Welcome , welcome into a special episode . Like we are so excited to have our friend with us today , I'm so excited to have your full ass .
Speaker 2I'm very excited too Okay , how the Cajun Lady Accent is with us in Chris .
Speaker 3Logomedia's studio today .
Speaker 2But first let's talk about how the Cajun Lady Accent .
Speaker 1Yes , you are our grand sponsor . That's good to talk about me . We're going to talk about you right in front of you . Oh , that's good , Because you are our grand sponsor for February . She is . Did y'all know ? Okay , first of all , if you don't know who this lady is , you have to go on all the social media platforms Facebook , Snapchat , TikTok . She even got a Snapchat .
Speaker 3That is originally , where I started on a Snapchat Come on Doing cooking videos when it was not how the Cajun lady accent , when it was just how .
Speaker 1What .
Speaker 2Oh , how interesting , that is interesting .
Speaker 3I just recently made it public about a year ago .
Speaker 2Oh , okay , okay , okay , but that was where I originally started , it was just for my friends and family .
Speaker 3Now it's Wow .
Speaker 1Wow , wow , wow . Now he's worldwide , worldwide . So go see how h-a-l . Okay , the cajun lady accent um . Search that on all the social medias and you're gonna find her . She does some amazing cooking videos , like always making me hungry , okay . And then she has a whole line of seasonings . Look , if you're watching our youtube videos right now which I hope you are , you're gonna our YouTube videos right now , which I hope you are you're going to see all these things . And behind me we have some more things on the shelves that she offers . We have a whole line of Cajun seasonings and they're all no MSGs and not too much salt either , which is hard to find in a Cajun seasoning . So go check out her website , howthecajunladyaccentcom , and you're going to be able to see everything she has to offer .
Speaker 1And thank you for being our grand sponsor for February .
Speaker 3Yes , thank you so much . I'm very excited to do that for y'all .
Speaker 2All right . So we have so many questions . Oh my goodness . First off was why isn't there alcohol to put in my coffee this morning ? Hold on one second . You got it in your car , Surely . How's going to come out of ?
Speaker 3a little something . I really have some if you want .
Speaker 2But no , I said I have to pick on her . I really wanted to . Surely is nothing .
Speaker 1Well , every time we get together and do a coffee visit with her . She brings the rum , chata or the fireball or something , eggnog .
Speaker 3Everything I brought was on occasion to the holiday that was happening , because that's not really my normals . I preferably would prefer whiskey in the coffee .
Speaker 1But she makes it special for us when we get together , Like because she knows well , maybe because she knows I can't handle whiskey , so she'll bring the sweet stuff for us .
Speaker 3I'm trying to make you fit in to being from Church Point .
Speaker 1Yeah , I guess . So I'm not a Church Point native like them two .
Speaker 2I don't be drinking the whiskey , but listen , the other day I saw you posted JT Millick , open up that thing . She said I'll open my mouth .
Speaker 3You know what I'm talking about . You open your mouth .
Speaker 2You did . That's what you said . I opened my mouth . Yeah , they popped open that whiskey barrel .
Speaker 3Oh , yes , and you was like I opened my mouth . I opened my mouth , I was catching it . You know how everybody says I wish I could smell or taste . Smell a vision , taste a vision . Well , I was you already . I didn't want none to go to waste .
Speaker 2You already knew what that was going to taste like . Oh yeah , I loved it . All right , so how you ? Originally from Church Point .
Speaker 3Yeah , all my life .
Speaker 2And I just find it interesting because we did go to O&P together for a short time . And our first question well , we want to know how did the Cajun Lady get started ?
Speaker 3We've kind of had this conversation , but I want to know how did the Cajun lady get started ? We've kind of had this conversation , but I want to know . We've had it privately but yeah , yeah , so how ? First of all comes from my youngest uh , not my youngest , my youngest , oldest brother . That could not say my real name , which I don't go by , so I won't share it with y'all but , um , he gave me the name of Hal when I was 14 . I am now 43 . I mean , I know I look 20-something .
Speaker 1Absolutely Not a day over 21 . Just like us , not a day over 21 .
Speaker 3So since 14 to now , I've been called Hal my whole entire life , throughout school , I mean everywhere , every single place I went . The Cajun lady came from . Oh , you got a Cajun accent , you so Cajun , your accent's so flat man , you Cajun , you , okay , and I'm a lady , so yeah , yeah , the Cajun lady .
Speaker 3Cajun lady , there you go I gave it that name , because I gave myself that name about two and a half years ago because I was like I'm going to do this social media thing . But I need to give myself a name . That just in case I wouldn't regret . Regret , you know now now , when I said just in case , I never once thought , just in case what happened would actually happen , cause I didn't expect none of this in a million years . But that's where my name comes from .
