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SHOW NOTES

Prom season is here and Melissa is already confused. A text came in from another prom mom about a photographer charging $150 for eight photos or two spots for sixteen, and neither Melissa nor David could agree on what two spots actually means. Rocco and his girlfriend Tyler are going. It is happening.

This episode also gets into podcasts as the new daytime talk show, why Netflix exclusivity deals scare Melissa, and the moment at the BAFTA awards where a filmmaker with Tourette’s syndrome blurted the N-word in front of presenters Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo. Melissa has thoughts on that and on a TikTok creator with Tourette’s whose content got increasingly crude as her following grew. Then Melissa hit David’s truck with Meredith’s trash can, checked the wrong side, and decided everything was fine. It was not fine. The episode closes with David and Melissa attempting a counting game they saw on TikTok. They are, by their own admission, too old for it.

QUOTES WORTH HIGHLIGHTING

“My hair is cattywampus. Cattywampus: a Southern U.S. colloquialism meaning askew, awry, crooked, or misaligned. That is my hair.”

Melissa, opening the episode with a vocabulary lesson

“I hit Meredith’s trash can and it went flying. I got out and looked on the driver’s side, thought, well my lord, I cleared that thing. But I didn’t. I hit it on the other side.”

Melissa, explaining the truck scratch situation with full menopause-brain transparency

LINKS MENTIONED

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✨ Beautiful Yu Health Supplements: bit.ly/beautifulyu

📖 Melissa’s Book - Chicken-Fried Women: bit.ly/ChickenFriedWomen

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Melissa and David are fresh off a Sunday where they served all three church services, split a Whopper for lunch to save money, and then got a call from Remi who had just eaten $40 worth of crawfish and accidentally ordered market price on top of it. The sweet part: David had secretly hidden $40 in her car glove box for exactly this kind of moment.

This episode goes a lot of places. Melissa shares her lifelong habit of mentally captioning cows in pastures for an imaginary calendar she has called the Cowlander. A real news story about a woman who walked away from her family at a Virginia Christmas market in 2001 and was found living under a new name 24 years later sends Melissa and David into a full conversation about escapism, intrusive thoughts, and whether every woman has at least once thought about just getting out. The sketch segment ends with David and Melissa acting out how each of them orders at a Mexican restaurant, and it is extremely accurate.

QUOTES WORTH HIGHLIGHTING

“Every time we drive by a pasture that has cows, I take a snapshot for a calendar. In my head. It’s called the Cowlander. I thought of that in the fifth grade.”

Melissa, revealing a lifelong habit David apparently did not know about

“She left. She never returned. Her car was never found. And I’m just sweating in my pits about this.”

Melissa, on the woman who walked away from her family at a Christmas market in 2001

LINKS MENTIONED

📝 Subscribe to Stretch Marks on Substack: bit.ly/MelissaRadkeSubstack

✨ Beautiful Yu Health Supplements: bit.ly/beautifulyu

📖 Melissa’s Book - Chicken-Fried Women: bit.ly/ChickenFriedWomen

WATCH OR LISTEN EVERYWHERE

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🎧 Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/TheRadkeShowApple

🎧 Spotify: bit.ly/TheRadkeShowSpotify

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SHOW NOTES

Melissa showed up to EP 61 fresh off a Botox appointment, a little bruised and entirely unapologetic about it. She is not one of those influencers who won’t tell you what she’s had done. Never has been, never will be.

This episode has a little bit of everything. Melissa’s mom is convinced something shady is going on between Lisa Rinna and QVC. There’s a viral video out of Thailand showing plus size women’s clothing stores with names like Love Calories, You’re a Chubby, Fat Beauty, and Pink Piggy, and Melissa and David can barely hold it together. The Would You Rather segment gets personal fast, including the time Melissa passed the eggs at her parent’s house the very first time David visited. And to close it out, Melissa’s TikTok Shop cart sits at $771 and she is defending every single item.

