SHOW NOTES

Nostalgia, Hymns, Baskin-Robbins with Gene and Annette, and a prank phone call to Melissa’s Dad that he absolutely did not see coming. EP 70 is one of the sweetest episodes in a while and it sneaks up on you.

It starts with jingles and the way a smell or a song can drop you back into a memory before you even see it coming. Then Melissa tells the story of driving her mom home from MD Anderson and looking over to check and see that the little mole on her chest is still there — the same one she used to touch as a little girl when she laid her head on her mama. Friday turned into a ramen run with Gene and Annette that required nerve pills in the backseat because her parents were already at each other’s throats before they even pulled out of the driveway. Then David’s brother Bobby came over on Saturday, and they had an old fashioned singin’ — hymns, four part harmony, her Dad requesting Great Is Thy Faithfulness, and a room that felt genuinely holy. David closes it out by waking Melissa up with Tommee Profitt’s new album Resurrection of a King playing beside her head. The episode ends with Melissa pranking her dad into asking what’s the matter, daddy — and Gene delivered perfectly.

QUOTES WORTH HIGHLIGHTING

“My dad said, ‘don’t ever say your dad didn’t take you out for a scoop.’ And I just fell over laughing. What are we, Ozzie and Harriet?”

Melissa, on ice cream at Baskin-Robbins with Gene

“Those were the good old days — I hate when people say that. The good old days can be right now, depending on how you live your life and what you do with it.”

Melissa, on making memories in the middle of hard seasons

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