Speaker 2Well , that's what I'm . I was going to say like okay , so you set out to be a social media influencer , to be a social media influencer .
Speaker 3I hate to say the word influencer , but that's what it is , but that's what they consider me as well a public figure influencer . I really didn't set out to be that . I'm going to be honest , where I set out was , I was trying to pick up our business , work business , showing off our cookware and all that . And then , of course , I like to cook , I love to eat . So , I started doing cooking videos in the cookware .
Speaker 1Yeah , and it's so relatable because that's our culture .
Speaker 2You know everybody , it's so our culture , we love to eat .
Speaker 1We love to watch people cook . We love to eat other people's food .
Speaker 2And we fascinate people . Yeah , we absolutely fascinate people .
Speaker 3Actually , if we don't , cook it the way they think we're supposed to . Oh , absolutely , we will talk about that , isn't that true ?
Speaker 2I'm checking my babysitter . I'm sorry .
Speaker 1I'm not trying to be rude .
Speaker 2Oh yeah , check that you know it's . So it is a fascinating culture . Okay , the accent , the accent , it just it fascinates people . Somebody told somebody posted that they never heard the way I said the word kajan , just itched their brain .
Speaker 3They had never heard that word before . I just told you all that , kajan . I'm like I can't say it not .
Speaker 2everybody understands that , Then you're not from here .
Speaker 3We some kajan .
Speaker 2Because kajan is the word .
Speaker 3Yeah , so Kajan from church pern P , because Cajan is the word yeah .
Speaker 2So Cajan from church Pern Pern .
Speaker 3Pern the .
Speaker 2Pern , the Pern , you know , yes , de la Gris . So okay , so the Cajan lady was born two and a half years ago . Y'all were trying to , you know , kind of grow your business . How's that going now ? I'm taking another take on that one .
Speaker 3Yeah , how's that going now ? I'm trying to find time to sleep , eat . I'm losing . I'm losing sleep . I'm losing my eating benefits . I know it sounds crazy . I cook a lot , but when you're so busy you don't even find time to eat . Well , who's eating all that food ? Um , y'all think it's a lot , and that's what people don't understand is my part , I'm using a small . Watch me cook . This weekend I cooked 18 pounds of chili . That was for the public . They ate it all , yeah , but I cook in small increments . That's another thing they tell me . Oh , that's who . You eat like a mouse , what you fed a mouse . Two babies , two adults ate off of it four times actually , because that's the thing , and I just can eat it that one time for supper .
Speaker 3I ate it for dinner the next day right for lunch the next day and then again for supper the next night , because I'm not wasting .
Speaker 1Right , or I froze it , you know yeah .
Speaker 3Oh yeah , but yeah . Yeah , so when you cook another , Thank God I froze because you know , after that snow days I had a lot of stuff I pulled out of the freezer .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1So I could go play in the snow and not cook .
Speaker 3Absolutely . That was fun . So like when , when I cook at the stores , normally I'm going to feed the customers that come in , or something like that , like y'all .
Speaker 1And I love going . And when you open the door , if you smell something cooking , I'm like oh , how's cooking in the back ? Yes .
Speaker 3Yes , and listen . They look forward to that If I go away . Oh , I seen you was cooking . Can I have a plate ?
Speaker 2Yeah , sure , I love that , got a pot big enough to feed all of us . So let's do it . I just love you know . We talk about how we both from Church Point , like never in a million years we didn't really set out to be social media on social media , as I don't want to say big but like where we are , you know , and then I still feel so small .
Speaker 3I can tell you something , though from when I started years ago putting videos on my Snap and , every once in a while , throwing it on my personal Facebook , I got picked at .
Speaker 2Oh , I'm sure Trying to do cooking videos , oh yeah .
Speaker 3Trying to do cooking videos . Look at you . What you think you're doing , mm-hmm .
Speaker 2Oh , they still do that to us . What you think .
Speaker 3I'm doing now ? I don't know .
Speaker 2I don't know . I'm still a person . I'm making a living on my fake job .
Speaker 1You know it's just the world we're living in right now . You know you can be a small town girl and be on social media cooking now and have an audience that wants it .
Speaker 3You know what I'm saying ?
Speaker 2It's just different and I think you don't have to be discovered anymore . People just discover you . You're so discoverable . I know it's wild .
Speaker 3I love the Food Network and I always wanted to be on the Food Network at one point in my life and I got called to compete in the World Food Championship last year . See , I didn't know that until .
Speaker 1I saw it on your website when I went look .
Speaker 3And that was just amazing . It was the greatest opportunity in the world . But nobody even worries about that , no more or whatever . Like it's not a big deal . It's not a big deal for me . It was just a freaking wonderful opportunity and experience that I had and I would do it again .