QUOTES WORTH HIGHLIGHTING

“I am not one of those influencers who doesn’t want you to know if I do Botox. I just got Botox in my face day before yesterday.” — Melissa, opening the episode with her whole chest

“Where did you get that outfit, ma’am? I got that at the Pink Piggy shop. You have to shop at Pink Piggy. I do, I have to shop at Pink Piggy.” — Melissa, barely keeping it together

LINKS MENTIONED

📝 Subscribe to Stretch Marks on Substack: bit.ly/MelissaRadkeSubstack

✨ Beautiful Yu Health Supplements: https://bit.ly/beautifulyu

📖 Melissa’s Book - Chicken-Fried Women: bit.ly/ChickenFriedWomen

WATCH OR LISTEN EVERYWHERE

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🎧 Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/TheRadkeShowApple

🎧 Spotify: bit.ly/TheRadkeShowSpotify

FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE

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Melissa and David are back from Fayetteville, where they spent Valentine’s weekend with their college daughter Remi — and yes, Shep got them kicked out of the hotel. Classic.

But before the chaos, there was something genuinely sweet: Remi chose a new church, said one thing to Melissa on the way home, and completely stopped her in her tracks.

This episode covers all of it. Rocco volunteered as a buddy at Night to Shine, a prom for special needs adults put on by the Tim Tebow Foundation, and turned out to be the youngest buddy there and an absolute rock star. Remi told her parents exactly what she needs from a church and what she doesn’t. Then things take a sharp left turn into beige flag territory, Melissa confesses she will never courtesy flush, and David’s belt has been making noise for years and he just doesn’t care. Rounding it all out: the Winter Olympics, Lindsey Vonn’s torn ACL, and the news that the Olympic Village has already run out of condoms. There’s a lot going on.

“My name is Michael. I don’t like questions.”

— Rocco’s Night to Shine buddy, as reported by Rocco (who asks a lot of questions)

“I’m not going to do a courtesy flush. I want to go in there and do my business like they did in the 50s.”

— Melissa, with zero apologies

LINKS MENTIONED📝 Subscribe to Stretch Marks on Substack → bit.ly/MelissaRadkeSubstack✨ Beautiful Yu Health Supplements → https://bit.ly/beautifulyu📖 Melissa's Book — Chicken-Fried Women → bit.ly/ChickenFriedWomenAlso Mentioned This Episode🎟️ Night to Shine (Tim Tebow Foundation) → timtebowfoundation.org/nighttoshine🎬 "Eternity" — Apple TV (recommended by Melissa & Remi, watched Valentine's night)🎬 "Send Help" — in theaters (the movie they tried to see before the dog situation)WATCH OR LISTEN EVERYWHERE📺 YouTube → bit.ly/TheRadkeShowYouTube🎧 Apple Podcasts → bit.ly/TheRadkeShowApple🎧 Spotify → bit.ly/TheRadkeShowSpotifyFOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE📱 Instagram — @TheRadkeShow → bit.ly/TheRadkeShowInstagram📘 Facebook — The Radkes → bit.ly/TheRadkesFacebook📝 Subscribe to Stretch Marks on Substack → bit.ly/MelissaRadkeSubstack👋 Are You Ready to Become an Insider?Become a paid subscriber to Stretch Marks and get:• Weekday POV Audio Messages• Twice-monthly We're Here for You Wednesday advice podcasts• Monthly paid-only posts• Community access for real conversation👉 Subscribe for $9/month or $90/year → bit.ly/MelissaRadkeSubstack

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In this episode, Melissa and David dive into taboo topics: the things families avoid, the things culture now says out loud, and the emotional landmines we all navigate at the dinner table.

They talk through everything from social-media blowback and public “hot topic fatigue,” to private family boundaries around grief, money, intimacy, and loss. What starts funny turns unexpectedly tender as they unpack the kind of topics people skip, suppress, or joke through to survive.

Also in this episode: TV quote chaos, live audience podcast experiments, college homesickness, Night to Shine pride, and one very unhinged rhyme game that should probably come with a warning label.

🔗 Links Mentioned

📝 Subscribe to Stretch Marks on Substack → bit.ly/MelissaRadkeSubstack📖 Melissa’s Book – Chicken-Fried Women → bit.ly/ChickenFriedWomen🎥 The Radke Show Playlist → bit.ly/TheRadkeShowYouTube✨ Beautiful Yu Health Supplements → bit.ly/beautifulyu

📢 Listen Everywhere

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💌 Follow & Subscribe

📱 Instagram – @TheRadkeShow → bit.ly/TheRadkeShowInstagram📘 Facebook – The Radkes → bit.ly/TheRadkesFacebook

📖 Melissa’s New Book – Chicken-Fried Women → bit.ly/ChickenFriedWomen📝 Subscribe to Stretch Marks on Substack → bit.ly/MelissaRadkeSubstack

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📝 Show Notes

What This Episode’s About

Melissa and David roll through a full Hot Topics episode with equal parts serious and funny. They open with a candid conversation about disagreement, community, and why they refuse to live in echo chambers. Then they tackle a heartbreaking missing-person case, discuss Lindsey Vonn’s devastating injury comeback story, unpack Jelly Roll’s faith conversation online, and close with their take on the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime backlash and cultural double standards.

