The Big Party Show

Today on **The Big Party Show**, Big Party and Molly start with the sticky truth about **National S’mores Day**: s’mores are a great idea until your hands are covered in marshmallow lava and your kids abandon the graham crackers like tiny campfire criminals. Molly drops a legit homemaker hack involving marshmallows and brown sugar, Big Party confesses his frozen peanut M&M ritual, and somehow...

Back-to-school season is here, and Molly’s house is already fighting for its life. Declan can’t even make it to the back-to-school warm-up on time, which feels like a pretty strong preview of how this school year might go. Meanwhile, Big Party has turned into a full-blown backyard wildlife detective after discovering the mystery creature living by the pool is not a vole, not a rat, but a very ador...

Big Party and Molly are back with another beautifully unhinged Midwest life check-in, and this one goes from leopard print arms to Facebook Marketplace negotiations faster than a lady at a garage sale yelling “everything’s a dollar.” Molly is trying to find a hobby that doesn’t require her full attention because, let’s be honest, the TV is staying on. Big Party has apparently found his new purpose...

Big Party shows up in a brand-new pair of absolutely ridiculous party glasses, and Molly is immediately concerned for everyone involved. From there, things go exactly where you’d expect: off the rails, into the fridge, and somehow straight into a discussion about ranch on tacos. This episode of **The Big Party Show** gets into phone scrolling in relationships, whether couples need a no-device rule...

Big Party is officially in his grandpa era, and yes, there’s already nose booping involved. This episode kicks off with baby Amelia updates, Wylene sprinting out the door to hold that baby, and Big Party realizing his true grandpa job might just be “official photographer.” Then things get beautifully weird. We welcome **Refresh Med Spa in Lincoln** to The Big Party Show family and talk hydro facia...

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Big Party and Molly are back with a very Midwest episode full of home repair panic, grocery rage, and the kind of household nonsense that makes you question every life choice you’ve ever made. Big Party’s air conditioner quit during 100-degree weather, which led to a $450 repair bill, a wiring mistake from the original install, a mystery water backup, and the realization that he may now be qualifi...

Big Party and Molly are back with a very important question: **who is eating lasagna when it’s 114 degrees outside?** This episode starts with National Chicken Wing Day, which somehow turns into discount wing trauma, smelling milk before making frosting, and Big Party’s ongoing commitment to deboning chicken like a man preparing for frontier winter. Then Molly reveals she bought Costco frozen lasa...

This episode goes everywhere — and honestly, that’s how we like it. Big Party and Molly talk handwritten letters, the latest lettuce recall, why salad suddenly feels like a gamble, and whether eating kiwi with the skin on is genius or serial killer behavior. Then they get into streaming services taking away our binge-watching joy one “new episode next Friday” at a time. Molly also gives a very str...

It’s the last week of July, which means summer is sprinting toward August like a kid trying to get the last blue popsicle. Big Party and Molly kick things off with the **Fun-Plex cabana giveaway** for Friday Night Rides, including this week’s keyword: **NIGHT**. From there, things get real normal real fast — meaning Big Party admits to **night swimming**, possibly without the traditional amount of...

It’s National Tequila Day, which means Big Party has found yet another perfectly legal excuse to “just have one more.” Molly questions his drinking strategy, they get into a deeply Midwestern beer debate, and somehow Busch Light, IPAs, Miller Lite, and tequila all end up fighting for respect Then Big Party unveils his newest fashion choice: a blonde Goodwill wig that cost $2.99 and may or may not...

Big Party is officially a granddad, and yes, everyone please remain calm while Wylene tries to hold that baby every available second of the day. This episode starts with a five-dollar Walgreens World Cup hat, takes a hard left into shingles shot side effects, and somehow lands right in the middle of new baby Amelia Jane making her big debut. Big Party talks about seeing his granddaughter for the f...

Big Party and Molly are back in the home studio for an after party that somehow covers everything from backyard pools and oversized podcast tables to dog farts so powerful they deserve their own zip code. Big Party explains why he may start bringing his own fork to Costco and Sam’s Club for the samples, which Molly immediately files under “absolutely mortifying.” They also get into pet people, cat...