Speaker 2You would oh yeah , I thought you was going to say that was a whole lot . I wasn't .
Speaker 3There was a whole lot of not what we do here . It was not the same .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 3I didn't . Typical Kate .
Speaker 2Typical Kat Jen .
Speaker 3I did not read the directions like I was supposed to . I did the wrong thing . I thought I was cooking a rice and gravy and they had told me it would need to be like a stir fry or a noodle meal . Because I did noodles and rice categories . So I had to turn my rice and gravy into a rice and gravy stir fry . First time for everything . It was good , but it was just not what they were expecting , because they never ate rice and gravy before . Yeah , wow , that's the lion .
Speaker 2Yeah , and we can talk about that a whole other day to explain to y'all .
Speaker 3That was an experience , but it was wonderful . Well , that's good . I cried , I was of happiness , like just yeah . They had to slow me down running down the aisle with my food . I was running . They're like you have to Is there a video of this . I have to find it . There's videos , all of them . I would love .
Speaker 2I've seen this . They all slow me down .
Speaker 3I had a sous chef with me . They were dragging me . You have to stop . You are going too fast . I was trying to beat my time . I mean you're against the clock . They all video me Blair's running down with the camera like I need to see this , you know the nerve being in me , oh yeah .
Speaker 2That's how it would be too . I need , I'm gonna find it . I would love to see that . All right , let's take a break to talk about acadia , parish cajun harvest country , acadia tour , acadia tourism it is acadia tourism yes , um , we get , we are well into mardi gras season . Yes , we are , um , and let's let's just talk about all the things that we can do in Acadia , parish , february 15th , the Rain , mardi Gras Parade and After Party , february 22nd , the Courier .
Speaker 2Courier baby In Mermantau . In Mermantau , mermantau Cove . Yeah , march 2nd . Right here in Church Point is the Courier de Mardi Gras . Woo , we're all going to be there , we'll all be there
. Plan your visit to Acadia Parish during the entire season through Fat Tuesday , mardi Gras Day at AcadiaTourismcom . Slash Mardi Gras . Go see all that you can do in . Acadia Parish .
Speaker 1And let me just say this is going to be a different experience than your New Orleans-style Mardi Gras .
Speaker 3Oh , absolutely Much better .
Speaker 1I mean , if you like that , it's great , if you like the carnival type of thing , but this is a Cajun country style Mardi Gras . You just have to experience it in your life . I'm just going to say that , so make plans to come okay . Thank you , acadia Parish Tourism , cajun Harvest Country for being our sponsor this month .
Speaker 2Thank you , all right , so we have how the Cajun Lady and it started two and a half years ago . Everything is popping right now . What's your best seller we have ? Okay , she's our grand , grand sponsor , so we can plug her as much as we want , but let me just tell y'all , I , I , she has brought me almost everything on this table and we actually use it , though , like I don't want you to think we just plug in it because no , sponsoring us like we use this stuff .
Speaker 1We like this stuff absolutely .
Speaker 3Mama's approved and it's a great feeling whenever they send me a video that they use my products and I see them doing videos using it .
Speaker 1It's a great feeling it's the same type of feeling we get when we see somebody drinking coffee from one of our cups .
Speaker 2It warms your heart , it does , it does or bakes a bread with Virgie I drink from your cup all the time you do .
Speaker 3I love it .
Speaker 2Every time I'm like she's going to say it , she's going to say it .
Speaker 3I'm waiting for it , yeah .
Speaker 2All right . So what's your best seller ? So ?
Speaker 3to be honest , right now I have no clue exactly how many products I have Y'all really caught me off guard . There's a lot , 16 or 18 products . This is very , very strange that I can't tell you all , but because I have like 10 to 15 in the making right now and this is no joke .
Speaker 3That I've been trying to push out since last year . But I have a large variety of products so I have about . So my three best sellers in general would be one of my all-purpose seasonings Would be my Cajun Waltz and my Cajun Spicy Two-Step and my Creole Zydeco , because there's a different one for everybody . Some people like spicy , some people don't , some people like all the flavor and some people just want basic Cajun , so those for sure . My Mexican seasoning is great . It's not a bestseller because people around here don't cook Mexican .
Speaker 1And that's one of my favorite things , that's one of my favorites .
Speaker 3It sells , but it's just not going to be . You can tell whenever the people run out , because I started getting orders for that at the same time . They bought it at the same time . Now they're out . You know it's crazy , but spaghetti is one of my best sellers . And my seafood bowl Seafood bowl is actually blowing out of this the liquid or the the ?