🔗 Links Mentioned

📝 Subscribe to Stretch Marks on Substack → bit.ly/MelissaRadkeSubstack📖 Melissa’s Book – Chicken-Fried Women → bit.ly/ChickenFriedWomen🎥 The Radke Show Playlist → bit.ly/TheRadkeShowYouTube✨ Beautiful Yu Health Supplements → https://bit.ly/beautifulyu

📢 Listen Everywhere

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💌 Follow & Subscribe

📱 Instagram – @TheRadkeShow → bit.ly/TheRadkeShowInstagram📘 Facebook – The Radkes → bit.ly/TheRadkesFacebook

📖 Melissa’s New Book – Chicken-Fried Women → bit.ly/ChickenFriedWomen📝 Subscribe to Stretch Marks on Substack → bit.ly/MelissaRadkeSubstack

👋 Are You Ready to Become an Insider?

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📝 SHOW NOTES

Melissa and David share a “Thursday Things” episode packed with current favorites. Melissa walks through skincare finds, wellness products, what they’re watching right now, and even shows off a custom dog hat that stole the whole show. Plus, she shares how she’s using AI to help structure her next book and gives an update on Rocco’s surprise co-hosting debut.

🔗 Links Mentioned

🎬 The Traitors (Peacock) → https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-tv/the-traitors🧴 Clean Skin Towels → https://bit.ly/cleanskintowels🩺 Glucose Goddess Anti-Spike Formula → https://bit.ly/GGAntiSpike🐶 Original Pet Hat → https://bit.ly/originalpethat✨ Beautiful Yu Health Supplements → https://bit.ly/beautifulyu

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💌 Follow & Subscribe

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📖 Melissa’s New Book – Chicken-Fried Women → bit.ly/ChickenFriedWomen📝 Subscribe to Stretch Marks on Substack → bit.ly/MelissaRadkeSubstack

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📝 SHOW NOTES

This episode is exactly what it sounds like when you put a microphone in front of a teenage boy and let the conversation go where it wants.

Melissa is joined by Rocco for a wildly honest, funny, and occasionally chaotic conversation about high school, history class struggles, faith, dating, trucks, golf, chapstick hygiene, and how teenage boys actually think.

There’s no tidy lesson plan here. Just real life, real parenting, real faith conversations, and a reminder that sometimes the best moments come when you stop trying to control the leash and just hang on.

🔗 LINKS MENTIONED

✨ Beautiful Yu Health Supplements → https://bit.ly/beautifulyu

🎧 LISTEN EVERYWHERE

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💌 FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE

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📝 Show Notes

In this episode, Melissa and David dive into the everyday marriage debates that somehow turn into full-blown arguments — from gift-giving expectations and love languages to why area rugs should never be surprise purchases.

They unpack how intentions, communication styles, and emotional wiring collide in marriage, and why sometimes the smallest misunderstandings cause the biggest blow-ups. Add in teenage chaos, ADHD hyper-fixations, and a few Amazon gift card surprises, and you’ve got one very real, very funny snapshot of life inside the Radke household.

If you’ve ever thought, “How did we end up arguing about THIS?” — congratulations. You’re married.

🔗 Links Mentioned

📝 Subscribe to Stretch Marks on Substack → bit.ly/MelissaRadkeSubstack📖 Melissa’s Book – Chicken-Fried Women → bit.ly/ChickenFriedWomen🎥 The Radke Show Playlist → bit.ly/TheRadkeShowYouTube✨ Beautiful Yu Health Supplements → https://bit.ly/beautifulyu

📢 Listen Everywhere

🎧 Apple Podcasts → bit.ly/TheRadkeShowApple🎧 Spotify → bit.ly/TheRadkeShowSpotify📺 YouTube → bit.ly/TheRadkeShowYouTube

💌 Follow & Subscribe

📱 Instagram – @TheRadkeShow → bit.ly/TheRadkeShowInstagram📘 Facebook – The Radkes → bit.ly/TheRadkesFacebook

👋 Are You Ready to Become an Insider?

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