Big Party and Molly are back with a fully Nebraska-coded episode: Fun-Plex Friday Night Rides, Runza cravings, weird pet names, baby watch, and Big Party officially sliding into grandpa mode with a “do not disturb” sign for his Ring doorbell. Molly gives her full Fun-Plex report after taking the kids to Friday Night Rides — lazy river island, drop slides, go-karts, bumper cars, the Mammoth roller...

Are smartphones literally killing the birth rate? In this episode of The After Party , Mike and Molly dive into the terrifying (and hilarious) reality of screen addiction, why teenagers want to die when their parents use Discord, and the absolute worst design trends taking over modern hotels. Plus, Molly finally opens up about her wild "pre-kid" life, including a dangerous mechanical bull ride in...

It’s the After Party, and Big Party is learning a lot today — mostly that white shorts are a dangerous lifestyle choice and Tide sticks might actually be witchcraft. Big Party tells Molly about the terrifying moment Wileen spotted a mystery brown stain on his white shorts, which somehow leads to Molly explaining “stand pants” — the pants you wear when you know sitting down is absolutely not part o...

Big Party and Molly are back together in Omaha, recording from a fancy new podcast room at the Omaha library like a couple of professionals who absolutely still had to double-check if record was on. This episode has everything: Molly becomes a cat aunt to a kitten named **Ira Galaxy Destroyer**, Chicago earns another disgusting title on the bed bug list, and we take a very unnecessary but also ver...

Big Party starts the show with a very important celebrity lawn care question: do Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift mow their own grass? Naturally, that somehow turns into doorbell ringtones, dogs barking, and Christmas music in July because nothing says “professional podcast” like a festive Ring notification mid-conversation. Then the great Midwest debate continues: **muscle tee or tank top?** Big Par...

Big Party and Molly are back, and this one starts exactly where you’d expect: with Big Party threatening to eat enough sausage to create “blood problems.” From there, we get into his latest food era — dinosaur carrots, hot honey, homemade raspberry peach barbecue sauce, air fryer “salads,” and the kind of croutons that sound like they were invented by a county fair with no adult supervision. Then...

Big Party and Molly are back with another round of **No Dumb Questions**, and somehow we go from crying over **Project Hail Mary** to debating whether Jason Momoa is the kind of guy you’d want to fish with, drink with, or silently admire from a respectful distance. This episode covers it all: **The Housemaid**, airplane movie edits, Avatar avoidance, celebrity hangout rankings, and the very real M...

Big Party and Molly are back after the Fourth of July and everybody’s a little blurry, a little tired, and possibly one unwashed strawberry away from disaster. This episode kicks off with the hard truth of adulthood: sometimes your phone font has to get bigger and your pride has to get smaller. Molly officially enters large-font life, while Big Party is still pretending factory settings are a pers...

Big Party and Molly are heading into the Fourth of July with fireworks already exploding, dogs refusing to pee, and anxiety levels somewhere between “mild concern” and “a mortar just tipped over and is coming straight at me.” This episode covers the very Midwest reality of fireworks season: nervous pets, neighbors lighting up the whole block, illegal-but-definitely-still-happening fireworks in Chi...

Big Party and Molly are back, and this episode starts with a very important Midwest luxury purchase: a countertop pellet ice machine. Not regular ice. Not sad freezer ice. The good ice. The kind of ice that makes you feel like you’ve got your life together even if your fridge ice maker has been broken since the Nixon administration. From there, things somehow turn into a full business plan for tin...

Chick-fil-A finally got knocked off the top spot, and honestly? Nobody saw Jersey Mike’s coming in with the chair. Big Party and Molly break down the new quick service restaurant rankings, from Little Caesars somehow winning over Chicago kids, to Culver’s being a weekly household staple, to Taco Bell not making the list at all—which feels illegal in at least seven Midwestern counties. Then things...

Big Party and Molly are back with another beautifully unhinged episode full of wish stones, moon water, weird collections, and the kind of marriage debates that could only happen in the Midwest. Molly explains what a wish stone is, why the Strawberry Moon is perfect for moon water, and why her house may or may not be turning into a witch’s den full of rocks, jars, beach glass, and “beach garbage.”...