Speaker 3liquid and the seasoning , both the liquid and the seasoning , both of them . The seasoning is not as much salt as normal as your average seafood bowl , okay , and it's got that kick , it's got that flavor , it's not too spicy and there's no MSG .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 3This is a big deal . No MSG . So you got that . And then my liquor bowl . I have probably averaged a little more spice and kick to my liquor ball than most of the average , but it's good .
Speaker 2Yeah , they keep coming back for more . They keep coming back for more Crawfish season it goes on everything .
Speaker 3It's not just for your water . If y'all watch my videos close , y'all can see I spray him .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , I did notice that .
Speaker 3I spray everything .
Speaker 2When I cook crawfish , etouffee , gumbo , seafood g , oh nice . I like hearing all the different ways you can use it because , like , even I had a pack of the cracker uh dip okay , uh , the fiesta cracker dip . My daughter is obsessed with the mexican uh dip mix and she's like , can I please make a dip ? Can I please make a dip ? And I said this on another . I'm like , listen , your mama can't eat that much dip or I will blow up , okay , because it's so good , like I could you cannot control yourself yes , so the cracker .
Speaker 2I only had a pack of cracker and I was like , listen , you could try the cracker , maybe what it does the cracker mix .
Speaker 3Listen , it's still good , baby , you can do it too , speaking of the cracker , and and you could also do half a bag too , and it does as long as your mayo and your sour cream's good . If your sour cream's good for two months , you can make that and put that in the icebox for two months .
Speaker 1Yeah , it stays as good as the meat . It stays good .
Speaker 3So the Cajun firecracker mix is a cracker mix but we use it to cook with . I put it in things to bake , I make Chex mix with it , with my butter , my garlic butter , oh my garlic butter is the best seller , by the way .
Speaker 1You got that right here . Speaking of it's good .
Speaker 3It's like liquid gold is what they tell me , and now the seafood ball butter is rolling too , when they figure it out . You can do all kinds of things with that .
Speaker 1That's awesome . I keep needing to try the liquid butter on vegetables .
Speaker 2Oh , it's so good . It's so good . I put that in my green beans . Like you know , when you're cooking your green beans , I put that in my green beans .
Speaker 3So let me just tell you , it's not just a dip in butter . Yeah , you can fry with it , bake with it , you can inject with it . What else you can do ? Oh , blacken it with it .
Speaker 1Okay .
Speaker 3Yeah , and baste with it . You can baste anything you want , I we should have brought some dips to snack on .
Speaker 2You know , I thought about bringing some , because we made one last night . We didn't need the ice chip , we would have needed a cold beer to wash all that down with , oh man . That's for another party , Okay washes .
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Speaker 1Yeah , that's right . They can run right to your business .
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Speaker 3I'm glad they're advertised because I never heard of them . Well see , I'm hoping a lot more people know them now .
Speaker 2Yeah , now you know all right um what else . What else are we going to talk about ? What's going on ?
Speaker 1yeah , let's see what . What's going on in your life right now . So you have lots of products in development um , the store you work at gary mott that's your full-time job really . But now content creation is also right along with that full-time job , shipping , and they . You ship out all your stuff yourself , like you go here and there where you can to support different causes and make appearances and all that , like I don't know when you sleep .
Speaker 3That's what I said . I'm losing sleep Too much . Yeah , it's a good problem to have . But Then my mind don't stop , so I'm constantly thinking , even when I'm sleeping . I'm constantly thinking about my next move . Speaking of my next move , I am currently working on a cookbook , oh great .
Speaker 2That's so exciting .
Speaker 3It's exciting , but it's been ripping my ass for the last year .
Speaker 1That's a big undertaking , big , big , big .
Speaker 3Yeah , wow . I'm going to try to put a little story in it .
Speaker 1I think that's . Oh yeah . If you can tie recipes to stories like that is the magic to me .
Speaker 2It is .
Speaker 1People love to my mama's blah , blah blah . My mama's blah blah , blah , you blah blah , blah , blah , blah , blah blah blah , blah , blah , blah you know , you have to tie that together .
Speaker 2A silk agent . Let's talk about the aspect people might not know about being an influencer . What does it mean to you to be labeled an influencer ? How do you live that out in your everyday life ? What does that look like to you and the people that you meet ?
Speaker 3well , I for sure continue to um be thankful for it . I never forget where I came from , um it is . It is different , though , because everywhere I go , I'm stopped you recognize at this point , yeah , even out of state . It doesn't matter where I go , but , um , I'm not complaining about it . The 80 times that I got to stop and take a picture or say hi , or say something .
