why we still think birthdays should matter as adults

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This week, we’re switching things up… because y’all are NOT sending us enough stories 👀

So instead of our usual small town chaos, we dove headfirst into the wildest place on the internet: local complaint pages.

If you’re from a small town, you already know, these Facebook groups are where people go to:

• Complain about things that will never change
• Argue in the comments like it’s their full-time job
• Accidentally expose their entire personality

And wow… did they deliver.

In this episode, we get into:

• The absolute chaos of small town complaint pages
• A terrified cow loose at a random intersection (??? 🐄)
• A mom going viral for raging about school drop-off times
• Someone casually selling chicken salad out of a trailer
• A man basically posting his Tinder bio… on a complaint page
• Neighborhood drama that escalates to painting a garage bright pink out of spite
• The pothole discourse that turned into a full-blown community crisis
• Cemetery complaints that somehow got… worse in the comments
• And the universal truth:👉🏼 Some towns don’t need solutions… they need hobbies

We also take a trip down memory lane with:

• Small town childhoods where everyone knows your business
• Getting caught doing literally anything because someone’s mom saw you
• And the kind of local characters you never forget (like the guy who rode his lawnmower everywhere)

“This town needs a f***ing hobby.”

We’re serious…
SEND US YOUR STORIES.

The goal of this podcast is to tell your small town chaos, and we need more of it.

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If you’ve ever:

• Been personally victimized by a local Facebook group
• Waited behind a tractor (or 86 trains)
• Or watched your town spiral over absolutely nothing…

This episode is for you.

This week on Small Town Shit, we’re diving into the chaotic, hilarious, and slightly concerning reality of small town life 😅

From school “ice cream day” turning into pure sugar-fueled madness, to a Pioneer Day reenactment that went VERY wrong (yes… someone actually got shot 😳), this episode is full of stories that truly could only happen in a small town.

We also get into:

• The World’s Biggest Fish Fry (12,000+ pounds of fish… casually)
• Catfish parades, pageants, and small-town celebrities
• Unhinged childhood memories (toilet paper outfits at Walmart???)
• Wild celebrity conspiracy theories we probably shouldn’t believe… but still discuss anyway

If you’ve ever lived in (or escaped) a small town, this one will hit 😂

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This week, Mel and Jessie dive into the chaos of going to the gym in a small town, where working out turns into a full-blown social event whether you like it or not.

From unsolicited advice and avoiding eye contact at all costs, to small-town gossip, body image struggles, and the mental side of fitness, this episode gets real, relatable, and hilarious.

They also spiral (as usual) into everything from parenting moments and wrestling moms to people-pleasing tendencies, aging realizations, and why saying “no” feels harder than lifting weights.

 Favorite Quotes

• “Jesus, weed, and queso—that’s all we’ve got.”
• “I went from Floor to Ceiling in two seconds.”
• “If I don’t go to the gym, I might kill somebody.”
• “I have one week a month where I feel sane.”

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In this episode of Small Town Shit, we’re getting into one of the wildest “how we met” stories you’ll ever hear… and trust us, it’s not simple.

What starts as a casual conversation quickly turns into a full-blown small town web of relationships, betrayal, and somehow… everything coming full circle.

We’re talking:

• Meeting your future husband through your ex-fiancé 👀
• Military friendships, messy breakups, and small town overlap
• Dating drama that somehow gets even more complicated
• When people rewrite the story to make themselves look better
• And why sometimes the wrong person leads you to the right one

Plus, we go off on a few very on-brand tangents… from music debates and funeral playlists to chaotic youth sports parents and small town culture.

Because in a small town… nothing is ever simple.

What We Talk About:

• The unexpected way Jessie met her husband
• Relationship drama, cheating, and small town overlap
• When exes stay connected in ways you didn’t expect
• How rumors and stories get twisted in small towns
• Growth, perspective, and coming out stronger on the other side
• Music nostalgia, rap vs country, and “cool parent” debates
• Funeral songs that probably shouldn’t be played (but are)
• Youth sports culture and intense small town parents

Sometimes the messiest situations lead you exactly where you’re supposed to be.

And in a small town…
everything is always more connected than it should be.

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Welcome to the very first episode of Small Town Shit, where “I’ll be there in five” is a suggestion, errands are never quick, and somehow… everyone knows where you’ve been.

In this episode, Jessie and Mel kick things off by diving straight into the chaos of small town life from choosing between getting judged at the “nice” grocery store or risking a full-blown Walmart fight… to stories that truly could only happen in a small town.

We’re talking:

• The mental preparation required just to run errands
• The social politics of where you shop (and what you wear doing it)
• A strip club in Amish country (yes… really)
• Why nothing is ever just a “quick stop”
• Small town high school experiences and the people you never forget
• And the realities of growing up, leaving, and somehow ending right back where you started

This isn’t a gossip podcast… but if something sounds familiar, that’s between you and God.

If you’ve ever hidden in a store aisle to avoid someone, debated which town to shop in based on who you might run into, or walked into a situation that escalated way too quickly…

You’re in the right place.

This Week We Cover:

• Why small town errands are never quick 
• “Pants with buttons” vs. leggings grocery store hierarchy
• The reality of running into everyone you know
• Walmart chaos and unexpected public fights
• The infamous “Boobs & Bonnets” strip club 
• Family stories, aging, and small town life full circle
  

Small towns might look simple from the outside…but if you know, you know.

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This is Small Town Shit, where “I’ll be there in five” means twenty, errands take an hour minimum, and privacy is… more of a concept than a reality.

We’re not a gossip podcast, but if you hear something that hits a little too close to home, that’s not our problem.

Hosted by Jessie and Mel, we’re breaking down the everyday chaos of small town life... the unwritten rules, the familiar faces, and the places that somehow turn into a full social event every time.

If you’ve ever said you were just running in “real quick” and got stuck talking for 45 minutes…

Yeah. You belong here.

New episodes every Wednesday.