I just know that now I can't ever leave my house in no regular clothes , in no thrown together clothes , because I'm going to be on somebody's social media platform . Somebody will be like oh I met Hal and she was in rags . I have to do myself up now because it used to . I didn't care I could go out in some old clothes from cutting the grass full of grass . I can't do that no more because I mean I could but I don't want to know .
Speaker 1I know what you mean .
Speaker 2I know it .
Speaker 3I'm very , very blessed and thankful and I never , ever expected this or even asked for this , but I guess God knows what we need in our life and he gives it to us when we need it , he does .
Speaker 2When we need it the most . Well , and that's just before this we were talking about , like , how we don't realize how we impact people , you know , and what does that mean to us ? Because I know for us it's like when we meet people or we get good messages . She sent me one the other day and it was like I just listened to this . I needed to listen to that episode . Y'all have no idea what it did for me and she sent me . This is why that's all you have to say . This is why we keep going . This is what fuels the Cajun Mama far is just being able to impact so many people and not even realize .
Speaker 3I've told y'all that a couple times too . I have to play catch up , but when I do , I'm like man yeah , but you do that too .
Speaker 1You're in that , You're away , yeah and even if it's not even as deep as a spiritual or faith journey , but even at the surface level , to make someone laugh , to brighten their day to make them think of their momo , Cause that's I know .
Speaker 3y'all get told that . I get told that constantly and it's like I know what it's like to miss you , momo .
Speaker 1Yes .
Speaker 3So they miss their momo . So they hearing and seeing their momo in all of us .
Speaker 1It's a comfort , it's a comfort .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 3And that's a privilege At first . People are like oh , you want to be reminded of a momo . Yeah , I do want to be reminded of a momo . If it makes somebody smile or happy , I'm okay with that . I don't care what I remind them of Exactly .
Speaker 1It's a simpler time , it's a simpler , it's a feeling and emotion and no , and not everybody gets to no not everybody had that , you know .
Speaker 2Uh , not everybody is growing up with a grandparent that knows how to cook full-fledged meals , and or , you know , like I'm teaching my kids how to how to cook , you know , but my mama and my mama taught me how , my daddy you know . So it's like it's a thing around here but some people that watch you have no idea how to turn on a burner , yeah , no . And so , like you , you showed them how to use the drip pot .
Speaker 3I had never used a drip pot you know that's another video on that they keep asking . A man called me today before I left to come over here , um , and he is 56 years old and he just went to a slaughterhouse and bought a calf steak and he's going to cook it and he wants me to know . Thank you , because I learned how to cook this from you . What ? 56 years old , from Lake Charles . It's amazing . I hear this all the time . I could tell you all that because it just happened , but I hear this all the time . I have thousands of messages I'm still trying to open . I'm looking for somebody to help me right now . Some messages I'm still trying to open . I'm looking for somebody hard to help me right now . So if you're listening in or you're watching in , I'm going to get to your message , I promise .
Speaker 3It just might be two months later , but I will answer .
Speaker 2It's hard , it's hard to get to everybody and I can't even imagine , especially because we get asked like do you have a red bean and rice recipe ? I made that , whatever , but you know like you'll have to tag them in , or but they they're always constantly asking I wish you would make a gumbo . Well , I made a gumbo two weeks ago , you know , like here here's the video right To get to all of those . It's , it's hard and then that's that's all you do .
Speaker 1My videos are not cooking videos , they're like baking or whatever . So if I get a message , it's like I need a good , authentic recipe for blah blah blah . I'm like go to this web page go to how the cake go .
Speaker 3Find how , because I know she's done a video on it , so I sent them to you page all the time and it's gonna be good . Speaking of bacon , I've seen you bake the sourdough king cake and I thought I was gonna have to sample it listen I don't see it here . Listen .
Speaker 2You see , Now you know how .
Speaker 3I feel he's at me all the time .
Speaker 1I'm so and I'm like I'm so sorry . By the time , I gave a hunk to my in-laws and I gave a hunk to my mom and daddy . They right there . Yeah , we just needed a little bite , and then we she ate the rest .
Speaker 2Listen , even the other day she made a king cake . Boudin king cake Never brought me none , you lie , you was there , we made it together . You lie Now quit lying on me . Y'all did get some of that . I actually ate some for breakfast this morning with some eggs . It was good , so good , it was so damn good , yeah . So oh , you know what you need to make .
Speaker 3Pepper jelly I do have . I've made it before and I do have maybe intentions of making some later on in life . But they have so many people I don't want to step on them .
Speaker 1There is a lot .
Speaker 3Yeah , I'm going to pull up . I understand that we're going to pull up .
Speaker 2Trade your mom a pepper jelly . You want to start cooking all that .
Speaker 3No , I made it myself . Many years I used to do the LSU and the Mardi Gras and everything .
Speaker 1That's a lot to keep up with . You can't say yes to everything . No , you know , sometimes it's good to keep your menu .
Speaker 2You need to make a ranch seasoning . You need to make a like she don't have enough , but I have those in the making , so it's okay . See , like she don't have enough , but I have those in the making .
Speaker 1so it's okay , See , she's already thought of it .
Speaker 3Those are already in the making . They've been in the making . I'm just behind .
Speaker 2It's okay .
Speaker 3Y'all going to be my guinea pigs .
Speaker 2A good ranch . It's okay , we're waiting , we're here for it .
Speaker 3We know it's going to be good before you know . Yeah , I'm going to make .
Speaker 1We'll be glad to be a guinea pig .
Speaker 2We always ready to be a guinea pig for you All . Right , we talking about Acadia , parish Harvest Country again .
Speaker 1Yes , Cajun Harvest Country .
Speaker 2Cajun Harvest Country .
Speaker 1Head on over to AcadiaTourismcom so that you can stay up to date on all the Mardi Gras festivities that's going on in February . Y'all Now Mardi Gras is actually in March Okay , early March , but you still gonna find so much going on this month in February , like now is prime time , king cake season . Go get your clothes , go get your costumes and all these things and your beads , and you'll be ready okay , time to gear up .
Speaker 2Time to gear up . There's a lot of different places where king cakes are available . Uh , the cake born crawly donut queen in crawly go trolls donuts boy . We already talked about them . Love us . Some Places where king cakes are available the Cake Bar in Crowley Donut Queen in Crowley Go Trolls Donuts Boy . We already talked about them .
Speaker 1Love us , some Go Trolls Rice .
Speaker 2City Kitchen in Crowley , rudolph's Bakery in Crowley , snack Shack in Iota , sprinkles of Joy Crowley , the Vanilla Bean in Crowley , y'all and around here .
Speaker 1You can find your king cakes at a lot of different grocery stores too , which is nice and convenient . Head on over to Lions Point Country Store , the Piggly Wiggly in Church Point , Rice City Supermarket in Crowley and of course , our beloved Votro's Mini Mart in Church Point has them good Votro's king cakes oh yeah , you got one .
Speaker 1The other day for Ria's birthday I did a chocolate one . It was ready to go . Huh , it was gone , gone . They had none left . Her class devoured it . So I'll bet yeah , um . But you can head on over to acadiatourismcom , slash mardi gras and you'll see a full listing of king cake locations , parades and events .
Speaker 2Everything in one place , everything all right , well , I'm not done talking to you because I had like a . I had like a things I definitely wanted to talk to you about what the word influencer means to you , how you got started . We talked about that what .
Speaker 1What
I got . A question , I got started because I was bored at home too , did you ?
Speaker 3just start during COVID or was after . I think it was shortly after . It wasn't even during COVID . I think it was when I was stuck at home with a broken shoulder . Okay , I had surgery and I was one-armed and bored and needed to go back to work and I couldn't . So I was like , screw this , I'm cooking , I'm hungry . You know what ? I'm putting this shit everywhere . Why not ? I guess I had the courage I had just got out of the hospital , I had more courage to post it .
Speaker 2Maybe Looked like crap , that's so funny , like , because a lot of people are like okay , but I don't have that , I'm so nervous or I don't have that kind of confidence , but like where do you think that comes from ? You don't have to .
Speaker 3I contemplated on doing this for many , many years . Okay , Because , when I used to do no , not to become an influencer , just to post my cookies . Yeah yeah , Because when I used to do it , like I said , even on my snack , I would get clowned about it all Putting that what you need to show that for you looked at it .
Speaker 1Yeah , you looked at it and you might have liked it , because you're asking me . Yeah , I know , huh , maybe you're interested .
Speaker 3People put everything People put . They put their vehicles , they put anything .
Speaker 1And if you ain't got nothing , nice to say you keep on scrolling , keep scrolling .
Speaker 3That's where it doesn't happen , though I know there's a lot of keyboard warriors .
Speaker 2I was thinking that , though , why is it that we'll scroll and we'll be like we see everybody's comments and they'll say love this , love this , love this , and then we stop and we look at that , the ugly one , for the longest time , and that's the one I want to be like , that's the one I want to come back on . We forget about all the all the good stuff .
Speaker 3I I keep saying when I see those negative comments , you , your one negative comment is gonna um not outweigh the 80,000 positive comments I've just seen . Yeah , I will not let the devil stand in my way .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , yeah , absolutely yeah , it's a little fiery dart , god is good and God is strong , and I'm going to just go with everything good and forget about the devil .
Speaker 2That's right . Oh , I love that . Yes , that's good , because it's hard .
Speaker 3The devil ain't going to take my plate of food from me .
Speaker 1No , not my joy neither . Not my joy , not my joy , neither .
Speaker 3No .
Speaker 2I just I don't know . I hope it doesn't matter whether you are an influencer or not . Don't let those negative comments get to you , because we get some dumb ones Like just straight up dumb .
Speaker 3My teeth are fake , my hair hair is fake and my accent is fake . Oh , you faker you just a faker .
Speaker 1How would you ?
Speaker 3help me pull these two out and take them out come here .
Speaker 2I know that hair is real . I did you curled all three teeth is real . My hair is real because I curled all a whole mile of it . Oh yes , you're ready to curl it again . I'm ready to curl it again . Speaking of , can we bring that up ? Yeah , sure , let's bring that up . How is on our Mardi Gras court this year the church point .
Speaker 3I'm still in shock over it .
Speaker 2And I'm just so excited for you because , like , what a good person to stand , yeah , to represent our little town To represent our town Yep and look at that . Look , I mean people is coming to Church Point . She posted herself at the snow cone stand , grandma Laverne's snow cone stand . She just goes all over and she shares Church Point with with us .
Speaker 3I try to share everything I can and I know I'm behind , but church point , I'm coming for you . It's okay .
Speaker 2Listen , she's got it in the queue , you yeah absolutely yeah , she's got it in the queue , so um so , how do you feel about that ?
Speaker 3I feel like I'm very , very honored and , um , you know how y'all told me when I come in . Y'all was still in the podcast to be quiet and I said , oh Lord , how can I do that ?
Speaker 1I can't be quiet .
Speaker 3She was texting me . I ain't going to be quiet . I'm going up on stage . And I'm going to be so proud to represent our hometown . And I'm not going to be embarrassed or shy . I don't even care what I look like . Let's just pray I don't fall .
Speaker 2You ain't going to fall .
Speaker 1No , I'm excited for that Wear your little sparkly tennis sneaks with that dress . Well , I figured .
Speaker 3I'd wear those for after , but I'm pretty sure I needed to wear something nicer before .
Speaker 2So walk on the stage and you're going to wear some shoes , some heels .
Speaker 1I'm thinking about some won't fall .
Speaker 3You're going to tip over and you know , y'all already know that Y'all already know this , this country , bumpkin ain't going to wear that Y'all already know you're going to tip over . What Tip over before ? I even got tipsy . Yeah , save that for after . But also , most importantly , I'm because the Cajun Mama's going to be at my table .
Speaker 2We're going to be there . We're going to be there and we I mean , we've gone to the ball in the past and it's always a fun time . And this year they having who ? The Chiwis ? Chee-wee's .
Speaker 3Chee-wee's , chee-wee's a plan , yeah , and we write our tables right there in front of the band and the board .
Speaker 2God , they done Two in one Perfect , interesting , perfect , when that is .
Speaker 1February 22nd , 22nd yes , I still don't have a dress yet , oh man , we got to get on that .
Speaker 2I got mine . Good for you . My sisters came into my house before I got mine in . It got stopped at the snow .
Speaker 3Oh yeah , mine got lost . A bunch of mine got lost , and then Chase's jacket got lost in the fires in . Los .
Speaker 2Angeles .
Speaker 3Lord , help my God , it don't burn up .
Speaker 2It's not burned up . It's actually at my house but it got delayed . But anyway , I mean what else ?
Speaker 1What else can we ?
Speaker 2talk about . Okay , maybe we can wrap it up like this where ?
Speaker 1where do you see or where do you hope to see , like all of this going for you in the future ? Is there something that you would like to really blow up more on , or like I don't know what ? Do you have a vision , or are you just winging it ? I'm definitely winging it . That's how we are too .
Speaker 3I never really had a vision from day one . I just did this , and if y'all know most Cajuns , well , I don't know . I'm going to speak for myself . We just do as we do . I mean , if it comes to mind , I'm going to do it . And I do now see a tiny vision . I do want to get more followers , because I haven't grown in a little while Two and a half years . I think that's excellent to have half a million followers across all my platforms , but I'd like to see , you know , a million on one platform . Sure , yeah , because not everybody understands , but this is a second job for us . I do get paid . Y'all know we get paid for this , so every little bit helps .
Speaker 2Right .
Speaker 1So if you're listening in , follow yes , comment , do something , share All the social media outlets .
Speaker 3But I am working on getting my products across all of the United States .
Speaker 1I'm going to work on getting them with distributors .
Speaker 3How awesome would that be , and I'm trying to get overseas and such , so I just need somebody to fly with me to Canada , you know , that you know the Cajjun mamas would fly with me .
Speaker 2That would be oh , we might , I got my passport . Baby , we both do .
Speaker 1We got our passport no , we have had a few uh of our fans reach out canadian fans and like can y'all ship to canada ? I gotta look into that some more .
Speaker 3Why wouldn't we ? I'm shipping right now to canada . I can tell y'all how , but it's very expensive okay , well , I need to get with you on that .
Speaker 1So we could work on that ? Yeah , but yeah I would . A bucket list trip would be for us to go to Canada , Nova Scotia area where the Canadians Acadians came down from , and see all that Cause they still talk like we do . We changed it a little , but like we'll get like the videos with my daddy where he's speaking cajun french . All the comments from our canadian friends are like I understood everything , like that's how we talk .
Speaker 3I'm like I had someone call me from canada area and I'm like you from originally , from here .
Speaker 1No , they talked they sounded just like oh my god , that's so cool that's so cool anyway , well , yeah , how , hal , thank you .
Speaker 2Thank you for coming to play with us .
Speaker 1I know you're always willing to come play with us .
Speaker 3Oh yeah , I'm ready for the next one , I'm ready and I thank y'all for supporting me like y'all do I appreciate that . Oh , you're welcome , Thank you for our friendship , because it's always good to gain new friends yeah . And especially , like you just said , y'all were the ones that needed to be in my life at that time .
Speaker 2It was so like it just was what it was . I love the spiritual things . I love everything .
Speaker 3And she Genuine Girl . I just had the flea songs . I'm about to cry again .
Speaker 2Don't cry , but I do believe that our friendship started at the right time for all of us , for us to get together , collaborate . But mostly it's what you don't see on the videos .
Speaker 3Yeah , the visits we've had off camera , they just see us visiting and cutting up and drinking but we don't drink all the time . No , but you're going to catch us drinking for more to grow .
Speaker 2And you still said we still got to go to Superior and drink us a margarita . We got to do that .
Speaker 1I'm still on that one . You can't wait for that to happen . Okay , wait you got us a driver , I'm ready .
Speaker 2But you know like no , but for real , it just our friendship , it's a real friendship . Yeah , I never thought .
Speaker 3I'd be texting y'all some of the things I text y'all basically , yeah .
Speaker 1There's a group text that we have .
Speaker 3I feel so comfortable when I go to your house .
Speaker 2It is what it is . Hey , we're going to be what we're going to be , and it's good to be able to relate to each other within this crazy world of social media influence . So thank you for hanging out with us , thank you for your friendship .
Speaker 1And we look forward to meeting you and listen all of our listeners right now . If y'all are on our YouTube , I you to please comment . If you go and follow how , leave a comment and let us know that you did that , and that would be very helpful for all of us .
Speaker 3Yeah , okay , I'm on youtube too and she's on youtube too .
Speaker 2Y'all want to learn how to cook some cajun food or any kind of food , because that girl was making some video tacos oh my god , I make the bitty tacos from scratch .
Speaker 3Remember I got a ? Got a Mexican stepmom . She puts the thumb down on you . I can make a lot more Mexican food . I'm just waiting right now . I don't have time to sit and do it all .
Speaker 2It looked hard . Maybe call me whenever you make that , because I don't want to make that . It was a lot of steps .
Speaker 1Okay , but also y'all go check out howthekajanladyaccent accentcom , and that's where you can order any of the seasonings dips uh , seafood balls , cajun fry batter we didn't even talk about that and I've totally forgot about that .
Speaker 3Yeah , yeah , you did . It's in a bag .
Speaker 1I just we didn't have room for it it's okay that's okay , okay , um , and also you got some hats and t-shirts if you're a merch lover , if you like to wear , yeah , oh yeah oh , there's fun .
Speaker 3I love my ladders . I'm about to release my paddles on my website . I have some whiskey glasses on my website , oh nice , I'm gonna get the wine glasses , oh yeah fantastic , that's awesome .
Speaker 2Oh , I can't wait to see
all of that .
Speaker 3I have a lot more stuff in store . I just gotta find time , y'all and y'all .
Speaker 2There's so many stores around here that carry , uh , that carry her seasonings and stuff . I know they got it my piggly wiggly at ross any any place around here restock all over right here . Restock , yeah , so uh , if you are around here , check out your local grocery store .
Speaker 1How the cajun lady , and if they not , if she's not there , tell your people that you tell it , tell your grocery store , uh people , that you want her season in there , if y'all listening in and y'all want my products .
Speaker 3go to my website and email me , Cause I cannot answer the Facebook messages right away or the TikTok website . Send me an email and I'll answer that daily .
Speaker 1That's a good point to make . How did like the best way to reach you ?
Speaker 3is send an email . It's via email through my website .
Speaker 1Perfect , All right y'all . Thanks for listening in .